june 2020

FROM THE MAGAZINE

June 2020

‘We need a careful but determined uncoupling from China’s vast economy. When the COVID-19 crisis passes, America must deploy an industrial policy to strike a better balance between globalization and the national interest.’

Place

Horrors of the plantation

Former slaves who worked for wages still had to buy food from the plantation shop: they were trapped

By Elisa Segrave

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A June election in Genesee County

We will learn once more that ’tis better to be a flower-seeker than a power-seeker

By Bill Kauffman

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The joy of Xanax

Back in her examination room, I presented her with my sample

By Jeremy Clarke

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Faith

It’s the eschatology, stupid

What should Christians think about the pandemic?

By Luke Coppen

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Czar quality

Under the czars and the communists, Georgia was where Russians went to party

By William Cook

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Keeping up with the Santorums

Lockdown in Virginia with the former senator’s huge family

By Madeleine Kearns

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Back to the future

How the post-pandemic world could resemble the 1950s

By Michael Lind

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