The New Yorker s Cavalcade of Ignorance – Tablet Magazine
The New Yorker symposium offers a few not-so-veiled hints at what the next four years could be like and how the readers and writers of the magazine and their middlebrow Ivy-educated ilk are likely to experience them. The second Trump presidency will be a period of further estrangement and mutual scorn between the increasingly self-isolating enclaves of dying authority and a broader society that it is even less interested in knowing anything about. Maybe this is a good thing. Perhaps the higher levels of the American media complex, masquerading in the clothing of a different century, should embrace their essentially patrician urges and accept their permanent bafflement at the inscrutable, inexplicable passions of the American polity, thus exempting themselves from any deep concern about what the rest of us are up to.
And worse, it seems you cannot delete the New Yorker from your inbox. Well, you can demote it to spam, cancel your subscription, whatever, and it still turns up there next week. Outrageous.