The Biden era is a wretched repeat of our 1960s and ’70s crises

Why do I feel that I have seen this movie before?

I would like to think that learning is cumulative. But I’m beginning to think that every generation or two, people need to learn all over again the lessons that have unaccountably been forgotten or tossed aside. The elderly among us can see this, even as young people are ­inclined to insist that they are experiencing things never before experienced by humans, that this time will be different. Let’s take it issue by issue: