Oh, man, @eosnos does it again, in this entrancing #longread on how his hometown has reflected- and shaped- our politics and the ethos of wealth
It's worth reading for the quotes alone.
The Greenwich Rebellion newyorker.com/magazine/2020/… via @NewYorker
It's worth reading for the quotes alone.
The Greenwich Rebellion newyorker.com/magazine/2020/… via @NewYorker
In 1963 John Kenneth Galbraith mocked the modern conservative for being engaged in “one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is, the search for a truly superior moral justification for selfishness"
On college admission scofflaw-
Places like Greenwich take pride in their commitment to civility and decency, but Caplan’s indifference to the “moral issue,” as he put it, bespoke the kind of quiet compromises that a person makes in the privacy of a phone call, or a voting booth.
Places like Greenwich take pride in their commitment to civility and decency, but Caplan’s indifference to the “moral issue,” as he put it, bespoke the kind of quiet compromises that a person makes in the privacy of a phone call, or a voting booth.
