If you live in a major American city, particularly New York or Washington, D.C., you’ve probably seen a young man (or several) wearing a backwards Kangol flat cap lately.[1](https://www.thebulwark.com/p/jfk-jr-former-magazine-george-conspiracy-theorist-ai-slop#footnote-1-191139071) It’s not a sudden [Samuel L. Jackson infatuation](https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-samuel-l-jackson-immortalised-kangol/) or even [Date Mike](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVilBKyMLYk)cosplay. It’s the renewed cultural influence of the late John F. Kennedy Jr., thanks to the popular FX miniseries *Love Story*, which details the political scion’s romance with and marriage to Carolyn Bessette Kennedy in the years before their tragic deaths.
But JFK Jr.’s style choices, which are great but hard to replicate, are not the only part of his legacy that’s coming back. *George* magazine, the political and lifestyle publication that he launched in 1996 and that shut down in 2001, is also operating again.
Unfortunately, the new *George* only vestigially resembles the original magazine, looking instead like an AI-powered MAGA slop factory.
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