James Fallows
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
James Fallows is a staff writer for The Atlantic, which he has written for since the late 1970s. He and his wife, Deborah Fallows, are the authors of the 2018 book Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America, which was a national best-seller and is the basis of a forthcoming HBO documentary. Fallows has reported for The Atlantic extensively from outside the United States, has written several books, and has won the National Magazine Award, American Book Award, and a New York Emmy for a documentary series on China. He also once worked for President Carter as chief speechwriter.
Previously
2019 Festival
Reinventing Cities
Video — 50m 48s
2019 Festival
Make China Great Again: Xi's Vision for Supremacy
Video — 49m 36s
2019 Festival
Revising the Narrative on Rural America
Video — 49m 3s
2019 Festival
China's Next Chapter
Audio — 49m
2018 Festival
Putin Versus Xi
Video — 50m 28s
2018 Festival
How Relevant is Washington (Outside of Washington)?
Video — 49m 54s
2018 Festival
Rural by Choice
Video — 51m 3s
2018 Festival
Our Towns: A Journey into the Heart of America
Video — 50m 32s
2017 Festival
What We've Learned from Listening to America
Video — 51m 13s
2017 Festival
State of Resistance: An Interview with California Attorney General Xavier Becerra
Audio — 1h 4m
2017 Festival
Defining "American" and the Art of Activism
Audio — 59m
2017 Festival
What Turns a Skater Kid from Colorado into a Fighter for ISIS?
Video — 1h 2m 53s
2016 Festival
How China’s Crackdown Challenges the World
Video — 1h 0m 22s
2016 Festival
The Truth Is Under Attack: The Rise of Disinformation in the Digital Age
Audio — 1h 1m
2016 Festival
Cultural Preservation: How Does Culture Define a City’s Identity and Should We Care?
Video — 54m 21s
2016 Festival
How the Deck Is Stacked: Jobs, the Economy, and the Election
Audio — 54m
2016 Festival
Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy
Audio — 57m
2016 Festival
How Obama Shook the Lame Duck Label
Audio — 57m
2015 Festival
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Audio — 59m
2015 Festival
Enough to Go Around: The Ethics of Agriculture
Audio — 1h 3m
2015 Festival
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
Video — 53m 54s
2012 Festival
China and Democracy
Video — 1h 10m 52s