Letters

Letters: ‘Everybody Needs Comfort, Calm, Respite’

Readers discuss the meaning of Fred Rogers’s famous advice to “look for the helpers.”

• November 11, 2018

Letters: Sauron, Mortal Men, and ‘A Thoroughly Modern Ringwraith’

Readers respond to a Lord of the Rings–themed argument about erstwhile NeverTrumpers.

• November 9, 2018

Letters: ‘We Continued Our 70-Year-Long Unbroken String of Voting’

We asked readers of The Atlantic Daily to tell us about their experiences voting in the midterms.

• November 8, 2018

Letters: 'Each Pitch ... Was Its Own Enthralling Odyssey'

Readers discuss the 2018 World Series—and whether baseball’s current structure is hampering the pleasure of watching it.

• November 5, 2018

Letters: ‘We Are Collectively Heartbroken at Our Loss of Innocence’

Readers respond to Franklin Foer’s reflection on the Pittsburgh synagogue killings.

• November 3, 2018

Letter: ‘When Does Female Empowerment Transcend the Magical Into the Actual?’

A reader responds to a look back at the film Practical Magic, two decades after its release.

• October 31, 2018

Letters: Poetry Was Never Endangered

Readers weigh in on the rise of the “Insta-poet.”

• October 28, 2018

Letters: Is the ‘Confidence Gap’ Real?

Readers discuss new research on why working women may be hesitant to talk up their accomplishments.

• October 26, 2018

Letters: ‘Acting Like This Is a Boundless Battle for Wokeness Is Somewhat Absurd’

Readers discuss why social liberalism seems so prevalent in the culture industries.

• October 25, 2018

Letters: ‘The GOP Is Too Far Gone’

Readers react to one steadfast Republican’s reasons for staying loyal to his party—in spite of the wounds inflicted by Donald Trump.

• October 24, 2018

Letters: ‘We Need to Resist the Mallification of New York’

Readers grapple with the implications of Manhattan’s empty-storefront problem—for the city, and for urban life everywhere.

• October 23, 2018

Letters: ‘The Term Political Correctness Primes People to Respond Negatively’

Readers respond to a new study showing that the majority of Americans reject PC culture.

• October 22, 2018

‘Unwanted Sex,’ 20 Years Later

The author of a radical proposal in The Atlantic’s October 1998 issue revisits his argument—and the negative reactions to it.

• Mara Wilson
• October 21, 2018

Letter: Gary Hart Was Not Set Up

A journalist who reported on Gary Hart’s downfall in 1987 pushes back on the notion that the candidate’s Monkey Business incident may have been staged.

• October 20, 2018

Letters: ‘What Hope Does an Ordinary Black Man Have?’

Readers respond to Jemele Hill’s argument that black men who see themselves in Brett Kavanaugh are missing the point.

• October 19, 2018

Letters: ‘It Is Devastating Every Time I Read of Another Child Who Was Not Protected’

Readers respond to the story of one child’s fatal abuse—and the child-welfare system that failed to save him.

• October 18, 2018

Letter: Laquan McDonald’s Death and the Rhetoric of Police

A reader weighs in on the Chicago Police Department’s culture of intimidation, and describes her own experience processing the shooting of the 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.

• October 17, 2018

Letters: When the Production of Knowledge Gets Messy

Readers debate the implications of an academic hoax.

• October 13, 2018

Letters: ‘The Supreme Court Has Always Been a Politicized Institution’

Readers discuss the Court’s political past—and its future.

• October 12, 2018