Books and Ideas

How Saving the Environment Could Fix the Economy

How Saving the Environment Could Fix the Economy How Saving the Environment Could Fix the Economy

Why not revive New Deal policies but apply them in a green and global fashion?

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Mark Hertsgaard

Americans and Their Myths

Americans and Their Myths Americans and Their Myths

The country suffers from an ambivalent anguish, everyone asking, “Am I American enough?” and at the same time, “How can I escape from Americanism?”

Mar 23, 2015 / Feature / Jean-Paul Sartre

What We Can Learn From Andy Kopkind’s Energy, Edge and Radical Hope

What We Can Learn From Andy Kopkind’s Energy, Edge and Radical Hope What We Can Learn From Andy Kopkind’s Energy, Edge and Radical Hope

How to be committed without drinking the Kool-Aid—and other things Andy taught me.

Mar 23, 2015 / Feature / Maria Margaronis

The Gospel According to Wendell Berry

The Gospel According to Wendell Berry The Gospel According to Wendell Berry

To destroy a forest is an act of greater seriousness than we have yet grasped. But to destroy the earth itself is to destroy the possibility of recovery.

Mar 23, 2015 / Feature / Wendell Berry and Wen Stephenson

1995–2005: Our Enemies Cannot Defeat Us—Only We Can

1995–2005: Our Enemies Cannot Defeat Us—Only We Can 1995–2005: Our Enemies Cannot Defeat Us—Only We Can

Nation writers on sensationalist art, financial deregulation, September 11, The Sopranos, Texas, the Iraq war and reactionary conservatism.

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / The Nation

Walt Whitman Is An Insult To Art, Says 22-Year Old Henry James

Walt Whitman Is An Insult To Art, Says 22-Year Old Henry James Walt Whitman Is An Insult To Art, Says 22-Year Old Henry James

Drum-Taps is the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Henry James

1875-1885: Custer’s Last Stand and the Power of Tammany Hall

1875-1885: Custer’s Last Stand and the Power of Tammany Hall 1875-1885: Custer’s Last Stand and the Power of Tammany Hall

Just as soon as one "boss" is evicted, another rises to take his place.

Mar 23, 2015 / Feature / The Nation

The Reporter Who Warned Us Not to Invade Vietnam 10 Years Before the Gulf of Tonkin

The Reporter Who Warned Us Not to Invade Vietnam 10 Years Before the Gulf of Tonkin The Reporter Who Warned Us Not to Invade Vietnam 10 Years Before the Gulf of Tonkin

A farsighted policy might do more to stem the Communist tide than sending a few more plane-loads of napalm.

Mar 23, 2015 / Feature / Bernard Fall and Frances FitzGerald

The Dream Life of Desire

The Dream Life of Desire The Dream Life of Desire

Drawing a line between poetry and the political has never been simple.

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko

It’s Not Too Late: Save Democracy By Amending the Constitution

It’s Not Too Late: Save Democracy By Amending the Constitution It’s Not Too Late: Save Democracy By Amending the Constitution

Corporations are not people, money is not speech, and votes must matter more than billionaires’ dollars.

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / John Nichols

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