Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Incorrigible Rudeness, The Strategy For Social-Political Impotence

Source: Isonomia Quarterly
by Paul Poenicke

“Isonomia Quarterly readers have likely asked the following question: Why are Hayekian ideas so unpopular? Equality under the law and global federalism — two of Hayek’s most cogent ideals — are consequential from numerous perspectives and justified by many strong arguments. A dozen phrases pass through the mind — ‘The best arguments persuade,’ ‘The truth will out,’ ‘Survival of the fittest beliefs,’ ‘Truth emerges from the marketplace of ideas’ — to accost reality. Unfortunately, society is not a truth table, where the input of truth entails the output of further truths. Truth tables are constructs of logic, and reality is not beholden to the results of formal logic and its apparatuses.” (04/03/26)

https://isonomiamag.substack.com/p/incorrigible-rudeness-the-strategy-f6a

Thomas L. Knapp

The Birthright Citizenship Arguments Are a Reminder that the Independent Judiciary Is a Good Thing

Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher

“If Democrats made the mistake of packing the Supreme Court, birthright citizenship would be no more, along with free elections.” (04/03/26)

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/04/03/the-birthright-citizenship-arguments-are-a-reminder-that-the-independent-judiciary-is-a-good-thing/

Thomas L. Knapp

Trump’s Tone-Deaf Sales Pitch for More War

Source: Antiwar.com
by Dennis Kucinich

“The President’s address to the nation was a tone-deaf sales pitch for more war, delivered on the first night of Passover. Civilian and military casualties are mounting across the region. Lives are being extinguished while triumphalist and violent rhetoric is offered as justification. War is being escalated in the name of peace, a contradiction that demands moral clarity, not political acceptance. Each life lost carries equal value. No nation’s suffering is expendable. No people exist as collateral.” (04/03/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/kucinich/2026/04/02/trumps-tone-deaf-sales-pitch-for-more-war

Thomas L. Knapp

US regime thugs abduct relatives of late Iranian military commander who were living in Los Angeles

Source: The Guardian [UK]

“US federal agents have arrested the niece and grandniece of the late Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani after the Trump administration’s top diplomat, Marco Rubio, revoked their lawful permanent resident status, officials said on Saturday. ‘Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter are now in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement,’ or ICE, the state department said in a statement. In his own statement on social media, Rubio, the US secretary of state, confirmed that the mother-daughter pair are ‘pending removal’ from the US, a development that came after the US and Israeli militaries began waging war on Iran in late February, in part citing an Iranian history of terrorism sponsorship.” (04/04/26)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/04/soleimani-family-arrested-us-federal-authorities

Thomas L. Knapp