Imagine John C. Calhoun reading today's tariff fights: he'd argue it's not just about trade, it's about who gets to grab the gains while others pay the bill.
We walk through his sharp critique of concentrated economic power, nullification, and why executive-driven tariffs would make him deeply uneasy — it's history that hits uncomfortably close to home.

Imagine John C. Calhoun reading today's tariff fights: he'd argue it's not just about trade, it's about who gets to grab the gains while others pay the bill. We walk through his sharp critique of concentrated economic power, nullification, and why executive-driven tariffs would make him deeply uneasy — it's history that hits uncomfortably close to home.

Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 5: Calhoun vs. Trump: Tariffs, Power, and a Fracturing Union

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Imagine if the world’s greatest and most famous philosophers, politicians, and personalities could chime in on today's news. Each week, WWKMD? reanimates the minds of history’s sharpest and most opinionated thinkers to interpret modern headlines. Join WWKMD? as it summons philosophers, economists, and thinkers from decades and centuries past to debate capitalism, culture wars, and the debt ceiling. Because sometimes, you need a 19th-century revolutionary to make sense of a 21st-century mess. For the full list of threads and episodes, visit www.wwkmd.com

Imagine if the world’s greatest and most famous philosophers, politicians, and personalities could chime in on today's news. Each week, WWKMD? reanimates the minds of history’s sharpest and most opinionated thinkers to interpret modern headlines.
&nbsp; Join WWKMD? as it summons philosophers, economists, and thinkers from decades and centuries past to debate capitalism, culture wars, and the debt ceiling. Because sometimes, you need a 19th-century revolutionary to make sense of a 21st-century mess.

For the full list of threads and episodes, visit <a href="http://www.wwkmd.com" title="What Would Karl Marx Do?" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.wwkmd.com</a>

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Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 5: Calhoun vs. Trump: Tariffs, Power, and a Fracturing Union

Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 5: Calhoun vs. Trump: Tariffs, Power, and a Fracturing Union