The Nation

=== From 1880s literary supplement to 1930s New Deal booster ===
In 1881, newspaperman-turned-railroad-baron [[Henry Villard]] acquired ''The Nation'' and converted it into a weekly literary supplement for his daily newspaper the ''[[New York Post|New York Evening Post]]''. The offices of the magazine were moved to the ''Evening Post''{{'}}s headquarters at 210 Broadway. [[New York Post|The ''New York Evening Post'']] would later morph into a [[tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid]], the ''[[New York Post]]'', a left-leaning afternoon tabloid, under owner [[Dorothy Schiff]] from 1939 to 1976. Since then, it has been a [[conservatism in the United States|conservative]] tabloid owned by [[Rupert Murdoch]], while ''The Nation'' became known for its left-wing ideology.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cjr.org/the_delacorte_lectures/the_nation_jacobin.php|title='What's bad for the nation is good for The Nation'|website=Columbia Journalism Review|first=Carlett |last=Spike|language=en|date=December 9, 2016|access-date=January 14, 2019}}</ref>

In 1900, Henry Villard's son, [[Oswald Garrison Villard]], inherited the magazine and the ''Evening Post'', and sold off the latter in 1918. Thereafter, he remade ''The Nation'' into a [[current affairs (news format)|current affairs]] publication and gave it an anti-[[Classical liberalism|classical liberal]] orientation. Oswald Villard welcomed the [[New Deal]] and supported the [[nationalization]] of industries&nbsp;– thus reversing the meaning of "[[liberalism]]" as the founders of ''The Nation'' would have understood the term, from a belief in a smaller and more restricted government to a belief in a larger and less restricted government.<ref>Carey McWilliams, "One Hundred Years of The Nation." ''Journalism Quarterly'' 42.2 (1965): 189–197.</ref><ref>Dollena Joy Humes, ''Oswald Garrison Villard: Liberal of the 1920s'' (Syracuse University Press, 1960).</ref> Villard sold the magazine in 1935. [[Maurice Wertheim]], the new owner, sold it in 1937 to [[Freda Kirchwey]], who served as editor from 1933 to 1955.

Almost every editor of ''The Nation'' from Villard's time to the 1970s was looked at for "subversive" activities and ties.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Kimball |first=Penn |title=The History of ''The Nation'' According to the FBI |journal=The Nation |date=March 22, 1986 |pages=399–426 |issn=0027-8378}}</ref> When [[Albert Jay Nock]] published a column criticizing [[Samuel Gompers]] and trade unions for being complicit in the war machine of the [[World War I|First World War]], ''The Nation'' was briefly suspended from the US mail.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Wreszin, Michael |year=1969 |title=Albert Jay Nock and the Anarchist Elitist Tradition in America |journal=[[American Quarterly]] |volume=21 |issue=2 |doi=10.2307/2711573|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|jstor=2711573 |page=173 |quote=It was probably the only time any publication was suppressed in America for attacking a labor leader, but the suspension seemed to document Nock's charges.}}</ref>