This Aesthetic Quality, Then, Is What Politics

This Aesthetic Quality, Then, Is What Politics Is All About. It's Authenticity That Separates Winners From Losers, Good Politics From Bad, And He-man Leader-types From Consultant-directed Puppet-boys.

Financial Regulation Is The Next Item On The Political Horizon, And It Doesn't Have To Be The Deathly Dull Wonk-battle That It Sounds Like. In Fact, If The Democrats Do Their Job, It Can Just As Easily Become A Platform For Addressing The Greatest Issues Of Them All.

In America, We No Longer Have An Institutionalized, Organized Way Of Calling Business To Task - Of Taking Them To Account For What They've Done - And This Is Especially True In The Cultural Realm.

In The Last James Bond Movie, The Villain Was A Culture Captain, A Tycoon Of Culture, A Murdoch Figure. It's Not As If People Don't Know What Is Going On.

Every City Is Either Vibrant These Days Or Is Working On A Plan To Attain Vibrancy Soon. The Reason Is Simple: A City Isn't Successful - Isn't Even A City, Really - Unless It Can Lay Claim To Being 'vibrant.'