Narrator: George Packer; Length: 19 hours 46 minutes; Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. The conversation made clear how inconsistent benefits and pay were among writers, and many left angry at Cond Nast over the opaque and uneven system. (The contents of the writers group messages were shared with me on the condition I only quote people by name with their permission. His latest book, Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal was released in June 2021. But the other chunk of the story is how much Gutekunst wants to see more of Love in the regular season. Betrayed started with a simple feelingdismay and anger at the news that Iraqis I knew were being abandoned to their fate. I think its exactly the right one. Mr. Remnick reports directly to Cond Nasts chief executive. I try not to use it for books more than I have to, he said, because I see a real value in walking into a bookstore and seeing things jump off the shelves.. But politically, if that is its messageif identity is its messageI think its going to be an uphill battle. But they were also suspicious of the NewsGuild, and began a parallel set of meetings with its rival, the Writers Guild of America, East. But no writers turned up at a protest outside Cond Nast headquarters on May Day, and none appeared to be present at a march outside the home of Cond Nasts global chief content officer, Anna Wintour, on June 8. And one of them is national service. His article looks at the public face of Amazon as publisher, as warehouse manager, as e-reader innovator and as the apparent victor in the Department of Justice lawsuit that charged Apple and publishers with collusion. The Depression that ended Fitzgeralds Jazz Age yielded to a new order that might be called the Roosevelt Republic. George Packer's new Atlantic story traces a theme of disappointment with President Joe Biden's failure to live up to his initial ideals as he tracks Biden's shifting views on the long war . THE Roaring '20s was the decade when modern celebrity . The Hulu docuseries is a remarkable work, advancing the prestige true-crime genre's slow but steady reorientation toward centering victims. Thats what George Packer asks in this weeks New Yorker, in a long article that looks at the online retailer as disruptor. His decency, his dignity, his ability to explain what democracy isIm not sure well ever see that again. Remember the slogan when Obama first ran? I think there are two questions. We use first names with strangers. Obama was more candid. And its also becoming more illiberal. . November 2, 2022. ranges across the country to chronicle the time when "the coil that held Americans together in its secure and sometimes stifling grip first gave way." "I am the empire at the end of the decadence." Thus said the French poet Mallarm. George Packer. The companys lawyers werent happy either, with the name at least, compelling the project to be called the Small Publisher Negotiation Program., Packer also included a suggestion from super-agent Andrew Wylie that publishers stop selling their books to Amazon altogether. Its the first time since Free America emerged, in the nineteen-eighties, that weve had a serious new political project as ambitious as thatof simply improving peoples lives in jobs, in working conditions, giving labor more power, breaking up monopolies, providing health care. Maybe publishers need to think disruptively and not be victims., Maybe, he added, they should think a little more like predators., [For the Record, 1:15 p.m. PST Feb. 10: An earlier version of this post misquoted author George Packer as saying, Maybe publishers need to think destructively and not be victims. He used the word disruptively, not destructively.], Join Carolyn Kellogg on Twitter, Facebook and Google+. As I read your article, I got a sickening feeling that we have been here before. Not since the Berlin Wall fell has the world been cleaved so deeply by the kind of conflict that John F. Kennedy called a long, twilight struggle.. They might even be repelled by it. They sat in a big circle and, like the millennials only a few of them are, shared details of their own compensation arrangements. But that is precisely the problem: Packer - I believe, and please correct me if I am wrong - has no training in North Africa's history and politics and I don't think he has spent much time there except for these quick hit trips for the long New Yorker piece (again, please correct me if I am wrong). It is a new aristocracy of credentials, and people are born into it. But it preceded him. Gili Ostfield, a production employee and union member, pointedly told HuffPost last week that if The New Yorker tries to print a diminished magazine without striking employees, it will be a stain on David Remnicks reputation.. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. in 2015 and has continued apace. A United Parcel Service driver delivers packages from Amazon.com in Palo Alto. Bitter political fights between the parties in the nineties, all kinds of scandals and impeachment. That is Bidens project. But she also said the NewsGuild believed the writers were misclassified as contractors, when they were really akin to full-time employees, and she laid out a path for them to join the union. 