The Atlantic Podcasts: January 2008 Archives

January 2008 Archives

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Barack Obama and the Economic Future of America

Obama's economic advisor, Professor Austan Goolsbee of the University of Chicago, talks with Megan McArdle about the health care debate, the credit debacle, the Federal Reserve's limitations, and other major issues that will face the next American president.

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The Table (Early January 2008)

Marc Ambinder, Ross Douthat, and Matthew Yglesias discuss racism and sexism, unorthodox Republicans, the Bill Clinton factor, and Bloomberg's folly.

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Fine Print

A journey through the world of typography with graphic designer Michael Bierut

"Given its subject, Michael Bierut’s Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design, published last May by Princeton Architectural Press, is remarkably plain. It has no pictures. It isn’t oversized. It doesn’t even have a dust jacket.

Yet the book is a graphic extravaganza. Each of the 79 essays is set in a different typeface, ranging in age from Bembo, designed in 1495, to Flama, created in 2006. This profusion of typefaces would have been inconceivable when Bierut, 50, was starting out as a graphic designer. 'I’m not sure in 1982 I could have come up with 79 different text fonts,' he says."