Source: The Reframe
by AR Moxon
“Reparation, rehabilitation, redemption, reconciliation, restoration. A necessary taxonomy of healing in an age of unnecessary conversations.” (03/01/26)
https://www.the-reframe.com/culture-of-healing/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter
Source: Interesting Engineering
“A German company has signed a deal to help build the first stellarator fusion power plant in Europe. Proxima Fusion has signed the agreement with the Free State of Bavaria, RWE, and Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) to put the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant on the grid in Europe. The company revealed that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed and it outlines a roadmap to commercial fusion in Europe that begins with building demonstration stellarator Alpha near the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching. … Proxima Fusion also revealed that when operational in the 2030s, Alpha will become the first stellarator to demonstrate net energy gain, meaning its plasma will generate more energy than it consumes.” (03/01/26)
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/world-first-commercial-fusion-power-plant-development
Source: We Are Libertarians
“Trump bombs Iran, AI and Social Media: Trust Is Moving Closer to Home.” (03/01/26)
https://www.chrisspangle.com/p/wal-trump-bombs-iran-ai-and-social
Source: Washington Post
by Megan McArdle
“If you’re in an industry ripe for disruption by artificial intelligence, thinking about what’s coming inspires strong emotions. Like panic. And outrage. If you’re a college-educated professional, the economy has worked well for you over the past few decades. As with anything that has lasted for a long time, this seems like the natural order of things — an entitlement, not chronological luck. … Now a machine might steal what you earned. This doesn’t just feel bad. It feels like a violation.” (03/01/26)
Source: Coyote Blog
by Warren Meyer
“The US is really good at getting rid of leaders like this, and if anything is getting better. I won’t go further back than my lifetime, but the Diem coup (and execution) in South Vietnam, the lukewarm (at best) support for the Shah of Iran that contributed to his ouster, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the Afghanistan invasion, Gaddafi in Libya, Maduro in Venezuela, Noriega in Panama — the list goes on. But in many or most of these cases, what followed the US-led decapitation was as bad or worse than what came before.” (03/01/26)
https://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2026/03/the-problem-in-iran.html
Source: Fox News
“Both the Pennsylvania (Penn) State University College Republicans and College Democrats are speaking out after another flyer reading, ‘Dead ICE agents can’t kill,’ was found on campus, depicting the hanging of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. In a joint Saturday statement entitled, ‘PSU College Republicans and Democrats Condemn Continued ICE Death Threats on Campus,’ they said, ‘Earlier today, a member of the Penn State College Republicans discovered a second ‘Dead ICE Agents Can’t Kill’ flyer placed near the HUB-Robeson Center, which serves as a central part of daily life for students at Penn State.’ … Penn State University told Fox News Digital in a statement that it ‘condemns this and any calls for violence or attempts to frighten or intimidate [violent gang members]. We are aware of this image circulating online, and University Police and Public Safety is investigating.'” (03/02/26)
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Francis Fukuyama on Trump’s War With Iran.” (03/01/26)
Source: Liberal Currents
by Joseph Stieb
“The case against the current war with Iran is so overwhelming as to hardly need articulation. The war is illegal, unprovoked, unethical, strategically blinkered, and likely to further destabilize the region. … Nonetheless, many Democrats and liberal commentators have adopted a feckless, procedural critique of Trump’s aggression. … These criticisms (if they even merit that term) are narrow, tactical, and counter-productive. They imagine that a reasonable, justifiable war with Iran exists somewhere in space, waiting to be articulated. They entertain the fantasy that there’s a reasonable version of Trump capable of thinking through such an operation. Finally, they cede the rhetorical ground to Trump by admitting that one could wage unprovoked war on Iran ‘the right way’ with better planning, multi-lateral support, and a smarter communications strategy. Check these boxes, the critics imply, and Trump’s war might be justified.” (03/01/26)
Source: Reason
by Katherine Mangu-Ward
“In 1988, Peng Peiyun was assigned to China’s State Family Planning Commission. Her job was to implement the relatively new one-child policy. The Communist Party was sure that it knew how many people should be in the Chinese population to prevent famine and overcrowding — so sure, in fact, that it was willing to require abortions and sterilization under threat of violence. … Today, China’s population is shrinking, births are collapsing, and the same government that once punished pregnancy is now begging for it with subsidies, propaganda, and social pressure, all of which have so far failed to reverse the trend. Even after decades of highly directive engineering and violent enforcement, the ‘right’ number of people remains stubbornly out of reach. The same category error animates today’s immigration crackdowns in the United States. Population control is technocratic arrogance at its most intimate and brutal.” (for publication 04/26)
https://reason.com/2026/03/01/no-one-knows-the-right-number-of-people/
Source: The UnPopulist
by Ilya Somin
“On the night of Feb. 28, the U.S. and Israel initiated a large-scale military attack on Iran. Bypassing congressional authorization, President Donald Trump acted with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to strike top Iranian leadership and a variety of other targets. This action is blatantly unconstitutional. Its wisdom and morality are more debatable.” [editor’s note: The reverse, actually. There’s no doubt that the war is stupid and evil. As for “authorization,” most of the people whining about that NOW still pretend that something other than an actual declaration of war would suffice, which starts the debate down a false path immediately – TLK] (03/01/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-unauthorized-strikes-on-iran