Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Law & Liberty
by Philip Hamburger

“The justices need to understand the full range of considerations underlying Trump v. Barbara.” (04/09/26)

https://lawliberty.org/allegiance-birthright-and-citizenship/

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson

“The ‘administrative state,’ of course, is anything but democratic; it is autocratic to the core. For all of their professed love for democracy, progressives have long demanded rule by experts, or at least rule by ‘experts’ that meet progressive approval. As I pointed out last year, when actual scientists studied the effects of so-called acid rain and concluded that it was not causing lake and river acidification, progressives in the media, as well as EPA administrators, immediately tried to destroy the careers of scientists failing to echo the party line. Not surprisingly, one of the loudest antiscience voices in the acid rain affair was the New York Times.” (04/09/26)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/turns-out-elites-administrative-state-better-democracy

Source: The Realist Review
by James W Carden

“Mark Levin is a fool, but he is hardly the only one.” (04/09/26)

https://therealistreview.substack.com/p/nuclear-myths-continue-to-fuel-neocon

Source: Glenn Greenwald
by Jeremy Loffredo

“There is a version of the Democratic Party that exists only in the imagination: the peace party, the anti-war party, the party that marched against the Iraq War and howled at its neocon designers. As Donald Trump (reportedly) accepted Iran’s ceasefire terms this week, some of the most pointed attacks coming his way from Democrats are not about the thousands of civilians killed, the weeks of brutal bombardments against medical centers and universities, or the global economic damage the war has caused. They are about the war ending before the U.S. and Israel finished the job. And this is not a fringe phenomenon. It is a pattern coming from Democratic senators, the Democratic House Foreign Affairs Committee, ranking members of the Armed Services Committee, and some of the party’s most prominent voices. The liberal opposition party wants more war.” (04/09/26)

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-opposition-party-has-done-nothing

Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz

“In my studies, I keep hearing about an ‘AI arms race’ between the US and China. At first, here’s what I thought I wanted to know: 1. How do the experts define ‘winning’ in this context? 2. What are the actual stakes? What I found was that this framing kinda sucks. It’s useful as shorthand in conversations about AI safety vs AI progress. But it doesn’t really describe reality.” (04/09/26)

https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/invent-god-or-lose-to-china