President Donald Trump’s tariffs and the absolute chaos surrounding them has taken up all the air in the room the last couple of weeks. There’s so much confusion, including about the ideology underlying them. Constance Grady’s sharp explanation of the link between Trump’s tariff policy and incel beliefs is particularly instructive exactly for that reason.
“These men read Trump’s economic policy as a project of redistributing money and jobs away from women and back to men, ultimately for men’s sexual gain,” she writes of the angry, unhappily single dudes cheering on a recession they believe would force suddenly jobless women to shack up with them. The piece offers great, if dispiriting, insight into the most important news story of the moment.
—Julia Rubin, senior editorial director
