They wanted to hear how bad things were. He is the author of several books, including The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, and The Assassins Gate: America in Iraq, which was named one of the ten best books of 2005 by the New York Times and won the New York Public Librarys Helen Bernstein Book Award and an Overseas Press Club book award. We are blunt. He was a finalist for the 2004 Michael Kelly Award. For example, in your Letter from Sudan, published in the magazine last year, you described the Sudanese politician Hasan al-Turabi right down to his flower-patterned polyester socks. Where do you get your inspiration? Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Award, George Packer is a venerated staff writer for The New Yorker-with four tours on . Were nave. So its not as though there was a wild rejection of him. The New Yorker staff writer George Packer answers readers' questions about his article " Betrayed," from the issue of April 2, 2007. In a new book, the journalist George Packer argues that the country is divided into four warring factions. That is Bidens project. 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. Fitzgerald intuited that, with the old restraining deities of the 19th century dead and his generations faith in man shaken by World War I, celebrities were the new household gods. And I know that thats a tricky and maybe dangerous thing for some Americans, but the first thing Id say is, if you suppress that in yourself, or if you refuse to acknowledge it in others, you will insure that the worst versions of it, like Trumpism, will have the field, because most people still feel that. Ryan Costello, a centrist wonk, ran for Congress to solve problemsbut his colleagues fell in line with Trumps parade of resentment. By Glynnis MacNicol Feb 1st, 2010, 10:40 am. We are not just different but better, and in some ways we must crush you. First of all, I agree about Obama. . Is a Woman Ever Going to Win the White House? [3] In a 2022 talk for House of SpeakEasy's Seriously Entertaining program, Packer shared that his father took his own life when he (Packer) was twelve years old, calling it "the big event of my childhood. . But the alternatives to American power will be even less appealing. There has been no progress in terms of higher education opening up to Americans of lower classes. The union includes 120 people and there are about the same number of staff and contributing writers. Its more like a bunch of instincts and prejudices. A United Parcel Service driver delivers packages from Amazon.com in Palo Alto. None of them are original, and a lot of them are long shots. Simon & Schuster, 576 pp., $20.00. They arent particularly concerned with the terms of the debate in Washingtontime lines, benchmarks, departure dates, troop numbers. But with Democrats it is harder. In general, our concepts of things like 100 Year Floods and 1000 Year Floods are . Packer was a columnist for Mother Jones and was a staff writer for The New Yorker from 2003 to 2018. Packer has made four tours on assignment in Iraq for The New Do you think the fights embodied by Just America at a lot of institutions are going to manifest themselves in politics soon? It might require a book to answer. Did you get any sense, from the Iraqis you interviewed, of their opinion of an American exit strategy? Essays and reporting. And its also becoming more illiberal. The Depression that ended Fitzgeralds Jazz Age yielded to a new order that might be called the Roosevelt Republic. Packer is married to writer and editor Laura Secor. [6], Packer was a Holtzbrinck Fellow Class of Fall 2009 at the American Academy in Berlin.[7]. In July 2013 the New Yorker Festival released a video entitled Geoffrey Canada on Giving Voice to the Have-nots, of a panel that was moderated by George Packer. Its even hard to understand how you get your message to them. Researchers have studied how much of our personality is set from childhood, but what youre like isnt who you are. And I think thats necessary, because weve demonized one another through social media, through isolation during the pandemic, to a point where people are unrecognizable and have been cast in terms of good and evil. In his new book, Adam Hochschild remembers a time when a crusade for democracy abroad released a demonic spirit of intolerance and violence at home. 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. "A place in history". She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. George Packer (Togo 1982-83) In The New Yorker. Soon the superstitious mariners and passengers . 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. Almost half a century later, the ghost of the scandal that launched Woodwards career haunts the Trump White House. Is it tough enough to withstand this ordeal in Mesopotamia? BUT, most of us would like to be able to get health insurance.. Theres been nothing like it since the 1930s. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. Sarah Palin was the early warning sign that Free America was breaking up. This is an excellent question, and a huge one. 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. Smart America is where I mostly live, but its no longer a meritocracy, if it ever was. To me, he embodies it. In November 2013, The Unwinding received the National Book Award for Nonfiction. A deal was finalized late last month. 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. Were arrogant. The Republicans exploited it. How do you understand that? Ably guided by moderator Dorothy Wickenden, Ryan Lizza, Hendrik Hertzberg, and George Packer engaged in a spirited and relatively unepigrammatic discussion about . 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 . But some also shun its blunt and adversarial language. For several years, I have thought that the Iraq War, in its moral atmosphere, more closely resembles the First World War than it does either the Second World War or Vietnam. 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. But why does neither of them appeal to you? This is a really important impulse and corrective that were going through right now. And thats probably an inevitable outcome. And, if there is a return to that, then Im happy. 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 . Hillary Clinton stepping down as Secretary of State. How much power can employers exercise over their employees? the democrats lost the white working class. But somehow, maybe because of where he comes from or what kind of career hes had, he doesnt feel like a very modern figure. I respond with shame and defiancemostly shame. 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.. Some 20 of the writers, many of them marquee names, were getting together to decide how to react to the surprise announcement that their less heralded colleagues fact checkers, copy editors, web producers, social media editors were forming a union and demanding raises. 