Blue State Blues: The Column I Wrote Before I Knew Israel Attacked Iran

On Thursday afternoon California time, I boarded a flight with my children and began the next phase of a temporary move to Washington, DC, where we will be while our fire-ravaged neighborhood is rebuilt. I checked the news before we boarded, and while there had been rumors all day that Israel might attack Iran, there was no news about it by the time we took off. There was also no WiFi on the flight — a rarity — so I sat down to write my weekly column offline. I was concerned about the skepticism I perceived, especially on the American...