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American writer and journalist (born 1949)

Jim Fallows Fallows in 2010 White House Director of Speechwriting In office January 20, 1977 – November 24, 1978 President Jimmy Carter Preceded by Robert T. Hartmann Succeeded by Bernard W. Aronson Personal details Born James Mackenzie Fallows (1949-08-02) August 2, 1949 (age 76) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Party Democratic Spouse Deborah Fallows Children 2 Education Harvard University (BA) Queen's College, Oxford (attended)

**James Mackenzie Fallows**[1] (born August 2, 1949) is an American writer and journalist.[2] He is a former national correspondent for *[The Atlantic](/source/The_Atlantic).* His work has also appeared in *[Slate](/source/Slate_(magazine))*, *[The New York Times Magazine](/source/The_New_York_Times_Magazine)*, *[The New York Review of Books](/source/The_New_York_Review_of_Books)*, *[The New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker)* and *[The American Prospect](/source/The_American_Prospect)*, among others. He is a former editor of *[U.S. News & World Report](/source/U.S._News_%26_World_Report)*, and as President [Jimmy Carter](/source/Jimmy_Carter)'s chief [speechwriter](/source/Speechwriter#United_States) for two years was the youngest person ever to hold that job.[3][4]

Fallows has been a visiting professor at a number of universities in the U.S. and [China](/source/China), and has held the Chair in U.S. Media at the [United States Studies Centre](/source/United_States_Studies_Centre) at [University of Sydney](/source/University_of_Sydney). He is the author of eleven books, including *National Defense* (1981), for which he received the 1983 [National Book Award](/source/National_Book_Award),[5] *Looking at the Sun* (1994), *Breaking the News* (1996), *Blind into Baghdad* (2006), *Postcards from Tomorrow Square* (2009),[6] *China Airborne* (2012), and the national best-seller *Our Towns* (2018), which was co-written with his wife, [Deborah Fallows](/source/Deborah_Fallows), and made into an [HBO](/source/HBO) documentary of the same name in 2021.

## Early life and education

Fallows' 1977 [White House](/source/White_House) staff photo

Fallows was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Jean (née Mackenzie) and James Albert Fallows, a physician.[7] He was raised in [Redlands](/source/Redlands%2C_California), [California](/source/California), and graduated from [Redlands High School](/source/Redlands_High_School).[8] He studied American history and literature at [Harvard College](/source/Harvard_College), where he was the president of *[The Harvard Crimson](/source/The_Harvard_Crimson)*. From 1970 to 1972, Fallows studied economics at [The Queen's College, Oxford](/source/The_Queen's_College%2C_Oxford), as a [Rhodes scholar](/source/Rhodes_scholar). He subsequently worked as an editor and writer for *[The Washington Monthly](/source/The_Washington_Monthly)* and *[Texas Monthly](/source/Texas_Monthly)* magazines.[9]

## Career

For the first two years of the [Carter administration](/source/Presidency_of_Jimmy_Carter) he was Carter's chief speechwriter. At age 27, he became the youngest person in history to hold that position. From 1979 through 1996, he was the Washington Editor for *The Atlantic Monthly* (now *[The Atlantic](/source/The_Atlantic)*). For two years of that time he was based in Texas, and for four years in Asia. He wrote for the magazine about immigration, defense policy, politics, economics, computer technology, and other subjects. He has been a finalist for the [National Magazine Awards](/source/National_Magazine_Awards) five times and won in 2003, for "The Fifty-First State?" (*The Atlantic*, November 2002), which was published six months before the invasion of Iraq and laid out the difficulties of occupying the country. He won the National Book Award for *National Defense*[5] and won a NY Emmy in 2010 for his role as host of a documentary series, *Doing Business in China*.[10]

Fallows's most influential articles have concerned military policy and military procurement, the college admissions process, technology, China and Japan, and the [American war in Iraq](/source/2003_invasion_of_Iraq). Early in his career, he wrote an article called "What Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy?" (*Washington Monthly*, October 1975). It described the "draft physical" day at the [Boston Navy Yard](/source/Boston_Navy_Yard) in 1970, in which Fallows and his Harvard and [MIT](/source/MIT) classmates overwhelmingly produced reasons for medical exemptions, while the white working-class men of [Chelsea](/source/Chelsea%2C_Massachusetts), [Massachusetts](/source/Massachusetts) were approved for service. He argued that the class bias of the [Vietnam draft](/source/Draft_evasion#Vietnam_War), which made it easy for him and for others from influential and affluent families to [avoid service](/source/Draft_evasion), prolonged the war and that this was a truth many [opponents of the war](/source/Opposition_to_the_U.S._involvement_in_the_Vietnam_War) found convenient to overlook.[11]

