Libertarian Reporting for 2026-08-09
Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 72 articles from 11 sites. We chose these from 1969 articles found on 36 sites.
Today's featured sites are:
Reason.com, LewRockwell, Cafe Hayek, Mises Institute, Libertarian Party, The Libertarian Alliance, Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute, Law & Liberty, John Locke Foundation, International Liberty, Free the People.
After 2 Decades of Raids and Prison Stints, Liverpool's 'Cannabis Martyr' Is Still 'Fighting for Freedom'
Gary Youds says his cannabis café is “what the future looks like the day after the drug war.”
Reason.com
Aug 8, 2026 - reason.com
Pillagers vs Producers: There’s Only Two Ways To Save the Western World
For the past couple of weeks I have been closely tracking the migrant surge in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta and taking notes on the behavior of the extremely liberal Spanish government. One of the mos...
LewRockwell
Aug 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Persistence of U.S. Strategy, Anthony Fauci, and Limited Hangouts
Throughout all the news cycles over the years, you can count on a continuity in U.S. government/media propaganda and strategy. Make a time capsule, fill it with today’s news, hide it away, and pull it...
LewRockwell
Aug 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Some Links
TweetPhil Magness and Marc Wheat examine “Trump’s tariff ‘plan B.'” A slice: Since “Liberation Day” on April 2, 2025, the administration has pivoted from statute to statute for its tariff-of-the-month...
Cafe Hayek
Aug 8, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Globalism Must Be Vanquished
Some politically charged words become part of our common vocabulary almost overnight. “Globalism” is a timely example. Ten or fifteen years ago, calling someone a “globalist” didn’t have much effect...
LewRockwell
Aug 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
New Energy, Old Chains: The Dutch Experiment in Teaching Populations to Love Less
Beneath dying embers of a civilization that believed progress infinite, Dutch ministers unveiled their latest monument to managed decline. “New Energy”—a phrase ringing through The Hague like funeral ...
LewRockwell
Aug 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Slumlord Fed
The 16th of November may be considered as the Fourth of July in the economic life of the United States. Coming generations will commemorate it as marking the foundation of our financial emancipation. ...
LewRockwell
Aug 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Remembering General James Johnston Pettigrew: A Life Cut Far Too Short
There are historical figures whose lives, it seems, are cut far too short, figures who offered hints of significant future contributions to society, which their passing prevented. And always we wonder...
LewRockwell
Aug 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Coming Oil Shock—and Where Investors Could Profit
International Man: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve was created after the 1970s oil shocks to protect the country from severe supply disruptions. Since the war with Iran began earlier this year, Washin...
LewRockwell
Aug 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Exclusive: Dead Cat Bounce, or The Return of the Iran-U.S. MoU
The key variable to watch in these extremely troubled waters: what is contained in the MoU is strategically aligned with Beijing – all the way. Washington all but declared that the Iran-U.S. MoU was a...
LewRockwell
Aug 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
NATO to Soon Double US Nuclear Sharing Warheads, Deploy Them in Finland, Poland and Lithuania
NATO’s wider nuclear build-up perfectly fits the Pentagon’s “geopolitics of controlled chaos”. In practice, that translates into a NATO-occupied Europe that’s mainly useful as a springboard for strate...
LewRockwell
Aug 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Philosophy of Self-Governance
All government, of course, is against liberty.” H.L. Mencken In all of nature, man is the only living thing that purposely seeks rule and abandons self-governance. I see this as entirely foreign, and ...
LewRockwell
Aug 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Polls Show Europe Wants War
The latest polling from Europe exposes the hypocrisy behind the entire war campaign. Europeans have been frightened into supporting larger military budgets, common European debt, weapons for Ukraine, ...
LewRockwell
Aug 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Protectionists Continue to Make Sloppy Arguments
TweetHere’s a letter to Foreign Affairs. Editor: Lori Wallach’s “The Right Way to Balance Trade” (August 5) is a blizzard of blunders, not the least being her presumption that persistent trade deficit...
Cafe Hayek
Aug 8, 2026 - cafehayek.com
The 'Affordability' Agenda That Taxes Your Dinner
Food-related taxes are rising in popularity, though they hurt restaurants and customers—and may even fail as a revenue-raising tool.
Reason.com
Aug 8, 2026 - reason.com
Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 297 of Anne Krueger’s 2020 book, International Trade: What Everyone Needs to Know; it appears in the section of her book in which she summarizes the many lessons drawn from the act...
