Source: Liberal Currents
by Peter Juul

“Democrats would rather not talk about national defense. It’s a rather remarkable place for the party and its wonks to find themselves today. Four years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine inaugurated the most intense period of conventional military conflict in living memory—and on the doorstep of America’s longest and, until President Trump’s return to the White House fifteen months ago, strongest alliance—Democrats and sympathetic commentators on the broad center-left in the United States still cannot bring themselves to think much about questions surrounding hard power and the use of force.” (04/14/26)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-must-learn-to-talk-about-national-defense/

Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz

“It is trivially easy, in the year of our Lord 2026, to do a terrorism. Terrorism has always been trivially easy. So why do the doomers keep talking about how scared they are that AI will make it easier to do terrorism? It being hard is not the limiting factor. It has never been the limiting factor. There’s a reason they keep bringing up, as an example, the Sarin poisoning in Matsumoto, Japan. It’s the only instance of random weirdos using anything approaching advanced technology to do a mass murder. The 9/11 hijackers used the incredibly complex and hard-to-use technology otherwise known as ‘box cutters.'” (04/14/26)

https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/what-ai-doomers-wont-say-about-terrorism

Source: The Daily Economy
by Stefan Bartle

“Tax bills are only the beginning. Borrowing and inflation also finance federal spending — in ways that are easier to ignore but harder to escape.” (04/14/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/taxing-borrowing-and-printing-three-ways-america-pays-for-government/

Source: Law & Liberty
by Paul D Miller

“Washington must define its endgame in Iran, both for itself and for the Iranian people.” (04/14/26)

https://lawliberty.org/whats-next-in-iran/

Source: Law & LIberty
by Brian A Smith

“In scholarly discussions of just war thought, nuclear weapons often serve as little more than terrifying symbols of injustice. Since 1945, many have argued that such weapons are incapable of being deployed in a just role, either in attacks or in a deterrent posture. These thinkers tend to view nukes as far too indiscriminate and entirely too prone to unleashing an escalatory spiral that none would survive. Such writers view nuclear weapons as intrinsically immoral, and there the discussion often ends. Realists tend to sidestep the moral challenge, shrug, and note that we live in an imperfect world—before moving on to what seems to them the real issues stemming from nuclear weapons: finding the right balance of ends, ways, and means for them in national security policy. But one need not embrace a more realistic view without rendering a moral account of these matters.” (04/14/26)

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-moral-case-for-nuclear-deterrence/