Kim Kardashian’s upcoming appearance as a guest of one of San Francisco’s most august institutions has caused a typical “love her/hate her” stir. The reality TV star is scheduled to speak and sign copies of her new coffee table book “Selfish” during a Tuesday night event hosted by the Commonwealth Club of California, which bills itself as the nation’s oldest and largest public affairs forum. During the club’s 112-year history, world leaders and intellectuals such as President Ronald Reagan, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, Martin Luther King Jr. and Cornel West have addressed its members. Franklin Delano Roosevelt outlined the principles that would form the basis for his “New Deal” during a Commonwealth Club speech in 1932.
