The other day I was on Twitter and was struck by a tweet contrasting the fact that we have a robot helicopter on Mars while on Earth some people are trying to convince children to remove their masks during a pandemic. He linked to the first stanza of Alexander Pope’s  "An Essay on Man Epistle 11," which I provide below (thanks to the Poetry Foundation). I won’t pretend that I’ve read the entire work by Alexander Pope, which was written in 1773-1774, and which was … [Read more...]