The editor, William Shawn, responded with pained, elegant letters, warning that collective bargaining would undermine the friendly, gentle, free, informal, democratic atmosphere that made The New Yorker special. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. The basic division that I began to see begins with libertarianism, which I call Free America, which is Reagans America. 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. Even when the result is considered a success, as in Nikole Im really quite divided about this, Isaac. "A place in history". An organizer for the NewsGuild who was present, Nastaran Mohit, told the writers she had avoided involving them in the original organizing drive because she knew how close many of them were to management, and she was worried theyd snitch. We had a President who sowed division, and the result is that hundreds of thousands are dead. They arent particularly concerned with the terms of the debate in Washingtontime lines, benchmarks, departure dates, troop numbers. 1960) is a US journalist, novelist, and playwright. But it made focusing on the companys chief executive redundant. I think you can include Elizabeth Warren in that, as well. That is Bidens project. How do you understand that? And as the labor movement seeks to level the playing field, will the stars go along? The book proposes my own narrative, although it doesnt claim it as a narrative. (The NewsGuilds president, Susan DeCarava, said in response to questions about the exchange that it does not comment on confidential organizing conversations.), The meetings host, Adam Davidson, had already been among the writers talking to Mr. Remnick about setting up a health care plan for writers. And it then felt like half the country, in 2015, responded to seven years of this by choosing a lunatic white nationalist to be its nominee for President. Its a pretty radical solution, if you think about what it would do to their sales he said. Mr. Remnick has told some writers that he is simply eager for the conflict to be resolved. You described Just Americas feelings, or their actions, as a slap in the face of previous generations. I just think its a nightmare scenario, and so Im maybe a little bit quixotically doing what I can to put a thread in us. Interspersed are capsule biographies of influential figures of the time such as Colin Powell, Newt Gingrich, Elizabeth Warren, Jay-Z, and Raymond Carver. There has been no progress in terms of higher education opening up to Americans of lower classes. And that generation has embraced a different narrative, which sees us less as striving individuals with an imperfect but ever-improving society and more as a fixed hierarchy of groups, some of which are oppressive and some of which are oppressed. 89 (1): 31-32. And that was a really potent story that Reagan told, and that the Republican Party lived by for decades, and to some extent still does. patriotic feeling has to be tapped if you want to achieve anything big. But there was a rejection of perhaps some of the things he stood for, and perhaps of the multicultural, multiracial America that he embodied, by forty-six per cent of the country. We are having history wars at the momentin state legislatures, in school districtsand we are bringing up parts of our history that have been suppressed and that have to be brought to the surface. 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American history is one way to get in touch with it. Any idea who will be able to summon the strength to overcome the inertia of the system and allow a return to the values that have been perverted in the name of liberty? 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). Its not smart to lose touch with the basic feelings of large numbers of voters if you hope to get those votes. Packer, George (2001). Can Clinton win it back? 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. 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. In 1976, a group of employees got fed up with flat wages and, among other things, a 50 percent cut to the magazines annual psychiatric benefit, and brought in the union (then the Newspaper Guild) to set things right. Is it a failure of leadership? Free Americans' individualistic, leave-me-alone conception of . At the depth of his crisis in trying to leave the Party . And that was the animating idea of the left in the first maybe two-thirds of the century. 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. It means were better. Theres been nothing like it since the 1930s. What happened next was not exactly a scene out of Norma Rae. Emily Nussbaum, a television critic, said she would expect to be fired if she wasnt doing a good job, according to two people there. Her passions are breaking up monopolies, regulating corporationsclass struggle, really. Nobody was interested in a union rep coming between them and Mr. Remnick on editorial decisions. Its like loyalty to whats yours. Were informal with waiters. It wasnt. They sat in a big circle and, like the millennials only a few of them are, shared details of their own compensation arrangements. This is a really important impulse and corrective that were going through right now. Then it took on a new, more global life in the years between the fall of the Soviet Union and the attacks of September 11th, as a book by your compatriot Josef Joffe, berpower, arguesa reaction against the sole superpower. 