Love in America
“It is as if the experience of being in love could only be one of two things: a superhuman ecstasy, the way of reaching heaven on earth and in pairs; or a psychopathic condition to be treated by specialists.”
160 Years of Atlantic Stories
A year-by-year catalogue of some of the magazine's most momentous work.
Hitler Looks Eastward
Two years before Hitler invaded Poland, an Atlantic author predicted the Reich’s expansion and how it would affect the various nations of Eastern Europe.
Letters From the Dust Bowl
When drought struck Oklahoma in the 1930s, the author and her husband stayed behind to protect their 28-year-old farm. Her letters to a friend paint a picture of dire poverty, desiccated soil, and long days with no sunshine.
Swastika
“National Socialism is not only a protest against the Treaty of Versailles. It is a revolt against the ideals of democracy.”
The Roosevelt Experiment
“The Roosevelt experiment, in a word, is a systematic effort to put capitalism into leading strings of principle. It is to be the servant, and not the master, of the American people.”
Confessions of a Novelist
“I remember saying to myself, when the book was done: ‘I don’t yet know how to write a novel; but I know how to find out how to.’”
Put Your Husband in the Kitchen
“I am tempted to think that the perplexed businessman might discover a possible solution of his troubles if he would just spend a few days in his wife’s kitchen.”
Whirlwinds of Speculation
“The pouring forth of this great torrent of new units of speculation results in the inevitable consequences dictated by the law of supply and demand.”
State Pensions or Charity?
“It is time for us to devise ways of meeting the inevitable disaster of old age and the almost equally inevitable disasters of sickness and unemployment, and these must be ways that will not fail when the stock market breaks or a new machine is invented, that will function in the lean years as in the fat years, and that can be accepted without loss of self-respect.”
‘Inside Information’
“Securities in corporations whose directors are known to be trading in and out of the stock on special information for their own personal profit are coming more and more to be looked upon askance by investors.”