Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Thiago VS Coelho

“Civilization does not usually fail because every participant is stupid, vicious, or indifferent. It fails because people are placed inside systems where the locally-prudent action sustains a globally-absurd result. ‘Moloch’ is Eliezer Yudkowsky’s name for these impersonal traps: arrangements in which nearly everyone would prefer a better world, but no individual can safely move there alone. The broad failures fall into three recurring types. First, the decisionmaker is not the beneficiary. A regulator, hospital administrator, licensing board, journal editor, or politician makes a rule whose costs are borne mainly by others. Second, there is asymmetric information. Someone knows the relevant fact, but cannot credibly transmit it through the institutional fog. Third, society is stuck in an inferior equilibrium: everyone responds rationally to the incentives in front of him, while the system as a whole remains inferior to another possible arrangement.” (06/15/26)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/moloch-regulatory-state

Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey

“Flawed AI puts innocent Floridians behind bars. Police trade due diligence for bad algorithms. We must hold the state accountable.” (06/14/26)

https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/jailed-by-an-algorithm-the-surveillance

Source: CounterPunch
by Ralph Nader

“In my past two columns, I made the case for the Democratic Party to take the lead in pushing for Trump’s Impeachment. The majority of people favor firing Trump and the massive number of blatant, impeachable acts by the lawless, corrupt, violent, unstable, dangerous Tyrant Trump increases by the day. If it helps the passive Democratic Party leadership, constitutional law specialists agree that were the Founding Fathers (who signed the Declaration of Independence and crafted the Constitution against would-be monarchs) here today, not one would oppose Impeachment.” (06/15/26)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/15/why-is-the-democratic-party-leadership-opposing-the-vital-direct-and-collateral-benefits-of-an-impeachment-drive/

Source: Persuasion
by Dan Storyev & Maria Kuznetsova

“If Americans want to actually enact change, they seriously need to re-think their strategy. Take it from us: we both grew up in Putin’s Russia and saw well-intentioned protests fail to stop an aspiring despot. We know that authoritarians are typically unwilling to respond to the kind of protest No Kings exemplifies: loud, raucous, and ultimately harmless. These ‘festival protests,’ as we call them, are convenient for their participants. They are fun and usually do not require much sacrifice or risk. They also look good on TV and TikTok feeds. But they often achieve next to nothing. Why are so many people convinced they work?” (06/14/26)

https://www.persuasion.community/p/protests-are-not-emotional-support