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. George Packer (born ca. Its stuck in its original hierarchy, and that hierarchy has to be overthrown in order for justice to come. 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Packer's sharp portraits of these new tribes are the heart of this book, and his critique of them reveal his central concerns. I dont blame our fallen reputation entirely on President Bush and his advisers, though. Some salaries at The New Yorker start at $42,000 a year and remain under $60,000 after 20 years on the job. The Gazelle Project -- that was me, Melville Houses Dennis Johnson told Packer. 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 . "Certain folks, frankly, don't support us in leadership roles." ++++ She does know that Chicago isn't even a majority-white city, right? Can Clinton win it back? The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Her passions are breaking up monopolies, regulating corporationsclass struggle, really. Neither of these issues is new. I had this idea about the way international organizations go into Bosnia or Northern Ireland or Israel and just get the warring sides to build a school together, or put on a play together. George Packer. And, if Im wrong, then Id be actually quite happy. It would be giving young people a chance, whether through military or civilian ways, to serve the country and one another, and to get to know one another across all the lines that divide us. 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. The answer to your question depends on how much can be achieved by this movement. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. Here I was re-creating what Iraqis told me had happened months or years ago, and I kept pressing them to be as specific as possible, which often ran up against their desire not to be identifiable. And maybe we needed that. George Packer is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of The Assassins' Gate, an acclaimed 2005 book on the war in Iraq. George Packer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, is the author, most recently, of "The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America.". 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. George Packer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and (most recently) the author of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America. Its also a gateway into the real money books, movies, speaking gigs or other opportunities in the broadening economic landscape for brand-name writers. Trumps performative macho is scaring voters in both parties away from women candidates. Why did ISIS allow its negotiations with Jordan to collapse? I dont know enough to agree or disagree., But in terms of telling the story, it was helpful. 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. So, for example, in the COVID-relief bill, theres several billion dollars for disadvantaged farmers. Its hard to even begin to think how you start reaching a giant chunk of Real America. In one recent Zoom call, writers even complained to Mr. Remnick of their fears of being bullied on Twitter if they diverge from union talking points. Say what you want, but Biden is . George Packer broke with the magazine's tight-lipped traditions by sharing details of his own deal with Cond Nast. $26. Other writers were shocked, according to several people who were there. 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. Well, I agree. Our Man George Packer 2019-05-09 From one of America's greatest non-fiction writers, an epic saga of the rise and fall of American power, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, told through the life of one man. He doesn't measure or model it. Obama was more candid. My worry is that the philosophical and practical direction of this movement is making those achievements less likely. Those opportunities now also include newsletter platforms like Substack, and a new start-up called Puck, a digital magazine in which star writers get a cut of the subscription business and a share of the company. The New Yorker. In 2003, Packer was awarded two Overseas Press Club awards, one for his 20,000-word examination of the difficulties faced during the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq and the other for his coverage of the civil war in Sierra Leone. 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. 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. But the other chunk of the story is how much Gutekunst wants to see more of Love in the regular season. Its the professional class. The book proposes my own narrative, although it doesnt claim it as a narrative. 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. When youre been an industry for a long time, you cant imagine things differently. We are divided that way. 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. And thats Sanders, as well. 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. The President and his new national-security adviser, John Bolton, are in an especially bad position to respond to the atrocities in Syria. Richard Armitage, when I interviewed him, placed the blame on a complete lack of accountability at the highest levels. THE Roaring 20s was the decade when modern celebrity was invented in America. Its a phrase Palin used during the 2008 campaign. June 29, 2021. Their father's background was Jewish and their mother's Christian. Trump threw a great deal of accelerant onto smoldering discontent. While he was working . 1960) is a US journalist, novelist, and playwright. And this is also the Democratic Party going along with the Reagan consensus. Iraqs population is largely Arab, with the major exception being the Kurds. Its been the most dominant narrative in our society. 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. [5] He served in the Peace Corps in Togo.[2][4]. 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. Why ISIS Murdered Kenji Goto. 