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Today’s Wonky Elite Is in Love With the Wrong French Intellectual
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Thomas Piketty and his ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ are white hot, but he’s no ‘Tocqueville for Today’—and he and his fan club have Tocqueville all wrong.
James Poulos
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Apr. 23 2014
5:45AM EDT
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