Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for stasis-a regulated, engineered world? Or do we embrace dynamism-a world of constant creation, discovery, and competition?

The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.