Zoran Mamdami, the newly minted Democratic Candidate for Mayor of New York City – and therefore, the likely next Mayor of New York City – has a plan: He intends to open a state-run chain of grocery stores in New York to combat rising prices.
“Those who do not understand history”, noted Winston Churchill (though the original author of the quote is disputed) “are doomed to repeat it”. To that we might add a variation: Those who do understand history are doomed to watch everybody else repeat it.