Libertarian Reporting for 2026-05-18
Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources.
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TweetScott Lincicome ably defends GDP as a meaningful measure of economic performance. A slice: As I’ve written before, GDP has real methodological quirks. It’s basically a clunky aggregation of sever...
Cafe Hayek
May 17, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Archives: The Best of Brian Doherty
The June 2026 issue's archives are dedicated to longtime Reason editor Brian Doherty, who died in March.
Reason.com
May 17, 2026 - reason.com
Ironies in Old Dominion
The Virginia Supreme Court’s strike down of the redistricting referendum was a quaking decision that muddied partisanship, ideology, and X discourse. The post Ironies in Old Dominion appeared first on...
Free the People
May 17, 2026 - freethepeople.org
Trade Taxes and the Laffer Curve
Trade taxes are bad for the economy (see here, here, and here). But that’s hardly a shocking revelation. That’s the nature of taxation (personal income taxes also are bad for the economy, as are corpo...
International Liberty
May 17, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
Trump: US Taking Over Cuba On the Way Back from Iran – Full Episode – LN Radio
On this edition of Liberty Nation Radio, the United Kingdom’s King Charles III visits the nation’s Capitol ahead of America’s 250th anniversary. The monarch gets a standing ovation from the NO KINGS p...
Main Feed
May 17, 2026 - libertynation.com
Today in Supreme Court History: May 17, 1954
5/17/1954: Brown v. Board of Education and Bolling v. Sharpe are decided. The post Today in Supreme Court History: May 17, 1954 appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason.com
May 17, 2026 - reason.com
Trade and National Security
TweetThis past Wednesday evening I talked with AIER’s Paul Mueller – a GMU Econ alum – about trade and national security. The post Trade and National Security appeared first on Cafe Hayek.
Cafe Hayek
May 17, 2026 - cafehayek.com
The Thucydides Trap Sprung by Default: Trump in Beijing and the Welcome Eclipse of a Malignant American Empire
I’ll defer to Bryan Mercadente and Sebastian Wang on the details. But you don’t need to be a student of classical history to recognize the irony when a Chinese leader invokes the Thucydides Trap befo...
The Libertarian Alliance
May 17, 2026 - libertarianism.uk
Josh Hawley's Pro-Union Bill Would Let Washington Write Your Contract
The GOP wants to be the party of labor. The Faster Labor Contracts Act isn't the way to do that.
Reason.com
May 16, 2026 - reason.com
The Anarchists Who Thought Mao Was on Their Side
As the Cultural Revolution turns 60, here's a look back at some of the fantasies that people projected onto it—and at one moment of possible prescience.
Reason.com
May 16, 2026 - reason.com
Stewart Brand on Fixing Stuff, Modern Environmentalism, and the Nuclear Future
"There's always a place in not just the market, but a range of situations and mindsets, for things that are cheap, fast, and just barely in control," the Whole Earth Catalog creator tells Reason.
Reason.com
May 16, 2026 - reason.com
They Don’t Deserve the Benefit of the Doubt
TweetHere’s a letter to a new correspondent. Mr. H__: Thanks for your email. You write, in response to this post of mine, that I am “too quick at second guessing the president and his administration o...
Cafe Hayek
May 16, 2026 - cafehayek.com
DHP Ep. 286: Ep. 0286: Braving This Dystopian Timeline (w/Matt Carano)
Good news — things have finally stabilized for CJ & his family, & he has finally fully recovered from the illnesses that caused him to be hospitalized in March! He’s now back at the podcasting game fu...
The Libertarian Institute
May 16, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Trump Calls China Summit a Great Success
Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping agree: Opening the Strait of Hormuz and keeping Iran nuke free is in the best interest of the US and China alike.
Main Feed
May 16, 2026 - libertynation.com
The (Amusingly) Destructive Economics of Wealth Taxation
I’ve shared several columns (here, here, here, here, and here) reviewing scholarly research on the harmful economic impact of wealth taxation. From now on, however, I think I’ll simply share this clev...
International Liberty
May 16, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
Today in Supreme Court History: May 16, 1918
5/16/1918: The Sedition Act of 1918 is enacted. The Supreme Court upheld prosecutions brought under this law in Schenck, Debs, and Abrams. The post Today in Supreme Court History: May 16, 1918 appeare...
Reason.com
May 16, 2026 - reason.com
Predicting Recession
The Shiller CAPE ratio has only been higher once in 150 years. The Buffett indicator is 2.5 standard deviations above trend. 40% of the S&P 500 is in just ten stocks. Wall Street sees nothing wron...
Mises Institute
May 16, 2026 - mises.org
These Politicians Want To Tax the Rich. But Why Do They Seem To Despise Them?
Are Jeff Bezos and other billionaires really evil just because they're wealthy?
Reason.com
May 15, 2026 - reason.com
Digging beneath the surface of the April jobs report
Nearly 1.3 million fewer people are employed today than this time last year. Beyond the headlines reporting on the recently-released April jobs report that told us 115,000 jobs were added that month i...
John Locke Foundation
May 15, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Secret Recording at Pretend Date by O'Keefe Media Wasn't Tortious, Court Holds
From yesterday's decision by Judge Anthony Trenga (E.D. Va.) in Fseisi v. O'Keefe Media Group: The Complaint alleges the following:… The post Secret Recording at Pretend Date by O'Keefe Media Wasn't T...
Reason.com
May 15, 2026 - reason.com
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
A camp chair, a shaking of faith, and a murder in front of a Waffle House.
Reason.com
May 15, 2026 - reason.com
Maryland's Energy Crisis Was Created In Annapolis
This week, Wes Moore blamed grid operators for high electricity costs, but the problem has worsened because of his own policies
Reason.com
May 15, 2026 - reason.com
S. Ct. Denies Stay of Virginia Supreme Court's Redistricting Referendum Decision
Today's order is here; the application that was denied is here. The state's argument for a stay, which the Court… The post S. Ct. Denies Stay of Virginia Supreme Court's Redistricting Referendum Decis...
Reason.com
May 15, 2026 - reason.com
Georgia High Court Admonishes D.A.'s Office, Over "Vehement" Dissent, for Role in AI Hallucinations in Court Order
But the court is unanimous on the sanctions for the particular Assistant D.A. who was involved, and added: "We strongly encourage trial courts to carefully review proposed orders with the understandin...
Reason.com
May 15, 2026 - reason.com
Vladeck v. Adler on the Shadow Docket
A discussion of the Supreme Court's "Shadow Docket" on the We the People Podcast.
Reason.com
May 15, 2026 - reason.com
An Alabama Mom Delivered a Preterm Baby in a Jail Cell. She Says Staff Refused To Help.
The mother is suing after she delivered her preterm baby on the jail's floor following 24 hours of labor with no medical assistance.