Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Sarah McLaughlin
“A recent records request revealed that a Canadian government department is working up a potential new federal strategy on misinformation. But the section explaining what ‘legal action’ would be taken against misinformation, and either the users posting it or the platforms hosting it, is obscured by a large black bar.” (07/10/26)
https://www.fire.org/news/blogs/free-speech-dispatch/canada-considering-action-against-false-and-misleading-information
Source: Law & Liberty
by Matthew K Reising
“Mary Beard meditates on her own life and some of her favorite tales or artifacts from the ancient world to justify an irreverent approach to the classics.” (07/10/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/an-irreverent-defense-of-the-classics/
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Police investigating the alleged murder of Ann Widdecombe say there is ‘nothing to suggest it was politically motivated’. Devon and Cornwall Police added they are not looking for anyone else in connection with her death, following the arrest of a 28-year-old white British man in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, on Saturday. The former MP and MEP, 78, was found dead on Thursday at her home in Haytor, Devon, having sustained serious injuries. Police believe she had been attacked almost 24 hours earlier. … Widdecombe served as the Conservative MP for Maidstone for 23 years, holding ministerial roles in John Major’s government between 1994 and 1997.” (07/12/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8628q3eqdeo
Source: The Dispatch
“How Trump Made $2.2 Billion Since Taking Office.” (07/10/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/dispatch-podcast/how-trump-made-2-2-billion-since-taking-office/
Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher
“A dearth of high-quality publicly available polling means campaigns and their allies can release lesser surveys to shape their raves.” (07/10/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/07/10/platner-campaign-polls-independent-polling/
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“A United States federal court has dismissed the seditious conspiracy cases against four members of the Proud Boys, the far-right group involved in the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. On Friday, Judge Timothy J Kelly, an appointee of President Donald Trump, granted the government’s motion to dismiss the case with prejudice, meaning it cannot be revived in future. But Kelly made it clear that the defendants — Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola — had been ‘convicted of serious offences’. He wrote in his seven-page ruling that his decision was ultimately rooted in the separation of government powers, not in the merits of the case.” (07/11/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/11/us-judge-dismisses-january-6-case-against-proud-boys-after-trump-order
Source: Show-Me Institute Podcast
“Missouri’s Reading Crisis with Chad Aldeman.” (07/10/26)
https://showmeinstitute.org/article/education/missouris-reading-crisis-with-chad-aldeman/
Source: Law & Liberty
by DP Curtin
“In 1509, while traveling from Italy to England, the famed Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus composed one of the strangest and most enduring works of the Renaissance. In Praise of Folly (Moriae Encomium) was written partly for amusement, perhaps out of a self-deprecating boredom to break up the neurasthenia that was synonymous with long-distance travel in the early sixteenth century. As a work, it was dedicated to his friend Thomas More, who would later become Chancellor of England and gain renown and martyrdom through his interactions with the Tudor monarch Henry VIII. The title itself is in homage to More, embedded in the meaning of the Greek word moria, meaning ‘folly.’ Despite its age—over five centuries at this point—its insights are as fresh and as biting today as they were in the pre-modern world.” (07/10/26)
https://lawliberty.org/reading-erasmus-in-an-absurd-age/
Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson
“[T]he model of ‘liberal socialism’ developed in this study is not a fusion of liberalism and socialism, or a splitting of the difference between them. My purpose here, rather, is to defend the value of many of the principles historically associated with the liberal ideology, completely independent of that ideology as a package deal, and to advocate for their integration into any socialist model worthy of the name.” (07/10/26)
https://c4ss.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Liberal-Socialism.pdf
Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis
“Well, it’s plain to those who know history and the eternal truths which God established to guide and direct man on this earth. The short answer is, humans have largely ignored many of those eternal truths, and when they do, ‘whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap’. There are rules that lead to individual and national greatness, and there are rules that end in personal and collective destruction. No person or country follows either set of rules 100 percent, but whichever set a person/nation is primarily devoted to will determine his/its ultimate fate. That fate is not inevitable if the person/nation changes course, but that doesn’t currently appear to be imminent in America. And that is very sad to see.” (07/12/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/07/12/it-is-so-plain-what-is-wrong-with-america-today-n2679202
