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3) As a historian, you should know how the Smoot-Hawley tariffs choked the Japanese economy in the 1930s and eventually led to Pearl Harbor. Trump’s draconian tariffs on China could have similar unintended consequences. With all due respect, this is embarrassingly absurd. Smoot-Hawley did not choke the Japanese economy. It had near zero effect on […]

Dear Professor Hanson, I respect you as a historian, but an economist you are not. Your seeming support for Trump’s tariffs has been thoroughly refuted by the folks at the WSJ. I will not repeat their arguments. You ask the right questions but completely ignore the unintended consequences of Trump’s actions. I will make my

RE: Trade Deficit Listening to your March 29, discussion on the trade deficit I would like to share with you Dr. Milton Friedman’s comments, to paraphrase: Let me get this straight, they send us cars, stereos, VCRs and on and on and we send them these little green pieces of paper, and we’re supposed to

“Be Careful” What you are is some ultra-right wing magot cocksucker that at best should be exiled to Russia. You have no fucking idea as to what Americans, real hard working, freedom loving Americans want or need. Dennis Kurt Goodrum Dear Angry Reader Dennis Kurt Goodrum, Usually, I don’t print threats such as yours (e.g.,

From my leftist point of view, you just look like a dumb, racist old man…babbling on about mixed-race kids, whites this, whites that. You are such a stupid, shitty human. Love, Adam Jacobs Amerikkkan leftist Dear Angry Reader Adam Jacobs, Well, given as you say from your “leftist point of view,” I take that as

From an Angry Reader: Have you even watched her interviews? She speaks with ease, no word salad, and what she says makes sense! What a blathering idiot you are! Jim Loss Dear Angry Reader Jim Loss, So, Kamala speaks with ease, fluently, and sensibly? Can you provide a single sentence to illustrate that assertion? It

Victor Davis Hanson 15. The Corruption of the Intelligence, Investigative, and Intelligence Agencies. In 2016, Hillary Clinton hired FBI informant and contractor British subject Christopher Steele and hid her payments to him through the DNC, Perkins Coie law firm, and Fusion GPS paywalls. His job was to invent dirt on Donald Trump, tapping disreputable Russian

And they were wiping these places out as gigantic, scaled terrorist attacks, the greatest scale of terrorist attacks you’ve ever seen in world history. Why would he do that?  Because it was the only means that they had to continue fighting. At the time, they didn’t have the ability to reinvade Europe. And so, he

Victor Davis Hanson As far as terrorism and terrorist bombing, who exactly started the first systematic campaign of terror bombing? It was the Luftwaffe. Without provocation, German planes first indiscriminately bombed civilian targets in Poland to instill panic, terror, and mass death (150,000–200,000 Polish civilians killed in the actual invasion, perhaps the majority of them

Victor Davis Hanson He says, let’s not do this. We can’t do this. And of course, a year goes by, 1940 comes around, and they’re still at war. And so, he launches his invasion to the west, takes over France, and takes over western and northern Europe. Once that’s done, and the British have escaped