Source: The American Conservative
by Jack Hunter
“This president and members of this Congress are openly and brazenly insulting Americans’ intelligence.” (03/02/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/on-the-iran-war-they-think-youre-stupid/
Source: New York Times
“Celebration and Mourning: Inside an Iran at War.” (03/02/26)
Source: The Reframe
by AR Moxon
“Reparation, rehabilitation, redemption, reconciliation, restoration. A necessary taxonomy of healing in an age of unnecessary conversations.” (03/01/26)
https://www.the-reframe.com/culture-of-healing/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter
Source: Interesting Engineering
“A German company has signed a deal to help build the first stellarator fusion power plant in Europe. Proxima Fusion has signed the agreement with the Free State of Bavaria, RWE, and Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) to put the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant on the grid in Europe. The company revealed that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed and it outlines a roadmap to commercial fusion in Europe that begins with building demonstration stellarator Alpha near the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching. … Proxima Fusion also revealed that when operational in the 2030s, Alpha will become the first stellarator to demonstrate net energy gain, meaning its plasma will generate more energy than it consumes.” (03/01/26)
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/world-first-commercial-fusion-power-plant-development
Source: We Are Libertarians
“Trump bombs Iran, AI and Social Media: Trust Is Moving Closer to Home.” (03/01/26)
https://www.chrisspangle.com/p/wal-trump-bombs-iran-ai-and-social
Source: Washington Post
by Megan McArdle
“If you’re in an industry ripe for disruption by artificial intelligence, thinking about what’s coming inspires strong emotions. Like panic. And outrage. If you’re a college-educated professional, the economy has worked well for you over the past few decades. As with anything that has lasted for a long time, this seems like the natural order of things — an entitlement, not chronological luck. … Now a machine might steal what you earned. This doesn’t just feel bad. It feels like a violation.” (03/01/26)
Source: Coyote Blog
by Warren Meyer
“The US is really good at getting rid of leaders like this, and if anything is getting better. I won’t go further back than my lifetime, but the Diem coup (and execution) in South Vietnam, the lukewarm (at best) support for the Shah of Iran that contributed to his ouster, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the Afghanistan invasion, Gaddafi in Libya, Maduro in Venezuela, Noriega in Panama — the list goes on. But in many or most of these cases, what followed the US-led decapitation was as bad or worse than what came before.” (03/01/26)
https://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2026/03/the-problem-in-iran.html
Source: New York Post
by Victor Davis Hanson
“How do destructive ideas and bouts of collective madness so quickly become policy, law, and the status quo? After all, most have little public support — and are not Western nations supposedly rationally governed? There is usually a multi-step process on the road to these self-destructive fits of society-wide insanity. The suicidal impulse so often begins with left-leaning researchers in elite universities (that is, the tenured in search of a novel, grant-getting theory). They begin insisting that a new existential threat requires immediate government intervention, novel legislation, ample funding and public awareness of the impending danger. So out of nowhere, the public is warned that the scorching planet will be inundated by rising seas in a mere decade.” (03/01/26)
Source: Fox News
“Both the Pennsylvania (Penn) State University College Republicans and College Democrats are speaking out after another flyer reading, ‘Dead ICE agents can’t kill,’ was found on campus, depicting the hanging of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. In a joint Saturday statement entitled, ‘PSU College Republicans and Democrats Condemn Continued ICE Death Threats on Campus,’ they said, ‘Earlier today, a member of the Penn State College Republicans discovered a second ‘Dead ICE Agents Can’t Kill’ flyer placed near the HUB-Robeson Center, which serves as a central part of daily life for students at Penn State.’ … Penn State University told Fox News Digital in a statement that it ‘condemns this and any calls for violence or attempts to frighten or intimidate [violent gang members]. We are aware of this image circulating online, and University Police and Public Safety is investigating.'” (03/02/26)
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Francis Fukuyama on Trump’s War With Iran.” (03/01/26)