Source: Free Talk Live
“The Sal and Mark Show is back with a packed episode and Wayne is back to join us. First up, Vic from CakeWallet joins to announce the launch of Radar Chat — a privacy focused Bitcoin Lightning messaging app built on Signal that lets you send payments seamlessly while you chat. A game changer for everyday crypto adoption.” (07/10/26)
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Joseph Varon
“It was another lecture, another ordinary morning in the life of a medical intern. Upstairs, patients were being examined. Nurses were changing shifts. Families were arriving to visit loved ones. The hospital pulsed with the familiar rhythm of medicine. None of us questioned whether the building around us would still be standing at the end of the day. Hospitals are places where lives begin, where lives are saved, and where physicians are trained. We instinctively believe they are among the safest places in any city. Then the ground began to move. … Our instructor told us to stay where we were. I have never blamed him. He was trying to do what he believed was right. But there are moments when instinct speaks more loudly than authority.” (07/10/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-day-the-hospital-disappeared/
Source: The Daily Economy
by George Leef
“In ‘Diversity Through Freedom,’ author Adrian Bejan argues that diversity emerges naturally from freedom and decentralized action, while imposed institutional systems distort its benefits.” (07/10/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/a-scientists-case-for-diversity-through-freedom/
Source: ABC News
“Japan’s experimental reusable rocket took off and safely landed in a first test flight Saturday as the country seeks to achieve the technology key to cut launch costs and compete in the global space market dominated by SpaceX. The RV-X rocket lifted off, hovered and moved horizontally before landing during its less than one-minute flight at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Noshiro Testing Center in northeastern Japan, which was livestreamed by the NVS, a group of space fans. … Japan seeks to catch up with the technology Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been using for several years to cut launch costs of delivering payloads into space.” (07/11/26)
Source: Washington Post
“The problem with ‘Tax the rich!’” (07/10/26)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/impromptu/the-problem-with-tax-the-rich/
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Ali Rizk
“Forcing a hard wedge against the country’s Shia is exactly what Israel wants, but it could imperil a wide range of US interests in the Middle East.” (07/10/26)
Source: Liberal Currents
by Alan Elrod
“The right views children as a resource rather than as human beings.” (07/10/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/what-to-the-maga-right-is-a-child/
Source: SFGate
“California’s new recycling law is leaving dairy manufacturers panicked that the legislation’s fees and mandates could be devastating to their business and could send Californian’s grocery bills even higher. The 2022 law is designed to increase recycling participation and reduce landfill waste in California by making companies responsible for what happens to their products after they’re thrown away. That includes charging companies an impact fee for each product they sell and phasing out materials that cannot be adequately reused, recycled or composted. … Katie Davey, the executive director of the Dairy Institute of California, said companies are facing impact fees as high as $15 million and will be forced to either charge customers more or shut down entirely.” (07/12/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/california-recycling-law-milk-22339035.php
Source: The Atlantic
“The Hidden Cost of Optimizing Everything.” (07/10/26)
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/07/the-hidden-cost-of-optimizing-everything/687873
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
“In ‘Salvation by Force’ (1889), the late-Victorian English individualist (‘voluntaryist’) Auberon Herbert (1838-1906) crossed intellectual swords with the socialists of his day. In light of Zohran Mamdani’s fashionable, edgy invocation of the ‘warmth of collectivism,’ it will pay us to examine Herbert’s rejection of collectivism.” (07/10/26)
https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/tgif-auberon-herbert-and-socialism