Last Aid to Voters Last Aid to Voters
The position that The Nation has taken in the present campaign against both Cox and Harding and in favor of a vote either for Christensen or Debs, has aroused considerable inquir...
Sep 27, 2004 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
In Dubious Battle In Dubious Battle
Say what you will about the sins of the Bush Administration. But credit it with one small but welcome accomplishment: It has moved Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Sep 23, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin
Homeland Insecurity Homeland Insecurity
One hundred years ago, in the wake of England's ruinous victory in the Boer War, a young Liberal politician excoriated the ruling Conservative Party and its imperial scam: "A par...
Sep 23, 2004 / Books & the Arts / George Scialabba
Debating the Great Debate Debating the Great Debate
This essay, from the November 11, 1960 issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on ...
Sep 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors
Of Human Bondage Of Human Bondage
In the sequence of revolutions that remade the Atlantic world between 1776 and 1825, the Haitian Revolution is rarely given its due, yet without it the progressive credentials of...
Sep 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
Why does the United States--born in a people's war for national independence from the greatest empire of its time--have such a difficult time understanding the people's wars of i...
Sep 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
In the Bedroom (With Stalin) In the Bedroom (With Stalin)
Stalin continues to fascinate--the central mystery within the riddle inside the enigma that was the Soviet Union. If you Google "Stalin, biography," 166,000 websites come up.
Sep 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Ronald Grigor Suny
The Poverty of Theory The Poverty of Theory
Gertrude Himmelfarb is a remarkable woman. Remarkable, first, because in some respects she is a pioneer.
Sep 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Linda Colley
The Bush Crusade The Bush Crusade
Sacred violence, again unleashed in 2001, could prove as destructive as in 1096.
Sep 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / James Carroll
The Foregone Convention The Foregone Convention
George McGovern carried the day, but the passion was provided by Ted Kennedy.
Jul 13, 2004 / Feature / Robert Sherrill