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Dead philosophers. Fresh takes.

Ever wonder what it would be to listen to

Karl Marx read Elon Musk’s Tweets?

Adam Smith walk into a Walmart?

John Locke debate the vaccine mandate?

Ever wonder... WWKMD?

Thread 3
The Trump Tariffs

As the Supreme Court debates whether the Trump Tariffs will stand or not, take a stroll back through time to see how British economists, Enlightened philosophers, founding fathers, and secessionists would think not only about Trump's approach, but about the idea of tariffs in general...

Ch. 1: Empire Builders, Enlightened Economists, and Founding Fathers

Episode 1: When Cromwell Meets the Red Tie: How 17th‑Century Mercantilists Would Read Trump's Tariffs

Episode 2: If Adam Smith Read Trump's Tariffs: Mercantilism in Modern Clothes

Episode 3: What Would Hamilton Do? Tariffs, Power, and National Industry

Episode 4: If Brutus Could See the Tariff: Anti‑Federalists vs. Modern Executive Power

Ch. 4: Making and Breaking a Depression

Episode 11: Smoot-Hawley: The Tariff That Trapped Hoover

Episode 12: FDR’s Lesson: You Can’t Tariff Your Way Out

Ch. 2: To Nullify...or not?

Episode 5: Calhoun vs. Trump: Tariffs, Power, and a Fracturing Union

Episode 6: Jackson Would Hang the Dissenters: How Tariffs Become a Power Play

Episode 7: Henry Clay vs. Trump: Tariffs That Build — Not Blow Up — the Union

Ch. 3: A New Gilded Age Era of Protectionism...

Episode 8: McKinley vs. Modern Tariff Politics: What He'd Say About Trump's Trade War

Episode 9: TR vs. Trump: The Tariff Test

Episode 10: Carnegie vs. Rockefeller: How Tariffs Rewrote American Capitalism

Ch. 5: Modern Conservatism/ Populism/ Nationalism

Episode 13: Truman vs. Tariff Chaos: What He'd Say About Today's Trade Wars

Episode 14: Nixon’s Tariff Playbook: The Original Trade Populist

Episode 15: Reagan's Trade Paradox: Free-Market Saint, Surprise Protectionist

Episode 16: Ross Perot’s Charts: The Man Who Saw NAFTA’s Fallout Coming

Episode 17: From Buchanan to Trump: How a Forgotten Nationalist Foretold the Tariff Turn

Dead philosophers. Fresh takes.

Ever wonder... WWKMD?

Thread 3 The Trump Tariffs

As the Supreme Court debates whether the Trump Tariffs will stand or not, take a stroll back through time to see how British economists, Enlightened philosophers, founding fathers, and secessionists would think not only about Trump's approach, but about the idea of tariffs in general...

Ch. 1: Empire Builders, Enlightened Economists, and Founding Fathers

Episode 1: When Cromwell Meets the Red Tie: How 17th‑Century Mercantilists Would Read Trump's Tariffs

Episode 2: If Adam Smith Read Trump's Tariffs: Mercantilism in Modern Clothes

Episode 3: What Would Hamilton Do? Tariffs, Power, and National Industry

Episode 4: If Brutus Could See the Tariff: Anti‑Federalists vs. Modern Executive Power

Ch. 4: Making and Breaking a Depression

Episode 11: Smoot-Hawley: The Tariff That Trapped Hoover

Episode 12: FDR’s Lesson: You Can’t Tariff Your Way Out

Ch. 2: To Nullify...or not?

Episode 5: Calhoun vs. Trump: Tariffs, Power, and a Fracturing Union

Episode 6: Jackson Would Hang the Dissenters: How Tariffs Become a Power Play

Episode 7: Henry Clay vs. Trump: Tariffs That Build — Not Blow Up — the Union

Ch. 3: A New Gilded Age Era of Protectionism...

Episode 8: McKinley vs. Modern Tariff Politics: What He'd Say About Trump's Trade War

Episode 9: TR vs. Trump: The Tariff Test

Episode 10: Carnegie vs. Rockefeller: How Tariffs Rewrote American Capitalism

Ch. 5: Modern Conservatism/ Populism/ Nationalism

Episode 13: Truman vs. Tariff Chaos: What He'd Say About Today's Trade Wars

Episode 14: Nixon’s Tariff Playbook: The Original Trade Populist

Episode 15: Reagan's Trade Paradox: Free-Market Saint, Surprise Protectionist

Episode 16: Ross Perot’s Charts: The Man Who Saw NAFTA’s Fallout Coming

Episode 17: From Buchanan to Trump: How a Forgotten Nationalist Foretold the Tariff Turn

Thread 3
The Trump Tariffs