Typically, I worry that events could outstrip a columnist’s cadence. Yet that worry does not apply to the Iran war.
I no longer worry about crossing a headline or a Truth Social post from the president, because commentary about the situation no longer lines up with reality.
On April 8, Nick Catoggio, a Dispatch colleague, labeled the earlier pause with Iran “Schrödinger’s ceasefire.” This nods to the well-known thought experiment by physicist Erwin Schrödinger, which was devised to illustrate the oddities of “superpositionality” in quantum physics.
