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In Post & Riposte: Reinventing Privacy Will technology give back what it has taken away? Who will profit most in the new privacy space? Join a conversation on the March cover story. The Feel-Good Presidency Is NBC's The West Wing a "wish-fulfillment fantasy" for liberals? Weigh in on Chris Lehmann's critique of the hit TV show. Workplace Hip What's the relationship between corporate culture and corporate success? Share your thoughts on James Fallows's dispatch from Silicon Valley. See the complete forum index. |
77 North Washington Street by Michael KellyIn This Issue Letters to the Editor INNOCENT BYSTANDER: Fine Points by Cullen Murphy Tokyo: The Kamikazes Rise Again by Murray Sayle Silicon Valley: Forget the Yellowfin by James Fallows Panama: The Forgotten Highway by Benjamin Ryder Howe Los Angeles: The Hollywood Forever Way of Death by Ed Leibowitz Washington, D.C.: Don't Call Us by Jack Owens Nome, Alaska: Woe Is Me by Ian Frazier The Reinvention of Privacy The public fears that the last of privacy will perish in the information age. But what technology has taken away it will soon give back by Toby Lester Web only: Open Secrets. Steven Levy, author of Crypto, talks about cryptography and everyday life.Battleground of the Eye The painted landscapes of the Pacific Northwest aren't period pieces. The questions they raise—about wilderness, settlement, tribal rights, and the competing claims of industry and nature—are all around us still by Jonathan Raban Who Needs the BBC? Friends and critics alike wonder if the BBC's reputation is not just a shadow, albeit an awfully big shadow, of former glories by Geoffrey Wheatcroft The Iron Bridge A poem by Billy Collins [with audio] Worn Tool A poem by Stephen Sandy [with audio] Mimesis A drawing by Guy Billout Big Bend A short story by Bill Roorbach Highway 12, Just East of Paradise, Idaho A poem by Robert Wrigley [with audio] TRAVEL: An Alternative Belgium by Corby Kummer COMPUTERS: Around the World in Eighty Megabytes by James Fallows GARDENS: Touring by the Book by Hatsy Shields The Richness of the Moment Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green, by Jeremy Treglown, reviewed by Brooke Allen Getting States' Rights Right States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876 by Forrest McDonald, reviewed by Eugene D. Genovese NEW & NOTEWORTHY Kerry Fried on Border Crossing by Pat Barker Christina Schwarz on The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett Jack Beatty on Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century by John A. Farrell Barbara Wallraff on Cause Celeb by Helen Fielding Peter Davison on Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson by Alison Lurie David Kipen on Ball Four: The Final Pitch by Jim Bouton Brooke Allen on A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr TELEVISION: The Feel-Good Presidency by Chris Lehmann [Plus: Former Clinton staffers on reality vs. fantasy in The West Wing.] MUSIC: The Tradition of the Oldie by David Schiff The Puzzler by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Court by Barbara Wallraff Cover art by Carter Goodrich. All material copyright © 2001 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved. | [an error occurred while processing this directive] | |
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