The Atlantic emails me this handy summary of the upcoming issue, which will get tossed with the others I haven't read yet when it arrives. I used to love reading it, and I would still like to read it, but for some reason, I don't. When enough of them pile up to really depress me I drop them off at the library. Sometimes I'll click the link on the preview and read the online version of an article or two that sounds interesting. What's wrong with me? Can't I leave this freakin' computer for two minutes?
The articles with links have summaries online that anybody can read. You have to be a subscriber to read the whole thing. Maybe I should just bequeath my online subscription to someone who might use it.
The Atlantic Preview
Volume 295 No. 2 | March 2005
COMMENT American Casino 
The promise and perils of Bush's "ownership society"
by Robert J. Shiller
FOREIGN POLICY What "W" Owes to "WW"
President Bush may not even know it, but he can trace his view of the world to Woodrow Wilson, who defined a diplomatic destiny for America that we can't escape
by David M. Kennedy
VERBATIM Rather's Familiar Quotations
THE LIST Security Fences
by Abigail Cutler
MEDIA J-School for Jerks
How you, too, can learn to behave like Bill O'Reilly
by Joshua Green
THE ODDS Who Will Be the Next James Bond?
by John Sellers
What's the Matter With Central Park West?
by Walter Shapiro
Primary Sources
Hizbollah's new toy; America's "Pedestrian Danger Index"; the perils of dialing drunk
THE WORLD IN NUMBERS The New Opium War
by Matthew Quirk
[This article is not available online.]
The Accuser
One woman has spent decades documenting crimes against humanity in Iraq. Now Saddam and his circle are facing justice
by William Langewiesche
The Accidental Autocrat
Vladimir Putin is not a democrat. Nor is he a czar like Alexander III, a paranoid like Stalin, or a religious nationalist like Dostoyevsky. But he is a little of all these--which is just what Russians seem to want
by Paul Starobin
The Truth About Harvard
It may be hard to get into Harvard, but it's easy to get out without learning much of enduring value at all. A recent graduate's report
by Ross Douthat
POETRY Male Voices, From Below
by John Updike
POETRY Now
by Frannie Lindsay
Meeting
A drawing
by Guy Billout
EDITOR'S CHOICE Clothes-Minded
The London Look: Fashion From Street to Catwalk, by Christopher Breward, Edwina Ehrman, and Caroline Evans; Harvard Rules, by Richard Bradley; The Glorious Cause, by Robert Middlekauff; The Meaning of Independence, by Edmund Morgan
by Benjamin Schwarz
I'll Be Damned
Graham Greene's most fervent loyalty was to betrayal
by Christopher Hitchens
READING LIST One Great Book Per Life
Writers who said it all to perfection in a single book and then most decently died
by Allan Gurganus
Marshal Plan
The age of parents as friends is over
by Sandra Tsing Loh
Backfire
A leading observer of militant Islam argues that the movement will undermine itself--if only the United States will let it
by Peter Beinart
INNOCENT BYSTANDER Feeling Entitled?
Huey Long's aspiration--"Every man a king!"--is at last within our grasp
by Cullen Murphy
A LOOK BACK 55 Years Ago in The Atlantic
"My Father: Leslie Stephen"
SPORT The Magician
The world's best pool player sees shots no one else can
by Pat Jordan
THE PUZZLER Cloverleaf
by Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon
Word Fugitives
by Barbara Wallraff
POST MORTEM Ex-Husband of Love Goddesses
Artie Shaw (1910-2004)
by Mark Steyn
Who's Who
A selective index to this month's issue
Compiled by Benjamin Healy
p.s. - they don't have an RSS feed or I would have just added it.
