No. 79 past issue Starting with our rancid head

Starting with our rancid head of state

This is also the issue in which we introduced “Semiotics Mailbag

but can only stoke to greater furies

This is often easier said than done

Josh MacPhee

No. 79 past issue Starting with our rancid headAmerica first does not mean America alone, said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on April 23, seeking to reassure the market three weeks after the president declared Liberation Day and tariffed the world. Spooked by turbulence in the bond marketor eager to discard the pretense that this wasnt primarily about a Sino American decouplingthe White House had already announced a ninety day pause exempting all countries besides the Middle Kingdom from the