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April 1994 Issue
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This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • The Puzzler
    Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
  • Serious Fun: Educational Software for Children, From Companies That Know Their Customers
    Sarah Finnie Rockwell
  • Penumbras Formed by Emanations: How the Right to Privacy Was Invented
    Jeffrey Rosen
  • A Troubled Social Science
    Nathan Glazer
  • The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
  • The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
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Penumbras Formed by Emanations: How the Right to Privacy Was Invented

By Jeffrey Rosen
April 1994 Issue
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