Is Fashion Becoming More Sincere?
E Pluribus Unum—“Out of many, one.” A motto of national cohesion, strangely bureaucratic, is engraved outside the Midtown Tunnel. I saw it through the back window of a cab, blurred by the city’s summer heat shimmer, and thought about its inverse: “E Unibus Pluram,” which happens to be the title of an essay by David…