Category Archives: Environment

That $20 Dress Direct from China Now Costs $30 After Trump Closed a Tariff Loophole – and the US Will Soon End the ‘De Minimis’ Exemption for the Rest of the World, too

How the Trump tariff attack on low-value shipments from Hong Kong and China (and soon elsewhere) is yet another tax on the poor.

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The Ancients: What Can They Teach Us About Our World and How to Live in It?

I recently added a new volume to my Shelf of Little Books, some of which are not so little but all of which repay re-reading that helps me understand our world a little better with each successive encounter.  The newest resident of the shelf was published earlier this year by Princeton University Press: Following Nature’s […]

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