Let's Start Over

What would you give to be standing in a restaurant right now, post-pandemic, shouting a drink order over the noise of your laughing friends? Picture it. The bar you’re leaning against would be sticky with strangers’ spills. The air you’re breathing would be filtered through those strangers’ nasal tracts. And you wouldn’t think twice about it.

Many of us have spent the past nine months lusting for a normal night like that. Many of us have spent the past four years longing for a normal president. In 2021, we may...