The Atlantic Out Loud
Professionally narrated articles from The Atlantic—just for subscribers.
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Feb 19, 2020 • 13min
Why Restoration Hardware Send Catalogs the Size of a Toddler - Amanda Mull - March 2020
The surprising persistence of the mail-order business Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 19, 2020 • 9min
The New Rules of Music Snobbery - Spencer Kornhaber - March 2020
Hulu’s High Fidelity reboot captures the end of elitist condescension and the rise of fervent eclecticism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 19, 2020 • 16min
The Supreme Court's Enduring Bias - Michael O'Donnell - March 2020
Over the past half century, siding with the powerful against the vulnerable has been the rule in almost every area of the law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 19, 2020 • 16min
The Art of Second Chances - Ruth Franklin - March 2020
In Emily St. John Mandel’s disaster-steeped fiction, a derailed life can take multiple forms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 19, 2020 • 17min
Abraham Lincoln's Radical Moderation - Andrew Ferguson - March 2020
What the president understood that the zealous Republican reformers in Congress didn’t Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 19, 2020 • 4min
Ode to Cold Showers - James Parker - March 2020
Fling wide the plastic curtain, take a breath, and step right in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 7, 2020 • 41min
20,000 Feet Under the Sea - Wil S. Hylton - January/February 2020
It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 7, 2020 • 23min
Retreat, Christian Soldiers - Emma Green - January/February 2020
Feeling out of step with the mores of contemporary life, members of a conservative-Catholic group have built a thriving community in rural Kansas. Could their flight from mainstream society be a harbinger for the nation? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 7, 2020 • 31min
When Museums Have Ugly Pasts - Adam Hochschild - January/February 2020
Textbooks can be revised, but historic sites, monuments, and collections that memorialize ugly pasts aren’t so easily changed. Lessons from the struggle to update the Royal Museum for Central Africa, outside Brussels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 7, 2020 • 17min
Where's My Flying Car? - Derek Thompson - January/February 2020
The toxicity of the web is peanuts compared with Big Tech’s failure to remake the physical world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
