 | The (Real) State of the Union: Atlantic Monthly Panel A panel of Atlantic Monthly writers visits the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism to disuss the special January/February issue that examined the state of the union. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism presents" [4/2004] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 8621] |
 | Moby at the 150th Anniversary of Atlantic Monthly Moby discusses what Ukranian hoteliers expect of rock stars at the 150th Anniversary of Atlantic Monthly. Baird has to fend of the dangerous P. J. O'Rourke, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._J._O'Rourke a libertarian and early advocate of gonzo journalism, in order to get the interview. (O' Rourke once edited the National Lampoon among other publications.) O'Rourke is trying to plan his speech with Moby who has to steer clear of mentally trying subjects on account of his hangover. The party took place on a stage while several thousand people with class B tickets took there seats for the awards ceremony and Patti Smith concert. Members of Mayor Bloomberg's elite swat team wearing bullet proof vests stood on banquets amid the guests. In addition to the Mayor the hosts included James Bennet, Christopher Buckley, P.J. O'Rourke, Boykin + Celerie Curry, Michael Hirschorn, Arianna Huffington, Moby, Georgette Mosbacher, Azar Nafisi, George Stephanopolous, Andrew Sullivan, Governor Bill Weld and Tom Wolfe. The guests included: Kurt Andersen, Iris Apfel, Thom Browne, Amanda Burden, Joan Buck, Robin Byrd, Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, Robert DeNiro, Griffin Dunne, Jonathan Farkas, Cody Franchetti, Meera + Vikram Gandhi, Malcolm Gladwell, Brad Gooch, Michael Gross, Rebecca Guinness , Alanna Heiss (PS1), drag king Murray Hill, Warren Hoge, Amb. Richard Holbrooke, James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins), Walter Isaacson, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Sonny Mehta, Daphne Merkin, Norman Pearlstein, Dale Peck, Reno, Mr + Mrs Mark Rockefeller, Robert Silvers, Anna Deveare Smith, ABC's John Stossel, James Traub, Ultra Violet, Bettina Zilkha and Mort Zuckerman. Jonathan Marder was the event producer. The interview appeared in both the New York Post and the New York Daily News. http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2007/12/24/2007-12-24_side_dish.html December 24th 2007 NY Daily News Rush and Molloy column Moby, who stopped by the Village Pourhouse, still marvels at the hotel room service he got in Kiev the last time he played there. "The hotel had no air conditioning," he tells Webster Hall's Baird Jones. "At 4 a.m., I called the front desk and asked if they could send up a fan. The bellhop disappeared and came back and said, 'There are no fans.'" Despite moving his arms in a cooling propeller motion, the techno master was told apologetically, "There are no women in the lobby." http://www.nypost.com/seven/12212007/gossip/pagesix/language_glitch_594038.htm November 3, 2007 NY Post Page 6 LANGUAGE GLITCH THERE are fans, and then there are fans. Techno maestro Moby told Webster Hall's Baird Jones about the time he was in Kiev after performing: "It was very hot in the hotel and they had no air-conditioning. At 4 in the morning, I called the front desk and asked if they could send up a fan. The guy put me on hold, and came back, and said, 'There are no fans.' We had this long confused conversation and finally he said he was sorry, but there are no women in the lobby. He thought I meant a groupie. Eventually I was able to explain to him that I meant a plastic thing that spun in the air . . . So he was able to finally send up an actual plastic fan." |
 | Christopher Hitchens on Saul Bellow http://www.hitchenszone.com October 24, 2007 BookTV - From the Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington D.C, The American Idea: The Best of The Atlantic Monthly Contributors to the Atlantic Monthly celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the magazine with selected readings from an edited anthology. Christopher Hitchens reads an excerpt from Saul Bellow's novel Mr. Sammler's Planet |
