Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz

“Basically, I’m opposed to AI regulations because I agree with the public that we can’t trust our government. Voters expect our elected representatives from both parties to pass regulations that benefit current power players while hurting everyone else. So why let them loose on AI? If people want us to trust our government to regulate AI, they need to fix this problem or explain to us why we’re wrong to believe it’s a problem.” (12/18/25)

https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/ai-regulation-stans-should-fix-corporatism

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Denise Lever

“My first career was not in education; for me, it began on the fireline. As a young woman fighting wildland fires, I quickly learned that courage, clarity under pressure, and teamwork could mean the difference between containment and catastrophe. I was trained to work with confidence while structures were consumed and wildlands burned around me. That experience shaped my conviction that the people closest to the problem are often the best equipped to act. It also showed me how systems sometimes fail to support individuals who don’t quite fit the mold. This realization became the catalyst for the work I do today.” (12/18/25)

https://fee.org/articles/from-the-fireline-to-the-frontline-of-education-freedom/

Source: Cobden Centre
by Damien Phillips

“For those of us who think central banks are a destabilising blight on the economy, responsible for encouraging malinvestment and engines of inflation, it’s tempting to lump them all into the same boat. But just as in George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm,’ ‘All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.’ This is particularly apparent when it comes to keeping inflation down. Putting aside the inherent problems with inflation targeting, price stability is typically the primary objective for most modern central banks. But as the UK endures a further round of above-target inflation at 3.8% for yet another gruelling month, when you pit the Bank of England against its contemporaries around the world it has a terrible track record that goes beyond the basic problem of knowledge that faces all central banks.” (12/18/25)

https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/12/not-all-central-banks-are-created-equal/

Source: TomDispatch
by Robert Lipsyte

“In the year I was born, 1938, the White Christian males who ruled the sports world considered their various games and pastimes as definers of righteousness, crucibles of character, and a preparation for dominance in business and war. Anyone who played but didn’t look like them was an interloper, clearly operating with some kind of performance enhancers. That was made clear in a book published that very year by one of the premier sportswriters of his time, Paul Gallico. … he declaimed that the ‘colored brother’ was so good at boxing because he ‘is not nearly so sensible to pain as his White brother.’ … ; that New York Yankee slugger Babe Ruth, ‘like all people who spring from what we call low origins … never had any inhibitions’; and that the reason basketball ‘appeals to the Hebrew … is that the game places a premium on an alert, scheming mind and flashy trickiness, artful dodging, and general smart aleckness.'” (12/18/25)

https://tomdispatch.com/a-farewell-to-sports/