On Turning 160
A 160th birthday is an odd occasion to commemorate, I’ll confess. There are no longer any traditional gifts for the 160th. Unlike a sesquicentennial—the 150th—this milestone bears no well-worn Latin name. But they say after a certain age, every birthday is a triumph. So it is with The Atlantic, which officially turns 160 years old today.
Careful readers might notice, a tool that lets you view your lifetime as might see it, weighted against the backdrop of history. Jeffrey Goldberg, our editor in chief, noted back in May, and marked its first publication . We embarked on a search for our longest-running subscriber, and found , who began taking the magazine upon his return from World War II. Instead of revisiting the future of the American idea, , we asked our politics editor and resident historian Yoni Appelbaum to investigate .
