Who’s Afraid of the Metric System?
<span>A historian explains why the U.S. still hasn’t adopted the global standard.</span>
When former Rhode Island senator and governor Lincoln Chafee formally jumped into the presidential race on Wednesday, he made a splash. There are good reasons to take Chafee’s bid seriously, but his speech drew the most attention for a less-conventional proposal. “Let’s join the rest of the world and go metric,” he said.
His call was not universally embraced. Labeling it “the worst idea” of the campaign, the ’s Jim Geraghty , with
