Run, Writer, Run!

Politics

Run, Writer, Run!

Once upon a time, American political campaigns were literary.

Once upon a time, American writers enlivened—even conducted—political campaigns with wit and flair and acute diagnoses of national ills. Perhaps J.D. Vance, freed of the constraints of second-bananadom, will do so atop the GOP ticket in 2028.

Till then, the acme of auctorial office-seeking...