Susan Shelley: Did anyone in the Biden administration ever pass an economics class? Maybe not.

Watching President Joe Biden sit for an interview always reminds me of “University Days,” a chapter in the great American humorist James Thurber’s 1933 autobiography, “My Life and Hard Times.”

Thurber tells the story of a fellow student in his economics class who was one of Ohio State University’s outstanding football players, a tackle named Bolenciecwcz. “In order to be eligible to play it was necessary for him to keep up in his studies, a very difficult matter, for while he was not dumber...