Every July 4, I watch Hendrix play the national anthem at Woodstock. This year's July 4 cover for The New Yorker is Chris Ware's "A House Divided." Ware comments: I was taught in school that the American experiment was rooted in consensus and compromise. But Internet algorithms have put us at an uncompromising moment of nonconsensual reality. Sometimes it seems the only thing that the left and right can agree on is that compromise is laughably naïve.
TT 168: July 4 + a few Vanguard photos
TT 168: July 4 + a few Vanguard photos
TT 168: July 4 + a few Vanguard photos
Every July 4, I watch Hendrix play the national anthem at Woodstock. This year's July 4 cover for The New Yorker is Chris Ware's "A House Divided." Ware comments: I was taught in school that the American experiment was rooted in consensus and compromise. But Internet algorithms have put us at an uncompromising moment of nonconsensual reality. Sometimes it seems the only thing that the left and right can agree on is that compromise is laughably naïve.