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. Photograph by Ahmed Muhammed Ali / Anadolu Agency / Getty. The past four years have severely tested those ideals, and under the leadership of Jeffrey Goldberg, who became editor in chief the month before . He also wrote about payments Amazon gets from publishers, often in the form of discounts -- information that is rarely shared. At the same time, you may not sell those policies through the frame of specific identities. Everyone I met on my last trip feared a wider catastrophe without American troops. Were informal with waiters. All rights reserved. It doesnt help in policy because you wont know what works and what doesnt, and it doesnt help politically because I think most people still have the idea that individual effort makes a difference and that it should be rewarded. Can you do things in your rhetoric or in your politics to make your party less toxic for the six percentage points of people between forty-seven per cent and fifty-three per cent? To me, thats like saying Do we stop looking at the data on poverty because there are disparate outcomes among different groups? No. George Packer is an award-winning author and staff writer at The Atlantic.His previous books include The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (winner of the National Book Award), The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (winner of the Hitchens Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography). They are as intimate as they are grand, and they offer themselves for worship by ordinary people searching for a suitable object of devotion. It means were better. Compared to Iraq or the recession in rural North Carolina, I thought it would be relatively straightforward, Packer said. In this episode, Andrew is joined by George Packer, the author of Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal, to explore the four narratives that now dominate American life: Free America, Smart America, Real America, and Just America. His reference points all seem to go back to Roosevelt and Truman and trade unions. Amazon is good for online shoppers, but is it good for books? 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? 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. Neither idealism nor toughness has withstood the ordeal in Mesopotamia. . She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California. patriotic feeling has to be tapped if you want to achieve anything big. Where does Bernie Sanders fit in? On one recent Zoom call with union leaders, Mr. Wright, a former Teamster and longtime W.G.A. His new book, The Unwinding , depicts an America weakened by . We dont want so strong a union that mediocrity reigns and its impossible to get rid of poor performers. Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Author, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America Doug Sovern, KCBS Radio Political Reporter - Moderator. He doesnt fit. And that rebellion was out in the heartland. I dont much want to live in the republic of any of them, Packer writes. I found my subjects through word of mouth and previous experience. Anti-Americanism is as old as the Republic, largely a European horror at the rise of a commercial power that seemed to have no cultural greatness. member, warned that a strike could last months and do immense damage. Gutekunst feels his kicking leg will be plenty strong a year removed from the knee scope he had last spring, and with the minor back injury behind him as well. The basic division that I began to see begins with libertarianism, which I call Free America, which is Reagans America. Why did ISIS . The Talk of the Town. I think there was some evidence of that in the results of the 2020 election, and I think its going to continue to happen. 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. 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But the support Mr. Remnick retains among the signature writers is deep. They dominate the landscape, like giant monuments to aspiration, fulfillment and overreach. Publish date: January 15, 2008; Language: English; ISBN: 9781436147613; 4.06 (2619 ratings) Regular Price: 29.99 USD. I think youre right. I dont think you can persuade people. Or, to be more . But youre right: in politics, its barely got a toehold. Interspersed are capsule biographies of influential figures of the time such as Colin Powell, Newt Gingrich, Elizabeth Warren, Jay-Z, and Raymond Carver. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. 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. As I wrote in the piece, there is a sense among some of Iraqs neighbors that Iraqis, by allowing the Americans to overthrow Saddam and install a Shiite-majority government, have betrayed the Arab cause and represent a pro-Iranian Shiite front that threatens Sunni Arab countries. By George Packer. Every passing year makes that clearer. Its like loyalty to whats yours. Do you think youre more likely to say, when looking back on Just America in this period, Wow, that was a crazy time that many of our institutions on the left went through, and they did a lot of harm, or You know what? One of the things Packer mentions is the Gazelle Project, referencing Stones book. For more information:. 2023 Cond Nast. 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. And so, if Smart America is a new aristocracy in which families essentially pass on membership to their children, then its in the end going to be a destructive force, even if a lot of good things have come from it. I wonder how much its in the control of, say, one side of the political spectrum to bring the other side back. Many writers have tweeted in support. "I am a black woman -- let's not forget," she told the New Yorker. Most Iraqi refugees I spoke with have found the reception from their Arab neighbors rather chilly. The New Yorker is now working out the final details of a contract, and people on both sides appeared optimistic they would reach an agreement this week. The Hulu docuseries is a remarkable work, advancing the prestige true-crime genre's slow but steady reorientation toward centering victims. 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. You described Just Americas feelings, or their actions, as a slap in the face of previous generations. Am I really prepared to say its over? Feb 04 2015. I feel the same about our country. One point of view is that you have to be aware of racism and different identities and different inequalities if you want to take the step of improving everyones life. 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. The moment, of course, seems all the stranger, in that much of the conflict is playing out virtually, while everyone is working remotely. His essays and articles have appeared in Boston Review, The Nation, World Affairs, Harper's, The New York Times, and The New Yorker, among other publications. Have we simply sent our least able people to that region? [2] Packer's sister, Ann Packer, also is a writer. 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. His decency, his dignity, his ability to explain what democracy isIm not sure well ever see that again. 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. Our mission is to get Southern California reading and talking. But it seems to me to come out of a pre-modern sensibility that goes back to the New Deal. That dynamic poses a threat to both traditional, top-down media institutions and organized labor. Im afraid it will take years for America to recover its international prestige; at the very least, it will take a change of Administration. 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