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I’d assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in – to the university
The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that’s what’s wrong with them. They’re artistic technocrats. There’s no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling,
The Bible has been through millions of rounds of exegesis and interpretation, but it hasn’t been until quite recently that it’s been taken as the
Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad – so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed
The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle,
It’s no accident that most self-help groups use ‘anonymous’ in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of
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