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Someone has to study it

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 by Wes

Powder Room 101

Molotch’s course is called “The Urban Toilet,” and its remarkable syllabus reads almost like a parody of Allan Bloom’s worst nightmare, bringing the jargon of gender and ethnic studies, city planning, and industrial design to bear on the most euphemized of subjects.
— Ben McGrath in The New Yorker