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YESSSSSSSSSS! Vanity Fair picks Bernard-Henri Levy as the world's best-dressed philosopher

• I'll bet you think I'm kidding if you've never read Vanity Fair.
• Sartre once said that being declared the best dressed philosopher was the most important honor he had ever received, although he followed up that comment by a rueful meditation on the nature of honor itself, and concluded by saying that nothing human was truly important anyway, given the scope of a vast and empty universe.
• Of course, Sartre also said, "Hell is other people, especially those dressed unfashionably."
• Interestingly, the world's second best dressed philosopher is the night man at my local 7-Eleven. Nothing impresses the fashion critics like a man in uniform.