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    What ads in the New Yorker magazine tell us about the American oligarchy | Thomas E Ricks

    The New Yorker’s news columns shed light on the state of the nation, but its advertisements speak to the state of our culture
    by Thomas E Ricks Dec 02, 2018 4 minutes
    New Yorker magazine advertisements are aimed at the nation’s one-percenters. Photograph: KeystoneUSA-Zuma/Rex Shutterstock

    Last night as I paged through the new issue of the New Yorker, dated 26 November, I felt like I was reading a dispatch from the one-percenters who run the American economy, take far more than their fair share of American income, and lately have ruined American politics.

    Let me state first that I love the magazine. I have been reading it for more than 55 years, since I learned to read partly by looking at its cartoons with my grandmother in her garden. My beginning as a writer was reading the articles of John McPhee when I was teenager. I’ve subscribed to the magazine for decades, and once tried to get a lifetime subscription. My

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