I’ve written a piece on the NYC mayoral race for the London Review of Books:
Crossroads, watershed, turning or tipping point, whatever cliché falls just this side of revolution: that’s the way the New York Democratic mayoral primary on 24 June will be remembered decades from now if Zohran Mamdani wins. Or it will be just another occasion when the Clintonite centrist zombies of the Democratic Party – in the surly guise of the former governor of New York State, Andrew Cuomo, a 67-year-old man with a mug of rich Corinthian leather – preserved the status quo by stomping on the pretty faces of the millennial left. In a field of more than ten candidates, Mamdani was running a distant second for months, but polls modelling the ranked-choice voting system now show him as little as two points behind Cuomo in the event of a final run-off.
Read the rest at the LRB.