Non-fiction

In Our Orbit In Our Orbit

TROOPS IN THE STREETS Nation contributing editor and radio host Marc Cooper was tossed out of the California State University system for antiwar activities in 1971 by executive ...

Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

A Tale of Two Venonas A Tale of Two Venonas

A review of The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors, by Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel.

Dec 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Schwartz

Chokehold on the World Chokehold on the World

Are sanctions ethical--or an ill-used weapon of mass destruction?

Dec 14, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Joy Gordon

Double Enmity Double Enmity

Noah Isenberg reviews Communazis, by Alexander Stephan.

Dec 14, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Noah Isenberg

In Our Orbit In Our Orbit

STILL LOSING RUSSIA "As a result of the Yeltsin era, all the fundamental sectors of our state, economic, cultural and moral life have been destroyed or looted," lamented Alexand...

Dec 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

Keepers of the Word Keepers of the Word

O Marvel, that one can give to another what one does not possess. O Miracle of our empty hands.       --George Bernanos, Diary of a Country Priest ...

Dec 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Dan Simon

Korea’s Fallout Korea’s Fallout

On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the so-called forgotten war was finally remembered. With the Associated Press's Pulitzer Prize-winning "revelation" a year ago that h...

Dec 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Margaret Juhae Lee

To Hell in His Handbasket To Hell in His Handbasket

Travel writing is a dismal art. From Herodotus, wide-eyed (and perhaps more than a little disoriented) in an India of man-eating ants and black sperm; to Ibn Batuta, the fourteen...

Nov 30, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Akash Kapur

Liberalism: In Search Of Liberalism: In Search Of

A half-century after the appearance of The Vital Center, Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s spirited political polemic, we have more than sufficient cause to meditate on what might be called...

Nov 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Paul Buhle

Generation Ex- Generation Ex-

To judge from magazine covers, the American divorce rate is either a disaster for children or no problem at all. First came the famous "Dan Quayle Was Right" article in The Atlan...

Nov 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Andrew J. Cherlin

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