Elections should be about something.  Elections are expensive and cumbersome, and therefore are precious, our main opportunity to connect our government to the major questions it needs to answer.

An election that isn’t about anything important is an empty exercise.  It may stir interest as a sporting event – a very long horse race – or as a celebrity reality show.  But if an election isn’t about fundamental issues of human existence and political theory, it’s a sham, nothing more than very expensive patriotic bunting draped across the real business of governing. Continue reading →