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.

Racial Quotas by Algorithm
Allum Bokhari, writing in The American Conservative, illuminates a Colorado state bill claiming to create “a shield against ‘algorithmic discrimination’” that would force AI companies to generate outputs based on government-imposed racial, and other identity-based, quotas. As with past variants of reverse discrimination, asserts Bokhari, Colorado’s AI bill amounts to thinly disguised leftist ideology aimed at institutionalizing the very harm it claims to ameliorate.


