Matt Labash visits Detroit. He finds that although Detroit is dying it is not dead yet. The Weekly Standard
He writes...
In my line of work, I've seen plenty of inner cities, but I've never seen anything in a non-Third World country like the east side of Detroit. Maybe the 9th Ward of New Orleans after Katrina. But New Orleans had the storm as an excuse. Here, the storm has been raging for 50 years, starting with the closing of the hulking Albert Kahn-designed Packard Plant in 1956, which a half century later, still stands like a disgraced monument to lost grandeur.
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Should we be impressed that the Weekly Standard's talking about things like urban decay in its pages, or annoyed that Detroit's current state is still news to them?
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