Posts by Michael J. Lewis

This week’s New Yorker cover, titled “The Politics of Fear,” has the distinction of being deemed “tasteless and offensive” by both the Obama and the McCain campaign. The cartoon depicts Barack Obama in the Oval Office, dressed in a turban and dishdash, and bumping his fist against that of Michele, who sports combat boots, a [...]

Few things look as old as a vision of the future that’s past its shelf life. When Disneyland’s “House of the Future” opened in 1957, visitors were thrilled by its prophecies of microwave ovens, electric toothbrushes and giant wall-mounted televisions. But, within a decade, it came to seem rather musty, not so much a sleek [...]