Wine and good times flow at Spectator party
New York At one point the Promised Land was Texas. That was the gist of the conversation I had with Rachel Cockerell at The Spectator’s first live event in NYC, at NoHo’s Palo Gallery. I interviewed Rachel about her book Melting Point, which explores the Galveston Plan, when 10,000 beleaguered Russian Jews set sail for Galveston, Texas. After the talk, wine flowed as friends mingled with Speccie subscribers and spilled out into a balmy summer’s eve on Bond Street. Everyone seemed to enjoy the party except for those who weren’t there. I read the online comments the next morning: “Thanks for the compilation of pictures of the people I’d most want to avoid,” wrote one keyboard warrior. “Just rooms full of snobby people believing it's chic to dress homeless!
