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Cartoon by Michael Crawford. For more: http://nyr.kr/YrCgEX
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The Iraq War in The New Yorker→
Click-through for a look back at ten years of Iraq coverage in The New Yorker: http://nyr.kr/16K4PRo
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"Today, in 2013—a decade later—it’s not fashionable to suggest that the American invasion of Iraq served any useful purpose… [but] I’d say: Ask the Iraqis—that is, if anyone, in this moment of American navel-gazing, can be bothered to do so. My guess is that the answers would be richer and more surprising than the one-dimensional debate we are engaging in at home."
— Dexter Filkins reflects on an afternoon in 2003 that he spent at a former torture prison run by secret police in Iraq: http://nyr.kr/YosjrG(Source: newyorker.com)
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"The decade between that fateful week and the present moment has telescoped, compressed down to a single, terrible judgment: the war was a disaster for Iraq and the U.S. alike…It’s a severe judgment, and convincing. Yet it misses something about the intervening years."
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Ten years after the bombing of Baghdad and the start of the Iraq war, Seymour Hersh asks, what’s up with our Constitution? “How could a small group of hard-line conservatives around President Bush… so quickly throw us over the cliff? It’s not enough to blame it on the fear, anger, and confusion brought on by the 9/11 attacks… Is our Constitution that fragile?” Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/ZBToV5
Photograph by Peter van Agtmael/Magnum. See more images from “Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories from Iraq.”
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I <3 Brooklyn Brewery
“Good beer is work! Appreciating beer is work! (At least, on this day.) And, highest of all, there is the motto printed above the door on Glaser’s building, glanced at while stepping into the winter evening: ‘Art is Work.’”
Michael Agger chats with Milton Glaser, the designer behind Brooklyn Brewery’s logo, on the 25th anniversary of the brewery: http://nyr.kr/12rKLE8
(Source: newyorker.com)
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Our celebration in honor of the 200th anniversary of “Pride and Prejudice” continues with a piece by Joshua Rothman on Charlotte Lucas’s curious marriage: http://nyr.kr/UGWSd7
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Grand Central Terminal turns a hundred today. In a January, 1929, Casual, E. B. White wrote, “The cold weather is setting in. Should anyone decide to dig in for the winter, I recommend the Grand Central as a good place. That terminal, with its catacombs and its connecting clubs, offices, and hotels now offers a complete existence—all of the necessities of life, plus clean fun.” That’s still true today, though it would be nice is there were still an official organist. Here are some of Grand Central Terminal’s appearances on the cover of The New Yorker over the years: http://nyr.kr/TmVYR0
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"As someone born in the mid-nineteen-eighties, I grew up taking the legality of abortion as a given. It struck me as an immutable part of How We Live Now, a battle that earlier generations had fought and largely resolved. I realize today how wrong that presumption was—how ignorant, in particular, of the experiences faced by huge numbers of women across America who still have to overcome serious obstacles in order to obtain reproductive care."
— Sarah Stillman on the reality of Roe v. Wade, forty years later: http://nyr.kr/Svwukc -
Click-through to read Emily Greenhouse on the 850th anniversary celebration of Notre Dame Cathedral, plus a vintage slideshow: http://nyr.kr/Teof9x
(Source: newyorker.com)
