Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Persuasion
by Quico Toro

“My quiet revenge on the mediocrities who would silence genius.” (06/25/25)

https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-salman-rushdie-is-unable-to-live

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker

“Bad models and bad data created a killer pandemic of uncertain gravity that was later supposedly solved by shots tested with bad data and whose efficacy was further demonstrated by awful models and data. There is surely a lesson here. And yet the romance with bad models and bad data is not entirely over. There is evidence that a very similar scenario unfolded with regard to the claim that Iran was constructing a nuclear weapon, resulting in a hellfire of bombs and death in both Iran and Israel. The same sketchy claims, obscured in shape-shifting language that blurred crucial distinctions between intentions and realities, were generated by an AI model.” (06/25/25)

https://brownstone.org/articles/did-ai-almost-start-world-war-iii/

Source: EconLog
by Jon Murphy

“Whenever a legal challenge to a given policy is decided, a discussion tends to arise as if the court is making a statement on the desirability of the policy itself. For example, after the US Court of International Trade struck down Trump’s tariffs enacted under the International Economic Policy Act (IEEPA) of 1977 (VOS Selections, Inc. v. Trump), supporters of the tariffs took to social media to decry the court’s ruling as a ‘judicial coup’ against a vital policy. … On the Left, after the US Supreme Court overruled Roe v Wade in Dobbs, many decried the ruling as supporting bad policy (abortion restrictions). The argument they were making was that Dobbs wasn’t wrongly decided because the law was wrong, but because legal abortion is a desirable policy. But here’s the thing: courts do not exist to judge policy.” (06/25/25)

https://www.econlib.org/law-and-policy/

Source: Cobden Centre
by Dr. Richard M Ebeling

“The reelection of Donald Trump to the American presidency has seemingly brought bought a radical disruption to the political, social, and economic status quo both within the United States and in other parts of the world. Nothing has seemed as potentially disruptive as his insistence that the existing world trade system is rigged to the disadvantage of the United States.” (06/25/25)

https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/06/the-new-mercantilism-and-economic-armaments/