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Salutary Slander

From the November 2012 Print Edition

The Virtues of Our Vices: ? A Modest Defense of Gossip, Rudeness, and Other Bad Habits by Emrys Westacott Princeton, 304 pages, $26.95 In The Virtues of Our Vices , Emrys Westacott eschews academic theorizing about hypothetical life-and-death moral dilemmas (such as the “trolley problem”) . . . . Continue Reading »