The Return of Boredom

We should count ourselves lucky—for most of human history, boredom was a luxury only a few could afford.

Now that Donald Trump seems to have disappeared, Americans are finding that they can focus their attention on other things. In a quite literal sense, this is liberating. I suspect the meteoric rise of Clubhouse is in part a product of a Trump-less world. People happen to have more time on their hands when they're not obsessing over Trump. It could just …