Crisis? That word is being invoked, especially by politicians and my fellow card-carrying members of the Columnist Party, so promiscuously as to almost lose its impact.

As H.L. Mencken wrote, in “In Defense of Women”:

“Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”

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