Scott Sherman

Scott Sherman is a contributing writer to The Nation.

Currently

  • Naipaul's Darkness

    November 19, 2008

    Biographer Patrick French offers a vivid, sometimes enthralling portrait of a deeply enigmatic writer.

2007

  • Sun-rise in New York

    April 18, 2007

    How the pugnacious, money-losing New York Sun has won friends and influenced conservatives.

  • Letters

    February 14, 2007 Subscribe

  • ACLU v. ACLU

    January 18, 2007

    The civil liberties organization is engulfed in a tumultuous family feud over its controversial leader.

2006

  • Brady Kiesling's Tale

    December 7, 2006

    A disenchanted diplomat who lost faith in the Bush-era State Department and resigned over the war in Iraq remains idealistic.

  • Chilling the Press

    June 28, 2006

    Did the New York Times violate the Espionage Act by publishing reports of government secret spying program? A controversial essay in Commentary has provided intellectual ammunition to chill, censor and punish the press.

  • Taken for Granted: Ford Replies

    May 31, 2006 Subscribe

  • Target Ford

    May 18, 2006

    When the Ford Foundation came under pressure, it revised its grant-making standards, restricting the political activities of its grantees.

  • NYU--No More Ivory Tower

    January 26, 2006 Subscribe

2005

  • Bitter Winter at NYU

    December 20, 2005

    Striking graduate teaching assistants and NYU administrators are hunkered down for a protracted fight, as President John Sexton has threatened strikers with loss of their teaching stipend and ability to teach. This could have a chilling effect on campus union organizing nationwide.

  • Conrad Black's Fall

    December 15, 2005 Subscribe

    Reading Patrick Fitzgerald's sixty-page indictment of publishing magnate Conrad Black and his associates, one gets the feeling that the next stop for this high-living power-broker will be a prison cell.

  • Salvador Memories

    October 26, 2005 Subscribe

    An exhibit at the International Center of Photography showcasing the brutal images of the civil war in El Salvador should remind the Pentagon and the public that the "Salvador Option" currently considered by the military leads directly to the charnel house.

  • Press Watch

    July 28, 2005

    The public broadcasting system remains an easy target for Republican deception, demagogy and mischief.

  • Letters

    June 2, 2005 Subscribe

  • Good, Gray NPR

    May 5, 2005

    Once a quirky upstart, NPR is now soberly mainstream.

  • 'Playing Fair' at Columbia?

    April 28, 2005

  • The Mideast Comes to Columbia

    March 16, 2005

    The current battle is the latest in a larger, ideologically driven conflict.

  • Letter

    January 20, 2005 Subscribe

2004

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2001

  • He Has a Dream

    March 29, 2001

    Al Sharpton's leadership role in the black community is secure; his challenge now is to expand his constituency beyond that base.

2000

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Blogs

» The Beat

Feingold's Outline for a Constitutional Presidency | In a letter to Obama, Constitution subcommittee chair seeks a commitment to end executive excess.
John Nichols

» State of Change

Mukasey, Elliott Abrams Get Last-Minute Bush Appointments | Abusing the transition process to take care of aides, friends and supporters
John Nichols

» Capitolism

Yes to Special Elections for Senators | Remember the 17th amendment?
Christopher Hayes

» The Dreyfuss Report

Panetta? Ummmmm... Well..... | Could Obama have made a weirder choice for CIA director? Here's why Panetta is doomed.
Robert Dreyfuss

» Act Now!

Allow Media into Gaza | Israel is encouraging abuses by preventing foreign journalists from entering the Gaza Strip.
Peter Rothberg

» Editor's Cut

A Trillion Dollar Recovery | We don't need a stimulus, we need a recovery. And that means investing $1 trillion over the next two years.
Katrina vanden Heuvel

» The Notion

Hard Times Without Studs | One of Terkel’s former book editors considers a Studs-less world.
Tom Engelhardt

» And Another Thing

Bill Ayers Whitewashes History, Again | The Weathermen were not just a bunch of idealistic young people.
Katha Pollitt