467 pp. Nationalism is a word I avoid as a positive. Patriotism, to me, is closer to what Im trying to describe because its like loyalty. While the union won headlines by marching to Ms. Wintours house, which was guarded, disappointingly, by two low-key men in shapeless cotton shirts, Ms. Wintour has no real involvement in The New Yorker. But the support Mr. Remnick retains among the signature writers is deep. In the best tradition of Carlyle and Swift, he spends much of the first half of the book . It doesnt happen in jobs. Ben Rhodes was the Presidents speechwriter, foreign-policy adviser, and confidant. Politicians are always letting the public off the hookit might be the most unforgivably dishonest thing they do. None of them are original, and a lot of them are long shots. George Packer. You have to be very high up to know about it, he said. But I felt that in the last few years, politically and culturally, things have happened that showed that there are divisions within, as well as between, those two big blocks of Americans. What I hear when I travel these days is hostility not just toward the U.S. government but toward the country and its people. Why ISIS Murdered Kenji Goto. Join our community book club. A recent essay in the Atlantic by George Packer, author of the 2013 book Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, makes the case that America is, in fact, a failed state. Anyone can read what you share. To me, its a kind of reparations, and a necessary one. Its more like a bunch of instincts and prejudices. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. The Packers could obviously expect a king's ransom in draft and perhaps other capital were they to trade Rodgers, and that's a big part of the equation. I have no hope that Congress or any of the Presidential candidates (and that emphatically includes the Democrats) will bring about a fundamental change in the way the United States defines its global strategy, or the way it projects its interests. If Just America can reform policing, and make our criminal-justice system less barbaric, and close the wealth gap, and close the achievement gap, then Id say all the angst that comes from reading Twitter and the exchange of vitriol that goes on all the time in our culture and in our media will seem trivial. Buy on Bookshop. And one thing thats interesting about both Real America and Just America is the rate of change, how fast theyve come on and how quickly theyve seized a lot of cultural groundat least, a lot of the discourse, if not the institutions of power. And both are in an almost permanent state of conflict, in which the country really isnt progressing. Few journalists are as respected by, and respectable to, liberals as The Atlantic's George Packer. On Saturday afternoon the primary participants of The New Yorker's delightful and addictive "Campaign Trail" podcast collected for a live version of same, sort of like when Monty Python did The Secret Policeman's Other Ball. President Ashraf Ghani is an expert on failed states. In his new book, Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal, George Packer writes that the United States is in a state of disrepair, brought about primarily by the fact that inequality undermined the common faith that Americans need to create a successful multi-everything democracy. The book opens with an essay on the state of the U.S. during the pandemic, and then offers sketches of four different visions of the country: Free America, of Reaganism; Smart America, of Silicon Valley and other professional lites; Real America, of Trumpist reaction; and Just America, of a new generation of leftists. Some of the material in this article is also drawn from reporting on this topic by my colleagues Noam Scheiber and Marc Tracy. New Yorker writer George Packer's 2013 book, "The Unwinding," tells the story of the modern United States through the eyes of a few Americans including Jeff Connaughton, who worked as a . There is no country in the region that wants to absorb Iraqis in a long-term resettlement. Did you get any sense, from the Iraqis you interviewed, of their opinion of an American exit strategy? Interspersed are capsule biographies of influential figures of the time such as Colin Powell, Newt Gingrich, Elizabeth Warren, Jay-Z, and Raymond Carver. 2023 Cond Nast. Is it a failure of leadership? It might require a book to answer. The other thing that I hold some hope in, in lowering the temperature, is simply improving the material conditions of peoples lives through government. And thats Sanders, as well. Theyve agreed on a $55,000 starting salary and are hashing out issues like caps on potential health care cost increases, people familiar with the talks said even as the Guild threatens a strike. Rosa sat so Martin could walk so Obama could run, so we could all fly. It was a really optimistic picture of incremental but inevitable progress. But with Democrats it is harder. But your point is valid, and I think that partly explains the Packers' willingness to continue pushing cap charges into the future with these restructures. The conflict has seized the attention of the industry not just because of the employees glee at holding the brand hostage in public, but also because it highlights big questions facing contemporary media. Union activists tend to be less charitable, and feel hes trying to have it both ways. IN "The Assassins' Gate," his chronicle of the Iraq war, George Packer tells the tale of Drew Erdmann, a young American . What did George Toma say about why the Super Bowl 57 field was so slippery? Its also a gateway into the real money books, movies, speaking gigs or other opportunities in the broadening economic landscape for brand-name writers. And its true. For me, material conditions are where the Democratic Party has to put its focus. Her influences were Brandeis, La Follette, Frances Perkins. Twitter reacts to Kentucky crushing Auburn,Auburn was unable to keep up in the second half. