Source: Libertarian Institute
by Alan Mosley

“The Enlightenment produced many innovators, but few have left a legacy as contentious and influential as John Locke. Born in Wrington, Somerset on August 29, 1632, Locke wrote the political treatises that shaped England’s Glorious Revolution and later guided the American Revolution. Libertarians still appeal to Locke when debating self‑ownership, property rights, consent, and the scope of government. To celebrate his birthday tomorrow, let’s trace how Locke’s writings help to lay the groundwork for American libertarianism.” (08/28/25)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/john-locke-and-the-libertarian-tradition

Source: The Daily Economy
by Peter C Earle

“In contentious political environments, economic data rarely stand as objective measures. They are transformed into talking points and wielded to justify policies as much as to describe reality. A monthly jobs report, a quarterly GDP release, or an inflation figure splashed across financial headlines is treated with the solemnity of a laboratory result. Markets react, central bankers pontificate, and legislators posture — all on the basis of a handful of daunting numbers. Yet beneath the veneer of rigor lies a reality that economists have long known but the public too rarely hears: economic measurement is messy, contingent, and riven with flaws.” (08/28/25)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/economic-measurement-and-the-mirage-of-exactness/

Source: Law & Liberty
by Matthew J Franck

“The guilty secret among students of American politics is that many of them — perhaps most — have not read The Federalist in its entirety. They may have been introduced to ‘Publius,’ the nom de plume of Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, early in their studies, as undergraduates or even in high school. But the demands on the time and attention of both teachers and students to ‘cover’ many things typically meant that only the ‘greatest hits’ of the eighty-five essays were assigned and discussed. Sometimes the authors of introductory textbooks on American government will include pivotal essays such as No. 10 and No. 51 in an appendix, and editors of anthologies of primary sources may include as many as eight or ten numbers of The Federalist. The work is sampled more often than read as a coherent unity.” (08/28/25)

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-shape-of-publius/

Source: Truthdig
by Bill Blum

“With the midterms more than a year away, US President Donald Trump and his enablers have launched a new war on voting rights. Its immediate target is November 2026; its ultimate goal is the institutionalization of one-party control of the federal government. This political ‘final solution’ is the last step in MAGA’s quest to extinguish liberal democracy in America. The war is being fought along legal and political fronts that stretch across the marble halls of the Supreme Court, Trump’s executive orders, Steve Bannon’s seedy podcast, the transformation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into a latter-day Praetorian Guard, and threats to invoke the Insurrection Act. When it comes to voting rights, no single institution has been more destructive than the nation’s top judicial body under the hypocritical leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts.” [editor’s note: And this would be different from repeated (now proven) efforts by Dems to fix elections forever, exactly how? – SAT] (08/28/25)

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/rigging-the-midterms-is-just-the-beginning/