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Jerome Karabel, an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, is the author of The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton (2005). He is currently at work on a book titled Outlier Nation: The Roots of American Distinctiveness and How It Shapes Us Today. (September 2019)
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Why Is There No Socialism in the United States?
by Werner Sombart, translated by Patricia M. Hocking and C.T. Husbands
February 8, 1979 issue
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