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January 31, 2023
The Long, Bitter History of Globalism
A conversation with Tara Zahra about the early-20th-century origins of globalism, how debates over a globalized world have morphed across a century, and her new book, Against the World.
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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January 27, 2023
Victor Navasky: An Avatar of the American Left, 1932–2023
Editor of The Nation, 1978–1995; editorial director and publisher, 1995–2005.
Kai Bird
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January 24, 2023
What Does It Take to Win?
In his new history of American politics, Timothy Shenk examines the past and future of political realignments.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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January 23, 2023
In a Land of Apartheid, a Trip to the Beach Can Be an Act of Resistance
Not long ago, The Nation’s Palestine correspondent snuck into a moshav to sunbathe, because no one owns the sea.
Mohammed El-Kurd
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January 18, 2023
Was the True Meaning of Capitalism Forgotten?
A conversation with historian Michael Sonenscher about the tricky task of defining capitalism and his new book, Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word.
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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January 17, 2023
Why Biden and Trump Are Both Trapped in Secret-Document Scandals
The real problem is the national security state’s love of classification.
Jeet Heer
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January 13, 2023
The Failures of the January 6 Report
Historian Jill Lepore’s effective critique in The New Yorker is marred by a lazy counternarrative.
Jeet Heer
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January 9, 2023
Hannah Arendt Was Really a Prophet Against Conformity
To the question of how totalitarian methods could ever draw the compliance of free citizens, she replied: through the enchantment of success.
David Bromwich
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January 5, 2023
Will Alexander’s Epics of the Surreal
As one critic put it, his poetry conjured up a world built by “an ecstatic surrealist on imaginal hyperdrive.”
Aditya Bahl
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January 3, 2023
Has the United States Ever Been a Democracy?
Blending history, political theory, and commentary on current events, Jedediah Purdy’s new book examines how that the United States continues to fail to qualify as a system defined by popular rule.
Sophia Rosenfeld