Libertarian Reporting for 2026-07-13
Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 33 articles from 10 sites. We chose these from 1949 articles found on 36 sites.
Today's featured sites are:
Cafe Hayek, LewRockwell, Main Feed, Reason.com, Tenth Amendment Center, Blog - Students For Liberty, The Libertarian Alliance, Notes On Liberty, International Liberty, Mises Institute.
Some Links
TweetRichard Baldwin documents this reality: (HT Scott Lincicome) So, the sclerosis story had it backwards. The sclerotic economy keep the factory jobs better than the dynamic economy. The dynamic eco...
Cafe Hayek
Jul 12, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Lindsey Graham Meets His Maker
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-Israel and defense contractors) has died. Although Trump called him a “true American Patriot,” Zelenskyy said that “Lindsey was a true defender of freedom and of the values t...
LewRockwell
Jul 12, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
License to Kill: Migrant Drivers Let in by Biden Are Still Deadly
More handwringing will not stop this continual problem with migrants – illegal or otherwise.
Main Feed
Jul 12, 2026 - libertynation.com
Today in Supreme Court History: July 12, 1909
7/12/1909: 16th Amendment is submitted to the states. The post Today in Supreme Court History: July 12, 1909 appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason.com
Jul 12, 2026 - reason.com
Andy Serkis on Animal Farm, Authoritarianism, and Humanizing Monsters
"If Orwell were writing that story now, what would his targets be?" the Animal Farm director asks Reason's Nick Gillespie.
Reason.com
Jul 12, 2026 - reason.com
The Foundation of the Constitution: Top-5 Principles from the American Revolution
Thomas Jefferson called the 10th Amendment the "foundation of the Constitution," and for good reason too. It enshrines many of the radical principles that sparked the “real American Revolution” in the...
Tenth Amendment Center
Jul 12, 2026 - blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com
Missiles and Drones Cannot Stop the Ukrainian Renaissance
As has become tradition, the Ukrainian Renaissance conference returned again this July for its fourth annual edition. For the first time however, the event, co-hosted by Students For Liberty, Ukrainia...
Blog - Students For Liberty
Jul 12, 2026 - studentsforliberty.org
Britain Through Xi Jinping’s Eyes
In my recent review of Xi Jinping’s five-volume The Governance of China, I argued that Western readers often misunderstand what sort of books they are. They are usually treated as collections of Commu...
The Libertarian Alliance
Jul 12, 2026 - libertarianism.uk
John Fetterman Says He's 'Very Libertarian in a Lot of Ways'
The Pennsylvania senator discusses drugs, the state of the Democratic Party, and his past support for Bernie Sanders.
Reason.com
Jul 11, 2026 - reason.com
My Realist Journey, Part 5: Our State of Recovery.
Volume 7 of the States of Mind project: State of Recovery. In my 2013 book (paperback in 2014), State of Recovery: The Quest to Restore American Security After 9/11, I present a retrospective reflecti...
Notes On Liberty
Jul 11, 2026 - notesonliberty.com
Florida Politician (Anthony F. Sabatini) Faulted for AI Hallucinations in Briefs
"It is rare to see the kind of blatant and repeated misconduct that Sabatini [acting as plaintifs' lawyer] has committed in this case."
Reason.com
Jul 11, 2026 - reason.com
China Dumps US Treasuries and Buys Gold as America’s Debt Explodes
An alert observer from the “World of Statistics” posted this warning shot on X, recently. It seems as if the Chinese have dumped $448 billion of their US Treasury holdings in recent years, and have be...
LewRockwell
Jul 11, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Strengthening America’s Thread of Liberty
There is an eighty-five minute documentary that you should watch. It is called The Thread of Liberty: Keeping Our Republic. It comes from Ned Ryun, the author and American Majority CEO who wrote a v...
LewRockwell
Jul 11, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
No Paine, no Declaration
On July 4, 2026 Americans celebrated various people for their role in founding this country. We can start with Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Franklin, Henry, and continue debating into the n...
LewRockwell
Jul 11, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Men Who Own the War Now Run It
There was a time when the arms dealer waited in the corridor. He financed the campaign, endowed the think tank, took the general to dinner, and hoped the man inside the office would remember him when ...
LewRockwell
Jul 11, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Trump & NATO Kiss and Make Up as Europeans Pledge To Buy More U.S. Weapons
For nearly the entire duration of his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump has incessantly griped about NATO and its leaders. But he emerged from this week’s summit in Ankara, Turkey, with renewed...
