Amerimania
The Problem with Political Intimacy

Why American politicians so enthusiastically reveal their personal lives to us—and why they should knock it off.

Appeared in: Volume 11, Number 1 | Published on: August 1, 2015
R. Jay Magill, Jr. is the author of Sincerity (W.W. Norton & Company, 2012) and Chic Ironic Bitterness (University of Michigan Press, 2007). He is currently writing a book about intimacy.

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