The Gutsy, Radical Journalism of Andy Kopkind, Who Died 20 Years Ago This Week The Gutsy, Radical Journalism of Andy Kopkind, Who Died 20 Years Ago This Week
Definitive assessments of Ronald Reagan and “the warrior state,” plus early looks at Bernie Sanders and Bill Clinton, and zeitgeist-defining essays on “cold war l...
Oct 24, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
‘If I Were Dictator’: Writers in the ’30s Plot for a Better World ‘If I Were Dictator’: Writers in the ’30s Plot for a Better World
A forerunner of The Guardian’s current series, “King or Queen for a Day.”
Oct 21, 2014 / Back Issues and Richard Kreitner
When Christopher Hitchens Went to Hong Kong, He Saw ‘Wised-Up Young People’ on a ‘Globalized Globe’ When Christopher Hitchens Went to Hong Kong, He Saw ‘Wised-Up Young People’ on a ‘Globalized Globe’
And a DC lawyer reflects on his essay from 1984, when Hong Kong was “full of life.”
Oct 7, 2014 / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
10 ‘Nation’ Articles on the Roosevelts, From TR’s Early Days to Eleanor’s Death 10 ‘Nation’ Articles on the Roosevelts, From TR’s Early Days to Eleanor’s Death
Contemporaneous accounts of the Roosevelts ranging over seventy years.
Oct 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
‘If I Were A Scotchman I Too Should Be Conceited’: Henry James and Others on Scotland ‘If I Were A Scotchman I Too Should Be Conceited’: Henry James and Others on Scotland
A century and a half of writing on the always-possibly-imminent break-up of the United Kingdom.
Sep 18, 2014 / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
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
"Outside, the ground separates, / breaking open like sores..."
Sep 3, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
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
Forty Years Later, Our ‘Long National Nightmare’ Is Far From Over Forty Years Later, Our ‘Long National Nightmare’ Is Far From Over
Watergate itself is “smoking gun” proof of that old axiom about the corruption of power.
Aug 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
‘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