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories, George Packer, a staff writer from 2003 to 2018, has covered the Iraq War for The New Yorker and has also written about the atrocities committed in Sierra Leone, civil unrest in the Ivory Coast, the megacity of Lagos, and the global counterinsurgency. Justin is under the weather, his column will return Wednesday. He has certainly made it clear hes trying. That I have much more skepticism about, because of social media, because of the conservative information environment. Neither idealism nor toughness has withstood the ordeal in Mesopotamia. In addition, he has written two novels, The Half Man and Central Square., 2023 Cond Nast. But I would like to call it Equal America, which is a deep, old American drive to be as good as anyone else, to have no one able to say, Im better than you. Initially, Amazon was going to give Packer access to report about the company from the inside, then things changed. The younger generation of employees is to the left of its elders on issues of substance. Smart America is where I mostly live, but its no longer a meritocracy, if it ever was. The easiest-to-understand element of the dispute involves the wages of the production employees, the group that includes everyone from fact checkers to social media editors. And thats with us all the time, and we have to fight it. I dont blame our fallen reputation entirely on President Bush and his advisers, though. What accounts for the level of incompetence in the American administration of postwar Iraq? Amazon can be difficult to write about -- the company would not confirm to the New Yorker facts as simple as how many employees it has in Seattle or how many Kindles it has sold. He is the author of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, a New York Times bestseller, which won the 2013 National Book Award for non-fiction. George Packer, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow and ASU Future of War Fellow, wrote a book, Our Man, about Richard Holbrooke and American foreign policy.Packer has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2003. Id call that Real America. All rights reserved. His reference points all seem to go back to Roosevelt and Truman and trade unions. Theres an overlap. 3. Or maybe a little less, because the motives of Trump voters are very hard to break down. February 3, 2015. So, for example, in the COVID-relief bill, theres several billion dollars for disadvantaged farmers. At the same time, you may not sell those policies through the frame of specific identities. Interesting facts in his article: When a buyer searches for a book on Amazon.com, the results are partly determined by the fees paid by publishers; publishers pay Amazon a percentage of the profits they make through the online store each year; those percentages have gone up; although publishers may be squeezed by Amazon, they remain dependent on the company for as much as 30% of their sales, a number thats still growing. All of these are public stories that are familiar to those who follow Amazons moves in the publishing world; what Packer does it put them all in one place and make them comprehensible to a general audience. Or, to be more . They also want to live normal lives, and they dont see that happening with an American departure. Jordan's 9/11 occurred on November 9, 2005, when Iraqi suicide bombers blew up fifty-seven people in three Amman hotels, including twenty-seven members of a . But many writers also see what The New Yorker offers as a good deal: a prestigious place to publish that allows them to retain the rights to their work. Syria has been more hospitable, following the Baathist ideology of Arab brotherhood, but even Syria has made it difficult for Iraqis to work, and its open-door policy has begun to close. Can he save his country from collapse? Other material is new. First of all, I agree about Obama. The basic division that I began to see begins with libertarianism, which I call Free America, which is Reagans America. Per the Census survey from last year: White Alone: 45.3% Black Alone: 29.2% . You described Just Americas feelings, or their actions, as a slap in the face of previous generations. Ad Choices. That gets back to the question of whether were trying to make good policy or win elections, right? I have a bunch of ideas at the end of the book. I wonder how much its in the control of, say, one side of the political spectrum to bring the other side back. Like many Germans of my generation, I am fully aware of the fact that we owe the U.S., and it breaks my heart to see a good friend choose the path of (self) destruction. Do you think the fights embodied by Just America at a lot of institutions are going to manifest themselves in politics soon? He will discuss the Bush administration policies that created the current situation in Iraq and the effects of the war on domestic politics and American life. In recent years, a small group of scholars has focussed on war-termination theory. The financial crisis of 2008 was years in themaking and has had a lasting impact onAmerican political life. In 2019, Packer released a book titled Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century. These days, however, the NewsGuild has the cultural wind at its back. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. I think nationalism is destructive. A lot of people think of Just America as a response to Trump, too, which is why its interesting that youre defining it as just as much a reaction to Smart America. Really, nihilism is the only word for it. The Gazelle Project -- that was me, Melville Houses Dennis Johnson told Packer. In 2003, two of his New Yorker articles won Overseas Press Club awardsone for his examination of the difficulties faced during the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq, and one for his coverage of the civil war in Sierra Leone. The Devastating New History of the January 6th Insurrection. Packer, George (2001). ), None of us want to do anything that could jeopardize the magazine we love. The unionization effort has created an uncomfortable moment for the writers at The New Yorker, who have the kind of jobs and influence every journalist wants but few attain. Assigned reading, Professor John Nelson the unconnected george packer new yorker, 92, 35, october 31, 2016, pp. Am I really prepared to say its over? In their place, four rival narratives have emerged, four accounts of America's moral identity. Across the board, American institutions have failed. America in Iraq. George Packer (born ca. Feb 04 2015. Track elected officials, research health conditions, and find news you can use in politics, business, health, and education. George Packer, resident egghead-journalist at the New Yorker - and Iraq war supporter-turned-"anguished" semi-recanter - is the latest "liberal" to turn his guns on Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald for their alleged devotion to libertarianism.A whole genre has grown up around this subject: Sean Wilentz, writing in The New . And its legacy might be similar. We found out last year we had something really big to do. Writers for The New Yorker have been known to refer to the editor, David Remnick, as Dad, so there was something a little illicit about their decision to gather without him back in 2018 at a Windsor Terrace apartment. The New Yorker. Working as the kind of writer that Brooks has sometimes been, but going far beyond that, he takes you into the lives of real Americans, at least one or two of whom will resemble any likely reader of the book, as they discover, sickeningly, that they're ensnared and blocked by forces beyond their . Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. His 2005 book The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq analyzes the events that led to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and reports on subsequent developments in that country, largely based on interviews with ordinary Iraqis. For more information:. He summarized what he saw as the consensus view in another WhatsApp message to colleagues. Its as if he didnt experience the late sixties and the seventies in the way, say, Bill Clinton did. why is my cookies pen blinking purple is there mobile coverage across the nullarbor hillside funeral home obits American history is one way to get in touch with it. George Packer at the 2013 Texas Book Festival, Last edited on 16 February 2023, at 15:10, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, "Geoffrey Canada on Giving Voice to the Have-nots", "Our Man by George Packer review Richard Holbrooke and American power", "2013 National Book Awards Go to McBride, Packer, Szybist, Kadohata", "James McBride, George Packer win National Book Awards", "Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013", "2017 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grantee: George Packer", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Packer&oldid=1139717922, 2017 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to complete, This page was last edited on 16 February 2023, at 15:10. The editor, who is 62, has also said he doesnt plan to follow the example of William Shawn, who ran the magazine until he was nearly 80 and the institution had become a kind of museum of itself. Compare that to the several hundred Iraqisalmost all of them refugees from the Saddam erawho have been allowed to immigrate to the United States over the past few years. I ended up travelling through Europe and the Middle East for about a month, with two weeks in Baghdad. You write, Because people still live their lives in an actual place, and the nation is the largest place with which they can identify. She told them, two people in the room said, that the guild could protect them from being fired and could even defend them against misguided editorial choices, if, for example, an editor she cited Arianna Huffington suddenly wanted everyone to write about sleep. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America focuses on the ways that America changed in the years between 1978 and 2012. George Packer. