Jeet Heer

National Affairs Correspondent

@HeerJeet

Jeet Heer is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation and host of the weekly Nation podcast, The Time of Monsters. He also pens the monthly column “Morbid Symptoms.” The author of In Love with Art: Francoise Mouly’s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (2013) and Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays and Profiles (2014), Heer has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The American Prospect, The GuardianThe New Republic, and The Boston Globe.

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Cold War Nostalgia Fuels a Dangerous New Anti-China Consensus Cold War Nostalgia Fuels a Dangerous New Anti-China Consensus

It is folly to use China as a bogeyman to help unite America and revive NATO.

Mar 15, 2021 / Jeet Heer

Glenn Gould

In the Vicinity of Genius In the Vicinity of Genius

How a friendship with Glenn Gould created an unlikely cultural critic.

Mar 12, 2021 / Jeet Heer

Lincoln Project

A Fraud, Not a Lincoln A Fraud, Not a Lincoln

Liberals need a reckoning with the fortune they wasted on Never Trump charlatans.

Mar 10, 2021 / Jeet Heer

Two Cheers for Joe Manchin

Two Cheers for Joe Manchin Two Cheers for Joe Manchin

Democrats should let the West Virginian have his small victories while they pass big bills.

Mar 8, 2021 / Jeet Heer

Don’t Stop Thinking About (Tom) Tomorrow

Don’t Stop Thinking About (Tom) Tomorrow Don’t Stop Thinking About (Tom) Tomorrow

Cartoonist Dan Perkins increasingly turns to the iconography of science fiction to keep pace with the absurdity of the moment.

Mar 5, 2021 / Jeet Heer

Andrew Cuomo

Democrats Need to Hold Andrew Cuomo Accountable Democrats Need to Hold Andrew Cuomo Accountable

The New York governor’s alleged misdeeds may pale next to Trump’s and the GOP’s crimes, but a worry about double standards is no excuse to junk all standards.

Mar 3, 2021 / Jeet Heer

Trump CPAC

Trump Does a Victory Dance at CPAC Trump Does a Victory Dance at CPAC

The brief Republican civil war is over, as the former president uses the annual conference to reassert his dominance over the party.

Mar 1, 2021 / Jeet Heer

Black Lives Matter Protest

Reckoning With a Year of Shared Isolation, Pandemic, and Protest Reckoning With a Year of Shared Isolation, Pandemic, and Protest

The pandemic has energized collective action on both the left and right.

Feb 26, 2021 / Jeet Heer

Mark Zuckerberg Facebook

Facebook Remains a Threat to Democracy Facebook Remains a Threat to Democracy

Resisting a push for regulation and protective of right-wing extremism, the social media giant is making fake concessions that only increase its power.

Feb 24, 2021 / Jeet Heer

Leo Brent Bozell IV

Meet the Bozells, America’s First Family of Right-Wing Violence Meet the Bozells, America’s First Family of Right-Wing Violence

From union busting and cross burning to the January 6 riot, the Buckley-Bozell clan is the embodiment of reactionary lawlessness.

Feb 22, 2021 / Jeet Heer

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