The Folly of Trump’s Tariffs If you were to distill logical international trade into a single sentence, it might be this: economics is not a wrestling match. It is not won by shouting, flexing, or threatening the referee. It is a system of interdependence...
Trump and the MAGA Monster The anxiety about what comes after Trump — whether someone like J.D. Vance would be “worse” — misses the point entirely. Trump was never the real engine that created MAGA. He was the one who provided cover and permission to reveal the MAGA...
Proximity to Donald the Magnificent Is No Longer Prestige In ancient fables, there is always a sorcerer who believes the kingdom trembles because of his power, when in fact it trembles because no one has yet dared to laugh. The enchantment holds not by magic, but by...
She Turns Her Back on The Victims to Protect the Perpetrators Ah yes. Nothing says “nothing to see here” quite like a redacted email about your relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Representative Dan Goldman held up a document like a man presenting Exhibit A in a trial...
Canada may indeed lose Ice Hockey and the Stanley Cup, too! There are many threats to Western Civilization: inflation, war, TikTok influencers explaining geopolitics. But none, apparently, so grave as a bridge. Yes, a bridge. The latest menace to the Republic is the...
Football, Freedom, and Other Things Republicans Pretend to Understand America gathered last night to watch men in armor chase an oddly shaped ball while commentators explained, with grave seriousness, that this was the purest expression of freedom on Earth. Meanwhile,... 
