Source: Law & Liberty
by Daniel M Rothschild

“The history of the twentieth century is, in large part, the story of competing totalitarian ideas put into practice, and the destruction, immiseration, and death they produced. … A quarter of the way into the twenty-first century, the difference between then and now could not be more stark. While ours is a moment racked by popular discontent, the diminution and desecration of formal and informal institutions (often at the hands of these institutions’ ostensible leaders), and a significant increase in the breadth of ideas in circulation, there has been very little in the way of legitimately new ideas this century, either at the level of ideology or public policy. Indeed, most of the bad ideas in circulation today are old bad ideas, not new bad ideas.” (12/03/25)

https://lawliberty.org/our-ism-less-quarter-century/

Source: The Daily Economy
by Michael Munger

“Platforms make on-demand access a real alternative to ownership, by reducing the three core transaction costs of sharing with strangers.” (12/03/25)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/what-uber-and-airbnb-really-sell-sharing-with-transaction-costs-slashed/

Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson

“Trump’s cynical abuse of the pardon power to reward allies or simply to enrich himself and his family is obviously corrupt, which is hardly news. But as Lord Acton knew, absolute power does not corrupt only those who wield it: It ‘corrupts absolutely’ those who are adjacent to it, who are servants of that power. It is difficult to imagine that figures such as Pete Hegseth would be doing what they are doing … without the promise of a pardon should it come to that. … Congress lately cannot manage to perform even its most basic functions, and so this is not exactly a ripe time for a constitutional amendment. But we should begin the work of converting the president’s unilateral pardon power into something less corrupting, for example by requiring that pardons be ratified by a two-thirds majority vote in the Senate — even a simple majority would be an improvement.” (12/03/25)

https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-pardon-cocaine-honduras-hegseth-congress/

Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“President Trump has been holding talks with top advisors this week regarding potential US attacks on Venezuela in order to bring about regime change in yet another oil-rich nation. As the western political/media class frames Venezuela’s President Maduro as a ‘dictator’ who must urgently be removed from power, it is worth noting that any US military operation to remove him would be taking place directly against the will of the American public. A recent CBS News poll found that seventy percent of Americans ‘would oppose’ the US taking military action against Venezuela. So here we have the president of a nation which calls itself a democracy, holding meetings to plan military operations which are completely and unambiguously against the wishes of the electorate, in the name of removing a dictator and spreading freedom and democracy. Interesting.” (12/03/25)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/12/03/worlds-most-tyrannical-government-wants-to-free-venezuela-from-tyranny/

Source: The Realist Review
by James W Carden

“Who are the Good and Bad guys again?” (12/03/25)

https://therealistreview.substack.com/p/a-thought-experiment-for-pro-war