Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by James Park

“From Pyongyang’s perspective, engagement with Seoul has little strategic value. But there are diplomatic ways around that.” (04/10/26)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/north-and-south-korea/

Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman

“[T]he American people and the rest of the world saw the president of the United States threaten to destroy the 2,500-year-old Persian civilization. More than half of the Iranian population is ethnic Persian. It’s my policy not to compare anyone to Hitler, but I’ll say this: Trump’s threat was Hitlerian. Further, anyone who stuck by Trump after that post exhibited the same disgusting reverence that many Germans felt for Hitler.” (04/0/26)

https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/tgif-trumps-words-cannot-be-unseen

Source: The Intercept
by Rytan Devereaux

“Social media giant Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury in Washington, D.C., as part of a federal effort to unmask anonymous online critics of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. According to a subpoena obtained by The Intercept, Reddit has until April 14 to provide a wide range of personal data on one of its users, whom U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been trying unsuccessfully to identify for more than a month. Attorneys for the Reddit user say their client’s posts and their anonymity are squarely protected under the First Amendment and that ICE’s use of a grand jury marks a disturbing escalation for the agency after seeing its previous efforts to investigate political speech quashed in court.” (04/10/26)

https://theintercept.com/2026/04/10/reddit-ice-protest-grand-jury/

Source: The American Conservative
by Harrison Berger

“On Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to declare that ‘a civilization will die tonight.’ By 8 p.m., the U.S. announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran had begun. Whether the ceasefire holds (or even takes hold) is already in question …. The best hope that it might stick comes from Israel, where TV presenters who spent Monday salivating over a clock counting down the minutes and hours until Trump’s planned genocide of Iranians were left confused and outraged when the president backed down shortly before the deadline. But whether or not Trump ultimately goes as far as the Israelis would like him to, Americans must now reckon with the destruction already carried out in our name, the civilization-destroying actions Trump has threatened, and the barbarians we have become in the process.” (04/10/26)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/we-are-the-barbarians/

Source: Gideon’s Substack
by Noah Millman

“An idea whose time has definitively passed tries for a new lease on life.” (04/10/26)

https://gideons.substack.com/p/do-the-neo-bundists-know-what-country