Martin Schneider writes:
This issue had Drew Friedman’s cover combining the visages of Barack Obama and George Washington. Candidates include Atul Gawande on health care reform, Calvin Tompkins on Walton Ford, and Ben McGrath on pessimists. We’ll be expanding this post in due course!
Jonathan Taylor writes:
Ben McGrath’s “The Dystopians” cheered me up infinitely, making me think at least for a while that a lot of things worrying me won’t matter at all soon. The piece gamely absorbs the all-embracing view of its subjects; at every corner, there’s yet another novelistic image of the future as envisioned by James Howard Kunstler, like the aspiring hedge-fund managers who are “going to end up supervisors of rutabaga pickers.”