Libertarian Reporting for 2026-08-16
Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 79 articles from 14 sites. We chose these from 1965 articles found on 36 sites.
Today's featured sites are:
LewRockwell, C4SIF.org, Reason.com, Cafe Hayek, Notes On Liberty, International Liberty, The Libertarian Alliance, Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute, John Locke Foundation, Law & Liberty, The Libertarian Institute, Mises Institute, Free the People, Main Feed.
Will Trump Attempt To Take Over the Elections in November?
The ‘democracy gap’ in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the ‘least worst’ every four years and then wonder wh...
LewRockwell
Aug 15, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Lunatics Are Running The Asylum
When I was 10 years old, the United States was one trillion dollars in debt. Now we are nearly 40 trillion dollars in debt. So what did we get for spending 39 trillion dollars that we did not have? Wh...
LewRockwell
Aug 15, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Nicholas Snow “The Three Stages of Invention” (2006)
Nicholas Snow “The Three Stages of Invention,” Mises Daily (07/20/2006). Archived comments below. Nicholas Snow “The Three Stages of Invention,” Mises Daily (07/20/2006). Frédéric Bastiat is considere...
C4SIF.org
Aug 15, 2026 - c4sif.org
Trump Promised Transparency. His Administration Keeps Finding New Ways to Hide Records.
"The most transparent president in history" keeps chipping away at laws like FOIA meant to keep the government honest.
Reason.com
Aug 15, 2026 - reason.com
Switching Presidential Planes in Ankara
Hardly a week goes by when Donald Trump is not the centerpiece and source of a lie so outrageous or an accusation so heinous that one has to sit back gazing at one’s computer screen, stunned by the au...
LewRockwell
Aug 15, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Camp of the Saints Has Come Home to America, a Doomed Nation
Americans are unaware of how infiltrated their legal and political institutions are by immigrant invaders. Americans, thanks to corrupt Presidents, even have immigrant invaders as judges who use thei...
LewRockwell
Aug 15, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
450,000 U.S. Soldiers Diagnosed With Traumatic Brain Injury Since 2001
Lord Salisbury used to complain to his officials during Jingoistic outbreaks that it was like having “a huge lunatic asylum at one’s back.” —Andrew Roberts, Salisbury, Victorian Titan The prodigious n...
LewRockwell
Aug 15, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Tucker, “Apple the Monopolist” (2010)
Jeffrey A. Tucker, “Apple the Monopolist,” Mises Economics Blog (01/28/2010) (archived comments below) Apple the Monopolist January 28, 2010 9:18 AM by Jeffrey Tucker (Archive) Apple’s products seem l...
C4SIF.org
Aug 15, 2026 - c4sif.org
Some Links
TweetWriting at the Wall Street Journal, Kimberlee Josephson puts her finger on one reason why colleges and universities are today churning out more people sympathetic to big-sister socialism. A slice...
Cafe Hayek
Aug 15, 2026 - cafehayek.com
How the First World War Destroyed the Gold Standard
As Trump’s “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth demands a fifty-percent increase to the war budget—topping an eye watering $1.5 trillion—it may be instructive to remember that war spending has always and e...
LewRockwell
Aug 15, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Delusional Premises of Woke Greens
hile the burgeoning democratic socialist movement is getting a lot of attention in advance of the 2026 midterm elections, a parallel dimension of wokeism quietly continues to advance. For now, the Tru...
LewRockwell
Aug 15, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Patent, Copyright, Trademark, and Trade Secret Horror Files
[From my Webnote series] Ported here from Kinsella, “The Patent, Copyright, Trademark, and Trade Secret Horror Files,” StephanKinsella.com (Feb. 3, 2010) As noted here, “Ayn Rand’s newsletters used to...
C4SIF.org
Aug 15, 2026 - c4sif.org
Between “Arctic Doom” and “Arctic Boom,” Part 1: Navigating a Path to a Secure, Prosperous and Free Arctic
For four decades, my research into the geopolitical and geophysical transformation of the circumpolar north has challenged the persistent misconception of an inevitable, apocalyptic impending “Arctic ...