In the 1980s and 1990s Fallows was a frequent contributor of commentaries to [National Public Radio](/source/National_Public_Radio)'s *[Morning Edition](/source/Morning_Edition),* and since 2009 he has been the regular news analyst for NPR's *[Weekend All Things Considered](/source/Weekend_All_Things_Considered)*. From 1996 to 1998, he was the editor of *US News & World Report*. He was the founding chairman of the [New America Foundation](/source/New_America_Foundation), a nonprofit group based in [Washington D.C](/source/Washington_D.C.). During the 2000–2001 academic year, Fallows taught at the graduate school of journalism at the [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley), and in 2010 he was the Vare Writer in Residence at the [University of Chicago](/source/University_of_Chicago). Starting in the 2010 academic year, he is a visiting Professor in U.S. Media at the [United States Studies Centre](/source/United_States_Studies_Centre) at the [University of Sydney](/source/University_of_Sydney).[6]

Fallows is an instrument-rated pilot.[12] In *Free Flight*, published in 2001, he described the new generation of "[personal jets](/source/Personal_jets)" and other advanced aircraft coming onto the market from [Eclipse Aviation](/source/Eclipse_Aviation) and [Cirrus Design](/source/Cirrus_Design), as well as the story of Cirrus founders brothers [Alan and Dale Klapmeier](/source/Klapmeier_brothers) and how they became involved in aviation.[13]

Fallows has had a long interest in technology, both writing about and helping to develop it. He's taken a special interest in [personal information management](/source/Personal_information_management) software, going back to [Lotus Agenda](/source/Lotus_Agenda) which he glowingly reviewed for *The Atlantic* in 1992 ("Of all the computer programs I have tried, Agenda is far and away the most interesting, and is one of the two or three most valuable").[14] During the [operating system](/source/Operating_system) wars of the early and mid-nineties, Fallows used and wrote about [IBM](/source/IBM)'s [Operating System/2](/source/Operating_System%2F2) (OS/2) and its battles with [MS](/source/Microsoft) [Windows](/source/Windows), often frequenting the Canopus forum and online community on [CompuServe](/source/CompuServe). In 1999, he spent six months at [Microsoft](/source/Microsoft) designing software for writers. More recently, he has written about the design of the [Open Source Applications Foundation](/source/Open_Source_Applications_Foundation)'s information manager, code-named [Chandler](/source/Chandler_(PIM)). He was the on-stage host for the [IDG](/source/International_Data_Group) Corporation's "Agenda" conference (no relation to Agenda software) in the early years of the 2000s (decade) and of [Google](/source/Google)'s "Zeitgeist" conference starting in 2005. He has written regular technology columns for *The New York Times* and *The Atlantic*.

In September 2021, Fallows launched a [Substack](/source/Substack) site called *Breaking the News*, whose title was based on his 1996 book of the same name.

## Politics

Fallows, a former speechwriter for Democratic President [Jimmy Carter](/source/Jimmy_Carter), has identified himself as a [Democrat](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States))[15] and has been described by *[Politico](/source/Politico)* and *[The Hill](/source/The_Hill_(newspaper))*, among other publications, as a [liberal](/source/Modern_liberalism_in_the_United_States).[16][17] According to journalist [Howard Fineman](/source/Howard_Fineman), Fallows also wrote policy memos to Democratic President [Bill Clinton](/source/Bill_Clinton).[18] An article in *The Futurist*, a publication of the [World Future Society](/source/World_Future_Society), identifies Fallows as a [radical centrist](/source/Radical_center_(politics)).[19]

## Awards

For the first paperback edition of *National Defense*, Fallows received a 1983 [National Book Award for Nonfiction](/source/National_Book_Award_for_Nonfiction).[5][note 1] He was a finalist at the National Magazine Award in the years 1988, 2006 (twice), 2007 and had won the award in 2003 for his article *The Fifty-First State?*.[20] The documentary series *On The Frontlines: Doing Business in China* in which he participated as an editorial supervisor and co-host (together with Emily Chang) was awarded the 2010 Emmy Award.[21]

