Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul McDonnold
“At the height of the cultural revolution, a group of Chicago economists was quietly launching one of its own.” (09/08/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-swinging-sixties-chicago-school-style/
Source: Washington Post
by James Harkin
“What recourse do people have when encryption technology that they thought was pretty good comes up against an AI program capable of impressive mathematical reasoning? In a July blog post, Anthropic disclosed that its researchers, using their Claude Mythos Preview model, had discovered improved ways to attack cryptographic algorithms (the mathematical methods used to keep online data private) — a development with transformative implications for cryptography. The concern here isn’t just about protecting data — it’s also about protecting identities. In the last few decades, society has found sophisticated ways to blur or redact things to protect people’s anonymity. But as it begins to flex its muscles, AI may be able to de-blur them instantly.” (09/08/26)
Source: Niskanen Center
by Joshua McCabe
“Families with young children are potentially eligible for dozens of public benefits to support them during periods of unemployment and to supplement their earnings during periods of employment. Access to these benefits varies depending on earnings, marital status, age of the children, and where families reside. This patchwork across programs and states is so complex that social scientists, advocates, and policymakers often narrow their focus to examine a single program in isolation. While this gives a clear view of the impact of any one program, it risks missing the forest for the trees.” (09/08/26)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/family-benefits-in-america-2025-report-card/
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya
“Property rights are defined in many ways. It often happens that academics who are interested in the scope, regulation, or protection of private property rights debate endlessly at cross purposes because they do not share the same definition of property rights in the first place. Some debaters attempt to beat their opponents by initiating a definitional game of ‘gotcha.'” (09/08/260
https://mises.org/mises-wire/quibbling-over-definition-private-property
Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter
“Leftists are coming for your kids. They always have been, so that’s not breaking news, but you have to be reminded of this on occasion so no one forgets and everyone can act accordingly. Kids are easy to indoctrinate; easy to convince of stupid things, that lies are truth. If you have kids, you know how this works. I’d never realized how easily you could joke and have everything you say be taken seriously by your kid because they don’t really understand the concept of joking yet. Once they get it, they can still be convinced of just about anything by anyone in a position of authority or someone they’re told to respect. Most adults don’t abuse that position, but liberals do.” [editor’s note: I didn’t know Hunter was a “liberal!” – TLK] (09/08/26)
Source: The Daily Economy
by Marcus M Witcher
“Laura K. Field’s ‘Furious Minds’ traces the intellectual evolution of the New Right and the ideas driving its rejection of liberalism.” (09/08/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-rights-long-march-toward-illiberalism/
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Scott Hibbard
“The failures of America’s war on terror were rooted in a misdiagnosis of the problem. The Bush administration promoted the idea that the 9/11 hijackers were motivated by their hatred of American values and rejected any notion that U.S. policies contributed to either anti-American sentiment or violent extremism. ‘They’ hated us for who we are, it was argued, not what we do. … While the intent of the American military strategy was to deny terrorist groups safe havens, the practical effect was the opposite. American military interventions destabilized entire regions and created the kind of lawless anarchy in which militant groups proliferated. U.S. interventions also exacerbated anti-American sentiments and allowed militant groups to portray themselves as nationalist defenders fighting an occupying enemy.” (09/08/26)
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander
“Mechanistic interpretability is the science of ‘reading an AI’s mind’. Large language models are ‘grown, not built’. Researchers run training data through a neural network. Eventually this creates a working AI; nobody really knows how. But a neural network is just a set of simulated neurons on a computer. The person with the computer can see the neurons, the connections between them, and which ones activate when the AI answers questions. So it seems like it should be possible to ‘reverse engineer’ the AI. … Unfortunately this is very hard.” (09/08/26)
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/god-help-us-lets-try-to-learn-about
Source: Libertarian Institute
by José Niño
“Two terms, dozens of announced withdrawals, and the Army’s brigades are still unpacking their gear in Europe, the Pacific, and beyond. Rhetoric about restraint and retrenchment is one thing; the discipline to see it through is another. On that score, the Trump administration has been exactly what its critics always suspected: all talk, no action.” (09/08/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/donald-trump-is-rearranging-the-empire-not-dismantling-it/
Source: Los Angeles Times
by Jon Duffy
“American forces are conducting combat operations in South America right now. If that comes as news, it is because the administration has disclosed the mission only in fragments, and Congress has not forced a public accounting. United States Green Berets are operating alongside Ecuadorian forces in the northern province of Esmeraldas in what the provincial governor described as joint operations against ‘narcoterrorism.’ Neither government has said which organizations the ground operations are targeting, what the troops are doing or how many Americans are involved.” (09/08/26)