Our Godless Constitution Our Godless Constitution
The faith of our Founding Fathers definitely wasn't Christianity.
Feb 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Brooke Allen
Cartoon Wars Cartoon Wars
Once upon a time, a psychiatrist named Fredric Wertham went on a tear over Wonder Woman.
Feb 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Richard Goldstein
The Moviegoer The Moviegoer
If Herbert Marcuse and Senator Joseph McCarthy had gone to a movie together in the late 1950s--and that could only happen in a movie--they would have walked out, probably not tog...
Jan 27, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Lee Siegel
Intolerable Cruelty Intolerable Cruelty
On May 22, 1787, nine Quakers and three Anglicans gathered in a London print shop with the express purpose of doing something about the international slave trade.
Jan 27, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
Men in Dark Times Men in Dark Times
"I am very happy to see so many flowers here and that is why I want to remind you that flowers, by themselves, have no power whatsoever, other than the power of men and women who...
Jan 20, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
Beyond Good and Evil Beyond Good and Evil
Adorno said, as we all know, that writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. This is not to say, as many imagine, that writing poetry after Auschwitz is to be forbidden, or is i...
Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / John Banville
The Inflation of the Attorney-General The Inflation of the Attorney-General
This essay, from the October 1, 1874, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on t...
Jan 12, 2005 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
Infinite Jest Infinite Jest
This past March, on the closing day of an international literary conference held in Krakow, Poland, an elderly woman stood up before hundreds of scholars and admirers gathered to...
Jan 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Paloff
And Justice for All And Justice for All
Affirmative action, in theory, is a matter of distributive justice, which is why liberals and progressives tend to look benevolently on it while conservatives and libertarians co...
Jan 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Michael Bérubé
Assigning Responsibility Assigning Responsibility
Defending Rumsfeld, Bush says Rummy's great,
That as a planner he has been first rate--
Respected in the White House and the ranks.
Jan 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Calvin Trillin