The Moviegoer The Moviegoer
If Herbert Marcuse and Senator Joseph McCarthy had gone to a movie together in the late 1950s--and that could only happen in a movie--they would have walked out, probably not tog...
Jan 27, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Lee Siegel
Intolerable Cruelty Intolerable Cruelty
On May 22, 1787, nine Quakers and three Anglicans gathered in a London print shop with the express purpose of doing something about the international slave trade.
Jan 27, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
Blood Simple Blood Simple
Half a century has passed since Manny Farber wrote in these pages about underground films, by which he meant the urban crime movies watched by male loiterers near the Greyhound s...
Jan 20, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Men in Dark Times Men in Dark Times
"I am very happy to see so many flowers here and that is why I want to remind you that flowers, by themselves, have no power whatsoever, other than the power of men and women who...
Jan 20, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
The Rebirth of the Modern The Rebirth of the Modern
The letterhead of Columbia University, where I taught for four decades, reads in full "Columbia University in the City of New York," not because there is much likelihood that any...
Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Beyond Good and Evil Beyond Good and Evil
Adorno said, as we all know, that writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. This is not to say, as many imagine, that writing poetry after Auschwitz is to be forbidden, or is i...
Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / John Banville
Music for Change Music for Change
Springsteen's got it right: No retreat.
Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Jenny Toomey and Rob Rosenthal
Pundit Limbo: How Low Can They Go? Pundit Limbo: How Low Can They Go?
What do Robert Novak and Armstrong Williams have to do before they're completely discredited?
Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Geezerstock Geezerstock
When I was a kid--this was before television--the radio was my best friend.
Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Paul Krassner
The Inflation of the Attorney-General The Inflation of the Attorney-General
This essay, from the October 1, 1874, 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 t...
Jan 12, 2005 / Books & the Arts / The Nation