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March 2, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Karl Marx Has a Hangover
Raoul Peck's new biopic of Marx and Engels in their salad days is a tedious shambles.
November 13, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Don’t Buy This Jacket
Patagonia elevates consumer restraint to an elite form of snobbery.
March 26, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Luxury Brands Are Status Symbols Only If You Can’t Afford Them
Why rich people are embracing minimalism, and the rest of us are Googling "Ralph Lauren"
February 15, 1943
Jacques Barzun
William James as Artist

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