Don Quixote fought windmills. US President Donald Trump fights trade deficits. Both battles are absurd, but at least Quixote’s was tinged with idealism. Trump’s is drenched in enraged ignorance.
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Jeffrey D Sachs, professor of sustainable development and of health policy and management at Columbia University in New York, is director of Columbia’s Center for Sustainable Development and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.