Category: Opinion

Source: The Bulwark
by Will Saletan

“He can’t stop freestyling about plunder and atrocities.” (04/09/26)

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-has-a-war-crimes-problem-its-his-mouth

Source: Law & Liberty
by Philip Hamburger

“The justices need to understand the full range of considerations underlying Trump v. Barbara.” (04/09/26)

https://lawliberty.org/allegiance-birthright-and-citizenship/

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson

“The ‘administrative state,’ of course, is anything but democratic; it is autocratic to the core. For all of their professed love for democracy, progressives have long demanded rule by experts, or at least rule by ‘experts’ that meet progressive approval. As I pointed out last year, when actual scientists studied the effects of so-called acid rain and concluded that it was not causing lake and river acidification, progressives in the media, as well as EPA administrators, immediately tried to destroy the careers of scientists failing to echo the party line. Not surprisingly, one of the loudest antiscience voices in the acid rain affair was the New York Times.” (04/09/26)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/turns-out-elites-administrative-state-better-democracy

Source: Common Dreams
by Jeffrey D Sachs & Sybil Fares

“A two-week ceasefire has partially halted the Israel-US war on Iran. The war accomplished precisely nothing that a competent diplomat could not have achieved in an afternoon. The Strait of Hormuz was open before the war and it is open again now, but with more Iranian control. Meanwhile, the chaos continues. Israel is intent on blowing up the ceasefire, as this was Israel’s war from the start. Israel dazzled Trump with the prospect of a one-day decapitation strike that would put Trump in charge of Iran’s oil. Israel, in turn, was out for bigger prey: to bring down the Iranian regime and thereby become the regional hegemon of Western Asia. The foundation of the ceasefire is Iran’s 10-point plan, which Trump (perhaps unwittingly) called a ‘workable basis on which to negotiate.'” (04/09/26)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/israel-war-on-peace

Source: The Realist Review
by James W Carden

“Mark Levin is a fool, but he is hardly the only one.” (04/09/26)

https://therealistreview.substack.com/p/nuclear-myths-continue-to-fuel-neocon

Source: Glenn Greenwald
by Jeremy Loffredo

“There is a version of the Democratic Party that exists only in the imagination: the peace party, the anti-war party, the party that marched against the Iraq War and howled at its neocon designers. As Donald Trump (reportedly) accepted Iran’s ceasefire terms this week, some of the most pointed attacks coming his way from Democrats are not about the thousands of civilians killed, the weeks of brutal bombardments against medical centers and universities, or the global economic damage the war has caused. They are about the war ending before the U.S. and Israel finished the job. And this is not a fringe phenomenon. It is a pattern coming from Democratic senators, the Democratic House Foreign Affairs Committee, ranking members of the Armed Services Committee, and some of the party’s most prominent voices. The liberal opposition party wants more war.” (04/09/26)

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-opposition-party-has-done-nothing

Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz

“In my studies, I keep hearing about an ‘AI arms race’ between the US and China. At first, here’s what I thought I wanted to know: 1. How do the experts define ‘winning’ in this context? 2. What are the actual stakes? What I found was that this framing kinda sucks. It’s useful as shorthand in conversations about AI safety vs AI progress. But it doesn’t really describe reality.” (04/09/26)

https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/invent-god-or-lose-to-china

Source: Reason
by Stephen Davies

“From trade to migration to personal freedom, the conservatives of the global New Right hold a philosophy incompatible with individualism.” (04/09/26)

https://reason.com/2026/04/09/what-does-the-new-right-believe/

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Elisabeth Bennink

“Recently, like millions of others around the world, I listened to a conversation on The Joe Rogan Experience between Joe Rogan and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., aired on February 27, 2026. In the discussion, HHS Secretary Kennedy spoke at length about promoting healthy nutrition and tackling health insurance fraud. While nutrition is undoubtedly an important subject, my attention was drawn instead to another topic — one that lies close to my heart: the use of psychedelics in medical and therapeutic settings, and what I perceive as the implicit threat this poses to our freedom. … while I share their enthusiasm for psychedelics, I, both as a physician and an ayahuasqueira, see a profound threat to our (religious) freedom when authority over these substances is placed exclusively in the hands of what might be called the ‘church of medicine.'” (04/09/26)

https://brownstone.org/articles/medicalization-of-our-spiritual-life/

Source: The Daily Economy
by Jeffery L Degner

“Internal combustion engines empowered millions to participate in the modern economy. Restrictions on their use hit the poor hardest.” (04/09/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/internal-combustion-engines-the-great-economic-equalizer/