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Shelter in Place

The democratic designs of J.B.S. Haldane

Nobody Knows

When I was eighteen, I spent several months working as a bus girl at a diner. It was a cheerful-looking place, facing San Francisco Bay. The kitchen was L-shaped: the…

Servile disobedience

by Thomas Frank,

Disaster Capitalism

by Naomi Klein,

The new economy of catastrophe

Office-plant politics

by Bonnie Lutz,

Gazing Into Bergdorf’s Window

by Peter Freundlich,

Reflections on the higher shopping

A Pig for All Seasons

by Lewis H. Lapham,

You are what you watch

by Larry Tritten,

A status-conscious guide to personal programming

The rise of the verbal class

by Joseph Epstein,

Positions, please

by Kim Foltz,

Recipe for a fast million

by John Fischer,