The Common Reader

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A list of ten ways we are decadent and a (speculative) theory about why it might not matter
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A list of ten ways we are decadent and a…

Henry Oliver
Feb 17, 2020
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Decadence here means sameness, complacency or boredom, as recently discussed by Ross Douthat and Peter Thiel.

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