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One of the things I like about Donald Trump’s promise to impose tariffs is how it places the needs of American producers over the needs of American consumers. With strong tariffs in place, consumers might be forced to pay more for superior goods than they normally would, or simply pay more for goods in general. This naturally happens when government artificially influences the market. Without fair competition from foreign goods, domestic producers face less pressure to reduce their prices. By increasing the prices of foreign goods, government is in effect reducing its supply for the majority of consumers, who would not realistically be expected to pay such higher prices. And with reduced supply comes higher costs. (more…)

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Vivek Ramaswamy

We knew it would eventually come to this. During the 2024 presidential campaign, we could see all the Tech Bros lurking around Trump, filling his head with sweet nothings—and talk of the need for cheap foreign tech labor. During the campaign and shortly after the election, Trump mentioned increasing legal immigration while deporting illegals, suggesting such tactics as stapling green cards to the diplomas of graduating foreign students and giving a pathway to citizenship for “Dreamers.” (more…)

Sriram Krishnan, Senior Policy Advisor for AI at the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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This year, my best Christmas present was a war over legal, high-skilled immigration on X. On December 23, Laura Loomer tweeted:

Deeply disturbing to see the appointment of Sriram Krishnan as Senior Policy Advisor for AI at the Office of Science and Technology Policy. . . . How will [we] control immigration in our country and promote America First innovation when Trump appointed this guy who wants to REMOVE all restrictions on green card caps in the United States so that foreign students (which makes up 78% of the employees in Silicon Valley) can come to the US and take jobs that should be given to American STEM students. . . . This is not America First policy. (more…)

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When I was a child in the early 2000s, my elementary school would do a food drive each year, usually around the holiday season. Students in our class would bring non-perishable food items to school and place them in a large cardboard box in our classroom. After a couple of weeks, the item our school had received from students would be donated to a local food bank, a charitable organization which offers free food to those in need. (more…)

Elana Dykewomon, a playwright who spent her life somehow navigating the difficult path between being lesbian and Jewish, and who recently passed away a half-hour before one of her plays was to be livestreamed.

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Hatred Toward Dirty Shitskinned Hindu Infidels Spreads Like Rancid Curry Paste Across the West

New forms of hatred, or at least ones that don’t get a lot of attention, are always refreshing for those of us who experience occupational burnout from the typical forms of hatred.

This week we shall focus on “Hinduphobia,” which is a word I heard for the first time last week. (more…)

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Like the rest of the West, Canada has been lurching from one supposed crisis of white racism to another, but this country’s specialty remains aboriginal victimology. The most recent hysteria flared up in June with “discoveries” of “mass graves” outside former church-run residential schools for natives. The furor triggered predictably sanctimonious outrage, cancellation of many July 1st Canada Day celebrations, arson attacks that destroyed several dozen churches, and international condemnation of a Canadian disgrace supposedly on par with the world’s worst atrocities. (more…)

Like most illustrations of this kind, Death seems to be having a grand ol’ time.

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Prologue: The Styx

The half-light of an autumn evening reflected off the Old River and into the face of the boatman. Over and under each subtle ripple and eddy, his eyes darted here to there so quickly that his gaze seemed fixed. As if he took in the whole broad sweep of the Thames with a hungry look-out. Next to him, and charged with steering the dinghy, stooped a young girl, his daughter. She “watched his face as earnestly as he watched the river. But in the intensity of her look, there was a touch of . . . horror.” (more…)

Jozef Brandt, Return from Vienna, 1883.

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I’m a pretty cold-hearted realist, but after such a buildup of how the Right has been losing again and again for over a century, I expected something perhaps a bit more stirring. Some call to arms, or flowering prose. Instead, you essentially offer “Who knows? Our luck may change; stranger things have happened.” (more…)

George Barbier, “Eventails (Fans)”

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Twentieth Century Studios is threatening to release a remake of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile (1937). And if Kenneth Branaugh’s previous outing as the Hercule Poirot character in 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express was anything to go by, best to avoid it. (more…)