Source: Liberal Currents
by Kathleen Frydl

“Following decades of unprecedented expansion in security, detention, and surveillance, the United States government’s competence in militancy and punishment is now so dominant that it threatens to eclipse its other activities and ambitions. We are close to a point when, regardless of who is elected, the government will function like a hammer and every problem will look like a nail. As a result, at this critical juncture, opposition to the Trump administration will have to decide whether to offer a strategic vision for the direction of the American state, or cast their movement as an objection to just one person, a particular agency, or a certain issue viewed in isolation and presented as aberrational.” (04/11/26)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-security-leviathan/

Source: spiked

“The American empire is arrogant, brutal and yet completely indispensable to Western civilisation.” (04/11/26)

https://archive.is/mGbX6

Source: Reason
by Jack Nicastro

“As lawmakers of both major parties hustle to regulate their preferred villains, they’re losing sight of the big picture. The possible gains to humanity from AI are enormous.” (for publication 05/26)

https://reason.com/2026/04/11/democrats-and-republicans-both-want-to-regulate-ai-they-just-cant-agree-on-how/

Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff

“Even as the European Union works to bolster economic and defense support for Ukraine, the continent is confronting increasing Russian aggression on a different battlefield: the online frontier. Over the past year, the Kremlin has intensified its disinformation campaigns in an attempt to weaken Europe’s democratic pillars of truth and civic trust. As the main target of these intensified attacks, France is at the forefront of efforts to document and debunk these claims. ‘The more outspoken France has become about Russia, the more it is targeted,’ The Economist reported April 8. It documented multiple instances in which false claims on social media were launched almost immediately after French President Emmanuel Macron expressed support for Ukraine or European rearmament.” (04/10/26)

https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0410/Where-wit-and-wisdom-disarm-disinformation

Source: Brownstone Institute
by David Thunder

“The campaign against jury trials, one of the most free-spirited and universally lauded institutions bequeathed to us by the common law tradition, would be baffling in a healthy constitutional regime. But sadly, it is predictable enough in a regime whose political leaders have developed the habit of tinkering with civil liberties as though they were trimming their lawn.” (04/11/26)

https://brownstone.org/articles/jury-trials-are-vital-to-the-constitutional-order/

Source: The American Conservative
by Jack Hunter

“The neoconservative talk host tried to normalize the use of nuclear weapons and now appears irate that the president hasn’t taken his advice.” (04/11/26)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/mark-levin-seems-upset-we-havent-nuked-iran/