No Country for Old Men
America is divided between the optimism of younger generations and the skepticism of older people. Politics needs a better way of blending these views.
In Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel, No Country for Old Men, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, played by Tommy Lee Jones in the Coen brothers’ award-winning film adaptation of the book, memorably sums up the hardened realism of his World War II ge…
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