Rachael Larimore

1 week ago | thedispatch.com | Rachael Larimore

Hello and happy Saturday. To give you a peek behind the curtain, things got a little dicey around here Wednesday. Scott Lincicome had written a concise history of President Donald Trump’s longstanding affection for tariffs for his Capitolism newsletter. Given that Trump’s sweeping global tariffs had just been implemented that morning, Scott described them in the present tense.

2 weeks ago | thedispatch.com | Rachael Larimore

Hello and happy Saturday. I hope you’re enjoying better weather than we’re having in the Ohio bureau and that you’ve avoided checking the status of your retirement accounts. Back in February, Jonah Goldberg wrote that he was grateful for the stock mark because, while President Donald Trump could bully lawmakers and business leaders and journalists, “the markets are the exception.” The markets have weighed in on Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, and the reviews are … not good.

3 weeks ago | thedispatch.com | Rachael Larimore |Jonah Goldberg |David Drucker |Michael Warren

Hello and happy Saturday. We spend a fair amount of time here at The Dispatch thinking about headlines. After all, everything we publish needs one. You want to inform the readers, but also invite them to keep reading. Some pieces benefit from playing it straight, others provide the opportunity for wordplay.

1 month ago | thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Paul Miller |Rachael Larimore |Jonah Goldberg

Religion Plus: A century of Flannery O’Connor. By and Published March 23, 2025 Happy Sunday. One of the recurring themes around The Dispatch is that in any debate (politics, culture, religion, economics), the most extreme voices are often wrong. Perhaps they’re wrong honestly, but often because they’re being duplicitous. And throwing our lot in with a particular faction solely out of fear of the other side usually ends badly.

1 month ago | thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Rachael Larimore |Jonah Goldberg |Samuel Kronen

Warren Cole Smith joins Michael Reneau to discuss the recent closure of the Justice Department ... Published March 23, 2025 Warren Cole Smith joins Michael Reneau to discuss the recent closure of the Justice Department investigation into the Southern Baptist Convention regarding sex abuse allegations.