Tariffs’ Long-Term Benefits Are Worth Short-Term Costs
President Trump’s America First trade agenda is worth it.
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Beware America’s fake fiscal conservatives
Republicans are indulging in budgetary chicanery in order to preserve Trump’s tax cuts.
In Search Of The Invisible Hand
Adam Smith’s capitalism demands constraints on markets, not blind faith in them.
Why DOGE Will Fail
There isn’t an ‘easy button’ for everything.
USMCA Was Never Meant to Be Permanent
The first Trump administration’s USMCA deal needs to be just the opening salvo in our new trade dynamic.
The Fringe Cause That Could Derail the Republican Agenda
The Right’s “groups” could destroy the Trump agenda.
Trump’s Tariff Whiplash
Six reactions to the new administration’s aggressive trade diplomacy.
Is Our Children Learning? Apparently Not.
Plus, Sam Altman as ShamWow Guy, and more from this week…
The One Thing You Should Be Reading This Week, and Every Week
A brief departure from our standard Friday format…
Notes from an Inauguration
Or, the Canadian Girlfriend Theory of Executive Power
Optimism But Not Confidence as Trump Takes Control
From infrastructure spending to relations with China, uncertainty reigns.
What Ted Lasso Can Teach Us About Panda Express
And more from this week…
How Trump Can Rebuild America
The Conservative Case for Reindustrialization
How Trump Can Rebuild America
The conservative case for reindustrialization.
Is It Interesting to Say That AI Isn’t That Interesting?
I hope so, because that’s what I wrote about this week.
First, Assume the Can Opener Is Broken
And more from this week…
It Can’t Just Be DOGE
Trump’s anti-bureaucracy energy should be directed at regulation as well as waste
The H-1B Fight Is About So Much More
In which Vivek and Elon say the quiet part really loud
Cliff Asness Finds Common Cause with Compass on Coin-Flip Capitalism
And more from the past couple of weeks
More Than Decline
What Trump’s second term could mean for a decimated industrial power.
