David Runciman, 2 August 2018 Issue The World as It Is: Inside the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes, Bodley Head, 450 pp, £20.00, June, ISBN 978 1 84792 517 6  One of the minor disappointments about Obama was that he played golf. It’s true that most modern American presidents have liked to play golf – just about everyone from Taft to … Continue reading “The Impermanence of Importance”, London Review of Books