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New York is Dead. Long live New York. SECTIONS Last Updated: May 15, 2021, 10:44 PM IST Share Synopsis “It’s completely dead,” self-help author and provocateur James Altucher said in his blog essay “New York Is Dead Forever … Here’s Why” that was endlessly dissected, and mocked, last summer. Reuters “Businesses are remote and they aren’t returning to the office,” he wrote. “And it’s a death spiral.” “It’s a ghost town,” former President Donald Trump said of New York City last fall during a debate with Joe Biden. “It’s dying. Everyone’s leaving New York.�...

Libraries Are Essential Opening Remarks, with Cohosts Andrew Richard Albanese and Sari Feldman PW senior writer Andrew Richard Albanese leads the magazine’s library coverage. Albanese has covered the publishing and information technology fields for more than 21 years and is a former associate editor of American history at Oxford University Press, a former editor at Library Journal, and author of The Battle of $9.99: How Apple, Amazon and the Big Six Publishers Changed the E-book Business Overnight. PW columnist Sari Feldman is the former executive director of the Cuyahoga County Public ...

Image Libraries across the United States closed because of the coronavirus, moving as many activities and services online as they could.Credit...Lyndon French for The New York Times To the Editor: In “Infrastructure Isn’t Really About Roads. It’s About the Society We Want” (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, April 26), Eric Klinenberg argues that strong public infrastructure — places where communities can gather, learn from one another and grow after over a year of isolation — is the key to our resurgence and renewal, just as it was during the New Deal. We strongly agree, and cite ...

Mr. Appelbaum is a member of the editorial board. In June 1982, President Ronald Reagan delivered a fire-eating speech before the British House of Commons that is best remembered for his prediction that democratic nations would triumph and communism would end up on “the ash heap of history.” The speech also helped to popularize a relatively new English word: infrastructure. Mr. Reagan didn’t predict victory by default. He said the United States would pursue the end of communism by investing in “the infrastructure of democracy.” Almost four decades later, the word is o...

Yves here. Synchronicity strikes! Lambert and I were discussing some of the extreme views expressed in comments yesterday. He attributed it to hysteria in the zeitgeist finally getting to the site. And now we have a theory as to why! It’s a neoliberal infestation. By Marc Schuilenburg, assistant professor at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Originally published at openDemocracy In 1980, hysteria died. That was the year it was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) handbookand ceased to be considered a medical condition. But we need only look ar...