Read history: so learn your place in Time; / And go to sleep: all this was done before.
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s somewhat sour sonnet comes to mind as a free-roaming commentary on any number of contemporary crises. These include a less-than-sober national media and a poorly grounded civic conversation about politics and the public.
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