“The concepts of private and public have undergone a strange new shift in American culture,” notes Joseph Bottum in today’s “On the Square” article, Publicizing Privacy . He illustrates and illuminates the shift through a family eating in a restaurant, his grandmother’s view of things, Journo-List, and the differences in old and new houses.
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