Notes On Liberty
Aug 15, 2026 - notesonliberty.com
When the Tourniquet Fails
By someone who’s seen what happens when the ambulance doesn’t come Let me tell you a story that’ll keep you up tonight. A guy I know—let’s call him Mike—had been “prepping” for years. Not the crazy bu...
LewRockwell
Aug 15, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Classrooms of the Future
“The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.” — Murray N. Rothbard, Anatomy of the State The formula High Tech = State Power is valid only while the State continues to suck...
LewRockwell
Aug 15, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
A Conservative Versus the Homeowners’ Association
Our kids moved out. We lived in a former display home by a main street, and we took great care of our lawn and landscaping, which was time-consuming. My wife wanted to move to a nicer neighborhood n...
LewRockwell
Aug 15, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
New Jersey Revives the Fight To Reclassify Gig Workers as Employees
California notoriously fought to do the same, which led to a slew of exemptions and job declines.
Reason.com
Aug 15, 2026 - reason.com
Free Markets, Socialism, and J.D. Vance
I prefer free markets because I’m a libertarian (I want to minimize government coercion) and because I care about real-world evidence (I want people to thrive). Speaking of real-world evidence, here’s...
International Liberty
Aug 15, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
Today in Supreme Court History: August 15, 1938
8/15/1938: Justice Stephen Breyer's Birthday. The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 15, 1938 appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason.com
Aug 15, 2026 - reason.com
AI Against the British State
I have been mildly sceptical of Bryan Mercadente’s enthusiasm for artificial intelligence. This has not been because I think the technology unimportant. I agree that its economic possibilities are imm...
The Libertarian Alliance
Aug 15, 2026 - libertarianism.uk
I Played a Game Simulating the Aftermath of the 2028 Election. Here's How It Went.
The Democratic nominee won five swing states by less than one percentage point. Then things got crazy.
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
The Posse Comitatus Presidency: Trump’s Standing Army on American Streets
“I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. National Guard, but our military.”—President Trump The National Guard was just the beginning. One year ...
LewRockwell
Aug 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Foundations Are Eroding
Dr. Mehmet Cengiz Oz, a dual citizen of Turkey and the US, is head of Medicaid, a federal program that provides health care for the uninsured poor. He announced last Tuesday that Medicaid, as directe...
LewRockwell
Aug 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Patriots Won’t Let Communists Take America
This chapter in American history could be titled, “The Bad Guys Keep Winning Because They Suffer No Consequences for Their Treachery.” Islamo-fascists and communists have taken over the Democrat Party...
LewRockwell
Aug 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
Hunting ICE, unremarkable arson, and lewdness at the Founding.
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
Sixth Circuit Reverses Pretrial Release for Antifa Member Accused of ICE-Related Threats
Some excerpts from the long (>16K word) opinions in Wednesday's U.S. v. Wagner, written by Sixth Circuit Judge Whitney Hermandorfer,… The post Sixth Circuit Reverses Pretrial Release for Antifa Member...
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
Ohio's Republican Governor Says Haitians 'Played a Major Role' in Springfield's 'Economic Comeback'
Gov. Mike DeWine's recent essay in The New York Times makes the case for a more open legal immigration policy.
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
Hack Back
Plus: Dario Amodei's Epstein-connected wife, immigrant deaths at Delaney Hall, and more...
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
Jeff Merkley Wants To Save Big Government From Donald Trump
The Oregon senator's "For Our Republic Act" would check many of the president's abuses while preserving the powerful federal state he commands.
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
One lesson protectionists forgot: Trade interventions backfire
It’s not just tariffs that backfire in trade policy. The government has a long history of similar failures. Between 1934 and 1941, the Treasury bought 2.55 billion ounces of silver in an attempt to bo...
Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute
Aug 14, 2026 - cei.org
FBI downplayed 14 informants about Biden corruption
John Solomon and Steven Richards write for Just the News about apparent FBI malfeasance. The FBI and U.S. spy agencies received derogatory evidence about Joe Biden from 14 different informants but emb...
John Locke Foundation
Aug 14, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Socialists Claim Public Libraries Are Examples of Their Policies. Don't Believe Them.
Libraries aren’t all that socialist, and they’re far from the total state the radicals really want.
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
America Cannot Protect Taiwan from China
Taiwan began seriously examining Ukraine’s battlefield experience after Russia invaded in 2022. Taipei has since partnered with Auterion, the American-German drone software company whose systems have ...
LewRockwell
Aug 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Talarico’s border policies could prompt another crisis
Todd Bensman writes for the Federalist about the potential impact of a border policy driven by Texas’ Democratic US Senate candidate. James Talarico, the left-wing Democrat ahead in some polls in the ...
John Locke Foundation
Aug 14, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Friedman’s cluelessness expands to SCOTUS
Ira Stoll writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a major legacy media columnist who rarely knows his subject matter. Eighty-two-year-old Nina Totenberg had the 2026 prize for most embarrassingly ...
John Locke Foundation
Aug 14, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Trump Is Trying To Spin U.S. History
The real goal isn't to promote accuracy, but to encourage agitated conservatives to complain about historical references that make them uncomfortable.
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
The Last Conservative Consensus
There may have been costs to uniting the right around a hatred of mainstream media.
Law & Liberty
Aug 14, 2026 - lawliberty.org
Flock Safety's New Privacy Rules Do Little To Ease Concerns Over ALPR Surveillance
The company’s attempts to protect Americans’ privacy “will do nothing to protect innocent people from warrantless mass surveillance,” says an Institute for Justice attorney.
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
Trump Signs Order To Slash and Space Out Childhood Vaccines
Long before he became secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had determined to figure out a way to upend the crowded childhood vaccine schedule and replace it with one bas...
LewRockwell
Aug 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Colombia's New President Wants More U.S. Military Help Fighting Cartels
Abelardo de la Espriella campaigned on shooting down drug planes and boats in Colombia. Twenty-five years of U.S.-funded counternarcotics suggests it won't matter
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
Virginia Man Argues His 'FTP&ATF' License Plate Is Free Speech. The Supreme Court Might Hear His Case.
A federal appeals court ruled that Curtis Whateley's anti-police vanity plate was private speech protected by the First Amendment. Virginia says it will seek review from the Supreme Court.
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
Indiana Professors Lack Standing to Challenge Indiana "Intellectual Diversity" Statute
Some excerpts from yesterday's longish McDonald v. Trustees of Indiana Univ., written by Seventh Circuit Judge Joshua Kolar and joined… The post Indiana Professors Lack Standing to Challenge Indiana "...
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
Some More Thoughts About Surrogacy and Abortion
My post yesterday on surrogacy and abortion has generated many responses, as I had suspected. Surrogacy is one of those… The post Some More Thoughts About Surrogacy and Abortion appeared first on Reas...
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
Plaintiffs Contesting Tren de Aragua Membership Claims / Alien Enemies Act Application Can't Sue Pseudonymously
From yesterday's published order in W.M.M. v. Trump (en banc), by Chief Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod: In response to questions… The post Plaintiffs Contesting Tren de Aragua Membership Claims / Alien ...
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
End of Honest Markets
International Man: Markets are supposed to reflect economic reality. But when central banks suppress interest rates, governments debase currencies, and major powers manipulate oil prices for political...
LewRockwell
Aug 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
California-style Attack on Our Suburbs: Coming to Your Town Soon
There’s a slow-motion tragedy unfolding in many California cities, and no doubt in other cities across our nation. And for my subscribers who are wondering why I haven’t been writing new articles of l...
