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The Jaundiced Eyeball
Power Players
Just as Al Gore was once described (by Michael Kinsley) as “an old person’s idea of a young person” so is …
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Selected Salvos
Delusion at the Gastropub
It takes a lot of high-capitalist pixie dust to turn the basics of subsistence into coveted luxuries. The brazen marketing of …
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Books
Commodify Your Dissent: The Business of Culture in the New Gilded Age
From the pages of The Baffler, the most vital and perceptive magazine of the nineties, sharp, satirical broadsides against the Culture Trust. In …
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Stories
From “All the Houses”
Often when I tell people I grew up in Washington, D.C., they ask me if I grew up in the city …
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Art