Cafe Hayek
Aug 8, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Today in Supreme Court History: August 8, 2009
8/8/2009: Justice Sonia Sotomayor takes oath. The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 8, 2009 appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason.com
Aug 8, 2026 - reason.com
Republican Party Displacement
Mark Thornton explains how ideology can break the uniparty, why blocked realignment risks revolution, and why Austrian economics helps young Americans see through the crisis.
Mises Institute
Aug 8, 2026 - mises.org
Notice of LNC Executive Committee Meeting August 9, 2026
The LNC will have an Executive Committee Meeting on August 9, 2026, at 7pm ET. Advance registration is required at least one hour before the meeting. Agenda Items: The Zoom registration link for the m...
Libertarian Party
Aug 8, 2026 - lp.org
On Gritting Our Teeth for a Revolution
Even at his most outrageous, young Bryan Mercadente can be most persuasive. Every month we share a return railway journey between London and Herne Bay. We meet at Victoria and travel down together. We...
The Libertarian Alliance
Aug 8, 2026 - libertarianism.uk
A Burrito Costs How Much?
Plus: The economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, inflation is outpacing wage growth, Trump is still mad about birthright citizenship, and more...
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
America Reaps What Trump Sows: The Price of Policing the Globe
“In a sense, blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.” — Chalmers Johnson What goes around comes around. That is the terrible law of blowback. When the United States ...
LewRockwell
Aug 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The US Supports the Mass Migration of Moroccans Into Spanish Territory
It is an interesting coincidence that only a few months after the US government doubles down on its alliance with Morocco, that Spanish cities bordering Morocco face a coordinated effort to flood Span...
LewRockwell
Aug 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Another Strange Week in Trumpland
Some weeks it is difficult to pick out the most shocking stories symptomatic of decline and fall of American governmental integrity both in Washington and often at state levels. The White House and Co...
LewRockwell
Aug 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
Dog toys, DoorDash, and unregistered foreign agents.
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
ICE Spent $525 Million on Surveillance Tech. Some of It Is Infringing on Americans' Freedom of Speech.
New details emerge regarding the Trump administration's surveillance dragnet cracking down on its online critics.
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
Trump Says He Took Venezuela's Oil. Here's What Actually Happened.
Trump put Venezuelan revenues in a secretive bank account overseen by the U.S. government. It's a display of the Treasury's unaccountable power.
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
Trump Issues Another Unconstitutional Executive Order Targeting Birthright Citizenship
While less sweeping than the one invalidated by the Supreme Court in Trump v. Barbara, it still denies birthright citizenship to many people protected by the earlier Supreme Court decision.
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
There Is No War in America But the Class War
The great disparity in America lies between the professional managerial elites in government, academia, media, and business versus the middle/working classes in their fundamental attitudes, values, li...
LewRockwell
Aug 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Section 338-tariff uncertainty highlights the knowledge problem
Last month, the Trump administration invoked Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to impose new 50 percent tariffs against Canada. A White House fact sheet states that the duties will cover “products...
Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute
Aug 7, 2026 - cei.org
Trump's New Birthright Citizenship Executive Orders Are Mostly Theater
The two measures combine unconstitutional provisions with performance art.
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
North Carolina Citizen Files Damages Claim After Border Patrol Arrested Him, Then Left Him on the Roadside
A viral video showed immigration officers uncuffing Fernando Vasquez and then dumping his papers onto the ground before driving off.
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
Trump Administration Will Pay $1.2 Billion To Cancel More Offshore Wind Projects, Calling It 'Common Sense'
German energy company RWE decided "there is no path forward to permit these projects in the U.S. for the foreseeable future."
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
Amicus Brief in Lawsuit Against Meta Over Buffalo Supermarket Shooting and Allegedly Addictive Design
From Jane Bambauer's and my brief in Patterson v. Meta Platforms, Inc., pending now before New York's highest court (for… The post Amicus Brief in Lawsuit Against Meta Over Buffalo Supermarket Shootin...
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
Trump Calls Roberts's Bluff With New Executive Order On Birthright Citizenship
What will Justice Barrett do?
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
How Scottish Dissent Built American Liberty
Presbyterians played a large role in teaching North America the value of political independence.
