Books & the Arts

Will Letterman and Saturday Night Live Help Defeat McCain? Will Letterman and Saturday Night Live Help Defeat McCain?

If Letterman and Saturday Night Live continue to cast McCain as a liar, it could have a devastating impact.

Sep 29, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Adam Howard

America Needs a New New Deal America Needs a New New Deal

We should apply FDR's principles of relief, reform and reconstruction to our current financial crisis.

Sep 27, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Eric Schlosser

Archive: Bearing Witness in Mississippi Archive: Bearing Witness in Mississippi

As the eyes of the nation are focused on the University of Mississippi for the presidential debate, The Nation archive yields insights on key events in Mississippi during the civi...

Sep 26, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Marissa Colón-Margolies and Erica Landau

The Dark Bailout The Dark Bailout

While the financial crisis is nothing to joke about, the Joker from The Dark Knight couldn't be any worse than George W. Bush

Sep 26, 2008 / Books & the Arts / YouTube

Spectacular Wrongs: Gary Bass’s ‘Freedom’s Battle’ Spectacular Wrongs: Gary Bass’s ‘Freedom’s Battle’

A new history celebrates the nineteenth-century roots of humanitarian intervention and glosses over their imperial pretensions.

Sep 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn

Homing Patterns: Marilynne Robinson’s Fiction Homing Patterns: Marilynne Robinson’s Fiction

Marilynne Robinson's new novel explores faith, loneliness and the national passion play of race.

Sep 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz

Darkness Becomes Him Darkness Becomes Him

A French pundit's short journey from Maoism to the cult of moi.

Sep 23, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Scott McLemee

Wall Street and Washington Wall Street and Washington

Washington's mission may, at this late date, be an even greater one than Roosevelt's New Deal faced.

Sep 19, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Steve Fraser

Mandarins, Guns and Money: Academics and the Cold War Mandarins, Guns and Money: Academics and the Cold War

Four authors examine the evolution of the social sciences and how academic theorizing impacted global affairs before and after Vietnam.

Sep 18, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mazower

Inconvenient Truths Inconvenient Truths

Elizabeth Pisani and Jonny Steinberg explore antipodal aspects of the fight against AIDS.

Sep 18, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Steven Epstein

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