When the news broke about the special counsel’s hit job — his snide‚ unwarranted‚ obviously politically motivated slurs about President Biden’s memory — I found myself thinking about my mother. What year did she die? It turned out that I didn’t know offhand; I knew that it was after I moved from Princeton to CUNY‚ because I was regularly commuting out to New Jersey to see her‚ but before the pandemic. I actually had to look into my records to confirm that she died in 2017. I’ll bet...