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“That the French Revolution was essentially a religious phenomenon was only seen with clarity by Joseph de Maistre and Jules Michelet.”
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“life expectancy among working-class white Americans had been decreasing since the early 2000s. In modern history the only obvious parallel was with Russia in the desperate aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union. One journalistic essay and academic research paper after another confirmed the disaster, until the narrative was capped in 2015 by Anne Case and Angus Deaton’s famous account of “deaths of despair.”
― Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
― Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
“And the space created by capital is a very seductive space indeed— provided you have the money.”
― The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the Elite
― The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the Elite
“Do you ever feel,” she asked, “that adulthood was thrust upon you at too young an age, and that you are still essentially a child mimicking the behaviors of the adults all around you in hopes they won’t discover the meager contents of your heart?”
― French Exit
― French Exit
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