Note to Self: Watch Your Mouth

When We Don’t Speak Our Minds: Reviewing Glenn C. Loury’s ‘Self-Censorship’

Every now and then you read a book that seems to crack a code. In Edith Wharton’s novel, The Age of Innocence, she describes upper-crust New York in the late nineteenth century as “a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs. . . .”

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