Source: Quillette
by Ron Capshaw

“William F. Buckley once observed that, without the powerful apparatus of the state at his disposal, Adolf Hitler would have been merely a ‘street corner racist.’ In this excellent and wonderfully compact book, historian William Nester makes the similar observation that Joseph Stalin would have been little more than a sadistic village bandit without the might of the communist dictatorship at his command.” (10/25/25)

https://quillette.com/2025/10/25/a-self-created-tyrant-joseph-stalin-art-of-tyranny-william-nester-review/

Source: Fox News
by Howard Husock

“The most consequential Supreme Court case involving race in the current session centers on whether Louisiana must, per the Voting Rights Act, have not one, but two, majority Black congressional districts. Progressives fighting a challenge to the current congressional district map — which includes two such districts — are already crying foul, as oral argument seemed to indicate that a majority of the justices are inclined to bar consideration of race in drawing district lines — much as they barred Harvard from considering race in its admissions decisions. For progressives, such a change would, as Politico put it, ‘gut’ the Voting Rights Act, which ended Jim Crow’s outright disenfranchisement, through such means as poll taxes and literacy tests. But, there’s another goal which once commanded liberal support that drawing Black majority districts contravenes: residential racial integration.” (10/24/25)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/supreme-court-case-exposes-liberal-contradictions-race-segregation

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Joel Salatin

“Question: What does a business do when nobody wants its product or services? Answer: It asks for the federal government to bail it out and pay for a product nobody wants. If this sounds silly to you, consider what’s going on with America’s soybean farmers who lost a quarter of their market when China decided to switch sourcing to Brazil and Argentina in the last couple of months. As a farmer myself, my heart breaks for the plummeting prices and the prospect of losing $200 per acre on the 2025 crop. But on the other side of my breaking heart is a desire to hear any soybean farmer say, ‘I’m going to grow something profitable.’ … What kind of economic gymnastics makes soybean farmers think they deserve taxpayer subsidies for a commodity in oversupply?” (10/25/25)

https://brownstone.org/articles/dont-bail-out-soybeans/

Source: Foreign Policy In Focus
by John Feffer

“The Trump administration aspires to deport a million people in its first year of office. The president has also spoken of the more ambitious goal of deporting 15-20 million undocumented people overall, even if that category probably covers only 14 million folks. The discrepancy of a couple million people shouldn’t bother President Donald Trump. He’s happy to deport those with green cards, H-1B visas, and even American citizens. Deporting a million people in a year is a heavy lift. The previous record, 409,849 people, was during the Obama administration, as part of the 1.5 million deportations he conducted in his first term. Trump, no doubt, wants to best Barack Obama in this category, since he’s determined to outshine the former president in every respect, even the dubious ones.” (10/25/25)

https://fpif.org/americas-disappeared/