The chasm between “red” and “blue” states in the U.S. continues to widen. Contending and mutually incompatible understandings of the American experience vie for political ascendancy. Writing in The American Mind, the pseudonymous “Rebecca” argues that avoiding violent conflict may well depend on Americans considering a radical new political arrangement.

Reversing Industrial Suicide
Following the loss of 5 million U.S. industrial jobs from 2000 through 2017, Joel Kotkin in Spiked writes of the growing consensus – alone among Western countries, and despite the U.S. left’s hatred of Donald Trump – to revive America’s industries by “reshoring” manufacturing. Today, writes Kotkin, even some of the famously globalist “tech bros” are opening new facilities back home to manufacture tangible, advanced products. One sign of success: China is measurably bleeding in its manufacturing output.

