This column was originally published in the Houston Post on May 20, 1980. In it, Hale wonders about those who get a very early start to their day.

Sleep has hardly changed since Paleolithic humans snoozed soundly in their caves,” Merijn van de Laar notes in his new book.

For the woke right, the marginalised is of course a different group – namely white, straight, Christian males – but the ...