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A blog about American culture, with new posts each Monday by William Deresiewicz, author of A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter.

 


Enough - May 21, 2012

I published a piece last week in The New York Times in critique of the ethics of capitalism.

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