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JFK & his Papa: David Nasaw’s light...
David Nasaw’s smashing biography of The Patriarch: Joseph P. Kennedy smashes not least the legend of a giant gap between cranky father and radiant presidential...| More
October 7, 2012
Pankaj Mishra: Briefing our “Foreign Policy” Debate
“What a disaster! What an affliction! What kind of a situation is this? …England has occupied Egypt, the Sudan, and the great Indian Peninsula which...| More
October 1, 2012
Eric Hobsbawm, 1917 – 2012: In Memoriam
It’s a privilege at Eric Hobsbawm’s death this morning to share again the lively sound of his wondrously learned, penetrating mind. Five years ago, in...| More
September 8, 2012
Ralph Nader: One Citizen’s View from Winsted,...
Mary McGrath photo Ralph Nader on Main Street can still see the flatbed trucks hauling textile machinery out of his hometown in the 1950s, his...| More
August 15, 2012
Jackson Lears: Too Scary to Talk About
Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with Jackson Lears (30 min, 16 meg) Jackson Lears, the American cultural historian at Rutgers, is touching on themes...| More
August 2, 2012
Dan Rodgers’ Age of Fracture : A...
Daniel Rodgers, the Princeton historian, and his Age of Fracture put a striking new frame around our nagging Tony Judt question: "How Fares the Land?"...| More
July 11, 2012
Chris Hayes: Smart Guy against the “Smart...
Part of what makes the strange disorienting nature of our time is that the old institutions have been discredited but remain in power. The people...| More
June 13, 2012
Jacob Hacker: for 35 years of Progressive...
Jacob Hacker, Yale’s bright light on American politics and co-author of Winner-Take-All Politics, is giving us a baseline on the election-year landscape: 1. The American...| More
June 7, 2012
David Bromwich on The Emperor’s New Language
David Bromwich is locating our 2012 distress in our language — or lack of it. It is reunion season at Yale, 50 years after President...| More
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