Adam Gopnik
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If Trump came to power, there is a decent chance that the American experiment would be over.
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Written with love to a friend and hero of us all.
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The country is now divided among those who want the killings to stop and those who don’t. Which side are you on?
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I'm very pleased that Basic is publishing this, my first political book. I've tried to articulate some principles as calmly as I'm able, in the obvious light of the ongoing national emergency.
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There is no music in this man.
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Donald Trump's lies, and his urge to tell them, are pure Big Brother crude, however oafish their articulation:
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Trump's platform is resentment and his program is revenge. This is fascism with an American face.
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You cannot spit in the plates and then demand your dinner. The best way to receive civility at night is to not assault it all day long. It’s the simple wisdom of the table.
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Terror Strikes in Paris via adamgopnik
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This is what we celebrate today, or ought to: the command of argument and evidence; the moral confidence that turns anger into eloquence; the readiness to answer ridiculous question with the rational truth of history.Rage alchemized by purpose into reason.
#MartinLutherKing
This is one of the better examples of how he actually spoke. You get the language of the pulpit but also the coolness of the pastor in the front room, the teacher and politician. It is what used to be called rhetoric.
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I almost never do this, but before sharing my own BBC broadcast, I wanted to re-tweet this from...Arnold. I found it deeply moving and right, and he, with the lived experience to do it, does not hesitate to draw the analogies to the German-Austrian thirties...
My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week's attack on the Capitol.
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A perfect night out in Montreal. Father-son reunion. Habs victory in overtime. Sandwich afterwards at Schwartz's. Happiness.
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Above all, he was a representative—the perfect representative—of a certain kind of Canadianness. On Gordie Howe:
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Indeed. But no one before had thought to wonder what would happen if you combined the belligerence of Moe, the opacity of Curly, and the dim-witted self-confidence of Larry in one composite stooge. Now ,we know.
Balcony scene in Three Stooges film 80 years ago this year:
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This is the saddest post I’ve ever posted, or tweet I’ve tweeted. Our beautiful dog Butterscotch, who Olivia brought into our lives thirteen years ago, passed away this morning in New York.
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"The gun lobby, and the Republican Party it controls, have accepted as a matter of necessity the ongoing deaths of hundreds of children as the price that they are prepared to pay for the fetishization of weapons."
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Connection, even connection in pain and dismay, is the one balm of trauma of any kind:
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Voting against Donald Trump is an act of allegiance to America.
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Our politics have altered so much that the stories we tell about them can’t keep up:
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Did the Oscars Just Prove That We Are Living in a Computer Simulation?
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This is what American eloquence sounds like, what American liberalism ought to be.
‘I can think of nothing more American.’ — Beto O'Rourke — the man taking on Ted Cruz — brilliantly explains why NFL players kneeling during the anthem is not disrespectful
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With Trump, it is perfectly clear that he only has a series of episodic wounds and reactions—it’s all fears and fits:
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Biden wins on Camus' birthday ...reminding us of some permanent truths. Avoid abstraction and Utopian fantasy; love particulars and see the world person by person ; accept tragedy; know that every city is vulnerable to the plague; keep pushing your stone.
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Right now is a nice time to be Canadian.
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No one can ever eliminate violence in a modern society. But we can make it rare and difficult.
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This is a beautifully simple, lucid and funny recap of the entire impeachment indictment of Trump. In two minutes,too. If the Democrats were smart, they'd make sure every American saw it.
#aredemocratssmart
?
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I see several people re-posting this Comment of mine from almost five years ago so I'll do so myself. Not in an I-told-you-so spirit (though, actually, some of us did tell you so.) But aa a lets-take-more-care-now warning.
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It is 4:04 AM and I am lying in bed doing exactly the same thing. Laughing helplessly and trying to define why it's so profoundly perfect, and then laughing, more.
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Michael is the superior conversationalist of the CBC-- or anywhere. I've loved talking to him over many years, and feel proud to be in this dense, distinguished crowd of Canadians in his farewell to Sunday.
For Michael’s final day as host
@CBCSunday
, guests include Robert Harris,
@ProfPRogers
@cblackst
@MargaretAtwood
@adamgopnik
@cafreeland
@MichaelCrummey
, R H Thomson, Esi Edugyan, Beverley MacLachlin and Stephen Lewis…and more
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Heard
@PeteButtigieg
speak last night. Damned if he isn't just as impressive as people say: people-smart and policy-smart and funny and eloquent and can cite Joyce without reaching. 24 year old Luke even more impressed. The Harry Potter for our Voldemort? Ah! Hope.
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Snowball
#1
, "There is doubt about whether national gun control can actually limit gun violence." No, there isn't:
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Reposting my essay on Frederick Douglass, "the greatest figure that America has ever produced", on this, the day he wittily chose to celebrate his birthday.
