Libertarian Reporting for 2026-08-31
Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 35 articles from 6 sites. We chose these from 1967 articles found on 36 sites.
Today's featured sites are:
Notes On Liberty, Reason.com, Cafe Hayek, LewRockwell, Main Feed, The Libertarian Alliance.
The Sovereign Sea, Part 4: A Coalition of the Whaling
12. Why America Should Embrace Marine Mammal Diplomacy United States can help secure its strategic future in the Arctic by lifting its import bans on marine mammal products like seal pelts and whale m...
Notes On Liberty
Aug 30, 2026 - notesonliberty.com
Inside Venezuela's El Helicoide Prison: How Dissident Jesús Armas Endured Torture and Outlasted Maduro
For helping prove that Maduro lost the 2024 election, Jesús Armas spent more than a year in Venezuela’s most-feared prison. He’s lucky it wasn’t more.
Reason.com
Aug 30, 2026 - reason.com
Some Links
TweetAndrew Biggs explains that the U.S. Social Security program is welfare for the rich. A slice: Federal spending on retirement benefits is running riot. Social Security swallows nearly a quarter of...
Cafe Hayek
Aug 30, 2026 - cafehayek.com
An Actual SCOTUS Nightmare
Recently, Justice Jackson warned about a "Kafkaesque nightmare" at the Supreme Court. Well, I had my own.
Reason.com
Aug 30, 2026 - reason.com
To Presume That Trump’s Goal Is Free Trade Is Preposterous
TweetHere’s a note to a commenter at my Facebook page. Ms. Rachel Mills Ms. Mills: To my Facebook post ridiculing Trump’s latest punitive taxes – a.k.a. tariffs – on Americans’ purchases of goods from...
Cafe Hayek
Aug 30, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Re: “Steer Clear of Permanent Alliances”
—– Writes Bill Madden: Andrew Wallace’s article makes a strong case for, once again, making the Constitution the supreme law of the land. . The Constitution was created by prescient American leaders ...
LewRockwell
Aug 30, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Trump Must Not Let Washington’s Korea Hawks Intimidate Him Again
—– Writes Ted Galen Carpenter: One of the great foreign policy disappointments of Donald Trump’s first term was the failure to advance his initial promising initiative to begin normalizing relations w...
LewRockwell
Aug 30, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Trying to Make the Unseen Seen
TweetHere’s a response to a different commenter at my Facebook page. Mr. Martin: In response to my Facebook post critical of Trump’s protectionism, you write that Trump’s policies create great harm fo...
Cafe Hayek
Aug 30, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Today in Supreme Court History: August 30, 1967
8/30/1967: Justice Thurgood Marshall takes the oath. The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 30, 1967 appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason.com
Aug 30, 2026 - reason.com
9/11 Turbocharged America's Worst Foreign Policy Impulses—but Didn't Change Its Direction
The United States' shift toward aggressive interventionism was well underway before the 2001 attacks.
Reason.com
Aug 29, 2026 - reason.com
First Amendment Broadly Protects Against Speech-Based Deportation of Noncitizens, Court Rules
Some short excerpts from the >35K-word decision by Judge Noël Wise (N.D. Cal.) in Stanford Daily Pub. Corp. v. Rubio:… The post First Amendment Broadly Protects Against Speech-Based Deportation of Non...
Reason.com
Aug 29, 2026 - reason.com
Why Not Just Admit It? The Welfare-Warfare State Has Failed.
Why not just admit the obvious: The welfare-warfare state that 20th-century Americans brought into existence and that 21st-century Americans have kept in existence has failed. Wouldn’t that be a lot b...
LewRockwell
Aug 29, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Federal Court Rules Speech-Based Deportations Violate the First Amendment
The decision goes further than other similar recent rulings.
Reason.com
Aug 29, 2026 - reason.com
Lessons Buried in the Rubble: What Argentina’s 2001 Collapse Actually Teaches Us
Fernando de la Rúa left the Casa Rosada on December 20, 2001, through a side door, boarding a helicopter from the building’s roof. It was not symbolic. It was a literal escape from a capital in flames...
LewRockwell
Aug 29, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
‘Steer Clear of Permanent Alliances’
The Title is a direct quote from George Washington’s Farewell Address in 1796. He also said to “have as little political connection as possible”. Our government and the Parasitic Super-Rich Ruling Cla...
LewRockwell
Aug 29, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Russia Under Putin Is an Example of Self-Defeat
Since 2014, I have been puzzled by the absence of a Russian foreign policy strategy. The Kremlin had the carrot–diplomacy–but no stick, the absence of which made the diplomacy ineffective. If the di...
LewRockwell
Aug 29, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Your Enemy, The Deep State
Many people would like political solutions to their problems. In other words, they want the government to force others to do what they prefer. However, people with any moral sense recognize that can o...
