March 2001
In This Issue
Toby Lester, “The Reinvention of Privacy”; Jonathan Raban, “Battleground of the Eye”; Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “Who Needs the BBC?”; fiction by Bill Roorbach; and much more.
Articles
New & Noteworthy
New & Noteworthy
Mimesis
New & Noteworthy
New & Noteworthy
Forget the Yellowfin
How much does a company's culture really contribute to its success?
Woe Is Me
The only way to conquer melancholy is to embrace it
New & Noteworthy
Getting States' Rights Right
The first comprehensive history of a much misunderstood doctrine
The Forgotten Highway
Why you still can't drive from the top of the Americas to the bottom
New & Noteworthy
The Feel Good Presidency
The pseudo-politics of The West Wing
The Hollywood Forever Way of Death
Digital immortality—and not just for the stars
The Reinvention of Privacy
It used to be that business and technology were considered the enemies of privacy. Not anymore
77 North Washington Street
Fine Points
Is accuracy overrated?
Don't Call Us
Why the FBI isn't hiring black women
Battleground of the Eye
In the Pacific Northwest, more than any other region of America, landscape painting embodies all our conflicting views—our hopes and delusions, our regrets and ambitions—about the natural world and the place of human beings in it. The author travels across time and ideology, canvas by canvas
Big Bend
A short story
The Kamikazes Rise Again
This time, to help Japan confront its past
The Tradition of the Oldie
The NPR 100 shows for better or worse what Americans think is their classical music
Who Needs the BBC?
The British Broadcasting Corporation is having a hard time living up to its past. But what a past! Our correspondent reviews its history, seeking the roots of its present troubles
Poking the Walrus
A dubious political sport that neither party can resist
Highway 12, Just East of Paradise, Idaho
The Richness of the Moment
The nine ambiguous, anticlimactic novels of Henry Green, our author writes, "raised the pedestrian to the sublime"
Around the World in Eighty Megabytes
Flight simulation—using a computer to pretend to fly a plane—has become both a surprisingly realistic experience and a surprisingly popular hobby
An Alternative Belgium
Brussels and Bruges may be more obvious destinations, but Ghent and Antwerp are more fun
Open Secrets
An e-mail interview with Steven Levy, the author of Crypto: When the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
Letters to the Editors
Touring by the Book
The Garden Conservancy's Open Days Directory encourages snooping in the interests of a good cause
Word Court
