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Don Clippinger Nearly three centuries ago, the Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift wrote an essay, “A Modest Proposal,” in which he advocated that Ireland’s poor families sell their infants to the rich as food. The point of his straight-faced advocacy for infanticide and cannibalism was inequality, an issue that persists today. Let’s imagine that Swift or one of his successors landed in America today, in the midst of a pandemic, and surveyed our society and its challenges. One issue ...