In the wild, mouse at the ready, hunting down links
Iphigenia in Forest Hills By Janet Malcolm
In “Democracy in America,” Alexis de Tocqueville wrote of American journalists as persons of “low social status, [whose] education is only sketchy, and [whose] thoughts are often vulgarly expressed.” He went on to note that “the hallmark of the American journalist is a direct and coarse attack, without any subtleties, on the passions of his readers; he disregards principles to seize on people, following them into their private lives and laying bare their weaknesses and their vices.” Over the years, the soci