NEAL ASCHERSON | September 4th 2008
AlbySpace/flickr
An expert on eastern Europe, Neal Ascherson mourns the delicious pleasure of smoking at the cinema in the afternoon ...

From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, Autumn 2008

To the folks at NASA, Hanna is the new Gustav. They're putting off transporting the shuttle Atlantis to its launch pad as the newly hyped tropical storm makes its way toward the southeast coast of the United States. [More]

Author and columnist Thomas Friedman speaks about offshore drilling, his new book, and why the United States needs a green-energy bubble.

SHAMI CHAKRABARTI | September 3rd
Harry Malt
We continue with our series on freedoms lost and gained, 60 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ...

From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, Autumn 2008

A HEADY ANNIVERSARY | September 2nd 2008
Harry Malt
Sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, liberties are being taken with your liberties. Intelligent Life magazine asks 11 people which freedom lost, and gained, means the most to them. We start with Richard Dawkins ...

From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, Autumn 2008

To the folks at NASA, Hanna is the new Gustav. They're putting off transporting the shuttle Atlantis to its launch pad as the newly hyped tropical storm makes its way toward the southeast coast of the United States. [More]

INTELLIGENT LIFE ON NEWSSTANDS | September 2nd 2008
OUR LATEST COVER STAR: PRINCE CHARLES

On the cover of the new Intelligent Life magazine is the Prince of Wales, who is about to turn 60.

"Whatever else you may say about Prince Charles," says the editor of the magazine, Tim de Lisle, "he leads an intelligent life." The cover story, by the novelist and Economist writer J.M. Ledgard, looks at Charles the working man, at his causes and hobbyhorses and what he has done with the unique set of cards he has been dealt, as the only Prince of Wales of the media age. Of his wives, there is barely a mention. The cover image shows Charles as a young man, expressing the fact that the piece comes at him afresh.

SLEEPLESS IN ST PAUL | September 1st

steveb_ohio/flickr
Exhausted from one convention and now headlong into another, The Economist's international correspondent is grateful for what can't be predicted in the coming week ...

From ECONOMIST.COM

NOTES ON AN EXUBERANT POET | August 31st 2008
National Archives

There was a time when Ryan Ruby would've taken a punch for broody, gloomy T.S. Eliot. But years in the thrum of New York City have encouraged a taste for something more jazzy and irreverent ...  

Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE

Early in 2007, when David Petraeus became Commanding General of United States and international forces in Iraq, he had in mind a strategy to manage the political pressures he would face because of the unpopularity of the war, then four years old, and of its author, George W. Bush. He . . .