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On Saturday, Aug. 5, voters in Fenwick Island will go to the polls to choose between eight candidates to fill four seats on the town council. The candidates are Janice

Reading Primo Levi’s The Drowned and the Saved, about survivors of the World War II death camps, gave the author Daniel Genis humility: “The fact that much worse than I experienced was suffered by innocent people in The Drowned and the Saved made my flicker of self-pity laughable.”

In the great film Glengarry Glen Ross, Alec Baldwin has an epic scene in which he tries to motivate a group of salesmen. People “are sitting out there waiting to give you their money,” Baldwin says. “Are you willing to take it? Are you man enough to take it?”

Rich Cohen may have been right. Writing in Vanity Fair in 2017, Cohen announced that “Generation X might be our last, best hope.” Sandwiched between the crazy liberal boomers and the insane social justice warriors of the millennials and Generation Z, Generation X, those born between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s, may offer the realism and humility required to lead America through its current storms.