Libertarian Reporting for 2026-08-03
Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 37 articles from 9 sites. We chose these from 1964 articles found on 36 sites.
Today's featured sites are:
Cafe Hayek, The Libertarian Institute, Reason.com, Antiwar.com Blog, LewRockwell, International Liberty, Mises Institute, Tom Woods, Main Feed.
Some Links
TweetJ.D. Tuccille reports that Trump’s protectionism “has constituted the largest tax increase since 1993.” A slice: “In 2025, the Trump tariffs amounted to an average tax increase of $1,000 per US h...
Cafe Hayek
Aug 2, 2026 - cafehayek.com
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest David Benner: Israel Stays on the Sidelines While Trump Fights Netanyahu’s War Against Iran
A single line in a must-pass defense bill can change U.S. foreign policy for years, and most people will never hear about it until it is too late. We dig into Section 219 of the NDAA and why critics s...
The Libertarian Institute
Aug 2, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Why Trump Quietly Carved Out Doctors From His Own Visa Freeze
By lifting the hold on foreign physicians, the Trump administration tacitly admitted its broad immigration restrictions aren't working.
Reason.com
Aug 2, 2026 - reason.com
Indeed, Pay Attention to What Trump Actually Says About Tariffs
TweetHere’s a note to a Facebook friend. Mr. Kartik Chandrasekhar Kartik: Thanks for noting, on my Facebook page, that someone put the following challenge to you: “What would be great is if you would ...
Cafe Hayek
Aug 2, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Archives: August/September 2026
Excerpts from Reason's vaults
Reason.com
Aug 2, 2026 - reason.com
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Jon Hoffman: Did Trump Put Saudi on the Path to Nuclear Weapons?!
A nuclear power deal can sound like paperwork until the fine print turns into a proliferation crisis. We sit down with Jon Hoffman of the Cato Institute to unpack the reported US Saudi nuclear agreeme...
The Libertarian Institute
Aug 2, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
EUROCOM General Warns US Lacks Ships to Continue Defense of Israel
The Commander of US forces in Europe has warned the White House that he lacks the ships to continue to defend Israel from Iranian missile attacks. According to sources speaking with The Washington Po...
The Libertarian Institute
Aug 2, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Trump Says He Called Off Major Attack on Iran
President Donald Trump said he backed away from a plan to escalate military operations against Iran to allow for negotiations. Throughout the war, Trump has made threats to strike civilian targets in ...
The Libertarian Institute
Aug 2, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Israel Will Not Change Policy or Withdraw from Gaza
Following President Donald Trump’s announcement that a deal to disarm Hamas had been reached, Israeli officials said Tel Aviv has no intention of withdrawing its forces from Gaza. “Today, the Board o...
The Libertarian Institute
Aug 2, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
John Mearsheimer On Propaganda
Reprinted from John’s Substack: On 30 July 2026, I was on Glenn Diesen’s popular podcast. Amazingly, we hardly talked about Iran, despite the fact it looked at the time like President Trump was about ...
Antiwar.com Blog
Aug 2, 2026 - antiwar.com
Today in Supreme Court History: August 2, 1923
8/2/1923: President Calvin Coolidge's Inauguration. He would appoint Justice Harlan Fiske Stone to the Supreme Court. The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 2, 1923 appeared first on Reason...
Reason.com
Aug 2, 2026 - reason.com
Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 78 of Thomas Sowell’s 1999 book, Barbarians Inside the Gates: Trade-offs are not just something thought up by conservative meanies. As long as what we want exceed what we have – an...
Cafe Hayek
Aug 2, 2026 - cafehayek.com
David Cole's Qualified Defense of the Supreme Court
The prominent liberal legal scholar and former ACLU leader outlines how the Court has often checked Trump, but also critiques it for going against precedent.
Reason.com
Aug 1, 2026 - reason.com
Chaos Agent: Anthony Fauci Represents a System That Needs To Be Cleansed
I think nothing enrages Americans more than a lack of accountability from government officials. Yes, it happens often, and the public hasn’t taken up torches and pitchforks (yet), but I would point ou...
LewRockwell
Aug 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Fifth Circuit Judges' Cert. Petition in Deray Mckesson Black Lives Matter Protest Liability Case
From Fifth Circuit Judge Don Willett, joined by Judges Carl Stewart, James Graves, Stephen Higginson, Dana Douglas, and Irma Carrillo… The post Fifth Circuit Judges' Cert. Petition in Deray Mckesson B...
Reason.com
Aug 1, 2026 - reason.com
What Fauci’s Diary Reveals About America’s Health Care Apparatus
Yesterday, a rather contentious hearing occurred where Fauci was subpoenaed by the Senate to testify over what happened during COVID, which was immediately preceded by the private diaries (which HHS S...
LewRockwell
Aug 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
WTF Is Deuterium?
As a kid growing up around Biscayne Bay and the boundless Atlantic Ocean, I had as much curiosity of what lay beneath the shiny rippling surface as what was hidden under ladies’ skirts. I was drawn to...
LewRockwell
Aug 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Debt to GDP Ratio
There are very few economic statistics that actually matter. Most of what governments publish every month is little more than political theater. They constantly revise GDP, unemployment, inflation, an...
