Back in January, Jeff Ferry and I debated free trade and protectionism. Soon afterward I wrote and posted this open letter to him. Jeff recently responded, on his Substack, to my letter. His response – titled “Free Trade: An Obsolete Theory” – is here. (My apologies to Jeff for my apparent misdirection of the email earlier this year in which I sent to him a link to my open letter.) 
For this post, I will leave the comments section open (at least for as long as it isn’t overrun with spam). Feel free to chime in with your thoughts, the best of which – from both sides – I will likely share here in a follow-up post.
