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Apr 17, 2025 • 16min
What Is Classical Music?
The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.By Matthew AucoinFrom the May 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 16, 2025 • 44min
The World Porn Made
It colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art.By Sophie GilbertFrom the May 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 15, 2025 • 9min
The Anti-Rockwell
The illustrator dredged the depths of his own subconscious—and tapped into something collectively screwy in America.By Gal BeckermanFrom the May 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 12, 2025 • 32min
The Making of Dwyane Wade
The Hall of Famer reached the highest heights of the basketball world. Now he’s figuring out the type of man and father he wants to be.By D. WatkinsFrom the May 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 10, 2025 • 15min
The New King of Tech
How Jensen Huang built Nvidia into a nearly $3 trillion businessBy James SurowieckiFrom the May 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 9, 2025 • 33min
Everything We Once Believed In
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.By David BrooksFrom the May 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 5, 2025 • 17min
Who Needs Intimacy?
Influential novelists are imagining what women’s lives might look like without the demands of partners and children.By Jordan KisnerFrom the May 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 4, 2025 • 4min
A New Force of Indian Country
In 1969, my father gave voice to an activist generation of Native Americans.By Philip J. DeloriaFrom the May 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 3, 2025 • 19min
What to Make of Miracles
In a new book, Elaine Pagels searches for the narrative origins of Jesus’s most wondrous acts.By Judith ShulevitzFrom the May 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 2, 2025 • 35min
When I’m 84
The world still needs Ringo Starr.By Mark LeibovichFrom the May 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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