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SEPTEMBER 1998 | Volume 282 No. 3 | |
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Who Will Own Your Next Good
Idea?
 The term "intellectual property" covers everything that's patented, published, and pirated in the world today. The whole system of ownership may now be up for grabs. by Charles C. Mann Atlantic Unbound welcomes Charles C. Mann, John Perry Barlow, Lawrence Lessig, and Mark Stefik for an interactive Roundtable on the ownership of culture in the information age. Join the debate in Post & Riposte. |
Could Mad-Cow Disease Happen Here? One would think, given the deadly outbreak in Britain, that the U.S. government would by now have taken every possible precaution. Not so. by Ellen Ruppel Shell | |
She: Portrait of the Essay as a Warm Body How the essay, without compulsion, compels assent. by Cynthia Ozick | |
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Reports Notes & Comment: The Time Has Come Two major sectors of the American economy should forge an alliance. by Cullen Murphy Foreign Policy: The Fulcrum of Europe The tendency in the West is to dismiss Romania as a sadly decrepit irrelevance. Will we discover the mistake in time? by Robert D. Kaplan Foreign Affairs: Poor but Prosperous The Indian state of Kerala has everything against it -- except success. by Akash Kapur Humor, Fiction, & Poetry
The ReturnA poem by Philip Levine Come Back Irish A short story by Wendy Mai Rawlings Venus of Willendorf A poem by Yusef Komunyakaa
The Invisible WomanA poem by Jessica Hornik Shore Birds A poem by W. S. Merwin Escapade A drawing by Guy Billout
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Arts & Leisure Travel: Half a World Away Just as other European cities are getting cold, Buenos Aires is heating up. by Benjamin and Christina Schwarz Music: Swing and Sensibility Missing from much of the recent commentary on Frank Sinatra, oddly, was one pertinent topic: what he meant for music. by Francis Davis Food: Tuscan Tomatoes When bread is past its prime and tomatoes are reaching theirs: time for panzanella. by Corby Kummer Books The Hidden Nature of Systems System Effects, by Robert Jervis by Stephen M. Walt The Pleasures of Formal Poetry The World Below the Window: Poems 1937-1997, by William Jay Smith by Elizabeth Frank Brief Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams Other Departments 77 North Washington Street Contributors Letters (Send a letter to the editor.) The September Almanac At Last Count The Coming of Age by Allan Reeder The Puzzler by Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon Word Court by Barbara Wallraff |
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