Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher

“The Los Angeles Republican mayoral candidate was seen as a cutting-edge adopter of artificial intelligence, but it only cut down his chances of winning.” (06/09/26)

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/09/spencer-pratt-ai-ads-los-angeles-mayor/

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Eldar Mamedov

“A new report suggests someone wants to burn Baku’s plausible deniability, which puts it in hot water with its Iranian neighbor.” (06/09/26)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-azerbaijan/

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya

“When the conduct of war is depicted as essentially a force for good, citizens who criticize wars risk incurring the wrath of their own governments. In Northern Opposition to Mr. Lincoln’s War, John Chodes recounts the hardships experienced by Indianans who criticized Lincoln’s war. The governor, Oliver P. Morton, ordered that his critics be arrested, subjected civilians to military trials, and imprisoned them in a detention camp. He shut down newspapers and imprisoned their editors. All this was ostensibly to rout out the traitors who did not agree that Lincoln’s war was necessary to hold the Union together.” (06/09/26)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/hazards-criticizing-lincolns-war

Source: The American Conservative
by Spencer Neale

“I get it, I’m not supposed to like Hunter. In fact, I’d wager that my name is on some list in the catacombs of an FBI vault for purchasing the Marco Polo hardcover copy of Hunter’s laptop files in 2022, the darkest days. But what can I say? I do like Hunter. And I’m certainly not the only one. On X, many right-wing accounts, which usually spend their days defending the sleepiest of Sleepy Don’s final days, were mesmerized by the younger Biden’s fever dream this week, liking and resharing his honest accounting of the sort of drug addiction and degeneracy that was once used to attack the elder Biden’s shivering and quivering administration. … Authenticity is the only currency left in American politics, and it’s ideologically neutral. Trump proved that a decade ago. Hunter is proving it now from the opposite side.” (06/09/26)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/hunter-bidens-new-high-the-maga-whisperer/

Source: The Dispatch
by Jonathan Farber

“he typical politically active professor teaching at Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, and America’s other leading universities sits in the same ideological neighborhood as Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the three most progressive members of Congress. The bigger issue, however, is that many campuses lack the intellectual range for anyone to seriously challenge those professors’ views. That is the central finding of a new study commissioned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and conducted by University of Rochester political scientist David Primo.” (06/09/26)

https://thedispatch.com/article/faculty-left-wing-political-donations/