Category: Opinion

Source: Law & Liberty
by Luke Foster

“Pierre de Beaumarchais is a forgotten hero of the American Revolution—and a victim of the French.” (07/24/26)

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/a-tale-of-two-revolutions/

Source: Caitlin Johnstone
by Caitlin Johnstone

“Basically we’ve got two choices: we either aggressively denormalize Israel or we watch our society become more and more Israeli. We either collectively reject Israel, or we watch western militaries fuse inseparably with the IDF. We either turn support for Israel into political campaign poison, or we watch politicians obliterate our right to criticize Israel while backing increasingly evil Israeli military agendas. We either ferociously oppose our government’s involvement in middle eastern wars, or we watch Israeli leaders grow more and more ecstatic as more and more western blood and treasure flows into the war machine.” (07/25/26)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/07/25/de-normalize-israel/

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Jake Scott

“On July 20, Andy Burnham attended Buckingham Palace, where King Charles III invited him to form a government—making him Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade. Burnham is nicknamed ‘the King of the North,’ inspired by the Game of Thrones series and also speaks to his extremely popular tenure as mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017. As a politician, he reflects all of the establishment’s trusted elements and very little of its baggage. Having served as a minister in Blair’s government and won three landslide re-elections since becoming Manchester’s mayor, Burnham has managed to avoid the scandals associated with the Labour Party of the last two decades while building a prominent personal brand—and has cast a shadow over Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership as a result.” (07/24/26)

https://fee.org/articles/andy-burnham-takes-the-stage/

Source: Liberal Currents
by Alan Elrod

“Complaints about Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ are mainly complaints about what does and doesn’t count as Western, as manly, and as heroic art. And those complaints are about maintaining a highly circumscribed and prejudiced boundary of American identity downstream of a facile, vulgar conception of the ancient ‘West.’ It’s worth stressing—if, somehow, it hasn’t been stressed enough—that many of America’s right-wing nationalists view the United States as a culmination of a fancifully idealized Western culture. … what matters more here is who is seen as capable of making history. It’s certainly not women, and it’s absolutely not non-whites.” (07/25/26)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-vandals/

Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson

“Once again, Mr. ‘Art of the Deal’ underperforms his predecessors.” (07/24/26)

https://thedispatch.com/article/saudi-arabia-nuclear-deal-trump/

Source: The Daily Economy
by Thomas Savidge

‘The pandemic exposed weaknesses that had accumulated over decades.” (07/24/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/getting-unemployment-insurance-back-to-work/

Source: Libertarian Institute
by Charles Goyette

“In what is the monetary equivalent of tearing down statues, the British have decided they must replace iconic images on their currency. Out of an apparent fear of offending the stampede of human beings who have chosen to abandon their own homelands to live in Great Britain, the historic images on British currency of people instrumental in making that nation what it is, have been forced to yield to images of animals. Foxes, badgers, and hedgehogs are in the ascendency. Our problem in the United States is somewhat different. It appears that the iconography of our currency will be made to climax in images of Donald Trump.” (07/24/26)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/our-currency-icons-and-americas-national-character/

Source: American Greatness
by Jordan Schachtel

“The AI Kill Switch Act, introduced Thursday by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas), seeks to hand the government unprecedented authority to order private companies to throttle, suspend, or shut down products in “kill switch” fashion, purely on their own arbitrary determination, with fines up to $20 million a day. Behind this carefully staged rollout is a fanatical coalition that looks like a broad consensus, but it is mostly one funding network with an arsenal of astroturf organizations at its disposal.” (07/24/26)

https://amgreatness.com/2026/07/24/the-manufactured-bipartisan-push-for-an-ai-kill-switch/

Source: Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

“President Donald Trump’s renewed escalation of the war on Iran is dangerous and needs to be immediately reversed. Investors in the stock market are often advised to admit they bought an investment lemon and cut their losses by selling, thus avoiding further disaster by riding the stock to the bottom and vainly hoping it will rebound. Given human nature, many investors struggle with the first part: admitting they made a mistake. Politicians involved in losing wars often exhibit similar behavior. And President Trump, never wanting to be labeled a ‘loser,’ is particularly prone to such psychological denial.” (07/24/26)

https://www.independent.org/article/2026/07/24/iran-war-cut-and-run/

Source: Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman

“Why the world economy is still at risk from the Iran debacle.” (07/24/26)

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/quagmire-of-the-vanities