Column: Farewell to 2021, the stupidest year in American history

One year ago, we were looking forward to a safer and sounder 2021. Turns out there wasn't much to look forward to.

The Food and Drug Administration had granted emergency authorization to the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines against COVID-19.

Certainly there are other years or periods in which stupidity or heedlessness brought civilization in general close to eradication. Some individual countries and national leaders stand out for tempting fate, to their and their citizens’ misfortune. Britain in 1938 under Neville Chamberlain. Russia’s warmongering with Japan in 1904-1905. Louis Napoleon poking a stick into the Prussian bear’s cage in 1870-1871. Saddam Hussein invading Kuwait in 1990.

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