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In Post & Riposte: The Next Christianity Do you agree with Philip Jenkins's predictions in the October Atlantic about Christianity? Will the Catholic Church split in two? Should the global spread of Christianity be celebrated or feared? The Mother Load Should mothers work if they're wealthy enough to stay at home? Share your thoughts on Caitlin Flanagan's September review of Life's Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom. School Vouchers and the 'Burbs What's the real reason that most suburban voters oppose school vouchers? Zadie Smith Join a discussion about the author of White Teeth and The Autograph Man. See the complete forum index. |
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Letters to the EditorINNOCENT BYSTANDER: The Utmost Measures by Cullen Murphy What Now? by Michael Kelly Lions and Foxes by David Brooks Reversing White Flight by Jonathan Rauch Viewing With Alarm a cartoon by Edward Sorel On the Brink by Jack Beatty The Defeat of the Left by Geoffrey Wheatcroft THE WORLD IN NUMBERS: Primary Sources Selections from recent reports, studies, and other documents The Next Christianity Christianity worldwide is growing and mutating rapidly, and in ways that observers in the West tend not to see. Tumultuous conflicts within Christianity will leave a mark deeper than Islam's on the coming century. We stand at a historical turning point, the author argues, that is as epochal as the Reformation by Philip Jenkins Christianity's New Center: In an interview, Philip Jenkins argues that most Americans and Europeans are blind to Christianity's real future. [Web only]Atlantic Report: The Roaring Nineties "It would be nice for us veterans of the Clinton Administration," the author writes, "if we could simply blame mismanagement by President George W. Bush's economic team" for the current economic mess. But much of the groundwork was laid earlier. A Nobel laureate and former Clinton adviser offers a revised economic history of the 1990s by Joseph Stiglitz American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center This month's installment, "The Dance of the Dinosaurs," is the conclusion of a three-part series [Web version contains excerpts only] by William Langewiesche Inside the Ruins: William Langewiesche, the author of "American Ground," on life at the World Trade Center site after the towers fell. [Web only]Help Humor by Russell Working Travail A drawing by Guy Billout Dancing Lessons A short story by Liza Ward The Ballad of Foot-and-Mouth A poem by Lola Haskins [audio] Her Last Night at Home A poem by Jonathan Musgrove [audio] Skipping the State A poem by Marilyn Krysl [audio] Closer A poem by Laura Fargas New & Noteworthy Autumn's overabundance by Benjamin Schwarz Too Little Too Soon The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith, reviewed by Thomas Mallon The Misfortune of Poetry Byron: Life and Legend by Fiona McCarthy, reviewed by Christopher Hitchens The Byron Complex: Jacques Barzun, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and others assess the controversial life and poetry of Lord Byron. [Web only]Tragedy in Ireland The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor, reviewed by Alice McDermott Other Reviews by Brooke Allen, Thomas Mallon, and Benjamin Schwarz The Mother Load Life's Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom by Lisa Belkin, reviewed by Caitlin Flanagan TRAVEL: Anything Goes by P. J. O'Rourke PALATE AT LARGE: Sole Cardinale by Corby Kummer MUSIC: Out of Our Dreams by David Schiff The Puzzler by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Fugitives by Barbara Wallraff Cover photograph by Christophe Agou. All material copyright © 2002 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved. | [an error occurred while processing this directive] | |
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