Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in th David Brooks who now goes by the

who now goes by the name Perigold

and Snakes

but has trouble with the foreign sounds of learning to speak English in class

and Spinach (Rule No

Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in th David Brooks who now goes by theA New York Times Editors' Choice Entertaining, phenomenally weird . . . Rat City may well be the world's first ever work of socio biographical scientific pop history. . . . a freaky romp down a peculiar passage in the history of ideas, full of oddball cameos (Aldous Huxley! Buckminster Fuller!) and some very sharp science writing. The New York Times Facebook, Yik Yak, Twitter, Twitch each had a sunny, expansive phase, followed by a descent into