Source: Foreign Policy In Focus
by Elena Gutiérrez

“Since January 2026, when the intensification of US policies aimed at suffocating the Cuban people began, I have had the opportunity to travel to the island three times. Each time I return with my heart a little more broken, but also with a stronger conviction that we need to defend Cuba. As a Mexican, I have received, on behalf of my compatriots, thousands of expressions of gratitude and hugs that the Cuban people send to the Mexican people. Every time I am there, I speak about the empathy and understanding we have toward Cuba, about the great efforts ordinary Mexicans make to bring a few kilos of rice to collection centers. And when I listen to Cubans, I learn a little more about the deep history that unites us.” (06/11/26)

https://fpif.org/the-u-s-is-preparing-an-assault-on-cuba-it-should-learn-from-cuba-instead/

Source: Washington Monthly
by Matthew Cooper

“Nicholas Lemann’s family history illuminates what it means to be Jewish in America and explains how we choose our religious and ethnic identities.” (06/11/26)

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/11/the-return-of-the-native/

Source: The Daily Economy
by Marcus M Witcher

“George Selgin’s ‘False Dawn’ empirically demolishes the claim that Franklin Roosevelt pursued a Keynesian recovery strategy.” (06/11/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/did-new-deal-spending-end-the-great-depression/

Source: Law & Liberty
by Ayla McBreen

“ow worried should we be about civil-military relations?” (06/11/26)

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/when-statesmen-command-soldiers/

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson

“In a recent article, I agreed with Justice Clarence Thomas that progressivism did (and still does) much damage to our body politic and our society. Obviously, the so-called intelligentsia in academe, politics, and the media didn’t agree. What really set off the critics, however, was Thomas’s claim that progressivism had helped pave the way for Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. Hitler, of course, is universally hated while both Stalin and Mao — despite their mass murdering — were roundly praised by the western intellectuals and journalists. … [E]was not a minor point of progressive thinking and held only by a small minority at that. Instead, eugenics as promoted by American progressives was an important part of their entire belief system, which held to the supremacy of ‘science,’ as opposed to governance by mere passions.” (06/11/26)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-american-progressives-influenced-hitler

Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander

“AI has gone from ‘dumber than a child’ to ‘expert level’ in a few years in many domains. The gap between ‘expert level’ and ‘above top geniuses’ is smaller, so we expect it to take less time. This has been a pattern in fields like chess and Go, where it’s only a been a few years from beating professional players at all to beating all humans.” (06/11/26)

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/my-ai-opinions

Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul McDonnold

“From goblin banks to unbreakable galleons, the wizarding world of Harry Potter reflects a form of folk economics that clashes with the realities of prosperity and growth.” (06/11/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-economic-misconceptions/