Rachel Carson Has Known the Ocean
Her journey to the hidden depths of the sea invites a new way of seeing.
Jake Lundberg
Jake Lundberg is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a former associate teaching professor of history at the University of Notre Dame.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Heritage Art / Heritage Images / Getty. Raymond Chandler and the Case of the Split Infinitive
An Atlantic copy editor suddenly found herself at odds with the famous writer over one edit.
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American writing instruction has always involved some level of torture. What happens when technology makes it easy?
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic A 168-Year-Old Question Still Worth Asking
A forceful 19th-century essay on the rise of the slaveholding oligarchy asked: “Where will it end?”
Illustration by The Atlantic Another Way to Be an American
The idea of a “trans-national America” argued against forcing immigrants into an Anglo-Saxon mold.
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic ‘To Begin the World Over Again’
Common Sense was a provocation in 1776. Maybe it’s the provocation we need now.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Found Image Holdings Inc / Getty; Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group / Getty. Does Anyone Else Have 1898 Déjà Vu?
Trump has upended a long tradition of claiming, however hypocritically, that foreign intervention is not about power or profit.
Illustration by The Atlantic ‘You Are Now a King, Under a Different Name’
America went to extraordinary lengths to throw off the rituals and titles of monarchy. Why would we fall for royal trappings today?
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Pieter Ferreira. The Cult of Costco
Its consistency is its superpower.
Endai Huedl / Getty When One Honest Politician Isn’t Enough
James Garfield is often portrayed as a good man in an age of bad governance, but the real story is a little more complicated.
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