@jbouie No question, it's terrible. It's the type of thing any editor should drum out of a writer. Don't know why NR is prone to it.
@FranklinFoer @jbouie There's many strains. Faux-aristocratic, faux-Mencken, sometimes, in an ambitious writer, faux-Tom-Wolfe.
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@FranklinFoer@jbouie Yes & they were luck to have him. But there were also a few Wolfe wannabes. (George Gilder did a Wolfe riff once) - Show replies
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