Law & Liberty
Aug 7, 2026 - lawliberty.org
The White House's Push To Pause the Hemp Ban Smells Like Cronyism
The ban would gut a growing industry, but the Trump administration’s position isn’t a principled stand against prohibition.
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
Posting "I Wish Someone Would In Alive Him" About Federal Judge Isn't Punishable Threat
From Judge Carlos Mendoza (M.D. Fla.) in U.S. v. Joudeh: Defendant is charged with one count of transmission of an… The post Posting "I Wish Someone Would In Alive Him" About Federal Judge Isn't Punis...
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
Can You Imagine a Future Where Adults Don't Believe in Socialism?
Only in a capitalist world can we live free and prosperous lives, even if it means that we're expected to show up to work on time.
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
Twin Falls Shooting Underlines the Need for Taking Self-Defense Seriously
Armed people at the scene of the crime fired on the attacker and drove him away.
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
Justice Has Departed America
Twenty-six years ago in 2000 Prima Publishing published a book I wrote with my colleague, Lawrence M. Stratton. We had wanted to title the book, “How the Law Was Lost,” but we only managed to get our ...
LewRockwell
Aug 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
They’re Building War Robots
An American company is building war robots, and the justification for pursuing this risky technology is the same one we hear from people who want to drop a data center in every nook and cranny of the ...
LewRockwell
Aug 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Exploring the sanctuary movement’s ‘hard truth’
Sean Davis focuses attention on the dangers surrounding the American sanctuary movement. On July 1, 2015, 32-year-old Kathryn “Kate” Steinle was killed while sightseeing in San Francisco with her fath...
John Locke Foundation
Aug 7, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Divided D.C. Circuit Panel Upholds Injunction Against White House Ballroom Construction; Next Stop, One First Street
Judge Rao writes a powerful dissent that is likely to find a receptive audience at One First Street.
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
Congress Still Has the Power To Arrest and Detain but It Lacks the Guts
Could Congress hold someone in contempt and then order the Capitol Police to arrest and detain that person? The answer is yes. The more revealing question is why it has almost never done so in modern ...
LewRockwell
Aug 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Voting for ‘Israel Firsters’ Is Suicide
Citizens who vote for “Israel Firsters” in Congress are committing suicide, and “Israel Firsters“ in Congress are guilty of treason for selling out the People. Most citizens would not knowingly commit...
LewRockwell
Aug 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Washington’s Indispensable Lessons
The Founder-statesman was the greatest character of his age—and hopefully his example can still guide America.
Law & Liberty
Aug 7, 2026 - lawliberty.org
Libel Suit by D.C. Saloon Employee Who Said She Wouldn't Serve Some Government Officials Can Go Forward
From Van Rooy v. ANB 623 LLC, decided today by Judge Amy Berman Jackson (D.D.C.): According to the complaint, …… The post Libel Suit by D.C. Saloon Employee Who Said She Wouldn't Serve Some Government...
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
Who Canceled the Oil Apocalypse?
Remember the oil shock? When the fighting closed the Strait of Hormuz this spring, the predictions were apocalyptic. Thirteen thousand flights canceled. Britain, we were told, was days from its last s...
LewRockwell
Aug 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
A Primer on Government Spending and Red Ink, Part II
In Part I of this series, I took snippets from a recent speech to explain that government spending is the disease and red ink is the symptom of the disease. For today’s column, let’s share more excerp...
International Liberty
Aug 7, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
Democrats Want To Tax AI Companies for Job Losses That Haven't Happened
The proposed tax would rise with unemployment and fund a new federal jobs program—even though AI has yet to cause mass unemployment.
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
What Will The "Apolitical Proceduralist" Do With The East Wing Case?
Will Justice Barrett really find standing based on an "aesthetic" injury?
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
Defendant's Refusal to Identify Herself Leads to Recommended Default Judgment Against Her
From today's Report and Recommendations by Magistrate Judge Elizabeth A. Staffordt (E.D. Mich.) in yesterday's Evans v. Robertson: Plaintiff Sybrena… The post Defendant's Refusal to Identify Herself L...
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
What the War on Chlorine Dioxide Reveals About Medicine
While medicine has produced remarkable and life-changing results for a variety of challenging conditions, the present reality of our medical system is that: • Large amounts of research dollars are col...
LewRockwell
Aug 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Are You Ready for the ‘Rogue AI’ Psy-Op?
