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What Use Are the Politics of Authenticity?

(Photo: Gage Skidmore) Not much argues Rich Yeselson over at Crooked Timber in a long post about Mitt Romney that’s getting a fair bit of attention on the interwebs today. online pharmacy periactin for sale no prescription pharmacy It’s worth reading the whole thing, but here are the highlights.  Yeselson suggests that “authenticity” is a mirage, both because people don’t have single, “real” selves and because, even if they did, there is simply no way for others to judge who a person is in his or her heart of hearts. Citing the work of Erving Goffman (be still my 20th-century Read more