Editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel is the belle of the ball in the photo (above) of a staff meeing.
We have two new issues of The Nation since we last checked in. Jordan wondered if they're delivered by the Pony Express? No, it just feels that way.
March 26, 2007
Editorials & Comment
"Time To Fix Healthcare" -- unsigned editorial. (Sorry to shock AlterPunk.)
Stephen F. Cohen's "Conscience and the War" (best thing the magazine has published all year)
William Greider's "Senator Inevitable"
Victor Navasky's "Schlesinger & The Nation" (capitulation from the CJR fundraiser)
Liliana Segura's "Bush Amigo Para Pals"
Four signed articles
Score: 1 woman, 3 men
Columns
Calvin Trillin's "A Dispiriting Thought..."
Patricial J. Williams' "Judge Not."
"A Consequential Life" (AlterPunk with Morrie)
Three articles
Score: 2 men, 1 woman
Articles
David Corn's "Cheney on Trial"
Karen Houppert's "Who's Afriad of Gardasil?"
Barry Yeoman's "Putting Science in the Dock"
Three articles
Score: 2 men, 1 woman
Critics
Jeremy Hardin on Susan Sontag
Siddhartha Deb's Luce & Kamdar
Stuart Klawons' Film reviews
3 critics
Score: 3 men, 0 women
Total Score For This Issue: 10 males, 3 females
Year to date score: 122 males, 33 women
April 2, 2007 issue
Editorials & Comment
"The December 7 Massacre" -- unsigned editorial
"Congress End The War" -- another unsigned editorial (AlterPunk must be pssing his pants)
Lakshmi Chaudhry's "Soft-Core Sexism" -- the film Chaudrhry can't find (it's not Misery) is Three In The Attic. A man who sleeps around is held as a prisoner in an attic by three women. Misrey is not about sex or sexual desires (it's cloaked in romantic fantasy -- he'll love me! he'll love me! I'm his biggest fan!).
Fletcher the Coffee Fetcher's "Antiwar Students Rising" -- plugs Campus Progress without noting the connection to the magazine -- something even Peter Rothberg did in a recent online piece.
Walter Mosely's "King of Calypso"
Jason Mark's "Swords into Plowshares"
4 articles
Score: 1 female, 3 men
Columns
Calvin Trillin's "Additional Troop Increase Approval"
Alexander Cockburn's "Here Comes Another 'Crime Wave'" -- first mention of Abeer in print.
Katha Pollitt's "Europeans Do It Better" -- Pollitt peers into problems facing mothers outside the US and goes to Europe -- it's simpler than writing about Iraqi women
3 articles
Score: 2 men, 1 woman
Articles
Jeremy Scahill's "Bush's Shadow Army"
Roberto Lovato's "The Smog of Race War in LA"
2 articles
Score: 2 men, 0 women
Crictics
Perry Anderson on books by Traub and Meisler -- titles never concern The Nation
Steve Fraiser on books by Nasaw and Cannadine
2 article
Score: 2 men, 0 women
Score this issue: 9 men, 2 women
Total score: 131 men, 35 women
Women couldn't even pass the muster (or the hiring practice doesn't allow for many to weigh in). The average is four men so far for every 1 woman. (Full number is 3.82 men for every single woman.)
The lack of women being featured in the magazine was brought to C.I.'s attention by a group of women late in 2006. For a column at Polly's Brew, C.I. went back and compiled the stats for that year. What we had discussed was following 2007's issues each time they arrived in the mailbox. Ava and C.I. were in charge of the December 24, 2006 edition and that was the first week that a 2007 issue had arrived (January 1, 2007 issue). They immediately started up "The Nation Stats." "The Nation Stats" ran again in our December 31st edition (covering the magazine's January 8, 2007 issue -- a "double issue"). January 21st, we covered the January 22nd issue in "The Nation Stats." Last week, "The Nation Stats" covered two issues since two arrived the same day for three of us participating in this feature. February 4th, we covered the Feb 12th issue in "The Nation Stats." February 11th we covered the February 19th issue in "The Nation Stats." February 25th, we coved the February 26th issue in "The Nation Stats." March 4th we covered the March 5th and March 12th issues of the magainze in "The Nation Stats." March 11th, we covered the March 19th issue in "The Nation Stats.)