Introducing Nine New Newsletters

Back in the day (“the day” being roughly 2009) The Atlantic’s website was home to a particularly rambunctious set of bloggers. (For those of you unfamiliar with the term bloggers, please ask your AP English teacher for guidance.) The Atlantic has been, since 1857, the home to much of the country’s best writing talent, and our blogroll was no exception. (I was a member of this disputatious collective, but I was, at best, its sixth-most-talented contributor. I was, however, the third- or fourth-most-rambunctious).

Blogging has since faded as a phenomenon (marginalized by Twitter, among other things), and—perhaps—good riddance. The Dodge City qualities of spontaneous blogging could be a bit much. But this spontaneity was also a virtue, as was the creativity of my