Andrew Sullivan’s Stations of the Cross: New York’s Ongoing Torture of the World’s Best Blogger

Like a pioneer frontiersman, award-winning blogger Andrew Sullivan struck out last year from the civilized climes of Washington D.C. to settle amidst the ill-mannered squalor of New York City. Unsurprisingly for a man used to the refined urban atmosphere of our nation’s capital, Sullivan has found himself repeatedly disappointed—in the manners of his fellow city dwellers, in the city’s response to Hurricane Sandy, in his cell-phone reception, in Best Buy, in UPS, in the delivery service that brought his couch, and, perhaps worst of all, in the water temperature at the offices of the Daily Beast. And yet his travails continue. In a searing dispatch today, Sullivan addresses the latest New York City failing to try his patience and test his faith: his new home’s barbershop infrastructure. More »