That Was Fast! Wylie Shopping Book by Roger Hodge

Just a week after being unceremoniously ousted as the editor of Harper’s Magazine, Roger Hodge has a book proposal out on submission from Jin Auh at the Wylie Agency. An auction is expected this week.

The book is tentatively titled The Mendacity of Hope, according to publishing industry sources. It will attack President Obama from Read More

Repeat After Us: Free Trade Is Great!

Boy, it’s tough being a street protester these days. You

make up a few placards denouncing free-trade agreements, show up at a big

summit meeting, maybe say a bad word or two about politicians, and Thomas

Friedman all but calls you a gangster on the Op-Ed Page of The New York Times. Well, maybe not Read More

Trade Isn’t Free When Your Job Ends

When Representative Eliot Engel rose to address his House colleagues during the debate over the China trade bill on May 24, he had a familiar prop in his hands: An apparently well-used dollar bill. The Bronx Democrat waved the bill as he asked if we as a nation really wished to surrender our principles, i.e., Read More