Source: Reason
‘Anthony Scaramucci discusses how China’s rise, the War on Terror, and the 2008 financial crisis fueled populist anger.” (09/23/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/09/23/anthony-scaramucci-how-america-got-trump/
Source: The Daily Economy
by Joakim Book
“The college wage premium remains substantial, but has declined sharply since 2022. Generative AI may be part of the explanation, but it is not the whole story.” (09/23/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-great-repricing-of-the-college-degree/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Mitchell Bahnsen & John Shelton
“Critics of liberalism have identified serious problems, but they cannot be solved by abandoning our constitutional principles.” (09/23/26)
Source: The New Republic
“As GOP panic intensifies over Trump’s cratering numbers, a veteran Democratic strategist in North Carolina explains why Trump is so toxic among independents—and why he’s plummeting in red areas too.” (09/23/26)
Source: Adam Smith Instiute
by Madsen Pirie
“Socialism starts with a picture. Somewhere in the mind of the socialist there sits a finished society that is harmonious, planned, and fair by design. The task, as they see it, is to build toward that picture and hold reality to its measurements. Everything that resists the plan is treated as a defect to be corrected, not as evidence that the plan might be wrong. Neither Conservatism nor market liberalism work that way. Neither of them starts with a picture of the finished society. They start with what has actually happened, and they ask what it can teach.” (09/23/26)
Source: Reason
by Jacob Sullum
“The president has a long history of retaliating against journalists who offend him.” (09/23/26)
Source: CBS News
“Venezuela’s opposition leader, 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Maria Corina Machado, was prevented from returning to the South American country from her exile in Panama, a source from her political party told AFP on Tuesday. Machado is considered a fugitive by the Venezuelan government, which accuses her of calling for military intervention against the country. She has been unable to return to Venezuela since being covertly sneaked out of the country in December by a private U.S. rescue team to accept her Nobel Prize in Norway. ‘During the last 24 hours, María Corina Machado has been denied entry into Venezuela three times,’ the politician’s senior adviser David Smolansky said in a statement shared with CBS News’ Margaret Brennan and other journalists early Wednesday morning.” (09/23/26)
Source: The Political Orphanage
‘Why Childcare Will Always Be Expensive.” (09/23/26)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/why-childcare-will-always-be-expensive
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Paul Gessing
“National media outlets which rarely report on any news from New Mexico were eager to report on the big news this past November that the Land of Enchantment had become the first state to have a ‘free’ universal childcare program. Other states may head down the same path, but before they do they need to know exactly what was done in New Mexico, why so many other similar programs created in New Mexico have failed over the years, and what unique circumstances have enabled the state’s politicians to create a massive new entitlement program without legislative approval. Many progressives see these programs as a way to help the urban poor in particular, but they often crowd out private alternatives and leave lower-income residents with fewer childcare options.” (09/23/26)
https://fee.org/articles/new-mexicos-free-childcare-program-is-another-costly-disaster/
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Renaud Beauchard
“Since Covid, the ‘mental health crisis’ has gone from background music to a deafening noise. It is said to touch every part of society, but none more than Generation Z, those born between 1997 and 2013. The French figures give the scale: compared with the previous decade, psychiatric hospitalizations in 2021–2022 rose 106 percent among 20-to-24-year-olds, 163 percent among 15-to-19-year-olds, and a staggering 246 percent among children aged 10 to 14. Researchers spent a decade arguing over datasets. Parents look for a single culprit they can blame or a device they can confiscate. Having exhausted the managerial and therapeutic answers of more awareness, more services, more medication, and more self-expression they offer for every modern sorrow, institutions are now itching for the stick of social networks age verification, or for AI fear porn. Two excellent books written by two Generation Z authors and published this year refuse the usual explanations and their lazy remedies.” (09/23/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-commodified-self-and-the-designed-collapse-of-generation-z/