Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Reason
by Eric Boehm

“The Trump administration is reportedly looking to ease some tariffs on goods not produced in the U.S., as the consequences of a universal tariff scheme are becoming impossible to ignore.” (10/21/25)

https://reason.com/2025/10/21/donald-trump-and-oren-cass-promised-tariffs-would-bring-prosperity-both-are-now-confronting-reality/?nab=1

Source: Persuasion
by Sarah Majdov

“Bullshit jobs aren’t just a phenomenon of bureaucracy. They’re in tech, too.” (10/21/25)

https://www.persuasion.community/p/in-a-world-obsessed-with-innovation

Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman

“In my previous post I argued that Robert Bork, in an old and famous law review article, and Steven Landsburg, in a now infamous blog post, were making two sides of the same point, in both cases arguing that our legal rules (and, for many of us, our moral intuitions) were inconsistent in treating essentially similar cases differently. Various commenters on my post pointed in what I think is the right direction for explaining the puzzle and justifying the legal, and perhaps the moral, difference.” (10/21/25)

https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/my-response-to-bork-and-landsburg

Source: Washington Monthly
by Garrett Epps

“On the night of June 21, 1942, a Japanese submarine surfaced near the mouth of the Columbia River at the border between Oregon and Washington. The vessel, I-25, fired 17 shells from its 5.5-inch deck gun at Fort Stevens, an Army artillery post, then slunk away, having done no damage to its target. The following month, I-25 returned to the attack, launching its floatplane, flown by Warrant Flying Officer Nobuo Fujita, on September 9 and September 29. The aircraft dropped four incendiary bombs on wooded areas, hoping to set fire to Oregon’s vast forests. That mission failed, too. In response to the Japanese attack, in September 2025, President Donald Trump federalized the Oregon National Guard. Does that make sense? The claim that the National Guard must be federalized in 2025 to repel Japanese bombardment in 1942 makes as much sense as the government’s actual explanation of why, on September 29, the administration ordered the Oregon Guard placed under federal control.” (10/21/25)

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/21/court-greenlights-trumps-portland-troop-surge/

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker

“What is the state, from whence does it come, and who controls it? One might suppose these questions have obvious answers. In reality the answer is elusive, not easily identified even by those who are part of the system.” (10/21/25)

https://brownstone.org/articles/what-is-the-state-and-who-controls-it/