Fred Bauer
@fredbauerblog
Writing a book on reimagining freedom. @NRO, @CityJournal, @Commonplc, @UnHerd, @TheAtlantic, etc. | @CenterClipAudio | fredbauerblog at gmail dot com
I'm delighted to have this essay featured on the new @NRO cover. It's about "climate activists" attacking works of art--and about the costs of a politics of doom. 🧵with some art...
Add in the GDP from Mexico and Canada as as USMCA trade bloc, and you're at over 60% of global GDP. This offers a horizon for a potential global trade order that does not rely upon the PRC as a lynchpin.
Trump’s trade deal bloc—let’s call it The Free World—now encompasses: * 57% of global GDP * 40% of total global trade in goods * 18% of the world’s population (U.S., EU, Japan, Indonesia, UK, Vietnam, and Philippines)
Why "No Enemies To The Left" Is a Disastrous Policy - in 1917 and in 2025. aviwoolf834207.substack.com/p/no-enemies-t…
Breaking: Trump says he reached a deal with the European Union on.wsj.com/4malhV3
The general view of the UK economy is that it's been stagnating for decades now. But on some of the most important metrics it's actually going backwards...
Yup. Over time, refusing to spell out how the radicals are wrong (because the radicals don't exist, or because they don't matter, or because they meant something totally different, or because hey look a squirrel) seems like saying they're right.
Ironically, this leverage threat might work in the short term for PMC but could actually strengthen the hand of radical leftists over the long term. That focus on tactics often becomes a backhanded way for PMC to *reaffirm* fundamental principles of leftists.
1. They have grounds to disagree (though also overlap) but contemporary PMC liberals are extremely scared to *publicly* disagree with radicals. It is also why the the threat of rightist victory is important for maintaining the leverage of relatively moderate liberals.
This is because many mainstream liberals feel they have no grounds to disagree with the premises that lead the hardcore leftists to want to murder them.
i know a guy in his 40s who’s handsome, super wealthy, throws huge parties at his long island mansion, war veteran, into jazz… and yet he spends many of his nights staring across the manhasset bay wondering why he’s unable to find true love is modern dating really this broken?
Me on the fall of Colbert, Hulk Hogan's legacy, and why we're looking to be surprised in our hyper-saturated media landscape.
Today would have been my daughter Miranda's 34th birthday theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…