The Jury’s Still Out | (Ep. 417)
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Canon Press
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Douglas Wilson argues that the jury is still out on Trump’s tariffs, and the predicted instantaneous ruin did not materialize. He continues his hamartiological curriculum on miaino, or defilement, tracing its use from ceremonial uncleanness to moral corruption, bitterness, and false teaching, before closing with a review of Augustine and the Jews by Paula Fredrickson.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast. My name is Douglas Wilson. This is episode 417, 417, for those of you keeping track. |
| 0:25.0 | So I want to talk a little bit about tariffs, Trump's tariffs. And the line I want to take here is, as I believe, the jury is still out on Trump's tariffs, but I would put a dash there and say mostly. |
| 0:42.0 | The jury's still out mostly, but there's some areas in the debate over tariffs, |
| 0:49.1 | there are some areas where the debate is settled. When Trump was first rattling his saber, when he was first |
| 0:57.8 | implementing all these tariffs and applied them all over, you know, all the different countries, |
| 1:03.2 | and when it was a front page story every night when there was a lot of hubbub and ruckus about it, |
| 1:10.0 | much of the opposition to Trump's tariffs |
| 1:13.5 | was opposition that predicted instantaneous ruin. So if Trump applied these tariffs to all these |
| 1:24.9 | other countries, then we were going to go over the cliff. |
| 1:29.2 | There was going to be, you know, whether it was stock market crash, runaway inflation, |
| 1:34.8 | ruined relationships with other countries, you know, it was going to be, according to these people, |
| 1:42.3 | there was going to be a conflagration. |
| 1:47.8 | And it was going to be a conflagration. And it was going to be a conflagration right away. They weren't saying things like, you know, these tariffs are bad policy and it's going to |
| 1:55.9 | light a slow fuse and we're really going to be sorry 50 years from now. No, that's not what they were saying. |
| 2:03.2 | What they were doing was shrieking hysterically, trying to head off the implementation of these |
| 2:11.1 | tariffs. And in order to scare people, you've got to scare people in the present. You can't frighten people by saying, |
| 2:20.1 | if you do this thing, your great, great, great grandchildren will suffer dearly. Now, you might, |
| 2:26.4 | if you run into someone who's really altruistic or someone with time on their hands and they |
| 2:31.0 | want to debate someone like you, you might get a rise out of them. |
| 2:34.8 | You might get some sort of discussion. But that's very different than coming into someone's |
| 2:40.6 | living room and saying your addicts on fire, get everybody out. Right. So that kind of thing is looking |
| 2:47.7 | for action now, reaction now. We need to deal with it now. And so consequently, |
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