{"id":106887,"date":"2017-01-20T09:58:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T14:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=106887"},"modified":"2017-01-20T14:18:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T19:18:45","slug":"i-buy-all-my-golf-balls-at-costco-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/20\/i-buy-all-my-golf-balls-at-costco-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"I Buy All My Golf Balls at Costco, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_106889\" style=\"width: 797px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/golf-scena-iv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106889\" class=\"wp-image-106889 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/golf-scena-iv.jpg\" width=\"787\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/golf-scena-iv.jpg 787w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/golf-scena-iv-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/golf-scena-iv-768x573.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-106889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrea Benetti, <i>Golf<\/i>, 2010.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The man entering the White House today is many dubious things, and here is one: he\u2019s an avid golfer, so much so that he\u2019s just appeared on the cover of <em>Golf Digest <\/em>as our \u201cgolfer-in-chief.\u201d Let me be clear: I don\u2019t trust golfers. They have an almost coagulated aura of excess leisure about them, like pet beds or angina. If your idea of a good time involves puttering around manicured country-club greens in an ill-fitting polo shirt, teeing off with the rich and idle while the hired help lugs your heavy bags of long metal rods, then, brother, you are no friend of mine. The <em>Wall Street Journal <\/em>has cut to the golfer\u2019s rubberized core with a report on their collective obsession with Kirkland-brand golf balls\u2014you know, from Costco. Such balls are so ideally plotted on the affordability-quality matrix (unit price $1.25) that they\u2019re the envy of every Palm Beach\u2013dwelling retired partner from Deloitte. Brian Costa writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-most-coveted-ball-in-golf-is-from-costco-1484832756\">What made the balls a hot item among fanatical golfers is the revelation that, by some accounts, they perform like rivals that sell for more than twice as much<\/a> \u2026 That idea sent shock waves through a billion-dollar industry, left Costco out of stock for weeks at a time and caused secondary-market prices for the ball to soar. Its popularity is threatening one of the sport\u2019s long-held consumer beliefs: when it comes to the quality of golf balls, you generally get what you pay for \u2026 The ball was such a curiosity to one major equipment company that employees there cut one in half to study its interior, hoping to discern more about its origin and composition.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Relatedly, if you find yourself dwelling, for some reason, on notions of vulgarity these days, seek refuge at the Barbican, where an exhibition called \u201cThe Vulgar: Fashion Redefined\u201d aims to rehabilitate the concept. Hilary Reid writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2017\/01\/19\/fashion-embracing-the-vulgar\/\">The show takes shape around eleven categories of vulgarity conceived by writer and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips<\/a>, like \u2018Puritan,\u2019 \u2018Impossible Ambition,\u2019 and \u2018Showing Off.\u2019 Each is explored through\u00a0clothing, shoes, and texts spanning the eighteenth century through the present \u2026 To call something vulgar may say more about oneself than the thing in question, Phillips argues. One employs the word, he writes, to \u2018reassure oneself of one\u2019s own good taste\u2019 and to reaffirm \u2018the fact that there is such a thing as good taste, and that it protects us\u2019 \u2026 Through humor and style, the exhibition hints at what might be gained if we loosen our grip on good taste. Strolling through the rooms of the Barbican, one can\u2019t help but feel a kind of optimism that vulgarity, when carefully applied, can rattle the existing order.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When we talk about \u201cthe existing order,\u201d we\u2019re talking about the Davos Man, that model of globalized citizenry who jets around the globe watching liberal democracy flourish with Bono by his side and Fukuyama in his briefcase. Rebecca Liao traces the history of the Davos mentality in the twentieth century: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/online-only\/online-only\/trumpism-and-the-davos-man\/\">Soon the Davos set, always spuriously intellectual, developed into a complex network into which actual historians and intellectuals were being drawn<\/a>. Figures like Francis Fukuyama and the aforementioned [Niall] Ferguson\u2014trained as scholars\u2014were paid top dollar for empty and often reactionary prognostications about the future of civil society, war, empire. It was not just independent organizations like Davos and Aspen. Top universities such as Harvard, Stanford, and Yale began to host affiliated think tanks that welcomed fellows like Fareed Zakaria and Samantha Power, members of the globalist intellectual class who work outside of academia. For the length of their tenure, the fellows at these university arms are essentially paid speakers, rather than scholars and teachers.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Does the global elite have anything more than a token role for artists? The answer, reinforced yesterday when rumors spread that Trump plans to cut the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities, is an easy no. Jillian Steinhauer offers a reassuring, if depressing, history of the federal government\u2019s vexed relationship with the arts:\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/352879\/trump-team-plans-to-eliminate-national-endowments-for-the-arts-and-humanities\/\">This is\u00a0hardly the first time the NEA and NEH have been targeted by conservative politicians<\/a>. In 1980, just three weeks after his election, Ronald Reagan\u00a0reportedly considered\u00a0the abolishment of both agencies. (Trump\u2019s campaign slogan, \u2018Make America Great Again,\u2019 also comes from Reagan.) In the end, he opted to cut\u00a0their budgets, which were further reduced drastically in 1996 after a series of controversies involving the work of the\u00a0NEA Four,\u00a0Andres Serrano,\u00a0Robert Mapplethorpe, and others \u2026 Fortunately, the president\u2019s budget request is only\u00a0the first step in a long, complicated budget approval process that involves negotiation with both the House and the Senate\u2014though\u00a0how much\u00a0the Republican-majority Congress will push back against Trump remains an open question.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Okay, enough Trump, let\u2019s go back, let\u2019s look to the nineteenth century, let\u2019s get out of here. You\u2019d think some new critical editions of Jane Austen would be a good place to start. Not so, Devoney Looser writes: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/public\/jane-austen-in-2017\/\">Before we decide whether to welcome or lament the trend of Austen novel\u2013cum-criticism-cum-novel, we ought to explore whether it is an innovation at all<\/a>. We might suspect that our own era of post-truthiness serves as the origin of fact\/fiction title-jumbling in Austen studies, but the phenomenon is hardly new \u2026 Perhaps seeking truths\u2014political and otherwise\u2014in Austen\u2019s fiction means thinking more deeply about the preposterous fact that so many read these novels in order to come to right answers.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: why golfers are obsessed with Costco golf balls; redefining \u201cthe vulgar\u201d; and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[1962,6666,13805,19381,1292,26802,26801,300,11938,12376,26805,26804,26806,26803,2656],"class_list":["post-106887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-adam-phillips","tag-costco","tag-davos","tag-donald-trump","tag-golf","tag-golf-balls","tag-golfers","tag-jane-austen","tag-national-endowment-for-the-arts","tag-nea","tag-neh","tag-the-barbican","tag-the-davos-man","tag-the-vulgar","tag-vulgarity"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Don\u2019t Trust the Golfers\u2014Especially Not the Golfer-in-Chief<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today\u2019s roundup of arts and culture news: why golfers are sadly obsessed with Costco golf balls; 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