by jpitney | Apr 10, 2025 | Debate, Higher Education
Robert Maranto, Sally Satel, Catherine Salmon, and Lee Jussim at AEI discuss their new book, The Free Inquiry Papers Key Points Free inquiry is essential for democracy, science, and individual justice. Free inquiry in the United States is under threat. Today’s taboos...
by jpitney | Apr 9, 2025 | Economic Policy
Starting to think that in order to unravel this mess, we might need some sort of general agreement on trade and tariffs, perhaps housed under some sort of world trade organization. If we want to work closely with our neighbors, might I suggest some sort of north...
by jpitney | Apr 8, 2025 | Trade
Michael Strain at AEI: If your goal is to reduce the trade deficit, then your goal must also be reducing flows of foreign investment into the United States. When the US consumes and invests more than it produces, it must be running a current account deficit. To...
by jpitney | Apr 7, 2025 | Journalism, Journalists, Violence
Previous posts have discussed threats and actual violence against journalists. Megan Lebowitz at NBC: Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., suggested on X this weekend that journalists would write “less false stories” if violence were still used to handle...
by jpitney | Apr 6, 2025 | Economic Policy, Trade
Kevin Corinth and Stan Veuger at AEI: The tariff the United States is placing on other countries is equal to the US trade deficit divided by US imports from a given country, divided by two, or 10 percent, whichever rate is higher. So even if the United States has no...
