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Book%20Review%3A%20%u2018Free%20and%20Equal%2C%u2019%20by%20Daniel%20Chandler%20-%20The%20New%20York%20Times

Book%20Review%3A%20%u2018Free%20and%20Equal%2C%u2019%20by%20Daniel%20Chandler%20-%20The%20New%20York%20Times : Chandler%20deserves%20credit%20for%20refusing%20to%20relegate%20his%20book%20to%20the%20airy%20realm%20of%20wistful%20abstraction.%20The%20last%20two-thirds%20of%20%u201CFree%20and%20Equal%u201D%20are%20given%20over%20to%20specific%20policy%20proposals.%20Some%20of%20them%20sound%20familiar%20enough%20%u2014%20restricting%20private%20money%20in%20politics%3B%20beefing%20up%20civic%20education%20%u2014%20while%20others%20are%20more%20far-reaching%20and%20radical%2C%20including%20the%20establishment%20of%20worker%20cooperatives%2C%20in%20which%20%u201Cworkers%20decide%20how%20things%20are%20done%2C%u201D%20and%20the%20abolition%20of%20private%20schools.
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The Scholar of Comedy | The New Yorker

The Scholar of Comedy | The New Yorker : You%20can%u2019t%20have%20anybody%20in%20the%20room%20who%20doesn%u2019t%20have%20the%20same%20brain%20disaffection.%0A%0AWhat%20does%20that%20mean%3F%0A%0ARegular%20people%20need%20courtesies%20and%20respect%20to%20converse%20and%20socialize%20with%20them.%20You%20can%u2019t%20say%20hostile%20things%20to%20them%2C%20to%20their%20face%2C%20but%20comedians%20love%20that.%0A%0AYou%20don%u2019t%20get%20offended%3F%0A%0AThe%20offense%20is%20if%20it%20wasn%u2019t%20funny.%20That%u2019s%20the%20offense.%0A%0A
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