Tag Archives: The New Yorker

“It may be Alito’s Court, but it’s not yet his America.”

The final paragraph in a powerful New Yorker piece by Amy Davidson Sorkin: Alito notes that “women are not without electoral or political power.” Indeed, an effect of his draft opinion would be that Americans who care about reproductive rights … Continue reading

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About despots, Ukraine, Putin and America

I’m a few months behind in my New Yorkers. Today, though, David Remnick, the New Yorker’s editor, linked on Twitter a fascinating conversation he had with a Stalin scholar, Stephen Kotkin. The title of the piece, “The Weakness of the … Continue reading

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Laughing through Purgatory

One of the many reasons I love the New Yorker is its writers, and the grace the magazine gives them not to revere great art so much that they must abandon their own personal vernacular to talk about it. Judith … Continue reading

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