Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“The American people are complaining about affordability. The prices of groceries, automobiles, movies, clothes, gasoline, rent, mortgage payments, and just about everything else are soaring. Many Americans are having a very difficult time making ends meet. So what are they doing? They are calling on their federal officials to do something to solve the problem. In the process, though, Americans decline to confront an important point: the affordability problem is rooted in the systems that the American people have bought into existence and to which they remain irrevocably committed. The affordability problem means that people don’t have enough money to pay for things they wish to buy. Their money just doesn’t go as far as it used to go. There are various reasons for this phenomenon.” (08/24/26)

https://www.fff.org/2026/08/24/heading-toward-the-cliff/

Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“I still find myself fuming at the way ostensibly well-informed individuals can stand right in the heart of the empire denouncing its targets, as we saw in the open letter that a group of left-wing western individuals addressed ‘to Iran’s political prisoners’ framing Iran as a ‘source of oppression’ equal to the US and its allies. It’s crazy this even needs to be said, but if you are a westerner your ONLY job is to oppose the abuses of the western empire. Not Iran. Not China. Not Russia, Cuba or North Korea. If you live in the US or one of its allied nations, then you live under the single most tyrannical and murderous power structure on earth, and that’s where your focus belongs.” [editor’s note: She seems to be admitting that those other regimes DO commit abuses. That’s progress, I guess. And my job is whatever I damn well decide it is – TLK] (08/24/26)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/08/24/its-obnoxious-for-westerners-to-criticize-the-targets-of-the-western-empire/

Source: ProSocial Libertarians
by Andrew Jason Cohen

“In K-12 education, students are—and perhaps should be—only beginning to think seriously. Especially in earlier years, they do not have enough knowledge or experience to know what they are really interested in. Hence, teachers must just encourage them to explore what they are curious about. By the time they reach college, though, students should have at least some sense of what they are curious about. I don’t think most college students today do (I don’t think they have for the last several decades—that is, I don’t think it was true in CBUs or ETCUs and I doubt it was true in GMUs). If students are encouraged to let their curiosity wander in K-12, this would likely change. Still, I will say something about what to do if they do not come to college with some idea about what they want to study.” (08/24/26)

https://prosociallibertarians.substack.com/p/my-ideal-college

Source: Law & Liberty
by Luke C Sheahan

“Robert Alexander Nisbet first made a splash in academia—and the conservative intellectual movement such as it was—in 1953 with the publication of his first and most famous book, The Quest for Community. Much of what he has to say there and in the rest of his oeuvre proved to be prescient in various ways. Nisbet predicted the rise of loneliness and the decline of the family, the growth of the bureaucracy at the expense of civil society, and the use of the language of democracy and equality to aggrandize the intrusions of political power.” (08/24/26)

https://lawliberty.org/robert-nisbets-neglected-insights/

Source: Liberal Currents
by Pamilerin Samuel

“For a long time, the liberal response to institutional mistrust was a mix of condescension and bafflement. If the public did not trust the experts, the assumption was that people were either misinformed or manipulated by bad actors. We lived through a decade of trying to fact-check our way out of a legitimacy crisis. But the tone has started to shift. Across public health agencies, local police departments, housing authorities, and financial institutions, people have watched institutions fail visibly and repeatedly, often without meaningful accountability afterward. In that context, skepticism is not necessarily irrational. It can be a reasonable response to systems that appear distant, unresponsive, or insulated from the consequences of their own mistakes.” (08/24/26)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/what-comes-after-mistrust-liberalism-needs-a-theory-of-repair/

Source: The Daily Economy
by Jeffery L Degner

“Nixon promised jobs, stable prices, and protection for the dollar. His ‘fixes’ helped usher in a new era of inflation, debt, and monetary instability.” (08/24/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-nixon-shock-55-years-later-three-impossible-promises/