George Packer

George Packer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America and The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq and other titles.

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U.S. Cities Need to Be More Like Europe

They can break up the monotony of the grid, provide the backdrop for social protest and change, spook you and mystify you—hard to define, city squares are indispensable.

George Packer