Category: Opinion

Source: Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman

“Inflation was rising and job growth stalled even before the Iran War.” (03/19/26)

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-whiff-of-stagflation

Source: Foreign Policy
by Agathe Demarais

“All eyes are set on U.S. President Donald Trump’s escalating war against Iran, but on the home front, things are not going well. Nearly one year after he launched a barrage of steep tariffs on what he called ‘Liberation Day,’ economists have crunched the numbers for 2025 — and they are not looking good for the White House. By Trump’s own yardstick — his three goals of making foreigners pay for doing business with the United States, narrowing the U.S. trade deficit, and punishing China — tariffs have clearly failed.” (03/19/26)

https://archive.is/zWigq

Source: The Daily Economy
by Nikolai G Wenzel

“Capital loaned out can’t be invested or consumed. Interest compensating the lender is merely ‘the price of time.'” (03/19/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/interest-rate-caps-keep-coming-back-bastiat-explained-why-they-fail/

Source: Understanding AI
by Timothy B Lee

“OpenAI and Anthropic are using the standard tech startup playbook.” (03/19/26)

https://www.understandingai.org/p/how-to-think-about-the-ai-company

Source: The American Conservative
by Jack Hunter

“Many consider J.D. Vance the heir apparent to Donald Trump’s MAGA legacy and the man to beat in the 2028 Republican presidential primaries — a state of affairs the Republican foreign policy establishment has never liked. Hawks have long worried that the vice president is too much of a foreign policy restrainer for their tastes (though Vance has often sounded more like neoconservatives in Trump’s second term). Still, neocons were giddy last week when polling showed that Marco Rubio’s numbers had improved against Vance, with the secretary of state being hawks’ main man in the 2016 GOP primaries and a figure who could repurpose ‘MAGA’ as the neoconservatism of old (though Trump seems to be doing this already, making Vance’s supposed 2028 inevitability less clear). But there could be more than one neocon champion in 2028.” (03/19/26)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/ted-cruz-is-the-republican-kamala-harris/

Source: Independent Institute
by Phillip W Magness

“Politicians quickly saw how much revenue the income tax could produce, so they abandoned its original purpose.” (03/18/26)

https://www.independent.org/article/2026/03/18/how-a-tariff-fight-created-the-federal-income-tax/

Source: Property and Environment Research Center
by Annalise Helm, Dominic Parker, & Garrett Shost

“How transferable tax credits supercharge conservation easements.” (03/18/26)

https://www.perc.org/2026/03/18/trading-green/

Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine

“The official response to my column Monday about the FBI’s failure to prevent four recent Islamic terror attacks has been unsatisfactory, to say the least, and the personal attacks by FBI Director Kash Patel’s private PR operatives have been downright deranged. None of which is reassuring when it comes to the FBI’s preparedness to handle a heightened terror threat on home soil. It’s not Patel’s fault that our foremost domestic counterterrorism agency has been degraded and politicized under his predecessors, but it’s his job to fix it fast and his defensiveness suggests a problem. The most alarming case involves Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a convicted ISIS terrorist who was on supervised federal release when he yelled ‘Allahu Akbar’ and opened fire on an ROTC classroom at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., last Thursday, killing the instructor before being killed himself.” (03/19/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/03/18/opinion/miranda-devine-the-fbis-repeated-non-answers-on-us-terrorism-attacks-raises-alarming-red-flags/

Source: The Jolly Libertarian
by Marco den Ouden

“One Year After is the fourth story I’ve read now where the end of the world is revealed as a primitive society with none of the modern conveniences we take for granted. We are so dependent on our electronic devices and on the electrical grid that it hard to imagine what life would be like without them. But what would cause such an event?” (03/18/26)

https://jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2026/03/four-books-about-end-of-world-as-we.html

Source: Freedom and Flourishing
by Dr. Edward W Younkins

“The defense of a free society has emerged from diverse intellectual traditions. One line of argument, associated with thinkers such as Friedrich A. Hayek, Gerald A. Gaus, Jonathan Haidt, and John Hasnas grounds liberty in cultural evolution, spontaneous order, epistemic limits, and moral psychology. From another direction, Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl have developed a neo-Aristotelian justification of natural rights rooted in individualistic perfectionism, virtue ethics, and the metanormative structure of political morality. These two traditions have often been viewed as distinct and divergent: the former emphasizing emergent social complexity, evolved rules, the limits of reason, and epistemological humility; the latter emphasizing teleological ethics, virtue, and the normative structure of human flourishing.” (03/18/26)

https://www.freedomandflourishing.com/2026/03/are-spontaneous-order-and-neo.html