Christopher Hayes : Conservatives & The American Right
The central thesis of Thomas Frank's new book, The Wrecking Crew, is that the kind of obscene depravity witnessed at the Department. of Interior is the natural result of the conservative philosophy of governance.
Brave Nation : Activism & Organizing
Pete Seeger talks about music and activism with one of the country's most effective young grassroots leaders, Majora Carter.
Brave Nation : Activism & Organizing
Antiwar activist Ava Lowery and the ACLU's Anthony Romero discuss the legal quagmire into which the country has sunk since 9/11.
Brave Nation : Video
Carl Pope and Van Jones discuss the issues and movements that have informed and inspired their lives and work.
Carmen Boullosa : South America
The imaginary fascists in Roberto Bolaño's ironic encyclopedia Nazi Literature in the Americas bear a complex relationship to reality.
Michael Schudson : Media Analysis
In the early 1900s Walter Lippman laid the groundrules for public debate in America. Have the US media followed his prescriptions?
The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature is every bit as political as her predecessors.
Jayati Vora : Higher Education
Columbia University President Lee Bollinger's combative remarks tarnish an otherwise illuminating event.
Andrew Rice : Journalists & Journalism
In a posthumously published memoir, Ryszard Kapuscinski looks back on his life as a pathbreaking literary journalist who covered the Third World during the cold war.
James Miller : Autobiography & Memoir
In his memoir, Régis Debray describes the evolution of his politics from his early days as a revolutionary to his later work advising the nominally socialist François Mitterrand.
Calvin Trillin : Journalists & Journalism
In celebration of Studs Terkel's 95th birthday last year, the Nation's Deadline Poet paid tribute.
Vonnegut's best novels were as profound as any writing that deals with ultimate questions.
John Leonard : Books, Literature, & Ideas
Kurt Vonnegut, who passed away Wednesday, will be remembered for his brilliant, cynical and often depressing humor.
Jeremy Harding : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
At the Same Time, Susan Sontag's posthumous collection of essays and speeches, reveals her rapt attention to the world around her.
The Friendship describes how Wordsworth and Coleridge's fiercely uneven relationship affected their lives and work.
A new biography of William James portrays a man who made a brilliant career of asking tough questions.
William Empson's writing shaped modern criticism. A new biography restores him to his proper eminence.
A new collection of letters between Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou
Andreas-Salome reveals an intimate portrait of a poet and his muse.
Marc Cooper interviews Gore Vidal about an America that is increasingly controlled by corporations and suggests that the Gulf Coast hurricanes and the Iraq debacle signal the breakdown of an empire.
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