Harper's Magazine, August 1st, 1999
I have often observed that nothing ever perplexes an adversary so much as an appeal to his honor.
--Benjamin Disraeli
Senator Bill Bradley showed up in Greenwich Village in early June to parade his virtues as a presidential candidate before an audience of about 500 people at New School University, and halfway through the program it occurred to me that if Thorstein Veblen were still sitting in the hall, he would have regarded the senator as the political equivalent of a marble birdbath or a pet pony. Veblen joined the faculty of the New School in the 1920s, some years after he published The...
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