Franklin Roosevelt’s first inaugural address’ famous line “ … the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” is familiar to us as an exhortation to action. But you really need to imbibe the second part, “—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”We must embrace what Samantha Hancox-Li called on these pages a war mindset as to the problems our democratic life faces. War is certainly…
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