Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker

“Media outlets are filled with stories about how AI is taking all the jobs. There are also plenty of stories telling us that soaring deficits and rising debt are going to bankrupt the government. These problems are 180-degree opposites, sort of like saying that someone is seriously overweight, but needs to put on a few pounds. Either can be true, but they can’t both possibly be true. There is zero recognition of this fact in elite intellectual circles. To make the logic clearer, the AI taking all the jobs story is one of abundance. … The out-of-control debt and deficit story is one of scarcity.” (05/28/26)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/28/four-reasons-were-being-lied-to/

Source: Law & Liberty
by John O McGinnis

“AI will not kill the legal profession, but it will impact what clients buy and what law schools need to teach.” (05/28/26)

https://lawliberty.org/the-unbundling-of-legal-education/

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)

https://amgreatness.com/2026/05/28/dressed-to-kill-women-of-the-left-and-the-cult-of-violence-worship/