What happened? How was it that what we once celebrated – the triumph of vaccines, those cups of orange juice that spelled the end of the iron lung – are now viewed with suspicion by those whose lives are most in danger? I remember the older brothers and sisters. I read Philip Roth. I imagined the playgrounds in Newark, NJ, at the time of the polio plague. It was the generation before mine. It was […]

And Then We All Watched Walter Cronkite …
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