The Atlantic Out Loud
Professionally narrated articles from The Atlantic—just for subscribers.
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Nov 30, 2021 • 16min
The Package Is the Message - Amanda Mull - December 2021
American consumers can’t resist the lure of a well-designed container. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 30, 2021 • 3min
Snowbirds - Jaquira Díaz - December 2021
Technicolor scenes from a bygone Miami Beach Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 30, 2021 • 13min
The Martial Art I Can’t Live Without - Stephanie Hayes - December 2021
Brazilian jiu-jitsu has been compared to chess, philosophy, even psychoanalysis. But its real appeal is on the mat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 30, 2021 • 21min
Animals of the Future - Rebecca Giggs - December 2021
Lizards’ feet are morphing, squid are shrinking, rats’ teeth are getting shorter. What’s in store for us? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 30, 2021 • 58min
The Bad Guys Are Winning - Anne Applebaum - December 2021
If the 20th century was the story of slow, uneven progress toward the victory of liberal democracy over other ideologies—communism, fascism, virulent nationalism—the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 30, 2021 • 19min
Emerson Didn’t Practice the Self-Reliance He Preached - Mark Greif - December 2021
How Transcendentalism, the American philosophy that championed the individual, caught on in tight-knit Concord, Massachusetts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 30, 2021 • 4min
An Ode to Barbecue Potato Chips - James Parker - December 2021
Void of nutritional value, divorced from the intense culinary process that is actual barbecuing, irresistible Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 30, 2021 • 5min
Birthday - Kathleen Rooney - December 2021
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Nov 30, 2021 • 1min
Pear - Erica Funkhouser - December 2021
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Oct 19, 2021 • 51min
A Secretive Hedge Fund Is Gutting Newsrooms - McKay Coppins - November 2021
Inside Alden Global Capital Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
