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David Cloutier

David Cloutier, author of The Vice of Luxury, is Knott Professor of Catholic Theology at Mount St. Mary’s University.

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Despite all the ways in which our culture celebrates the lifestyles of the rich and famous, Americans retain a residual suspicion of luxurious excesses that somehow “go too far.” Even a mainstream...
David Cloutier

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