Category: Opinion

Source: Law & Liberty
by Aaron Alexander Zubia

“The Princess Casamassima reveals the inherent problems of the revolutionary mindset.” (03/27/26)

https://lawliberty.org/henry-jamess-anti-revolutionary-novel/

Source: Los Angeles Times
by Matt K Lewis

“Whether it’s reopening the strait or funding DHS, Trump’s goalposts keep moving, and as a result, Democrats are largely insulated from the public’s blame for the airport mess. Democrats can’t be expected to end this impasse because Trump can’t even settle on a set of demands to which they could agree. This is Trump’s M.O. with Iran as well. His stated objectives have cycled through a full and complete surrender, regime change, deterrence, de-escalation, boots on the ground, blowing up power plants in 48 hours, and then backing off based on ‘productive conversations.’ (Not to mention that Trump ran for office promising to end ‘forever wars,’ not start new ones.) Trump — whose underlying belief is that pressure always produces capitulation — assumes he can bluster and bully his opponents into submission. But that only works if the other side agrees to play by those rules.” (03/27/26)

https://archive.is/Wo3fd

Source: The Atlantic
by Simon Shuster

“Last month, on my way home from Kyiv, I passed through Germany to visit one of the world’s largest weapons manufacturers. My hope was to see its response to the rise of drone warfare. … I thought I would find the leaders of Rheinmetall seized by the threat of this revolution in military technology. I found no such thing. … The gruesome images of tanks blown apart by drones in Ukraine did not dissuade anyone from purchasing these systems. Nearly all of the tanks that Russia had at the start of the invasion were destroyed by spring of last year, according to U.S. military estimates. … Still, purchases of new tanks and armored vehicles keep swelling the deal book at Rheinmetall, as well as the company’s stock price, which has risen more than 15-fold since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.” (03/27/26)

https://archive.is/inTld

Source: Antiwar.com
by Andrew P Napolitano

“War is the most horrific series of events upon which any government can engage. It is systematic, industrialized, indiscriminate killing. It kills innocent adults and little girls. It often ruins the post-war lives of the killers. It is young men violently fighting old men’s power games. It is the health of the state. The war President Donald Trump is waging against the people and the government of Iran is immoral, unconstitutional and unlawful. Yet, because Congress is not doing its job, there appears to be no relief in sight until Trump finds a face-saving way to erase his grave mistake from the public’s long memory.” (03/27/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2026/03/26/war-and-morality

Source: CounterPunch
by Binoy Kampmark

“The bellicose may find wars attractive and cleansing, but those responsible for such dry matters as inventory, material and how prepared the armed forces of a country are will stalk them with unpleasant truths. The addiction of the US imperium to waging wars, one that President Donald Trump promised, and failed, to treat, has gotten the wags in the military worried. The depleting nature of Operation Epic Fury has been particularly telling in this regard, revealing the US war machine to be unprepared for conflict.” (03/27/26)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/27/operation-epic-fury-and-us-unreadiness-for-war/

Source: Libertarian Institute
by Alan Mosley

“Midterm elections are where slogans go to trial. Primaries, especially, are where interests that cannot reliably win a general election try to win the nomination. They do it with money, with media saturation, and with the oldest trick in politics: framing obedience as unity. This year, two Republican races show the fork in the road. In northern Kentucky, Rep. Thomas Massie is fighting a primary that has become a national vendetta project. In South Carolina, Senator Lindsey Graham is seeking a fifth term while publicly linking his political identity to a foreign-policy crusade, and treating dissent at home as a moral failing. If Massie survives and Graham falls, it signals that Republican voters still have room for independence, constitutional friction, and skepticism toward overseas commitments. If Massie loses and Graham wins, it signals the reverse: the slogan becomes a mascot for power, not a restraint on it.” (03/27/26)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/two-primary-elections-for-the-soul-of-america-first

Source: New York Post
by Dalibor Rohac

“Here’s a number that should make every American wince: $4 million. That’s what it costs to fire a single Patriot interceptor missile. Here’s another: $30,000. That’s an estimated price tag of an Iranian Shahed drone — the kind that Tehran has been lobbing across the Persian Gulf at US bases and allied cities since the start of the war four weeks ago. In other words, we’re spending at least 100 times more to shoot down each drone than our enemies spend to build one. And it’s not just the cost that’s a problem — it’s also our production capacity. … Just replenishing those weapons at current production capacity will require 18 months. That is no way to fight against Iran, much less against a larger adversary like China or Russia.” (03/27/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/03/27/opinion/ukraine-can-teach-the-us-about-the-future-of-warfare/

Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander

“In 1917, some Portuguese children started seeing visions of the Virgin Mary. The Virgin told them she would enact a great miracle on a certain day in October, and a crowd of 100,000 gathered to witness the event. According to eyewitness reports, newspaper articles, etc, they saw the sun spin around, change colors, and do various other miraculous things. At least a hundred separate testimonies of the event have come down to us, with only two or three people saying they didn’t see it. … there was no record of a miracle exactly like Fatima happening within a non-Catholic religious tradition. Until now! Substacker Arthur T, building on research from Sophia In The Shell, has found a 1990s Buddhist sun miracle very similar to Fatima.” (03/27/26)

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/a-buddhist-sun-miracle

Source: Isonomia Quarterly
by George Agbesi & Joshua D Ammons

“At one point, Gordon Tullock thought taxi medallions were inefficient but intractable institutions, a classic example of what he called the transitional gains trap. The medallion system persisted not because it served the public, but because the rents it generated were capitalized into medallion prices, making any reform politically impossible. Then came Uber, and within a matter of years this supposedly permanent institution crumbled. What if a similar technology shock could do the same for societies lacking the rule of law?” (03/27/26)

https://isonomiamag.substack.com/p/betting-on-better-governance

Source: Law & Liberty
by Titus Techera

“The late actor was an example of principled, courageous manliness that our elites have forgotten how to celebrate.” (03/27/26)

https://lawliberty.org/remembering-the-man-chuck-norris/