Source: Project Liberal
by Oliver Gale

“President Donald J Trump spent the better part of a decade telling the world that Barack Obama’s (among many others) Iran deal was the worst agreement in American diplomatic history. Iran’s nuclear program reached its most advanced state ever. He launched a war that killed thousands, shut off a fifth of the world’s oil supply, and ended with a ceasefire built on terms that are, by every objective measure, more generous to Tehran than anything Obama or the EU secured. This is how that happened, and what the legal wreckage left behind tells us about the remaining integrity of the rules-based international order.” (06/03/26)

https://projectliberal.substack.com/p/how-we-ended-up-here-a-post-mortem

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Joe Kent

“We cannot outsource components of our national security to nations that do not share our interests and that is exactly what this proposed scheme would do.” (06/03/26)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-israel-integration/

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Mike Brownfield

“For more than two decades, Flying Goat founders Norm Yost and Kate Griffith have built their family-owned winery into one of the region’s most innovative and celebrated producers—pursuing their own vision of what their winery should be along the way. But last year, county officials and the leaders of the local vintners’ association decided that they know what’s best for Flying Goat. In February 2025, the board created a wine ‘Business Improvement District,’ or Wine BID, requiring all local wineries to pay a 1% assessment on sales to fund regional marketing efforts. The ordinance also forces wineries to become members of the Santa Barbara County Vintners’ Association, which controls how the money is spent. … The problem is, Norm and Kate don’t want anything to do with the Wine BID because they don’t agree with its marketing or lobbying activities — including paying for overseas trips for its leaders.” (06/03/26)

https://fee.org/articles/winery-sues-santa-barbara-over-unconstitutional-mandate/

Source: Students For Liberty
by Les Affranchis

“There is a particular intellectual posture that has become distinctly fashionable at the edges of the liberty movement. It goes roughly like this: a public figure makes a contested empirical claim. Experts in the relevant field find the claim unsupported by the available evidence and say so. The figure, rather than producing better evidence, reframes the disagreement as persecution and blames ‘the establishment’ for it. Sympathetic bystanders, some of them part of the pro-liberty movement, often rally to the outsiders’ defense, not because they sincerely agree with the underlying evidence, but because they see an outsider being criticized ‘by the establishment.’ The liberty tradition, they argue, must side with the outsider, regardless of evidence. Such reasoning is unpersuasive and it may come at a reputational cost for the pro-liberty movement.” (06/03/26)

https://studentsforliberty.org/blog/the-freedom-to-question-requires-the-duty-to-prove/