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The New Snobs

Good Taste Has Become Exhausting

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Victoria Wolff
Jun 22, 2026
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Last summer an English friend, whose snob radar is as finely calibrated as a bat’s sonar, was preparing to drive his vintage Bentley from Bellport to the Hamptons. Then he decided against it.

Too much traffic, he said. And too much “good taste.”

I knew exactly what he meant.

Which made me wonder whether we’ve misunderstood snob…

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