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Slavery had been abolished in Bermuda more than a quarter-century before the outbreak of the American Civil War, yet islanders’ sympathies lay with the South.
Ethanol is a ludicrous fuel made out of corn, at a cost far higher than the petroleum it replaces, produced with a huge government tax subsidy, which started during the energy crisis a quarter-century ago and has long since become a classic case study of stupid policy entrenched by special interests (in this case farmers and Archer Daniels Midland, the company responsible for the fabulous discovery that if you tell the government what to do in commercials on every Sunday talk show, the government apparently is powerless to resist).
Also, TNR publishes an appreciation of teachers' union chief Albert Shanker, whose advertorials appeared in the magazine for a quarter-century.
Just the same, the American economy is the healthiest it's been in a quarter-century.
Some of the best journalism of the last quarter-century or so belongs to the same genre--Jane Kramer's and John McPhee's and William Finnegan's work for The New Yorker and nearly all the late Anthony Lukas' writing.