Today’s gentility eschews allegiance to an actual place and instead proclaims solidarity with moralistic programs, such as opposing racism. Matthew Crawford, writing in UnHerd, examines the gentlefolk’s moral ecology. A politics of repudiation, writes Crawford, distinguishes the select few from ordinary citizens – explaining and excusing their contempt for them.
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.
