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
