Source: Exiled Policy
by Jason Pye

“One of my least favorite habits in American politics is watching people reach for the Bible to give moral authority to whatever economic views they already hold. Conservatives have spent decades talking about capitalism, private property, and limited government as though they fit naturally within a Christian worldview. Christian progressives do something similar from the other direction, pointing to the concerns Jesus of Nazareth had for the poor and his commands to love one’s neighbor as evidence for a much more redistributive economic order. I’ve never been particularly persuaded by either argument.” (09/14/26)

https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/jesus-of-nazareth-wasnt-a-socialist

Source: The Hill
by Austin Sarat

“Today, polls show that Americans are more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause than to Israel, a dramatic reversal in a short period of time. Demonstrating hostility to the Jewish state has also become a badge of honor among political progressives. … Boycotting Israel, whether on college campuses or elsewhere, is a bad idea in my view. It is not the way to change Israeli policy. … But as bad as the boycott movement is, U.S. House passage of the The Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act, by a 237-169 vote, was worse.” (09/14/26)

https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/6085347-bill-targets-campus-bds-boycotts/

Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis

“Everybody says they want freedom, but most people really don’t, mainly because they don’t know what true freedom is. And if they did, they would—and do — reject it. ‘Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom,’ Benjamin Franklin wrote, and most people don’t want to be virtuous. Which is why they prefer socialism. Homo sapiens, as a species, is a group of jungle savages who know very little about history, and especially do not understand historical perspective. In fact, when it comes to history, most humans are incredibly ignorant. Two hundred and fifty years — the life of the American Republic — when compared to the entire span of human history, is not a very long time. And we Americans look at our history very narrowly, and rarely see the whole panorama that history really is.” (09/14/26)

https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/09/14/why-people-prefer-socialism-to-capitalism-n2682900

Source: Washington Post
by US Senator John Curtis (R-UT)

“There is a clear link between economic freedom and standards of living, financial resources and personal health. The Taiwan I first visited as a missionary in 1979 is nothing like the country I returned to this year. I saw firsthand how market-oriented capitalism transformed a poor, agrarian country into an economic powerhouse. That is not an isolated example. None of the most prosperous countries in the world are socialist.” (09/14/26)

https://archive.is/cjulh

Source: Big Head Press

Cartoon. (09/14/26)

https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2605

Source: American Greatness
by Miguel Nunes Silva

“As the October election in Brazil approaches and is likely to pit, once again, a Lula vs. Bolsonaro matchup—this time with President Bolsonaro’s son Flávio running in his place—timing has never been better to hold accountable those in the U.S. who collaborated in the subversive campaign, both stateside and abroad, that would lead to President Bolsonaro’s political persecution and ultimately, incarceration, following the presidential election of 2022 in Brazil. It is in this context that President Trump’s measures to pressure the Brazilian government must be understood: as the unmaking of an injustice perpetrated by the U.S. Left, with Biden-era taxpayer instruments at its disposal. Amongst the trove of revelations that the second Trump administration has managed to expose since coming to office, those connected to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funding are some of the most shocking and insidious.” (09/14/26)

https://amgreatness.com/2026/09/14/how-the-biden-white-house-subverted-brazils-bolsonaro/