Never Yet Melted

Tag: Urbanism

  • Eloquent Poster

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    A reader sent Steve Bodio this picture with the title: “Why City People Shouldn’t Move to the Country.” —————————— I see this, and think immediately: “California!” —————————— Hat tip to Karen K. Myers.

  • Karl Rove Debuts in Newsweek

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    Newsweek recently signed up Karl Rove to editorialize from the Right, and none other than Kos (Markos Moulitsas Zúniga) himself to be Rove’s foil acting as spokesman for the Infernal Regions. Karl Rove’s first column, How To Beat Hillary, is up and running. And, so far, all’s quiet on Kos front. I’ve seen up close…

  • Things Have Gotten Worse

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    Lewis Mumford on The Plight of the Prosperous in the New Yorker, March 4, 1950. I sometimes wonder what self-hypnosis has led the well-to-do citizens of New York, for the last seventy-five years, to accept the quarters that are offered them with the idea that they are doing well by themselves. Apparently those of them…

  • London, Greatest City in the World

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    But it is infested with the same left-wing supercilious elite as all the other great cities are, Gerard Baker tells us. New York City, eat your heart out! For someone who has not lived in the city for more than a decade, the occasional trip to London is a reminder of how richly it deserves…