DALL·E 2025 02 04 13 42 54 A vintage style black and white newspaper illustration of a politician proudly signing a tariff bill while a shadowy figure representing big corporati

Content 18+ History is littered with economic experiments that promised prosperity but instead delivered stagnation, inefficiency, and unintended misery. And yet, here we go again, donning the powdered wig of 19th-century economic nationalism, convinced that the past century of economic progress was just an unfortunate detour.

Tariffs are, in their most theatrical presentation, a knight’s shield against the marauding hordes of foreign competition. The logic is delightfully simple: make imported … Read the rest