Source: CounterPunch
by John Feffer

“World War III will not start with an exchange of nuclear weapons. It won’t ignite from the jostling of great empires. Nor will it result from a single madman (or two) bent on taking over the world. It won’t be any of those things because World War III has already begun. The current global conflagration began not with the joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran. It began with the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. This blatant land grab was not only a massive war crime. Russian President Vladimir Putin also had another target in mind: the rules-based order.” (03/13/26)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/13/its-already-a-world-war/

Source: Independent Institute
by Phillip W Magness

“[F]or all its posturing as a conservative sea change, postliberal theory has more in common with Bush-era foreign policy than it cares to admit (as we are now seeing in Iran). The main intellectual link comes in the person of Carl Schmitt, an eccentric German legal theorist from the early 20th century. Once a leading conservative academic figure in the Weimar Republic, Schmitt fell into disrepute after 1933 when he joined the Nazi Party and wrote the legal justifications for Hitler’s seizure of power. Schmitt’s involvement with Nazism rightfully wrecked his postwar academic career, yet he managed to retain a stream of academic interlocutors who saw flashes of brilliance, or at least provocative insight, in his writings on constitutional theory.” (03/13/26)

https://www.independent.org/article/2026/03/13/the-nazi-philosopher-behind-the-postliberal-right/

Source: Law & Liberty
by Titus Techera

“For all its expensive artistry, Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein adaptation lacks the moral core that would make it a truly great film.” (03/13/26)

https://lawliberty.org/the-monster-and-the-critics/