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How NeverTrumpers Should Respond to Manning Commutation

“This is a horrendous violation of the rule of law, that threatens the very foundation of our institutions! There are plenty of whistleblowers who are still suffering injustice. Rather than doling out piecemeal pardons or commutations to those prisoners who (for various reasons) are chic among the smart set, Obama should’ve worked on across-the-board criminal […]

Glenn Greenwald Is So Awesome

Just watch him–and I mean literally, watch his facial expressions–during this interview.

Trump Is So Awful He Defies Reason

…from his critics, that is. I really didn’t expect that in 2017, I would bother commenting on Scott Sumner’s crusade against Donald Trump. But after reading a recent post from Scott, I can’t help myself, and I can only hope that you will see why. On January 10, Scott opened a post like this: “There […]

One Last Post on the Trump Carrier Stuff

Following up on this post, let me reframe things in the following way. NOTE: I truly am not posting these thoughts as a, “Nana nana boo boo, what a bunch of hypocrites!” I really just think this is curious/interesting, and so I’m encouraging people to dig through their intuitions and see if they can refine […]

An Interesting Combination of Positions in the Carrier Debate

I don’t want to make too much of this, and I’m not even saying there is an outright contradiction here. I’ll succinctly state the interesting combination in the form of a script, loosely based on actual events that I observed firsthand on social media. TRUMP SUPPORTERS: You idiot libertarians need to drop your faith in […]

Tom Woods and I Talk About the Carrier Deal

This isn’t Contra Krugman; instead it’s episode 799 of the Tom Woods Show.

On My Anti-Anti-Trumpism: I Regret Nothing!

Some people in the comments of previous posts have been psychoanalyzing me, wondering why I spend so much of my precious time pointing out hypocrisy in Trump’s critics (as opposed to ridiculing Trump’s ridiculous statements). I actually thought maybe they had a point, and then this happened on Twitter. .@LHSummers Didn't you recommend to new […]

Economists Critique Trump’s Industrial Policy

On Thanksgiving, while most Americans were drinking beer and watching football, Donald Trump was hard at work keeping jobs in America!! When word came out that the company Carrier would in fact keep its operations in Indiana, rather than outsourcing, naturally the Trump forces claimed victory. But Justin Wolfers on Twitter was horrified: Every savvy […]