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Thoughts On A New Gilded Age

November 19, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  On the heels of an article announcing that the wealthy have so much money they do not know what to do with it, a friend showed me a hotel bar’s offer for a $450 sidecar...

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It Ain't Ralph, Though

November 12, 2019

by Daniel Penny.   This November marks the 50th anniversary of Ralph Lauren’s juggernaut clothing, home, and lifestyle brand, Polo. What began as a little tie business known making for napkin-sized...

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Subduction

November 05, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   The Earth is six billion years old, but the oldest surface of the floor of its oceans – more than 70% of its area – is only two hundred million years old. At the bound...

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On Deception

October 29, 2019

by Alexander Freeling.  There’s an ancient story about three entrepreneurial lads who come into possession of a cloak one evening and decide to sell it at the market. Perhaps they came into possess...

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Fight for Fall

October 22, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   Instead of a gentle close, summer weltered and sweltered on. Social media automatically reminded a friend that on that same date exactly a decade before, she’d written...

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Alternative Style Icon: Howling Mad Murdock

October 15, 2019

by Claude T. Hector.   One of my favorite recurring articles from the good folks of No Man Walks Alone is the alternative style icons. I like the idea because how many times do people need to be to...

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Stendhal Syndrome

October 08, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  The great writer Stendhal, author of The Red and the Black, once wrote that he was so overcome by the beauty and culture of Florence that he had heart palpitations and ...

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The Daily Paper

October 01, 2019

by Steve Gottschling.   Throughout the country, local journalism wages an increasingly grim war against oblivion and, to better its chances of winning, is turning toward rather odd sources for help.

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