Apocalypse Now, or Later

What Our Yearning for Judgment Day is Really About

“Live every day as if it is your last,” as the refrigerator magnets say, and add an extra serving of appreciation for these rapturous days between May 21 and Oct. 21 – or Harold Camping’s overtime, as I like to call it.

Camping is the preacher, you may recall from a pre-Wiener news cycle, who famously predicted that the rapture, the end of time, would come May 21. We’re still here, so the preacher issued a correction, revising the date to October 21. To all those who quit their jobs on May …