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Forty Portraits in Forty Years Photographs by NICHOLAS NIXON October 3, 2014 The New York Times Magazine The Brown sisters have been photographed every year since 1975. The latest image in the series is published here for the first time. 1975, New Canaan, Conn. Credit Text by SUSAN MINOT October 3, 2014 Nicholas Nixon was visiting his wife’s family when, “on a whim,” he ..

Doctors Who Don't Know How to Talk About Death When physicians avoid discussions of mortality and end-of-life care, their patients are the ones who suffer. Atul Gawande Oct 7 2014, 1:10 PM ET The Atlantic Monthly Michal Kowalski/Shutterstock I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn’t one of them. Although I was given a dry, leathery corpse to diss..

How Sigmund Freud Wanted to Die Anecdotes from his doctors reveal that the famed psychoanalyst's request has echoes in today's assisted-suicide debate. Lewis Cohen Sep 23 2014, 9:45 AM ET The Atlantic Monthly Ho New/Reuters In 1956, Dr. Felix Deutsch was invited to Boston to address the American Psychosomatic Society and offer reflections on Sigmund Freud’s 100th birthday. He..

Huxley’s Brave New World, Plato’s Republic, and Our Scientific Regime Matthew J. Franck The New Atlantis For much of the Cold War, George Orwell’s novel 1984 eclipsed Aldous Huxley’s earlier work Brave New World. Orwell’s book, published in 1949, seemed to many readers the more apt dystopia for understanding the challenge of totalitarianism, since it could be said to..

Why I Hope to Die at 75 An argument that society and families—and you—will be better off if nature takes its course swiftly and promptly Ezekiel J. Emanuel Photos by Jake Chessum September 17, 2014 The Atlantic Monthly Seventy-five. That’s how long I want to live: 75 years. This preference drives my daughters crazy. It drives my brothers crazy. My loving friends t..

What Happens When We All Live to 100? If life-expectancy trends continue, that future may be near, transforming society in surprising and far-reaching ways. Gregg Easterbrook Photos by Peter Yang September 17, 2014 The Atlantic Monthly For millennia, if not for eons—anthropology continuously pushes backward the time of human origin—life expectancy was short. The few..

Were we happier in the stone age? Does modern life make us happy? We have gained much but we have lost a great deal too. Are humans better suited to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle? Yuval Noah Harari The Guardian, Friday 5 September 2014 13.30 BST Are we really happy? Photograph: Liv Friis-Larsen/Alamy We are far more powerful than our ancestors, but are we much happier? Historians..

Is 'Progress' Good for Humanity? Rethinking the narrative of economic development, with sustainability in mind Jeremy Caradonna Sep 9 2014, 7:50 AM ET The Atlantic Monthly Rage against the machine: Luddites smashing a loom. (Chris Sunde/Wikimedia Commons) The stock narrative of the Industrial Revolution is one of moral and economic progress. Indeed, economic progress is cast as..

Roger Scruton’s leap of faith God may be dead, but the search for transcendence lives on Angus Kennedy Author and lecturer 11 July 2014/SPIKED In The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus observed that he had ‘never seen anyone die for the ontological argument’. Galileo was right to recant, since the ‘truth was not worth the stake. Whether the Earth or the Sun revolves around the ot..

Artists & politics by Donald Kagan June 2014, The New Criterion A lecture delivered by Donald Kagan after he received the second Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society. Editor’s note: The following remarks were delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 23, 2014 honoring Professor Kagan with the second Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society..