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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).

Articles

Where Things Went Awry

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

Jeet Heer

Richard Aldous

Host of "Bookstack," a weekly podcast of books and ideas.

Latest Podcast

Michael Dobbs on Nixon's Fatal Flaws

Michael Dobbs on Nixon's Fatal Flaws

Featured Posts

Darkening of the Strategic Skies

Josef Joffe et al.
Darkening of the Strategic Skies

What Putin and Xi Really Want

Toomas Hendrik Ilves et al.
What Putin and Xi Really Want

Lock the Door—Putin’s Still at It

Garry Kasparov et al.
Lock the Door—Putin’s Still at It

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June 17, 2021: A conversation with John Bolton on "Core Interests and Alliances"

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