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Never Let a Plague Go to Waste

Never Let a Plague Go to Waste
Then-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel addresses the audiance during the Laver Cup Gala at the Navy Pier Ballroom in Chicago, Ill., on Sept. 20, 2018. Matthew Stockman/Getty Images for The Laver Cup
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During America’s first-ever national lockdown, thousands of unelected bureaucrats, as well as federal and state governments, assumed enormous powers not usually accorded to them.

Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”
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