Sparks from Culture by David Roberts

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An Open Message To The Top 0.1%
Opinions should be formed with more thought than choosing which hat to wear
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A Much Needed Adjustment To My Factory Settings On Marriage and Children
An update on the ongoing project of opening my mind.
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March 2024

You Had Me At A Glance
The beautiful girl, the silver wig, and the hot nightclub with its impassable velvet rope
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What We Don’t Talk About When We Don’t Talk About Sex
I have never discussed my married sex life with anyone other than a doctor and my wife Debbie, with whom discussion has always been beside the point…
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My Candor Writing About Wealth Comes With A Price
How Adelle Waldman’s new novel Help Wanted is a Rorschach test for me about wealth and modern American capitalism
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A Fight Reveals The Fault Lines in My Marriage
Confessions Of A Happily Married Husband
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Finding My Vocation On Substack As I Turn 62
A passion for writing defeats my birthday blues
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February 2024

Empathy For The Devil
Cultivating empathy for loathsome people
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Wealth Is Merely One Form Of Capital
Late, but not too late, I’ve discovered the greater values of intellectual capital
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It’s Easy To Love New York When You’re Rich
The indelible childhood attachment to place
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The Battle Between The Inner Life and The Outer Life
Thoughts Sparked by E.M. Forster’s Howards End
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January 2024

Wealth-Envy Has Become Part Of The Cultural Air We Breathe
And how Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities incited my own invidious comparisons
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