1. Jonathan Franzen? There's a common reaction (especially on twitter) to Franzen which is basically "Franzen? Fuck that guy!" This is understandable but, I think, wrong. There's good reason for trying to engage with Franzen, even at his worst.
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6. Franzen's brand of liberalism has diminishing appeal but it does persist among a certain strand of that upper-middle-class that has disproportionate cultural power, hence it needs to be argued with. As I try to do here: https://www.thenation.com/article/climate-change-jonathan-franzen/ …
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This all sounds accurate but I still fail to see how it's a bad thing.
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Brilliant critique that still stands. This better articulates my intuitive disinterest in ‘The New Yorker’ than I ever have.
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Yikes. I must expand my reading list. Is the New York Call still extant?
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That's spot on and savage.
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E.B. White also spoke out strongly against isolationism in the early years of WWII, pretty much the opposite of small town tree-hugging.
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