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Thursday, July 29, 2004

Natural economies

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A recent book called The New Economy of Nature attempts to offer ways in which current economic preogatives can be made to accomodate envir...
Wednesday, July 28, 2004

Mass meanings

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I was reading a book by James Twitchell called ADCULT USA, which purports to be a fair and balanced appraisal of role of advertising in con...
Tuesday, July 20, 2004

The game show intellectual

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An upcoming book called The Know-it-all documents a man's effort to become the "smartest man in the world" by reading the enc...
Sunday, July 18, 2004

Harry Potter, Market Wiz

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In this essay -- The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Contributor: Harry Potter, Market Wiz -- a French writer argues that Harry Pott...
Thursday, July 15, 2004

Best dressed idiocy

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Is there anything more infuriatingly inane than a "Best Dressed Man" list? Not to say best-dressed lists for women aren't insu...
Wednesday, July 14, 2004

The perfect commodity, your own body

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I was reading a book review about a few recent books on plastic surgery, which offered up the idea that it might be wise to consider plastic...
Monday, July 12, 2004

Of course, after all

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The tell-tale "after all" -- much like its cousin "of course" -- in the following sentence, from T. H Breen's The Ma...
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Rob Horning
I write the Marginal Utility blog and am an editor of The New Inquiry. Twitter: @marginalutility Email: rob@thenewinquiry.com
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