Memory Politics: On ‘Franco’s Crypt’ Memory Politics: On ‘Franco’s Crypt’
To what extent does Franco’s rule still dictate contemporary Spanish culture?
Dec 30, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Blitzer
Who Didn’t Kill JFK? Who Didn’t Kill JFK?
Kennedy’s presidency and assassination seem more elusive as the decades pass.
Dec 18, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Beverly Gage
Thanksgiving Forty Years Ago: There but for the Grace… Thanksgiving Forty Years Ago: There but for the Grace…
It’s bad out there on Thanksgiving this year. A remembrance: in 1973, it was worse.
Nov 28, 2013 / Blog / Rick Perlstein
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Tantalizing Mockery of Thanksgiving, 1931 This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Tantalizing Mockery of Thanksgiving, 1931
President Hoover's holiday proclamation was offensive to millions of poor and unemployed Americans, our 'Drifter' columnist wrote.
Nov 23, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Kennedy Week: The Myth of Camelot and the Dangers of Sycophantic Consensus Journalism Kennedy Week: The Myth of Camelot and the Dangers of Sycophantic Consensus Journalism
How a favor Teddy White did for Jackie Kennedy helps explain David Broder and Politico.
Nov 23, 2013 / Blog / Rick Perlstein
The Museum of the Revolution The Museum of the Revolution
The life and work of Victor Serge represents the Russian democratic revolution that never was.
Nov 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Sophie Pinkham
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Ben Urwand’s The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler.
Nov 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Akiva Gottlieb
The Man Who Knew Almost Everything The Man Who Knew Almost Everything
Inside the great social historian Eric Hobsbawm there was an aesthete waiting to come out.
Nov 12, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Ramachandra Guha
Behind the Storm Behind the Storm
Was World War I the outcome of elite machinations?
Nov 12, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Tara Zahra
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Debating the JFK Legacy, in Real Time This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Debating the JFK Legacy, in Real Time
Was there more to JFK than a coiffure arranged by facing south in a strong east wind?
Nov 9, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel