Could a Pigouvian Tax Help Solve Climate Change?
Taxing carbon emissions could leave decisions about reducing greenhouse gases to the market.
"It may be cheap to reduce emissions in some sectors, but expensive in others. Under a broad carbon price, firms would undertake the least expensive approaches possible to reducing emissions." --Alex Muresianu
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08.10.2025 07:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In New Jersey and Virginia, Is Trump an Asset or Liability?
Neither the president nor his VP has campaigned for the GOP gubernatorial candidates.
"If there are plans for either Trump or Vice President J.D. Vance to make an appearance onstage with GOP nominee Winsome Earle-Sears, neither her campaign nor the White House are saying so." --Michael Warren
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07.10.2025 23:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Are Democrats Ready to Welcome Pro-Life Candidates?
A recent suggestion for expanding the party’s appeal gets a lukewarm reception.
"None of the Democrats who spoke to The Dispatch about the issue this week completely closed the door on it, stressing instead the need to field winning candidates, period." --Charles Hilu
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07.10.2025 21:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Power Theory of Free Speech
Why widespread hypocrisy about free speech makes the First Amendment all the more important.
“It is precisely because the powerful will always be tempted to make it hard for their critics to speak freely that we need rules and norms that protect those who offend from retaliation.” --Yascha Mounk
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07.10.2025 20:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"What you're gonna end up with is probably a more radical Democratic party than where it is now, once that party gets back into power." --Mike Warren on The Dispatch Podcast
07.10.2025 19:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
The False Promises of Protein-Packing
A protein bar can still be junk food. Do Americans care?
Starbucks recently rolled out "protein coffee," which features cold foam (15g of protein) and lattes (up to 36g).
But what are the false promises of protein-packing? Hannah Rowan explains:
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07.10.2025 18:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Adam Smith and Digital Outrage
What the father of modern economics might say about our social media culture.
"Social media has become a reflection not of the precise application of reasoned principles, but of the erratic directions in which our emotions pull us." --Joseph Palange
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07.10.2025 18:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
American vs. American
The end state of Trumpism.
"'American versus American' is the logical end state of Trumpism, and so provocations to incite that dynamic will recur continuously for the rest of his term." --Nick Catoggio
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07.10.2025 00:15 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Both the Democratic and Republican parties have identity crises, @jonah.g.bskysocial explains on The Dispatch Podcast.
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Read more: thedispatch.com/newsletter/w...
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Desirable things and their limits: On bipartisanship, consensus, moderation, and civility | Kevin Williamson
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The Arsonist and Firefighter
How to understand the role Qatar plays in Middle Eastern politics.
"Doha, in a strategy aptly described as combining the attributes of the “arsonist and the firefighter,” seeks to leverage its support for enemies of the West into greater influence and improved relations with the West itself." --Jonathan Spyer
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06.10.2025 20:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Trump is, weirdly enough and perversely enough, the most anti-American politician of our generation, by a long shot." --Kevin Williamson on The Dispatch Podcast
06.10.2025 19:31 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The Nazi Scholar Inspiring China’s Intelligentsia
How Carl Schmitt shaped the CCP’s anti-liberal global vision.
"When it comes to predicting the course of political history, at least, Carl Schmitt, unlike Francis Fukuyama, has yet to be proven wrong." --Benn Steil
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06.10.2025 18:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Transgender Issues Continue to Vex Democrats
Gubernatorial candidates in New Jersey and Virginia have been evasive on the trail.
Transgender issues continue to vex Democrats: "Gubernatorial candidates in New Jersey and Virginia have been evasive on the trail." --David M. Drucker
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06.10.2025 17:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our Shadowy Civil Rights Regime
The American civil rights system doesn’t work how we think it does.
"The threat to these freedoms does not come from some diabolical twisting of civil rights law—it comes from the law itself." --Tal Fortgang | Monday Essay
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06.10.2025 16:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The First Post-Assad Election in Syria
Al-Sharaa’s government held limited parliamentary elections, but sectarian violence and centralized power threaten national unity.
The First Post-Assad Election in Syria: Al-Sharaa’s government held limited parliamentary elections, but sectarian violence and centralized power threaten national unity | Morning Dispatch
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06.10.2025 15:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How to Stop Teaching Our Children to Hate
Plus: The struggle and survival of Jewish life in Ukraine.
"Telling your children that someone else hates them is an effective way to teach your children to hate." --Bryan Gentry | Dispatch Faith
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05.10.2025 18:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Monthly Mailbag with Zachary Shemtob
SCOTUSblog’s executive editor answers your questions.
Looking to learn more about Zachary Shemtob, executive editor of the recently acquired SCOTUSblog?
Read our latest Monthly Mailbag: thedispatch.com/article/mont...
05.10.2025 16:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Struggle and Survival of Jewish Life in Ukraine
Many Jews have fled war-torn Ukraine, but some places see spiritual revival.
"Voices overlap, ignite. The question falls abruptly, like a verdict: 'Are we Jews first, or Ukrainians first?'" --Joseph Roche
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05.10.2025 13:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Do You Belong to a Story?
Wendell Berry’s latest novel wrestles with what rootlessness does to our souls.
"Technological innovations in both agriculture and the broader American life play a crucial role in this depressing tale, too—and affect us all." --Nadya Williams
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04.10.2025 22:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Donald Trump tried to overthrow the US government the last time he was in power. No one's allowed to be shocked by the fact that he's an authoritarian creep." --Kevin Williamson on The Dispatch Podcast
04.10.2025 21:01 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
One Bullet After Another
In Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie, you’d better hold on for dear life.
"One Battle After Another has little time for postmodernist deconstruction, shooting off like a rocket and daring the audience to hang on like hell." --Evan Spear
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04.10.2025 20:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When Your Daughter Goes Off the Deep End
Fredrik deBoer’s first novel isn’t easy to read. But it’s important.
"One of the questions at the heart of The Mind Reels is whether we are seeing free choices or coerced ones. DeBoer makes it clear that the book’s setting in America is important." --Valerie Pavilonis
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04.10.2025 18:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We’re Thinking About Mercy All Wrong
A mercy that allows killing is a deformed version of the virtue.
"Even in those cases where death appears the lesser evil, it is still an act of violence on the very concept of human dignity." --Beatrice Scudeler
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04.10.2025 16:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
