Student Scapegoats
The Trump administration’s decision to start revoking the visas of international students is vindictive, petty, and counterproductive.
Carl Skutsch
· 8 min read
Donald Trump
A collection of 61 posts
Qatar: Futuristic City, Medieval Morals
Donald Trump has an opportunity to influence the Qatari monarchy away from supporting jihad and towards promoting peace. But will he take it?
John Aziz
· 7 min read
Playing with Economic Fire
The Trump administration has a NatCon economics problem.
Phillip W. Magness
· 10 min read
Faith, Fanaticism, and False Prophets
American populism and religion are bound by a shared desire for order in a rapidly changing world.
Timothy Devinney, Christopher A. Hartwell
· 11 min read
Canada’s Newest Identity, Made in the USA
Last week’s federal election, decided amidst a spasm of anti-Trump fervour, reflects a long Canadian trend.
Jonathan Kay
· 5 min read
Trump Versus Harvard
The cure may be worse than the disease.
Andrew Gleeson
· 16 min read
America’s Grief Cycle: The Negotiation Phase
How Trump’s tariffs and foreign policy signal the third phase of US decline on the world stage.
Andrew Roberts
· 7 min read
What’s So Terrible About Trade Deficits Anyway?
Populist rhetoric and the hidden costs of economic illiteracy.
Robert Johnson
· 7 min read
Podcast #280: The Trouble with Tariffs
Iona Italia talks to John H. Cochrane aka "The Grumpy Economist" about the motivations, effects and implications of Donald Trump's economic policies.
Quillette, John H. Cochrane
· 41 min read
If ‘Woke’ Puritanism Is the Disease, Trump’s Amoral Populism Isn’t the Cure
Valid critiques of progressive moralism have devolved into an embrace of anything-goes strongman rule.
Eric Kaufmann
· 7 min read
The Nonsense of the “Tariff Men”
President Trump’s protectionist policies are erratic, ill-defined, and incoherent.
Phillip W. Magness
· 15 min read
A Hollow Kind of Patriotism
The economic and geopolitical consequences of America First nationalism are going to be disastrous—not least for Americans themselves.
Matt Johnson
· 17 min read
Border Wars and the Return of Fear
The new European commitment to defence and Russia’s unshakeable wish to control Ukraine have revived an awareness that war is something with which comfortable and relatively wealthy states may still have to live.
John Lloyd
· 10 min read
Derangement Discourse
Accusations of Trump Derangement Syndrome and Trump himself are both products of the social-media age.
George Case
· 8 min read
Fatuous Moral Humility
The pope is not a source of ethical wisdom.
Brian Stewart
· 5 min read