October 3, 2012
THE DEATH OF THE GROWN-UP: Jim Geraghty on “The End of the Cold War and the Triumph of the Cool Pop-Culture Celebrity President.” Or as Geraghty writes, “The pop culture stuff — the cameos on Saturday Night Live and the Daily Show, the celebrity guests at rallies, the appearances on non-news programs — used to be the frosting on the cake of a campaign. Now it’s the cake.”
