Unintelligent Design
Paul Lauritzen February 11, 2008 - 11:01am
The Case against Perfection
Michael J. Sandel
Harvard University Press, $18.95, 176 pp.
In his 1987 novel Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe explores the hubris, greed, and recklessness of the 1980s Wall Street boom. One of the central characters, Sherman McCoy, a Wall Street bond trader, styles himself a “master of the universe” because he controls vast amounts of money and is therefore treated deferentially by almost everyone around him. It is a book about the folly of human arrogance. I thought of Bonfire when I read The Case...
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