Politics has increasingly become, for many Americans, the leisure of the theory class. That’s a phrase from the early 20th century sociologist Thorstein Veblen, which I turned on its head in a recent ...
In 1899, Thorstein Veblen published The Leisure of the Theory Class. It popularized the terms conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure. Veblen, imbued with the austerity of his Norwegian ...
Conspicuous leisure, conspicuous waste, conspicuous consumption. Veblen coins these terms in Theory of the Leisure Class to describe the strategies the noble and priestly classes employ to assert ...
Politics has increasingly become, for many Americans, the leisure of the theory class. That’s a phrase from the early 20th century sociologist Thorstein Veblen, which I turned on its head in a recent ...
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