LewRockwell
Aug 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Paradise Lost
As John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail following a congressional vote for independence on July 2, 1776, “[This date] ought to be Solemnized with Pomp and Parade with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells...
LewRockwell
Aug 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Missouri Republicans’ Despotism on Petitions, Taxes, Abortion, Endowment, and Inflation
Missouri Republican lawmakers defy their oaths to support the Constitution. Instead, they turn to democratic majorities of Missouri voters to shut down good initiatives, eliminate the only revenue sou...
LewRockwell
Aug 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Surveillance State Quietly Taking Shape Across America
International Man: Across the United States, we are seeing more surveillance infrastructure—Flock license-plate cameras, facial-recognition systems, massive data centers, and proposals for digital ID....
LewRockwell
Aug 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Walt Whitman's American Vistas
A new collection of Whitman's writing is a fitting read for the United States' 250th birthday.
Reason.com
Aug 1, 2026 - reason.com
Fauci Destroyed Millions of Lives, and Truth-Tellers Are Owed Sincere Apologies
The Case That Demands to Be Made History will not be kind to Anthony Fauci. It will not remember him as a hero of public health, because history records what the living refuse to admit: Fauci is the f...
LewRockwell
Aug 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Today In Dystopia: eBay CIA Gangstalkers, Shredding Rare Books To Train AI
Today in dystopia, billionaire corporations and plutocrats can hire trained CIA operatives to psychologically terrorize ordinary citizens who criticize them. E-commerce giant eBay has just agreed to p...
LewRockwell
Aug 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
‘I See Israel Disappearing as a Jewish State’
No state has an inherent “right” to exist, but peoples have an inalienable right to self-determination. An occupying power has no inherent right of self-defence against the people it subjugates, but t...
LewRockwell
Aug 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Ukraine Strike on Iran, a Cynical Zelensky Sales Pitch
Zelensky’s attack on Iran is aimed at boosting that illusion of Ukraine acting as a benefactor for Western security when, in reality, it is recklessly inciting more war – all to satisfy the corrupt mo...
LewRockwell
Aug 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Adverse Economic Consequences of Big-Government Populism, Part III
I wrote a two-part series (here and here) in 2024 that looked at evidence against economic populism and one of the strongest conclusion was that populist leaders lead to higher inflation. Our third in...
International Liberty
Aug 1, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
7/24/26 Matt Williams on the Wars in Ukraine and Iran
Download Audio. Matt Williams returns to the show to discuss where things stand in Ukraine and with Trump’s war with Iran. Discussed on the show: Williams’ YouTube Channel Matt is an Australian Army v...
The Libertarian Institute
Aug 1, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
7/24/26 Patrick Pillow on the State of USAID and the Rest of Washington’s Regime Change Apparatus
Download Audio. Scott interviews Patrick Pillow about several articles he’s written about recent and ongoing color revolutions emanating from the various agencies and NGOs that Washington uses to over...
The Libertarian Institute
Aug 1, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Gold, Socialism, and the Crisis of the Dollar
Mark Thornton explains how inflation drives the K-shaped economy, why gold and silver remain central to the debt crisis, and why socialism appeals to young Americans left behind by government failure....
Mises Institute
Aug 1, 2026 - mises.org
N.Y. Judge Rejects School's Request for "Red Flag" Order Against 13-Year-Old, Including No-Knock Search Warrant
Some excerpts from N.Y. Saratoga County trial court judge Jonathan Schopf's long decision in Anonymous School Dist. v. Anonymous a… The post N.Y. Judge Rejects School's Request for "Red Flag" Order Ag...
Reason.com
Aug 1, 2026 - reason.com
Today in Supreme Court History: August 1, 1942
8/1/1942: Military commissions conclude for eight nazi saboteurs. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of these trials in Ex Parte… The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 1, 1942 ap...
Reason.com
Aug 1, 2026 - reason.com
Ep. 2783 Insane: Dollar Loses Nearly a Third of Its Value in 6 Years
Clint Russell of Liberty Lockdown discusses the inflation problem, the insane mortgage business, the J.D. Vance conundrum, and last but not least, that weird Israel provision in the NDAA. Sponsors… R...
Tom Woods
Aug 1, 2026 - tomwoods.com
Say Yes to Truth, No to Nuclear War
At the outset, of the Obama administration (2009-2017), President Barack Obama was rewarded for his commitment to a nuclear free World. According to President Obama: In the Post Cold War Era, it’s no...
LewRockwell
Aug 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Todd Blanche Affair: The Trump-Congress Clash Intensifies
Is the president losing his grip over the party?
Main Feed
Aug 1, 2026 - libertynation.com
First Amendment Might Protect FTP&ATF License Plate
The Fourth Circuit considers "a question that has divided ... courts ...: whether the character combinations on personalized license plates ... are government speech or private speech."
Reason.com
Jul 31, 2026 - reason.com
Error 888: Complaint Too Long
From today's decision by Judge Trevor McFadden (D.D.C.) in Soffer v. George Washington Univ.: Two former George Washington University ("GWU")… The post Error 888: Complaint Too Long appeared first on ...