Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: EconLog
by Joy Buchanan

“In a controversial conversation platformed by the New York Times and recently discussed in The Atlantic, streamer Hasan Piker implied that he might steal a car if it carried no consequences. In the interview, author Jia Tolentino also casually admits to shoplifting lemons from Whole Foods. Although petty theft is common, the interview clip spread quickly because the justification for looting felt oddly assertive. Piker referred to the iconic anti-piracy campaign that sought to use moral vibes (rather than rational arguments) against taking physical property to convince people to further control their impulses and not copy music without paying. The anti-piracy clip ‘You Wouldn’t Steal a Car’ indicates an implicit assumption from 2004 that American society was broadly agreed on the stability of physical property. In other words, most Americans do not think ‘property is theft.'” (05/26/26)

https://www.econlib.org/econlog/would-hasan-piker-steal-a-car

Source: Libertarian Institute
by José Niño

“Americans have been fed a comforting fairy tale about Islamic terrorism. Radical jihadists attack the West simply because they despise freedom, democracy, and the American way of life. This narrative flatters domestic audiences while conveniently obscuring a far more troubling reality. For decades, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Israel have armed, financed, tolerated, and tapped into Sunni Islamist extremists as geopolitical tools to destabilize rivals. The evidence spans multiple theaters and rests on declassified documents, congressional investigations, and credible investigative journalism.” (05/26/26)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/how-western-intelligence-agencies-built-the-global-jihadist-network/

Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul McDonnold

“The founder of Marxism once wrote movingly about faith and virtue before taking what his own father feared might be a ‘Faustian’ turn toward revolution and resentment.” (05/26/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/finding-sympathy-for-karl-marx/

Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob

“Public Safety Canada, an agency responsible for safety, security, emergency preparedness and this kind of thing, recently urged Canadians to protect themselves when using public Wi-Fi by also using a VPN. ‘Using a VPN protects your data,’ the agency said. True. Unless — unless others in the government succeed in requiring VPN companies to uniformly sabotage the privacy of their customers. The mechanism for crippling VPNs? That would be the pending legislation to force VPN providers to retain personal data which users expect them not to retain, in this way killing these companies’ very reason for being as well as Canadian Internet users’ reasons to employ these companies.” (05/26/26)

https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/05/26/driving-vpns-south/

Source: The Bulwark
by Mona Charen

“For Trump, it wasn’t enough that even the most violent received unconditional pardons. No, now he proposes to enrich them with taxpayer funds. Those deserving of punishment get rewarded. The victimizer becomes the victim. The criminal becomes the patriot.” (05/26/26)

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-slush-fund-is-based-on-a-lie-weaponization-lawfare-prosecutions-corruption-james-comey-cook-powell-january-6th