Newly Conventional Ideas That Were Once Unthinkable
•You
might have slept with Tiger Woods
•There’s
a Ford in your future
•Your
mom is too cool for Facebook
•Republicans
to Democrats: Hands off our Medicare!
•Russians
suck at winter sports
•Gay
marriage
•Inspector
Clouseau: Mossad agent
•The
white minority
•Eliot
Spitzer, public figure
Most Worrying Fads
•Piracy
•Memoirs
•Sarah
Palin
•Sexting
•Gastric
bypass
•Avatars
•ChatRoulette
•The
Snuggie
Ideas We’re Having Second Thoughts About
•Elizabeth
Edwards
•Special
envoys
•Quants
•California
•Capitalism
•E-mail
•The
Senate
•The
euro
Once-Discredited Ideas Staging Comebacks
•Savings
accounts
•New
Orleans
•Populism
•Mustaches
•3-D
•Nuclear
power
•Moonshine
•The
sitcom
•Michael
Vick
Seemingly Horrifying Ideas That Have Potential
•AOL
•Taxes
•TARP
•Pay
walls
•Walmart
Exceptions That Prove the Rule
•The
gender composition of the contributors to The Atlantic’s 2010 Ideas List
(See Idea No. 1.)
Ideas That Have Outlived Their Usefulness
•The
mortgage-interest deduction
•Jared
from Subway
•Publicly
financed stadiums
•Internal
combustion
•Corn
syrup
•Ticketmaster
•Wall
Street
•Brett
Favre, QB
Ideas Gone But Not Forgotten
•Privacy
•Conan
O’Brien
•Moderation
•Employment
•Attention
spans
•Bipartisanship
Ideas Forgotten But Not Gone
•Poor
people
•Communism
•New
Kids on the Block
•Central
America
•Hockey
•MySpace
•Guantánamo
Bay
Modest Proposals for the Year Ahead
•The
Ice-T Party, supporting gun rights and a return to other hip-hop values
•Subsidies
for movies not based on comic books
•“Saudi
justice” for texting while driving
•A
two-state solution in the Middle East
•Filibustering
senators must read aloud entire Twilight series
•Flying
cars
| 14 3/4. Reefer Sanity by Joshua Green |
7. Information Wants to Be Paid For by Walter Isaacson |
| 14. It’s Too Easy
Being Green by Kai Ryssdal |
6. The Kids Aren’t All Right by David Leonhardt |
| 13. Teachers Are Fair Game by David Brooks |
5. Bonfire of the Knuckleheads by Jeffrey Goldberg |
| 12. The Rise of the Drones by Martha Raddatz |
4. The Power of No by Michael Kinsley |
| 11. Obama Is No
Liberal by James Bennet |
3. Boredom is
Extinct by Walter Kirn |
| 10. The Triumph of
Free Speech by Jeffrey Rosen |
America Is No. 2 by James Fallows |
| 9. The Catholic Church Is Finished by Ross Douthat |
1. The End of Men by Hanna Rosin |
| 8. Deficits Matter by Megan McArdle |
PLUS: More Ideas of the Year From TARP to sleeping with Tiger Woods |
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/more-ideas-of-the-year/8167/
