Attention Whoring and Our Better Angels

With great music and oratory from past inaugurations and present stages

Hello, dear readers. I wish you all a meaningful Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Lately I’ve been making connections, as we do, between disparate cultural phenomena. Some of these connections may be surprising. I thought I’d share them with you in a quick essay. If you like, weigh in with your attention strategies in the comments. I’m always happy to hear f…