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Commerce, Not Conquest | Interview: William Easterly

Commerce, Not Conquest | Interview: William Easterly

Update: 2025-11-26
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Economist William Easterly makes his debut on The Remnant to talk with middle-aged nobody Jonah Goldberg about free trade, USAID, human agency, colonialism, and Chinese liberalization.


Shownotes:
Easterly’s website
Violent Saviors: The West’s Conquest of the Rest
Easterly’s recent paper touching on Lee Kuan Yew
Excerpts from Edmund Burke’s speech on India
Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy


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Commerce, Not Conquest | Interview: William Easterly

Commerce, Not Conquest | Interview: William Easterly

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