Commentary Amidst dark times—a New York Times columnist has called this the “dark century” but he is at a loss to figure out why—we should pause to note genuinely good things that happen. Among them is the sudden collapse of vaccine mandates in Boston and Washington, D.C. With no real explanation that I can find, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser just flat-out said it: the mandate is gone. Wonderful. But think about it: how often does a government imposition on this scale get rolled back so dramatically, so quickly? Honestly I cannot think of an instance in my lifetime. Government impositions are sticky: once the bureaucrats seize control, they don’t like to give it up. There is a built-in bias such that (as Reagan said) nothing is as permanent as a temporary government program. We can think of few cases of rollback in the last 100 years. Prohibition was repealed but only after 12 years. Industrial regulations …