Professor Paul Kengor just released another important book, The Divine Plan: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Dramatic End of the Cold War, but what he wrote earlier in The Judge about Joe Biden is worth another look as Biden runs (again!) for president.

In an episode that was hot news then but cooled since, Biden showed himself to be a showboating, self-indulgent, shiftless skunk in perilous times. He remains unchanged, unembarrassed (he seems incapable of shame) and unrepentant about that incident, if he remembers it, or any of the others that, were he not a denizen of the District of Columbia, would have sent him into hiding, not on a quest for the Oval Office.