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T-Swizzle, Capitalist Titan
“T-Swift is generous,” Dominic Green writes. “She has given her life to her art.” (Illustration by The Free Press, images via Getty)
Taylor Swift is a swimsuited Atlas supporting the entire music business.
By Dominic Green
04.29.26 — America at 250
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We know Taylor Swift all too well. Her ubiquity makes her familiar, and familiarity breeds merch, memes, and multipart documentaries such as NBC’s The Swift Effect, a sustained exercise in fake wonderment that is now in its second season and forever in the eighth circle of Dante’s hell, where flatterers are submerged in human excrement.

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Dominic Green
Dominic Green is a Wall Street Journal contributor, a Washington Examiner columnist, and the author of five books.
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