New York City’s spending grew from 2012 to 2019 by 40 percent, four times the rate of inflation. Does any New Yorker feel that they got 40 percent better services during that time? …New York’s poverty rate is higher than Florida’s. New York has a slightly lower rate of homeownershi...
The writer of the New Yorker article (pseud. “Speed”) was fascinated by the Dymaxion’s motorboat-type steering, no coincidence since Fuller intended to adapt his futuristic car for use on and under the water, as well as in the air. THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME…Clockwise, from top ...
HAIL VARSITY…Peter Arnodelivered another, much shorter pep talk in a cartoon (left) from the Nov. 20, 1937 issue; at right, Arno’s last football-themed gag, published inThe New Yorkerof November 25, 1967, just three months before the cartoonist’s death. Check out one of my favoriteNe...
That same week, Gessen wrote an article in The New Yorker in which she commented on Trump’s urging governors to take a harder line against protesters. “Whether or not he is capable of grasping the concept,” Gessen wrote, “Trump is performing fascism.” Republicans and the Appeal of Au...
he uttered: “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” And the company that soon after became IBM got its start by helping Hitler manage the tedious but necessary task of counting the Jews and other defective beings that must logically be eliminated to engineer the perfect human society...
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As a New Yorker we stayed pretty much in our turf because we had so much life and things to do there. Today the gangs are about drugs and killing, and worst of all they turn on each other. Most killings are by guys that were friends when they were young. The friends that I had ...
Antwaun Sargentis an art critic and a writer who has contributed to The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vice and more, as well as essays to multiple museum publications. His first book, “The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion” (Aperture) is out now. In April he ...
E.B. Whiteagain, this time opening his column with thoughts on the anti-Hitler parade that was held in New York. White refers to his “swastika watchfob”…before the Nazis came to power, the swastika was known to many cultures as a symbol of prosperity and good luck. ...
A regularNew Yorkercontributor, journalistMatthew Josephson(1899–1978) popularized the term “robber baron” with the publication of his 1934 book,The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists. (nationalbook.org) Josephson concluded his article with observation of a party protest event, and one...