LewRockwell
Jul 11, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Can't Go to D.C. Federal Court to Block FTC Enforcement in Texas Federal Court
From Chief Judge James Boasberg (D.D.C.) yesterday in World Prof. Ass'n for Transgender Health v. FTC: When parties seek an… The post World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Can'...
Reason.com
Jul 11, 2026 - reason.com
NATO Vassals Buy Trump ‘Unity’ With $160 Billion Bribe
One can only imagine the scenes of obsequiousness and utter debasement as European politicians lined up to kiss Trump’s ring. What a turnaround. The NATO summit this week was heading for an almighty c...
LewRockwell
Jul 11, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
President Trump and NATO Have Declared War on Russia and Putin Is Oblivious
John Helmer believes that Putin’s strategy of being toady to Trump and relying on Trump to solve the Ukraine conflict for him has failed and that Putin will have to abandon his naïveté for realism or ...
LewRockwell
Jul 11, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
How Khamenei’s Last Act Is Defeating NATOstan
We interrupt this program to announce that the MoU cat has left its coma – and has virtually flatlined. That was entirely predictable. Baboon of Barbaria and his minions broke their pledge to waive oi...
LewRockwell
Jul 11, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Economic Burden of Protectionism, Part V
As an economist, I don’t like protectionism because higher taxes on trade make an economy less efficient, which means less growth and prosperity (as described in the first four columns – here, here, h...
International Liberty
Jul 11, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
Lawsuit Against Media for Keeping People "Clueless" Thrown Out
From Judge Kenneth Karas (S.D.N.Y.) Friday in Center for Judicial Accountability, Inc. v. Legislative Correspondents' Ass'n: On October 8, 2025,… The post Lawsuit Against Media for Keeping People "Clu...
Reason.com
Jul 11, 2026 - reason.com
Emergency! and the Legalization of Paramedic Services
News of the death of Randolph Mantooth, who played paramedic Johnny Gage on Emergency! reminded me of my UCLA colleague… The post Emergency! and the Legalization of Paramedic Services appeared ...
Reason.com
Jul 11, 2026 - reason.com
Nuclear Power: Entrepreneurial System Design for the Win
Electric lighting became a solution when General Electric created a complete system, providing power generation, power distribution, and lights. Express mail became a solution when Federal Express cre...
LewRockwell
Jul 11, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Today in Supreme Court History: July 11, 1921
7/11/1921: Chief Justice William Howard Taft takes oath. The post Today in Supreme Court History: July 11, 1921 appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason.com
Jul 11, 2026 - reason.com
Truth vs. Brainwashing
—– Writes Bill Madden: . We keep hearing that Iran has hated us for 47 years when they took over the American Embassy. Actually, they have hated us for 73 years and took over the Embassy because of o...
LewRockwell
Jul 11, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
War or Peace. Who Are the Bad Guys? Russia?
Video debate featuring Michel Chossudovsky and Drago Bosnic published in English (original) The complex history of Contemporary Russia and its “Relationship with The West”. During the Cold War it wa...
LewRockwell
Jul 11, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Seventeen Minutes That Exposed the Fragile Foundations of Modern Civilization
By the time the first official statement reached the public, the statement itself no longer mattered. Television networks were already off the air across much of the continent, mobile networks had fra...
LewRockwell
Jul 11, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Dupes of War: Mises on Statism, Propaganda, and Foreign Conflict
Mark Thornton warns that war propaganda turns citizens into dupes. Ludwig von Mises’s critique of statism explains why foreign conflicts keep returning.
Mises Institute
Jul 11, 2026 - mises.org
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
Armed canvassers, extrajudicial killings, and guns on the metro.
Reason.com
Jul 10, 2026 - reason.com
She Came to the U.S. at 4 Months Old. She Had To Self-Deport—Because She Came Here Legally.
"Documented Dreamers" arrived in America lawfully as children. A hole in the law leaves them vulnerable to expulsion.
Reason.com
Jul 10, 2026 - reason.com
Dispatch From COGE: A Bureaucratic Meeting About Cutting Bureaucratic Bloat
Don't expect much from Zohran Mamdani’s Commission on Government Efficiency.
Reason.com
Jul 10, 2026 - reason.com
Sen. Mitch McConnell's Hospitalization Proves Again That Gerontocracy Sucks
McConnell is no outlier: The U.S. Senate is the oldest directly elected upper legislative chamber in the world.