Matthew Milliner offers readers an invigorating walk through New York that encompasses the political, artistic, and religious. It begins at an apartment in the East Village:
As I walked into my hospitable friend’s East Village apartment, I was greeted by three handsome volumes of Lenin alongside the architectural manifestos of Christopher Alexander and—most important—classics of Christian spirituality. David swims among the twentysomething Ivy League graduates living in Manhattan who are faithful, serious Catholics. He also sometimes serves as a consultant on Wall Street. Well read in Marxism, he described his lunch break conversations in Zucotti Park over the last year. He offered the most incisive analysis of the Occupy Movement I’ve heard: “At its peak,” he told me, “this was nowhere near the Sixties, and all of that was co-opted by capitalism.” The truest resistance, we both agreed, is the Mass. Call it the liturgical consummation of hipsterdom.
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