Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by James Vermillion
“Böhm-Bawerk was a student of Carl Menger, the founder of the Austrian school of economics, and he became one of the tradition’s most formidable systematizers. His major work, Capital and Interest, published in three volumes between 1884 and 1921, remains one of the most ambitious attempts to explain why capital exists at all and why human beings bother to build tools, factories, institutions, and other intermediate goods when they could, in principle, simply apply their labor directly to the natural world and consume whatever comes out.” (03/02/26)
“Hu Shih, former president of both Peking University and Academia Sinica, and known for his ties to Chinese liberalism and John Dewey’s (American philosopher and psychologist) experimentalism was an influential figure in Chinese politics and academia. He was also China’s Ambassador to the United States during 1938–1942. Despite Hu Shih’s substantial achievements and impact, there were extended periods where he was officially a ‘forbidden figure’ and was repeatedly and publicly denounced. During Mao Zedong’s regime Hu Shih’s writings were officially purged and censored from circulation. In most of the propaganda red films inside China, the surname ‘Hu’ was mostly given towards counter-revolutionary figures or bourgeois landlords. To understand the Chinese Communist Party (CCP’s) organized efforts to eliminate Hu Shih’s influence from intellectual discourse in China, it becomes important to know his politics and philosophy.” (03/02/26)
“The death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, following coordinated U.S.–Israeli strikes in late February 2026 marks one of the most consequential geopolitical moments of the decade. In the immediate aftermath, Iran launched retaliatory missile and drone attacks across Israel and against U.S. and Gulf-linked infrastructure, while internet disruptions spread domestically and internal unrest intensified. Analysts, journalists and policymakers quickly filled the information space with competing interpretations — some emphasizing escalation risks, others focusing on humanitarian fallout or regime durability. Yet viewed through the lens increasingly guiding U.S. national security doctrine, the operation appears less as an isolated military escalation and more as part of a broader strategic transition already underway: the integration of economic security, technological dominance and supply-chain resilience into core American grand strategy.” (03/02/26)
“A statistician of days past might have observed that medical investments in bloodletting, applying leeches, or executing frontal lobotomies failed to produce results any better than not treating patients at all. And while they might argue it is because physicians hadn’t reached key efficacy thresholds, an equally valid hypothesis is that their methods were worse than useless! Perhaps volunteering for the PTA and enlisting one’s kids in travel sports are the bloodletting of modern parenting.” (03/02/26)
“The domestic context for this war is clear. In almost every respect, this is a failed administration. Its trade policy is in tatters. Its authoritarian push on immigration faces resistance and public rejection. Because of years of bad practice and ignoring the Constitution and the laws, the President’s hand is freest in foreign policy and war. The irony is that this administration, which was supposed to be a populist broom and new beginning, has been taken over by one of the hoariest DC lobbies, ‘the bomb Iran,’ crowd. As Trump used to look for depressed properties to scavenge, now the neocons inhabit the decaying hulk of Trumpism.” (03/02/26)
“The world is undoubtedly a better place after the killing of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and roughly 40 of his murderous colleagues by joint Israeli and American military strikes. Iran’s Islamist regime has slaughtered its own people while encouraging terrorism around the world for decades. But those strikes carry serious risks and costs. Are they worth the tradeoffs? The Trump administration should have made its case to Congress and the already skeptical public and satisfied the Constitution’s requirements by doing so.” (03/02/26)
Source: Law & Liberty
by Marc A Levin & Khalil Cumberbatch
“The widespread use of masking by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers is now an issue that could be addressed by Congress as part of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding legislation. This presents an opportunity to rein in the excessive use of masking by ICE agents while acknowledging that some circumstances warrant the use of facial coverings — and that steps must be taken to prevent misuse of photographs to threaten officers and their families.” (03/02/26)
“Once again, the United States and Israel are illegally attacking Iran, as they did last June. It is already a regional war, which will take a horrible toll on ordinary people in many countries, with reports a girls’ school was bombed, killing at least 85 people. Unlike the limited strikes in last June’s 12-day war, this is aimed not just at Iran’s nuclear or military facilities, but at regime change in Iran, as President Donald Trump declared, and government targets in Tehran have been hit, with Israel claiming Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed. Predictably, Iran is firing back at Israel and at US military bases in the region.” (03/02/26)