He was elected to the [American Academy of Arts and Sciences](/source/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences) in 2019.[22]

Fallows has received numerous honorary degrees, including from the [University of Utah](/source/University_of_Utah), the [University of Maryland](/source/University_of_Maryland%2C_College_Park), the [University of Redlands](/source/University_of_Redlands), [Northwestern University](/source/Northwestern_University), [Ursinus College](/source/Ursinus_College), and in 2017 the [University of Vermont](/source/University_of_Vermont).[23]

## Personal life

Fallows is married to writer and researcher [Deborah Fallows](/source/Deborah_Fallows), with whom he has two sons.[24][25] The book *Our Towns* (2018) was co-authored and researched by the couple, which became the basis for an [HBO](/source/HBO) documentary film in 2021.[26]

In 2012, Fallows gained notice for the results of the testing of his genetic makeup. In addition to the fact that the lineage shown on the mitochondrial DNA of his mother's side did not resemble any other samples found in a large-scale study, it was shown that Fallows had an abnormally high percentage of [Neanderthal](/source/Neanderthal) ancestry, at 5% of his genes being of Neanderthal origin. This drew attention from numerous scientists.[27][28]

## Publications

### Books

External videos Booknotes interview with Fallows on More Like Us, April 6, 1989, C-SPAN Presentation by Fallows on Free Flight, July 12, 2001, C-SPAN Presentation by Fallows on China Airborne, May 16, 2012, C-SPAN Washington Journal interview with James and Deborah Fallows on Our Towns, May 25, 2018, C-SPAN

- Fallows, James (1971). *The water lords: Ralph Nader's study group report on industry and environmental crisis in Savannah, Georgia*. Grossman Publishers.

- Green, Mark; Fallows, James; Zwick, David (1972). *Who runs Congress?*. New York: Bantam Books.

- *National Defense* (1981). Random House. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-394-51824-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-394-51824-1) - Fallows, James (June 1981). ["M-16: A Bureaucratic Horror Story: Why the rifles jammed"](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/06/m-16-a-bureaucratic-horror-story/545153/). *[The Atlantic](/source/The_Atlantic)*. One of three excerpts from *National Defense* published in *[The Atlantic](/source/The_Atlantic)*.

- *More Like Us: Making America Great Again* (1989). Houghton Mifflin. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-395-49857-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-395-49857-0)

- *Looking at the Sun: The Rise of the New East Asian Economic and Political System* (1994). Vintage Paperback (reprint ed., 1995) [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-679-76162-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-679-76162-4)

- *Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy* (1996). Pantheon Books. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-679-44209-X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-679-44209-X). Vintage Paperback (1997) [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-679-75856-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-679-75856-9)

- *Free Flight: Inventing the Future of Travel* (2001). PublicAffairs Paperback (2002) [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-58648-140-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-58648-140-1)

- *Blind into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq* (2006). Vintage. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-307-27796-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-307-27796-1)

- *Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China* (2009) Knopf. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-307-47262-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-307-47262-5)

- *China Airborne* (2012) Random House. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-375-42211-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-375-42211-9)

- Fallows, James; [Fallows, Deborah](/source/Deborah_Fallows) (2018). *Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America*. Pantheon Books.

### Essays and reporting

External videos Washington Journal interview with Fallows on his article "The Tragedy of the American Military", January 7, 2015, C-SPAN

- — (May 1979). ["The Passionless Presidency: The trouble with Jimmy Carter's Administration"](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1979/05/the-passionless-presidency/308516/). *[The Atlantic](/source/The_Atlantic)*.

- — (September 1992). ["Put Down That Bloody Shirt, Mr. President"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1992/09/15/put-down-that-bloody-shirt-mr-president/385041a4-83d1-4e8a-b685-8cc033649aba/). *[The Washington Post](/source/The_Washington_Post)*.

- — (February 1996). ["Why Americans Hate the Media"](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/02/why-americans-hate-the-media/305060/). *The Atlantic Monthly*.

- — (August 1996). ["Throwing like a girl"](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/08/throwing-like-a-girl/306152/). Sport. *The Atlantic Monthly*. **278** (2): 84–87.

