Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“Anarchists — genuine anarchists — favor the abolition of all government. Yet, when it comes to immigration, we have ‘anarchists’ favoring a massive socialist program, one that is enforced by a massive immigration police state. At the risk of belaboring the obvious, a massive socialist program and a massive immigration police state are the opposite of anarchy, which, again, means no government at all.” (05/01/26)

https://www.fff.org/2026/05/01/the-irrationality-of-police-state-libertarian-anarchists/

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Rosemary Kelanic

“This will surprise many Americans because Trump and Co. are flooding the zone with age-old misconceptions in order to prevent panic and opposition to the war.” (05/01/26)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/fuel-prices-us-shock-war/

Source: Cato Institute
by Brandan P Buck

“Over the last eight weeks of war with Iran, America’s two deliberative institutions, Congress and the media, have largely abandoned their duty to sustain public debate on the most important question a republic can face — the choice between war and peace. Neither institution performed perfectly during the Global War on Terror. Yet on Capitol Hill there was debate before the initiation of hostilities, and the media made considerable efforts to manufacture consent. By today’s standard, these activities seem almost admirable. The Iran War may be the first genuinely ‘post-deliberative’ war in American history.” (05/01/26)

https://www.cato.org/commentary/americas-post-deliberative-wars

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Joshua Mawhorter

“Many who do not understand markets, the division of labor, production, exchange, and profit—whether willingly or unwillingly—see no justification for unequal wealth and income because inequality can only result from nefarious activity or random luck. Many mock Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand,’ but they themselves seem to believe that another invisible hand of random luck or chance unevenly distributes benefits and deficits such that greater wealth and income are illegitimate. This invisible hand of luck is also determinative to the point that it is independent of purposeful action. Therefore, those who think this way want the very visible hand of the state to rearrange wealth in a way that makes sense to them since the invisible hand of luck distributed wealth unequally.” (05/01/26)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-luck-doesnt-explain-wealth-and-success-marketplace

Source: Wired
by Steven Levy

“Here’s a reality check: Since the only way to verify Satoshi’s identity is to get the unique cryptographic key linked to the 1.1 million bitcoins in their wallet, the best anyone can do is create a compelling circumstantial case. To really close the book, your evidence must be so powerful that it would convince even those who have gone before you and squandered months of their lives in the quest. … Projects to unmask Satoshi have a kabuki-style familiarity. They’re crypto-journalistic versions of Clue, the Agatha Christie-esque board game where players identify a murderer from a fixed set of suspects.” (05/01/26)

https://archive.is/mYbN7

Source: EconLog
by Jeffrey Shelton Hummel

“While she recognizes that there is a relationship between the Fed’s target interest rate and the growth rate of the money supply, she has a highly exaggerated view of the Fed’s broader ability to affect market interest rates. She buys into the fallacy, widespread not only among the general public but also among many public-policy pundits, that the Fed has tight control over nearly all market interest rates.” (05/01/26)

https://www.econlib.org/library/columns/y2026/hummelgold