 | James Fallows - Should the U.S. go to War with Iran? Complete program at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=401 Atlantic Monthly National Correspondent James Fallows discusses the possibility of a preemptive invasion of Iran by the United States. ----- James Fallows presents "Blind Into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq." In the autumn of 2002, Atlantic Monthly national correspondent James Fallows wrote an article predicting many of the problems America would face if it invaded Iraq. After events confirmed many of his predictions, Fallows went on to write some of the most acclaimed, award-winning journalism on the planning and execution of the war, much of which has been assigned as required reading within the US military. In "Blind Into Baghdad," Fallows takes us from the planning of the war through the struggles of reconstruction. With unparalleled access and incisive analysis, he shows us how many of the difficulties were anticipated by experts whom the administration ignored. Fallows examines how the war in Iraq undercut the larger "war on terror" and why Iraq still had no army two years after the invasion. In a sobering conclusion, he interviews soldiers, spies, and diplomats to imagine how a war in Iran might play out. This is an important and essential book to understand where and how the war went wrong, and what it means for America. - Cody's Books James Fallows has worked for "The Atlantic Monthly" for more than twenty years. His previous books include "Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy," "Looking at the Sun, More Like Us" and "National Defense," which won the American Book Award for non-fiction. |
 | McCain on Foreign Policy: Preserving the Status Quo? Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/05/13/Foreign_Policy_Follies_Why_Both_Parties_Are_Wrong Blogger and Atlantic Monthly Associate Editor Matthew Yglesias accuses John McCain of preserving the Republican Party's unpopular status quo on foreign policy, and criticizes Democratic leadership for not taking greater advantage of that position. ----- Matthew Yglesias -- a known "ringleader-of-sorts for the D.C. blogging community" -- suggests looking past both parties to offer a set of tried-and-true approaches for renewed internationalism and U.S. engagement with the world - The New America Foundation Matthew Yglesias is the Associate Editor of the Atlantic Monthly and the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats. |
 | McCain's "Team Democracy" - Matthew Yglesias Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/05/13/Foreign_Policy_Follies_Why_Both_Parties_Are_Wrong Blogger and Atlantic Monthly Associate Editor Matthew Yglesias slams John McCain's foreign policy as "crazy," and as an intensification of the foreign policy ideals pursued by the Bush Administration. ----- Matthew Yglesias -- a known "ringleader-of-sorts for the D.C. blogging community" -- suggests looking past both parties to offer a set of tried-and-true approaches for renewed internationalism and U.S. engagement with the world - The New America Foundation Matthew Yglesias is the Associate Editor of the Atlantic Monthly and the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats. |
 | Charlie Rose - STATE OF THE UNION - LIVE Segment One: David Gergen, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard / U.S. News & World Report (from Boston); David Brooks, The New York Times (from Washington DC); James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly /// Segment Two: David Sanger, The New York Times (from Washington DC); Michael Duffy, Time (from Washington DC); James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly /// Segment Three: Mark Halperin, Political Director, ABC News (from Washington DC); Elisabeth Bumiller, The New York Times (from Washington DC) |
 | Abraham Lincoln's Vision for the Republican party http://www.mslaw.edu Senior Editor of The Atlantic Monthly, Jack Beatty, relates the history of the Republican Party and social class in America through the eyes of President Lincoln. The full interview is available at http://tinyurl.com/3xxn3p . The Massachusetts School of Law also presents information on important current affairs to the general public in television and radio broadcasts, an intellectual journal, conferences, author appearances, blogs and books. For more information visit mslawledu. MSLAW podcasts are available on itunes (just search for mslaw) and at http://mslaw.libsyn.com/rss. MSLAW videos can also be found on Google. |
