“What Man Can Make of Man”
B.F. Skinner and his wife observe their daughter in a “baby tender,” a crib with a controlled environment, which Skinner invented to keep babies safe. (Associated Press)… More »
James Bennet has been the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic since 2006. Prior to joining The Atlantic, he was the Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times. More
B.F. Skinner and his wife observe their daughter in a “baby tender,” a crib with a controlled environment, which Skinner invented to keep babies safe. (Associated Press)… More »
Social media is turning individual brand-building into a full-time, alienating preoccupation. … More »
The modern Republican Party has braided together a reverence for tradition with a devotion to free markets. But the free market is the most powerful force for change imaginable.… More »
In the early days of The Atlantic, the most consequential questions facing this country were wide open: Would the Union survive? Would slavery? What did it mean to be an American?… More »
Our cover story is the latest installment in a conversation dating back to 1859 … More »
We found that writer hard to ignore, in part because he kicked us in the teeth. (“No need to check out The Atlantic Monthly; its editors now settle for publishing their own selections of fiction once a year in a special issue and criticizing everyone else’s the rest of the time. Jokes about eunuchs in the bordello come to mind, but I will suppress them.” Thanks!) … More »
It’s part of our contemporary condition to feel simultaneously blessed and cursed by technology.… More »
The point of this annual issue isn’t to celebrate power, influence, or even, necessarily, success. It’s to identify people who are taking a substantial risk for a big idea.… More »
President Obama and his advisers are facing a series of questions on Iran and Israel. Every answer is discouraging.… More »
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