Source: The Bleeding Heart Libertarian
by Matt Zwolinski

‘In a recent piece for The Unpopulist, I argued that being anti-state isn’t the same thing as being pro-liberty, and that libertarians should put more weight on the latter. Today I want to follow up by looking at one way anti-statism can go wrong: when the urge to cut government outpaces a plan for how to do it. Suppose you think the state should be much smaller than it is. It doesn’t follow that any cut is good, or that we should just start hacking away with a chainsaw at a stack of programs. The details matter — and they’ve rarely been thought through. Libertarians, classical liberals, and conservatives have all made the case for a smaller state. But what we still lack is a theory of how to shrink it.” (08/08/25)

https://bleedingheartlibertarian.substack.com/p/how-not-to-shrink-the-state

Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter

“Democrats have been wetting themselves over the past week about the idea of Texas redistricting their Congressional seats like, well, Democrats have in the states they control. They can’t handle it; they won’t handle it. Honestly, I don’t care. As Democrats flee Texas like roaches when the light is flipped on, let them destroy it all. We had a good run, right? There comes a time when it is simply no longer worth it, doesn’t there? I mean, 249 years is a pretty good run for a republic. They’re usually destroyed by leftists looking to do things with government power long before now. We had a good run. My favorite part of the week is these leftist Democrat Governors coming out and saying how they’re going to consider gerrymandering their states beyond where they are, when doing so would be impossible.” (08/10/25)

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/08/10/well-249-years-was-a-pretty-good-run-n2661618

Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders

“Let’s give John Maynard Keynes his due: maybe he wasn’t wrong about everything. His vision for a global currency called bancor, which he proposed at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference, might have been a masterstroke. But it was thwarted by a rising hegemon. Envisioned as a neutral, supranational currency tied to a basket of stable commodities, the bancor aimed to stabilize global trade and curb economic imbalances. With the rise of BRICS, the dollar’s decline, and moving geopolitical fault lines, reviving this idea — but reimagined with distributed ledgers — could deliver a more resilient financial system.” (08/08/25)

https://underthrow.substack.com/p/keynes-wasnt-wrong-about-everything

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Rachel Chiu

“The federal government has financed public broadcasting for decades. Over that time, Republicans argue, this broadcasting has become increasingly biased. Taxpayers, they claim, should not be forced to fund media outlets that they disagree with. They are right — the federal government does not need to be in the news business. Subsidies shouldn’t be keeping entire segments of an industry afloat, and the argument that local newsrooms need a lifeline has been used repeatedly to justify a profusion of preferential treatment, including antitrust exemptions that would enable news companies to cartelize. If this news subsidy ever served a useful purpose, it has long outlived it, especially given the evolution of media. ” (08/08/25)

https://fee.org/articles/do-americans-still-need-public-media/