Richard Kreitner Richard Kreitner edits The Nation's archives blog and has written for The Baffler, The Boston Globe, Slate, and others. Jefferson: Hero or Villain? It’s Complicated.It is almost impossible to grasp how much Thomas Jefferson believed in progress. Richard Kreitner Do We Need a New Constitutional Convention?A discussion of the fear and inertia baked into U.S. politics. Richard Kreitner Sanford Levinson