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Debating the Great Debate Debating the Great Debate

This essay, from the November 11, 1960 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 ...

Sep 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors

Of Human Bondage Of Human Bondage

In the sequence of revolutions that remade the Atlantic world between 1776 and 1825, the Haitian Revolution is rarely given its due, yet without it the progressive credentials of...

Sep 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn

Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero

Why does the United States--born in a people's war for national independence from the greatest empire of its time--have such a difficult time understanding the people's wars of i...

Sep 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell

In the Bedroom (With Stalin) In the Bedroom (With Stalin)

Stalin continues to fascinate--the central mystery within the riddle inside the enigma that was the Soviet Union. If you Google "Stalin, biography," 166,000 websites come up.

Sep 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Ronald Grigor Suny

The Poverty of Theory The Poverty of Theory

Gertrude Himmelfarb is a remarkable woman. Remarkable, first, because in some respects she is a pioneer.

Sep 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Linda Colley

The Bush Crusade The Bush Crusade

Sacred violence, again unleashed in 2001, could prove as destructive as in 1096.

Sep 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / James Carroll

The Foregone Convention The Foregone Convention

George McGovern carried the day, but the passion was provided by Ted Kennedy.

Jul 13, 2004 / Feature / Robert Sherrill

Top Gun Top Gun

Of the making of many books about Abraham Lincoln there is no end.

May 27, 2004 / Books & the Arts / James M. McPherson

The Descent Into Barbarism The Descent Into Barbarism

Few of those who followed the David Irving libel trial held in London three years ago could avoid being struck by the calm but towering presence of the British historian Richar...

Apr 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Abraham Brumberg

Brown v. Board of Education: The Climax of an Era Brown v. Board of Education: The Climax of an Era

The Supreme Court says separate but equal is inherently unequal.

Apr 14, 2004 / Various Contributors

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