Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff

“Countries that try to stay impartial in international disputes are having a tough go these days. That’s also true for countries that serve as trusted interlocutors or simply provide safe venues for adversaries to talk. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine along with U.S. President Donald Trump’s high tariffs on friendly nations and his war with Iran have forced a reckoning of the meaning of diplomatic or military neutrality. On Sunday, the country that epitomized neutrality for centuries, Switzerland, added some clarity to its identity as an icon of evenhandedness. In a referendum, more than two-thirds of Swiss voters rejected a proposal to enshrine ‘perpetual and armed neutrality’ in the country’s constitution.” (09/28/26)

https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0928/The-Swiss-take-a-stand-on-neutrality

Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan

“Debating immigration with an unusual gentleman.” (09/29/26)

https://www.betonit.ai/p/reflections-on-simon-hankinson

Source: Expression
by Jacob Gaba

“President Trump’s attempt to ban of CNN, MS Now, and Politico is his most direct attack on free speech.” (09/29/26)

https://expression.fire.org/p/censorship-has-no-place-in-the-peoples

Source: New York Post
by staff

“Bringing his socialist economic chops to fix New York City’s stagnant-to-sluggish jobs growth, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new solution is to hire more government employees. His always-busy press office and Maoist ‘mass engagement’ cadres announced Monday a new Jobs NYC Center, a ‘hub connecting New Yorkers to careers in public service’. Citywide unemployment as of August was 4.8%, about a fifth higher than the national average of 4.1%. Mamdani’s hate-the-rich, capitalism bad rhetoric hasn’t helped: Finance — which provides the tax revenue to fuel Gotham’s lavish social spending — has been reducing jobs in the city for long decades; these days job growth in financial services comes almost exclusively in lower-tax, business-friendly cities and states. In the last year, the city added a measly 27,600 jobs to its private-sector workforce of 4.2 million — nearly all of them home-health aide work, which is mostly funded by Medicaid.” (09/29/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/09/29/opinion/mamdanis-brilliant-economic-rx-more-government-jobs/

Source: Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman

“One iron law of current politics is that nobody who associates themselves with Donald Trump emerges with a shred of credibility. For some, that’s not a big loss — it’s not as if anyone respected Pete Hegseth even before he decided that the key to military success in an age of drones and AI was more testosterone. For others, however, the costs are real. I’m old enough to remember when Marco Rubio was widely considered a reasonable, thoughtful politician. Right now, however, my candidate for the biggest loser is Scott Bessent, the Secretary of the Treasury.” (09/29/26)

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-beclowning-of-scott-bessent

Source: Law & Liberty
by Timothy Fuller

“Steven B. Smith’s newest book shows that it may take the virtues of leaders like Lincoln to save the liberal order.” (09/29/26)

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-need-for-statesmanship/