@LibertyEthics and I are happy to announce that Black Liberation Through the Marketplace is now available for pre-order on Amazon. It will be released on May 10th! amazon.com/dp/1637583443/ref…

I really enjoyed reading George Selgin's new book False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933-1947 with my American Economic History students last semester. I decided to go ahead and write up a review for the Daily Economy, which is out today.

It's shocking to me that @MarcusWitcher and I had to write this piece, but... here we are. The 40th President would absolutely NOT have endorsed the trade policies of the 47th. Reagan used targeted tariffs as a last resort to enforce existing trade deals and was quick to lower and remove them. Trump uses them indiscriminately and as a first resort. The two could not be further apart. My latest in @aier and @thedailyeconomy thedailyeconomy.org/article/…

.@MarcusWitcher crushed it on CBC's Power & Markets last night! @RonaldReagan was pro free trade and, the few times he used tariffs, he did so surgically and as a LAST resort. Trump uses them as a sledgehammer and as a FIRST resort. The 40th President would be ashamed of the 47th and today's Republican Party.

This afternoon I was interviewed on Reagan's views on free trade by David Cochrane for CBC's "Power and Politics" the most watched daily political news program in Canada. Very cool to do a television interview at that level. youtu.be/2JYdLiNIlAo?si=7C9K…

Lots of people are saying things about Reagan and how Canada "misrepresented his views on protectionism." @MarcusWitcher and I already debunked this. Reagan was a free trader, through and through. ✅thedailyeconomy.org/article/… ✅civitasinstitute.org/researc… ✅thedailyeconomy.org/article/… ✅thedailyeconomy.org/article/…

Use discount code: 24AOR25 at checkout to receive 40% off free shipping on select Reagan titles. Click here to start shopping today: kansaspress.ku.edu/reagan25/. @MarcusWitcher @JRyanHume23

.@MarcusWitcher and I recorded a segment for @batchelorshow's Eye on the World on @CBSNews, which should be out soon. Our topic: Was Reagan a protectionist, was the VER a good idea, and how do Reagan and Trump compare? The answers are "absolutely not; no but it was the best he could do; there are some similarities, but it's clear that @RonaldReagan would not have condoned the actions of @realDonaldTrump." Indeed, Reagan would not even recognize the @GOP or the Republican Party today. Links to articles in the first comment:

In @CivitasOutlook my @aier colleague @Dave_Hebert and @MarcusWitcher explain why Ronald Reagan's approach to #trade is not the same as Donald Trump's: civitasinstitute.org/researc…

Thanks to Ben Jones at the History 605 Podcast for having @davidtbeito and me on to discuss Rose Wilder Lane's political evolution, her columns at the Pittsburgh Courier, and how her ideas are still important today. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

While there are some vague similarities, Trump partisans and apologists need to leave Reagan out of their discussions. There's no way Reagan would have endorsed or condoned Trump, as @MarcusWitcher and I argue in today's @CivitasOutlook. civitasinstitute.org/researc…

Was Reagan a protectionist? Once you understand that choice is between actual options and not imagined ones, the answer is clear: absolutely not, as @MarcusWitcher and I argue in today's Daily Economy with @aier. thedailyeconomy.org/article/…

Rather than risk starting a trade war by imposing “reciprocal tariffs,” Reagan encouraged domestic manufacturing by making it easier for other countries to import our manufactured goods. Read @Dave_Hebert & @MarcusWitcher's latest: thedailyeconomy.org/article/…

It's very cool to be quoted at length in this NPR article. On the one hand I'm happy that economic historians are in demand, on the other hand I wish it were to discuss pro growth policies rather than Trump's misguided tariffs. npr.org/2025/03/06/nx-s1-531…

It was great to be on The Bookmonger podcast with @heymiller to discuss Rose Lane Says. It's a collection of her op-eds at the Pittsburgh Courier in which she applied libertarian principles to the problems faced by black Americans. I edited it with @davidtbeito.

.@LibertyEthics and @MarcusWitcher pay homage to the role of libertarians and classical liberals in the fight for equal right for all in #LibertyMatters: ow.ly/VZ3K50TzeiV

Classical liberals aren’t famous for their anti-racism, but maybe they should be. @LibertyEthics and @MarcusWitcher lead off our 🆕 #LibertyMatters series at the OLL: ow.ly/VmXn50T7UHZ #AntiRacism #Abolitionists #AmericanFounding#Economics

It was great to present @tannercorley99 and my paper on black jitney drivers in the American South at the Classical Liberals of the Carolinas conference this afternoon. What a wonderful organization and such great scholars.

My co-author, @LibertyEthics was on @VivekGRamaswamy's podcast discussing some of the insights from our book Black Liberation Through the Marketplace.

Big congratulations to @tannercorley99! He was the lead author on our paper "License to Exclude: Black Barbers in Arkansas” which was awarded James Soltow Award for the best paper published in Essays in Economic and Business History in 2023. 🎉🎉 ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php…

Conserving the Conversation: aier.org/article/conserving-…. Michael Lucchese from @LawLiberty reviews "Controversies Among Conservatives: Conversations on Conservatism, Vol. II" by @MarcusWitcher, Kevin Hughes, and @Allenmendenhall.