We believe President Trump made a mistake in pulling back at the last minute from responding militarily to two months of increasingly hostile actions against the US and its allies by Iran and its proxies. These attacks culminated in the shooting down of a sophisticated US Global Hawk surveillance drone over international waters. The drone […]
Beijing regime weakened by Hong Kong revolt
By trade correspondent L.C. and the editor President Trump is so wedded to his tariff threat against China that he has been practicing unilateral disarmament with respect to an objective arguably more important than a trade deal – namely, encouraging the Chinese people to rise up against the Xi Jinping dictatorship. In this respect, the […]
Maxwell Gladwell’s Outliers gets a welcome challenge
Review of Range by Richard Schulman David Epstein’s recently published book, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (New York: Riverhead Books, 2019), provides an important corrective to Malcolm Gladwell’s 2008 book, Outliers: The Story of Success. Outliers argued that the road to great success begins with early commitment to a specialization and 10,000 […]
Relief, mixed reviews on Mexico tariff suspension
Trade correspondent L.C. reports: President Trump heeded his advisers’ advice to accept an agreement with Mexico rather than follow through on his widely criticized threat to increase tariffs on that country by 5% each month. The agreement merely reaffirms previous commitments to help stem the flow of Central American migrants through Mexico to the US. […]
The movie that should have won the foreign language Oscar
This year’s Oscar for the best foreign film went to Roma rather than a much more ambitious and thought-provoking German film, Never Look Away. Roma presumably won because it pulled all the right political strings in its sympathy for the suffering poor South of the Border. (Take that, Donald Trump!) Roma celebrates a warm-hearted Mexican […]
