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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | Scott Lincicome |Joel Tannenbaum |Kevin Williamson |Charles Hilu
Recent tariff-related turmoil in the U.S. stock market has motivated several Trump administration officials and many of their online allies to shrug it off as unrepresentative of the “real” U.S. economy. Many have argued, in fact, that the scary sell-off of U.S. stocks, bonds, and dollars—one that abated only after Trump pulled back from the tariff abyss last week—was not just meaningless “digital ones and zeroes” but actually good because “Wall Street” losses meant “Main Street” gains.
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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Joel Tannenbaum |Kevin Williamson |David Drucker
Vibes? Papers? Essays? Podcasts? Published April 16, 2025 Jonah Goldberg is joined by Adam Kirsch to discuss Kirsch’s new book, On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice. What does settler colonialism actually mean in the Israeli context? Where did the school of thought originate? And how can Israel move forward under the framework of settler colonialist ideology?
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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | Joel Tannenbaum |Steve Larkin |Michael Warren |Scott Lincicome
The Soybean Triangle is not a geographic destination like the Bermuda Triangle. It’s more like a love triangle: a complex and contentious relationship involving three parties, where two would be more socially appropriate. The term was coined in 2024 by economists from the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois to describe the ongoing competition between American and Brazilian farmers to sell soybeans in China.
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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Jeremiah Johnson |John Mccormack |Joel Tannenbaum
Politics The party has a few options for improving its image. Hiding might be the best one. Published April 16, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post. Kudos to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. She managed to generate the most negatively iconic photo of a Democrat since Michael Dukakis wore a helmet atop a tank.
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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Jonah Goldberg |Joel Tannenbaum |David Drucker
Michelle’s company is one of those proud American manufacturing businesses we keep hearing about from the Trump administration, which is doing its level best to wreck her business through its entirely predictable managerial incompetence. Elon Musk proposed to bring that famous “Move fast, break things” Silicon Valley ethos to the federal government, but he only managed one half of that package—and it wasn’t the half you’d want.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Warren |Joel Tannenbaum |Charlotte Lawson |Grayson Logue
To make a protectionist omelet, you’ve got to break a few economic eggs. If you don’t like that joke, just know it’s about as strained as the Trump administration’s explanations for how its trade actions are supposed to reverse the rise in the cost of eggs. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average cost of a dozen eggs nearly doubled between January 2024 and January 2025.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Warren |Sarah Isgur |Alex Demas |Joel Tannenbaum
Giving the people what they want (whether they know it or not). By and Published January 9, 2025 Jonah Goldberg had an insatiable hankering for beans on toast and has thus opted to abandon ye loyal listeners for an English vacation. To fill the Jonah-shaped vacuum, Sarah Isgur and Michael Warren of Dispatch fame have revived The Collision to talk all things legal and presidential one last time.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
thedispatch.com | Alex Demas |Joel Tannenbaum |Charlotte Lawson |Grayson Logue
Published January 9, 2025 Dozens of viral images and videos depict Los Angeles’ famous Hollywood sign on fire. The posts, many of which have hundreds of thousands of views, are spreading widely across X and other social media platforms. “The iconic Hollywood sign has stood for 102 years but it may not last the night. Democrats eventually burn everything to the ground,” reads one post. “The Famous Hollywood sign is burning in the California fires,” says another.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
thedispatch.com | Sarah Isgur |Joel Tannenbaum |Kevin Williamson
Does junior high drama ever end? By and Published January 9, 2025 Today’s podcast is all about the antis: anti-SLAPP, anti-masking, anti-indoctrination, anti-retaliation, and anti-corruption. But before all that, Sarah Isgur and David French kick things off with the latest news on President Donald Trump’s sentencing in his New York criminal trial. The Agenda:—Does Donald Trump have citizen-plus status? —David is somewhat of a SLAPP expert—Does Arkansas care for LEARNS?
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
thedispatch.com | Joel Tannenbaum |Cecilia Esterline |Joseph Polidoro |Kevin Williamson
Grocery shoppers are facing empty store shelves and another spike in prices. By Published January 9, 2025 The price of eggs has long been a political symbol. In 1989, as Poland implemented free market reforms, advisers to finance minister Leszek Balcerowicz famously told their boss to watch the price of eggs closely. If farmers resumed bringing their eggs to market and prices began to drop, the economy would stabilize. They did and it did (although unemployment increased).
