Alan Vanneman's Three Bullets
Friday, April 20, 2012
Günter Grass—What Must Be Said
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Why do I stay silent, conceal for too long What clearly is and has been Practiced in war games, at the end of which we as survivors Are ...
Thursday, March 22, 2012
James Q. Wilson good, James Q. Wilson not so good, Part II
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Yesterday I had mostly good things to say about the late John Q. Wilson; today, mostly not so good, taking off from his May 22, 1995 review...
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Thoughts on the current discontents
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What’s happening in the Middle East? Damfino. Robert Darnton thinks it’s 1789. Ann Applebaum thinks it’s 1848. If Ann’s right, things ought ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The Customer Is Always Wrong
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by Wolcott Gibbs Just as the advance agent for a circus is not likely to be disturbed by even the largest elephant, so his metropolitan equi...
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF EDITING NEW YORKER ARTICLES
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The average contributor to this magazine is semi-literate; that is, he is ornate to no purpose, full of senseless and elegant variations, an...
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Since the Sixties: What’s It All About, Merriam?
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For more than forty years now, Americans have been engaged in a furious culture war, disputing the significance and worth of that fast-reced...
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