LewRockwell
Aug 29, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Entire Financial System Is Chained to Government Debt
The Bank for International Settlements is warning that near-record public debt and the growing role of hedge funds and other nonbank financial institutions have created what it calls a “fiscal-financi...
LewRockwell
Aug 29, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Central Banking, the Scourge of Civilization
Apple builds and sells iPhones. I happen to own one of the older models, for the same reason I own a last-legs older model car. What if Apple could skip the build part and sell only the phone? The ...
LewRockwell
Aug 29, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Hoping for Smooth Sailing With the Sea Gulls and Thoreau
Here where I sit once again looking easterly to the vast sea, the wind and the waves and winding vistas along the north Atlantic coast drown out trivial thoughts. We are here for a few days to empty o...
LewRockwell
Aug 29, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Trump’s Trade People are Hopelessly Confused
TweetHere’s a letter to National Review. Editor: Jim Geraghty makes several excellent points in his critical assessment of Trump’s protectionist assault on Canada – which, of course, is also an assaul...
Cafe Hayek
Aug 29, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Lawmakers Want To Stop Kids From Nicknaming Their Pokémon
The Safer GAMING Act would silence minors in every online game by default—and violate the First Amendment.
Reason.com
Aug 29, 2026 - reason.com
Will First-Ever Republican Midterm Convention Be a Boom or Bust?
It’s supposed to boost congressional and gubernatorial candidates, but the GOP chairman calls it ‘Trumpapalooza’.
Main Feed
Aug 29, 2026 - libertynation.com
Washington Is Dismantling Its Own Empire One War at a Time — Robert Barnes and Larry Johnson
Former Trump Attorney and political commentator Robert Barnes joins former CIA analyst Larry Johnson to examine how the wars in Ukraine and Iran, the weaponization of the dollar and a succession of st...
LewRockwell
Aug 29, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Today in Supreme Court History: August 29, 1967
8/29/1967: Justice Neil Gorsuch's birthday. The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 29, 1967 appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason.com
Aug 29, 2026 - reason.com
Is Russia Really Plotting To Test NATO’s Resolve?
It’s actually NATO that might soon test Russia’s resolve. Politico cited unnamed officials to report that CIA chief John Ratcliffe’s unannounced trip to Russia was primarily meant to warn it against t...
LewRockwell
Aug 29, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Arabic Word Behind the Bank Check: The VOC Company — From Its Arab and Italian Financial Origins to Its Rise and Fall
When tracing the origins of modern capitalism, historians instinctively point to Amsterdam in 1602. Watch this creative 3D animation for VOC company. While the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oos...
LewRockwell
Aug 29, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Michael Howard: Architect of the Police State, Victim of the BBC
The Law is not so small a world that everyone in it knows everyone else. It does, however, contain large networks of acquaintance, and reputations travel through them. I had heard of Michael Howard be...
The Libertarian Alliance
Aug 29, 2026 - libertarianism.uk
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
Fabricated identities, fictitious daycares, and made-up laws.
Reason.com
Aug 28, 2026 - reason.com
Milo Yiannopoulos Wanted Millions Deported. He Didn't Mean Himself.
"I mean bad immigrants," Yiannopoulos said in a 2016 interview with Joe Rogan. "I don't mean handsome, charming, successful, blonde-haired British immigrants."
Reason.com
Aug 28, 2026 - reason.com
The CIA Is Making AI-Generated Reports for Local Police
The CIA has been using artificial intelligence to write “open source intelligence” analyses, which are being distributed to local police via DHS “fusion centers,” according to documents obtained by Re...
Reason.com
Aug 28, 2026 - reason.com
Judge Says Trump's Clampdown on Anthropic Violates the First Amendment
A judge ruled the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation of Anthropic was an unlawful, “arbitrary,” and “capricious” decision made to punish Anthropic.
Reason.com
Aug 28, 2026 - reason.com
Federal Judge Concludes Then-Candidate Trump's Attempt to Remove N.Y. Hush Money Non-Reporting Prosecution to Federal Court Came Too Late
From the long opinion today by Judge Alvin Hellerstein (S.D.N.Y.) in People v. Trump: Defendant Donald J. Trump, President of… The post Federal Judge Concludes Then-Candidate Trump's Attempt to Remove...
Reason.com
Aug 28, 2026 - reason.com
The Fourth Amendment and Laws Requiring Video Recording Inside Stores
A new Ninth Circuit ruling raises a number of hard issues.
Reason.com
Aug 28, 2026 - reason.com
What the Twin Revolts Against Flock and Data Centers Tell Us About the Power and Risks of Populism
What the simultaneous revolts against Flock and data centers can tell us about the power and risks of populism