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Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods mark the decisive rejection of an economic orthodoxy that dominated American policy making for nearly half a century.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/tariffs-free-trade-dead/678417/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Capturing reality is harder than it seems.

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/06/how-to-keep-watch/678554/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

There’s a Reason Trump Has Friends in High Places

Even the weak regulatory grasp of capitalist democracy is too strong for, well, capitalists.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/opinion/trump-business-capitalism-democracy.html?smid=em-share

How Capitalism Went Off the Rails

Easy money destroyed the basis for productive, competitive markets.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/opinion/capitalism-inflation.html?smid=em-share

Ruchir Sharma’s new book reveals the ill effects from the government’s cheap-money policies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/19/sharma-what-went-wrong-capitalism/

Political Scientists Want to Know Why We Hate One Another This Much

What does the rise of partisan sectarians portend for the rest of us?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/opinion/democracy-partisanship-political-hatred.html?smid=em-share

British editors are suddenly leading several U.S. publications. Can it last?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/american-newspapers-british-editors/678719/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Why accept a peace proposal when the goal is “permanent war”?

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/06/hamas-everything-going-according-plan/678690/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Justice Alito Is Right About One Thing

There cannot be compromise on the question of American democracy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/opinion/samuel-alito-comments-recording.html?smid=em-share