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The Ruling Class Never Changes

The Ruling Class Never Changes

And: Some Doubts About The Redoubt -- But Fewer Than Before

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Bob ‘Watergate Forever’ Woodward, the Serge Diaghilev of his class

This is an extraordinary New York magazine sketch of a Washington DC elite book party. Historians of the future who try to understand what happened to America will be able to turn to this as evidence. Excerpts:

Earlier that night, across town, I dropped in on a book party at Cafe Milano in…

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