Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

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

Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.

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

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

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

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