ESSAY: The radical dignity of Zohran Mamdani
A dispatch from his rally in Queens
Last night in Queens, which is to New York what New York is to America, and what America is to the world — a place dedicated to the pursuit of new beginnings — Zohran Mamdani gathered a reported 13,000 people eager to cast off an era of greed and cruelty and draft a new compact rooted in a big idea: dignity as freedom.
Arriving at Forest Hills Stadium in…