Volume 300 No. 4 | November 2007
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As The Atlantic celebrates its 150th anniversary, scholars, novelists, politicians, artists, and others look ahead to the future of the American idea
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INTERVIEWS
Veteran editor Robert Vare talks about why he loves magazine journalism, what makes The Atlantic distinctive, and the challenges of whittling down a "best of" collection of Atlantic writings
by Sage Stossel
Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy. One man’s odyssey through the nightmare of infinite connectivity
by Walter Kirn
In the debate over the war on terror (and just about everything else, too), neocons and liberals, theocons and Christian pacifists, idealists and realists have all called upon the writings of the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. What does the promiscuous invocation of his work tell us about the man—and about his would-be acolytes?
by Paul Elie
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INTERVIEWS
Paul Elie, author of "A Man for All Reasons," discusses the contested legacy of Reinhold Niebuhr, whose mantle everyone, regardless of political orientation, wants to wear
by Justine Isola
The decline of spinsters? Smoke-free living? Drawing on a vast new statistical compendium, our commentator unearths, examines, and extrapolates the hidden challenges to America.
by P. J. O'Rourke
Hulls in the water could soon displace boots on the ground as the most important military catchphrase of our time. But our Navy is stretched thin. How we manage dwindling naval resources will go a long way toward determining our future standing in the world.
by Robert D. Kaplan
What living in England, Japan, and China has taught one American about the character of his own country
by James Fallows
Editor’s Choice: Moviemaking in Hollywood’s classical period was colossally complex, backbreakingly difficult, obscenely expensive—and it almost always failed.
by Benjamin Schwarz
One woman’s estrangement from Hillary Rodham Clinton
by Caitlin Flanagan
Saul Bellow’s genius lay in combining the high and the low, the reflective and the active, the ivory tower and the ghetto.
by Christopher Hitchens
A guide to additional releases
FOOD
A cult destination in London has revolutionized cheesemaking, winning converts as far afield as Vermont.
by Corby Kummer
CULTURE AND COMMERCE
Real estate may be as important as religion in explaining the infamous gap between red and blue states.
by Virginia Postrel
CONTENT
Can celebrities survive the age of too much information?
by Michael Hirschorn
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THE PUZZLER
by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
By the pocketbook; "etymologic" debates
by Barbara Wallraff
