Matthew Gasda on the PMC and Where Catherine Liu's Book Falls Short
From the archives: A Review of The Virtue Hoarders from MRB Issue 1
This essay appears in Issue 1 of the Mars Review of Books. Visit the MRB store here.
Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class
by Catherine Liu
University of Minnesota Press, 90 pp., $10.00
Liu, consistent and lucid, provides the same kind of analysis of PMC virtue-hoarding in the realms of family values, literature, and gender theory. Her short book efficiently explores the way in which the smug spirit of modern managerialism infects politics, the home, intellectual life, and erotic life.
Where Liu’s book falls short . . .
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