Our skeptical doctor surveys the latest migrant crisis on the Polish-Belorussian border and—in his typically incisive yet subtle way—calls a spade a spade.

As Oscar Wilde said, sentimentality is the desire to have the luxury of an emotion—in this case, awareness of one’s own generosity—without the willingness to pay for it. It is even better, of course, if you can make someone else pay for it.