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What Is This New Philosophy They Call ‘Existentialism’?

What Is This New Philosophy They Call ‘Existentialism’? What Is This New Philosophy They Call ‘Existentialism’?

It would be a cheap error to mistake this new trend in philosophy and literature for just another fashion of the day.

Mar 23, 2015 / Feature / Hannah Arendt

What Can the White Man Say to the Black Woman?

What Can the White Man Say to the Black Woman? What Can the White Man Say to the Black Woman?

Only one thing that the black woman might hear.

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Alice Walker

Some Disturbingly Relevant Legacies of Anticommunism

Some Disturbingly Relevant Legacies of Anticommunism Some Disturbingly Relevant Legacies of Anticommunism

The impact of Cold War anticommunism on our national life has been so profound that we no longer recognize how much we’ve lost.

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky

1915–1965 1915–1965

From World War I to Vietnam, from the red scare to McCarthyism, The Nation stood firm for civil liberties and civil rights, even when that meant being banned—or standing alone.

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / D.D. Guttenplan

Magna Carta Messed Up the World, Here’s How to Fix It

Magna Carta Messed Up the World, Here’s How to Fix It Magna Carta Messed Up the World, Here’s How to Fix It

The “logic” of capitalist development has left a nightmare of environmental destruction in its wake.

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Noam Chomsky

1905–1915: Henry James’s Obscurities

1905–1915: Henry James’s Obscurities 1905–1915: Henry James’s Obscurities

To get the story you must pay the price.

Mar 23, 2015 / Feature / The Nation

What Science Fiction Teaches Us About Reality

What Science Fiction Teaches Us About Reality What Science Fiction Teaches Us About Reality

Why build rockets at all? For fun? For adventure? Or is this the same process which sends the salmon back upstream year after year to spawn and die—a subliminal urge in manki...

Mar 23, 2015 / Feature / Ray Bradbury

Is the UK Labor Party Too Moderate to Be in Power?

Is the UK Labor Party Too Moderate to Be in Power? Is the UK Labor Party Too Moderate to Be in Power?

Its leaders speak the language of social concern, yet their strategy is marked by extreme caution, an avoidance of any appearance of radicalism.

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Edward Miliband

A Q&A With Marilynne Robinson

A Q&A With Marilynne Robinson A Q&A With Marilynne Robinson

The novelist discusses religion, history, language and the importance of moral scrutiny.

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts

1965–2015 1965–2015

A forum for debate between radicals and liberals in an age of austerity, surveillance and endless war, The Nation has long had one foot inside the establishment and one outside it....

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / D.D. Guttenplan

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