In what may be a high-water mark in complacent American self-praise, David Ignatius in The Washington Post recently told the world: “The reality is that this may be the most idealistic war fought in modern times.” The solipsism, the immodesty of the statement is irritating in and of itself-but, on top of that, it’s so Read More
The parties I go to are not the sort of affairs where people exchange stock tips or lay the groundwork for insider trading; we’re more likely to compare restaurants and argue over movies and books. But this summer, there has been furtive chortling over bull-market bulimia and each week’s fresh revelation of corporate malfeasance.
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Alexis de Tocqueville found little to admire in American food. When the author of Democracy in America visited this country in 1831, he was as appalled by the cuisine as any self-respecting Frenchman would be, calling it “the infancy of the art: the vegetables and fish before the meat, the oysters for dessert … In Read More