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. One lingering quibble is that your sense of liberal righteousness strikes me as the milk-and-water variety that Theodore Roosevelt warned against. The New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm was asked during a libel case how compensation was set. From the episode: Andrew Keen: One of the chapters [in your book] is called "Make America Again," rather . According to New Yorker writer George Packer, there used to be a kind of deal among Americans a deal in which everyone had a place. Well, I think Smart America is the one its closest toin a sense, its one generation overthrowing the previous one, children overthrowing parents. And in a way you can see they have followed each other in power from one decade to the next. Its all particularly personal at The New Yorker, where the campaign has pitted a culture built on personal relationships and deep trust against a group of employees who reject the idea that they should be subject to the whims of any boss, no matter how benign. The ones I talk toand, for various reasons, its an extremely limited poolwant America to leave. We are blunt. He is also the author of the books The Assassins Gate and The Unwinding. During our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, we discussed why Barack Obama failed to change the direction of the country, whether a more progressive form of patriotism is possible, and whether the cultural controversies roiling American institutions are an inevitable result of inequality. When Wilson added some steel to his idealism and, as Roosevelt had been urging, brought America into the Great War, his decision ended in a bitter peace in Europe, a period of reaction in America, Wilsons political and personal self-destruction, and the groundwork for the next world war. Another way to describe those feelings is the inevitable result of the inequalities that your book sketches. We had to end a pandemic. Ive read and heard that many Vietnamese felt abandoned at the end of the Vietnam WarI highly recommend Frank Snepps book Decent Interval, about the last days of the Americans in Saigon. 1. . Its really early, and we dont know how much hes going to get done. Some of the writers are also worried about the impact of a strike. And those are mostly Black farmers who have been dispossessed through decades by the Department of Agriculture and by state and local governments. the democrats lost the white working class. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. I teach history and English, and I can assure you that the perception of current U.S. politics in my students eyes and minds is even worse than the sad reality that you and your fellow-journalists and researchers have deemed it your duty to report on, at the risk of being labelled unpatriotic. This is a really important impulse and corrective that were going through right now. What am I writing about here?, What he came up with, he explained, is Amazons relation to the world of culture -- especially books.. "To name a few," he went on, "Liana Finck, Emily . About a month after the meeting at Mr. Davidsons apartment, about 40 of the writers met in the community room at a West Village apartment building. (April 29, 2013). But, really, Smart America takes on the parameters set by Free America: deregulation and free trade and open immigration. In his new book, " Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal ," George Packer writes that the United States is in a state of disrepair, brought about primarily by the fact . Have any of its members set up refugee camps, as Egypt, the most populous Arab state, did after the wars between Israel and Arab nations over Palestine? And that has left the most prominent writers mainly watching from the sidelines in recent weeks as a bitter labor dispute has consumed their beloved magazine. The New Yorker George Packer is an author and staff writer for The New Yorker . NEW YORK -- Thomas Pynchon, Jhumpa Lahiri and George Saunders were among the finalists Wednesday for the National Book Awards. Mr. Remnick has told some writers that he is simply eager for the conflict to be resolved. Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Award, George Packer is a venerated staff writer for The New Yorker-with four tours on . "A place in history". When he came back from book leave in mid-2013, Packers New Yorker editors suggested the idea to him. That dynamic's been entrenched for six, seven years now. He is best known for his writings for The New Yorker and The Atlantic about U.S. foreign policy and for his book The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq. Then Ben Taub, an investigative reporter, asked Ms. Mohit why she had told their unionizing colleagues that the NewsGuild was also organizing the writers. These are all obviously pie in the sky, because people are trying to do this and right now, with Congress, it isnt happening. In many ways, this reminds me of the nineteen-sixties, and millennials and boomers have a lot more in common than either side has acknowledged. He has tried to be reassuring, even as the prospect of putting out the print magazine without editorial staff members looms. Were loud. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. He doesn't measure or model it. One thing thats been said is that people on the left claim to speak for women, or people of color, and then, when it comes to the ballot box, Joe Biden overwhelmingly beats all the other Democrats with Black voters. 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