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Erin Maglaque
Vexed by Sex

A new history of how Christianity has met the problem of desire argues for more flexibility in proclamations on gender and sexuality.

Peter Singer
Circling the Good

In his new book the eminent philosopher Thomas Nagel asks whether humans are capable of redefining morality itself.

David Cole
Academic Freedom in Peril

Two books by leading First Amendment scholars offer a timely defense of the principle that politicians should not try to control what universities and professors teach their students.

Neal Ascherson
Ordinary Germans

“Almost all the prominent Nazis came from middle-class families with right-wing values—patriotism, antisemitism, fear of ‘Bolshevism’—for whom righteous violence seemed a sign of manliness.”

Fintan O’Toole
Shredding the Postwar Order

“How did Trump himself get from desire for ‘a strong Europe,’ identification with ‘the West,’ and commitment to ‘the transatlantic bond’ to a historic sundering of that bond?”

Julia Preston
In Trump’s Dragnet

“Donald Trump is waging an intricately planned assault on every aspect of the immigration system, the broadest and most systematic government crackdown at least since World War II.”

Free from the Archives

In the Review’s October 8, 1998, issue, Benjamin M. Friedman wrote about a recent book from Pat Buchanan, “ominously titled The Great Betrayal,” which purported to demonstrate that “the economic difficulties and anxieties faced by working Americans today…are the result of free trade and the pressures of open competition in the world economy.” The answer, Buchanan proposed, was simple: “protectionism, particularly in the form of new tariffs.” But, Friedman argued, while many of the economic ills Buchanan diagnosed are serious, he “is wrong to think these developments are uniquely the consequence of free trade,” and, in fact, the imposition of drastic tariffs would likely have dire consequences.

Benjamin M. Friedman
The New Demon

“The fundamental point is that protectionism causes economic damage through a dynamic process. It is not enough to calculate who loses jobs when foreign imports gain a share of our markets, and who will be able to buy goods more cheaply. What also matters is how markets and companies and individuals change over time. Permanent, general tariff protection will dull the incentives to make changes that boost productivity; and it will therefore reduce the medium- and longer-run growth of both productivity and wages.”

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