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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Revisiting the "father of capitalism"

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Do You Think Americans Have Weaponized Smith?

American interpreters have bastardized Smith or weaponized him in ways that might make him unrecognizable to himself if he were alive today. I certainly think that Americans have weaponized Smith and that trend of weaponization stretches back much farther than I think people realize. So I think that Smith would be more upset that people didn't read him as carefully and take him as seriously, that they didn't think the way he did.

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