Opinion - Page 190

Scott Bessent is right. Cheap goods are not the American dream

Everybody likes cheap stuff. We bargain hunt constantly, eager to find a way to save a dollar here and a dollar there while buying...

Trump’s leftist thinking on tariffs

There is a glaring omission in all the words spoken and written about tariffs since President Donald Trump announced his horrific new trade policies...

Congress must take back the tariff power

This publication has for years urged Congress to take back the authority over tariffs that it needlessly delegated to the executive branch. Some legislators...

W.G. Sebald’s essays from beyond

When W.G. Sebald died in a car crash in 2001 at the age of 57, he was eulogized by the Anglophone literary world as...

A murder on the San Francisco frontier

Shortly before dusk on Nov. 3, 1870, Laura Fair approached Alexander Parker Crittenden as he sat with his wife and three of his children...

My career avoiding giving career advice

A young friend of mine called me up the other day. He is in the venture capital business and feels he has reached what...

John McWhorter’s preferred pronouns

“To mess with our pronouns is to mess with our sense of the order of things, what’s up and what’s down — life itself,”...

Returning to the origins of baseball

My brother Rick and I grew up in a time and place ideally suited to the formation of lifelong baseball fans. The time was...

The Biden dam breaks

THE BIDEN DAM BREAKS. During much of the last administration, and especially in its final year, the president of the United States suffered serious cognitive...

Trump’s tariffs will take time to take hold

President Donald Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariff rollout Wednesday afternoon. The initial tariffs will go into effect on April 5. Trump’s policy will impose...
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