Source: The UnPopulist
by Jonathan Marks

“On the Emancipation Memorial’s 150th anniversary, Douglass’ oration needs rescuing from both left and right.” (04/14/26)

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/douglass-rejected-that-black-gratitude

Source: The Pamphleteer
by Megan Podsiedlik

“Today [Tuesday], the Tennessee senate will weigh in on a bill requiring local law enforcement agencies participating in the 287(g) program to honor ICE detainers. Under the proposal, participating local law enfocement agencies would be required to hold individuals subject to an immigration detainer for up to 48 hours, giving federal officials time to assume custody. Lay of the Land According to Tennessee’s new Centralized Immigration Enforcement Division, only 49 of the state’s 95 counties now participate in the 287(g) program.” [editor’s note: “Detainers” shouldn’t be honored. If ICE wants someone, ICE should go to an actual judge and get an actual warrant – TLK] (04/13/26)

https://pamphleteer.co/newsletter/48-hour-hold-up/

Source: Roads Go Ever On
by Bekah Graham

“If you believe someone’s worst possible fate is eternal, then nothing happening to them now can ever feel as urgent.” (04/14/26)

https://bekahgwen.substack.com/p/how-belief-in-hell-makes-suffering

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute

“Walter E. Williams often made the point that a policy should be judged by whether it works, not by its good intentions. This warning is especially important because politicians are experts at declaring good intentions. If we judge them by their stated intentions alone, when their schemes end in disaster they could simply remind us that they meant well. Unfortunately, Professor Williams’s warnings went unheeded. In their book Who Killed The Constitution, Thomas E. Woods and Kevin R.C. Gutzman make a very similar argument about the irrelevance of good intentions.” (04/14/26)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/danger-allowing-good-intentions-override-constitution

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“On seeing the deep economic suffering of the Cuban people, who are now on the precipice of massive death by starvation and illness, American right-wingers love to blame Cuban socialism for what is occurring. They say that it’s not really the U.S. economic embargo that has played a critically important role in all this. And, they claim, it’s not President Trump’s and the U.S. national-security state’s oil blockade that has put the finishing touches on this horror story. The U.S. role in all this death and suffering is non-existent, the right-wingers steadfastly maintain. It’s all because of Cuba’s socialist economic system. A big part of the problem here is the moral blindness of the American right-wing when it comes to the U.S. government and, specifically, the U.S. national-security establishment.” (04/14/26)

https://www.fff.org/2026/04/14/right-wing-hypocrisy-on-cuban-and-venezuelan-socialism/

Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff

“Populist politicians in Europe, whether left or right who use tactics of demonization and division to amass power, have been put on notice. In a much-watched election on April 12, voters in Hungary ousted Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who epitomized the continent’s identity politics of fear and hate over the past 16 years. In record turnout, they soundly opted for Péter Magyar, an astute coalition-builder who overcame a smear campaign thrown at him by offering ‘a message of love’ to all Hungarians. In a speech after his Tisza party won a supermajority in Parliament, Mr. Magyar touched on the election’s meaning: ‘It is a sin to divide the nation.'” (04/13/26)

https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0413/Hungary-s-moving-message-to-populists