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Christopher Lasch

Christopher Lasch was one of the leading American social critics of the last half-century. His books included The New Radicalism in America, The Culture of Narcissism, and The True and Only Heaven.

Life and Times of a Libertine

My subject lies before me like a patient awaiting the knife—my fair country, ravaged bride of the wilderness, struggling to bring forth a new civilization. This is no normal birth: the mother is still no more than a girl: her hips are too narrow; surgery is indicated. The ...