Mad Cows and Englishmen

Sidney Tarrow recalls how ordinary people in the United Kingdom stepped up during a public health crisis

How does a crisis reorganize our political culture? This transformation is something we will be watching in real-time in the coming weeks, and it will vary from place to place. Here in Western Massachusetts, where I am socially-distancing, the community has quickly reorganized the delivery of food.

This rapid response may be in part because cooperatives…