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The Virtue In Vice

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Is abstinence as deadly a sin as excess?

by Christine Sismondo

Photograph by Nikola Tamindzic

Published in the December/January 2007 issue.  » BUY ISSUE     

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BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY:

Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological
Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy
by Theodore Dalrymple
Encounter Books, 2006
146 pages $33

The Devil’s Picnic: Around the World
in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit
by Taras Grescoe
HarperCollins, 2005
359 pages $35

Pleasure and the Good Life: Concerning
the Nature, Varieties, and Plausibility
of Hedonism
by Fred Feldman
Clarendon Press, 2004
221 pages $33
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