Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Jake Scott

“Britain was once a giant of car manufacturing. In the 1950s, we were the second-largest producer in the world and the biggest exporter. Coventry, Birmingham, and Oxford built not just cars, but the reputation of an industrial nation; to this day, it is a source of great pride that Jaguar-Land Rover, a global automotive icon, still stands between Coventry and Birmingham. By the 1970s, we were producing more than 1.6 million vehicles a year. Today? We have fallen back to 1950s levels. Last year, Britain built fewer than half our peak output—800,000 cars, and the lowest outside the pandemic since 1954. Half a year later, by mid-2025, production has slumped a further 12%. The country that once led the automotive revolution is now struggling to stay afloat, and fighting to remain relevant.” (09/02/25)

https://fee.org/articles/britains-car-industry-from-world-leader-to-net-zero-casualty/

Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter

“So, Labor Day morning, I decided to get out of the house for a little bit – a chance to clear my head from all the crap happening – and check out refrigerators on sale at Lowe’s. On the way there, I drive through one intersection with a group of about 15 leftists holding signs about ‘Fight Trump’ and ‘End Oligarchy!’ I doubt any of them could define oligarchy, but they’re ready to fight it! A few more intersections, a few more mutant gatherings, and one thing became clear: Democrats are miserable people. Imagine having a day off work – a federal holiday – and you choose not to spend it with family and friends, but to … wave signs with slogans as stale as their hairdos at cars full of people who are going about their lives in a way you don’t seem capable of doing.” (09/02/25)

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/09/02/democrats-appeal-to-miserable-people-n2662617

Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson

“Why do wages for some jobs go up while others go down? Why do some jobs pay a lot more than others? The barstool answers you get to those questions tend to emphasize factors such as how difficult, dangerous, or important a job is, how much education is necessary, etc. You tend to get moralistic answers in a lot of cases, answers that attempt to explain why highly paid people deserve to be highly paid. But none of those answers is true. Anybody who thinks about it for 10 seconds knows that education, merit, social value, and other factors of that kind have nothing at all to do with earnings. … Wages are a price — the price of labor — and prices are determined by supply and demand. That’s it.” (09/02/25)

https://thedispatch.com/article/why-wages-rise-explained/

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Daniel Larison

“The unipolar moment is over, and the U.S. must adapt its foreign policy to an increasingly multipolar world. The old overly ambitious strategy of liberal hegemony is ill-suited to the new realities of the 21st century. Moreover, the U.S. is badly overstretched with too many commitments around the world, and it needs to chart a different course if it is to prosper in the decades to come. To meet that need, Emma Ashford — a senior fellow at the Stimson Center — lays out the case for a new pragmatic grand strategy of realist internationalism in her valuable new book, ‘First Among Equals: U.S. Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World.’ … Ashford makes a good case that this multipolarity is real and that the U.S. will have to change how it operates in the world to flourish in these new conditions.” (09/02/25)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/realist-foreign-policy/