The concentration of wealth and power in America has never been more pronounced. But for Dominic Green, the rich-poor chasm is more than economic. In the Spectator US, Green argues that a seemingly unbridgeable gap between a modern-day version of nobility and peasantry has destroyed the American democratic compact.
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.
