No Way Back

February 22nd seems like a lifetime ago: a relatively hopeful moment when we all imagined that the world might finally be emerging from the two year-long tunnel of Covid.

Now, however, we all know how it felt to be living in America in 1940, watching helplessly as a conflict brought death and destruction to Europe. Except, of course, we are all far better and more vividly informed than the US spectators of 80 years ago who had to rely on radio broadcasts and movie newsreels.

While praying for the carnage to stop, we are all going to have to consider how the world will look when it is over. After WW2, the few countries that had not been directly involved or occupied could do their best to carry on as before, but that won’t be the case this time. More