Gangs
"People called them hoodlums, and hoodlums they were, but they were a gusty element in community life, noisy and forceful."
160 Years of Atlantic Stories
A year-by-year catalogue of some of the magazine's most momentous work.
Catholic and Patriot: Governor Smith Replies
“I recognize no power in the institutions of my Church to interfere with the operations of the Constitution of the United States or the enforcement of the law of the land.”
Stop, Look, Listen! The Shareholder's Right to Adequate Information
Just a few years before the Crash of 1929, Harvard economics professor William Z. Ripley warned that corporations weren't providing accurate financial information to their investors and argued that a framework of regulatory oversight was needed. The creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934 has been in part attributed to Ripley's Atlantic writings.
The Bear Hunt: An Original Ballad Never Before Printed
Light verse composed by America’s sixteenth president
The Modern View of Evolution
“Evolution makes its appeal to reason, but its acceptance does not mean the abasement, let alone the denial, of emotion, faith, and religion.”
In China, Too
Pearl S. Buck, an American-born writer who was raised in China and continues to live and teach there with her husband, reflects on the social and cultural changes transforming China's young people.
Jazz: A Musical Discussion
“As a state of mind, [it] is symptom, not malady.”
Relativity and the Absurdities of Alice
“Since 1913, a number of gentlemen wearing glasses and looking wondrous wise, and no doubt as wise as they look, have proved to us that it can always be tea-time if we care to figure it out properly.”
Prison Cruelty
“The prison cannot be changed as long as the old basis of suppression and isolation is maintained.”
The Idea of a League of Nations
"What has happened is essentially this, that the natural limitations upon warfare which have existed hitherto appear to have broken down."