Virginia’s Festival of the Book recently wrapped up in Charlottesville, but one of its featured authors didn’t go far. Matthew Crawford returned to his workshop in Richmond, where he produces custom motorcycle parts and meditates on the distractions of modern life.
If you knew Matthew Crawford in high school, you might be surprised to hear that he got a PhD in political philosophy at the University of Chicago - a school deeply committed to scholarship. At age 16, scholarship was the last thing on Crawford’s mind.