- — (June 2009). ["Inexact opposite: a hotel in Beijing shows off China's ability to (almost) get it right"](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/06/beijing-rsquo-s-almost-perfect-hotel/7429/). *[The Atlantic](/source/The_Atlantic)*. **303** (5): 28–29.

- — (August 2011). ["In poll position"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120121173523/http://americanreviewmag.com/opinions/In-poll-position). *[American Review](/source/American_Review_(political_journal))*. Archived from [the original](http://americanreviewmag.com/opinions/In-poll-position) on January 21, 2012.

- — (December 2012). ["My fellow Americans ..."](http://www.vanityfair.com/unchanged/2012/12/checkers-richard-nixon-theater) Spotlight. *[Vanity Fair](/source/Vanity_Fair_(magazine))*. **628**: 134.

- — (June 2013). ["The art of paying attention \[interview with Linda Stone\]"](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/06/the-art-of-paying-attention/309312/). Dispatches. Tech. *[The Atlantic](/source/The_Atlantic)*. **311** (5): 22, 24.

- — (June 2013). ["The Fixer"](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/06/the-fixer/309324/). *[The Atlantic](/source/The_Atlantic)*. **311** (5): 46–55.

- — (January 2015). ["The Tragedy of the American Military"](https://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/12/the-tragedy-of-the-american-military/383516/). *[The Atlantic](/source/The_Atlantic)*.

- — (March 2016). ["How America Is Putting Itself Back Together"](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/03/how-america-is-putting-itself-back-together/426882/). *[The Atlantic](/source/The_Atlantic)*.

- — (May 2018). ["The Reinvention of America"](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/reinventing-america/556856/). *[The Atlantic](/source/The_Atlantic)*.

