Here’s an agonizing illustration of what we could be doing instead of watching America disintegrate amid the coronavirus crisis

The most famous torment of Greek myth was the punishment of Tantalus (the origin of our word “tantalize”), who was cursed to be forever hungry and thirsty with food and water just out of reach. Focusing on what might have been is invariably jarring, which is why psychologists warn against spending a lot of time thinking about what might […]