Episode 23: Creative Fictions

Political Junkie Podcast · May 15, 2023 · 39m

Although creativity sits at the center of many things we value as Americans—art, inventiveness, problem-solving, and all the culture industries—most people would be hard put to define what creativity is. However, to paraphrase Supreme Court Associate Justice Potter Stewart in the 1964 pornography case, Jacobellis v. Ohio, we know it when we see it.

Today, being creative is almost seen as a right, a quality that, when we are permitted or able to express it, will lead us to our best and most satisfying life, perhaps even to wealth and recognition.

But as it turns out, creativity has not always…