{"id":903,"date":"2026-08-21T05:08:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T05:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=903"},"modified":"2026-08-21T05:08:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T05:08:49","slug":"this-week-in-nation-history-james-baldwins-four-decades-of-prophecy-confession-emotion-and-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=903","title":{"rendered":"This Week in &#8216;Nation&#8217; History: James Baldwin&#8217;s Four Decades of Prophecy, Confession, Emotion and Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article>\n<header>\n<div>\n<ul><li>Books &amp; the Arts<\/li><li>August 10, 2013<\/li><\/ul><h1>This Week in \u2018Nation\u2019 History: James Baldwin\u2019s Four Decades of Prophecy, Confession, Emotion and Style<\/h1><h1>This Week in \u2018Nation\u2019 History: James Baldwin\u2019s Four Decades of Prophecy, Confession, Emotion and Style<\/h1><h2><p>Baldwin published his first piece in\u00a0<em>The Nation<\/em>, and for many years thereafter continued to attack a system he thought as close to anarchy as to martial law.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=901\">\u201cA Decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind\u201d Mandates a Search for Peace in Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<time>August 10, 2013<\/time>\n<div>\n<p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-902\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ee6d311d391a4a1b41e77fe75df49716.jpg\" width=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ee6d311d391a4a1b41e77fe75df49716.jpg 615w, https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ee6d311d391a4a1b41e77fe75df49716-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/figure>\n<br\/>\n<em>James Baldwin. (AP Photo)<\/em>\n<p>Last week marked what would have been the eighty-ninth birthday of the late James Baldwin\u2014novelist, essayist and, for the last decade of his life, valued member of <em>The Nation<\/em>\u2019s editorial board. Baldwin became internationally famous as the author of fictional works like <em>Go Tell It on the Mountain <\/em>(1953) and non-fiction collections like <em>The Fire Next Time<\/em> (1963), but his first-ever published piece, before moving from Greenwich Village to Paris, was a 1947 <em>Nation <\/em>review of a collection of Maxim Gorki\u2019s short stories. In the review, one glimpses the beginnings of the qualities Saul Maloff noted in his <em>Nation <\/em>review of <em>The Fire Next Time<\/em>\u2014\u201cthe confessional voice, the apocalyptic style, the prophetic warning, the turbulent emotion contained and disciplined by stylistic elegance, the gospel of love after the storm of hate.\u201d One also sees a young writer beginning to construct his own identity around a set of fundamental values he cherishes in others. \u201cHere, above all,\u201d he writes of Gorki, though it could just as well be of himself, \u201cis a carefully controlled rage at the lot of men and an insistence on their noble destiny.\u201d\n<p>These qualities only became more refined in his later contributions. In a dual review in 1956 of the French writer Daniel Gu\u00e9rin\u2019s Communist-inflected <em>Negroes on the March <\/em>and J.C. Furnas\u2019 <em>Goodbye to Uncle Tom<\/em>, Baldwin criticized the orthodox Marxist analysis of American\u2019s racial problems, saying it was both simplistic and dangerous, a point he developed later in his career as well:\n<blockquote>\n<p>Indignation and goodwill are not enough to make the world better. Clarity is needed, as well as charity, however difficult this may be to imagine, much less sustain, toward the other side. Perhaps the worst thing that can be said about social indignation is that it so frequently leads to the death of personal humility. Once that has happened, one has ceased to live in that world of men which one is striving so mightily to make over. One has entered into a dialogue with that terrifying deity, sometimes called History, previously, and perhaps again, to be referred to as God, to which no sacrifice in human suffering is too great.\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<span><span>&#8220;swipe left below to view more authors&#8221;<\/span>Swipe \u2192<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>One Woman\u2019s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention<\/span>\n\n                One Woman\u2019s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention\n            \n<\/h3>\n<p>\nMaryam Tahmasebi <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>The Machine That Came for Jason Arday<\/span>\n\n                The Machine That Came for Jason Arday\n            \n<\/h3>\n<p>\nJafari Sinclaire Allen <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Adjuncting Until the End of Time<\/span>\n\n                Adjuncting Until the End of Time\n            \n<\/h3>\n<p>\nMaria Adelmann <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Meet Alissa Ellman, Rust Belt Populist<\/span>\n\n                Meet Alissa Ellman, Rust Belt Populist\n            \n<\/h3>\n<p>\nJim Shultz <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the times changed, so did Baldwin\u2019s tone. Ten years later, in \u201cA Report from Occupied Territory\u201d (July 11, 1966), writing about the riots that had gripped New York\u2019s streets for the past several summers, he offered a blistering attack on the deeper causes of America\u2019s mid-1960s racial strife:\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026the police are simply the hired enemies of [the black] population. They are present to keep the Negro in his place and to protect white business interests, and they have no other function. They are, moreover\u2014even in a country which makes the very grave error of equating ignorance with simplicity\u2014quite stunningly ignorant; and, since they know that they are hated, they are always afraid. One cannot possibly arrive at a more sure-fire formula for cruelty.