While more tents have popped up in the streets, the colorful bead curtain at Cafe Citron is down and a luxury jewelry store on Connecticut Ave concealed behind an ugly facade. Food trucks are gone (they used to form a pretty view on the Mall from the Washington Memorial), but workers are still working. It brightens the eye to spot a runner in fancy leggings, or young gangs dressed up cruising the street with flowers in hand.
And Kramerbooks’ window show goes on. What’s hot in the time of Coronavirus is Piketty’s new book Capital and Ideology, a successor to his epic best-selling Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
