What might happen in the upcoming year? We asked a few of National Review Online’s sages to prophesy the events of 2011.JOHN DERBYSHIRE Domestic affairs: 2011 will be the year that the full scale of our fiscal crisis becomes clear, even to politicians. They will likely be able to postpone the inevitable for another year or so, though. (The inevitable being real, massive reductions in federal and state spending, entitlements cut to the bone, major public-sector layoffs, etc.) Start practicing the term “QE3.†Of course, the longer the politicians postpone it, the worse the crash will be: but politicians...
