Another catastrophic world war might be just the thing to usher in a one-world socialist utopia. When Joe Biden ran for president, Americans were promised a return to “normalcy” and a restoration of a much touted technical managerialism to the besieged halls of power. Yet, in the last year the country—indeed, the world—instead has experienced economic decline, societal upheaval, and the most serious risk of great power conflict in generations. All of it was avoidable. In fact, before the novel coronavirus was loosed upon the world from Wuhan, China in early 2020 (or possibly earlier), the United States was doing...