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Aesop's well-known fable of The Ant and The Grasshopper - the industrious ant and the carefree musical grasshopper - has long been a favorite of conservative commentators. They love the toiling ant and hate the unemployed grasshopper. This short book is a critical examination of the conception of life, work, responsibility and art that is expressed by the conservative fable. That conception does not stand up under critical scrutiny.

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Merrill Ring is a retired Professor Philosophy whose post-retirement writing is in both philosophy and political thought. He is the editor of (and a writer for) an online journal Progressive Democracy and the editor of books of essays drawn from that journal.

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