In chaotic times like these, when it appears “the center cannot hold,” there is one thing you can depend on: references to William Butler Yeats’ “The Second Coming.”
Tony Blair made reference to it in a column for The New York Times, immediately spawning derision from his critics. The Economist used it in the headline to a column about the forthcoming Democratic convention. The New York CaribNews topped a column about Orlando with it. I feel like columnist Leonard Pitts uses it at least once a year, though all I could find was a February column about Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.
Ephemereality 