You will perhaps not be completely shocked to learn the old man could use more money. So, looking to cut back where he can.
The New Yorker doubled the cost of a subscription and he was already about fourteen months behind. Thing came every week, thick and good.
Often impenetrable on an empty stomach. Rather spend his time reading Sports Illustrated and Time, to be honest.
The New Yorker articles can get real real long. You come out smarter but needing a rest to absorb.
Here’s the last paragraph[s] of an piece by Adam Goptnik entitled “A Year Of Donald Trump.”
[O]ur primary obligation may be simply not to blind ourselves to the facts, or to compromise our values in a desperate desire to embrace our fellow-citizens. Any anti-Trumpist movement must consist of the broadest imaginable coalition, but it cannot pretend that what we are having is a normal national debate.
The reason people object, for instance, to the Times running a full page of Trump-defending letters is not that they want to cut off or stifle that debate; it is because the implication that Trumpism is a controversial but acceptable expression of American values WITHIN that debate is in itself a betrayal of those values.
Liberal democracy is good. Authoritarian nationalism is bad.
That’s the premise of the country. It’s the principle that a lot of people died for.
Americans never need to apologize for the continuing absolutism of their belief in it.
And so it has come to this. The old man remembered the words of that prototypical arch-conservative Barry Goldwater.
“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!
“And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!”
Let me remind you.