Biden and a rag discolored by time

A person passes among the 200,000 flags installed in front of the Capitol, a day before Joe Biden was sworn in as the new president of the United States.JUSTIN LANE / EFE

One way to get closer to the deep turbulence that rages in the background of a country's history is to go to its classics.

And it's okay to remember them now that Biden has just taken over the reins of America.

On Wednesday he gave his speech before an esplanade full of flags, and each one of them represented what that great power carries inside, its great deeds and its great sins, its good intentions and its worst vices, its struggle to conquer freedom and long shadows of the times he wanted to impose it with cannon fire and bombardment, and blood and pain ...

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