Truth is both an intellectual objective and a cultural value. Yet to defeat the Bad Orange Man, many in the American media have abdicated their commitment to truthfulness. Writing in American Greatness, Roger Kimball argues that the deceitfulness of the mainstream media has seriously damaged the “horizon of shared assumptions” that makes public life possible.
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.
