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An expose of "the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, permanently discontented individuals," The Waste Makers is Vance Packard's pioneering 1960 work on how the rapid grow

The loss of civic and corporate elites played a huge role in the erosion of urnam life.

Music for a new day The Pitt-Greensburg Chorale and Chamber Singers will present a spring concert, “One Day, A New Day,” at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Campana Chapel at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, 150 Finoli Drive, Hempfield. The Chorale will sing music by various composers, including Elton

As the county board revs up for a March 18 final vote on Missing Middle housing rezoning, an array of recent developments have drawn notice from backers and opponents. Arlington’s NAACP protested the board’s removal of the option of allowing seven-eight-plex structures countywide from the Reques ...

In “Status and Culture,” W. David Marx sets out to unravel the grand mysteries of identity.

Personal Spacetime and Status Seekers, The Wine Cellar, Auckland Wed, 30 March - Gigs and events at Undertheradar.co.nz.

Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

Earlier this week as you probably heard, the great, great writer, tom wolfe died at the age of 88. the literary giant chronicled social upheaval in america, immersing readers in everything from the california hippie counterculture to the space race to manhattans moneyed status-seekers, he was one of the leading practitioners of what came to be known as the new journalism. a style very familiar now that infuses reporting with novelistic flair and conventional grammar. he coined expressions like r...