Features
Brave Thinkers 2012
Our annual guide to the people risking everything in pursuit of big ideas
The Bloomberg Way
The mayor of New York on his soda ban, why he doesn't worry about approval ratings, governing in the age of Twitter, and the dumbed-down media
Gallery: A look back at some of Bloomberg's most audacious mayoral moments
A Brief History of Brave Thinking
Radical ideas from our archives, featuring Ralph Waldo Emerson, Virginia Woolf, and more
Hacking the President's DNA
Exponential advances in synthetic biology pose a serious new national-security threat. Here's a radical proposal for how to combat it.
General Failure
How a culture of mediocrity has taken hold within the Army's leadership ranks—and why America's military future depends on uprooting it.
Clean
The irony of getting away with something was that you were your own executioner. In a pang of remorse, you could open your mouth and change your life.
Dispatches
My Conversion Will Not Be Televised
How I ended up on TV debating Salafism with an Egyptian cleric
Video: Highlights from the author’s appearance on Egyptian TV
The Deer Paradox
It’s never been easier to shoot a buck. So why are hunters spending billions on high-tech gear?
Steal My Book!
Why I’m abetting a rogue translation of my novel
The Court Crasher
Tom Goldstein changed how lawyers get to the Supreme Court—and how news gets out of it.
Video: Tom Goldstein talks with Garrett Epps about the history of SCOTUS blog and the future of the Supreme Court.
Sprucing Up Your Cocktail
A lost flavor of the northern woods, rediscovered
Being There
Put down your smartphone—the art of travel demands the end of multitasking.
Columns
Prisoners of Cable
Why we can’t break free from our TV overlords
The Amis Obsession
How Martin Amis expanded the possibilities of English prose—including my own
Video: A 2010 conversation between Martin Amis and his close friend Christopher Hitchens
Busy and Busier
Productivity expert David Allen talks with James Fallows about the future of getting things done.
Books
The End of Jazz
How America’s most vibrant music became a relic
Video: Benjamin Schwarz shares some of the greatest recordings in jazz history.
Slaughterhouse Rules
A professor spends a season in hell.
Cover to Cover
The deeply misanthropic paintings of Caspar David Freidrich; Flannery O'Connor as protagonist
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