Special Report
Railing Opinion
Praising the Port Authority Terminal
By Blake GopnikA while back, I got to spend a year reading and writing at the New York Public Library, whose glorious Beaux-Arts pile brightens two full blocks of Fifth Avenue. And every day when the library closed, one of my singular pleasures was to leave that wonderful building and, heading up 41st Street to those same two blocks on Eighth, get a look at another of New Yorks architectural splendors: The Port Authority Bus Terminal.
Benjamin & Bernie Meme: Against Aestheticization
By Ekalan HouIf Donald Trump anchored his political discourse in the nostalgia for an ethnically pure golden age of Jacksonian conquest, the history paintings and sculptures in the Capitol are portals to that mythological pastfictions shoring up fictions.