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Why We All Dream of the Mediterranean:
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A few blocks from where all the Gopnik sibs were born. Everyone dancing. Bless Philadelphia. (Except maybe the Flyers. Converted to Habs in Canada;)
West Philly reacts to Biden’s lead in Pennsylvania by dancing in the street, of course
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"As a matter of both morals and practice, you do not change bad beliefs best by placating those who hold them. You change them by refusing to placate those who hold them."
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On (perhaps) the greatest figure America has ever produced.
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The French team, now the finest in the world’s most popular sport, is entirely dependent for its greatness on immigration, on the extraordinary things that only a cosmopolitan civilization can achieve.
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A long fight for freedom, with too many losses along the way, can be sustained only by a rich and complicated culture. Resilience and resistance are the same activity, seen at different moments in the struggle.
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Let us hear no more of norms:
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The loss of a pet is the most private of griefs, since we know in advance that no one else can quite understand its dimensions - even though so many of us must sooner or later experience it. As Issa,the Japanese poet, said: The world of dew is a world of dew, and yet...and yet.
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Kavanaugh is an instrument of Trumpism, an insurance policy that the con man is writing for himself.
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One of my pet pieces, about my daughter's imaginary friend, a busy man of the New York streets. His inventor, my Olivia, is now, like all adult children, MY imaginary friend -- too rarely in my sight, always on my mind.
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John was killed thirty eight years ago today on a warm New York night. And is ever more alive.
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When I saw the London revue "Side By Side By Sondheim" in 1977, it changed my life. His art goes on changing it. Herewith, some memories, a few criticky scruples, a curtain call of gratitude for his existence.
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On the road again soon with a new book. Hope to see you there!
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I was very proud to be asked to sign this essential statement, and prouder to see it now published.
History has its eyes on you.
🚨 1500+ historians 🚨have now signed the statement asserting that
@realDonaldTrump
's abuse of power “constitutes a clear and present danger to the Constitution.”
#NotAboveTheLaw
#twitterstorians
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An elegy -- or should that be eulogy? He would have known -to my friend and much-missed master, Clive James. Here, together on a memorable Cambridge afternoon.
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The finest Habs victory in a decade -- and one of the sweetest in fifty five years of fandom.
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Old Jewish Men are the best Jewish men. Glad to share the Carl Reiner Award.
@CLeibowicz
@groopman
@OliverSacks
@adamgopnik
@NYTimesCohen
@JonathanSarna
@nytdavidbrooks
@NLebrecht
@Yair_Rosenberg
honoured to be in the Ancient Company of Alte Totterers Claire
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A conversation with Barenboim: "Go listen to Rachmaninoff on YouTube!"
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Between the authority that the texts sought (and, for us moderns, can no longer claim) and the anarchy that their refutation supposedly invites lies the practice of literary argument.
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Talking with
@kristatippett
@onbeing
about parenting, the arts, and Darwin, "Practicing Doubt, Redrawing Faith":
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A new comment , written for my family and friends back home in Canada, about the crisis in America. Perhaps nothing too new, but I was glad to say it again, and tried to say it simply, or at least directly.
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That's not a 'dangerous hit' . That's a deliberate attempt to injure and end someone's career. In any other sport on the planet, that would result in at least a year's suspension. But this is Bettman's NHL, so...
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Classical artists are rare these days, in any field; when one passes, the world’s store of strong form diminishes, and our plates seem pale.
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What we see we long for; what we hear we interpret; what we touch we are.
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It's a book mostly about people, explaining why liberalism is a fact-first principle with a feelings-first history. Pre-order link here:
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I had no memory of writing this, or of why or when (post election '16 , I discovered )but I'm glad I did. Still so.
"If we struggle to emphasize to our children the necessities of community, ongoing life, daily pleasures, and shared enterprises, although we may not defeat the ogres of history, we can hope to remain who we are in their face."
-Adam Gopnik (
@adamgopnik
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At moments of enormous and historic loss, one seeks, perhaps foolishly or with false reassurance, for some sense of continuity, including the continuities of disaster and renewal.
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New York will break your heart. After forty five years on Madison Avenue at 84th, the New Amity coffee shop suddenly closes, robbing the Upper East Side of one more much needed hearth for the heart. Not having even said goodbye to the fine owner and sweet staff, we do now.
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So sad to hear about the death of Marty Balin. I always thought that this was one of the most beautiful and too-easily forgotten of Sixties ballads. Remember listening to it in '68, at Jan's house, us twelve and dreaming of losses not yet known.
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Now awaiting the trump tweet, where Harris is inevitably placed in the “nasty” rather than the “ugly” category within trump’s two ways of understanding women”
If elected, Sen. Harris would be the nation’s first female, first Black and first Asian American vice president.
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European cultures that had always drunk beer instead of unsafe water were liberated from their own stupor by the rise of caffeinated brews.
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Here, for the Fourth, is my essay on the greatest of Americans, Frederick Douglass, with an appreciation of what he had to say-- on the whole with shining ameliorative optimism -- about the meaning of the day.
