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Election Gear

March 13, 2020

by Daniel Penny.   How many of us have gotten caught up in the excitement of the campaign season over the past year and decided to smash the donate button and buy some merch?

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Vive la différence

March 10, 2020

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   An old, old joke about a bunch of chauvinist French scientists at a convention. The keynote speaker cautiously begins by announcing that there is only a small differen...

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Elegy

March 03, 2020

by Alexander Freeling.   When walking to work recently I passed three tourists taking photos. Hardly surprising in a town that’s full of visitors for three quarters of the year, but I felt a quiet ...

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Bobson Dugnutt, Or, In A Name

February 25, 2020

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   I have to hand it to my friend Hari Sakka, a member of long standing of the Pairov Institute, for reminding me of the ridiculous list of baseball player names made up ...

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Living Nobly

February 18, 2020

by David Isle.  Once upon a time, the obstacles to buying a new velvet coat included not only the expense but, if you were not born into the right family, laws preventing you from wearing certain f...

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Book Review: Dandy Lion

February 11, 2020

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.    There are so many different kinds of dandyism. Most books on dandies attempt to suggest they are all of many conflicting concepts of the word, so that the very least ...

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Alternative Style Icon: The Bourgeois Revolutionary

February 04, 2020

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   Today’s Alternative Style Icon hails from Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People: The Bourgeois Revolutionary. What can he teach us? To answer...

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Personal Shopper

January 28, 2020

by Daniel Penny.   In 2020, I resolved to buy fewer clothes for myself. The problem is that I have a lot of opinions about clothes and over the years, have developed a roving eye, always searching ...

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