{"id":82405,"date":"2015-02-05T09:30:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T14:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=82405"},"modified":"2015-02-05T10:11:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T15:11:56","slug":"a-noisy-cavalcade-of-fraud-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/05\/a-noisy-cavalcade-of-fraud-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Noisy Cavalcade of Fraud,\u201d and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_82407\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/new_orleans_city_of_old_romance_and_new_opportunity_crop_p_23_moneybags.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82407\" class=\"wp-image-82407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/new_orleans_city_of_old_romance_and_new_opportunity_crop_p_23_moneybags.jpg\" alt=\"New_Orleans_City_of_Old_Romance_and_New_Opportunity_Crop_p_23_Moneybags\" width=\"600\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/new_orleans_city_of_old_romance_and_new_opportunity_crop_p_23_moneybags.jpg 920w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/new_orleans_city_of_old_romance_and_new_opportunity_crop_p_23_moneybags-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-82407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cIngenious mendacity\u201d &#8230; How much do <i>you<\/i> have?<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>A reminder from literature: capitalism was always a disaster, even in the days when virtue and commerce were thought to go hand in hand. \u201cThe gentlemanly capitalism we were brought up to believe in was, if not wholly mythical, a sideshow in a noisy cavalcade of fraud, theft, and what Walter Bagehot called \u2018ingenious mendacity\u2019 on all sides \u2026 We should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/books\/9430062\/the-low-sculduggery-of-high-victorian-finance\/\" target=\"_blank\">return to the pages of Dickens and Trollope<\/a> to remind ourselves that there were wrong \u2019uns at every level and turn of nineteenth-century commerce, from crooked agents, clerks, brokers, and jobbers to \u2018lords on the take, knights on the make\u2019\u2014and that \u2018the thieves were often difficult to distinguish from the legitimate,\u2019 to the cost of the ill-informed and gullible investor and customer.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In Donetsk, Ukraine, as artillery continues to barrage the city, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/05\/world\/europe\/cultural-life-goes-on-in-donetsk-war-permitting.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">the show must go on<\/a>. \u201cThe persistent shelling was barely audible through the thick stone walls of the Donetsk National Academic Opera \u2026 The highly regarded opera continues a regular schedule of weekend performances, as does the neighboring dramatic theater. Performers at the popular Donetsk circus, having finished their New Year\u2019s routines, are planning a new round of shows in February. The planetarium open every weekend. Many cinemas are operating.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/chekhovs-beautiful-nonfiction?intcid=mod-latest\" target=\"_blank\">Akhil Sharma on Chekhov the journalist<\/a>: \u201c<em>Sakhalin Island<\/em> is the greatest work of journalism from the nineteenth century \u2026 It has the pleasure of moving through a physical, distinct world and the keenness of documentary analysis.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Van Gogh, method actor: He began his professional life \u201cin the Borinage, the former industrial and mining region to the southwest of Mons \u2026 He originally intended to be a pastor, but the sickly, impoverished mining communities were often baffled by his attempts at asceticism and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2015\/02\/van-gogh-mons\" target=\"_blank\">his clumsy efforts to fit in<\/a> by wearing rags, blackening his face and sleeping on the ground.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMany of us have at least one thing we have put our name to that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/2015\/02\/should-you-be-wary-writers-you-know-you-might-be-providing-free-material\" target=\"_blank\">we have later regretted and desperately hoped might never again resurface<\/a> to embarrass us, something that is far from guaranteed in an age of social-media outrage cycles \u2026 Pat Conroy\u2019s novel <em>The Great Santini <\/em>was such a thinly-veiled portrayal of his tyrannical military father that Conroy\u2019s mother presented it to the judge at her divorce proceedings, saying, \u2018everything you need is in there.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reminder from literature: capitalism was always a disaster, even in the days when virtue and commerce were thought to go hand in hand. \u201cThe gentlemanly capitalism we were brought up to believe in was, if not wholly mythical, a sideshow in a noisy cavalcade of fraud, theft, and what Walter Bagehot called \u2018ingenious mendacity\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[1627,14345,4453,3634,16910,2204,16912,16909,3045,16911,16908],"class_list":["post-82405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-akhil-sharma","tag-capitalism","tag-chekhov","tag-dickens","tag-donetsk","tag-opera","tag-pat-conroy","tag-trollope","tag-ukraine","tag-van-gogh","tag-walter-bagehot"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dickens and Trollope on Capitalism\u2019s Golden Age: A Disaster<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Novelists remind us that there was deceit and crookedness all over nineteenth-century commerce. 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