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Volume X, Number 1 | winter 2017

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Preamble

Castles in Air

By Lewis H. Lapham

The American democracy and dream are the building of castles in air. Whither goeth the one so goeth the other, these days up in smoke and the spout.

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Home Loans

A history of seven homes—now for rent on Airbnb.

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Miscellany

An estimated one in ten Europeans is conceived in an Ikea bed. 

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

—Rebecca West, 1912
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