Books and Ideas

Disappointment in Iowa Disappointment in Iowa

The Corn Belt looks askance at a highly disagreeable field of GOP contenders.

Aug 9, 2007 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Sacco & Vanzetti Today Sacco & Vanzetti Today

History sheds no new light on their guilt or innocence. But it does make clear that their trial and execution was an unjust and intolerable act of barbarism.

Aug 9, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Moshik Temkin

Lessons From the Tonkin Gulf Lessons From the Tonkin Gulf

From the Nation archives, the late senator and onetime editor of this magazine recalls his lonely stand against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, approved by Congress August 7, 1964, ...

Aug 7, 2007 / Feature / Ernest Gruening

End of the Affair End of the Affair

The Nation Cruise drops its final anchor and its highly politicized passengers head for home.

Aug 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Annabelle Gurwitch

The War on Infrastructure The War on Infrastructure

Describing the recent bridge failure and steam-pipe explosion as "cowardly attacks on our way of life," Bush today opened a new front in his permanent war on everything.

Aug 6, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich

A Rally in Juneau A Rally in Juneau

Veterans for Peace in Juneau greeted the Nation cruise when it docked in their city with a rally against the war.

Aug 2, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Doug Henwood

The Stuff of Heartbreak The Stuff of Heartbreak

When an ardently progressive magazine sponsors a cruise through the fragile waters off the coast of Alaska, the environmental, economic and human realities are ripe for contemplati...

Aug 2, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Doug Henwood

I Didn’t Throw Ralph Nader Overboard I Didn’t Throw Ralph Nader Overboard

In her latest shipboard dispatch, one passenger resists fear of global warming, is charmed by Rocky Anderson and manages not to do what so many others have contemplated.

Jul 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Annabelle Gurwitch

The Lives of Others The Lives of Others

Lois Gordon's new biography of Nancy Cunard brings the legendary heiress and activist back to life.

Jul 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Carla Kaplan

I’m Not the Man I Used to Be I’m Not the Man I Used to Be

The reasons for Günter Grass's silence about his membership in the Waffen SS remain safely hidden in his new memoir.

Jul 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Andreas Huyssen

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