I’ll be honest, I didn’t want to write this review of Sam Knight’s New Yorker article on telecom magnate and Sotheby’s owner Patrick Drahi, which was published on Monday morning. Like many of you, I spent much of Monday on the telephone with friends, acquaintances, and interested parties swapping takes on the well-researched, elegantly structured, and admirably nuanced story. And I had already spent much of last year tussling with Sotheby’s over my own reporting on the topic. I was tapped out. We’d finally come to peace terms; and I’ve been looking forward to seeing their business thrive in an auction market rebound that always seems to be just over the next horizon.