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This week's issue of The New Yorker contains a long profile of activist and author Naomi Klein by Larissa MacFarquhar that goes all the way back to her grandparents' Communist organizing roots in order to prove... something. But between anecdotes of her parents running away to Canada and trips to their summer home, what comes across is that Klein — like many liberal activists — comes from a background of privilege that allows her to advocate a kind of anarchy from the comforts of a home she's unlikely to even lose in foreclosure. More »
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