was founded in 1954 by intellectuals angered by the rightward drift of the country but uneasy with the dogmatism they saw on the American left, and it has provoked debates about political ideas and about American and global issues ever since. This provocative book—a collection of articles published in over the past fifty years—presents essays from each decade of life that reveal how the magazine viewed that era, along with a new foreword to each section written by a contemporary that provides perspective on the period.