Bret Stephens: America shouldn’t have to play by New York rules

In 1976, artist Saul Steinberg drew a cover for The New Yorker — “View of the World from Ninth Avenue” — that became an instant classic. You know the one: Manhattan heavily in the foreground, the Hudson River, a brownish strip called “Jersey,” the rest of the America vaguely in the distance.It could almost be a map of the coronavirus epidemic in the United States.Even now, it is stunning to contemplate the extent to which the country’s COVID-19 crisis is