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2 days ago | 
aei.org | Desmond Lachman |Rob Portman |Stan Veuger |Philip A. Wallach
Press Discussing the global economy in the era of American tariffs: Lachman on ‘HSTalks’ Multimedia Conversation with Former US Trade Representatives Press Discussing President Trump’s latest trade deal with the UK: Veuger on NPO Radio 1’s ‘Geld of je leven’ Multimedia The Constitutionality and Economics of Presidential Tariffs and Impoundment Article Did ‘China Shock’ Throw Millions of Americans Out of Work? Op-Ed The 100 Days that Shook the World Economy Op-Ed How Not to Negotiate a Trade...
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3 days ago | 
aei.org | Philip A. Wallach |Zachary Price |William Ford |Gregg Nunziata
Op-Ed Trolling about Habeas Corpus Op-Ed We Have to Deal with Presidential Power Multimedia Are Impoundments Constitutional?
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2 weeks ago | 
understandingcongress.org | Philip A. Wallach
“Liberation Week” was quite the wild ride. On Thursday, April 2, President Donald Trump announced, in an executive order, that the United States would shortly begin applying huge tariffs on imports from all the countries of the world. Democrats were apoplectic, but plenty of Republicans were also deeply unsettled, unsure of what, exactly, the President hoped to accomplish, given that many of his denunciations of U.S. trade deficits began to sound suspicious of all trade.
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3 weeks ago | 
wsj.com | Philip A. Wallach
Have American elites—influential journalists, powerful policymakers and other cultural arbiters—learned the lessons of 2020-21? Do they want to? “Science,” the great theoretical physicist Richard Feynman wrote, “is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” The incorrigibly curious Feynman knew that skepticism and a willingness to assimilate new evidence propel the scientific endeavor.
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4 weeks ago | 
aei.org | Philip A. Wallach
“Liberation Week” was quite the wild ride. On Thursday, April 2, President Donald Trump announced, in an Executive Order, that the United States would shortly begin applying huge tariffs on imports from all the countries of the world. Democrats were apoplectic, but plenty of Republicans were also deeply unsettled, unsure of what, exactly, the President hoped to accomplish, given that many of his denunciations of U.S. trade deficits began to sound suspicious of all trade.
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1 month ago | 
theamericanenterprise.com | Philip A. Wallach
Near the outset of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll’s sequel to Alice in Wonderland, Alice finds herself running hand in hand with the Red Queen. Exerting herself to the fullest, she can barely keep up with the chess piece, yet when they finally come to a halt, she finds that they have not moved at all.
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | Nat Malkus |Ramesh Ponnuru |Philip A. Wallach |Kevin R. Kosar
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) posts weekly reports of cost savings on its “wall of receipts.” These savings have come from federal employee terminations, grant and contract cancellations, and stoppages of agency outlays. But several observers have been skeptical of the savings numbers DOGE claims, and others have called into question whether the department’s actions run afoul of congressional appropriations acts. Is DOGE actually saving the money it claims it’s saving?
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Philip A. Wallach |Jonah Goldberg |Nick Catoggio
The thing about Donald Trump is, he’s Donald Trump. Briefly set aside any old-fashioned moral considerations about Donald Trump’s low personal character—as a purely analytical matter, that low character is the most direct and comprehensive way to understand what it is the administration is actually doing.
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Paul Matzko |Gary Schmitt |Nick Catoggio |Philip A. Wallach
Policy And DOGE is like CREEP, but on steroids. Published February 19, 2025 “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”—Richard Nixon, 1977“He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”—Donald Trump, 2025Hollywood has led us to believe the myth that authoritarians are hyper-competent, ideologically driven supervillains. The reality is more often the opposite.
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Philip A. Wallach |Jessica Riedl |John Mccormack |Sarah Isgur
Published February 18, 2025 “For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.” Thomas Paine “Rightly constituted laws should be the final sovereign; and personal rule, whether it be exercised by a single person or a body of persons, should be sovereign only in those matters on which law is unable, owing to the difficulty of framing general rules for all contingencies, to make an exact pronouncement.” Aristotle Both...
