I Actually Have Great Hopes

Journalism, Some Huge Percentage Of It, Should Be Devoted To Putting Pressure On Power, On Nonsense, On Chicanery Of All Kinds And If That's Going To Invite A Lawsuit, Well, Bring It On.

The Only Reason The Word "brand" Gets A Little Tiresome Is That Something That Is Complex And Wonderful And Deep Begins To Sound Like A Can Of Tomato Soup. I Recoil At That, But I'm Used To It. I Know What It Means: It Means That The New Yorker Is Not Merely The Magazine That Comes Out In Print Once A Week. It's The Web Site, It's The Festival, It's Our Mobile Application - All These Things - And What They Stand For And What They Mean.

You Are Losing Because Blacks Are Getting Their Civil Rights In The Cities.

I Left Gorbachev's Office Thinking That Everything About Him Was Outsized: His Achievements, His Mistakes, And, Now, His Vanity And Bitterness.

I'm Not The Slowest Writer That You Know.