Homer told the story of ancient Greece in the “Iliad,” Virgil of Rome in the “Aeneid,” John Milton of the fall of man in “Paradise Lost,” and Alexander Pope of 18th-century England in the “Dunciad.” If we had a poet of that scope, he might well title his epic of contemporary America the “Denunciad.”We seem to have entered a period of nonstop mutual denunciation. This is particularly useful to the media, which can fill pages and airtime with nonevents that reporters and pundits invent and then cover. It is useful, too, in...

Source: Wall Street Journal November 23, 2017 19:18 UTC