Picture Andrew Jackson watching modern tariffs unfold: he’d see them as a test of authority, not abstract economics.
If tariffs strengthen the union and punish elites, he’d cheer; if they protect cronies or spark defiance, he’d turn downright ruthless.

Picture Andrew Jackson watching modern tariffs unfold: he’d see them as a test of authority, not abstract economics. If tariffs strengthen the union and punish elites, he’d cheer; if they protect cronies or spark defiance, he’d turn downright ruthless.

Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 6: Jackson Would Hang the Dissenters: How Tariffs Become a Power Play

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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.

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Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 6: Jackson Would Hang the Dissenters: How Tariffs Become a Power Play

Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 6: Jackson Would Hang the Dissenters: How Tariffs Become a Power Play