Born to Be Conned Size:19" x 19" bound for the Bronx and

bound for the Bronx and then for incineration

for nearly half a century

As the founder and unchallenged master of an industrial empire with assets of more than a billion dollars

Full steam ahead

" The Times wrote Oct

Born to Be Conned Size:19" x 19" bound for the Bronx andAlexis Beauclairs simple but striking illustration of a person entering a maze captures the essence of The Times Opinion article, Born to Be Conned, published December 5, 2015. In the article, author Maria Konnikova writes about people being swept up in confidence games by grifters. We embrace something we think is as true as it gets. We dont set out to be conned. We set out to become, in some way, better than we were before. That is the true power of