I have been validated by Slate's very own, Timothy Noah. Lewis Lampham, Harper's erstwhile editor, is a very intelligent writer -- of this I have no doubt. But he is also a pompous windbag, cursed with a habit of quoting some very, very, long-dead figure in order to make his point about present day society.
Here's an excerpt from Timothy Noah's article where he quotes sentence after lengthy sentence written by Lampham:
The swarm of cameras following Monica Lewinsky on her progress through a Washington airport or a New York restaurant wouldn't have surprised the Roman mob familiar with the expensive claques traipsing after the magnificence of the Emperor Nero, their eager and well-fed sycophancy presumably equivalent to the breathless enthusiasms of Barbara Walters.
What? Come on Lewis, how about writing for the most of us?
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