City Journal is a must read for those who love cities and are interested in how they can be made better. Its website currently features a short column by Nicole Gelinas giving a lot of reasons to think that New Orleans may well never recover from Katrina.
This analysis makes Dennis Hastert's much maligned comments on the prospects of the federal government financing rebuilding in New Orleans look pretty reasonable.
But nothing can make this a happy prospect. Taking the long view, we all know that cities arise and disappear. But we don't expect to see it happen, let alone so quickly.
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