The Way We Live Now

The Way We Live Now
President Joe Biden speaks on job numbers from April 2021 at the East Room of the White House on May 7, 2021. Alex Wong/Getty Images
Roger Kimball
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Commentary

I take my title from Anthony Trollope’s great 1875 novel chronicling the activities of the rapacious swindler Augustus Melmotte and his coterie of grasping climbers and brittle ingenues.

Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball
Author
Roger Kimball is the editor and publisher of The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter Books. His most recent book is “Where Next? Western Civilization at the Crossroads.”
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