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May/June 2025

May/June 2025

Cover Story

Reciprocal Tariffs Are Not Enough

Charles Benoit April 2, 2025
Reciprocity may be rhetorically expedient, but it has always been incompatible with tariff protection and tariff revenue goals.

Editorial

The New Economic Order

Jude Russo April 7, 2025
It has been this magazine’s longtime contention that something, or some things, went wrong. The United States became embroiled in never-ending conflicts abroad…

Front Lines

The Delayed Democratic Majority

Andrew Day April 18, 2025
America is headed for one-party progressive rule.

Trump’s Free-Speech Warrior?

Curt Mills April 15, 2025
Behind the curtain with Darren Beattie, one of the new president’s most provocative personnel picks.

The Sit-down Comic

Nic Rowan April 7, 2025
A new exhibition on Franz Kafka misses the point.

It’s Time for a CONINTERN

William Lind April 21, 2025
It worked for Lenin; why not for us?

Features

Reciprocal Tariffs Are Not Enough

Charles Benoit April 2, 2025
Reciprocity may be rhetorically expedient, but it has always been incompatible with tariff protection and tariff revenue goals.

What a Mar-a-Lago Accord Can and Cannot Do

Julius Krein April 7, 2025
A new monetary combination is but one piece of a larger, politically difficult puzzle.

The Golden Road Trump Should Take

Carlos Roa April 8, 2025
Reviving a forgotten Roman and Indian trade route could contain China, unite America’s allies, and reshape the global order.

Erdoğan’s New Turkey—and Old?

Sean McMeekin April 14, 2025
The “neo-Ottoman” dreams of American Turkey-watchers exceed reality.

Today, Romania; Tomorrow, the World

Will Collins April 12, 2025
Conspiracy theories, history, and anti-establishment ferment collide in Bucharest. Is the Romanian election a preview of our political future?

Arts & Letters

The Prelude to the Civil War

Hunter DeRensis April 7, 2025
“Only two states wanted a civil war—Massachusetts and South Carolina.”

Abundant Fantasy

Joseph Addington April 19, 2025
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson have created a typical liberal artifact—a pleasant idea that can’t survive contact with political reality.

A New Book for an Old Problem

Carmel Richardson April 7, 2025
Louise Perry correctly identifies what is wrong with our sexual economy, but does not take the next, obvious step.

Mark Twain Evades the Wokeness Trap

Peter Tonguette April 7, 2025
A new biography of the great American writer is fresh without being faddish.

Yet Another British History of Africa

Brad Pearce April 7, 2025
The inside account of the dark continent will have to wait for another day.

Columns

Yankee, Stay Home

Bill Kauffman April 16, 2025
Going big is almost always going bad.

Cold Breakfast in America

Matthew Walther April 13, 2025
From corn flakes to Legos, the consumer is on the business end of “economics.”

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