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Category Archives: New York Times
Jacob Bernstein and the Chronicling of American Elites
Jacob Bernstein (b. August 22, 1978) is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker who writes long-form features for The New York Times. He was born in New York City, the elder son of the investigative journalist Carl Bernstein (b. 1944) … Continue reading
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The Cover Story: Joseph Kahn and Independence as Sacred Value
David Pinsof writes: 10. Status game collapse. When players of a status game gain common knowledge that they’re playing a status game. They suddenly see each other as vain, insecure, or self-absorbed, which sends them scrambling to play a different … Continue reading
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The Man Without Appetite: Joseph Kahn Through Anti-Status
David Pinsof’s status concepts begin with an ordinary observation and end somewhere cold. We compete, all the time, to be smarter, cooler, braver, kinder, more virtuous than the people near us, and the competition runs as a game with points … Continue reading
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Seeing Like the Times: Joseph Kahn’s Newsroom Through James C. Scott
James C. Scott (1936-2024) published Seeing Like a State in 1998 and opened it with a forest. Eighteenth-century German foresters, needing timber yields the crown could count, replaced the chaotic old-growth woods with a scientific forest: Norway spruce in straight … Continue reading
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The Editor’s Two Bodies: Joseph Kahn Through Ernst Kantorowicz
Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963) published The King’s Two Bodies in 1957, a study in what he called medieval political theology. The Tudor jurists he quotes, Edmund Plowden (1518-1585) foremost, held that the king possesses two bodies. The body natural is mortal … Continue reading
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The Fifth Generation: The Sulzbergers and Joseph Kahn Through Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) built the Muqaddimah around one engine, asabiyyah, the group feeling that binds men into a force capable of taking and holding power. Asabiyyah is born in the desert, in hardship and scarcity, where survival requires absolute mutual … Continue reading
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The Cathedral and the Gift Shop: Joseph Kahn’s Times Through Jane Jacobs’s Systems of Survival
Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) published Systems of Survival in 1992, a Platonic dialogue hiding a hard thesis. Human livelihoods divide into two kinds, taking and trading, and each kind has evolved its own complete moral system, which she called syndromes. The … Continue reading
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The Steward: Joseph Kahn Through Philip Selznick’s Leadership in Administration
Philip Selznick (1919-2010) published Leadership in Administration in 1957, a short book built on one distinction. An organization is a technical instrument, a tool for doing a job, expendable the moment a better tool appears. An institution is something else. … Continue reading
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Blocked Exits: Joseph Kahn’s Times Through Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
Albert Hirschman (1915-2012) published Exit, Voice, and Loyalty in 1970, and the book’s machinery fits in a paragraph. When an organization deteriorates, its members and customers have two recuperative responses. They can exit, taking their business or their labor elsewhere, … Continue reading
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The Crown and the Premier: Joseph Kahn’s Times Through Walter Bagehot’s English Constitution
Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) published The English Constitution in 1867 to explain why the textbook account of British government was wrong. The textbooks described a balance of Crown, Lords, and Commons. Bagehot said the working constitution divided along a different line, … Continue reading
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