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The Illiberalism in Our Institutions
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
It’s consistently noted as the dawning of our era of live disasters and simulcast wars: O. J. Simpson fleeing in the white Bronco, the towers collapsing, etc., although there had of course been other televised traumas before.
Ben Lerner • 10:04
Like people in any age, as their money incomes went down, they forgot about their new curtains, and tools, and kerosene lamps; as far as they knew, they were getting poorer, and they were mad as hell about it.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
(Wine Spectator’s readership is about 2.5 million,
Mike Veseth • Wine Wars: The Curse of the Blue Nun, the Miracle of Two Buck Chuck, and the Revenge of the Terroirists
as technological ones, at an inhuman scale and speed.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
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