One of the main assertions of my new manuscript, The You of My Song: Notes from a Voluntary Exile, is that there are aspects of American society which can be seen better from abroad than from “under the American bell jar.” What we outsiders can see clearly–while wondering why the Americans themselves have so much [...]
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