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Strategies for Dealing With Mass Shootings
Are we doomed to the ritual of “our thoughts and prayers go to the families” after whatever is the latest mass-shooting massacre, and to the knowledge that only in the United States will this keep...
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The Right Kind of ‘Genius’
On the occasion of Ta-Nehisi Coates's deserved selection for a MacArthur grant, I registered my happiness for him but also my objection to the term “genius,” as in the MacArthur “genius grant” awards....
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Question for the Ages: Which Version of Águas de Março Really Is the Greatest?
Following an item this week on the world’s greatest song, or one of them, some followup discussion on the song (Águas de Março, “Waters of March”), its composer (the great Antonio Carlos “Tom” Jobim),...
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Question for the Ages: Which Version of Águas de Março Really Is the Greatest?
Following an item this week on the world’s greatest song, or one of them, some followup discussion on the song (Águas de Março, “Waters of March”), its composer (the great Antonio Carlos “Tom” Jobim),...
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If You Have More Than 10 Guns, Does That Make You a Gun Nut?
Back at the dawn of time I got the Marksmanship merit badge in the Boy ScoutsIn an item after the Oregon shootings, I quoted a reader from Florida saying that if you owned more than 10 guns yourself,...
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The Significance of a Nobel Prize for a Chinese Scientist
The first winner of a Nobel prize in the sciences from a Chinese institution, Tu Youyou, today in Beijing (Reuters) The commanding heights of international prestige have outsized importance to...
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Agony, Ecstasy, and Águas de Março
It has been unexpectedly rewarding to raise the topic of The Greatest Song Ever™, Águas de Março by Antonio Carlos Jobim.The new versions keep coming in. (For previous installments, see “The Greatest...
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An Airline Captain Dies in Flight
Early Monday morning the captain of an American Airlines flight from Phoenix to Boston died while at the controls. Mary Grady of AVWeb has a story about the episode and the plane’s emergency diversion...
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Fim do Caminho for The World's Greatest Song
If you read to the end, you’ll learn who these people are. There’s nothing quite like travel, events, the flu/pellagra, and learning you’re the object of an IRS identity-theft case to keep a guy out of...
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Late Entries in the Águas de Março Derby, Featuring Don Draper
In addition to the ~20 versions in the other dispatches shown further down on this page, here are a few entries that arrived overnight. They’ve just made the deadline for tonight’s exciting...
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Your Bossa Nova Winner, and 4 Honored Finalists
The results are in. I’ll get to them shortly. First, the standards of judging I’ve found myself applying as I’ve unexpectedly been immersed in large numbers of Águas de Março renditions.A bias in favor...
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The Return of ExIm?
A small South African airline flies some Boeing 737s and wants to buy more. Why the Tea Party’s crusade to eliminate the Export-Import Bank is now the main factor affecting this sale. In the flurry of...
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Watch Out, Tom Jobim and Elis Regina
There is a new contender for Greatest Version of World’s Greatest Song:Thanks to reader A.C. in San Francisco for the link.
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The Planet-Saving, Capitalism-Subverting, Surprisingly Lucrative Investment...
Christopher Griffith“When i left the White House in 2001, I really didn’t know what I was going to do with my life,” Al Gore told me this summer, at his office in the Green Hills district of Nashville....
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How the Press Can Deal With the Benghazi Committee
Representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, asking questions in 2014. Kevin Lamarque / ReutersHardly anyone still working in today’s media can remember an era in which “mainstream media” practices, as...
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Congress Holds 22 Hearings on the 9/11 Attacks, and 21 on Benghazi
In our Atlantic.com Politics channel, I have a long piece about the Benghazi Committee, and the way its emerging nature as a partisan oppo-research organization has played into a structural weakness in...
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A Story I Hope You'll Read: Al Gore’s Role as the Green Warren Buffett
From our new issue: Al Gore and David Blood, two of the founders of Generation Investment Management, who believe that their firm can help engineer a paradigm shift in modern capitalism. Don’t laugh....
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Why They're Running: Lessons From the Democratic Debate
A reader (who also happens to run a tech company) has an assessment of the debate that I find more useful than a lot of what’s coming from the political pros. Jeopardy-style, he formulates his...
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Felix Salmon Isn't Buying What Al Gore Is Selling
The new issue (subscribe!) has my article on Generation Investment Management, the London-based financial firm Al Gore co-founded more than a decade ago. Generation has been very profitable, and Gore...
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We All Hate the Internet, but Sometimes It Saves Our Skin
Or: how 50 cents’ worth of Post-it notes, and a brief bout of searching, saved me hundreds of dollars just now.Glamor shot of the Nexus 5, red modelI am a fan of my Nexus 5 Android phone, made by LG...
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