How entrenched in political culture is the idea of lockdown to address a crisis? My optimistic bent says: not much. We are in the blowback stage. The nearly uncritical celebration for Michael Lewis’s book on the pandemic, however, sets me back a peg or two. In fact, it terrifies me.
By now, everyone knows Lewis’s literary trick. He investigates a notable event within a sector of American life about which most people care. As a journalist, he knows how the story ends. So do his readers. His job is to find unlikely people who came out as the winners by overcoming all odds.
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