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Status anxiety

Do what they do, not what they say

16 September 2017

9:00 AM

16 September 2017

9:00 AM

Last month, two law professors named Amy Wax and Larry Alexander published a piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer praising ‘bourgeois’ values. They argued that many of the social problems afflicting the American working class, such as the opioid epidemic, are partly due to the decline of these values and that reviving them might go some way to help.

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