The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.
The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known. - David Remnick
The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.
- David Remnick
Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinctio… - David Remnick
Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinctio…
A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. … - David Remnick
A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. …
I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power,… - David Remnick
I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power,…
Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to… - David Remnick
Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to…
I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot. - David Remnick
I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot.
I know from my conversations with people in the administration that every world leader that Obama met in Berlin, in Peru, in Athens was extremely ala… - David Remnick
I know from my conversations with people in the administration that every world leader that Obama met in Berlin, in Peru, in Athens was extremely ala…
Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president. - David Remnick
Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president.
Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy - a complicated joy, but a … - David Remnick
Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy - a complicated joy, but a …
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