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Are Trump’s Tariffs Really Tariffs?

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Are Trump’s Tariffs Really Tariffs?
A container ship is docked at the Port of Oakland, in Oakland, Calif., on Feb. 3, 2025. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Victor Davis Hanson
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Hysteria has erupted here and abroad over President Donald Trump’s threats to level trade tariffs against particular countries.

Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”