Journalist and Author Jeet Heer Rejoins The Nation as National Affairs Correspondent
- In his new role, the Indo-Canadian will make audio part of its portfolio, hosting a new podcast and newsletter focused on political culture and culture politics.
Indo-Canadian journalist and author Jeet Here has rejoined The Nation, a magazine of progressive politics, culture, and opinion, as a national affairs correspondent. In his new role Heer will make audio part of its portfolio, hosting a new podcast and newsletter focused on political culture and culture politics. “The prodigal son returns to the award-winning progressive outlet full-time with a new podcast, newsletter, and title,” the magazine announced.
Heer will continue his monthly Nation column, “Morbid Symptoms,” and “will file twice-weekly dispatches grappling with the most essential and relevant issues bedeviling us today.”
The Time of Monsters podcast was most recently part of the Substack where Heer has been writing for the past year. “It will now live at The Nation, which says new episodes will be published each Wednesday,” the magazine said.
“I’ve long admired The Nation’s commitment to dialogue—and to deliberation—and that’s precisely the formulation I will continue to explore on my podcast,” said Heer. “To have wide-ranging conversations that leave space for investigating questions and testing positions without being didactic or dogmatic. And I couldn’t be more thrilled to return to writing for The Nation with more frequency at this crucial juncture in US politics; a time when everything is on the line, and nothing is certain, as the resurgent progressive politics of these past several years are challenged by revisionist centrists and regressive conservatives. The Nation is the ideal home to continue defining the terms of debate that will shape our future.”
Meanwhile, the Nation released the first two episodes of Heer’s podcast. In episode one, “What the Anti-Abortion Movement Learned From Abolitionists,” Heer speaks with Linda Hirschman about the problems of activism in a country divided against itself. Episode two, “Tucker Carlson’s Mouthpiece, Glenn Greenwald,” offers an eye-opening conversation with Eoin Higgins about the contrarian pundit who is now whitewashing racism in the wake of the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.
Earlier in February, The Nation named Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor and publisher of socialist periodical “Jacobin” its new president responsible for the magazine’s publishing and business strategy, working alongside publisher and editorial director Katrina vanden Heuvel and editor D.D. Guttenplan, the magazine said in a press release announcing Sunkara’s appointment.