The NBA's surrender to China shows free trade threatens more than jobs

In U.S. politics, there's a growing awareness that the last few decades of unfettered free trade with China has been corrosive to American jobs. What's less appreciated is that it's arguably corrosive to America's democratic norms as well. This weekend, we got a reminder of that latter point — from basketball, of all things. The dustup started on Friday, when Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tweeted his support for Hong Kong protestors with an image that read, "Fight for...