Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream

by Nicholas Lemann,
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 24, 2019

Americans, the philosopher John Dewey observed, find it difficult to abandon their faith “in some wholesale belief. We continually reason as if the difficulty were in the particular system that has failed and as if we were on the point of now finally hitting upon one that is true as all the others were false.”