LewRockwell
Aug 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Deadly Convergence: Why Biomedical Tech Tyranny and mRNA Vaccines Pose an Extreme Threat Against Humanity
Introduction: Pandora’s Box Is Open Humanity has now crossed a line. The same institutions that promised to heal us are now engineering technologies designed to replace us, monitor us, and dismantle o...
LewRockwell
Aug 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Dissenting Parents' Defamation Claim Over School's Allegations of Racism Can Go Forward
Some excerpts from the long Turpin v. Charlotte Latin Schools, Inc., decided today by the N.C. Supreme Court, in an… The post Dissenting Parents' Defamation Claim Over School's Allegations of Racism C...
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
The DSA's Agenda Could Cost More Than $200 Trillion—and You'll Be Picking Up the Tab
The Democratic Socialists of America promise free everything, but its agenda would require confiscation on a scale that would make European welfare states tremble.
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
While We Focused on Fripperies, the Foundations Have Rotted Away
While the Everything Bubble has soared to new heights, consumer confidence has fallen to new lows. For your consideration, four charts that tell a single story: while those Americans who have benefite...
LewRockwell
Aug 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Memory Hole
I’m beginning to think something is wrong with my memory. It’s strange, the feeling. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s not like I have amnesia or anything. I remember who I am, I think. And I reme...
LewRockwell
Aug 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
8/11/26 Lindsey Snell on the Troubling New Regime in Syria
Download Audio. Journalist Lindsey Snell returns to the show to talk about Syria. She first recounts her experience getting kidnapped by the Jihadists who now control the country. Scott and Snell then...
The Libertarian Institute
Aug 14, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
NYC mayor wants to make deliveries worse
Editors at National Review Online highlight another bad idea from New York City’s socialist mayor. Progressives have long been happy to put their projects above consumer convenience. Their aversion to...
John Locke Foundation
Aug 14, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Fraud Claim Over "No Blowback" Assurance by Private School to Complaining Parents, Followed by Children's Expulsions, Can Go Forward
Some excerpts from the long Turpin v. Charlotte Latin Schools, Inc., decided today by the N.C. Supreme Court, in an… The post Fraud Claim Over "No Blowback" Assurance by Private School to Complaining ...
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
Contract Claim Over Private School Expulsions, Allegedly Caused by Parents' Organizing Against Ideological Curriculum Changes, Can Go Forward
"Beginning in the summer of 2020, the school began to change its curriculum to focus on politicized issues of race and gender identity. At some point, the Turpins learned that the school was teaching ...
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
"Fascist" Menachem Begin was a Champion of Individual Rights and the Rule of Law
And he certainly was no Fascist.
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
Today in Supreme Court History: August 14, 1935
8/14/1935: President Roosevelt signs into law the Social Security Act of 1935. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of this… The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 14, 1935 appeared...
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
The Fauci Hearings: Defending Science as Science
For over six years, I have written about the Covid debacle. In the spring of 2020, when questioning lockdowns, masking policies, Anthony Fauci, or the recommendations and policies of the World Health ...
LewRockwell
Aug 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Has Trump Already Lost the War with Iran?
Months ago, the administration said the war's goals were regime change and the removal of all uranium from Iran. We never hear about that anymore because the war has failed to produce either goal. Ins...
Mises Institute
Aug 14, 2026 - mises.org
How “swingy” are North Carolina General Assembly districts?
While most North Carolina General Assembly districts trend Republican, this looks like a good year for Democrats. They enjoy a 48-42.6 percent advantage over Republicans on the state legislative gener...
John Locke Foundation
Aug 14, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Taming Odysseus
Christopher Nolan wants to tell a fundamentally different story than Homer told.
Law & Liberty
Aug 14, 2026 - lawliberty.org
Pied-à-tricked
Is there anything more cosmically just than a voter, after innocently mentating causes-and-effects of a proposed public policy, pulling the lever in full belief that a plebiscite’s ill effects will do...
