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Curated essays on exclusive clubs, luxury hotels, historic prizes, and the iconoclasts who shaped our world.

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Causes

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A Goofy Snob gives because they want to, not because they have to. Philanthropy is a tricky business. It is a world full of good intentions, but also...

Feb 27, 2026

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Clubs

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GOOFY SNOB CLUBS: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO EXCLUSIVE SOCIETIES From smoke-filled rooms at Yale to gilded Manhattan townhouses, from shadowy Bilderberg...

Feb 27, 2026

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Hotels

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GOOFY SNOB HOTELS: A CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD'S MOST EXCLUSIVE ACCOMMODATIONS The difference between a hotel and a Goofy Snob hotel is the...

Feb 27, 2026

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Prizes

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A prize is only as good as the people who have won it. And the people who haven’t. In a world that seems to hand out trophies for mere participation,...

Feb 27, 2026

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Schools

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The purpose of a Goofy Snob education is not to learn the answers, but to learn how to ask the right questions. For the Goofy Snob, education is not...

Feb 27, 2026

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Secrets

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The best-kept secrets are the ones that are hidden in plain sight. For the Goofy Snob, a secret is not something to be hoarded, but something to be...

Feb 27, 2026

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Slang

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Goofy Snob Slang: A Generational Lexicon Language is the ultimate gatekeeping mechanism. While wealth can be acquired and manners learned, the subtle...

Feb 27, 2026

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Societies

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GOOFY SNOB SOCIETIES: THE INVISIBLE ARCHITECTURE OF ELITE POWER While clubs provide physical spaces for elite gathering and secret societies offer...

Feb 27, 2026

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Iconoclasts

Historic Goofy Snobs: A Roster of Iconoclasts

Historic Goofy Snobs: A Roster of Iconoclasts To be a Goofy Snob is to walk a fine line. It is to be a master of your craft, yet to refuse to be...

Feb 27, 2026

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Hotels

Goofy Snob Hotels: Paris

Goofy Snob Hotels: Paris The City of Light has been separating the merely wealthy from the truly discerning since long before the word "luxury"...

Feb 27, 2026

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Goofy Snob Hotels: London

Goofy Snob Hotels: London London's hotel scene separates old money from new money faster than a Mayfair tailor. The city offers establishments where...

Feb 27, 2026

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Architecture

Goofy Snobs Know About Architecture

Goofy Snobs Know About Architecture Hello, you goofy snobs out there. Sometimes it's worth looking up, and to the left and to the right, and noticing...

Feb 27, 2026

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Hotels

Berlin: A Goofy Snob's Guide to the Only Ten Hotels That Matter

Berlin: A Goofy Snob's Guide to the Only Ten Hotels That Matter Berlin, a city perpetually caught between its grim, glorious past and its...

Feb 27, 2026

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Hotels

Goofy Snob Hotels: Dubai

Goofy Snob Hotels: Dubai Dubai understands that excess, when executed with precision, becomes art. The city offers hotels that make Vegas look...

Feb 27, 2026

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Hong Kong: A Goofy Snob's Guide to the Only Acceptable Places to Sleep

Hong Kong: A Goofy Snob's Guide to the Only Acceptable Places to Sleep One simply does not "visit" Hong Kong; one arrives, expecting the city to...

Feb 27, 2026

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Hotels

Madrid: A Goofy Snob's Guide to the Grandest Stays

Madrid: A Goofy Snob's Guide to the Grandest Stays The Spanish capital, Madrid, is not merely a city; it is a declaration. A declaration of art, of...

Feb 27, 2026

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Hotels

The Goofy Snob's Guide to Monaco: Where to Park Your Yacht and Your Ego

The Goofy Snob's Guide to Monaco: Where to Park Your Yacht and Your Ego Monaco. The very name whispers of tax shelters, Grand Prix adrenaline, and...

Feb 27, 2026

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Hotels

Goofy Snob Hotels: New York City

Goofy Snob Hotels: New York City New York separates those who simply have money from those who know what to do with it. The city offers...

Feb 27, 2026

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Rome: Where the Goofy Snob Finds Their Eternal Home

Rome: Where the Goofy Snob Finds Their Eternal Home The Eternal City. A place of ancient ruins, Renaissance masterpieces, and, most importantly, an...

Feb 27, 2026

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Hotels

Singapore: A Goofy Snob's Guide to the Lion City's Most Decadent Dens

Singapore: A Goofy Snob's Guide to the Lion City's Most Decadent Dens Welcome, fellow connoisseurs of the finer things—and by "finer," we mean the...

Feb 27, 2026

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History

The Greatest Math Geniuses of All Time

The Greatest Math Geniuses of All Time Does math give you the creeps, you goofy snob? Well, you better learn at least 1 plus 1 equals 3. And below...

Feb 27, 2026

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Math Geniuses

Math Geniuses

As any Goofy Snob knows math is something you're really good at or really bad at, depending on what you were told at age 9. Below is a summary of our...

Feb 27, 2026

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Arts

The Art of Disappearance: Urs Fischer's Melting Monuments

Not a house on an island. Not a yacht in Monaco. Not even a Basquiat hanging in a climate-controlled vault. Urs Fischer creates art designed to...

Feb 27, 2026

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Arts

The Youngest Artist at Gagosian: Anna Weyant and the Price of Prodigy

At twenty-seven, Anna Weyant became the youngest artist ever to join Gagosian Gallery—the most powerful art gallery network in the world,...

Feb 27, 2026

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Arts

Layers of Meaning: Paulina Cerda's Abstract Investigations

Paulina Cerda does not represent. She constructs visual systems where the background, far from being hidden, becomes an active part of the work. The...

Feb 27, 2026

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Arts

The Ghost in the Machine: Peter Lake's Anonymous Empire

Who the fuck is Peter Lake? It is the question everyone asks and no one can answer. Not fans. Not journalists. Not even the music industry...

Feb 27, 2026

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Philosophize Me

A Free Man's Worship

"To Dr. Faustus in his study Mephistopheles told the history of the Creation, saying: 'The endless praises of the choirs of angels had begun to grow...

Feb 27, 2026

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In Praise of Idleness

"I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the...

Feb 27, 2026

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The Value of Philosophy

"Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be...

Feb 27, 2026

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Is Life Worth Living?

"If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private...

Feb 27, 2026

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The Will to Believe

"Our passional nature not only lawfully may, but must, decide an option between propositions, whenever it is a genuine option that cannot by its...

Feb 27, 2026

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The Stream of Thought

"Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly... It is nothing...

Feb 27, 2026

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What Makes a Life Significant

"The solid meaning of life is always the same eternal thing,—the marriage, namely, of some unhabitual ideal, however special, with some fidelity,...

Feb 27, 2026

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Free Thought and Official Propaganda

"It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living." In this 1922 lecture, Bertrand...

Feb 27, 2026

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