The weekly trade report by L.C. Addressing the Economic Club of New York on June 4th, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer declared: “After the [pandemic] crisis is over, we have to have an industrial policy that assures the US has in any future crisis the ability to manufacture at home all the things that we […]
Policy
Time for a major rethink of education and arts policies
by Richard Schulman It’s time for a major rethink of education and arts policies. We’re hardly the first to recognize the new possibilities catalyzed by the coronavirus pandemic. But this may be the first time that four topics usually thought of separately have been tied together: Education US STEM backwardness The arts The US Education […]
Why did the last golden age of the arts come to an end?
by Richard Schulman There’s a consensus among the few scholars who have investigated the subject — Daniel Bell, Jacques Barzun, and Charles Murray — that the last golden age of the arts ended by the close of the 19th century. Many artists also agreed, reveling so much in that recognition that they called themselves the […]
White House debates what to do about China
The weekly trade report with L.C. A White House decision to blame China for the COVID-19 pandemic, together with ongoing discussions as to how to punish Beijing economically, have now become public knowledge. Both President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo now say that the virus likely emerged from a Wuhan bioscience lab. China […]
One Size Doesn’t Fit All (A Subsidiarity Lesson for Governors)
by Richard Schulman Governors are basking in the powers they have assumed in response to the COVID-19 (Wuhan virus) pandemic. Deciding whether to keep a state under lock-down comes close to being a life-or-death decision resting in the governors’ hands. But states vary greatly between urban and rural districts, different rates of infection, available medical […]