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Deincarcerating our society may, in the end, involve making harder, and more foundational, moral choices than we quite care to know.
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And here's the book, today in paperback, where I try to delineate, if not define -- its openness to evolving definition is part of its resilience -- the spirit of liberalism, called in France more often 'republicanism,' but a fragile practice shared between our countries.
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Small respite from the anxieties ; just saw that this
@nytimes
review of mine about the wonderful Ludwig Bemelmans and his less known imagery of New York is on line. (Less known than his imagery of Paris, I mean.) A minor master, perhaps, but a master.
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I want to repost this, from seven years ago, for obvious and infuriating reasons:
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Okay then, he will. But no "I told you so". Just a "Let all decent people work day and night to do what we must and save what we can before it's too late."
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What the new science of touch says about ourselves.
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This might be a good year to start selling T-shirts with a picture of this modest man, and the word “Clem!” upon them:
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It is overwhelmingly clear that the majority of Americans want to move away from the misread Second Amendment madness toward comprehensive gun sanity—and just as clear that no national political path forward can be found right now.
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I'm reposting this piece from 2012 (!) , because I wish it had dated, and it hasn't. More guns mean more gun violence. It's simple.
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"'The time has come,' the Walrus said, 'To talk of many things...'" on the Annotated Alice:
http://t.co/i3kvaCCMvt
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Heartbroken to hear of the loss of Terry Teachout, a fine critic with terrific taste, whose play ,"Satchmo At The Waldorf", written for the great John Douglas Thompson, is one of the finest studies of the struggles of American music we possess.
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I'm so pleased to have this out in paperback. All of my short essays from the BBC Radio 4 series POV. Ten minutes to tell a story and point a point --the form I may love most of all
Happy pub day to
@adamgopnik
! In Mid-Air is now available in paperback... pick up this witty, illuminating collection of essays on life, art and family from your local bookshop! 📚
@riverrunbooks
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So delighted to share this with the world -- the cast album from a live concert, of my show with David Shire ,"Our Table", about the perpetual struggle for love and meaning in Manhattan. A story about food, family and anarchist pizza. More to share soon.
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Not a day when he won't be missed, by the magazine, his family and his friends.
Bruce McCall was “very nearly unique among artists and writers of his quality,” Adam Gopnik writes. A sharp satirist in his creative work, McCall was “a perfect Canadian” in life: self-deprecating to a hilarious degree. Read about the late artist’s life:
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Bill Yosses,the Obama White House pastry chef, and a hero of my book, "The Table Comes First", surprises with his own new place in NY, on the E.61st St. premises of the long-lost Le Lavandou. Called ... Palais! Wonderful food; perfect pastry.
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This is what used to be called ,quaintly, responsible government in action, and about the only cheering moment in the past few days. Thank God for Katie Porter (and , last night on MSNBC, Adam Schiff.)
I did the math: a full battery of coronavirus testing costs at minimum $1,331.
I also did the legal research: the Administration has the authority to make testing free for every American TODAY.
I secured a commitment from a high-level Trump official that they’d actually do it.
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@EricIdle
thank you for reading it. Your work has meant more to me over the years than I can tell you.
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This is a.) the best thing you'll hear all day and b.) a sort of oblique preview of our very French-forties FIAF return engagement this Thursday at seven, with the sublime
@melissa_errico
and the magical Tedd Firth , which may just feature this song.
Remembering Django Reinhardt, born on this day in 1910 in Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Belgium. Here he is with violinist Stéphane Grappelli and their band the Quintette du Hot Club de France performing "J'Attendrai" in 1938.
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Forgot this line! Peanuts is profound. We all live in between, especially when we're living apart.
“Sometimes I get so lonely I can hardly stand it...other times I actually long to be completely alone.”
“Try to live in between,” Lucy tells him, quickly adding, “Five cents, please.”
- The Peanuts Papers; Adam Gopnik
#writerlife
#writing
#WritingCommunity
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Thrilled that "At the Strangers' Gate" is a NYTimes Book Review's Editors' Choice:
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The Aaron Burr-Alexander Hamilton rivalry haunted the imagination of N.Y.C. long before Lin-Manuel Miranda got to it
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On stage with Meg Wolitzer just now at SF City Arts & Lectures. The funnest night ever.
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I wrote about Butterscotch at length in The New Yorker because nothing had prepared us for the transformation a dog could affect in a settled life...
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I'm so pleased that this is out now in the U.K. So many of the episodes and heroes and heroines -- George Eliot, Harriet Taylor -- are British, and defending the tradition of Mill seems essential in Mill's own land.
Congrats to
@adamgopnik
for the paperback publication of A Thousand Small Sanities! The NYT bestselling author offers a stirring defence of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time.
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"Cities change. It is their nature...Cities that change entirely, though, cease to be themselves."
http://t.co/Cr0tbKGJMz
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