Rachel DiCarlo Currie

Whenever I feel a twinge of despair over America’s challenges—a not infrequent occurrence—I ask myself a simple question: “What year or decade would you like to return to?” It’s a useful exercise for anyone harboring undue pessimism about the future or gauzy nostalgia for the past. Americans have a…

It was not, one assumes, the kind of review F. Scott Fitzgerald had hoped for.