Pride and Political Prejudice

Pride and Political Prejudice

Chapter the Twenty-Eighth: Forty-Six Wars, and Why We Prefer to Think Ourselves Already Gone
In Which We Find Ourselves Grateful for the Wrong Kind of Peace
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Chapter the Twenty-Seventh: In Which a Woman Learns to Change the Subject
A Meditation on the Particular Virtue of Not Making Things Uncomfortable
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Chapter the Twenty-Sixth: In Which the Philosophy Is Finally Asked to Prove Itself
Being the Natural Consequence of Several Years of Excellent Advice
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Chapter the Twenty-Fifth: In Which Attention Is Identified as a Luxury Tax
On the Productive Exhaustion of the Informed Citizen
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Chapter the Twenty-Fourth: In Which the Invisible Hand Discovers It Has a Physical Address
A Brief Meditation on the Distance Between a Server Farm and a War, Which Turns Out to Be Quite Short
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Chapter the Twenty-Third: In Which a Price Is Pronounced Quite Reasonable
On the Particular Sincerity of Those Who Will Not Be Presented with the Invoice
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Chapter the Twenty-Second: In Which a Salute Costs Less Than a Benefits Claim
On the Distinction Between Honoring the Dead and Inconveniencing the Living
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Chapter the Twenty-Second: In Which a Promise, Having Served Its Purpose, Is Quietly Retired
What the Court Was Owed, and the Altogether Different Question of What We Are
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Chapter the Twenty-Second: In Which a Woman Is Handed a Burning Building and Later Blamed for the Smoke
Why the View From the Top Looks Different Depending on Who Installed the Floor
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Chapter the Twenty-First: In Which the Audience Is Informed the Big One Is Coming
On the Uses of Dread, and the Two Positions Available to Those Who Experience It
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Chapter the Twentieth: In Which Manners Are Declared a Form of Tyranny
On the Curious Comfort of Being Rude on Purpose
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Chapter the Nineteenth: In Which Society Safeguards Something, Though Not What It Claims
On the Curious Efficiency of Using a Woman’s Compliance Against Her
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