Balaji Srinivasan's cri de cœur is not without validity. But when one looks back over American history, it will be seen that times of trouble have been frequent—indeed, the rule rather than the exception. Take crime. The present moment reminds me of nothing so much as the Seventies, the decade that spawned the film "Death Wish." I rewatc…
Balaji Srinivasan's cri de cœur is not without validity. But when one looks back over American history, it will be seen that times of trouble have been frequent—indeed, the rule rather than the exception. Take crime. The present moment reminds me of nothing so much as the Seventies, the decade that spawned the film "Death Wish." I rewatched it recently and I must say, it hasn't lost—or perhaps it has regained—its relevance.
In her latest TGIF, Nelly Bowles included a tribute to the recently deceased Joan Didion, a writer I greatly admire, She too chronicled the End Times, i.e. the Long Sixties, yet here we still are. One need not be a Pollyanna to suspect that predictions of doom are usually overblown.
Balaji Srinivasan's cri de cœur is not without validity. But when one looks back over American history, it will be seen that times of trouble have been frequent—indeed, the rule rather than the exception. Take crime. The present moment reminds me of nothing so much as the Seventies, the decade that spawned the film "Death Wish." I rewatched it recently and I must say, it hasn't lost—or perhaps it has regained—its relevance.
In her latest TGIF, Nelly Bowles included a tribute to the recently deceased Joan Didion, a writer I greatly admire, She too chronicled the End Times, i.e. the Long Sixties, yet here we still are. One need not be a Pollyanna to suspect that predictions of doom are usually overblown.