Source: The American Conservative
by Andrew Day

“President Donald Trump, after threatening for weeks to bring the ‘hammer’ down on Iran, said Monday that a U.S. escalation is ‘unlikely’ and the war is ‘effectively over’ militarily. Antiwar voices breathed sighs of relief, and oil prices continued to plunge amid surging hopes of lasting peace. But there’s a big problem. Trump also says he’ll maintain America’s crushing economic pressure campaign against Tehran, including the naval blockade on Iranian ports. Not only is the blockade itself an act of war under international law, but the campaign makes a resumption of all-out hostilities more likely, regardless of the president’s intentions, experts told The American Conservative.” (11/11/26)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dont-relax-yet-trumps-iran-blockade-makes-more-war-likely/

Source: Persuasion
by Eboo Patel

“A faculty group calling itself ‘Uncivil’ recently criticized the people leading civility and pluralism programs that encourage college students to engage constructively across lines of difference on campus. I’m one of those program leaders. As the founder of the nation’s largest interfaith organization, Interfaith America, I’ve visited over 200 college campuses promoting pluralism—the conviction that people with different identities and divergent ideologies can respect one another, build relationships, and cooperate for the common good. The students we serve span the ideological spectrum. They might disagree profoundly about the Middle East, abortion, and religion, but they can still agree to work alongside people whose convictions differ from their own.” (11/11/26)

https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-civility-industrial-complex-is

Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson

“There was an orderly process for admitting immigrants at Ellis Island. But immigrants who showed up at Ellis Island did not need an invitation—or permission—to do so. All they needed was a ticket on a ship going to New York City. … The arrival of[Stephen] Miller’s ancestors in the United States is not an example of aspiring immigrants complying with a cumbrous and Kafkaesque body of immigration regulation; it is an example of something close to the kind of extremely permissive immigration policy advanced in our time by certain libertarians …. I myself favor a more restrictive immigration policy than the one that was in place when Miller’s antecedents passed through Ellis Island, one that also is in some ways more restrictive than current practice and in some ways more liberal.” (11/11/26)

https://thedispatch.com/article/immigration-miller-trump-ellis-island-illegal/

Source: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus
by David Beckworth

“Why reviving the moribund U.S. interbank market matters for monetary policy and financial stability.” (11/11/26)

https://macroeconomicpolicynexus.substack.com/p/the-corpse-has-a-pulse

Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Madsen Pirie

“As a graduate of St Andrews, I take a keen interest in its doings. Scotland’s oldest university has started a new tradition. Every winter day it feeds trees into a furnace in a disused paper mill, then pumps the hot water four miles down the road to warm its laboratories. It calls this sustainability. A more skeptical observer might call it an expensive way to set fire to forests and public funds at the same time.” (11/11/26)

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/chips-off-the-old-block

Source: California Post
by staff

“The ‘billionaire tax’ is officially dead. Voters rejected Proposition 40 by a wide margin, restoring hope for common-sense governance in the Golden State. This was a victory for economic growth, and jobs, and investment in the future. The United States has never had a wealth tax that would allow the government to seize what people had saved. Proposition 40 would have been the first. And it would have destroyed the startup culture that has made California’s economy the envy of the world. Voters understood that entrepreneurs would leave the state if Proposition 40 passed. Or they would sell their companies to pay the tax, sending stocks into freefall. As it is, Proposition 40 did plenty of damage simply by qualifying for the ballot. At least seven billionaires had already left the state by Election Day, with combined wealth of more than half a trillion dollars.” (11/10/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/11/10/opinion/californias-billionaire-tax-is-dead-but-the-states-paid-a-staggering-price/