Is this an interesting/useful way to ponder American history and the nature of influence? What's your take on our historians' selections? Have you ever tried yoga?
Do you consider it a nice way to get fit, a spiritual belief system, or something else? What do you think accounts for yoga's sudden trendiness? Discuss Hanna Rosin's article in the December issue.
Is Europe getting over its mistrust of the U.S.?
Weigh in on Jonathan Rauch's article in the December Atlantic. Share your thoughts on the British documentary Up series. Are you a fan?
What do they tell us about the varying trajectories of peoples' lives? Are there any books that you would particularly recommend this year? How worried are you that terrorists will be able to acquire nuclear weapons?
What can the U.S. or the U.
N. do to prevent this? Is it possible to recreate a sense of mystery about one's life partner?
Discuss Cristina Nehring's article in the December issue. Who are the most influential figures in American history? The Atlantic recently asked ten eminent historians.
The result was The Atlantic s Top 100 mdash;and some insight into the nature of influence and the contingency of history. Was Walt Disney really more influential than Elizabeth Cady Stanton? Benjamin Spock than Richard Nixon?
Elvis Presley than Lewis and Clark? John D. Rockefeller than Bill Gates?
Babe Ruth than Frank Lloyd Wright? Let the debates begin. It wouldn t be easy.
But it wouldn t be impossible. A reporter travels the world to find the weaknesses a terrorist could exploit Our man in Shanghai samples budget beer, survives subway scrimmages, and starts living the contradictions of China s breakneck modernization Fifty years ago, yoga was the province of California communes and fringy New Agers. Now it s teetering on the brink of overexposure and commodification.
So, is it a spiritual antidote to the upscale Western lifestyle, or just the latest manifestation? Hanna Rosin, the author of "Striking a Pose," discusses yoga's journey from Himalayan mountaintops to the studio down the street.
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