Sublime

indigenous American attitudes are likely to be far closer to the reader’s own than seventeenth-century European ones.

To destroy the Aquarium and fort on the spur of a base impulse would be a crime against the city, against history, the reformers felt. They determined to prevent it. But they couldn’t. Moses’ possession of unlimited powers over park administrative decisions made it possible for him simply to announce an “administrative decision” on Battery Park and

There will now come what I would expect to be a long period of virtual enslavement. . . . The automobile, television . . . drugs, and now the computer culture, have become not the enlargers of life they were originally seen to be,

it. Unfazed, Wilson used his power as chief executive to segregate the federal government.

In New York, as the city’s control over federal grants decreased, Moses’ increased. It increased partly because of Moses’ bill-drafting genius, and what that genius enabled him to make out of the new post he had obtained from O’Dwyer.

But policy change is an end point, not an origin. The cradle of material change is in our imagination and ideas.

William Ickes,

Amid incidents like these arousing widespread mistrust of the news, NBC News anchor Brian Williams admits that a war story he’s told for twelve years