In Post & Riposte:
Reinventing Privacy
Will technology give back what it has taken away? Who will profit most in the new privacy space? Join a conversation on the March cover story.
The Feel-Good Presidency
Is NBC's The West Wing a "wish-fulfillment fantasy" for liberals? Weigh in on Chris Lehmann's critique of the hit TV show.
Workplace Hip
What's the relationship between corporate culture and corporate success? Share your thoughts on James Fallows's dispatch from Silicon Valley.
See the complete forum index.
77 North Washington Street by Michael Kelly
In This Issue
Letters to the Editor
INNOCENT BYSTANDER: Fine Points
by Cullen Murphy
Tokyo: The Kamikazes Rise Again by Murray Sayle
Silicon Valley: Forget the Yellowfin by James Fallows
Panama: The Forgotten Highway by Benjamin Ryder Howe
Los Angeles: The Hollywood Forever Way of Death by Ed Leibowitz
Washington, D.C.: Don't Call Us by Jack Owens
Nome, Alaska: Woe Is Me by Ian Frazier
The Reinvention of Privacy
The public fears that the last of privacy will perish in the information age. But what technology has taken away it will soon give back
by Toby Lester
Web only: Open Secrets. Steven Levy, author of Crypto, talks about cryptography and everyday life.
Battleground of the Eye
The painted landscapes of the Pacific Northwest aren't period pieces. The questions they raise—about wilderness, settlement, tribal rights, and the competing claims of industry and nature—are all around us still
by Jonathan Raban
Who Needs the BBC?
Friends and critics alike wonder if the BBC's reputation is not just a shadow, albeit an awfully big shadow, of former glories
by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
The Iron Bridge A poem by Billy Collins [with audio]
Worn Tool A poem by Stephen Sandy [with audio]
Mimesis A drawing by Guy Billout
Big Bend A short story by Bill Roorbach
Highway 12, Just East of Paradise, Idaho A poem by Robert Wrigley [with audio]
TRAVEL: An Alternative Belgium by Corby Kummer
COMPUTERS: Around the World in Eighty Megabytes by James Fallows
GARDENS: Touring by the Book by Hatsy Shields
The Richness of the Moment
Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green, by Jeremy Treglown, reviewed by Brooke Allen
Getting States' Rights Right
States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876 by Forrest McDonald, reviewed by Eugene D. Genovese
NEW & NOTEWORTHY
Kerry Fried on Border Crossing by Pat Barker
Christina Schwarz on The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett
Jack Beatty on Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century by John A. Farrell
Barbara Wallraff on Cause Celeb by Helen Fielding
Peter Davison on Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson by Alison Lurie
David Kipen on Ball Four: The Final Pitch by Jim Bouton
Brooke Allen on A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
TELEVISION: The Feel-Good Presidency by Chris Lehmann
[Plus: Former Clinton staffers on reality vs. fantasy in The West Wing.]
MUSIC: The Tradition of the Oldie by David Schiff
The Puzzler by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Word Court by Barbara Wallraff
Cover art by Carter Goodrich.
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