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Birth of a Snob
Joseph Epstein — June 2002
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Snobberry: Is it innate, or learned? Snobs: are they born, or made? Perhaps the best way to begin answering this question is by adducing a case I happen to know fairly well–my own.
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Joseph Epstein is a regular contributor to COMMENTARY.
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