The Future Of Vice

The Future of ViceIt's a sad commentary on our times--rather, on me--that the word vice had not actually crossed my mind since the TV show Miami Vice went off the air, in 1989. Sinful as I am, I may not be entirely alone. Vice--qua vice, as my colleague in this matching pair of essays would put it--is not a word, or even a concept, that one comes upon a lot anymore. If that tells us something of our time, perhaps it tells us even more about where--God save us--we are headed.I did what any dilige...