“. . . And They Is Us.”

John Stewart, rocked back on his heels by the horrific events in Charleston, improvising, and unable to come up with a single joke, nevertheless manages more coherence and resolution than I could, even when I have time to prepare. Which is why he’s the TV star and I, obviously, am not. Not that I feel like joking or anything. And it’s not like the thing is new, or even unusual, or something that belongs in another age. I remember Bill Clinton’s speech back in the mid-Nineties, when something...