In 1993, Wendell Berry wrote an essay, “A Bad Big Idea,” sharply opposing the “free trade” proposal of the day, which he correctly feared would be backed by the Clinton Administration. Berry farms in his native Kentucky, and writes novels,…
With President Donald Trump soon departing Washington, now is a great time to assess his protectionist trade policies. From tariffs to his hectic bullying of other governments to renegotiate trade agreements to his support for American export subsidies, the Trump…
I know the mantra when my side’s candidate is down in the polls: The polls are fake. I don’t trust the polls. And look whom they mostly interviewed — the other guys. And when my guy is up: I like…
In the age of the coronavirus, globalism has gone decidedly out of vogue. My own personal and professional journey offers a contemporaneous context illustrating globalism’s manifest failures at both a human and civilizational level. Coming from a working-class background but…
In the progressives’ continuing efforts to negate the 2016 election of Donald Trump as our 45th president, they could actually be dreaming of what formerly might have been dismissed as pure fantasy: an impeachment, nunc pro tunc. Nunc pro tunc…
President Donald Trump likes to keep score. Well, here’s a score for him: America, zero, while the rest of the world keeps tallying up free trade points. That’s right: while American consumers have been waiting for well over a year…
The United States has been plagued with uncertainty ever since President Donald Trump started his trade disputes with many of our trading partners. From steel and aluminum tariffs to renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and replacing it…
Trade agreements have been greatly successful at lowering trade barriers around the world. But they’re not without their flaws. Each agreement, in practice, tends to retain some counterproductive protectionist policies and may even export some bad policies. The United States-Mexico-Canada…
Say goodbye to NAFTA and hello to USCMA. The U.S. and Canada announced on Sunday night, hours before a Sept. 30 deadline to notify Congress, that they had reached a trade agreement. This comes weeks after the U.S. and Mexico…
