Is Anxiety the Price We Pay For Freedom? Is Anxiety the Price We Pay For Freedom?
The neuroscience of fear is incomplete without an account of philosophy and politics.
Dec 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Simon Wolfe Taylor
Dreamers, Drifters, Mopers, and Defeatists Dreamers, Drifters, Mopers, and Defeatists
Adrian Tomine’s universe features a society of contingent values, ill-defined expectations, and diminishing options.
Dec 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / David Hajdu
Start Making Sense: The Best of the Left in 2015 Start Making Sense: The Best of the Left in 2015
The Nation’s Progressive Honor Roll: John Nichols names names. Plus Amy Wilentz on guns and Jay Parini on Gore Vidal.
Dec 23, 2015 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
When the Berlin Wall Fell, Bernie Sanders Didn’t Respond Like Other Politicians When the Berlin Wall Fell, Bernie Sanders Didn’t Respond Like Other Politicians
Instead of heralding “the end of history,” Sanders called on Americans to take the revolutions of 1989 as a model.
Dec 22, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
Sepp Blatter Is Suspended for Eight Years, Compares Self to Mandela Sepp Blatter Is Suspended for Eight Years, Compares Self to Mandela
FIFA’s chief has been suspended for eight years, but the drama is just beginning.
Dec 21, 2015 / Dave Zirin
December 21, 1892: Rebecca West Is Born December 21, 1892: Rebecca West Is Born
“Pleasure is not arbitrary; it is the sign by which the human organization shows that it is performing a function which it finds appropriate to its means and ends.”
Dec 21, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
December 20, 1968: John Steinbeck Dies December 20, 1968: John Steinbeck Dies
“I have no doubt that, being human, he enjoys praise, but he has consistently shunned the mechanics and functionaries of publicity.”
Dec 20, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
Tony Kushner, Eve Ensler, Bill McKibben, and Calvin Trillin Join Katrina vanden Heuvel for a Stunning Tribute to the 150th Anniversary of ‘The Nation’ Tony Kushner, Eve Ensler, Bill McKibben, and Calvin Trillin Join Katrina vanden Heuvel for a Stunning Tribute to the 150th Anniversary of ‘The Nation’
Watch the sold-out show at St. Ann’s Warehouse, recorded on October 24, 2015.
Dec 17, 2015 / The Nation
Rajon Rondo, Gay-Bashing, and the Beautiful Response to an Ugly Hate Crime Rajon Rondo, Gay-Bashing, and the Beautiful Response to an Ugly Hate Crime
How one NBA referee took a hate crime against his sexuality and turned it on its head.
Dec 17, 2015 / Dave Zirin