A few days after I published “A Defense of Vanity,” I had a colleague over for tea on my front porch. I knew they1 shared an interest in beauty, and we’d taken a couple of classes together, but had never particularly spoken outside of Park Hall.2 For about four hours we talked about the headache of comprehensive exams (I’d just finished mine, theirs were …
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