Source: USA Today
by Cristine Soto DeBerry and Greg Srolestar

“In the spring of 2020, the nation was roiled by protests as people reacted to disturbing video footage showing Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kill George Floyd, a Black man he arrested and subdued who posed no plausible danger to him or anyone else. … Some of the calls for changes in 2020 went beyond what most Americans were ready to accept. It’s understandable how a call to ‘defund the police’ was easily turned into a political weapon, especially as crime increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. But in the years since, we’ve seen a growing backlash to any change to policing … This lack of effective accountability is particularly troubling as police killings remain stubbornly high, with most data showing more than 1,000 people killed by officers each year. According to Mapping Police Violence, there were just six days in 2025 when police did not kill someone.” (09/07/26)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2026/09/07/police-reform-ice-killings-floyd-woke/91406489007/

Source: ProSocial Libertarians
by Anrew Jason Cohen

“Education is important. Some believe we must provide education to maintain the society we live in. Without education, after all, we would not have the doctors and teachers, etc. (many would say, politicians, police officers, and lawyers; see this post), that are needed to make society work. This seems right. We do need a system that provides doctors, teachers, and more. But that says nothing about the sort of educational system we ought to have. In my last post, I laid out my view of an ideal college. It is, unsurprisingly, very different from what we now have.” (09/07/26)

https://prosociallibertarians.substack.com/p/more-on-the-proper-role-of-college

Source: Town Hall
by Armstrong Williams

“Labor Day arrives each year as summer begins to loosen its grip. Families gather, grills are lit, and millions of Americans enjoy a well-earned day of rest. Yet the holiday should mean more than a long weekend. It should remind us of the dignity of work, the sacrifices of those who built this nation, and our obligation to ensure that honest labor still leads to opportunity. America was not built by government alone, nor by the celebrated names recorded in history books. It was built by farmers who rose before sunrise, factory workers who stood for hours beside assembly lines, miners who descended into darkness, teachers who opened young minds, and entrepreneurs who risked everything they owned on an idea. It is sustained today by nurses, truck drivers, mechanics, police officers, firefighters, sanitation workers, construction crews, caregivers and countless others whose names will never become famous.” (09/07/26)

https://townhall.com/columnists/armstrongwilliams/2026/09/07/labor-day-and-the-dignity-of-work-n2682585

Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid

“What is so fucking sacred about the nuclear fucking family? This is a totally modern construct devoid of anything even remotely resembling traditional family values. The notion of family as two married adults with two children in one house in the suburbs is actually a violent and relatively recent break from thousands of years of multi-generational village life in which small, tight knit, rural communities raised their children collectively. In fact, the nuclear family as we currently understand it is largely a construct of early twentieth century progressive academia who saw suburbia as the model for a carefully planned society built on the backs of economically efficient prisoners, with the nuclear family serving largely as the perfect means to organize each three-bedroom jail cell.” (09/06/26)

https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-nuclear-family-is-weapon-of-mass.html

Source: Law & Liberty
by Stuart N Brotman

“American free expression doctrine is younger and thinner than we think. An older legal tradition solved problems we are still arguing about.” (09/04/26)

https://lawliberty.org/the-argument-we-forgot-how-to-have/

Source: Washington Post
by Jason Willick

“The Hugging Face episode highlights the mischief that could await as powerful AI agents start to populate the internet. Their owners might give them innocent tasks that unintentionally prompt them to ingeniously hack, steal and sabotage as they doggedly pursue a technical outcome the owner desires. The horror movie plots write themselves. But for all the alarm this specter generates, there’s also a reassuring angle. … what becomes of another predictive claim made by AI ‘doomers’: that AI agents will render human beings obsolete across large swaths of the economy? If AI proves to have an irreducibly genie-like quality — at least when performing highly technical tasks — then that would undercut its ability to adequately replace human labor.” (09/06/26)

https://archive.is/ISUC7

Source: Inequality.org
by AJ Schumann

“A familiar spectre is haunting the nation: communism. Or so one might conclude from the Republican Party’s increasingly frantic rhetoric. Following a string of wins by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in congressional primaries from New York to Colorado to Michigan, even reaching as far as Florida, the GOP is dusting off an old refrain. ‘Communism is on the ballot this November,’ warned House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) at a press conference. President Donald Trump has gone further still, calling communism ‘the biggest threat to our nation there is, maybe since our founding.’ At first glance, this reads like little more than election-year theatrics. The candidates provoking such alarm are, on the whole, hardly the revolutionaries their critics imagine. Many of the policies promoted by today’s Democratic Socialists fall comfortably within the lineage of the New Deal …” (09/07/26)

https://inequality.org/article/the-new-red-scare-is-a-desperate-smoke-screen/