Person of the Year, and who it should have been

It’s hard for me to argue about Taylor Swift as Person of the Year, but I’m going to do it anyway, carefully tiptoeing to the microphone in fear.

Before the Swifties come after me, it has nothing to do with my admiration for Swift as an artist and entertainer. I have a great deal of admiration for Swift. I’ve heard little of her music because I’m old and boring, but she is certainly one of the most powerful entertainers we’ve seen in my lifetime and something in her work is resonating with millions of people, many of them young women. And as is…