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JAN. 25, 2016
JA NUARY 2 5, 2016
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GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Amy Davidson on the Sanders surge;
Eugene Mirman; the Link; LaQuan Smith;
James Surowiecki on the Bundy standoff.
david remnick
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SEEDS OF PEACE
A Palestinian Israeli leader’s lonely mission.
Calvin Tomkins
THE MET AND THE NOW
The museum finally goes modern.
Calvin Trillin
Jane Mayer
IMAGINARY MITZVAHS
NEW KOCH
The rebranding of the billionaire brothers.
irving penn
POSTSCRIPT
David Bowie.
d. t. Max
ONE SMALL STEP
Can surgery reverse spinal paralysis?
FICTION
“ASPIC”
TATYANA Tolstaya
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THE CRITICS
A CRITIC AT LARGE
KATHRYN Schulz
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“Making a Murderer.”
BOOKS
Steven Shapin
“In a Different Key: The Story of Autism.”
Briefly Noted
THE ART WORLD
peter schjeldahl
Matthias Buchinger at the Met.
ON TELEVISION
emily Nussbaum
“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” “Younger.”
MUSICAL EVENTS
alex ross
The career of Pierre Boulez.
POEMS
Barbara Hamby
LAWRENCE JOSEPH
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“Athena Ode”
“A Fable”
COVER
john cuneo
“Winter Delight”
DRA
WINGS
Jason Adam Katzenstein, Robert Leighton, Kate Curtis, Zachary Kanin, Charlie
Hankin, Farley Katz, Frank Cotham, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Barbara Smaller, Tom Toro, Edward Steed
SPOTS
Barry Blitt
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CONTRIBUTORS
is a staff writer. Her new book, “Dark Money:
The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right,”
has just been published.
jane mayer
(“NEW KOCH,” P. 38)
amy davidson
(COMMENT, P. 19)
writes a column for newyorker.com.
covers art and culture for the
magazine. His book “Merchants and Masterpieces” is a complete history of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
calvin tomkins
(“THE MET AND THE NOW,” P. 32)
d. t. max
(“ONE SMALL STEP,” P. 48)
, a staff writer, is the author of “The Family That
Couldn’t Sleep” and “Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story.”
calvin trillin
(SHOUTS & MURMURS, P. 37)
is a longtime
New Yorker
contributor. A
collection of his reporting pieces and essays, “Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches
from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America,” is due out in June.
lives in Moscow and teaches at a creative-
writing academy that she recently opened with two colleagues. Five of her books,
including the novel “The Slynx,” have been translated into English.
tatyana tolstaya
(FICTION, P. 58)
is a staff writer and the author of
“Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error.”
kathryn schulz
(A CRITIC AT LARGE, P. 60)
has published five books of poetry, among them
“On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems.”
Barbara Hamby
(POEM, P. 42)
steven shapin
(BOOKS, P. 65)
is a historian of science. His books include “A Social
History of Truth,” “The Scientific Life,” and “Never Pure.”
john cuneo
(COVER)
, whose drawings have appeared in the magazine since 1994,
won his eleventh medal from the Society of Illustrators earlier this month.
NEWYORKER.COM
Everything in the magazine, and more
than fifteen original stories a day.
ALSO:
DAILY COMMENT
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CULTURAL COMMENT:
HUMOR:
Benjamin Schwartz
draws
Opinions and analysis by
Michael
Specter, Louis Menand,
and others.
SLIDE SHOW:
Drawings from an exhibit
a Daily Cartoon inspired by the news.
Plus,
Andy Borowitz
and the Shouts &
Murmurs blog.
PAGE-TURNER:
Adelle Waldman
writes
at the Met centering on Matthias
Buchinger, an artist and entertainer
who was born without hands and feet
and stood just twenty-nine inches tall.
ELEMENTS:
Our blog covering the
worlds of science and technology.
about the ideal marriage, according
to “Anna Karenina,” “Middlemarch,”
Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels,
and other works of fiction.
POETRY:
Barbara Hamby
and
Lawrence
Joseph
read their poems.
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THE MAIL
HOW TO DO GOOD
Larissa MacFarquhar’s article about Dar-
ren Walker and the Ford Foundation
(“What Money Can Buy,” January 4th)
highlights the institution’s recent focus
on remedying income inequality. Until
the advent of the Gates Foundation, the
Ford Foundation was the single largest
and most influential private source of
philanthropy in the United States, and
possibly in the world. As MacFarquhar
notes, the foundation has a history of
creating change in areas where govern-
ments are often ineffectual. One exam-
ple is in the arts—in particular, the realm
of orchestral music. In the early nineteen-
sixties, before the United States had a
national-arts bureaucracy, the Ford Foun-
dation’s arts-and-humanities program not
only supported bright young composers
like Philip Glass and Peter Schickele but
also professionalized and developed
American symphony orchestras. The
foundation’s program for symphony or-
chestras, established through an eighty-
million-dollar gift, raised the standard
of living for members of American en-
sembles, bestowed orchestras with perma-
nent endowments, and forced them to
develop robust new fund-raising mech-
anisms. This contribution by the Ford
Foundation made orchestral music a vi-
able career for many young musicians,
dwarfing the 1966 budget of the newly
formed National Endowment for the
Arts, which was less than three million
dollars. As with the arts in the sixties,
income inequality today is an issue that
individuals and institutions in the United
States and abroad have struggled to im-
prove. There’s reason to be optimistic
that the Ford Foundation will be able to
create change where others have failed.
Ben Negley
San Jose, Calif.
In her informative article, MacFarquhar
discusses what large foundations like the
Ford do with the money they spend. It’s
crucial that all such foundations also be
held accountable for how the substantial
resources under their control are invested.
Money invested in very profitable but so-
cially harmful industries—oil, tobacco,
alcohol, and gambling, for example—can
undo the good accomplished by the
money earned from those investments.
Sudhir Jain
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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TEMPERANCE VS. PROHIBITION
Kelefa Sanneh’s article on Lisa McGirr’s
new history of Prohibition, “The War
on Alcohol” (“Drunk with Power,” De-
cember 21st & 28th), raises interesting
questions about the relationship be-
tween federal action and behavioral re-
form. However, there is an important
distinction between the temperance
movement and the efforts to secure legal
Prohibition. These very different social
and political groups were merged in the
historical consciousness only after the
repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment,
when anyone who was anti-alcohol was
considered a proponent of a repressive
and intrusive government. Temperance
had a broader reach than Prohibition,
and many advocates of temperance
opposed Prohibition, viewing alcohol
consumption not as an individual
failure of will or of morality but as a
symptom of inequality and of social and
political corruption. Many Socialists
and trade unionists advocated temper-
ance because alcoholism interfered with
workers’ efforts at social change. If we are
going to compare the problems associ-
ated with alcohol, and its prohibition,
with current debates about drug laws,
we should recognize that our options are
not only laissez-faire decriminalization
or authoritarian intrusiveness. Social
transformations can ameliorate the cri-
ses of poverty and racism, lessening the
need for self-medication on the part of
the poor and removing the justifications
that have led to a crisis of mass, racial-
ized incarceration.
Paul C. Mishler
South Bend, Ind.
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