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. The New Yorker George Packer is an author and staff writer for The New Yorker . Were nice. Ben Rhodes was the Presidents speechwriter, foreign-policy adviser, and confidant. Did you get any sense, from the Iraqis you interviewed, of their opinion of an American exit strategy? All rights reserved. According to Packer, in the place of the old stories, "four rival narratives have emerged, four accounts of America's moral identity" two on the right, and two on the left. You write, Because people still live their lives in an actual place, and the nation is the largest place with which they can identify. Almost half a century later, the ghost of the scandal that launched Woodwards career haunts the Trump White House. George Packer (born ca. Away from the fun-house mirrors and the bullhorns of cable news and social media, peoples views are more nuanced and less easy to caricature. 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. In his article, Packer outlines what he calls "four rival narratives four accounts of America's moral identity.". A war on this scale puts a whole country to the test, like a human body thats been slack for a while and then is suddenly exerted to the limits of its strength. The stories I tell in the book of Horace Greeley, Frances Perkins, Bayard Rustin, are of progressivesnot quite in the same way that people are today, but certainly reformers, and even radicalswho nonetheless see themselves as working on behalf of the whole country, and trying to bring it together, and trying to hold it to its promises in a way thats generous and not punitive or resentful. Mr. Remnick declined to be interviewed, but said in an email that his two goals were that we achieve our highest editorial ambitions and that we work together with fairness, adding, Ill be glad to see us sign a foundational contract that memorializes our commitment to both., Many of the writers I spoke to said they saw Mr. Remnick as caught between an uncompromising union and an ailing parent company. 1. . Amazon is good for online shoppers, but is it good for books? But the alternatives to American power will be even less appealing. Per the Census survey from last year: White Alone: 45.3% Black Alone: 29.2% . [1] His parents taught at Stanford University: his mother, Nancy Packer (ne Huddleston), was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in the Creative Writing Program and later professor of English, and his father, Herbert L. Packer, was a distinguished professor of law, and the author of numerous books and articles. Im in favor of putting together an exit strategy for Iraq, but Im also sure that if we were to leave most of the territory in the near future, the country would erupt in bloodshed of a scope that we havent seen in a long time. But this is the direction we have to go in. He has tried to be reassuring, even as the prospect of putting out the print magazine without editorial staff members looms. His uncle, George Huddleston, Jr., succeeded to his father's seat in the House of Representatives from 1954 to 1964. A rumor began to circulate, spurned by an article in The Sun, attributing the cause of the wreck to Judge carrying the ashes of Sattay on the Umbria. George Packer broke with the magazines tight-lipped traditions by sharing details of his own deal with Cond Nast. I very much enjoyed this piece, because it seems to fit with the thoughts you expressed in your book The Assassins Gate, which I read with great interest. And the reasons are complicated, but I think the basic one is that most Americans do not identify, fundamentally, as members of identity groups. The Depression that ended Fitzgeralds Jazz Age yielded to a new order that might be called the Roosevelt Republic. All rights reserved. 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 Mankoff responded accordingly: "What I absolutely take satisfaction in is that, as I leave as cartoon editor, I leave The New Yorker and my successor with a bumper crop of new and talented cartoonists who came in under my tenure," Mankoff told the Washington Post's Michael Cavna. You have to be very high up to know about it, he said. He summarized what he saw as the consensus view in another WhatsApp message to colleagues. Its even hard to understand how you get your message to them. But Democrats are just as scared. G eorge Packer's incisive, deftly argued book about the moral and political quandary of the United States begins and ends with his declaration: "I am an American." The statement is self . They also want to live normal lives, and they dont see that happening with an American departure. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. He has done more to pursue social justice than any President since Johnson. Biden going to Tulsa was, I think, such a crucial moment in putting the Presidential stamp on that effort. And instead they got the back of the hand of Mitch McConnell and the Republican Party, just as Biden is getting it now. 2023 Cond Nast. Join our community book club. It doesnt happen in neighborhoods. Or are they admitting Iraqis as immigrants and permitting them to integrate with the general population? These days, however, the NewsGuild has the cultural wind at its back. It doesnt happen in schools. First of all, I agree about Obama. In "Our Man," Packer, who recently joined the Atlantic after years writing for the New Yorker, conducted more than 200 interviews and had exclusive access to Holbrooke's diaries and private . 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. Right. . It might require a book to answer. The younger generation of employees is to the left of its elders on issues of substance. He reports that men employed by Americans as . And Obama was also trying to put forward an idea of America that is patriotic, that is aware of its flaws, and that says the arc of history bends toward justice, and so on. 