Culture

Labor to Lincoln: You’re Not Obama’s BFF Labor to Lincoln: You’re Not Obama’s BFF

 Organized labor takes on Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln in a pair of new ads.

Apr 5, 2010 / Ari Berman

A Conscious Pariah A Conscious Pariah

Raul Hilberg, the first historian to document the banality of Nazi evil, nursed a lifelong grudge against the woman who borrowed from and popularized his work, Hannah Arendt.

Mar 31, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Nathaniel Popper

On Right-Wing Apoplexy On Right-Wing Apoplexy

What caused this healthcare fit?

Mar 31, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin

One From the Heart One From the Heart

The superficial sincerity of Noah Baumbach's Greenberg is not to be trusted.

Mar 31, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

India Grapples with Freedom India Grapples with Freedom

This essay, from the August 23, 1947, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on I...

Mar 30, 2010 / Feature / Shiva Rao

Lolita Lolita

Once he has swallowed the disappointment of discovering that Lolita in the movie is pushing hard on the age of consent, the libidinous critic must decide what if anything he can ...

Mar 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch

The Catch The Catch

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a ratio...

Mar 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Nelson Algren

Superfluity and Bounty Superfluity and Bounty

The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary is a reserve set aside for thinking about the categorical inferiority of destruction to creation.

Mar 23, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko

Poor Eric Massa Poor Eric Massa

He's in a pickle.

Mar 18, 2010 / Calvin Trillin

Living for the City Living for the City

There's more to the legend of Jane Jacobs than her showdown with Robert Moses.  

Mar 18, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Zipp

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