Dr. Robert W. Chase: Manufacturing muscle more critical than ever Robert Chase, Marrietta College In the national debate on economic policy, an unsound notion is taking hold. Some politicians are suggesting that technological innovation alone can meet our future needs. No one doubts that the technology revolution in the United States is the envy of the rest of the world. It already has changed things in Ohio, where technological advances strengthened the economy, at least until the COVID-19 pandemic set in, and did it in the unlikeliest of places: the traditional industries of oil and natural...