What are we to think of what Sarah Hoyt has called the Antifada, the lefty riots against free speech at “The Home of Free Speech” at the University of California at Berkeley? And why does the anti-Trump movement have the conceit to style itself as the Resistance? The whole thing came into focus for me when reading The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi. It’s a center-left history of the industrial revolution, and my copy has a foreword by lefty economist Joseph Stiglitz. Polanyi’s narrative strongly features the revolutionary activities of the workers in the mid-19th century, especially the great Chartist movement in Britain. The ruling class put down the Chartists using the army, but then extended the franchise to the workers, starting in the 1860s. The result was that the workers stopped their violent protests. They found that their concerns were being addressed in the councils of power, and so did not need to take their grievances to the streets. Oh...(Read Full Article)