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Americans may have learned to live with soaring levels of inequality, but we have never really come to love our elites, and earlier this year, our relationship with the ruling class reached a new low.

To live in society involves putting up with people who we did not choose to know and may in fact prefer not to exist. Even those we basically like and get along with are sure, from time to time, to ...

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Whenever a friend wrote me reporting a successful shit, I wondered: Why are you telling me this? Good manners dictated I share in their triumph: Good news! So happy for you! Congratulations on your ...