Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Law & Liberty
by James Allan

“Nigel Farage’s party is eating everyone else’s electoral lunch. What does it mean for the future of Britain?” (05/21/26)

https://lawliberty.org/reform-romps-again/

Source: Los Angeles Times
by Jackie Calmes

“The president, along with his Republican cheerleaders, counts his first-term abrogation of the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as a signature achievement. This week, yet again, he falsely claimed that had he not done so, Iran would have a nuclear weapon. In fact, his action in 2018 taking the United States out of the multinational deal subsequently led to Iran’s rebuilding of its nuclear program, the emboldening of the Iranian hard-liners now in power and the Middle East morass in which the United States is now mired. That quagmire has left Trump seeming desperate for a deal — almost certainly a worse deal than the one Obama struck.” (05/21/26)

https://archive.is/G0t1K

Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob

“An outfit in the United Kingdom called Ofcom, the main enforcer of the U.K.’s Online Safety Act, is requiring social platforms to implement onerous procedures to censor ‘hate,’ including stripping users of anonymity — or face mammoth fines, bans in the U.K., and other draconian penalties. Nobody would object to compelling the removal of content that is clearly criminal. But is that what most so-called ‘hate’ content really is? Of course not. Much of what irks censors and the merely censorious is merely vituperative, and no small part of what gets their goat is nothing other than sharp disagreement with those authorities who decide what ‘hate’ is — that is, the censors themselves.” (05/21/26)

https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/05/21/are-british-censors-winning/

Source: Expression
by Chapin Lenthall-Cleary

“We’ve seen before that students who frequently attend religious services as well as students who are studying religion are unusually tolerant of controversial speakers, meaning they are willing to let them speak on campus. (We measure left- and right-wing tolerance by whether students say they would allow those controversial speakers on those sides.) This raises a few questions. Are religious people more tolerant? More specifically, which religions’ members tend to be more tolerant?” (05/21/26)

https://expression.fire.org/p/which-religions-are-the-least-tolerant

Source: Law & Liberty
by Zachary Chambers

“Laws to place copies of the Ten Commandments in classrooms may undermine the very American tradition their proponents claim to defend.” (05/21/26)

https://lawliberty.org/nationalizing-the-ten-commandments/

Source: Popular Information
by Rebecca Crosby & Noel Sims

“On Tuesday, Trump said that high gas prices amounted to ‘peanuts.’ But according to The Iran War Energy Cost Tracker at Brown University, the Iran War has caused Americans to spend an additional $43.6 billion on fuel costs so far. For that price, Americans could buy 14.5 billion pounds of peanuts, which is more than twice the amount produced annually in the United States.” (05/21/26)

https://popular.info/p/a-lot-of-peanuts