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For Love and Money: Desperate Housewives, Crypto Scammers, and More
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Contestants look for love on The Golden Bachelor. (Photo courtesy of ABC / Craig Sjodin)
Critic Kat Rosenfield on ‘The Golden Bachelor’ and ‘Naked Attraction.’ Plus: why Michael Lewis fell for SBF.
By Oliver Wiseman
10.07.23 — Culture and Ideas
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Today in The Free Press: two weekend essays, one about love and the other about money. Well, not real love or real money, but synthetic imitations: dating-show romance and cryptocurrencies. 

First up, Kat Rosenfield dissects two wild—and wildly popular—new TV shows. In Naked Attraction, contestants meet potential soulmates in a state of full-frontal nudi…

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Oliver Wiseman
Oliver Wiseman is a senior editor and writer for The Free Press. Previously, he was the executive editor of The Spectator World and a regular contributor to UnHerd, City Journal, the Evening Standard, and a range of other publications.
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