The AIs are breaking free, that’s the story. It started two weeks ago, when OpenAI reported one of their “agents” had escaped its testing area and got loose on the internet to launch an “unprecedented...
LewRockwell
Aug 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Mamdani video backs squatters’ rights
Ira Stoll writes for the Washington Free Beacon about another bad idea from New York City’s socialist mayor. A new 13-minute video released by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani backs the idea that pr...
John Locke Foundation
Aug 7, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Parents' Free Exercise Claim Against School for Referring to Student by "Preferred Name[] and Gender Pronoun[]" Can Go Forward
From Judge Paul Maloney (W.D. Mich.) in Mead v. Rockford Public School Dist.: Dan and Jennifer Mead have a child,… The post Parents' Free Exercise Claim Against School for Referring to Student by "Pre...
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
One Night Only Is a Rare Rom-Com About Regulation
In The Purge: but for Sex, everyone takes a crackdown on sexual freedom for granted.
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
Western Suicide: Cause and Effect
In Defense of Western Civilization A Walk in Prague: Contemplating West’s Achievement Majestic Monuments Built to the Grandeur and Glory of God Over the course of the past three millennia, Western Civ...
LewRockwell
Aug 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Affluent liberals, not average voters, support socialism
Brianna Lyman of the Federalist highlights a lesson from this week’s US Senate election in Michigan. Socialist Abdul El-Sayed narrowly defeated Rep. Haley Stevens by roughly a point with nearly all vo...
John Locke Foundation
Aug 7, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Trump Brags About Seizing Imports at Below-Cost Prices
TweetHere’s yet another open letter to the president of one of the three co-equal branches of the national government – co-equal, that is, at least according to that quaint document called “The Consti...
Cafe Hayek
Aug 7, 2026 - cafehayek.com
The AI Agents Have Arrived – And Not a Moment Too Soon
Every technological revolution produces its own chorus of professional mourners. The steam engine threatened artisans. Electricity transformed whole industries. The motor car ruined the horse trade. T...
The Libertarian Alliance
Aug 7, 2026 - libertarianism.uk
North Dakota Court Upholds Rejection of Sudanese Triple-Talaq Divorce
From Ali v. Osman, decided yesterday by the N.D. Supreme Court, in an opinion by Chief Justice Lisa Fair McEvers… The post North Dakota Court Upholds Rejection of Sudanese Triple-Talaq Divorce appeare...
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
Today in Supreme Court History: August 7, 2010
8/7/2010: Justice Elena Kagan takes oath. The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 7, 2010 appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
Review: Feuding Neighbors Snoop on Their Enemies
In HBO's Neighbors docuseries, nearly every dispute is recorded and shared.
Reason.com
Aug 7, 2026 - reason.com
Blinding Morality in International Relations
Some years ago Paul Robinson, a Canadian scholar of Russian history, wrote about two different views of international political rules: I pointed out that both Russia and the West claimed to be in favo...
LewRockwell
Aug 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
It Is Time for an Authentic, Nationwide “For America” Populist Alliance/Movement to Take Back America
In the comprehensive presentation above, Tucker Carlson perceptively outlines the reasons and rationale for this new trans-partisan political realignment for addressing the fundamental needs and conce...
LewRockwell
Aug 6, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The GOP Is Warning About Socialism While Quietly Embracing It
Federal ownership of private companies has become routine. And it is happening on the right, even as conservatives point fingers at the left for its socialism.
Reason.com
Aug 6, 2026 - reason.com
A Viral Tweet Set Off a Discourse on $20 Burritos. Here's the Truth About Inflation.
Americans are angry because everyday goods are much more expensive, and politicians think they should “stop whining.”
Reason.com
Aug 6, 2026 - reason.com
Potluck | Words & Numbers | Ep 518
This week Ant and James seem not to have much of a point, but that's never stopped them before, and it sure didn't stop them this week. The post Potluck | Words & Numbers | Ep 518 appeared first on Fr...
Free the People
Aug 6, 2026 - freethepeople.org
FCC Rule Change Would Allow More Broadcast Mergers, but It's Not Clear the FCC Has That Power.
It's not clear if the agency even has the legal authority to make the change. But if it goes through, there's little to worry about.
Reason.com
Aug 6, 2026 - reason.com
Scott Galloway's Bad Idea To Make Young Men Happier
Hint: It's mandatory national service.