The Conservative Case Against the Boomers

Plus: the GameStop saga; Adam Curtis explains it all; and pellet ice. View in browser | Update your preferences Our Columnists The Conservative Case Against the Boomers For bleakness, scope, and entropic finality, the progressive critique of the generation has nothing on the social-conservative one. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells Our Columnists The GameStop Saga Is Dangerous and All Too Familiar As the Federal Reserve surely knows, the longer that speculative bubbles are allowed to inflate, the bigger the eventual bust, and the more negative fallout there is for the economy as a whole. By John Cassidy Daily Comment What Can Liberalism Learn from the Defeat of Donald Trump? The election of Joe Biden was a vindication of the view that the strength of liberal democracy lies only in the strength of liberal institutions. By Adam Gopnik Letter from the U.K. Adam Curtis Explains It All The British filmmaker’s new series argues that we have given up on the future. By Sam Knight Culture and More Books Lessons of the Cultural Revolution for Our Current Moment The great question of China’s Maoist experiment now looms over the United States: Why did a powerful society suddenly start destroying itself? By Pankaj Mishra Annals of Gastronomy Pellet Ice Is the Good Ice And to know it is to need it. By Helen Rosner The Front Row Two Works by a Great Lebanese Filmmaker on Netflix The civil war in Lebanon and the efforts to reunite the country are brought into sharp emotional focus in Maroun Bagdadi’s films. By Richard Brody Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts How to Break Your Zillow Habit in 2021 As with any other habit, you’ll want to ease into kicking Zillow. It’s not going to happen overnight! By Greg Mania Daily Cartoon Thursday, January 28th By Evan Lian Daily Cartoon Bonus Cartoon By Mark Ulriksen This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To insure delivery, we recommend adding newyorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your contacts, while noting that it is a no-reply address. Please send all newsletter feedback to tnyinbox@newyorker.com. For more from The New Yorker, sign up for our newsletters, shop the store, and sign in to newyorker.com, where subscribers always have unlimited access. Contact us with questions. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.