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.
A collection of 55 posts
How Trump’s tariffs and foreign policy signal the third phase of US decline on the world stage.
Populist rhetoric and the hidden costs of economic illiteracy.
Iona Italia talks to John H. Cochrane aka "The Grumpy Economist" about the motivations, effects and implications of Donald Trump's economic policies.
Valid critiques of progressive moralism have devolved into an embrace of anything-goes strongman rule.
President Trump’s protectionist policies are erratic, ill-defined, and incoherent.
The economic and geopolitical consequences of America First nationalism are going to be disastrous—not least for Americans themselves.
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.
Accusations of Trump Derangement Syndrome and Trump himself are both products of the social-media age.
The pope is not a source of ethical wisdom.
The apparent abandonment of Ukraine and Adam Boehler’s negotiations with Hamas have raised serious doubts about Donald Trump’s commitment to Israel.
The Trump/Musk administration’s approach to cutting costs makes good political sense in the short-run. But from a longer-run governing perspective, it is a recipe for disaster.
Forced to choose between the values upheld by the National Endowment for Democracy and fealty to Donald Trump, Republicans have opted for the latter.
Musk and Trump are inflicting catastrophic damage on biomedical research.
Jonathan Kay speaks with Atlantic writer David Frum about Trump’s pro-Russian political cult. Also discussed: Israel, the fate of Gaza, Justin Trudeau, and the strange social panic surrounding Canada’s (as yet undiscovered) ‘unmarked graves.’
The Trump administration has liquidated the postwar international order.