Nation History

Hamilton Explains Hamilton Explains

How Alexander Hamilton "fell into as difficult a position as a public man has ever known, and extricated himself by means which show how much the conventional standards of morals h...

Mar 18, 2008 / The Editors

Lenin, Trotzky and Gorky Lenin, Trotzky and Gorky

"I went to Russia believing myself a communist, but contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts...of every creed so firmly held that for its ...

Feb 20, 2008 / Feature / Bertrand Russell

An Unconventional Convention An Unconventional Convention

On Saturday, June 27, 1924, "men and women suddenly rose up after days of utterly degraded and demoralizing vaudeville performances to declaim with passion about two big subjects....

Feb 12, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Oswald Garrison Villard

The Long War of Wayne Felde The Long War of Wayne Felde

How a Vietnam vet wound up on Death Row.

Feb 5, 2008 / Feature / Doug Magee

Jinnah’s New Republic Jinnah’s New Republic

Seldom has a state been created under such contradictory pressures or with such a load of full-grown problems.

Jan 9, 2008 / Feature / Andrew Roth

The Old and New Shapes of Nuclear Danger The Old and New Shapes of Nuclear Danger

During the cold war, the driving force was the bilateral arms race; now it's proliferation.

Dec 6, 2007 / Feature / Jonathan Schell

Studs’s People Studs’s People

For Studs Terkel, the touchstone is memory and speech the stuff of which his art is made.

Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Harry Maurer

War Novelist War Novelist

THE NAKED AND THE DEAD. By Norman Mailer. Rinehart and Company. $4.

Nov 20, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Ira Wolfert

Norman Mailer Norman Mailer

Ave atque vale, Aquarius.

Nov 15, 2007 / The Editors

Will Rogers: The Bunkless Candidate Will Rogers: The Bunkless Candidate

"WHATEVER the other fellow don't do, we will." Thus refreshingly Will Rogers, the bunkless candidate for President, begins his campaign. It is, of course, a dangerous doctrine, b...

Nov 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Dorothy Van Doren

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