In the spring issue of City Journal, our critical doctor describes the tragic, soulless modernist creation of an English city in the 1960s, which, however, does have one redeeming feature.

But the city itself is, to me, infinitely depressing, not least because it offers such a window into the minds of our post-1945 politicians, bureaucrats, and architects—rationalist social planners to a man (rarely a woman). Milton Keynes is a kind of laboratory for raising humans in social petri dishes.