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Hate To Say We Told You So: NATO Expansion Edition

Hate To Say We Told You So: NATO Expansion Edition Hate To Say We Told You So: NATO Expansion Edition

The whole spat between Russia and the West could easily have been avoided.

Sep 8, 2014 / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues

Three Poems to Get You Through the Drought

Three Poems to Get You Through the Drought Three Poems to Get You Through the Drought

"Outside, the ground separates, / breaking open like sores..."

Sep 3, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues

Arthur Danto’s Critique of the ‘Aesthetic Terrorism’ of Jeff Koons

Arthur Danto’s Critique of the ‘Aesthetic Terrorism’ of Jeff Koons Arthur Danto’s Critique of the ‘Aesthetic Terrorism’ of Jeff Koons

A solo Koons exhibition, Danto wrote in 1989, was “a vision of an aesthetic hell.”

Sep 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Back Issues and Arthur C. Danto

Great War: The View From America at the Start of World War I

Great War: The View From America at the Start of World War I Great War: The View From America at the Start of World War I

The Nation recognized that US isolation would be tested as never before, but didn’t even consider intervention as a possibility.

Aug 5, 2014 / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues

‘Gross Cruelty and Fraud’ in the Gulf of Tonkin: A Brief History

‘Gross Cruelty and Fraud’ in the Gulf of Tonkin: A Brief History ‘Gross Cruelty and Fraud’ in the Gulf of Tonkin: A Brief History

The quagmire of the Vietnam War was built on a “queasy foundation of fact and myth.”

Jul 31, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues

Why Does This Nation of Immigrants Always Imprison ‘The Other’?

Why Does This Nation of Immigrants Always Imprison ‘The Other’? Why Does This Nation of Immigrants Always Imprison ‘The Other’?

Has the romanticization of American history allowed the resurgence of discriminatory practices in recent episodes of crisis?

Jul 30, 2014 / Erin Corbett and Back Issues

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