William Makepeace Thackeray’s Book Of Snobs Updated To A Guide To Modern Snobbery
Inspired by William Makepeace Thackeray, the first great analyst of snobbery, and his trail-blazing The Book of Snobs (1848), D.…
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Inspired by William Makepeace Thackeray, the first great analyst of snobbery, and his trail-blazing The Book of Snobs (1848), D.…
It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost…
After details of American government surveillance were published in 2013, Edward Snowden, formerly a subcontracted IT analyst for the NSA,…
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Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence…
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We all sense it―something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk…
Siri Hustvedt has always been fascinated by biology and how human perception works. She is a lover of art, the…