Commentary
“Stay safe” is the emetic phrase of the moment, the treacly talisman of trite wokeness. No communication from your gym, your grocer, your haberdasher ends without that imperative, nor does any official telephone call.
A man walks along a street closed to vehicle traffic in New York City on May 4, 2020. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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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.”
