American Affairs Journal

The United States has 330 million people, compared to China’s 1.3 billion. We cannot offer a larger market. We must offer a better one. Despite what today appears to be a fraying of traditional allies, the allied coalition (Europe, India, Five Eyes, Japan, Southeast Asia) has the population, capital, technology, and market depth to outcompete China on every dimension. The coa...

The availability of energy in America has allowed citizens to use their security, freedom, and formation to advance the social goods of everyday life. Likewise, the future of the country will depend on the addition of large amounts of cheap energy, directed toward the right ends, to: lower the costs of family and individual life; build critical industries, including manufactu...

The more strategic move is simpler, dumber even: tariff everything. Create a durable preference for production in the United States, across the whole industrial base, and let entrepreneurs, engineers, and manufacturers discover where the next breakthroughs will come. The scalpel has its place, but the blunt force object is the tool for this job. For those who really want to “...