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Empty shelves at a Vons supermarket in Burbank, California as the coronavirus continues to spread across the United States on March 14, 2020. Amy Sussman/Getty Images
Roger Kimball is the editor and publisher of The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter Books. His most recent book is “Where Next? Western Civilization at the Crossroads.”