Source: David Friedman’s Substack
“A few years ago it was a popular slogan, mostly without details. As best I could tell, none of the people using it were familiar with real world examples of law enforcement without a police force, of which there are many. Here are some.” (03/05/26)
Source: Reason
by Damon Root
“Mary Moriarty, the attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota, announced this week that her office will investigate alleged crimes committed by federal immigration enforcement agents, including alleged misconduct by Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino during the recent federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota. … In response, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) declared that ‘what these States are trying to do is unlawful and they know it.’ According to the DHS statement, ‘federal officials acting in the course of their duties are immune from liability under state law.’ But Moriarty’s investigation actually stands on much stronger legal grounds than the DHS statement might lead you to think.” (03/05/26)
https://reason.com/2026/03/05/yes-states-may-prosecute-ice-agents-for-misconduct/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Jeffery Degner & Julia R Cartwright
“Falling birth rates have governments worldwide in a state of panic. From Brussels to Tokyo to Beijing, policymakers are scrambling to reverse fertility decline, yet expensive pro-natal programs in countries such as South Korea and Hungary have delivered little results. To be clear, serious analysts do not claim that population decline mechanically produces economic collapse. But demographic aging does create real fiscal, labor-market, and growth headwinds. The more productive question is not whether demography matters, but which policy frameworks allow societies to adapt successfully to it.” (03/05/26)
Source: Town Hall
by Victor Davis Hanson
“War is the use of arms to settle differences – tribal, political, religious, cultural, and material – between organized groups. It is unchanging. The general laws of armed conflict stays immutable, given the constancy of human nature. However, the manner in which war is conducted remains fluid. New weapons, tactics, and strategies elicit counterresponses in an endless cycle of tensions between defensive and offensive superiority. That said, has President Donald Trump introduced a novel way of waging Western war against America’s foreign enemies? We saw glimpses of it during his first term, when he eliminated Iranian general and terrorist kingpin Qassem Soleimani and ISIS terrorist grandee Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In the former case, he preferred hitting the cause rather than the effects of Iranian terrorism in Syria and Iraq, while making it clear that he had no intention of striking the Iranian mainland and entering into a tit-for-tat ‘forever war’.” (03/04/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2026/03/05/trumps-way-of-war-n2672353
Source: The Hill
by Brahma Chellaney
“By any conventional measure of power, the U.S. remains formidable. Its military power is unmatched, and it still possesses the world’s largest national economy. Yet power in the 21st century has never rested on material capabilities alone. For decades, America’s true strategic advantage lay in something less tangible but more potent: its capacity to attract. Its ideals, openness and professed commitment to universal values conferred a moral authority that made alliances easier, its influence deeper and its leadership more legitimate. That advantage is now being squandered.” (03/05/26)
Source: Washington Post
by Nick Bunker
“In March 1776, while the redcoats remained under siege in Boston, a torrent of copy about the colonies continued to flow from the printing press in London. Every notable British writer felt obliged to take a stand for or against the American cause and on the rights and wrongs of war. On March 9, there appeared the weightiest contribution of all …. It was ‘An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations,’ by Scottish polymath Adam Smith. … Europe’s empires in America had their origins, Smith wrote, in ‘folly and injustice,’ the thirst for gold that led the conquistadors to Mexico and Peru. Smith thought British colonies to be the best of a bad lot, ‘only somewhat less illiberal and oppressive than that of any of the rest.'” (03/05/26)
Source: Washington Post
by Kathleen Parker
“The guilty verdict Tuesday in the murder-by-proxy trial of a father whose son is accused of killing four people in a school shooting in Georgia sets a devastating and absurd precedent for imprisoning people for essentially being bad parents. Colin Gray, 55, was found guilty in a case involving his son Colt Gray’s alleged actions before the latter’s guilt has been determined.” (03/05/26)
Source: Liberal Currents
by Alan Elrod
“I’ve written in the past about how Hegseth’s vision of the American military is preoccupied with an ideal of the male form — one that’s a kind of modern mishmash of Spartan imagery and homoerotic fascist machismo. But that is only one facet of the Trumpian right’s fixation on the body. Another example is the now well-known phenomenon of Mar-A-Lago Face, wherein the women of the right doctor their appearances with filler, cosmetic surgeries, and absurd excesses of makeup. My colleague Samantha Hancox-Li has astutely observed that the prevalence of steroid use and plastic surgery on the right constitutes its own form of gender-affirming care in an era of reactionary fantasies. What matters here to me is that the body is the primary subject of Trumpian politics.” (03/05/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/pervert-politics-trumpisms-body-obsessions/
Source: The American Conservative
by Justin Logan
“aby Boomers should be remembered in domestic terms for enervating the U.S. economy with Total Boomer Luxury Communism. That generation vacuumed up current and future revenues to fund their luxe retirements, while young people struggle to find good jobs and homes while staring down a desolate future of debt and constraints. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy is very much a Boomer foreign policy, and in a similar sense. The second Trump administration has lit small fires across the world and let them burn, while accruing the costs of putting them out well into the future.” (03/05/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/small-fires-everywhere-the-wages-of-boomer-foreign-policy/
Source: Freedom and Flourishing
by Winton Bates
“This essay was prompted by my reading of John Passmore’s book, The Perfectibility of Man, which was first published in 1969. I read the book mainly because of James M. Buchanan’s suggestion that ‘it remains the most definitive work on the history of ideas’ relating to the extent to which classical liberalism depends on some presumption that man is perfectible.” (03/05/26)
https://www.freedomandflourishing.com/2026/03/does-human-perfectibility-pose-problem.html