Month: January 2017

The religious right that formed to defeat Southern Baptist Jimmy Carter, the integrationist, and elect Ronald Reagan the Church of Christ messiah as President should have pointed out that political religiosity is about...

This is an absolute clown show.

If you just read the administration’s statement recognizing International Holocaust Memorial Day, you would know that the Holocaust was one of “the darkest hours of humanity” and that people perished. You...

A lengthy defense of NAFTA and free trade generally from Bradford Delong in Vox is here.  Delong is hardly a disinterested party: he was Under-secretary of Treasury under Robert Rubin. This does not mean he is wrong. His...

So, I’m no historian and like ever other reader here, in all likelihood, have lived solely in an era of low tariffs. It was therefore of interest to me to learn a bit about the history of tariffs in the US. Yes, I did...