Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid

“They say that the arch of history bends towards progress but as a trans person in the midst of the second decade of the twenty-first century, I find myself torn at the crossroads of an increasingly bewildering age. On the one hand, transgender and gender diverse people in the West have never experienced a greater level of exposure and popular acceptance. On the other hand, these same trans people, my people, have also never faced a greater threat of state sanctioned violence and outright erasure.” (08/09/26)

https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-transgender-gospel-against-western.html

Source: The Reframe
by AR Moxon

“Because adherents of a story based on lies do indeed lie (as might be expected) about their motivations and intentions, to others and often even to themselves, this is a struggle that can get very complex and confusing to understand. This confusion is only compounded when we realize that supremacy is a foundational story, which have leaked into our shared cultural mythologies and power structures, so even those of us who hold ourselves opposed to it might still reflect supremacy’s assumptions, without knowing we are doing so. And those of us who have inherited some measure of supremacy’s privileges bear a measure of the shared responsibility for supremacy’s harm, because through those privileges we participate in supremacy, even as we are opposed to supremacy.” (08/09/26)

https://www.the-reframe.com/story-of-me/

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jason Locasale

“Anthony Fauci is now facing intense scrutiny. His diaries, emails, and testimony have raised fundamental questions about what he knew, what he told the public, and how he exercised authority during the pandemic. Many outside academia describe this as his fall from grace, while universities and medical institutions continue to celebrate him as a heroic public servant and scientific authority. That contradiction is the starting point for this essay. Fauci matters not only because of his individual conduct, but because he exposes the institutions that produced, empowered, and continue to protect him.” (08/09/26)

https://brownstone.org/articles/anthony-fauci-and-the-collapse-of-scientific-authority/

Source: Antiwar.com
by Andrew P Napolitano

“For much of American history, presidents have steadily accumulated the power to wage war while Congress has gradually surrendered the constitutional authority that the Framers explicitly entrusted to it. This transformation has weakened constitutional checks and balances, expanded executive power beyond its constitutional limits, claimed millions of lives, cost trillions of dollars, and repeatedly drawn the United States into conflicts that had little or nothing to do with defending America. The Constitution is remarkably clear on the question of war. Article I grants Congress — not the president — the power to declare war. The president, under Article II, wages war, but only after Congress has authorized it.” (08/07/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2026/08/06/the-normalcy-of-american-wars