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Jeet Heer

Jeet Heer

Jeet Heer is a national affairs correspondent at The Nation and the author of In Love with Art: Francoise Mouly’s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (2013) and Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays and Profiles (2014).

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Where Things Went Awry

The rise of illiberalism in the West flows directly from liberalism’s failures.

Jeet Heer

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The Iran You Don't Know

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January 12 – March 21: “Women at War," an exhibition of works by leading women artists in Ukraine

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February 21: Russia’s War on Ukraine at Year One ft. Gen. (ret.) Phil Breedlove, Gen. (ret.) Ben Hodges, and Adm. (ret.) Jamie Foggo

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