Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Law & Liberty
by Ronald W Dworkin

“A separate division for social activism would at least allow for truth in advertising.” (06/18/26)

https://lawliberty.org/the-tripartite-university/

Source: Property and Environment Research Center
by staff

“As American summers grow drier and hotter, the institutions built to manage lands, water, and wildlife have not kept pace. These institutions, made up of laws, policies, contracts, and other rules that govern how we allocate water, manage forests, prevent wildfire, and conserve wildlife, were designed for a cooler, wetter, and more stable environment. This report focuses on helping institutions adapt to our changing reality. It proposes practical recommendations within five topical areas that can help people and ecosystems weather this summer as well as the years ahead.” (06/18/26)

https://www.perc.org/2026/06/18/five-ideas-to-survive-a-hot-dry-summer/

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Christopher Snowdon

“In my new book, Inside the Sausage Factory, I examine four campaigns for ‘public health’ policies in the 2010s and examined all the evidence that was marshalled for and against them. It turns out that the evidence for them wasn’t very good and there wasn’t much evidence marshalled against them, but that isn’t really the point. Nor does it matter that all the policies failed. A bad policy introduced on the basis of poor evidence is still an evidence-based policy. The question—or my question at any rate—was whether the four policies were evidence-based at all.” (06/18/26)

https://fee.org/articles/the-nanny-statists-lack-evidence-for-their-campaigns/

Source: Reason
by Jesse Walker

“I do not know my favorite Founder’s name. I just know that in 1788 a Baltimore newspaper published a series of pseudonymous essays where he warned against standing armies, called for a bill of rights, and declared, paraphrasing Jonathan Swift, that ‘laws are cobwebs, catching only the flies and letting the wasps escape.’ See-sawing between fears of an aristocratic legislature and a tyrannical executive, he argued that we’d be best off with the highly decentralized democracy found in certain Swiss cantons.” (06/18/26)

https://reason.com/2026/06/18/1776-all-stars-a-farmer/

Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Galen Carpenter

“There is an indisputably crucial history of very close relations between Beijing and Pyongyang. In late 1950, PRC forces intervened in the war between communist North Korea and anti-communist South Korea (whose government was massively supported with military personnel and weaponry from the United States and other Western countries). The armistice that ended the fighting in 1953 left the Korean Peninsula split between two intensely hostile countries, with the United States and the PRC firmly backing their respective clients throughout the remainder of the Cold War. Despite that history, the current connection between the two communist states is decidedly more nuanced, ambiguous, and even contentious than the lips and teeth cliché would imply.” (06/18/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/ted_galen_carpenter/2026/06/17/how-stable-is-the-china-north-korea-alliance