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Whatever Happened to the Power Elite?
Peter Dreier
American democracy, its blindingly evident, is in crisis. Terms that once characterized faraway repressive regimesoligarchy, elite, plutocracyare now invoked to describe the current political moment. ...[Continue Reading]
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What Counts as Normal? In Manvir Singhs piece on one-size-fits-all health metrics, he writes about how his South Asian infant daughter fell outside the normal range of a W.H.O. growth curve, even th ...[Continue Reading]
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My New York City Tour of Tours
Patricia Marx
Im a sucker for guided tours. I love a CliffsNotes condensation of a place. All of Rome in ninety minutes gave me a Visigothic sense of accomplishment, untarnished even when my tour buss automated au ...[Continue Reading]
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Keith McNallys I Regret Almost Everything, Reviewed
Molly Fischer
McNally seemed to enjoy occupying a place in New Yorks cultural landscape; he describes McInerney asking for permission to use the restaurants image and giving him a manuscript to read. My instinct t ...[Continue Reading]
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Lena Dunham on Why She Broke Up with New York
Lena Dunham
All this may seem to imply some deeper judgment about the citythat I think its wanton and unregulated, a Wheres Waldo? of Boschian perversion. But I will always defend New York from those sorts of ch ...[Continue Reading]
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No-Parking Zone: The Perils of Finding a Spot in N.Y.C.
Zach Helfand
Mostly, people sit in their cars and find ways to fill the timethe nappers, Bible studiers, book readers. Mary Norris, an author and a former copy editor at The New Yorker, wrote a blog called The Al ...[Continue Reading]
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