Daily Archives: May 17, 2025

Nathan Cofnas: ‘MAGA Communism and the End of America – The right’s stupidity has reached a tipping point’

Posted on May 17, 2025 by Luke Ford

Nathan Cofnas writes: Batya Ungar-Sargon is a self-identified Marxist who supports Trump because he is waging “class warfare” and “tell[ing] Wall Street to screw itself.” She looks forward to Trump’s tariffs taking us back to the 70s because: “Back in … Continue reading →

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The World Turned Upside Down: America, China, and the Struggle for Global Leadership

Posted on May 17, 2025 by Luke Ford

Clyde Prestowitz wrote in this 2021 book: The United States got rich by imitating Great Britain and thereby marking a trail followed by Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, and South Korea — all of … Continue reading →

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War, Dictatorship & International Relations

Posted on May 17, 2025 by Luke Ford

Please analyze the 2010 essay Constitutional Dictatorship: Its Dangers and Its Design and Clinton Rossiter’s book on Constitutional Dictatorship in the light of the new John J. Mearsheimer essay on war. Grok says: To analyze the essay “Constitutional Dictatorship: Its … Continue reading →

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Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests (2001)

Posted on May 17, 2025 by Luke Ford

Ralph Gomory, the former IBM chief scientist and Sloan Foundation president, and William J. Baumol, former American Economics Association president, wrote: * In [David] Ricardo’s time trade is estimated to have constituted about 1 percent of world GDP. Since then, … Continue reading →

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