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Writes Glenn Reynolds, quoting me — and possibly implying that I'm one of the rubes. On "glamour," he links to this, from Virginia Postrel. Postrel makes a distinction between "charisma" —"a personal quality that inspires followers to embrace the charismatic leader's agenda" – and "glamour" — which

By Virginia Postrel, Columnist, Commerce & Culture, The Atlantic About seven years ago, University of Chicago economists Kerwin Kofi Charles and Erik Hurst were researching the “wealth gap” between black and white Americans when they noticed something striking.

Race and class in America The July/August issue of The Atlantic arrived in yesterday's mail. Lots of great stuff to read, as usual. Last night I made it through two interesting essays touching on issues of race and class (neither of which is available on line).

Educated white woman fight! Watch your loafers. Today, Salon scribe Megan Hustad’s new piece, “You Are Not Your Bookcase,” argues that “fave lists” — a person’s “Heroes” on MySpace or “Favorite Books” on Facebook, for instance — are silly, juvenile forays into bullshit people need to abandon.

IxDA SF Originally uploaded by blackbeltjones. Last night we attended an IxDA-SF presentation of Matt Jones on “Playfulness in Design”. No full summary to share (although maybe Matt will post the slides eventually) but one great line was the statement that “Mundane is the new fun” which

Virginia Postrel writes in the dynamist blog: It’s infuriating how all three presidential candidates prattle on about the need to fight global warming while also complaining about the high price of gasoline. The candidates treat CO2 emissions as a social issue like gay marriage, with no economic ramifications.

«Unlike Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan, the two glamorous presidents who shaped 20th-century American politics, Obama has left his political philosophy a mystery. His call for “a broad majority of Americans—Democrats, Republicans, and independents of goodwill—who are re-engaged in the project of national renewal” is not a statement of principles.

I am a week away from my 1000th post. I have written 1.3 million words since I started in August in 2002. I've had 1,350,000 page views since I starting counting in April of 2004. There are a couple of thousand visitors a day. Bless you, one and all. I did my first post in early 2002, I guess it was.

Virginia Postrel, author of The Future and Its Enemies–one of my favorite pieces of political nonfiction–is featured in reason.tv’s latest video entitled Organ Transplants: Kidneys for Sale (I had a blog post with the same subtitle here). ‘What’d she do–donate her kidney?’ Why yes she did! In order to save an ally’s life.