Biden is turning away from free trade – and that's a great thing

President Joe Biden is making a break with decades of free trade deals and embarking on an industrial policy designed to revive American manufacturing. This has caused consternation among free-traders, including some of my former colleagues from the Clinton and Obama administrations. For example, Lawrence Summers, the former treasury secretary, last month called the president's thinking "increasingly dangerous" and expressed concern about what he termed "manufacturing-centered economic nationalism that is increasingly being put forth as a general principle to guide policy". Well, this veteran of the Clinton administration - me - is delighted by what Biden is doing. Clinton and…