Tuesday, August 10, 2010

A Goodbye to The Times

Joseph Epstein, one of the nation's greatest essayists, has canceled his subscription to The New York Times. An excerpt:

I could go on about the artificial rage of Frank Rich—the liberals’ Glenn Beck—or the forced gaiety of “Sunday Styles,” but the main feeling I have as I rise from having wasted an hour or so with the Sunday New York Times is of what wretched shape the country is in if it is engaged in such boringly trivial pursuits, elevating to eminence such dim cultural and political figures, writing so muddledly about ostensibly significant subjects.

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