Pessimists may see Trump’s victory as a hinge moment in history. Positive-minded people may feel that the work needing to be done is remedial and incremental. At the site where the Civil War began, @adamgopnik reflects on how we can rebuild a common life. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/TV0tv4
.@adamgopnik contemplates what’s at stake in the 2024 Presidential election and explores the cultural origins of the Trump mystique. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…
The difference:
The upsetting things said by Trump and Vance are not true.
The upsetting things said about Trump and Vance are true.
Trump really did mount a violent coup against the Constitution. He and his relatives really did take bribes in office, including from foreign governments. He really was helped into power by Russian espionage agencies. He really did steal secret documents from the US government after his election defeat. And Vance really did, and by his own admission, intentionally "create stories" for political advantage that put residents of his state at risk of physical harm.
Will you join me in giving a voice to #ArezooBadri, paralyzed after being shot by Iran’s morality police for not covering her hair? Arezoo needs us now. Make a video or write a statement asking, #WhereIsArezoo and why the government is silencing her family. Her sister is under pressure to do forced confessions. An international investigation is urgently needed.
Together, we are a stronger 💔
Willie Mays, who died this week at the age of 93, embodied a fleeting form of prophecy—and this made him famous in ways that transcended baseball, @adamgopnik writes. nyer.cm/VNn5nqu
Enlightenment liberalism fragmented the world by neglecting the social nature of the self, Romantics can tell us how to restore a shared sense of meaning and purpose.
@adamgopnik on Charles Taylor's Cosmic Connections in @NewYorker:
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In France, as in the U.S., the real divide is cultural: country against city, old against young, people with diplomas against people without them, Adam Gopnik writes. nyer.cm/bicCrTl
Come per i libri e i film, anche gli incontri più belli sono quelli capaci di farti commuovere e divertire allo stesso tempo.
Così è stato questa sera al MAXXI il viaggio tra letteratura e cinema de @LeConversazioni con protagonista @adamgopnik insieme a @FChiamu e Antonio Monda.
BREAKING: President Biden just slammed individuals suggesting our court system is rigged or political. President Biden is the only candidate running for President who is defending our Constitution. Retweet so all Americans see this powerful moment.
.@AdamGopnik reviews four books about liberalism that come from people whose lives have been spent as pundits and as advisers to politicians. nyer.cm/4KbQyWT
Join celebrated New Yorker staff writer @adamgopnik as he explores the literature of Manhattan's Upper East Side, a home to and setting for generations of authors.
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Huge thanks to the wonderful @mcnallyjackson and to the equally wonderful @adamgopnik as we sent Loss, A Love Story and All That Happiness Is out into the world
@nprscottsimon@adamgopnik@adamgopnik writes about learning tp play the guitar as engagingly as about Paris, food, books and everything else. A pleasure to hear his thoughts on happiness. Wise, revelatory, resfreshing. Thank you for introducing his newest om Open Book. .
@NewYorker staff writer @adamgopnik urged for the defense of democracy and its key pillars during his “To Fix Democracy, Figure Out What’s Broken” lecture as part of Wesleyan’s #Democracy2024 initiative. bit.ly/3JCTrQg
@eEqualsMCEscher Thanks! You at least have that early 2000's team, with, what? 8 Hall of Famers? Still one of the three best I've ever seen, with the eighties Oilers, and ,yes, the seventies Habs. (Ten HOFers.)
@adamgopnik The very thought (re poets) occurred to me last night. That was kind of a wild game. (Btw, I’m old enough to have seen Howe and Delvecchio play—first game I attended was Wings/Habs, ca. 1960, at Olympia, of course.)
Also btw, I love your writing.