Late-Soviet America?

What does the contemporary USA have in common with the USSR in the Seventies and Eighties? More than you think.

On my recent trip to Australia, I gave a series of talks and interviews. Here, in a speech for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship’s Sydney conference, I make the case that in some respects the United States is exhibiting “late-Soviet” characteristics, particularly with respect to public health and morale. If your initial reaction to my thesis was …