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
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
San Francisco Conference: The Second League San Francisco Conference: The Second League
The delegates may be there to discuss peace, but the cold war is in full bloom at the UN's San Francisco Conference.
Jan 3, 2005 / Feature / Percy E. Corbett
Israel’s Culture of Martyrdom Israel’s Culture of Martyrdom
Nations like to imagine themselves as unique, but one belief they have in common is that it is noble to die in their name. Death and redemption are the themes of almost every for...
Dec 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Baruch Kimmerling
Stanton’s Wisdom Stanton’s Wisdom
One afternoon in January 1892, in a packed convention hall in Washington, DC, the 76-year-old Elizabeth Cady Stanton rose from her seat to address the annual meeting of the Natio...
Dec 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
The War That Never Was The War That Never Was
As war threatened Europe in the 1930s, a physicist turned to a psychiatrist to help understand the impending violence.
Dec 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
Days of Rage Days of Rage
On November 4, 1979, a few months after the collapse of the Iranian monarchy and the inauguration of Iran's Islamic Republic, a group of college students calling themselves the M...
Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Reza Aslan
Patriot Acts Patriot Acts
In September 1950, four months into the Korean War, Congress passed the draconian Internal Security Act (ISA), known as the McCarran Act, after its sponsor, the Nevada Democratic...
Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Mike Marqusee
Suspension of Disbelief Suspension of Disbelief
Ask Americans to enumerate their civil liberties and they instinctively turn to freedom of speech and the press.
Nov 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner