Swimming against public opinion, Michael Lind in Tablet lays out the diplomatic and economic case for tariffs. While noting the “chaotic and inconsistent nature” of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade policy, Lind says tariffs can make a lot of sense, especially when it comes to Chinese electric vehicles. Even Adam Smith, he notes, wrote in 1776 that “There may be good policy in [tariff] retaliations” of the sort Trump is implementing.
It Was Nice While it Lasted
Victor Davis Hanson in Jewish World Review condenses his scenario for Western civilization’s imminent demise into 700 words. The West’s fatal arrogance, Hanson argues, has prevented it from repulsing the four horsemen of its own apocalypse: global warming hysterics, sexually liberalized (and largely childless) lifestyles, unrestricted illegal immigration and a descent into tribalism driven by divisive ideologies like DEI. Despite all that, Hanson also offers the outlines of a solution.
