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David Brooks's "Bobos in Paradise"

If Books Could Kill

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Puritanism Is Not Just Having Rules and Norms, Right?

Brooks said Bobos are just as puritanical as the previous ruling classes. This is a 2000s version of like modern cancel culture discourse where it's this sort of like equivocation that makes no sense when you actually understand the values involved on both sides, he says.

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