




On the twelfth of August the office endorses a former Navy SEAL running in Wisconsin, and on the thirteenth a governor in Tennessee — the machine running at its ordinary speed. The same day it publishes a list of six things wrong with the country and ends it with a question: DO YOU MISS ME YET? Two days later Kabul falls in an afternoon, the crowd at the airfield fence a mile deep, and the office answers eleven times in forty-eight hours. The papers get shorter as they go. What Joe Biden has done with Afghanistan is legendary, one of them says, in twenty-one words.
Readers' Corner
Letters from the readership on Week 322. Pick a pen name — no account needed.
Opening the mailbag…