The Rosenberg Variations The Rosenberg Variations
A new book concludes that it was really Ethel and Julius Rosenberg's in-laws who illegally passed classified information on the atomic bomb to the Russians. Does the news still mat...
Oct 27, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky
The Pirate’s Prophet: On Lewis Hyde The Pirate’s Prophet: On Lewis Hyde
Is the cultural commons a viable alternative to the copyright regime, or does it risk turning culture into a consumerist slum?
Oct 27, 2010 / Books & the Arts / David Wallace-Wells
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, Robert Darnton's Poetry and the Police, Jeremy Harding's Mother Country
Oct 27, 2010 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella
That Seventies Show That Seventies Show
The continuous readjustment of expectations downward: For historians like Jefferson Cowie and Judith Stein, that was the key experience of the 1970s.
Oct 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Rick Perlstein
Stephen Cohen on Stalin’s Forgotten Victims Stephen Cohen on Stalin’s Forgotten Victims
Stephen F. Cohen, author of The Victims Return, joins Morning Joe to discuss Stalin's atrocities, his contradictory legacy today and its implications for contemporary Russian ...
Oct 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Morning Joe
Conversation: Stephen Cohen on the Survivors of Stalin’s Gulag Conversation: Stephen Cohen on the Survivors of Stalin’s Gulag
According to Cohen, half of Russia looks back to Joseph Stalin as a great leader and the other half as a genocidal murderer. In his new book, he examines the ongoing struggle to ...
Oct 19, 2010 / Books & the Arts / The Nation on Grit TV
Representative Women Representative Women
Christine Stansell's The Feminist Promise is a landmark book, yet is indifferent to the role of ideas in feminism's history.
Oct 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Martha C. Nussbaum
Fair Warning Fair Warning
In Our Orbit: Tom Engelhardt's The American Way of War.
Oct 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Frederick Deknatel
Slavery & Climate Change Slavery & Climate Change
On October 10, more than 7,000 actions in 180 countries will celebrate solutions to climate change in what is expected to be the greatest number of recorded protests in a single da...
Sep 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Mark Hertsgaard
Fighting for Change, Longing for the Sea Fighting for Change, Longing for the Sea
Predictable Democratic losses in November aren't what we should fear. The real danger is in a political environment unable to build even the most tenuous bridges across partisan di...
Sep 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Melissa Harris-Perry