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The Economist reviews Doug Irwin’s Clashing Over Commerce [2].  A slice:

Mr Irwin also methodically debunks the idea that protectionism made America a great industrial power, a notion believed by some to offer lessons for developing countries today. As its share of global manufacturing powered from 23% in 1870 to 36% in 1913, the admittedly high tariffs of the time came with a cost, estimated at around 0.5% of GDP in the mid-1870s. In some industries, they might have sped up development by a few years. But American growth during its protectionist period was more to do with its abundant resources and openness to people and ideas.

I don’t know if The Niskanen Center’s Jerry Taylor is correct or not to have changed his mind about global warming.  But as I explain in my most-recent Pittsburgh Tribune-Review column [3], I do know that a recent Mother Jones description of his career as a public intellectual is highly misleading, and in a way that is unjust to him..

Harvard undergraduate Laura Nicolae writes wisely and eloquently about the frivolous yet frightening infatuation that many young people today have with communism [4].  (HT Mark Perry)  A slice:

Communism cannot be separated from oppression; in fact, it depends upon it. In the communist society, the collective is supreme. Personal autonomy is nonexistent. Human beings are simply cogs in a machine tasked with producing utopia; they have no value of their own.

Speaking of poorly educated college students, here’s Jonathan Haidt [5].

James Walpole makes the case for principles [6].

Trade saved the American pilgrims [7].  (HT Bryan Riley)

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