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Views of Montana -- Sarah Yager -- March 2023 13.02.2023 3:20

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Is America Ready for a New Age of Nuclear Power? -- Jonathan Rauch -- March 2023 10.02.2023 35:10

There's no way to mitigate climate change without it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The French Are in a Panic Over 'le Wokisme' -- Thomas Chatterton Williams -- March 2023 10.02.2023 33:13

The nation’s vehement rejection of identity politics made me recalibrate my own views about woke ideology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Party of Trolls -- David Frum -- March 2023 01.02.2023 14:52

Republicans need to stop being so obnoxious. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re Already in the Metaverse -- Megan Garber -- March 2023 31.01.2023 40:29

Reality is blurred. Boredom is intolerable. And everything is entertainment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

'White Noise' Used to Be Satire -- Jordan Kisner -- January/February 2023 23.12.2022 24:43

What was once mildly absurd is now funny because it’s true. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I Went to Taiwan to Say Goodbye -- Katherine Hu -- January/February 2023 22.12.2022 8:03

To my grandmother, and perhaps to the country whose resilience she shares Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seeing Earth From Space Will Change You -- Marina Koren -- January/February 2023 22.12.2022 16:27

The question is how. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why Read Literary Biography? -- Lauren Groff -- January/February 2023 22.12.2022 15:03

What Shirley Hazzard’s life can, and can’t, tell us about her fiction Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Prophecy of The Waste Land -- James Parker -- January/February 2023 22.12.2022 26:47

One hundred years after the publication of The Waste Land, its vision has never been more terrifying. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An Ode to Mood Swings -- James Parker -- January/February 2023 22.12.2022 4:12

If you don’t like me now, just give it an hour. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cormac McCarthy Has Never Been Better -- Graeme Wood -- January/February 2023 22.12.2022 21:24

His two new novels are the pinnacle of a controversial career. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Reinvention of the Catholic Church -- Paul Elie -- January/February 2023 22.12.2022 17:38

Scandals have taken a toll, and faith is flagging in Europe and the U.S. But Catholicism isn’t on the wane—it’s changing in influential ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can a Building Be Too Tall? -- Bianca Bosker -- January/February 2023 22.12.2022 41:15

The rise and rise and rise of the supertall skyscraper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Myth of the Frontier Won’t Die -- Noah Hawley -- January/February 2023 22.12.2022 25:04

In our popular culture and in our politics, we’re returning to the Old West. The strong survive and the weak surrender, and differences are resolved at the end of a gun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Anabasis of Godspeed -- Ishion Hutchinson -- January/February 2023 22.12.2022 2:21

“The Anabasis of Godspeed” is excerpted from a forthcoming book-length poem, School of Instructions. A memorial to the experience of West Indian soldiers serving in British regiments during World War I, the poem is also the narrative of Godspeed, a young boy living in rural Jamaica in the 1990s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The End of Us -- Adam Kirsch -- January/February 2023 22.12.2022 27:54

Is the reign of human beings on Earth nearing its end? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Eureka Theory of History Is Wrong -- Derek Thompson -- January/February 2022 22.12.2022 47:33

The real reason American progress has stalled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why Is She Like This? -- Elaina Plott Calabro -- January/February 2023 22.12.2022 47:57

On the ground in Marjorie Taylor Greene's alternate universe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Looming Revolt Over Homelessness -- Jerusalem Demsas -- January/February 2023 22.12.2022 18:56

Liberals know how to solve the problem. Why don't they? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slavery in the Family -- Drew Gilpin Faust -- December 2022 22.12.2022 21:24

The Grimke sisters and the indelible stain of slavery Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Putin Must Lose by Anne Applebaum — December 2022 22.12.2022 19:30

A better future requires Vladimir Putin’s defeat—and the end to imperial aspirations. Read more from our December 2022 issue. Give the gift of The Atlantic today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stagger -- Linda Gregerson -- December 2022 20.12.2022 4:28

A poem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

America Can Still Lead -- George Packer -- December 2022 22.11.2022 28:16

The United States can—and must—wield its power for good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bono's Great Adventure by David Brooks — December 2022 22.11.2022 32:05

Bono's life has been an attempt to reconcile the competing demands of radical faith and rock and roll. Read more from our December 2022 issue. Give the gift of The Atlantic today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices