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America Should Be Aware of Its Own Decline
By Sam RoggeveenAt the end of my first post I promised to say more about the contemporary international scene and why I think it's important, as the age of U.S. unipolarity ends, for American...
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The Secret to Digital Sanity
By Shelley HaydukToday we all deal with an unprecedented amount of information. We have websites, company intranets, e-mails and files. Even when we leave our computer we still have the ever-present...
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Happy 150th Birthday, Italy!
By Piero Garau 17 March 2011: Italy's 150th Birthday "Scores of educated and decent people, old and young, previously given to dismissing flags, national recurrences and anthems as relics of naïveté...
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Meet Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim
By Parker Donham After a career writing about politics and the environment, followed by a stint on a massive and controversial environmental cleanup, I have one nugget to offer journalists and citizen...
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An NPR Host's Other Job: Stay-At-Home Dad
By Guy RazSorry it's taken me a few days to post. We're expecting another baby in a few weeks, dealing with a move, and someone's trying to kill me. I suspect Jim's temporary absence from the blog...
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Why Conservatives Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the UN
By Sam RoggeveenAndrew Sullivan's reply to my previous post provides a neat segue into the point I wanted to make next. As Andrew points out, it is unusual to make an explicitly conservative case for...
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Alexander Graham Bell Defends His Butler
By Parker DonhamOn March 7, here at The Atlantic, Alexis Madrigal marked the 135th anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell's patent for the telephone by reproducing Bell's quirky sketch of the device,...
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Digital Introspection and the Importance of Self-Knowledge
By Shelley HaydukAs the world changes, for better or worse, we continue to assimilate new experiences and ideas that define who we are. With the advent of new social networking tools, we can join the...
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Warren Christopher, 1925-2011
By James FallowsLet me break into the sequence of guest voices here to express sadness at news that Warren Christopher has just died, at age 85. He is best known as the first Secretary of State during...
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On Libya: 'What Happens Then?'
By James Fallows(See UPDATE below)BEIJING, China -- I am in the middle of other things here in China and am not a Libya expert. But this is a moment when people in any form of public life (ie,...
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Iraq Lite and the Real Libyan Scare
[JF Note: The guests who have appeared here over the past two months have generally not engaged the breaking news of the moment. I think that's mainly because each has used the time to explore his or...
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The Villa Borghese and an American Visionary in Rome
By Piero Garau ROME, Italy -- Villa Borghese is the name of the oldest and most famous city park in Rome. In Roman times, the site was known as the gardens of Lucullus ("Lucullian" is a term widely...
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The Interior Lives of Others
By Parker DonhamIf you were to visit the L'Arche community in Iron Mines, Cape Breton, there's a good chance something like this would happen: Shortly after your arrival, a lanky red-headed man with...
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After the Quake: Will Japan Lose Its Head Like the U.S. Did After 9/11?
By Parker DonhamWithin hours of the September 11 attacks, it became commonplace to say the event had "changed everything." In retrospect, it would have been good to push back against that notion before...
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Our Penultimate Crew: Bonabeau, Cham, Hall, and Larson
I am again grateful for the eloquent, varied, carefully wrought and illustrated, and -- as I look back on them as a whole -- strikingly humane perspectives we have heard this past week. To give just an...
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The Economics of Island Air Taxis
By Glenna Hall I, too, want to thank Jim for this amazing opportunity. As other guest bloggers before me have done, let me introduce myself before I begin my week. I was born in 1940, which has given...
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The Plight of the Chinese Newspaper Reporter
By Christina Larson "There is a saying that Chinese people are afraid of officials, and officials are afraid of foreign reporters," my friend Yang, a wily reporter for one of Beijing's city newspapers,...
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The 'Hunch Machine': How to Make Better Choices
By Eric Bonabeau On August 29, 2000, I had three babies. One girl named Capucine, one boy named Hippolyte and one company named Icosystem (well, technically, I hired the company's CEO on August 30, but...
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'When I Worked for the CIA'
By Glenna HallWhen Jim asked us to send him some biographical information, I mentioned that during my five-year stint at the U.S. Library of Congress, I had worked for several obscure...
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This Could Just Possibly Complicate My Life Here in China
By James FallowsFrom the Atlantic's home page right now, as I see it on coming back to the apartment in Beijing after an interview. The title, produced by an algorithm showing the most recent post in...
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