While there are many reasons to be for or against the current administration’s tariffs, this impulse to invoke Reagan to criticize Trump can obscure significant overlap in each president’s strategic use of trade as a geopolitical tool
Randall FowlerAugust 19, 2025
Years of economic mismanagement have hobbled growth in much of Latin America, so why is the Trump administration copying these same policies?
Eric FarnsworthAugust 9, 2025
The “Chicken War” between America and Europe in the 1960s contains useful lessons for a potential US-EU trade war today
Dean C. CurryFebruary 20, 2025
American conservatives would benefit from reading Ron Dart’s recent work, “The North American High Tory Tradition”
Jeffery Tyler SyckAugust 28, 2024
Niall Ferguson’s view that America may soon topple like the Soviet Union massively underestimates American resiliency, especially compared to China
Shay KhatiriAugust 26, 2024
To understand why Biden’s strategy failed in Venezuela, it is clarifying to consider his similarly ineffective approach to Iran
Ethan GutmanAugust 20, 2024
Milton Friedman, though greatly enamored with Adam Smith, misrepresented Smith’s concept of self-interest
James RowellAugust 7, 2024
The Biden Administration’s strategy of de-escalation at all costs has not been working against Iran and its proxies
Rebeccah HeinrichsMarch 4, 2024
Economic power must not be too concentrated in the government or among a few private citizens
James RowellJanuary 12, 2024
