Source: Libertarian Institute
by Joseph Solis-Mullen

“In recent years, critics on both sides of the aisle have taken aim at the longstanding policy of strategic ambiguity toward Taiwan. They argue that Washington should abandon ambiguity and embrace ‘strategic clarity,’ explicitly pledging to fight China over Taiwan. Others, such as Hoover Institute Fellow Eyck Freymann, have offered more sophisticated sounding alternatives like ‘structured ambiguity,’ attempting to codify precisely what America would and would not do in various contingencies, particularly involving gray zone activities. But abandoning a long-established policy that, whatever its faults, has prevented a major war between great powers for over half a century, in favor of a new policy, would be a serious mistake.” (06/18/26)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/strategic-ambiguity-if-we-must/

Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander

“In 1917, three children in Fatima, Portugal claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary. They promised she would perform a miracle on a certain day in October. Nearly 100,000 pilgrims arrived, hoping to see whatever happened, and nearly all report that the sun turned pale, changed color, and spun around. Many other writers have investigated the children and their visions, but I was fixated on this sun miracle. … One of the first things I found was that there were many other sun miracles – at least ten! – similar to Fatima.” (06/18/26)

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/waiting-for-the-miracle

Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison

“Vance is trying to spin U.S.-Israeli aggression as having been successful in delivering something that it absolutely did not deliver.” (06/18/26)

https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/vances-dishonest-diplomatic-spin

Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey

“Don’t be fooled by campaign rhetoric. Here is how to evaluate voting records and hold Florida candidates accountable this election cycle.” (06/17/26)

https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/the-voters-audit-how-to-spot-a-true

Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine

“‘I’m the boss,’ President Trump joked when he arrived a bit late to a meeting with G7 leaders in France Wednesday. He is. That’s what his detractors forget. America is ‘the boss’ again, the colossus. Iran doesn’t bully us. Israel doesn’t instruct us. Europe can sneer at Donald Trump all it likes, but it’s a supplicant. China respects us. Canada bows. Trump understands power, and it rests easy on his shoulders. He joked about it at the G7 in his relaxed American fashion, and European leaders now get it. They laughed along, but they understood. By the time he had emerged from a glittering dinner at Versailles to fly home, he had signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran that has the great and the good worked up into a symphony of hysterical catastrophizing.” [editor’s note: It’s sometimes hard to discern what percentages of Devine’s brain are “clueless” vs. “crazy,” but the total of other percentages is zero – TLK] (06/17/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/06/17/opinion/miranda-devine-trump-is-showing-the-world-g7-leaders-whos-the-boss-and-deserves-respect-for-his-deal-making/