“Nobody wants to say, at least not for publication, that we live in a society that cares as much about the humanities as it cares about the color of the rain in Tashkent.”

—  Lewis H. Lapham

Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 1, The Gilded Cage, p. 20

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