I Have To Always Remember, Writing Is

The Internet Is Very Democratizing In Some Ways, But It Also Has Other Effects.

There Are Systemic, Painful Problems Of Globalization And De-industrialization That Cannot Be Solved With A Phone Call Or A Tweet Or An Angry Speech Or Trying To Isolate The Press And The First Amendment. Sooner Or Later, The Donald Trump Show, Which Is A Projection Of Strength And Authority, Will Have To Deliver To His Voters. And If He Doesn't, In Very Real Terms, If He Can't Supersede A Situation Where A President Cut The Unemployment Rate In Half, If He Can't Do Better, If He Can't Open Factories And All The Rest That He's Promised, Then I Think He's In Trouble.

The Future Is Itself A Story, And Predictions Are Stories We Tell To Amaze Ourselves, To Give Hope To The Desperate, To Jolt The Complacent.

My Deep Sense Of Alarm Has To Do With Donald Trump's Seeming Lack Of Fealty To Constitutionalism.

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.