His novel had a great vogue for a long time.

It's kind of in vogue, but the price is too much!

Lately in this Organization, the concept of building ownership in areas such as security and the rule of law bas been in vogue, and rightly so.

In any case, two ethical concepts come to mind, neither of which is much in vogue these days when talking about government responsibility and honor. Both values are, or at least used to be, part of the ethics of governance.

Moreover, the ideological extremes that excited and polarized the continent back then are hardly in vogue today. Discredited by the collapse of the USSR and the Soviet bloc in Eastern Europe, communism is effectively moribund, and its core constituencies where communist parties manage to hang on are aging and incapable of reproducing themselves.

STANFORD Organic products from food to skin care nostrums to cigarettes are very much in vogue, with the global market for organic food alone now reportedly exceeding 60 billion annually. The views of organic devotees seem to be shared by the European Commission, whose official view of organic farming and foods is, Good for nature, good for you.

Nor is this pressure confined to the United States. New middle classes are emerging globally, and magazines like Cosmopolitan and Vogue are targeting newly middle class women in India and China many of them part of a generation with its own disposable income for the first time ever in their family histories with the very same luxury goods.

Equally deleterious to economic health is the recent vogue of cutting interest rates to near zero and holding them there for a sustained period. It is far from clear that near zero short term interest rates (as compared to just low interest rates) have much additional effect in encouraging firms to create jobs when powerful economic forces make them reluctant to hire.