The Atlantic

The Atlantic (formerly known as The Atlantic Monthly) is an American magazine founded in Boston by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1857. Initially created for literary and cultural commentary, it is now known as a right-wing political editorial magazine with sections on other topics such as culture and economy. It is owned by David G. Bradley's Atlantic Media Company and edited by James Bennet.

Criticism

Dr. Norman Finkelstein, discussing former leftist Christopher Hitchen's defection from The Nation to The Atlantic called the latter the "the well-heeled house organ of Zionist crazies".

People

Recent editors

• Robert Manning, 1966–1980
• William Whitworth, 1980–1999
• Michael Kelly, 1999–2003
• Cullen Murphy, interim editor, never named editor-in-chief, 2003–2006
• James Bennet, 2006–

Journalists

Andrew Sullivan | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Marc Ambinder | James Fallows | Megan McArdle

External links

• The Atlantic Online
• A History of The Atlantic
• Atlantic archival writings by topic
• Online archive of Atlantic (earliest issues up to December 1901)
• The American Idea: The Best of The Atlantic Monthly
• The Atlantic issues at Project Gutenberg