After epochal disaster in Afghanistan, Biden should step down

Published August 18, 2021 8:00am ET



President Joe Biden should resign in disgrace.

Seriously. As I have argued for decades, it is long past time for American politicians to adopt the Asian cultural model of resignations, as a matter of honor, for gross failures or derelictions. A “culture of shame” would do much to restore faith in our institutions by reasserting a sense of personal responsibility to a political culture most see as being more about personal aggrandizement.

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