Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the chief medical advisor to the president, gives an update on the Omicron COVID-19 variant during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington on Dec. 1, 2021. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Roger Kimball is the editor and publisher of The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter Books. His most recent book is “Where Next? Western Civilization at the Crossroads.”