economy, foreign trade, interview, politics, tariff, united states
A complement to David Paterson’s recount of Premiere Doug Ford and US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s Washington meeting, Gillian Tett’s interview with Ezra Klein expands further upon the information shared. Author, journalist, and chair of the editorial board for the Financial Times, as well as trained anthropologist, Tett clearly articulates …
economy, foreign trade, tariff
An important update to the 2025 trade war comes from this CBC interview with Ontario’s representative in Washington, D.C., David Paterson. He was at Premier Doug Ford’s and Howard Lutnick’s meeting March 13th meeting provoked by Ford threatening to add a 25% surcharge to energy exports to three northern US …
documentary, history
Weaving together seemingly disparate storylines from across the globe, Adam Curtis’ Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’s meandering historical doc is a little harder to piece together than his previous ones like, Century of Self and Hyper Normalization. It’s not for the novice doc watcher who prefers a more …
Today I stumbled upon two interesting history-related talks. As a warm-up Hoover Institutes’ Uncommon Knowledge series featured an episode with Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Andrew Roberts who offered solid rebuttals to recent history revisionism such as the 1619 project and weigh in on the “Churchill was really the …