A REFLECTION ON THE ERA. The Wall Street Journal moves headquarters from Ground Zero, prompting an apt Bret Stephens observation on life in general.

At Ground Zero, there is a pit. With broad slabs of concrete and some rust-colored steel. Testifying to a society in which everyone gets their say and nothing gets done. To a system run by craven politicians and crass developers and an army of lawyers for whom gridlock is profit.

There's thematic material for a freshman cluster in that paragraph, but by the time a curriculum committee got done with it, the icecaps would have melted, if they hadn't covered Minneapolis.