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Reihan Salam
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- We could have started here, guys.Per WSJ, the trade war may be gaining some coherence. WH is looking at prioritizing China tariffs on strategic industries and phasing them in over five years.
- I've had the privilege of knowing, admiring, learning from @bariweiss for a decently long time. She is a dynamo: creative, tenacious, obsessive, hardworking, a strange combination of heart and head, motivated a deep love of the American project. I don't know anyone who is moreParamount to buy Bari Weiss’ Free Press for up to $200M, give her senior editorial role at CBS News trib.al/jBqNCjq
- Being governor will from time to time involve having unhappy experiences.I cannot believe how bad this interview is? 3 minutes and it just totally devolves.
- Married father of two with a third baby on the way, working an off-duty security detail to help build a life for his family.Thinking of the families of those killed in this evening’s shooting on Park Avenue, especially the loved ones of the brave off-duty NYPD Officer that was reportedly killed. Grateful to live in a city where hundreds of brave NYPD officers were able to respond so quickly.
- Sweden and Canada: both have seen a pro-immigration consensus collapse after (a) a reckless increase in inflows and (b) a hubristic effort to anathematize even mild restrictionist sentiment. There are lessons here.Sweden has taken immigration below net zero - eg, more are now leaving than arriving. It tightened rules, upped deportation and agreed to offer up to £25k to those who “re-emigrate” (aka voluntary repatriation). My column on a changing debate: telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/2…
- The anti-abundance agendaIt looks like a whole new shipping preference law is coming. The House overwhelmingly passed the American Cargo for American Ships Act that would require 100% of transportation project materials to go on US ships, driving up infrastructure costs. govtrack.us/congress/bills…
- This is not the central point of @dhume’s new column, but Pakistan (population: 250M) really is an interesting case of hierarchical citizenship — see policies towards Ahmadi Muslims, Hudood Ordinances, role of the Federal Shariat Courts, etc.
- If NYC built 500,000 new housing units over the next decade, the city would be affordable for striving newcomers; foster entrepreneurship and economic vitality; and reverse the city's decline in cultural and political influence. What would it take to get there? Read @eric_koberNYC's Mayor Adams set a "moonshot" goal of 500,000 new housing units in the next decade. In a new issue brief, @eric_kober outlines the critical legal and regulatory changes the city must enact to achieve its ambitious goal. manhattan.institute/article/what-w…
- Crime is not a product of poverty. It stems from a corrosive sense of entitlement—how dare this person not smile at me, give me what I want, show me due deference? Why should I respect those who are weaker than me, or who have too much to lose to do anything?As I’ve said repeatedly: Engagement in obviously antisocial behavior in public settings—like playing music on a speaker when no one asked to hear it—is often an expression of power backed by the threat of violence. The punk with the speaker is daring you to say something, and
- Industrial policy can never fail. We can only fail industrial policy.For this industrial policy experiment to end well, the next chapter needs, among other things, to create a whole new class of demand inducements. Perhaps starting with Detroit.
- The latest from @CityJournal: a powerful and important @bariweiss piece on the fear, self-censorship, turmoil in America's elite private schools, and what it might mean for our ideological future:
- There is less here than meets the eye. If you impose regulations that raise costs and limit the potential upside of private development (deed-restricted affordability requirements, prevailing wage, good-cause eviction, etc.), you won't get much private development, no matter how
