Leijia Hanrahan

Why was such an inhospitable environment selected for a major athletic event in the first place? The answer is pretty straightforward: they bought it.

New York’s new observatories offer an exalted vision of the self. It’s an ugly image.

Blair Kamin’s “activism” is carefully modulated and deeply liberal in that it wants to preserve the status quo—in this case, a beautiful city skyline.