Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Libertarian Institute
by Brandt Burleson

“The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has received over two-hundred complaints from American troops that their commanders used the Book of Revelation to frame the Iran War as a ‘Holy War’ in which President Donald Trump was chosen to ignite ‘The End Times’ as part of ‘God’s divine plan.’ When I decided to make this series about the ‘Four Horsemen of New Zionism,’ I meant it purely metaphorically. It seems some of our top brass have a more literal interpretation (welcome to the End Times). The Horseman, or rather Horsewoman, we will be spotlighting in this article is none other than the Empress of Identity, the Herald of Cancellation, Bari Weiss.” (03/31/26)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/bari-weiss-and-the-four-horsemen-of-new-zionism

Source: The Bulwark
by Mona Charen

“If you’re not critical of Trump’s war in Iran, you probably haven’t been paying attention.” (03/31/26)

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-iran-hawks-are-losing-their-heads-war-trump

Source: Cobden Centre
by Tim Worstall

“The point of tariffs is not to make those things made by evil Johnny Foreigner more expensive. It is to enable the domestic capitalists to raise the prices of their domestically made goods: ‘HS2 firm says new steel tariffs will ‘exacerbate’ cost pressures for UK construction industry’ Doubling tariffs on imported steel will raise cost of the metal when Iran war is already inflating steel and concrete prices This is not an error nor a happenstance: it’s the whole and precise point of the act itself. … So, let’s not do that. Let’s not make everything in the country more expensive just to benefit that fraction of the 1%.” (03/31/26)

https://www.cobdencentre.org/2026/03/but-this-is-the-very-point-of-tariffs/

Source: Washington Post
by Jim Geraghty

“On Friday, the Iranians destroyed a U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry aircraft at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. The drone and missile attack on the base also injured 12 U.S. soldiers. This was foreseeable — and in fact foreseen. Yet if President Donald Trump was concerned about this predicted threat, he hid it well. … perhaps the Iranians just got lucky with the shot that destroyed the E-3 Sentry in Saudi Arabia. But since the beginning of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, numerous reports have indicated that the Russians are helping Iran with their targeting of U.S. forces.” (03/31/26)

https://archive.is/zIz6s

Source: The Dispatch
by Greg Lukianoff & Adam Goldstein

“Everybody understands, at least instinctively, why it matters when a president threatens the press. People also more or less understand why it matters when he menaces universities, museums, or other cultural institutions. Those are visible targets, and they read as political in an obvious way.
Attacks on law firms land differently. Part of that is because many major firms are hardly natural objects of public sympathy. Most everyday Americans won’t shed many tears for institutions associated with enormous hourly rates, corporate power, and a profession that people tend to joke about until they need a lawyer. … But that perception is exactly why this threat is so easy to underestimate.” (03/31/26)

https://archive.is/OuOmq

Source: Mother Jones
by Pema Levy & Isabela Dias

“Meet the conservative legal minds telling the Supreme Court to side with Trump.” [editor’s note: By definition, a “conservative legal mind” would support birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship is what the US has always had, and what the US Constitution has unambiguously mandated for the last 150 years. Only “living constitutionalists” (usually calling themselves “progressives”) could hold otherwise – TLK] (03/31/26)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/birthright-citizenship-ilan-wurman-history-amicus-brief/