 | Greatest Experiments: Discovering Oxygen Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/05/01/George_Johnson-The_Ten_Most_Beautiful_Experiments New York Times science writer George Johnson names Antoine Lavoisier's discovery of oxygen as one of the "Ten Most Beautiful Experiments" in science history. ----- George Johnson, acclaimed New York Times science writer, discusses The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments, an irresistible book about the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science, drawn from physics, chemistry, biology, and psychiatry. Johnson takes us to those times when the world seemed filled with mysterious forces, when scientists were dazzled by light, by electricity, and by the beating of the hearts they laid bare on the dissecting table. We see Galileo singing to mark time as he measures the pull of gravity, and Newton carefully inserting a needle behind his eye to learn how light causes vibrations in the retina. These ten elegant histories remind us of the original romance and excitement of a single soul staring into the unknown. George Johnson writes regularly about science for The New York Times. He has also written for Scientific American, The Atlantic Monthly, Time, Slate, and Wired, and his work has been included in The Best American Science Writing. He lives in Santa Fe - Cody's Books George Johnson writes regularly about science for The New York Times. He has also written for Scientific American, The Atlantic Monthly, Time, Slate, and Wired, and his work has been included in The Best American Science Writing. |
 | Otto-torial: Paul McCartney Otto Edit's thoughts on marriage, the Atlantic Monthly, and Heather Mills |
 | Chris Matthews calls clinton control of media "FASCISTIC" Chris Matthews calls clinton control of media "FASCISTIC" [BEWARE HILLARY!] by Mia T, 9.28.07 Tonight on Hardball, Chris Matthews called the clintons' routine strong-arming of the media "FASCISTIC." This issue had been simmering in Matthews. In the post-debate analysis the other night, he was visibly disturbed by hillary clinton's attempt to control the media, to limit the debate, to refuse to truly answer virtually every question posed to her that night and on the Sunday shows. He revealed that the clintons routinely applied the clinton jackboot on the media, that hillary clinton routinely demanded the questions in advance, etc. (See YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPe-9GW6jsI--CHRIS MATTHEWS: HILLARY ROUTINELY DEMANDS QUESTIONS IN ADVANCE JUST HOW DUMB AND CROOKED AND DESPOTIC IS SHE ANYWAY? by Mia T, 9.27.07 GOOD FOR MATTHEWS! He is the only one in the leftist media with both a moral compass and the courage necessary to call the clinton tactics for what they are: FASCISTIC. The precipitating event: Several months ago, hillary clinton learned that GQ was working on a clinton-machine exposé. So she gave GQ a stark choice: Kill the piece, or lose access to her errant coverboy husband. This is called 'access journalism,' folks, and it is a primary reason--the other is the clinton jackboot --why only a fraction of clinton corruption, ineptitude and betrayal gets reported. ('Stalinist Rising? hillary clinton abuse of power (Where is the unredacted Barrett report, anyway?)' ) http://www.deletehillary.com/stalinist-rising.htm From politico.com: Despite internal protests, GQ editor Jim Nelson met the her demands and the article by Atlantic Monthly staff writer Josh Green got the spike. Green had taken the assignment from GQ not long after finishing an unflattering 13,000-word profile in the November 2006 Atlantic Monthly, which concluded that the junior Senator from New York is a timid, calculating pol. "Today Clinton offers no big ideas, no crusading causes--by her own tacit admission, no evidence of bravery in the service of a larger ideal. Instead, her Senate record is an assemblage of many, many small gains. Her real accomplishment in the Senate has been to rehabilitate the image and political career of HRC.... [I]t makes for a rather thin claim on the presidency. Sen Clinton has plenty to talk about, but she doesn't have much to say," he wrote. |
 | Aryn Kyle -- The God of Animals -- Book Video From www.BookVideos.tv - From an award-winning and talented young novelist comes one of the most exciting fiction debuts in years: a breathtaking and beautiful novel set on a horse ranch in small-town Colorado. A wise and astonishing novel about the different guises of love and the often steep tolls on the road to adulthood, The God of Animals is a haunting, unforgettable debut. Aryn Kyle graduated from the University of Montana writing program. In 2004 her short story Foaling Season, now the first chapter of this novel, won a National Magazine Award for Fiction for The Atlantic Monthly. Kyle spent most of her childhood in Grand Junction, Colorado, and now lives in Missoula, Montana. |
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