Love in a Time of Dystopia

In the popular imagination of the 1980s, America was a utopia, Russia a dystopia; but then the cold war warmed and everywhere became equally tepid. It’s a mediocre life we live now in America: Our economy is an unnatural disaster; our environment a wreck; and our present enemies constitute no empire-they merely compose grainy videos in cave shelters, ride mules and set our own jetliners against …