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most of this ambition seems to have been expended in the enumeration of appurtenances common to luxury condos in Manhattan

a preference for diachronic, narrative description of human life predominates in contemporary culture

the rise of an activist left that had no patience for the anodyne neoliberal nostrums of free trade and enlightened multicultural management

Losing Ground was much more grounded in behavioral psychology and the idea that all people sought to maximize their pleasure at the least possible cost than in any jeremiad about cultural drift and mastery

to minimize the context of war while it was still a recent memory was tendentious