America's Lost Boys and Me
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I suspect I’m the only student at Cambridge University who lived out of garbage bags as a child. Here’s why I didn’t live the life I was meant to.
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One of the most brilliant concepts I’ve come across in the past few years is the notion of “luxury beliefs.” Like a Birkin bag, luxury beliefs are expensive, fashionable and confer immediate status on those espousing them. But they can only be afforded by people whose status shields them from the harm those views can cause.
Once you know the term you st…
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