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Is Chicago About to Hit Rock Bottom? November 22, 2024
The Chicago press corps have gathered around a lectern. The city is in crisis. Schools are closed. Garbage is piling up. Government workers are striking. Businesses are fleeing. As cameras flash, the mayor of Chicago, flanked by the governor, makes a...
Only in The New Yorker November 13, 2024
A book bearing the name Dorothy Parker ought to sell, so McNally Editions have been able to offer something interesting this month: a collection of book reviews! No essays or musings, no memoir, nothing that could or should be redone as a short story...
How to Understand the Election Results November 11, 2024
I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about college students reacting to the election, which has made me think about my own college days, which coincided with the 2008 presidential election. This was a pretty happy time for me. No one I knew was terribly i...
Europe’s Music Meritocracy November 04, 2024
A visit earlier this year to two Baroque masterpieces of the Hapsburg Empire—Prague and Vienna—revealed a classical music ecosystem not usually glimpsed from the United States. From the perspective of New York, Philadelphia, or Chicago, classical mus...
