The Lesson of Iraq
“Let us not forget that our essential policy interests are identical with those of the Arabs.”
160 Years of Atlantic Stories
A year-by-year catalogue of some of the magazine's most momentous work.
Science: Careers for Women
The growing need for research workers and scientists has opened new doors for both single women and those combining marriage and a career.
High Hurdles and White Gloves
The first modern Olympic games took place in Athens sixty years ago in a stadium holding seventy-five thousand. The American hurdler Thomas P. Curtis won the Gold Medal in his event; he also found time to make notes of what happened.
The Control of Energy
One pound of uranium carries more releasable energy than 1500 tons of coal, and the solar energy that reaches the earth in a single day is equivalent to that released by two million Hiroshima A-bombs. Better control of these and other forms of energy is basic to man's progress.
New England and the South
The struggle for industry
Our Mistakes in Korea
“The deliberate political design by which two Administrations treated the Korean War as if it were an insoluble military problem … confused the American public and, confusing it, dulled its memory.”
News and the Whole Truth
“Too much of our news is one-dimensional, when truth has three dimensions (or maybe more); and in some fields the vast and increasing complexity of the news makes it continually more difficult—especially for us Washington reporters—to tell the public what really happened.”
The Future of Man
Bertrand Russell calmly examines three foreseeable possibilities for the human race.
Miracle at Kitty Hawk: Unpublished Letters of the Wright Brothers (Part I)
“It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. This I conceive to be fortunate, for man, by reason of his greater intellect, can more reasonably hope to equal birds in knowledge than to equal nature in the perfection of her machinery.”
The Open Mind
Four years after directing the construction of the world’s first atomic bomb, Oppenheimer offers advice on advancing peace in the nuclear age.