Gonzalez for Mayor Gonzalez for Mayor
Matt Gonzalez, San Francisco's Green candidate for mayor, is trying to put an end to the forty-year grip the Democrats have held over the city's electoral politics and become the...
Dec 5, 2003 / Feature / Kevin McCarthy
McCarthy’s (and Ashcroft’s) Nemesis McCarthy’s (and Ashcroft’s) Nemesis
In the summer of 1951, Senator Joe McCarthy's burgeoning red scare had intimidated not just official Washington but the nation's media. Free speech was taking a hit everywhere, bu...
Dec 5, 2003 / John Nichols
Protesting to Protect the Constitution Protesting to Protect the Constitution
Three states (Alaska, Arizona and Hawaii) and 219 cities, towns and counties have passed anti-Patriot Act resolutions, ordinances or ballot initiatives. Hundreds more are in prog...
Dec 4, 2003 / The Nation
Why I Said No to Joe Why I Said No to Joe
This essay, from the September 26, 1953, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published, ...
Dec 4, 2003 / Feature / Harvey O’Connor
Occupational Hazards Occupational Hazards
One of the greatest paradoxes of the modern era is the relationship between science and rationalism.
Dec 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Omer Bartov
A Poet of Multitudes A Poet of Multitudes
Pablo Neruda is often compared to Walt Whitman. In fact, the Chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner outdid Whitman in some respects.
Dec 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jay Parini
Gray’s Anatomy Gray’s Anatomy
We live, it has been said, in a postideological age. Ideologically confused might be more like it.
Dec 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Danny Postel
Letter From South Carolina Letter From South Carolina
Shortly after Strom Thurmond died, the flags at the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia were lowered to half-staff. Every flag except one, that is.
Dec 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Paul Wachter
In Defense of the Law of Return In Defense of the Law of Return
It is Israel's compensatory response to the truth of Jewish experience.
Dec 4, 2003 / Feature / Letty Cottin Pogrebin
American Apocalypse American Apocalypse
How "superpower syndrome" is ravaging the world.
Dec 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Robert Jay Lifton