My head is exploding. I don’t know why Greenland is doing it, when so much else could. But Greenland is a fine place to start.  Also gibberish—which is what much of the reporting and commentary about current developments sounds like to me. The idea that “acquiring Greenland” can be called a “national security priority,” as the White House press secretary purported on Jan. 6, is gibberish. Yet former NATO commander Wesley Clark, in a BBC interview, ticks off reasons why the place is essential...

Evan Vucci for AP via The New York Times What more to say? Since January 20, we have experienced a distillation of all the kleptocracies...

And so we enter a new era, likely to last several decades at least. I spent Nov. 6 walking a cobbled beach through the fog, a...