Biden, Kissinger and the banality of evil.

The inability to call out evil when it stares us in the face is not a defect of this age but its hallmark.

I grew up in a politically savvy household. My first words were “De Gaulle.” Behind my high chair, back in 1960, my Republican mother placed a large and looming poster of Richard Nixon, a former Vice President and California Governor running for President against Democrat John Kennedy, a rare Irish Catholic child of Brahmin-level privilege whose fathe…