The Quiet Return of the Draft Machinery

Automatic registration sounds administrative. The sheep suspect it is better understood as the quiet tightening of an old state power.

The sheep have been thinking about the difference between making a decision and making that decision easier to carry out later.

That is what makes the new move toward automatic Selective Service registration so important. The United States is not reinstating the draft today. There is no active military draft, and registration is not the same thing as ind…