The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.

The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.

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

Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

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