The Abyss Stares Back
The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
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Are You Spending a Lot of Money?
Bennington College used to have a policy of always making sure that they were the most expensive liberal arts college in the country. Thorsten Veblin was an economist of a sort of left bent who really didn't like, I don't think into his motives. He came up with these notions about the leisure class and how certain goods were bought through conspicuous consumption because they were expensive.
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