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November 2015 Issue [Essay]

Bombast Bursting in Air

The story, so far, of the 2016 election

We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.

 — Louis Brandeis

When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

 — The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, directed by John Ford

Between democracy and concentrated wealth the country throughout most of its history has preferred the latter to the former, the body politic asking only that the big money make a credible show of caring for something other than itself. For the past thirty-five years the modest requirement has…

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, editor of Lapham’s Quarterly, is editor emeritus of Harper’s Magazine.



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