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Jeet Heer

Jeet Heer is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation and former staff writer for The New Republic.

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April 18, 2019
Jeet Heer
Gene Wolfe Was the Proust of Science Fiction
Out of the trauma of war, Wolfe found redemption in Catholicism and his voice in futuristic, philosophical novels.
March 20, 2019
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Adventures in Modernism
The unlikely, energizing friendship of Hugh Kenner and Guy Davenport
January 3, 2019
Jeet Heer
How to Oppose Fascism
Jason Lutes's graphic novel "Berlin," about the break-up of the Weimar Republic, is both unsettling and uplifting in its timeliness.
December 26, 2018
Jo Livingstone, Jeet Heer
Changing Our Minds
Two writers talk about when they get it wrong—and what it means for the art of criticism.
December 21, 2018
Jeet Heer
Turkish president was shocked that Trump went along with demand for Syrian withdrawal.
December 21, 2018
Jeet Heer
Looming government shutdown is the “last gasp” of the Freedom Caucus.
December 20, 2018
Jeet Heer
Jim Mattis resigns as secretary of defense with a letter critical of Trumpian foreign policy.
December 20, 2018
Jeet Heer
A Democratic group imitated Russian disinformation techniques in a Senate race.
December 20, 2018
Jeet Heer
Partial government shutdown looms as Trump refuses to budge on the border wall.
December 20, 2018
Jeet Heer
Trump’s attorney general nominee wrote memo attacking scope of Mueller investigation.
December 20, 2018
Jeet Heer
North Korea and Russia both denounce Trump’s nuclear policy.
December 20, 2018
Jeet Heer
Ann Coulter and Donald Trump part ways, again.
December 19, 2018
Jeet Heer
Trump is building a wall against a primary challenge, whether he needs to or not.
December 19, 2018
Jeet Heer
Is the boycott of Tucker Carlson and Fox News counterproductive?
December 19, 2018
Jeet Heer
Trump declares victory over ISIS in Syria. The Pentagon disagrees.
December 19, 2018
Jeet Heer
Tucker Carlson’s show is hemorrhaging advertisers after his anti-immigrant comments.
December 19, 2018
Jeet Heer
Facebook allowed Netflix and Spotify to read the private messages of its users.
December 18, 2018
Jeet Heer
Judge to Michael Flynn: “Arguably you sold your country out.”
December 18, 2018
Jeet Heer
The Niskanen Center is a splendid policy shop, but it is not the future of the Republican Party.
December 18, 2018
Jeet Heer
Russian social media propaganda targeted Robert Mueller.

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