Boeing Max 8 Lesson: Why Domestic Manufacturing Is Vital
On March 10, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed outside of Addis Ababa, killing all 157 passengers and crew. This followed October’s crash of Lion Air […]
Trade
Richard Trumka and Big Labor Try to Come Home
Richard Trumka needed to come home. Walking into the union hall at the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers building along the Monongahela River, the AFL-CIO president […]
Free Trade and the ‘Cheap Goods’ Delusion
Between 1348 and 1352 a monstrous plague—the Black Death—ravaged Europe. The disease struck young and old, men and women, saint and sinner alike. Half the […]
To Beat China, Recognize Taiwan
The Sino-American trade war is only just beginning. Initial reports show that the American side is faring better than the Chinese, but these reports are […]
Trump Shows Value of Tariffs as Foreign Policy Tool
The great American foreign policy debate began with the two parties’ divide over Vietnam. Until the Vietnam War, Republicans and Democrats more or less held […]
The U.S. Doesn’t Need China to Prosper
The latest numbers on U.S. economic growth are astonishingly good. The land of the free enjoyed 3.2 percent annual real GDP growth for the first […]
Stop Whining About Google and Do Something
Some friends on the Right are angry about Google’s opaque efforts to block prominent conservative personalities and think tanks from the search engine and the […]
China vs. A Liberal World Order
For six decades after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, Great Britain was able to underwrite a liberal world order based on freedom of navigation […]
Jones Act Ensures U.S. Military Dominance and Civilian Jobs
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] [fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] America’s armed forces are the most powerful on earth. […]
America Needs Big, Beautiful Tariffs
Jonah Goldberg writes that President Trump supports tariffs because he is “truly ignorant of some of the most basic” economic principles—or he is “deceiving the […]
Dear Libertarians: Trade Deficits Matter
Steve Hanke recently set out to prove “why President Trump’s trade message and protectionist policies are rubbish” in a Forbes article. Instead, the Johns Hopkins […]
Carlson’s Invisible Political Hand Riles Conservative Critics
In spite of policy differences on social issues—from gay rights to gun control to abortion—the steadying core of modern-day conservatism always has been the defense […]
Actually, 2018 Was a Pretty Good Year
The year 2018 will be deplored by pundits as a bad year of more unpredictable Donald Trump, headlined by wild stock market gyrations, the melodramas […]
Here’s Why the Huawei Arrest Helps Negotiations with China
Wall Street is worried that the arrest of Huawei Vice Chairman Meng Wanzhou will put President Trump’s ongoing trade negotiations with China on ice. They […]
May Lives On
If there is one saving grace to pluck from the laughable wreckage that is British politics, it’s that Theresa May, still prime minister, has promised […]
Free the Kidnapped Canadians in Communist China
Last week, we discussed the national security threat to the United States and her siblings in the family of free nations that is posed by […]
America: China’s Mercantile Resource Colony
China’s economy is now the largest on earth. Its industrial output is triple that of the United States. Its population, quadruple. To make matters worse, […]
Reimagining Republicanism
For at least 25 years, the Republican Party has been promoting policies damaging both to its own political standing and to the middle class. In […]
Rethinking Free Trade on the Campaign Trail
Eight hours before the first polls closed on November 8, 2016, the late Charles Krauthammer appeared on Fox News and made a prediction. Should Trump […]
Dear Liberals: People Aren’t Commodities
Afraid his son would steal his throne, Dionysius I, Tyrant of Syracuse, locked the boy away in a tower. Never leaving his prison, the boy […]