Nation editor D.D. Guttenplan. “So when I found out he was looking for a journalistic home, I leapt at the chance to ask him to become a Nation contributing writer. The Nation is a serious magazine, but I’ve never viewed politics and pleasure as incompatible. Indeed, you could make a case—and maybe we will—that combining politics and pleasure is what ‘liberation’ means. In any case, I am delighted to welcome Ben to our pages—and to the fight.” “I’ve been reading The Nation since I was a teenager—trying to figure out what role, if any, writers and artists could play in social change,” adds Moser.