Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan

“The stereotypical drug user is a life-long addict. While stereotypes are usually good statistical approximations of the truth, I’ve long had the sense that this particular stereotype is false. The infamous heroin study, for example, found that the vast majority of U.S. soldiers who used heroin in Vietnam quit when they came home. Only recently, however, did I discover much more systematic evidence.” (09/16/25)

https://www.betonit.ai/p/aging-out-of-drug-addiction-is-the

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Jennifer Kavanagh

“Israel’s recent strike in Qatar should force Washington to cease enabling regional instability that doesn’t serve American interests.” (09/16/25)

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

Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey

“What is Pam Bondi talking about? She went on the Katie Miller Podcast, stating, ‘There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society … We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech.’ This is so opposite of the First Amendment and decades of Supreme Court decisions that her statement is no better than the jawboning coming from the ‘pulpit’ of the White House Briefing Room under Biden’s Psaki. It just shows that all these people in government are power-hungry monsters to our freedoms.” (09/16/25)

https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/from-free-speech-martyr-to-thought

Source: Law & Liberty
by Brent Orrell

“In the world of generative artificial intelligence, things are moving fast, and they could start moving a lot faster. Assuming that current data and design barriers can be overcome, this technological acceleration may deliver either unimaginable benefits or pose one of the greatest adaptive challenges humanity has ever faced. Or perhaps both. If you haven’t heard about ‘recursive’ artificial intelligence, you might want to bone up. Simply put, a recursive AI can improve itself through iterative testing, evaluation, and self-modification. Advancements that might have previously taken months or years for human researchers to achieve could instead be done by AI in hours or days.” (09/16/25)

https://lawliberty.org/the-coming-acceleration/