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Palin Redux

Calvin Trillin

February 8, 2022

Sarah Palin speaks at a campaign rally in Leesburg, Va., in 2008. (Jacquelyn Martin / AP Photo)

Sarah Palin flouts a New York ordinance by dining in an Upper East Side restaurant unvaccinated.—News reports

Refusing the vaccine means freedom, she says, And no one can ever negate hers. The shots would be o’er her dead body, she says. But what if the body’s the waiter’s?

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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