Source: Washington Post
by Kathleen Parker

“The guilty verdict Tuesday in the murder-by-proxy trial of a father whose son is accused of killing four people in a school shooting in Georgia sets a devastating and absurd precedent for imprisoning people for essentially being bad parents. Colin Gray, 55, was found guilty in a case involving his son Colt Gray’s alleged actions before the latter’s guilt has been determined.” (03/05/26)

https://archive.is/2SGue

Source: Liberal Currents
by Alan Elrod

“I’ve written in the past about how Hegseth’s vision of the American military is preoccupied with an ideal of the male form — one that’s a kind of modern mishmash of Spartan imagery and homoerotic fascist machismo. But that is only one facet of the Trumpian right’s fixation on the body. Another example is the now well-known phenomenon of Mar-A-Lago Face, wherein the women of the right doctor their appearances with filler, cosmetic surgeries, and absurd excesses of makeup. My colleague Samantha Hancox-Li has astutely observed that the prevalence of steroid use and plastic surgery on the right constitutes its own form of gender-affirming care in an era of reactionary fantasies. What matters here to me is that the body is the primary subject of Trumpian politics.” (03/05/26)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/pervert-politics-trumpisms-body-obsessions/

Source: The American Conservative
by Justin Logan

“aby Boomers should be remembered in domestic terms for enervating the U.S. economy with Total Boomer Luxury Communism. That generation vacuumed up current and future revenues to fund their luxe retirements, while young people struggle to find good jobs and homes while staring down a desolate future of debt and constraints. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy is very much a Boomer foreign policy, and in a similar sense. The second Trump administration has lit small fires across the world and let them burn, while accruing the costs of putting them out well into the future.” (03/05/26)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/small-fires-everywhere-the-wages-of-boomer-foreign-policy/

Source: Freedom and Flourishing
by Winton Bates

“This essay was prompted by my reading of John Passmore’s book, The Perfectibility of Man, which was first published in 1969. I read the book mainly because of James M. Buchanan’s suggestion that ‘it remains the most definitive work on the history of ideas’ relating to the extent to which classical liberalism depends on some presumption that man is perfectible.” (03/05/26)

https://www.freedomandflourishing.com/2026/03/does-human-perfectibility-pose-problem.html

Source: The Bulwark
by Jane Harman

“Congress is scrambling to insert itself into the debate over next steps in Iran. The Senate on Wednesday weighed opening up a debate about whether the conflict fits within the scope of the War Powers Act—a Vietnam-vintage law riddled with loopholes that would be unlikely to constrain this White House anyway. The House is likely to vote on similar measures. Although Congress was not included in the leadup to this conflict, many members in both chambers simply do not want to authorize this war for fear of ‘owning’ it if things go wrong. But there is a far more direct way for Congress to intervene and to show constituents it remains focused on the kitchen-table issues that decide elections: the power of the purse.” (03/05/26)

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/congress-can-control-trumps-iran-war