Source: Antiwar.com
by Dan Steinbock
“The US/Iran-linked energy crisis has shifted from a commodity shock to structural geopolitics, with Asia at the epicenter due to its dependence on imported oil and LNG. Global reverberations can no longer be avoided.” (05/19/26)
Source: The Corbett Report
“The AI uprising has begun. But what kind of uprising will it be? Will it be a Butlerian Jihad? A neo-Luddite movement? Or something else entirely? Let’s find out …” (05/19/26)
Source: Law & Liberty
by Alexander William Salter
“If the American founding was radical, it was in the literal sense of the word: proceeding from the root.” (05/19/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/christianity-and-the-founders-liberalism/
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“A federal judge in New York has banned US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from arresting immigrants in or around three federal courthouses in lower Manhattan, where vigorous confrontations have played out since the start of Donald Trump’s second presidency. Under an order issued on Monday by P Kevin Castel, a US district judge, federal agents are no longer allowed to make arrests of immigrants except under exceptional circumstances at the sites where hearings are held before immigration judges. Castel’s ruling came in response to a lawsuit brought by the New York Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union, Make the Road NY and other groups.” (05/19/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/19/ice-arrests-ban-manhattan-courts-immigration
Source: Cato Institute
“Kicking the Can to Xi’s September Visit.” (05/19/26)
https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-podcast/kicking-can-xis-september-visit
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Sofia Karstens
“Eisenhower warned us: ‘Beware the military-industrial complex.’ Those words are widely remembered. Less so the companion warning: ‘Holding scientific discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.’ That second warning may prove the more prophetic. The convergence of those two forces – the industrial machinery of power and the technological elite capable of shaping reality itself – is where we now find ourselves.” (05/19/26)
Source: Washington Monthly
by Alex Bronzini-Vender
“Theo Baker’s debut book is a film-worthy investigation of Stanford’s culture of fraud. But his disdain for the tech bros keeps him from understanding them.” (05/19/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/19/fear-and-loathing-in-palo-alto/
Source: Crooked Media
“The Bruised Hand in the Cookie Jar.” (05/19/26)
https://audioboom.com/posts/8905222-the-bruised-hand-in-the-cookie-jar
Source: The Dispatch
“Let’s Sue the Government.” (05/19/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/lets-sue-the-government/
Source: Students For Liberty
by Ilia Zhuzhunashvili
“When the state keeps taking more, it often ends up with less. The idea is usually treated as a modern insight, associated with tax curves, supply and demand, and other economic buzzwords. But Ibn Khaldun, the 14th-century North African historian and thinker, laid out the logic long before any of that language existed.” (05/19/26)
https://studentsforliberty.org/blog/ibn-khaldun-and-the-original-case-against-big-government/