ROGER SIMON: Let Elon Musk Show the Way for America, Not the Rioters.

Not the first time that riots and space exploration highlighted the duality of modern America life. Amity Shlaes tweeted yesterday a topic she explored at length in her new Great Society book:

That disparity was even more on display during the Apollo 8 mission, which took man around the moon for the first time in his history, during the otherwise horrid year of 1968, as dramatized in this classic scene from Tom Hanks’ 1998 HBO miniseries, From the Earth to the Moon: