by jpitney | Sep 5, 2025 | Economic Policy, Reagan, Trade
Forty years ago, President Reagan said: My own feeling is that protectionism just leads to a restraint in trade and a lowering of prosperity for everyone involved. And I know in our own Great Depression back in the early thirties, I believe that depression was...
by jpitney | Sep 4, 2025 | Civility, Constitution, Deliberation, Higher Education
Princeton Professor Robert George My philosophy of teaching is straightforward and rather simple: My job is not to tell students what to think or induce or encourage them to think as I do; it is, rather, to help students to think more deeply, more critically, and for...
by jpitney | Sep 2, 2025 | Economic Policy, Trade
Michael Strain at AEI: Protectionists can appeal to intuitive economic logic. Tariffs are a tax on imported goods, but not on domestically produced goods. By increasing the relative price of imported goods, price-sensitive consumers will substitute away from imports....
by jpitney | Sep 1, 2025 | California Politics, Civility
Mark Z. Barabak at LAT: Jim Ross has had a long and fruitful career as a Democratic campaign strategist. Among his victories was electing Gavin Newsom as San Francisco mayor. Tom Ross has enjoyed similar success on the Republican side. He counts Kevin McCarthy’s...
