There's nothing wrong with creating jobs. What's wrong is to seed the illusion that you will magically bring back the economy of 1970, that you will reopen coal mines.
David RemnickEvery 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 extinction.
David RemnickI am an adult; deliberately naïve, dewy-eyed optimism is not the proper posture for a responsible adult, is it?
David Remnick