Author: Richard Dienst

Escape from New Jersey Last Saturday [March 28], when Trump announced that he wanted to throw a cordon sanitaire around the tri-state area, I immediately started to wonder how I could get out of here. Looking at Google maps, I realized to my dismay that New Jersey is almost entirely surrounded by water. In fact, the Garden State is actually a kind of isthmus, which now seems rather easily blockaded. What are the options? There would be no point in heading east, through New York City, unless there had already been a decisive breakthrough into Connecticut. Not likely. All...