Virginia Postrel, author of The Power of Glamour, discusses the glamorous nature of Barack Obama’s first campaign for president in 2008. Postrel offered these comments during a Dec. 2, 2013, speech for the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. To watch full-length presentations of JLF events, click here.
For healthy civil society, politics needs to stay in its lane
Political and cultural causes are important. They motivate us to make the world around us better and hone our sense of justice. Also, the excitement of fighting the good fight can be, for lack of a better word, fun. But everything has its time and place. And even if we think a particular political issue...