Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Roads Go Ever On
by Bekah Graham

“If you believe someone’s worst possible fate is eternal, then nothing happening to them now can ever feel as urgent.” (04/14/26)

https://bekahgwen.substack.com/p/how-belief-in-hell-makes-suffering

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute

“Walter E. Williams often made the point that a policy should be judged by whether it works, not by its good intentions. This warning is especially important because politicians are experts at declaring good intentions. If we judge them by their stated intentions alone, when their schemes end in disaster they could simply remind us that they meant well. Unfortunately, Professor Williams’s warnings went unheeded. In their book Who Killed The Constitution, Thomas E. Woods and Kevin R.C. Gutzman make a very similar argument about the irrelevance of good intentions.” (04/14/26)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/danger-allowing-good-intentions-override-constitution

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“On seeing the deep economic suffering of the Cuban people, who are now on the precipice of massive death by starvation and illness, American right-wingers love to blame Cuban socialism for what is occurring. They say that it’s not really the U.S. economic embargo that has played a critically important role in all this. And, they claim, it’s not President Trump’s and the U.S. national-security state’s oil blockade that has put the finishing touches on this horror story. The U.S. role in all this death and suffering is non-existent, the right-wingers steadfastly maintain. It’s all because of Cuba’s socialist economic system. A big part of the problem here is the moral blindness of the American right-wing when it comes to the U.S. government and, specifically, the U.S. national-security establishment.” (04/14/26)

https://www.fff.org/2026/04/14/right-wing-hypocrisy-on-cuban-and-venezuelan-socialism/

Source: Liberal Currents
by Peter Juul

“Democrats would rather not talk about national defense. It’s a rather remarkable place for the party and its wonks to find themselves today. Four years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine inaugurated the most intense period of conventional military conflict in living memory—and on the doorstep of America’s longest and, until President Trump’s return to the White House fifteen months ago, strongest alliance—Democrats and sympathetic commentators on the broad center-left in the United States still cannot bring themselves to think much about questions surrounding hard power and the use of force.” (04/14/26)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-must-learn-to-talk-about-national-defense/

Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz

“It is trivially easy, in the year of our Lord 2026, to do a terrorism. Terrorism has always been trivially easy. So why do the doomers keep talking about how scared they are that AI will make it easier to do terrorism? It being hard is not the limiting factor. It has never been the limiting factor. There’s a reason they keep bringing up, as an example, the Sarin poisoning in Matsumoto, Japan. It’s the only instance of random weirdos using anything approaching advanced technology to do a mass murder. The 9/11 hijackers used the incredibly complex and hard-to-use technology otherwise known as ‘box cutters.'” (04/14/26)

https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/what-ai-doomers-wont-say-about-terrorism

Source: The Daily Economy
by Stefan Bartle

“Tax bills are only the beginning. Borrowing and inflation also finance federal spending — in ways that are easier to ignore but harder to escape.” (04/14/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/taxing-borrowing-and-printing-three-ways-america-pays-for-government/