Source: Niskanen Center
by Rachel Levine

“America’s electric grid is facing a perfect storm: surging demand from data centers, cryptocurrency miners, and re-shored manufacturing is colliding with multi-year delays in connecting new energy projects. The pressure on operators and lawmakers to act is intense, but so is the need to preserve open access — the regulation that has protected energy market competition for nearly three decades by ensuring all projects compete on equal footing for scarce transmission capacity. However, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s recent authorization of regional plans to green-light certain energy generation resources risks undermining this cornerstone policy. Speed and fairness don’t have to be at odds, and states are proving it. Their solutions embrace planning flexibility and high-tech problem solving, offering a model for the nation.” (08/07/25)

https://www.niskanencenter.org/rising-energy-demands-and-the-threat-to-open-access-a-call-for-market-based-solutions/

Source: EconLog
by Marcos Falcone

“When we communicate with one another, how we say things can sometimes be as important as what we actually say. Words matter, which is even more true when we exchange ideas and try to convince others to embrace our viewpoints. Ideological rhetoric, then, merits some thought on the part of libertarians. Of course, libertarians uphold first and foremost the idea of expanding individual liberty. We want people to be free. But most of the time, non-libertarians say something like this: ‘Well, who doesn’t want freedom? The problem is that freedom can create inequality.’ When this happens, the discussion comes dangerously close to an end: It does not matter that we contextualize such a statement or that we contest it. The urge for some sort of equality, whatever it means, seems unavoidable.” (08/06/25)

https://www.econlib.org/equality-before-the-law-equality-of-permission-and-the-language-of-libertarianism/

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Brooke Miller

“As stewards of the land and providers of our nation’s food supply, farmers and ranchers carry a profound moral obligation — to produce the safest, healthiest, and most nutritious food on the planet. It is not just our livelihood; it is our responsibility to future generations. That is why I am writing today with deep concern regarding the Pesticide Liability Protection Act currently under consideration in Congress. If enacted, this legislation could cause irreparable harm — not just to the health of farmers and ranchers who work directly with these chemicals, but to the broader public who unknowingly consume their residues.” (08/06/25)

https://brownstone.org/articles/why-the-pesticide-liability-protection-act-threatens-our-food-supply-and-the-health-of-a-nation/

Source: Persuasion
by Jonathan Rauch

“[James] Lindsay is among a growing number of scholars and intellectual historians talking about what they call the ‘woke right.’ The notion is not that the far left and far right share the same politics or goals. Rather, it is that the far right has adopted, partially on purpose but mostly through osmosis and convergent evolution, claims and strategies that parallel the far left’s. The MAGA right has strange and sinister qualities which look nothing like the traditional, religious wing of conservatism familiar from the era of William F. Buckley, or the anti-government, libertarian conservatism of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. Its anarchic rejection of truth, its Nietzschean embrace of power as self-justifying, its unashamed anti-liberalism, and its glee in transgressing boundaries and giving offense are something new on the right: an embrace of postmodernism, which until recently was the exclusive property of the illiberal left.” (08/06/25)

https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-woke-right-stands-at-the-door

Source: Reason
by Elizabeth Nolan Brown

“The measure is putting up roadblocks for people who want to read about world news, listen to music on Spotify, chat on Discord, play video games, find information about quitting smoking, or join antimasturbation groups.” (08/06/25)

https://reason.com/2025/08/06/10-examples-of-absurd-fallout-from-the-u-k-s-online-safety-act/