Calls for restrictions, mask mandates and lockdowns arise mostly from the political spectrum’s left end. These are the same people who only recently demanded civil liberties and the right to protest. Writing in Spectator USA, Megan Murphy maintains that authoritarianism doesn’t always arrive in the manner we expect.
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.
