Today’s Color Line Today’s Color Line
America may have a black president—but very few other African-Americans have been elected to political office.
Jan 6, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
Dwight Eisenhower & ‘The Nation’ Dwight Eisenhower & ‘The Nation’
The Nation was central to Eisenhower's understanding of the military-industrial complex.
Jan 6, 2011 / Books & the Arts / James Ledbetter
A Secret Archive: On the Mexican Suitcase A Secret Archive: On the Mexican Suitcase
The 4,500 images in the recently discovered Mexican Suitcase deepen our understanding of photojournalism as well as the complexities of the Spanish Civil War.
Jan 5, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Dan Kaufman
The Gutted Writ: On Habeas Corpus The Gutted Writ: On Habeas Corpus
Habeas corpus rescued Walter Rideau from an unjust prison sentence, but during its long history the great writ has been used to muffle the sighs of prisoners as much as to reliev...
Dec 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Robert Perkinson
The American Civil War Still Being Fought The American Civil War Still Being Fought
Some dispute the role of slavery as the central cause of the war, but we remain prisoners of the past if we do not face this fact.
Dec 21, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
Quote of the Day: Dr. K.’s Holocaust Quote of the Day: Dr. K.’s Holocaust
The ultimate "realist" goes a bit too far.
Dec 11, 2010 / Blog / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama’s Bizarre Celebration of a Slave Republic’s ‘Compromises’ Obama’s Bizarre Celebration of a Slave Republic’s ‘Compromises’
The president said many objectionable things in selling his tax- cut plan, but his assertions about America's history of compromising was too much to stomach.
Dec 8, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Kai Wright
The Maximalist: On Vasily Grossman The Maximalist: On Vasily Grossman
Vasily Grossman's Everything Flows is a searching and humane investigation of the totalitarian condition.
Dec 2, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Jochen Hellbeck
Between Hitler and Stalin Between Hitler and Stalin
In Bloodlands Timothy Snyder attempts to link the Holocaust to a syndrome of political killing endorsed by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
Nov 17, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn
The Wild Desire to Leave: On Soviet Jewry The Wild Desire to Leave: On Soviet Jewry
Gal Beckerman's When They Come for Us We'll Be Gone is an engaging account of the exodus of Jews from the Soviet Union.
Nov 10, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Nathans