As Ryan noted yesterday, Anne Kim has a piece in the March-April issue of the Monthly discussing various ways to revive American manufacturing. It made The Atlantic‘s “Five Best Monday Columns” list this week. And it’s getting some serious attention, as in this mixed reaction from Slate‘s Matt Yglesias:

Here’s a video of Paul Glastris discussing the article, and one of its more provocative suggestions about how to encourage “insourcing.”

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Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York and managing editor at the Democratic Strategist website. He was a contributing writer at the Washington Monthly from January 2012 until November 2015, and was the principal contributor to the Political Animal blog.