“France’s interior minister is seeking to block US rapper Kanye West from performing in the southern city of Marseille in June due to his antisemitic remarks, a source close to the minister said on Tuesday. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez is ‘highly determined’ to ban the June 11 concert at Marseille’s Velodrome stadium and is exploring “all possibilities”, the source said. West, 48, has been heavily criticised for making antisemitic remarks and voicing admiration for Adolf Hitler. Britain has blocked the US rapper, also known as Ye, from entering the country due to his outbursts, prompting organisers of a festival he was to headline to cancel the July event.” (04/14/26)
“Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos joins me to talk current events, cars, and how to stay free in a world where the enslavers pretend they’re doing you a favor.” (04/14/26)
“Democrats would rather not talk about national defense. It’s a rather remarkable place for the party and its wonks to find themselves today. Four years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine inaugurated the most intense period of conventional military conflict in living memory—and on the doorstep of America’s longest and, until President Trump’s return to the White House fifteen months ago, strongest alliance—Democrats and sympathetic commentators on the broad center-left in the United States still cannot bring themselves to think much about questions surrounding hard power and the use of force.” (04/14/26)
“It is trivially easy, in the year of our Lord 2026, to do a terrorism. Terrorism has always been trivially easy. So why do the doomers keep talking about how scared they are that AI will make it easier to do terrorism? It being hard is not the limiting factor. It has never been the limiting factor. There’s a reason they keep bringing up, as an example, the Sarin poisoning in Matsumoto, Japan. It’s the only instance of random weirdos using anything approaching advanced technology to do a mass murder. The 9/11 hijackers used the incredibly complex and hard-to-use technology otherwise known as ‘box cutters.'” (04/14/26)
“Tax bills are only the beginning. Borrowing and inflation also finance federal spending — in ways that are easier to ignore but harder to escape.” (04/14/26)
“As the president’s retaliation against Pope Leo goes off the rails, a scholar of religion explains why the pope’s criticism of him could prove much more damaging than you might think.” (04/14/26)
“In scholarly discussions of just war thought, nuclear weapons often serve as little more than terrifying symbols of injustice. Since 1945, many have argued that such weapons are incapable of being deployed in a just role, either in attacks or in a deterrent posture. These thinkers tend to view nukes as far too indiscriminate and entirely too prone to unleashing an escalatory spiral that none would survive. Such writers view nuclear weapons as intrinsically immoral, and there the discussion often ends. Realists tend to sidestep the moral challenge, shrug, and note that we live in an imperfect world—before moving on to what seems to them the real issues stemming from nuclear weapons: finding the right balance of ends, ways, and means for them in national security policy. But one need not embrace a more realistic view without rendering a moral account of these matters.” (04/14/26)
“U.S. wholesale prices surged last month as the Iran war drove up the cost of energy. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that its producer price index — which measures inflation before it hits consumers — rose 0.5% from February and 4% from March 2025. The year-over-year gains was the biggest in more than three years. Energy prices surged 8.5% from February. Excluding volatile food and energy prices, so-called core producer prices rose a modest 0.1% from February and 3.8% from a year earlier. The gains in wholesale prices were smaller than economists had forecast.” (04/14/26)
