Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Persuasion
by Cathy Young

“It’s possible to both condemn the bigotry of the right and reject the excesses of activists.” (03/12/25)

https://www.persuasion.community/p/how-to-navigate-transgender-issues

Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux

“Whatever good intuitions and commendable intentions Mr. Trump has — and he has expressed some — they look like random blips likely to fail among his enervated interventionism, his imperial entertainment, and the infatuation with collective choices that he shares with the other major political party. He just wants to impose different tastes and values on the 50.2% of voters who did not vote for him and, tragically, on many rationally ignorant voters in his 49.8%. A grave danger is that this be mistaken for the defense of individual liberty.” (03/13/25)

https://www.econlib.org/where-are-the-free-market-advocates/

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“Given the wish that American right-wingers have expressed over the decades that Mexico get its economic house in order so that Mexicans will stay at home instead of ‘invading’ the United States, you would think that right-wingers would be exultant over this state of affairs. Yet, President Trump and his merry band of tariff supporters are now threatening to wreak economic devastation on the Mexican people with a 25% tariff on many Mexican products shipped into the United States.” (03/12/25)

https://www.fff.org/2025/03/12/trumps-viciousness-against-the-mexican-people/

Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson

“The central thesis of this paper – one which will be restated throughout – is the problematic nature of the nation-state, in the sense of a state or polity built around an official ethnicity. The ideology of ethnonationalism, as the basis for the nation-state, is a relatively modern European invention.” (03/12/25)

https://c4ss.org/content/60156

Source: Niskanen Center
by Gil Guerra

“Immigration policy is typically viewed within the confines and frameworks of domestic politics, yet it often serves as a potent instrument of statecraft in global strategy. This paper examines the intersections of U.S. immigration and foreign policy through nine recent case studies, using beneficial, adversarial, and competitive categories derived from a similar framework in Robbie Totten’s research note Statecraft and Migration.” (03/13/25)

https://www.niskanencenter.org/domestic-debate-global-strategy-revisiting-immigration-in-u-s-foreign-policy/