SOURCE: "The New Yorker: A Profile," in The Catholic World, Vol. CLXXIV, No. 1044, 1952, pp. 444-47.
An American journalist, Harrigan has had a distinguished career as a foreign correspondent covering assignments in Vietnam, Cuba, South Africa, and other countries. In the following essay, he offers a critical evaluation of the New Yorker as a magazine whose editorial attitudes betray a complacent ignorance of the social and political realities of American life.
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