I see David Brooks' liked John Podhoretz's essay on New York City in the 1970s, also.

While there may be a free press in Russia now, the free press is not always tolerated. Frightening article and video in the New York Times. 

Rebecca Mead in The New Yorker writes about Andrew Breitbart, the conservative Internet entrepreneur. I might have gone to his site twice. And never on purpose. Does anybody really read him?