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Creating the 2008 Ideas Issue prompted The Atlantic’s editors to start debating which ideas—good and bad—most informed the national conversation over the past twelve months. Herewith the result: a thumbnail intellectual history of the year.
1 The Surge
by James Fallows
2 Renting
by Clive Crook
3 Post-Partisanship
by Jonathan Rauch
4 Mass-Market Atheism
by Ross Douthat
5 We Tortured
by Andrew Sullivan
6 MySpace Politics
by Joshua Green
7 The Return of Regulation
by Clive Crook
8 Personal Genomics
by Charles C. Mann
9 Not Bombing Iran
by Jonathan Rauch
10 Carbon Consciousness
by Megan McArdle
11 The End of 9/11
by James Fallows
11.5 It's Lonely at the Top
by Hanna Rosin
Lists: Ideas Whose Time Has Come
Submit your own suggestions for the idea (or ideas) that have been most important this year. Some submissions may be included in part or in full in a future issue of the magazine.
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The Civil War
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The History of Nikola Tesla
The History of Thomas Edison
Video Documentary: The Impact of a Principal
James Fallows on Obama's first term, Raymond Bonner on the death penalty, Christopher Hitchens on G.K. Chesterton, and more
Browse back issues of The Atlantic that have appeared on the Web. From September 1995 to the present, the archive is essentially complete, with the exception of a few articles, the online rights to which are held exclusively by the authors.
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