The Atlantic Out Loud
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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 5, 2025 • 17min
Who Needs Intimacy?
The podcast explores how modern female novelists envision women's lives free from societal pressures of motherhood and partnership. It discusses the intricate relationships between identity and parental roles, particularly through a wartime interpreter's reflection on personal choices. There's a focus on the dynamics of familial intimacy, specifically a mother-son relationship, and the struggle for autonomy faced by women, including those of color. Themes of estrangement and self-discovery further illuminate the complexities of navigating identity in contemporary life.
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
Apr 1, 2025 • 12min
The Hungarian Model
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.By Anne ApplebaumFrom 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
