Jim Lehrer is retired. Jim Lehrer is bored. Jim Lehrer is lonely. We find the legendary news anchor, noted author, and former presidential debate moderator, in “the small sitting room just off the foyer of the entrance to [his] suburban home” in Washington, DC. Lehrer is there a lot, you see. His current evening routine
Consider Sisyphus. A man is condemned to push a rock up a hill. The rock rolls down the hill just before he reaches the crest, and so he pushes the rock up again, and again, forever. This can be considered a curse. But the French writer Albert Camus saw romance in Sisyphus’ eternal labor. “The