Free the People
Aug 14, 2026 - freethepeople.org
The War on Free-Range Kids Makes The New York Times
For too long, the government has acted as if any child venturing out unsupervised is in danger—and has negligent parents.
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
"Professors' Speech in Class Has Not Been Regulated; It Has Been Hired"
Yesterday's Seventh Circuit opinion in McDonald v. Trustees of Indiana Univ. held that public university professors lacked standing to challenge… The post "Professors' Speech in Class Has Not Been Reg...
Reason.com
Aug 14, 2026 - reason.com
Germany Imported a Crisis and Now the Prisons Tell the Story
—– Click Here: Martin Armstrong The post Germany Imported a Crisis and Now the Prisons Tell the Story appeared first on LewRockwell.
LewRockwell
Aug 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The NFA Is Dying – Is the Trump Admin Finally Done Trying to Save It?
Making the Second Amendment great again – one ruling, one restriction at a time.
Main Feed
Aug 14, 2026 - libertynation.com
The Return of Economic Gaslighting
Democrats learned the hard way that voters don’t like being told the economy is great when they’re struggling to afford everyday life. Now Republicans have chosen the same strategy.
Mises Institute
Aug 14, 2026 - mises.org
The Illegal Constitutional Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution has been the basis of numerous Supreme Court decisions, yet there is a compelling case for its never having been legally ratified. In this week’s Friday...
Mises Institute
Aug 14, 2026 - mises.org
Scott Bessent: New Prince of the Yen?
On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Tho, and Dr. Jonathan Newman recent economics headlines, including interventions to prop up the yen, a bad jobs report, and troubling signs in bond markets.
Mises Institute
Aug 14, 2026 - mises.org
Socialism Humor
Our first 2026 edition of socialism humor was released in February. Time to pick up the pace with five more ways of mocking this evil and stupid ideology. We’ll start New York City’s “caviar communist...
International Liberty
Aug 14, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
En Banc Fifth Circuit Dismisses Alien Enemies Act Case as Moot
The ruling does not address whether Trump properly invoked the Act.
Reason.com
Aug 13, 2026 - reason.com
Woke 1.0, House of the Dragon, and the Absurd Politics of Surveillance
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi break down the absurd political fights about America’s surveillance state before jumping into House of the Dragon.
Reason.com
Aug 13, 2026 - reason.com
How Karoline Leavitt Changed the White House Press Room
The new media seat was a good idea.
Reason.com
Aug 13, 2026 - reason.com
Justice Elena Kagan on the Late, Great Prof. Richard Fallon
From the Harvard Law Review (thanks to Prof. Richard Re for the pointer): Forty years ago, I walked into Dick… The post Justice Elena Kagan on the Late, Great Prof. Richard Fallon appeared first on Re...
Reason.com
Aug 13, 2026 - reason.com
Surrogacy Contracts, Abortion, and Peonage
Some questions for liberals and conservative to think about.
Reason.com
Aug 13, 2026 - reason.com
Israeli Intel Responsible for Trump Changing Flights in Turkey
Last month, Israel passed intelligence to the US that caused President Donald Trump to change his planes before departing the NATO summit in Turkey. The Washington Post reports that current and forme...
The Libertarian Institute
Aug 13, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Hegseth: The New Motto Is We Do Bad Things to Bad People
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared that the new motto of the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition (ACCC) is “we do bad things to bad people.” “The new motto of the ACCC is ‘we do bad things to bad pe...
The Libertarian Institute
Aug 13, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Of Course Clark is Right | Words & Numbers | Ep 519
Clark Neily joins Ant and James once again, this time to discuss the thorny matter of constitutional interpretation. The post Of Course Clark is Right | Words & Numbers | Ep 519 appeared first on Free...
Free the People
Aug 13, 2026 - freethepeople.org
Iranian Official: Tehran May Continue War Through Trump’s Term
A senior adviser to the Iranian military said that Tehran was prepared to continue the war through 2028 to deter any nation from attacking Iran again. One way is to prolong this war until we get to t...