The ghost of sanctions yet to come.

What keeps me up at night.

Earlier today, I was at Bristol County Superior Court. New Bedford. The courthouse — which is, like many of its era, objectively gorgeous — was built at the height of the whaling era, when New Bedford, Massachusetts, was, per capita, the wealthiest town in the United States.

Whale was something everybody needed, it seemed. Industrialists used blubber fo…