A NYT analysis on anything is intellectually equal to a quantum physics lecture by the Obamadork.
This author happens to be conservative.
Amity Shlaes wrote a definitive book on the Coolidge Presidency and the horror that was the FDR administration ( that PROLONGED and EXCACERBATED the Great Depression ).
That was just funny! And also true.
I know what you mean. I am completely skeptical of anything that appears in the NYT, and just as skeptical of any author.
I cannot comment on the article, as I will not visit any page of theirs, even if it only gives them one more mouse click.
As for the Great Gatsby, like many, I found the book a huge bore, but it has always been difficult for me to distinguish whether is indeed a bore, or the fact that I had liberal, boring, english teachers who could speak at length about the symbolism of the eyeglass sign, the green light and so on. Blah, blah, blah. Perhaps I will just have to read it again on its own and treat it like a...novel. What a novel idea.
When there is so much crap around a story read into it by others that the author never talked about, it makes me want to roll my eyes and it brings to mind Freud’s comment about a cigar sometimes just being a cigar.
And, as much as I think DiCaprio has played some pretty good parts in movies (The Aviator, and I know this opinion makes me a distinct minority around here) I won’t see any damned movie about “The Great Gatsby” that has rap music in it.
Not gonna do it.