Thoughts on Inauguration Day
Why the world didn’t suddenly change
5 min readJan 25, 2021
I’m not excessively old yet, but I’m not as young as I used to be. Over the course of my life, thirteen men have now been president of the U.S., and although I remember nothing of Eisenhower and very little of Kennedy, that’s long enough to have learned not to expect too much of the changing of the guard.