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. When he came back from book leave in mid-2013, Packers New Yorker editors suggested the idea to him. And Democrats of Clintons generation moved way over toward the Free America side, in terms of their willingness to see the private sector as the main engine of both growth and fairness. They are as intimate as they are grand, and they offer themselves for worship by ordinary people searching for a suitable object of devotion. Well, I think Smart America is the one its closest toin a sense, its one generation overthrowing the previous one, children overthrowing parents. They have roots in history, but they are shaped by new ways of thinking and living. Its the professional class. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. What are celebrities, after all? It has set off reflections on their status and revealed the rare bond and unusual deference many of them feel toward Mr. Remnick. We are blunt. Packer, the author of the books The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (2013) and The Assassins Gate: America in Iraq (2005) talked to me about what it was like to report his story. "[4], Packer graduated from Yale College in 1982, where he resided at Calhoun College (now called Grace Hopper College). The New Yorker. To me, its a kind of reparations, and a necessary one. Trumps performative macho is scaring voters in both parties away from women candidates. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California. I think there are two questions. Just as youre more loyal to your family than to people you dont know. For example, do we get rid of standardized testing because there are disparate outcomes between groups? She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. They loom larger in times like now, when inequality is soaring and trust in institutions governments, corporations, schools, the press is falling. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. It never rains on a Twitter picket line. In a new book, the journalist George Packer argues that the country is divided into four warring factions. Some salaries start as low as $42,000 a year, and remain under $60,000 after 20 years on the job. It doesnt happen in jobs. 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. 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. (The contents of the writers group messages were shared with me on the condition I only quote people by name with their permission. Can he save his country from collapse? Why The New Yorkers Stars Didnt Join Its Union, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/13/business/media/new-yorker-union.html. 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. Iraqs population is largely Arab, with the major exception being the Kurds. I recently spoke by phone with Packer, who is a staff writer at The Atlantic and was previously a staff writer at The New Yorker. It took Amazon a little while to decide they werent going to cooperate with me, he said. He also wrote about payments Amazon gets from publishers, often in the form of discounts -- information that is rarely shared. All rights reserved. Even more, segregation ended because of the civil-rights movement. The country itself needs us to somehow be committed to it, and not just to ourselves and to our political tribe, and to our cohort and the people who share the bubble with us. Projects on that scalewhich is where national service comes in againseem like a better way than just attempting to give a big speech in the Obama mode, saying, There is no Red America, there is no Blue America, because that doesnt work. Obama did what you are talking about, in terms of making compromises in the way he talked about certain issues. Gatsby, a mysterious bootlegger who makes a meteoric ascent from Midwestern obscurity to the palatial splendor of West Egg, exemplifies one part of the celebrity code: its inherently illicit. Simon & Schuster, 576 pp., $20.00. I dont want to become two countries. The Hulu docuseries is a remarkable work, advancing the prestige true-crime genre's slow but steady reorientation toward centering victims. To me, thats like saying Do we stop looking at the data on poverty because there are disparate outcomes among different groups? No. 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 . 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. It was a white Christian-nationalist narrative that said, Your free trade, your immigration, even your corporations and monopolies have not improved a lot of towns, and rural areas have sunk and are in deep trouble, and have some of the same serious problems that the inner cities have had for decades. And so, when Trump came along, in 2015, he intuited in his reptilian way that the old, sunny, optimistic Reagan message didnt cut it, and that something more dark and nativist and ugly would appealthat people didnt want to hear how good things were. Track elected officials, research health conditions, and find news you can use in politics, business, health, and education. A talk by author George Packer, author of the new book, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq. why is my cookies pen blinking purple is there mobile coverage across the nullarbor hillside funeral home obits That and time and a change in Washington will eventually, I hope, restore Americas good name. I think its exactly the right one. George Packer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, is the author, most recently, of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America.. The best way to make it is to get government out of the way and to cut taxes and deregulate and set us free in order to use our industry and talent to make something new. And those are mostly Black farmers who have been dispossessed through decades by the Department of Agriculture and by state and local governments. Assigned reading, Professor John Nelson the unconnected george packer new yorker, 92, 35, october 31, 2016, pp. The moment, of course, seems all the stranger, in that much of the conflict is playing out virtually, while everyone is working remotely. But the other chunk of the story is how much Gutekunst wants