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We Don’t Need a Moral Pretext to Enjoy Mansion Porn

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Luxury mansions in Delray Beach Fla.

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I don’t know how many Wall Street Journal subscribers would justify the periodical’s expense because they cannot get enough class envy, but that number cannot be zero.

Subscribers who clicked through on the paper’s latest dispatch from the rarified climes the “superrich” inhabit were perhaps intrigued by the dispatch’s provocative headline: The wealthy aren’t just “buying mansions” these days — “they want the entire block.” As the headline suggests, the story’s copy was replete with sotto voce condemnations of the garish excesses to which the well-off are prone.

Noah Rothman

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Noah Rothman

Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. His third book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence, was published by Hachette in May 2026.

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