Jan. 6

Should we really call Mike Pence courageous — and what do we mean by courage anyway?

Seventy-five years ago, Albert Camus’ novel “La Peste” was published in France. Readers of the English translation, “The Plague,” have thrilled to its tale of a motley crew of characters who, when the bubonic plague bursts into their world, join forces to resist it. The thrill thickens upon the realization that Camus based the novel on a different…