/tags/commentary/ Recent content in commentary on Rootstalk Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us /past-issues/volume-vii-issue-2/baechtel/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /past-issues/volume-vii-issue-2/baechtel/ I have had my second injection of the Moderna vaccine and, as of two days ago, I’m 90 percent immune to the coronavirus. As I write this, outside my window spring is on its way, and I should be feeling hopeful rather than melancholy. But after a year that has provided as much storm and stress as 2020, maybe the way I’m feeling is understandable. I’m not quite old enough to have experienced the McCarthy era first-hand, but I’ve experienced its reverberating shock-waves all my life.