The weekend's postcard, and the new tragedies of a war that wouldn't wait

October 28, 2023

The Medicine Wheel, on the crest of the Bighorns, east of Lovell, Wyoming

I don’t smoke but I think it would have helped, yesterday, to be with someone who does.

In 1962 ABC introduced a TV show about war. “Combat!” was invariably described as a “gritty” depiction of platoon-level warfare, with its constant tides of moral and ethical challenges—even if …