This month, we're talking about the Heartland... The mysterious middle of America that few folks on the Coast understand. Is it resurging? We slaughter a pig, hang out with goats, talk cute puppies, and wonder about both legal marijuana and the heroin epidemic... And through it all, we focus on what matters... the Real America.
Cover | 1 |
Contents | 3 |
Inside This Issue By Steven Longenecker | 4 |
Letter From the Editor By P.J. O'Rourke | 6 |
"Coastal" or "Heartlander" Quiz | 10 |
What Moved the Market | 12 |
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | 14 |
From Our Inbox | 16 |
Resurgence of the American Heartland By Dr. David Eifrig | 22 |
A Conversation with Mark Spitznagel: The Heartland Will Return | 28 |
Letter From Toledo, Ohio By John Fedderke | 32 |
A Conversation with Matt McCall: The Future of Legal Marijuana | 42 |
Here to Stay: Heroin By Geoffrey Norman | 48 |
Back-Off From Opioids By Dr. David Eifrig | 57 |
The 2018 Farm Bill By PJ O'Rourke | 58 |
Pigs Get Slaughtered By Bill Bonner | 64 |
The Electoral College By PJ O'Rourke | 68 |
Revenge of the Forgotten Class By Alec MacGillis | 72 |
Puppies Are Cute By Ernest Dogsbody | 82 |
Trading Tragedy By Turney Duff | 86 |
America's Forgotten Default By Sebastián Edwards | 90 |
U.S./China Trade War By Dr. Steve Sjuggerud | 94 |
A North Korean Opportunity for America and China By Richard N. Haass | 100 |
Read This | 104 |
The Final Word By Buck Sexton | 106 |
Featured Contributors | 110 |
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