On What Really Matters, Walter Russell Mead discusses the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, his summit with Xi Jinping, Bill Gates’s about-face on climate change, and whether the future of the American right belongs to Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes.
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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Japan’s Minister of Defense Shinjiro Koizumi inspect a guard of honor on October 29, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)