The Liberation Tariffs: Worse Than an Oil Embargo?
This won’t be Great Depression 2.0. But this trade war will cost America and the world many innovations and great prosperity.
Garett Jones
· 6 min read
American Politics
A collection of 36 posts
The Centre Must Rise
No centrist who understands the current moment has ever truly laid out their case to the Democratic Party base in the context of a serious political campaign. It’s time to change that.
Jack Despain Zhou
· 8 min read
Revenge of the Silent Male Voter
What I learned about Trump’s landslide victory from one night in New York City.
Claire Lehmann
· 4 min read
Searching for Presidential Rhetoric
Students should study extensively the presidential rhetoric of earlier times, because it often demonstrates civility far better than the rhetoric of the present.
Robert C. Thornett
· 13 min read
Kremlin Cash
The Tenet media scandal and the convergence of right-wing American punditry and Russian propaganda.
Cathy Young
· 9 min read
The Roots of Progressive Radicalism: Nellie Bowles vs. Musa al-Gharbi
In two new books, a journalist and an academic offer competing explanations for the extremist ideological tendencies within left-wing cultural, academic, activist, and political institutions.
Jonathan Kay
· 16 min read
A Moronic Inferno
America First and the looming spectre of an illiberal international.
Jeffrey Herf
· 15 min read
The Perils of Affective Polarization
Our increasing desire to isolate ourselves from supporters of the opposite party can have dire consequences.
Julian Adorney
· 9 min read
Civility Isn’t Weakness—It’s How We Win
A commitment to civility is first and foremost about not becoming what we oppose.
Julian Adorney, Angel Eduardo
· 4 min read
It Doesn’t Make It Alright
The SCOTUS decision on affirmative action has ended a hypocritical and incoherent policy.
Andrew Hammel
· 15 min read
Chicago’s Criminal Irresponsibility
Progressive thinking on urban violence is so unrealistic it is dystopian.
Jukka Savolainen
· 8 min read
Why Are Underage Central Americans in US Factories?
Debt and migration spirals have turned asylum applications into a charade for exploitation.
David Stoll
· 8 min read
Dear Americans: Your Politics Don’t Have to Be This Toxic
America’s narrowing two-party system is poisoning the greatest democracy in the world.
Stephan Jensen
· 18 min read
The Hard Left and Populist Right Agree on All the Wrong Things
The ideas that unite the hard Left and the populist Right against the West itself are the same ones that make them both so excited about the culture wars.
Stephan Jensen
· 8 min read
The Tragedy of American Diplomacy: A Rebuttal
Williams, W. A. (1962). The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. New York: Dell Pub. Co. When the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) pinned Putin’s recent invasion of Ukraine on NATO’s “imperialist expansionism,” many policymakers and journalists on both sides of the political spectrum lambasted the organization for its half-hearted
Niranjan Shankar
· 15 min read