Solar Power Is on the Rise? We Suggested Harnessing the Sun’s Heat Back in 1866 Solar Power Is on the Rise? We Suggested Harnessing the Sun’s Heat Back in 1866
We look back to the time when a science columnist wrote up one possible replacement for "the fossil fuel which is now so important an element in the existing order of human society...
Apr 22, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
The Old Consciousness The Old Consciousness
Hilary Mantel and Penelope Fitzgerald have saved historical fiction from a middlebrow wasteland.
Apr 22, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Leo Robson
In Our Orbit: Vigilance In Our Orbit: Vigilance
In Eric Foner’s Gateway to Freedom, the Underground Railroad is a network of dignity and defiance.
Apr 22, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
Rivalries Rivalries
Clouds of Sils Maria is prolonged debate about the passage of time and the ceaseless rivalry of generations.
Apr 22, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Out of Habit Out of Habit
The soldier the patrol forgot in the garden, the patrol the border guards forgot at the checkpoint, the checkpoint the occupation forgot at the doorstep, the occupation the politician forgot in our lives, the politician who was a soldier of the occupation. The Merkava the army forgot at the school, the army the war forgot in the city, the war the general forgot in the room, the general whom peace forgot in our sleep, the peace that was driving the Merkava. They still open fire at our heads, without orders, just like that, out of habit. (translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah)
Apr 22, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Ghassan Zaqtan
Shelf Life Shelf Life
“There is no such thing as not voting” is the faith that Darryl Pinckney grew up in.
Apr 22, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Ari Berman
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 4/21/15? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 4/21/15?
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 4/21/15?
Apr 21, 2015 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Islamophobia Is a Joke Islamophobia Is a Joke
The Daily Show’s Aasif Mandvi hopes his mock sitcom will make us laugh our way to becoming Halal in the Family.
Apr 17, 2015 / Kristal Brent Zook
The New Thought Police The New Thought Police
Why are campus administrators invoking civility to silence critical speech?
Apr 15, 2015 / Feature / Joan W. Scott
Vietnam in the Battlefield of Memory Vietnam in the Battlefield of Memory
On the war’s 50th anniversary, peace activists will be challenging the Pentagon’s whitewashed history.
Apr 15, 2015 / Feature / Jon Wiener