A temporary, mobile surveillance tower is surrounded by a wood fence as it stands on the east side of the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 19, 2021. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
As a working principle, the conviction that things are always worse than they seem is hard to beat.
Roger Kimball
Author
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.”