to see more of Love in the regular season. No matter what happens, Mr. Remnick told writers on one recent Zoom call, he would not ask them to cross virtual picket lines. Packer has made four tours on assignment in Iraq for The New 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. I ended up travelling through Europe and the Middle East for about a month, with two weeks in Baghdad. President Ashraf Ghani is an expert on failed states. That I have much more skepticism about, because of social media, because of the conservative information environment. By Glynnis MacNicol Feb 1st, 2010, 10:40 am. NEW YORK -- Thomas Pynchon, Jhumpa Lahiri and George Saunders were among the finalists Wednesday for the National Book Awards. He was a finalist for the 2004 Michael Kelly Award. And they all come, in some ways, from that original passion for equality. If you bloc most Americans into identity groups, George Packer says, if you create monoliths, you will end up not speaking to their actual, as people say, lived experience., Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal. The Talk of the Town. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Betrayed started with a simple feelingdismay and anger at the news that Iraqis I knew were being abandoned to their fate. Most Iraqi refugees I spoke with have found the reception from their Arab neighbors rather chilly. He proposes a different vision, which he thinks offers brighter possibilities, centered around the concept of equality and non-demagogic appeals to patriotism. The President and his new national-security adviser, John Bolton, are in an especially bad position to respond to the atrocities in Syria. Because of the difficulties of working in Iraq and the concerns Iraqis have about their safety, this story presented logistical challenges. Were arrogant. Every passing year makes that clearer. Ad Choices. To me, he embodies it. And we can get into the reasons why, but I think its both increasingly illiberal philosophicallywhich scares me, since we have so much illiberalism in our society right nowand its politically perverse and fails to understand American voters in some basic ways that it needs to if it wants to make real change. Researchers have studied how much of our personality is set from childhood, but what youre like isnt who you are. People in Japan are calling Goto's murder their 9/11. In the message, a copy of which I obtained, Ms. Mohit said the union was in communication with the writers but could not be open and public with the fact that we are organizing the staff writers.. The midterm elections are the last obstacle to Trumps consolidation of powerand the greatest obstacle to voting is the feeling that it doesnt matter. And its true. Generationally, hes closest to Clinton. member, warned that a strike could last months and do immense damage. I wonder how much its in the control of, say, one side of the political spectrum to bring the other side back. Or maybe a little less, because the motives of Trump voters are very hard to break down. But I have also come to believe that Iraq represents a larger failure than just that of individuals in the Bush Administration or the Administration as a whole. In November 2013, The Unwinding received the National Book Award for Nonfiction. A new mood of activism has swept through the home of the mascot Eustace Tilley. 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. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. I respond with shame and defiancemostly shame. Absolutely. Packer's maternal grandfather, George Huddleston, Sr., had served eleven successive terms (19151937) representing Alabama's 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Exactly. 2,141 likes. Many, including Ms. Nussbaum, have spoken out in favor of the unions current posture. June 29, 2021. Its Americans who believe that talent and effort should be rewarded but who also think were part of a society and that society has to make sure that everyone has roughly an equal chance. Last Best Hope was inspired, Packer says, by "political pamphlets from other periods of crisis.". Thats where its strongest, and at this point its dominant. His reference points all seem to go back to Roosevelt and Truman and trade unions. 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And its legacy might be similar. Everyone I met on my last trip feared a wider catastrophe without American troops. [6], Packer was a Holtzbrinck Fellow Class of Fall 2009 at the American Academy in Berlin.[7]. The House report describes both a catastrophe and a way forward. THE Roaring 20s was the decade when modern celebrity was invented in America. Im identifying, to some degree, with my parents, who were in their forties and on a college campus during the student revolution, and it was not an easy time. . BUT, most of us would like to be able to get health insurance.. And thats Sanders, as well. But its in the bill, its in the law, because fairness demanded it. 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.. 3. That were two countries, and one of them is going to have to defeat, and in some ways destroy, the other? The difference is that Gerald Ford, knowing that Vietnam was lost, was politically able to bring refugees here in large numbers and felt morally compelled to do so. They might even be repelled by it. 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. Bluntly, re: NewsGuild, what it comes down to for me is that I would never hire an agent who had lied to or about me, Mr. Taub wrote to a WhatsApp group for staff writers after the incident. The gathering was, many noted, probably the first time that so many of the magazines scattered staff members had ever been in one room, and someone invited the Magnum photographer Peter van Agtmael to document it. 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