Richard Epstein considers whether Donald Trump has correctly assessed the threat from Chinese trade practices, analyzes whether widespread tariff increases are an effective tool to combat them, and explains why he reluctantly prefers Trump’s economic policies over those that may have emerged from a more conventional Republican president.
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I recently joined Bill Whalen on the Hoover Institution’s Matters of Policy & Politics podcast to discuss a few of my favorite subjects: regulation, deregulation, and the economic consequences of government rules.
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FIRE has billed itself as a nonpartisan organization that fights speech restrictions that are seen as left-wing, right-wing, and no-wing. Some have, however, argued that FIRE mostly fights left-wing restrictions (and thus mostly protects right-wing speakers), and goes after only a few right-wing restrictions as supposed "tokens" to hide its true nature.
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Pivotal rulings by John Marshall built a durable wall against presidential defiance.
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