In a time where our Republican candidate elect fumbles with the press on how many multi-million dollar homes he owns, Christopher Hitchens introduces some shamefully relevant vocabulary: a tumbrel remark (a phrase originally coined by Irish writer Joyce Cary) is "an unguarded comment by an uncontrollably rich person, of such crass insensitivity that it makes the workers and peasants think of lampposts and guillotines." Keep an ear out.

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Image: The Duke of Devonshire, who said of the London Times after it had published some criticism of him, that he would no longer have the newspaper "in any of my houses."