Category: Opinion

Source: Gideon’s Substack
by Noah Millman

“What the war against Iran and the sanctions against Anthropic have in common.” (03/02/26)

https://gideons.substack.com/p/the-end-of-the-rules-based-order

Source: Law & Liberty
by Marc A Levin & Khalil Cumberbatch

“The widespread use of masking by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers is now an issue that could be addressed by Congress as part of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding legislation. This presents an opportunity to rein in the excessive use of masking by ICE agents while acknowledging that some circumstances warrant the use of facial coverings — and that steps must be taken to prevent misuse of photographs to threaten officers and their families.” (03/02/26)

https://lawliberty.org/to-protect-serve-and-identify/

Source: Common Dreams
by Kevin Martin

“Once again, the United States and Israel are illegally attacking Iran, as they did last June. It is already a regional war, which will take a horrible toll on ordinary people in many countries, with reports a girls’ school was bombed, killing at least 85 people. Unlike the limited strikes in last June’s 12-day war, this is aimed not just at Iran’s nuclear or military facilities, but at regime change in Iran, as President Donald Trump declared, and government targets in Tehran have been hit, with Israel claiming Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed. Predictably, Iran is firing back at Israel and at US military bases in the region.” (03/02/26)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/congress-end-illegal-war

Source: The Daily Economy
by Patrick Carroll

“If we want affordable, accessible, mid-rise construction, we need more elevators. Why are we building so few of them?” (03/02/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-elevator-problem-how-rent-seeking-and-regulation-make-modern-life-unaffordable/

Source: Libertarian Institute
by Alan Mosley

“On March 2, 1926, Murray Rothbard was born in the Bronx, New York, an only child of immigrant parents. His father worked as a chemist and his mother encouraged his voracious reading. Early interests in history and logic foreshadowed a career in which he relentlessly scrutinized economic models, historical narratives and political myths.” (03/02/26)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/murray-rothbard-mr-libertarian/

Source: The American Conservative
by Jack Hunter

“This president and members of this Congress are openly and brazenly insulting Americans’ intelligence.” (03/02/26)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/on-the-iran-war-they-think-youre-stupid/

Source: The Reframe
by AR Moxon

“Reparation, rehabilitation, redemption, reconciliation, restoration. A necessary taxonomy of healing in an age of unnecessary conversations.” (03/01/26)

https://www.the-reframe.com/culture-of-healing/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter

Source: Washington Post
by Megan McArdle

“If you’re in an industry ripe for disruption by artificial intelligence, thinking about what’s coming inspires strong emotions. Like panic. And outrage. If you’re a college-educated professional, the economy has worked well for you over the past few decades. As with anything that has lasted for a long time, this seems like the natural order of things — an entitlement, not chronological luck. … Now a machine might steal what you earned. This doesn’t just feel bad. It feels like a violation.” (03/01/26)

https://archive.is/UhLNk

Source: Coyote Blog
by Warren Meyer

“The US is really good at getting rid of leaders like this, and if anything is getting better. I won’t go further back than my lifetime, but the Diem coup (and execution) in South Vietnam, the lukewarm (at best) support for the Shah of Iran that contributed to his ouster, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the Afghanistan invasion, Gaddafi in Libya, Maduro in Venezuela, Noriega in Panama — the list goes on. But in many or most of these cases, what followed the US-led decapitation was as bad or worse than what came before.” (03/01/26)

https://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2026/03/the-problem-in-iran.html

Source: New York Post
by Victor Davis Hanson

“How do destructive ideas and bouts of collective madness so quickly become policy, law, and the status quo? After all, most have little public support — and are not Western nations supposedly rationally governed? There is usually a multi-step process on the road to these self-destructive fits of society-wide insanity. The suicidal impulse so often begins with left-leaning researchers in elite universities (that is, the tenured in search of a novel, grant-getting theory). They begin insisting that a new existential threat requires immediate government intervention, novel legislation, ample funding and public awareness of the impending danger. So out of nowhere, the public is warned that the scorching planet will be inundated by rising seas in a mere decade.” (03/01/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/03/01/opinion/why-the-lefts-serial-insanities-keep-becoming-the-law-of-the-land/