We’re away until January 4, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2015. Please enjoy, and have a happy New Year!The widening gyre of heavy-handed allusions to Yeats’s “The Second Coming.”A recent Russia Today headline suggests that Eu…

The widening gyre of heavy-handed allusions to Yeats’s “The Second Coming.”A recent Russia Today headline suggests that Europe is “slouching towards anxiety and war.” According to the title of Robert Bork’s latest best seller, the United States is Sl…