I just got NRODT (of course all you clever people who subscribe to NR Digital have it already) and read Jonah’s excellent cover story on Vermont. The detail that threw me for a loop was the IBM plant opening in Fishkill, N.Y. I know upstate New York. Upstate New York is my friend. If businesses are choosing it over Vermont, things in the Green Mountain State are hard indeed.

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Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.
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