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A Miscellany for the Beginning of June

A Miscellany for the Beginning of June

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Often in the last decade or so, I’ve been struck by how poorly my aesthetic instincts serve me when I’m trying to make sense of the actions, and more than that the psychology, of powerful people and institutions. I hate reading novels in which everybody is one-dimensionally silly and venal; I think such novels a…

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