Trevor Wagener
Trevor Wagener
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Wagener: China’s paper tiger
Praxis Makes Perfect
As I approach the end of my Yale career, the International Monetary Fund forecasts the end of American economic dominance. According to the IMF, China will overtake the United States in 2016 as the world’s largest economy.
Wagener: Finding real climate solutions
Praxis Makes Perfect
Last week, a major climate skeptic made big waves when he endorsed the view that there has been significant global warming resulting from human activities. After his unexpected testimony before Congress, global warming activists trumpeted his alleged “conversion” as proof that the United States needs to adopt a “cap and trade” carbon taxation scheme.
Wagener: Quit babying big business
Praxis Makes Perfect
Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is an unlikely ally of the libertarian CATO Institute, but one issue has managed to bring their views into near lockstep: corporate welfare. Corporate welfare, the use of specialized grants and tax breaks targeted at specific corporations or industries, is a massive expense at a time when the federal government must borrow more than a trillion dollars each year to finance its day-to-day operations.
Wagener: Hold off the unions
Praxis Makes Perfect
The news is filled with images of protests and riots around Madison, Wisc. One could be forgiven for comparing the crowd sentiment in Madison with the revolutionary fervor engulfing the autocracies of the Middle East. That is, except for one critical detail: in Madison, the courageous rebel is under siege, and the forces of the status quo are rioting in the streets.
Wagener: Tackling the new Red Menace
Praxis Makes Perfect
During the Cold War, anti-communists often referred to the totalitarian bloc as “The Red Menace.” By 1991, the United States stood triumphant over the vanquished remains of the communist empire as a democratic, capitalist hegemon. The old Red Menace was relegated to Reagan’s “dust heap of history.”
The Yale Anime Society: Schedule in some otaku time
“Welcome to the Club” is a weekly op-ed series, featuring columns inspired by Yale’s undergraduate organizations and written by their officers — from Anime Society to Zeta Psi.
Wagener: A bastard — but our bastard
Praxis Makes Perfect
Open revolts in four Muslim countries may wreak havoc on U.S. interests in the Middle East; two pro-American, secular leaders have fallen and two more stand at the precipice. We stood at the sidelines as a Hezbollah-led coup overthrew Lebanon Prime Minister Saad Hariri and as street demonstrations ended the regime of Tunisian President Ben Ali.
Wagener: Improving teacher compensation
Praxis Makes Perfect
If you walk into a typical American public school, you’re bound to see a teacher with an impressive back-load. Stop wagging your finger; this is a column about compensation, not prurient observations.
Wagener: The debt stops here
Praxis Makes Perfect
On Nov. 10, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson upended Washington with a 50-page draft proposal for fiscal reform. The two co-chairmen of President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform gave America’s political class a blueprint for slashing the structural deficit below 3 percent of the Gross Domestic Product.
Wagener: Throw the bums out
The midterm elections next Tuesday are likely to be remembered as the moment when Americans drew a line in the sand and told the Democrats that there is no room for government from the political extreme.