Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Ryan McMaken

“One of the most memorable passages in the memoir of the escaped slave Frederick Douglass is where he describes how one group of slaves would argue with another group of slaves over whose master was richer or stronger. Exhibiting a mixture of Stockholm syndrome with delusions of grandeur, these slaves, according to Douglass, ‘seemed to think that the greatness of their masters was transferable to themselves.’ … Americans think themselves quite privileged to be dominated and exploited by the current American ruling oligarchy. Why? It is often because these victims of the regime judge their masters to be less awful than some other masters. But, not content with concluding one set of overlords to be merely less bad than another, these willing serfs then go a step further and attribute to their masters great virtue and kindness.” (09/24/25)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-government-so-loved-so-many

Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz

“Contrary to popular myth, women do not, as a rule, marry and then divorce men for material gain. Because women are not, as a rule, very stupid. You see, marriage benefits men more than women, on average. Finances are among the reasons this is true. Women don’t marry and then divorce for money because the average woman ends up poorer after divorce. … This is important context as Marjorie Taylor Greene is once again calling for a ‘national divorce.’ As is often the case with her, I’m not sure exactly what she’s proposing. But let’s assume she wants to see ‘red’ and ‘blue’ states become separate countries. If so, she should know that the blue states would be the husband and the red states would be the wife in this political split.” (09/24/25)

https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/does-mtg-know-shed-be-the-woman-in

Source: Washington Post
by George F Will

“Progressives today are mourning the fleeting (six-day) martyrdom of Jimmy Kimmel, archetype of today’s late-night sometime-comedians, all-the-time-propagandists. And some progressives, noticing how big government can throw its weight around by working levers of coercion, are perhaps having an epiphany: Actual conservatives sensibly warn that government has too much weight and too many levers. Perhaps progressives should have been more troubled when the Biden administration was throwing its weight around, using regulatory threats from the White House and federal agencies to pressure social media companies to censor what that administration called ‘covid misinformation.'” (09/24/25)

https://archive.is/2rz8N

Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal

“One of the main reasons I can’t be conservative or liberal — Right or Left, Republican or Democrat — is that all of them trust government to some degree. I don’t trust it because I can’t. They trust government with different issues; their specific degree of trust depends on which political party holds the most offices this week. I trust government with nothing — based on its actions, not its promises, and its perpetual failure to fulfill the bare minimum justification for government throughout history. Each political faction also has areas where they doubt government, but I distrust it entirely — especially in critical matters like life, death, ethics, or natural rights. Handing those to government was a mistake.” (09/24/25)

https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2025/09/24/voices/opinion-best-to-reject-politics-in-all-forms/231746.html

Source: The Realist Review
by Anatol Lieven

“If there are still historians in 100 years time, and if some of them still know Latin, then they may see Trump’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly as a key symbolic moment in the latest round of Translatio Imperii: the process whereby imperial rule and legitimacy passes from one state to another. In the present era, that means how global leadership, and the leading role in defining global norms, passes from the United States to China. … Generally in history, the Translatio Imperii has been accompanied and driven by great military catastrophes. With luck, this time that will not be necessary. If the Chinese leadership is sensible, after listening to Trump’s speech they will sit back, have some tea, continue quietly with their existing policies and watch the United States destroy its own empire.” (09/24/25)

https://therealistreview.substack.com/p/nero-at-the-united-nations