Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Bitcoin.com
by Wolfie Zhao

“The companies that once competed primarily on mining outcomes are increasingly being judged by a broader set of capabilities: infrastructure control, power access, cooling capacity and the ability to serve demand beyond Bitcoin alone. In other words, Bitcoin mining is evolving from a pure commodity hash business into a broader energy-backed compute infrastructure industry.” (05/28/26)

https://news.bitcoin.com/the-future-of-bitcoin-mining-is-bigger-than-bitcoin/

Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker

“Media outlets are filled with stories about how AI is taking all the jobs. There are also plenty of stories telling us that soaring deficits and rising debt are going to bankrupt the government. These problems are 180-degree opposites, sort of like saying that someone is seriously overweight, but needs to put on a few pounds. Either can be true, but they can’t both possibly be true. There is zero recognition of this fact in elite intellectual circles. To make the logic clearer, the AI taking all the jobs story is one of abundance. … The out-of-control debt and deficit story is one of scarcity.” (05/28/26)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/28/four-reasons-were-being-lied-to/

Source: Law & Liberty
by John O McGinnis

“AI will not kill the legal profession, but it will impact what clients buy and what law schools need to teach.” (05/28/26)

https://lawliberty.org/the-unbundling-of-legal-education/

Source: The Daily Economy
by Adam A Millsap

“The ideas that transformed the world — free trade, limited government, and individual liberty — are now treated as relics rather than the radical achievements they truly are.” (05/28/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/defenders-of-classical-liberalism-are-the-real-revolutionaries/

Source: Freedom and Flourishing
by Winton Bates

“Babones argues that ‘India’s democracy is in better shape than that of just about any other developing country.’ His central claim is that India’s democracy is historically exceptional. He emphasizes that India is the only large, poor, post‑colonial society to maintain continuous electoral democracy for more than seven decades. Unlike Western democracies, which evolved gradually over centuries, India launched universal suffrage at independence despite widespread illiteracy and immense cultural diversity. For Babones, this makes India not a fragile democracy but an extraordinary one – a global outlier whose success cannot be understood through Western liberal frameworks.” (05/27/26)

https://www.freedomandflourishing.com/2026/05/is-indian-democracy-extraordinary.html