Source: EconLog
by Scott Sumner

“[T]he leftist that is currently running for mayor of New York views people in the 1% and the 98% percentile (of income or wealth) as occupying the same class, at least regarding ‘us versus them’ battles with the top 1%. A homeless person living in a back alley in the Bronx is united with an elegant lady living in a condo in New York’s Upper East Side in their battle for ‘economic justice?’ Sorry, I’m not buying that argument. In the old days, Marxists thought of class in terms of the capitalists, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Even that was far too simple, but at least it had a certain logic. Lumping together the 1% and the 98% into one group makes no sense at all. Is this just harmless rhetoric? I don’t think so.” (07/01/25)

https://www.econlib.org/which-class-are-you-in/

Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by William Harris

“How one of America’s most elite music schools expelled a student for reporting harassment.” (07/01/25)

https://expression.fire.org/p/orchestrated-silence

Source: Fox News Forum
by William Shipley

“Much has been written in recent days about the war of words between Supreme Court justices Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown-Jackson in the opinions handed down in Trump v. Casa, Inc., the case involving an injunction issued in a case challenging birthright citizenship. But as I pointed out in a Post on X Friday morning, Barrett’s decision was written on behalf of herself and the five other justices in the majority. The fact that Barrett was assigned this opinion by the chief judge (the chief judge decides who writes the opinion when he votes with the majority) is a signal that the other five justices turned her loose on Jackson.” (07/01/25)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/why-justice-jackson-fish-out-water-supreme-court

Source: Persuasion
by Matt Whiteley

“At the peak of Peterson’s fame in the late 2010s he seemed to be waging (often very successfully) a sort of one-man crusade against the complacent orthodoxies of liberal culture. He spoke for traditions ranging back to Carl Jung, Erich Neumann, the greats of psychology — and well beyond that. … it often felt that in him, and him alone, a sensibility survived that married secular humanism with deep faith — and that was wholly untouched by political correctness or wokeism or (Peterson’s particular bête noire) the reigning neo-Marxism of the academy. … Then, I suppose you know what happened. I am not a doctor, and I don’t know whether eight days in a medically-induced coma to treat benzodiazepine withdrawal is likely to have a detrimental effect on your cognitive state, but I don’t think I’m in a minority in suggesting that Peterson’s state of mind in the era after his return from collapse has never been the same.” (07/01/25)

https://www.persuasion.community/p/reflections-on-the-jordan-peterson

Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“Honestly at this point they should just get Netanyahu his own room in the White House and a desk in the Oval Office. The prime minister of Israel is taking his third trip to the White House in the five months since Trump has been back in office. I have immediate blood family members who I love with all my heart and visit less often than this. This comes as the Trump administration revokes the US visas of British punk rap duo Bob Vylan ahead of a US tour for chanting ‘Death, death to the IDF’ at a concert in the UK. Trump’s sycophantic supporters who spent years complaining that their free speech rights were under assault appear fine with their government deciding what words Americans are allowed to hear in their own country.” (07/01/25)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/07/01/the-trumpanyahu-administration/

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“In the long, sordid history of U.S.-Cuban relations, it has always been the U.S. government that has been the aggressor, and it has always been the Cuban government that has been the defender. Cuba has never initiated an attack against the United States or against the American people. It is the U.S. government that has invaded Cuba. It is the U.S. government that has engaged in state-sponsored assassination attempts in Cuba, including in partnership with the Mafia, one of the biggest criminal groups in history. It is the U.S. government that has committed acts of terrorism within Cuba. It is the U.S. government that has targeted the Cuban people with death by starvation with a brutal economic embargo. Why can’t U.S. officials just leave Cuba alone?” (07/01/25)

https://www.fff.org/2025/07/01/why-not-finally-leave-cuba-alone/

Source: Common Dreams
by Kevin Young

“In his unpublished preface to Animal Farm, George Orwell remarks that ‘the sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that, or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to say it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was ‘not done’ to mention trousers in the presence of a lady.’ With the Israeli and U.S. aerial invasions of Iran on June 13 and June 21, respectively, the Victorian convention remains intact. There are certain questions it won’t do to ask. Are the invasions legal under international law? Are they morally justified? And who has the right to make those determinations? These questions would be central in a media sphere that values legal and moral consistency. In Western media, by contrast, asking them is like mentioning trousers before a lady.” (07/01/25)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/what-we-can-t-say-about-iran