Artificial Culture
November 15, 2004 · Harry Siegel, Magazine, Books and Arts
The Artificial White Man
Journalist and Cultural Critic
Harry Siegel
7 articles 2001–2004
Harry Siegel is a journalist and cultural critic based in New York City. He contributed essays and criticism to The Weekly Standard between 2001 and 2004, covering urban affairs, culture, and politics. He is also known for his work as a columnist and editor at the New York Daily News and other publications.
The Grey Book
September 20, 2004 · Harry Siegel, Magazine, Books and Arts
MIX EQUAL PARTS a vague Star Wars daydream ("Only you can save America, Luke") and a paranoid Matrix fantasy ("There is no America, Neo, only the System"). Add a dash of old-style political manifesto, a pinch of new-age mysticism, and just a touch of J.S. Mill's On Liberty, and you've got that part…
The Againsters
April 12, 2004 · Harry Siegel, Magazine, Books and Arts
AMERICA'S MOST CELEBRATED WRITERS are against . . . well, it's hard to tell what exactly they are against. War, to some degree. President Bush, to a considerable extent. But, mostly, New York's literati gathered at Cooper Union's Great Hall last Thursday to announce that they were firmly, immovably…
Urban Legends
March 15, 2004 · Harry Siegel, Magazine, Books and Arts
City
The Streets of Philadelphia
October 27, 2003 · Harry Siegel, Magazine
Philadelphia
Jazzman
May 6, 2002 · Harry Siegel, Magazine, Books and Arts
Tonight at Noon A Love Story by Sue Graham Mingus Pantheon Books, 288 pp., $24 FOR MANY, the name Charlie Mingus conjures the image of a goatee-sporting, jive-talking jazz bassist and composer, a mixture of New York beatnik and Angry Black Man. Mingus was all of those things. He hung out with Allen…
Sticking with the Seattle Way
December 3, 2001 · Harry Siegel, Magazine
SEATTLE FIVE YEARS AGO, Seattle was riding so high on its tech sector that Newsweek's cover announced: "Everyone else is moving there. Should you?" But the intervening years have tarnished this once golden city. The police inaction that allowed the WTO riots, and the brutal police response that…