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In Post & Riposte: Homeland Insecurity How much faith do you have in technology's ability to protect us from terrorism? How concerned are you about the erosion of civil liberties? Competing for Timelessness Do you agree that architecture competitions do not necessarily result in interesting—or even tolerable—architecture? Weigh in on Witold Rybczynski's article in the September Atlantic. OmniMartha What are your feelings about Martha Stewart? Is she someone to be admired? Reviled? Envied? Pitied? Share your thoughts on Caitlin Flanagan's September article. See the complete forum index. |
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Letters to the EditorINNOCENT BYSTANDER: Circuit Breakers by Cullen Murphy  What Now? by Michael Kelly A Man on a Gray Horse by David Brooks Rejection Sustained by Randall Kennedy Confidence Itself by Walter Kirn The Information Wars by Mary Graham Bucking the Herd by Arthur Allen American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center This month's installment, "The Rush to Recover," is the second part of a three-part series [Web version contains excerpts only] by William Langewiesche Inside the Ruins: William Langewiesche, the author of "American Ground," on life at the World Trade Center site after the towers fell. [Web only]Special Report: Homeland Insecurity One of the nation's top security experts—the cryptography guru and cyberhero Bruce Schneier—warns that the nation's approach to protecting itself is all wrong, and could actually make America more vulnerable than ever. This misguided approach is rapidly being hardened into law by Charles C. Mann A Primer on Public-key Encryption: Charles Mann explains public-key encryption and traces its history. [Web only]Letter From Egypt Our correspondent can barely understand his own civilization, a few centuries old. Now he confronts Egypt, curing for millennia, where traffic, bureaucracy, couch design, and cemetery living have reached levels of true connoisseurship by P. J. O'Rourke All People Are Crazy: P. J. O'Rourke on the Middle East, the universality of the absurd, and his beef with Mark Twain. [Web only]Elegies An anthology of poems Mercy A poem by Stanley Plumly [audio]The Treatment A short story by Roxana Robinson Literary Lives Jean-Paul Sartre by Edward Sorel  TRAVEL: The Romance of Big Sur by Barbara Wallraff FOOD: Maine Certified by Corby Kummer PALATE AT LARGE: Il Champ by Corby Kummer ARCHITECTURE: The Bilbao Effect by Witold Rybczynski  Lightness at Midnight Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million by Martin Amis, reviewed by Christopher Hitchens New & Noteworthy A cautionary classic; the subject of motherhood made new and fine; Ambrose Bierce's Civil War Home Alone Martha Inc.: The Incredible Story of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia by Christopher Byron, and Martha Stewart by Charles J. Shields, reviewed by Caitlin Flanagan Loss and Endurance Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry, reviewed by Brooke Allen The Puzzler by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Court by Barbara Wallraff Cover photograph by Andrea Booher/FEMA. All material copyright © 2002 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved. | |||
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