Tag: Trump
Quick Take on the 2024 Presidential Election
November 7, 2024 | Post
Trump won, Kamala lost, and you can read the analysis anywhere you look on the internet. One detail I can add, however: Let’s call it the Ghost of Election Nights past … memories of 2004 and 2008, in particular. I watched the coverage as a supporter of Barack Obama, although I wasn’t old enough to […]
The awkward and uncomfortable problem with national conservatism
January 11, 2024 | Post
The recent surge of national conservatism in the United States has not only highlighted a departure from classical liberal principles but also raised concerns about a fundamental shift away from the values that have long defined American governance.
The meaning of American populism
March 13, 2017 | Post
Trump is just the latest manifestation of an old American instinct.
The House GOP leadership’s health care bill is ObamaCare-Lite — or worse
March 12, 2017 | Post
This bill is a train wreck waiting to happen.
Trade restrictions imperil our standard of living
February 17, 2017 | Post
“The market is not a place, a thing, a collective entity. The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.” – Ludwig von Mises
Explaining the Protectionist Instinct
February 10, 2017 | Post
One of the gravest economic mistakes that humans can make is to forget that ours is unavoidably a world of scarcity.
Taxing global trade is not deregulation
January 28, 2017 | Post
Trump-style economic nationalism, like the more full-throated fascism with which it shares much, aims to bring back the mythical glory days of the nation. But if we really want to make America great (again), we should learn the lesson of history, as well as economic theory, that prosperity comes from the free movement of goods, services, and people regardless of arbitrary political lines.
Trump’s First 100 Days — Learn Liberty Roundtable
January 20, 2017 | Post
What follows is an extended transcript of a conversation I had with four professors about Donald Trump’s first 100 days plan. The transcript below has been edited for clarity.
"The Raven": Trump Edition
January 19, 2017 | Post
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, bright and cheery, In the penthouse of my tower on the fifty-seventh floor — While I sat there, Donald Trumping, suddenly there came a thumping, As of someone gently bumping, bumping up against my door. “’Tis some immigrant,” I muttered, “coming in to clean the floor — […]
Countries are not companies
January 6, 2017 | Post
The problem is that business experience does not automatically translate into good economic policy.
A theory of justice, post-Trump edition
November 19, 2016 | Post
John Rawls famously argues that we should think about principles of justice from behind a “veil of ignorance.” How robust would you like the protection of religious freedom to be if you had no idea whether you turn out to be a Christian, Muslim, atheist, etc.? How would you like income to be distributed if […]
What you missed: Week of 11/18
November 18, 2016 | Post
We’re a little over a week into President Obama’s lame duck period with President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet and administration beginning to take shape. Here’s a few news stories you may have missed in that time. President-elect Donald Trump has been holed up inside Trump Tower for the last week as his team begins work on […]
Trump's trade policy hurts American consumers and misunderstands patriotism
October 8, 2016 | Post
Trump’s trade policies miss one of the most fundamental economic concepts: When two parties engage in trade, they are both better off.
Trump Jr.’s Terrorism-Skittles Bowl Analogy
September 20, 2016 | Post
Your chances of encountering a lethal refugee are about 1 in 3.64 billion. Pardon me if I’m not quaking in my boots at those odds.
J.K. Rowling: Trump’s Freedom to Speak Protects My Right to Call Him a Bigot
June 4, 2016 | Post
Disagreeing with what someone has to say but defending his or her right to say it is the foundational defense of free speech. English writer Evelyn Beatrice Hall sums it up well when she says: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”] This view […]