Source: The Daily Economy
by Adam A Millsap
“The ideas that transformed the world — free trade, limited government, and individual liberty — are now treated as relics rather than the radical achievements they truly are.” (05/28/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/defenders-of-classical-liberalism-are-the-real-revolutionaries/
Source: Freedom and Flourishing
by Winton Bates
“Babones argues that ‘India’s democracy is in better shape than that of just about any other developing country.’ His central claim is that India’s democracy is historically exceptional. He emphasizes that India is the only large, poor, post‑colonial society to maintain continuous electoral democracy for more than seven decades. Unlike Western democracies, which evolved gradually over centuries, India launched universal suffrage at independence despite widespread illiteracy and immense cultural diversity. For Babones, this makes India not a fragile democracy but an extraordinary one – a global outlier whose success cannot be understood through Western liberal frameworks.” (05/27/26)
https://www.freedomandflourishing.com/2026/05/is-indian-democracy-extraordinary.html
Source: The Jolly Libertarian
by Marco den Ouden
“Recently I read Ray Kurzweil’s book The Singularity is Nearer, a look at artificial intelligence and what it holds for the future. Kurzweil is very optimistic about AI and believes it will usher in an era of untold wealth and prosperity. Moreover, he believes the exponential growth of AI power will lead to revolutionary advances in medicine and the extension of human life expectancy to 120 and beyond. Not in the far distant future but within the next twenty to forty years. Older folks like me may or may not live long enough to benefit, but our children and grandchildren surely might.” (05/27/26)
https://jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-age-of-abundance-rethinking-wealth.html
Source: American Greatness
by Jeff Cunningham
“On the morning of May 18, 2026, on the granite steps of Manhattan’s Criminal Courts Building, three chic women arranged themselves like starlets at Cannes. The heels. The practiced hip-thrust. Weight cocked to one side, chin down, eyes up. With enough mascara between them to repaint Gracie Mansion. But the most revealing part, the part that showed the most skin, was the laminated press credential blessed by the office of Mayor Zohran Mamdani. It certified they were card-carrying members of the working press. Only they were not here to cover a criminal. Luigi’s Angels, or as they call themselves, more affectionately, the Mangionistas, were there to worship a charismatic idol and to defend his violence.” (05/28/26)
Source: Independent Institute
by Benjamin Powell
“The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate are negotiating a new housing bill as Americans have become increasingly concerned with affordability. Unfortunately, any federal housing bill would do little to make housing more affordable and could even worsen the situation.” (05/27/26)
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“It is now unlawful, upheld by a judge and jury, in Northern Ireland, to preach a sermon about God’s love within earshot of a hospital. Over the centuries, English kings, queens, nobles, and lower classes have arrested, tried, convicted, imprisoned, fined, and even executed men (and women) for preaching something that the powers that be, including the established Church, didn’t want preached. The 78-year-old Cleve Johnstone was not killed: merely jailed and fined. Most folks believed that sort of nonsense went about a good 200 years (or more) ago.” (05/27/26)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/05/27/liberty-and-freedom-so-easily-lost/
Source: Common Dreams
by Jawad Khalid
“The United States has indicted Cuba’s former president Raúl Castro on murder charges, deployed a carrier strike group to the Caribbean, and issued explicit threats of military intervention. Is the US moving toward another regime change operation in the Western Hemisphere? The rhetoric coming out of Washington suggests very much so. Cuba looks set to see a repeat of the Venezuelan playbook. President Donald Trump has said he will be “the one” to finally act on Cuba. The message from Washington is clear. Cuba is next. Latin America is empire’s favorite backyard, where the United States has consistently moved to remove governments that pursue independent foreign and economic policies not in line with American interests.” (05/28/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/regime-change-cuba-worried
Source: Pierre Lemieux
by Pierre Lemieux
“It was an error three centuries ago. Knowledge of the workings of society has progressed, but some did not get the memo.” (05/27/26)
https://pierrelemieux.substack.com/p/the-troubling-persistence-of-luddism
Source: Shawn Huckaby
by Shawn Huckaby
“I was raised in a rural Virginia family that, despite what that might lead you to believe, was not particularly religious. My mom was nominally a Christian but church service was not a regular part of our life. My dad was an atheist influenced by Ayn Rand. The latter went on to influence me, and as a consequence, I spent roughly the first 30 years of my life as a very garden-variety atheist. … I left Ayn Rand behind at some point in my mid-20s and developed an interest in broader philosophy. … This exploration eventually led me into religion but outside of the typical Abrahamic context.” (05/27/26)
Source: Reason
by Ari Shtein
“When President Donald Trump announced broad and arbitrary import taxes last April — tariffs that the Supreme Court would later determine were illegal — he said they would uplift domestic producers, even though many economists predicted the opposite. More than a year later, Americans can safely say that the economists were right. Trump’s tariffs have not only failed in their central aim — to bring manufacturing jobs back to America — they’ve also hurt Americans across a range of economic sectors, including agriculture. That’s the latest analysis from the North Dakota State University (NDSU) Agricultural Trade Monitor, which recently found that between March 2025 and February 2026, annualized U.S. agricultural exports to China dropped by nearly $15 billion. This is almost $5 billion more in lost trade to China than what American farmers saw during the first Trump administration.” (05/27/26)