The unthinkable destruction of Katrina continues to astonish all . . . except for New York magazine "It Happened This Week" columnist Jim Holt, who has done the world the dubious service of hitting what's known as the Gopnik mark, ie., reducing horrible human tragedy to the stuff of tedious, nay, juvenile, pseudocosmopolitan self-infatuation:
It Happened in a Witless Bubble of Privilege
It Happened in a Witless Bubble of Privilege
It Happened in a Witless Bubble of Privilege
The unthinkable destruction of Katrina continues to astonish all . . . except for New York magazine "It Happened This Week" columnist Jim Holt, who has done the world the dubious service of hitting what's known as the Gopnik mark, ie., reducing horrible human tragedy to the stuff of tedious, nay, juvenile, pseudocosmopolitan self-infatuation: