Interview With Steve Earle Interview With Steve Earle
"Everybody thought everybody was fooling everybody. And both of us were probably right to a certain extent, everybody was fooling each of us."
Mar 19, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Or to Put It Another Way: 100 Years Ago, We Were Already 50 Years Old Or to Put It Another Way: 100 Years Ago, We Were Already 50 Years Old
The Nation’s archives, Henry James wrote in our fiftieth anniversary issue, “compose the record of the general life of civilization.”
Mar 18, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
Cookie Don’t Crumble Cookie Don’t Crumble
Fox’s Empire made TV-ratings history by letting a black woman be her multidimensional self.
Mar 18, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Kristal Brent Zook
Nobody Thought It Likely to Succeed: Reading Our 20th Anniversary Issue as the 150th Goes to Press Nobody Thought It Likely to Succeed: Reading Our 20th Anniversary Issue as the 150th Goes to Press
“To say that it never went wrong would be to make a claim which, even if well grounded, nobody would acknowledge,” the magazine’s founding editor humble-bragged b...
Mar 16, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/13/15? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/13/15?
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/13/15?
Mar 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation
I’ve Got a Little List, Continued I’ve Got a Little List, Continued
The best TV shows, albums and concerts: it's all inside today's Altercation.
Mar 12, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
March 8, 1963: The Ba’ath Party Seizes Power in Syria March 8, 1963: The Ba’ath Party Seizes Power in Syria
“They must learn to avoid the temptation of crushing the voices of criticism,” a writer in The Nation observed.
Mar 8, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/6/15? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/6/15?
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/6/15?
Mar 6, 2015 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation
The Great Chastening The Great Chastening
For Francis Fukuyama and John Dunn, our democratic crisis is the result of an intellectual failure.
Mar 4, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney
‘Insoumission’ ‘Insoumission’
The categorical imperative “Do Not Draw the Prophet” clashes with the thousand nuances of art.
Mar 4, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Stéphane Delorme