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For Paris is, according to its legend, the city where everyone loses his head, and his morals, lives through at least one histoire d’amour, ceases, quite, to arrive anywhere on time, and thumbs his nose at the Puritans—the city, in brief, where all become drunken on the fine old air of freedom. This legend, in the fashion of legends, has this much
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Lyft Warned Me About My Low Rating. Guess What I Did Wrong.
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David Foster Wallace • Deciderization 2007—a Special Report
The lesson of Ivar Kreuger is not that his businesses were illegal. It is that they were alegal.
Frank Partnoy • The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
The underlying, unarticulated assumption of this political talk was that victims and criminals were two distinct categories of people with diametrically opposed interests.
Rachel Monroe • Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
(Spousal rape was not criminalized in Virginia until 2002, and the state senator Richard Black is still fighting to decriminalize it.) A Times
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
