*From nineteenth-century traveling exhibitions to modern social media influencers, public attention has often been drawn toward those who can command a crowd. Yet there is a difference between spectacle that entertains and spectacle that corrodes.
*From nineteenth-century traveling exhibitions to modern social media influencers, public attention has often been drawn toward those who can command a crowd.
Yet there is a difference between spectacle that entertains and spectacle that corrodes.
Increasingly, our national culture seems unable—or unwilling—to distinguish between the two.
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*From nineteenth-century traveling exhibitions to modern social media influencers, public attention has often been drawn toward those who can command a crowd. Yet there is a difference between spectacle that entertains and spectacle that corrodes. Increasingly, our national culture seems unable—or unwilling—to distinguish between the two.
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