Issue 5/16 - 5/29/16 - New York Magazine (2024)

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In the Apr. 15–28 issue: Olivia Nuzzi on “wonder boy” Pete Buttigieg. Plus: Art & Design, by Wendy Goodman; the half-billion dollar “Leonardo”; Natasha Lyonne, Annette Bening, and more.

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IN THIS ISSUEWhat We WoreOur sixth annual “Yesteryear” issue looks at decades of dressing in New York, including the evolution of women’s workwear, our worship of the color black, and many clothes that became memories: Bette Midler on her 1960s go-go boots, Gisele’ favorite earring, and the jacket that made Robert Longo feel like a superman. PLUS: Cathy Horyn salutes Nan Kempner, Linda Wells recalls running into Diana Vreeland, and Rembert Browne remembers seeing Puff Daddy as an angel.…1 min

IN THIS ISSUEComments1 “Democracies End When They Are Too Democratic,” reads the headline of Andrew Sullivan’s cover story on the threat of an overripe republic (May 2–15). "And right now, America is a breeding ground for tyranny." The story, published days before Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, received a massive response—and a wave of strong opinions on Sullivan’s central argument. The Week’ Damon Linker wrote that it was time for our country to "start thinking deeply about just how much danger [we’re now] facing … Sullivan makes a cogent case for considering Trump a potential tyrant whose election could constitute an ‘extinction-level event’ for the American republic." Linker himself, though, doesn’t think that a President Trump would be quite that catastrophic. "Trump isn’t Hitler or Mussolini. But he could…4 min

INTELLIGENCERThe National Interest: Jonathan ChaitHILLARY CLINTON’S CAMPAIGN has been attached by an invisible cord to Bill Clinton’s presidency. At times, the connection has weighed her down; at other times, it has propelled her forward. The parallel makes sense for all the obvious reasons (marriage, shared ideology, Hillary’s active participation in Bill’s political life, etc.). But Bill governed at a different historical moment than the one in which Hillary hopes to, and the circ*mstances she faces may instead call to mind a different parallel: Harry Truman.Few presidents ever ascended to their positions in circ*mstances as deflating as those Truman faced. In 1944, President Franklin Roosevelt, fearing he would not survive his term, agreed to replace his left-wing vice-president, Henry Wallace. He settled haphazardly on Truman, a little-known senator from Missouri, mainly because Truman offended none…6 min

INTELLIGENCERLife in Pictures: Ben WhishawSINCE JANUARY, British actor Ben Whishaw has spent most days on West 48th Street, railing against a group of seemingly possessed young girls: He’s playing John Proctor in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. The rest of the time, Whishaw (who also stars in this month’s The Lobster) leads a relatively quotidian New York existence: trips to CVS and the local bookshop with his partner, composer Mark Bradshaw. "It’s only fractionally quieter than Hackney, where we live in London," Whishaw says of the construction that plagues his West Village neighborhood. "They seem to have been digging up the road outside the apartment since we arrived."AGE: 35FOLLOWED ON: Friday, May 610:50 pm I wear a lot of makeup in the final act, which, despite my best efforts at scrubbing it off each night,…3 min

INTELLIGENCER186 MINUTES WITH … Radhanath SwamiThese days, the airport chanting has been curtailed — hard to say what the TSA would think of that, anyway.IT’S EARLY SATURDAY evening at the Rubin Museum of Art, located around the corner from Barneys New York in Chelsea. Every seat in the sleek basem*nt theater is filled by an earnest crowd of limber New Yorkers, many tattooed and top-knotted, wrists heavy with looping strands of wooden beads. They are gathered for a talk by Radhanath Swami, who has been for 20 years the head of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, better known as the Hare Krishna, that Age of Aquarius enlightenment craze with the cultish vibe, which has grown up and successfully adapted itself to our Age of Lululemon. Tonight, Radhanath, who is in town for the summer…6 min

Issue 5/16 - 5/29/16 - New York Magazine (2024)

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