Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Unpopular Front
by John Ganz

“On Wednesday, Trump became the first president to attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court. Maybe he is simply trying to intimidate the Justices who have already struck down much of his program, but it’s telling what case he picked: Trump v. Barbara concerns his executive order that attempted to effectively end birthright citizenship. I think if you wanted to boil down the Trumpist project to its essence, it’s an attack on American citizenship itself.” (04/03/26)

https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/birthright-and-wrong

Source: Foreign Policy
by Howard W French

“Anxious viewers may have expected a clarifying statement of the purpose of the U.S. war against Iran, a vision of its conclusion, or at least a credible timeline for its end. Anyone old enough to remember prime-time speeches by previous presidents during wartime may have hoped for a return to some of the solemnity that has typically marked such moments. On Wednesday, they got none of this. What national and global audiences saw instead was perhaps the clearest evidence yet that the leader of what has long been the world’s predominant superpower is an utterly chaotic thinker, whose aptitude for his job — never obvious to begin with — appears to be in accelerating decline.” (04/03/26)

https://archive.is/phwV4

Source: The Bulwark
by Will Saletan

“Language is constantly evolving, and Donald Trump is a restless innovator. Three weeks ago, The Bulwark published a glossary of terms he had redefined in his war with Iran. The list included imminent, obliterate, and unconditional surrender. Since then, he has added more words and phrases to his lexicon. Here are some of the most creative.” (04/03/26)

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-expanded-glossary-iran-words

Source: Isonomia Quarterly
by Paul Poenicke

“Isonomia Quarterly readers have likely asked the following question: Why are Hayekian ideas so unpopular? Equality under the law and global federalism — two of Hayek’s most cogent ideals — are consequential from numerous perspectives and justified by many strong arguments. A dozen phrases pass through the mind — ‘The best arguments persuade,’ ‘The truth will out,’ ‘Survival of the fittest beliefs,’ ‘Truth emerges from the marketplace of ideas’ — to accost reality. Unfortunately, society is not a truth table, where the input of truth entails the output of further truths. Truth tables are constructs of logic, and reality is not beholden to the results of formal logic and its apparatuses.” (04/03/26)

https://isonomiamag.substack.com/p/incorrigible-rudeness-the-strategy-f6a

Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher

“If Democrats made the mistake of packing the Supreme Court, birthright citizenship would be no more, along with free elections.” (04/03/26)

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/04/03/the-birthright-citizenship-arguments-are-a-reminder-that-the-independent-judiciary-is-a-good-thing/

Source: Antiwar.com
by Dennis Kucinich

“The President’s address to the nation was a tone-deaf sales pitch for more war, delivered on the first night of Passover. Civilian and military casualties are mounting across the region. Lives are being extinguished while triumphalist and violent rhetoric is offered as justification. War is being escalated in the name of peace, a contradiction that demands moral clarity, not political acceptance. Each life lost carries equal value. No nation’s suffering is expendable. No people exist as collateral.” (04/03/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/kucinich/2026/04/02/trumps-tone-deaf-sales-pitch-for-more-war