“It is sad to say, but what Americans have been seeing unravel before their eyes in recent weeks with the revelations of Arctic Frost and other FBI-related scandals are not the least bit shocking to me. In fact, it validates what I detail in my book The Two FBIs: The Bravery and Betrayal I Saw in My Time at the Bureau, which was published by Broadside Books on November 11. I was humbled to personally be invited to the Oval Office last week to meet with President Donald Trump, who endorsed my book. I loved being an FBI special agent for over a dozen years and considered it a sacred responsibility and mission.” (11/20/25)
Source: ProSocial Libertarians
by Andrew Jason Cohen
“The suggestion that we should not discuss the controversial topic du jour is now often defended with claims about how it is uncivil or disrespectful to disagree with anyone or to bring up controversial issues that are sure to encourage disagreement. Despite the popularity of this view, it is a mistake. Not only is the avoidance policy a fool’s game, destined to fail regardless, but it is also misguided from the outset. … The reason the animosity festers is that if you refuse to allow yourself to disagree with someone, you’re essentially accepting that they are not capable or worthy of honest discourse.” (11/20/25)
“The United States political system is failing. Expanding political divisions have been exacerbated by the machinations of a political class unwilling to sacrifice its prerogatives, irrespective of the nation’s desperate needs. For a time, the gerontocracy controlling political affairs in Washington seemed to mimic that in Moscow prior to the Soviet regime’s collapse. … There is no simple fix to what is genuinely a looming crisis, in contrast to the many faux emergencies proclaimed by politicians to advance their usually prosaic partisan ends. However, one idea worth trying is an older, somewhat dated one: congressional term limits.” (11/20/25)
“Nuremberg was more than a courtroom drama. For more than 10 months, the Allies not only ensured that some kind of justice was done there. They also contained the populist and radical worldwide atmosphere of anti-fascism immediately after the war, by making justice seen to be done. … Nuremberg, then, amounted to a juridical attack on evil. To its credit, the tribunal recognised the extraordinarily monstrous deeds of the Nazis. To its discredit, and despite its key charge of conspiracy, it tended to convert the historical experience of fascism into a timeless morality play …” (11/20/25)
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wulliam L Anderson
“The doctrines of socialism have been with us for more than 150 years, but no one had really tried it in a total way until the advent of the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the early 1990s. During that period, a number of communist/socialist revolutions occurred in Asia, Cuba, and Africa, all of which provided a laboratory to observe how these socialist economies would perform. The socialist economies failed spectacularly, as Ludwig von Mises had predicted. … But despite socialism’s many failures as an economic system, it is more popular than ever as a political system.” (11/20/25)
“The Trump administration signaled [Tuesday] that it was moving forward on one of President Trump’s key election promises: shutting down the Department of Education. As someone who has advocated for this outcome for many, many years, I am personally thrilled it’s finally coming. The administration announced that the department’s core functions would be handed off to other agencies in anticipation of finally closing down. Actually abolishing the Education Department would take an act of Congress, though the Supreme Court has OK’d Trump’s move to fire many of the department’s bureaucrats, which is a good start. Frankly, it’s astonishing that this is actually happening. Republicans have been promising to shut down the Education Department for 50 years. (11/19/25)
“President Trump is doing something many of his supporters said they wanted him to do: act not like a normal politician but like a businessman, for Americans, as if we were stockholders in a for-profit company. Bring in the dough. Efficiently. … That’s never been the recipe for republican governance and can so easily and quickly devolve into plutocratic socialism-for-the-rich. There’s no shouting ‘limited government’ about what Trump boasts of regarding ‘the deals’ he makes for the U.S. For ‘us.'” (11/20/25)
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Hayley Tsukayama
“Widespread news reports indicate that President Donald Trump’s administration has prepared an executive order to punish states that have passed laws attempting to address harms from artificial intelligence (AI) systems. According to a draft published by news outlets, this order would direct federal agencies to bring legal challenges to state AI regulations that the administration deems ‘onerous,’ to restrict funding to those states that have these laws, and to adopt new federal law that overrides state AI laws. This approach is deeply misguided.” (11/20/25)
“Fifty-seven years ago, I authored an article in the New York Times Magazine provocatively titled: ‘Nine Men in Black Who Think White’. It argued that the Supreme Court had long been one of the major roadblocks to progress on racial justice in this country. Today, the nine black-robed Supreme Court justices include two Black justices, one Latina, and four women. Yet, all the evidence suggests that given the balance of forces on the court, they continue to ‘rule white’, undermining the dreams of a more racially just nation. Yes, three of the justices care deeply about racial justice, but they are only three of nine. Next year, this Court is poised to further gut the signature piece of racial justice legislation of the last century, the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Movements across the nation need to make it clear to the world that this is unacceptable.” (11/20/25)
“I’ll admit it: I’ve held President Donald Trump to a different standard than former President Joe Biden when it comes to financial entanglements. Why? For all their ‘Middle Class Joe’ values, Biden and his family — notably, grabby son Hunter — apparently set out to cash in on Biden’s time in public office and after he served as vice president. Hence Hunter Biden’s $2 million pay during 2013 and 2014 as he worked for Ukraine energy concern Burisma. Trump’s money situation was different during his first term. Trump entered the White House a billionaire. The newly elected commander-in-chief lost loads of money during his first four years in the White House …. Trump seems unconcerned about the appearance of conflicts of interest the second time around. Could crypto, then, become his ‘cryptonite?'” (11/20/25)