## Explanatory notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-20)** This was the [award for paperback "General Nonfiction"](/source/List_of_winners_of_the_National_Book_Award#General_Nonfiction). From 1980 to 1983 in [National Book Awards history](/source/National_Book_Awards#History) there were several nonfiction subcategories including General Nonfiction, with dual hardcover and paperback awards in most categories. Most of the paperback award-winners were reprints, including this one.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Fallows, James M. 1949- (James Fallows, James Mackenzie Fallows, Jim Fallows) | Encyclopedia.com"](https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/fallows-james-m-1949-james-fallows-james-mackenzie-fallows-jim-fallows). *www.encyclopedia.com*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["'At 5% Neanderthal, You Are an Outlier'"](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/at-5-neanderthal-you-are-an-outlier/263475/). *[The Atlantic](/source/The_Atlantic)*. October 11, 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Pilkington, Ed. [Obama inauguration: Words of history ... crafted by 27-year-old in Starbucks](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jan/20/barack-obama-inauguration-us-speech), *The Guardian*, January 20, 2009.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Fallows, James. ["Factual Error in Washington Post"](http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/12/i_am_shocked_to_see_a_factual.php), *James Fallows The Atlantic blog*, December 18, 2008.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-nba1983_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-nba1983_5-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-nba1983_5-2) ["National Book Awards – 1983"](https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1983). [National Book Foundation](/source/National_Book_Foundation). Retrieved 2012-03-11.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Steketee_6-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Steketee_6-1) Steketee, Mike. ["Urgent Need to Save Quality Journalism, Professor Warns"](https://archive.today/20121215190541/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,,25057637-7582,00.html), *The Australian*, February 16, 2009.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Fallows, James (November 8, 2008). ["James A. Fallows, 1925–2008"](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2008/11/james-a-fallows-1925-2008/9060/). *[The Atlantic](/source/The_Atlantic)*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["James Fallows, Redlands' most famous writer, named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences"](https://www.redlandscommunitynews.com/news/james-fallows-redlands-most-famous-writer-named-to-the-american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences/article_9c861d5c-61f3-11e9-9575-5fb15f6c6723.html). *Redlands News*. April 18, 2019. Retrieved April 1, 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** ["James Fallows to Give 2017 Commencement Address"](https://www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news/james-fallows-give-2017-commencement-address). [The University of Vermont](/source/The_University_of_Vermont). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20190801172708/https://www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news/james-fallows-give-2017-commencement-address) from the original on August 1, 2019. Retrieved August 1, 2019. He has also served as the editor of *U.S. News & World Report* and on the staffs of *The Washington Monthly* and *Texas Monthly*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** Fallows, James. ["More Emmy News"](https://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2010/04/more-emmy-news-updated/39213/), *James Fallows The Atlantic blog*, April 20, 2010.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** Fallows, James (1977). "What Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy?" In Robbins, Mary Susannah, ed. (2007, orig. 1999). *Against the Vietnam War: Writings by Activists*. London and Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 159–164. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-7425-5914-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7425-5914-1).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** ["Airplane Geeks Podcast"](http://www.airplanegeeks.com/2016/01/20/airplanegeeks-385-even-more-intellectually-stimulating-than-useful/). January 20, 2016. Retrieved July 31, 2019. Jim is an instrument-rated pilot and owner of a [Cirrus SR22](/source/Cirrus_SR22).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-AtlanticUnboundInterview_13-0)** ["The Soul of a New Flying Machine"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200114035956/https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/interviews/int2001-05-25.htm). *[The Atlantic](/source/The_Atlantic)*. May 25, 2001. Archived from [the original](https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/interviews/int2001-05-25.htm) on January 14, 2020. Retrieved September 18, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-14)** ["Agenda"](http://www.bobnewell.net/agenda/atlantic.txt.html), *The Atlantic*, Bob Newell.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Democrat_15-0)** Fallows, James (September 15, 1992). ["Put Down That Bloody Shirt, Mr. President"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1992/09/15/put-down-that-bloody-shirt-mr-president/385041a4-83d1-4e8a-b685-8cc033649aba/). *[The Washington Post](/source/The_Washington_Post)*. Now the necessary disclaimers: I am a Democrat, and I hope Clinton wins.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-16)** Gerstein, Josh (November 22, 2010). ["A 'tipping point' in terror fight?"](https://www.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=760EA5E4-AA78-6CD3-1508711D883C4682). [Politico](/source/Politico). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20120327030128/http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=760EA5E4-AA78-6CD3-1508711D883C4682) from the original on March 27, 2012. Retrieved September 21, 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-17)** Wilson, Reid (February 23, 2009). ["Dem primary victor for ex-Emanuel seat likely to win general"](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/1933-dem-primary-victor-for-ex-emanuel-seat-likely-to-win-general/). *The Hill*. Retrieved September 21, 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-18)** "Capital Gang Sunday: The Forbes Candidacy". *CNN*. January 21, 1996.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-19)** Olson, Robert (January–February 2005)."[The Rise of 'Radical Middle' Politics](http://www.wfs.org/revsatinjf05.htm) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20120716184225/http://www.wfs.org/revsatinjf05.htm) 2012-07-16 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)". *The Futurist*, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 45–47. Publication of the [World Future Society](/source/World_Future_Society). Retrieved 26 February 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-21)** ["American Society of Magazine Editors – National Magazine Awards Database – Search 'James Fallows'"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110526232156/http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine_awards/searchable_database/index.aspx). Archived from [the original](http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine_awards/searchable_database/index.aspx) on May 26, 2011. Retrieved August 7, 2010.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-22)** ["Google"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110725233529/http://www.nyemmys.org/attachments/wysiwyg/4292/2010_NY_Emmy_Awards_Winners_JUN7.pdf) (PDF). Archived from [the original](https://www.google.com/logos/doodles/2021/googles-23rd-birthday-6753651837109087-2xa.gif) on July 25, 2011 – via www.google.com.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-23)** ["New 2019 Academy Members Announced"](https://www.amacad.org/news/2019-members-announcement). *American Academy of Arts & Sciences*. April 17, 2019.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-24)** ["UVM Names Honorary Degree Recipients for 2017 Commencement"](https://www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news/uvm-names-honorary-degree-recipients-2017-commencement). Retrieved September 18, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-25)** ["Weddings: Elizabeth Bennett and Thomas Fallows"](https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/fashion/weddings/15bennett.html). *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*. February 14, 2009. p. ST11. Retrieved May 8, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-26)** ["Deb Fallows"](http://www.deborahfallows.com/). Retrieved May 8, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-27)** [HBO - Our Towns](https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/our-towns)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-28)** Fallows, James (October 11, 2012). ["'At 5% Neanderthal, You Are an Outlier'"](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/at-5-neanderthal-you-are-an-outlier/263475/). *The Atlantic*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-29)** Fallows, James (October 9, 2012). ["Neanderthal Me"](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/neanderthal-me/263372/). *The Atlantic*.

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