Source: Freedom’s Phoenix
“Dexter Taylor, a Brooklyn-based software engineer, has been sentenced to a decade in prison for building firearms in his home using parts purchased legally. He was arrested after a SWAT raid in 2022, and a jury convicted him of 13 counts last month.” (07/22/26)
Source: UnHerd
by Thomas Peermohamed Lambert
“When you hear the phrase ‘Ancient Greece’, what are the first words that come into your head? The names of a few great thinkers, perhaps: Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Zeno? Or maybe some grand abstractions: democracy, philosophy, geometry, reason? If so, then you are in good company: if there is one thing everyone knows about the Greeks, it is that they forged the great systems of knowledge and philosophy upon which all Western thought depends. But this is precisely the conception you ought to put out of your mind if, like thousands of others this week, you decide to go to the cinema and watch The Odyssey.” (07/22/26)
Source: Liberalism.org
by Justin Hayes
“Visiting World Cup fans won’t be surprised to learn that travel broadens the mind.” (07/22/26)
https://www.liberalism.org/p/contact-as-cure-what-the-research-on-travel-actually-shows
Source: SFGate
“A protest by warehouse workers at the C&H Sugar refinery in Crockett turned violent after two people were reportedly struck by vehicles and nine people were arrested on Tuesday. The union employees at the 120-year-old factory have been on strike for over a month after contract negotiations broke down over cut benefits. Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputies responded to the refinery on Loring Avenue around 11 a.m. after receiving multiple reports of protesters throwing rocks at trucks and blocking workers and vehicles from entering or leaving the facility, sheriff’s office spokesperson Jimmy Lee told SFGATE in an emailed statement.” (07/22/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/protest-bay-sugar-factory-22356335.php
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“The Idea That Destroys the World.” (07/22/26)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2780-equality-the-idea-that-destroys-the-world/
Source: Niskanen Center
“Inside the Democratic Socialist uprising.” (07/22/26)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/inside-the-democratic-socialist-uprising
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“In his 1961 Farewell Address, President Dwight Eisenhower issued a remarkable warning to the American people. He stated: ‘This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. . . .Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. . . . In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.’ … Ironically, Ike’s successor, President John F. Kennedy, would bear the brunt of Eisenhower’s warning. That’s because Kennedy, even though he came into office as pretty much a standard Cold Warrior, ultimately achieved a breakthrough that enabled him to see that Ike was right — that this new governmental structure posed a grave and perilous threat not only to America but also to the entire world.” (07/22/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/07/22/ike-and-jfk-were-right-and-it-matters-tremendously-today/
Source: The American Prospect
by Robert Kuttner
“Last week, House Republicans tried to embarrass Democrats by offering a floor amendment ending all military aid to Israel. But then 103 House Democrats, more than half of the Democratic caucus, voted for the amendment as a badge of honor. They included former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark of Massachusetts. In the space of a few weeks, the Israel issue has finally flipped. The critics have become the mainstream and the defenders of Israel are now the outliers.” (07/22/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/07/22/the-israel-issue-flips-palestine-trump-netanyahu-gaza-war/
Source: Politico
“A bipartisan House bill slated to be introduced on Thursday would give the Department of Homeland Security the authority to order top artificial intelligence firms to shut down or slow AI models that the government deems too dangerous, according to legislative text viewed first by POLITICO. The proposal, dubbed the ‘AI Kill Switch Act’ and sponsored by Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas), would also require those companies to report incidents and create the technical capacity to shut down, throttle or suspend their powerful AI systems. The legislation comes days after OpenAI disclosed what it called an ‘unprecedented’ cyber incident in which two of its most advanced AI models escaped a sandboxed research environment and autonomously hacked into AI platform Hugging Face.”
(07/22/26)
Source: National Public Radio [US state media]
“As casualties rise, do the politics of the Iran war change?” (07/22/26)