\n<p>This is why those pious calls to \u201crespect the law,\u201d always to be heard from prominent citizens each time the ghetto explodes, are so obscene. The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer. To respect the law, in the context in which the American Negro finds himself, is simply to surrender his self-respect.\n<\/p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Baldwin also prefigures today\u2019s anger over the \u201cstop and frisk\u201d act, part of what came to be known as the Rockefeller drug laws,\u201d when he wrote that it permitted policemen \u201cto stop anyone on the streets, at will, at any hour, and search him.\u201d Baldwin recognized the inherent racism and unconstitutionality of stop-and-frisk more than four decades before it became a major issue in this year\u2019s mayoral campaign. \u201cHarlem believes, and I certainly agree, that these laws are directed against Negroes,\u201d Baldwin wrote in <em>The Nation.<\/em> \u201cThey are certainly not directed against anybody else.\u201d\n<blockquote>\n<p>This arrogant autonomy, which is guaranteed the police, not only in New York, <em>by the most powerful forces in American life<\/em>\u2014otherwise, they would not dare to claim it, would, indeed, be unable to claim it\u2014creates a situation which is as close to anarchy as it already, visibly, is close to martial law.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just before the 1980 presidential election, Baldwin surveyed the American political landscape in \u201cNotes on the House of Bondage,\u201d an attempt at answering the question posed by his nieces and nephews, \u201c<em>Who are you going to vote for, Uncle Jimmy<\/em>?\u201d Eventually he says he\u2019ll vote for Carter simply as \u201ca coldly calculated risk, a means of buying time.\u201d He also explores the differences between veteran activists of his generation\u2014those who linked arms with Marlon Brando at the March on Washington\u2014and more impatient, post-black power activists of the present one:\n<blockquote>\n<p>Someone my age\u2026may be pleased and proud that Carter has blacks in his Cabinet. A younger person may wonder just what their function is in such a Cabinet. They will be keenly aware, too, that blacks called upon to represent the Republic are, very often, thereby prohibited from representing blacks. A man my age, schooled in adversity and skilled in compromise, may choose not to force the issue of defense spending versus the bleak and criminal misery of the black <em>and <\/em>white populations here, but a younger man may say, out loud, that he will not fight for a country that has <em>never<\/em> fought for him and, further, that the myth and menace of global war are nothing more and nothing less than a coward\u2019s means of distracting attention from the real crimes and concerns of this Republic. And I may have to visit him in prison, or suffer with him there\u2014no matter. The irreducible miracle is that we have sustained each other a very long time, and come a long, long way together. We have come to the end of a language and are now about the business of forging a new one. For we have survived, children, the very last white country the world will ever see.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>* * *\n<p>In addition to his own contributions to the magazine, Baldwin\u2019s writing has been the subject of vigorous debate by <em>Nation<\/em> critics, from Nelson Algren\u2014who liked Baldwin\u2019s second novel, <em>Giovanni\u2019s Room<\/em> (1956) enough to call it \u201cmore than another report on homosexuality\u201d\u2014to Todd Gitlin\u2014who wrote in 1974 that it was possibly Baldwin\u2019s \u201climpid condensation\u201d of experience \u201cwhich makes him so quotable and so esteemed by a middle-class white public which is looking for \u2018civilized\u2019 access to Those People.\u201d While Baldwin\u2019s essays have always been treated with the utmost reverence in <em>The Nation<\/em>, his fiction did not fare as well. Randall Kenan\u2019s 1994 review of the biography of Baldwin by David Leeming noted that this division was the fashionable story about Baldwin beginning with <em>Tell Me How Long the Train\u2019s Been Gone.<\/em> (\u201cHis insights are unremarkable and blurred,\u201d wrote Robert Emmet Long in <em>The Nation<\/em>, June 10, 1968.) The very title of Saul Maloff\u2019s 1962 review of <em>Another Country<\/em>\u2014\u201cThe Two Baldwins\u201d\u2014emphasized that divide.\n<p>* * *\n<p><em>Subscribers to <\/em>The Nation<em> can access our fully searchable digital archive, which contains thousands of historic articles, essays and reviews, letters to the editor and editorials dating back to July 6, 1865.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=899\">The Hollywood Gerrymander<\/a><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<footer>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\n                Submit a correction\n            \n<\/li>\n<li>\n\n                Send a letter to the editor\n            \n<\/li>\n<li>\n\n                Reprints &amp; permissions\n            \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p><span> Katrina vanden Heuvel<svg>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>Katrina vanden Heuvel is editor and publisher of <em>The Nation<\/em>, America\u2019s leading source of progressive politics and culture. 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