Welcome to DiscRep, your guide to the public discourse. I’m Berny Belvedere (@bernybelvedere), editor in chief of Arc Digital.

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1. World War II’s Lesson for After the Pandemic by Derek Thompson in The Atlantic on 6/28/21

COVID-19 posed another global challenge for which the United States was utterly unprepared. This time, too, the country’s initial respo…