Libertarian Reporting for 2026-09-07
Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 42 articles from 10 sites. We chose these from 1962 articles found on 36 sites.
Today's featured sites are:
C4SIF.org, Cafe Hayek, Free the People, Reason Magazine, The Libertarian Institute, International Liberty, The Libertarian Alliance, LewRockwell, Mises Institute, Blog - Students For Liberty.
“The Problem with Intellectual Property,” Springer 2026
Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics, Christoph Luetge and Marianne Thejls Ziegler, eds. (Springer, Dordrecht 2026) has been published, including my chapter “The Problem with I...
C4SIF.org
Sep 6, 2026 - c4sif.org
Some Links
TweetThe Washington Post‘s Editorial Board decries Trump’s economically clueless demand for easy money – and his lunatic threat to pressure the Fed to comply by preventing Americans from buying any im...
Cafe Hayek
Sep 6, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Disconnect and Dissonance
We want everything. We will pay for nothing. The post Disconnect and Dissonance appeared first on Free the People.
Free the People
Sep 6, 2026 - freethepeople.org
Can an All-Female Nude Spa Bar Transgender Clients With Male Genitalia? The Supreme Court May Decide.
Olympus Spa—an all-female, nude establishment in Washington state—sued after the government said it had broken the law by refusing to accept a preoperative transgender woman. But the case is more comp...
Reason Magazine
Sep 6, 2026 - reason.com
Do You Have the Right To Possess an AR-15? The Supreme Court Will Soon Decide.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a pair of cases involving rifle restrictions imposed by Connecticut and Cook County, Illinois.
Reason Magazine
Sep 6, 2026 - reason.com
Energy Secretary: Nuclear Deal With Iran May Not Happen Under Trump
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said President Donald Trump may not reach a new nuclear agreement with Tehran during his presidency, suggesting the US could instead focus on destroying Iran’s nuclear ca...
The Libertarian Institute
Sep 6, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Witkoff, Kushner Meet Putin in Moscow, Zelensky in Kiev
President Donald Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, traveled to Moscow and Kiev for meetings on ending the war in Ukraine. On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin held...
The Libertarian Institute
Sep 6, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Part II: Trump’s Most Impressive Accomplishment?
If I’m being serious, deregulation is actually Trump’s most impressive accomplishment. Today’s column, however, will be dripping with sarcasm. That’s because I’m going to repeat what I did in June and...
International Liberty
Sep 6, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
Today in Supreme Court History: September 6, 1983
9/6/1983: The City of Richmond solicited bids for installing plumbing fixtures at the city jail. The J.A. Croson Company's bid… The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 6, 1983 appeared firs...
Reason Magazine
Sep 6, 2026 - reason.com
Dozens of Joint Staff Members Given Polygraphs in Hunt for Leakers
Investigators forced dozens of civilian employees and military officials assigned to the Joint Chiefs of Staff to take polygraphs. The Pentagon is looking for leakers amid a flurry of reports about th...
The Libertarian Institute
Sep 6, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from Samuel Gregg’s excellent July 2024 paper, “A Free, Prosperous and Secure America”: Certainly, trade liberalization should not be regarded as ushering in the type of perpetual peace envi...
Cafe Hayek
Sep 6, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Trump and the Nuclear Threshold: A Man Unfit for Office
What sort of president has to be asked whether he intends to drop a nuclear weapon on a country that does not possess one? Donald Trump was asked that question in the Oval Office on August 31. His ans...
The Libertarian Alliance
Sep 6, 2026 - libertarianism.uk
Alienation of Affections as Complicity
In the discussion of the Kyrsten Sinema alienation of affections case, several commenters took roughly the following view: Spouses have… The post Alienation of Affections as Complicity appeared first ...
Reason Magazine
Sep 6, 2026 - reason.com
America Last: H-1B, DEI, and Wealth Disparity
When you look at present day America 2.0, you almost have to marvel at the depth of the unfairness, injustice, and criminality all around us. As I’ve said so many times, there is nothing accidental ab...
LewRockwell
Sep 5, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Sanctioning a Ghost: Europe’s Empty Gesture Against Iran
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced today that the European Union has “officially joined” the American sanctions campaign against Iran — Operation Economic Outcast — and framed Tehran’s choi...
LewRockwell
Sep 5, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Nearly Half of US Citizens Say Washington’s Post-9/11 Wars ‘Worth the Cost’
Nearly half of US citizens believe the wars waged by Washington in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond after the 11 September 2001 attacks have been “worth it,” a YouGov poll published on 2 August shows. Th...
LewRockwell
Sep 5, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Iraq War Cheerleaders Were Wrong. They're Wrong About Iran Too.
Hawkish pundits predicted both wars would be swift and successful. That's not how it turned out.
Reason Magazine
Sep 5, 2026 - reason.com
Can Americans Learn, or Is It Too Much of a Challenge for Them?
Reading the comments on the Unz Review of my latest article there, “The True Story of World War II,” I wonder about the point of my efforts in truth’s behalf. I have long wondered about the utility of...
LewRockwell
Sep 5, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Economic Illiteracy of Tariff Man, Part II
At the start of this video, I explain why I don’t worry about my trade deficit with the local grocery store. For today’s column, I decided to create a very simple visual. Here’s a depiction of what I ...
International Liberty
Sep 5, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
Freedom Is Much More Important Than Democracy
Democracy invites despotism. When understood as majority rule, democracy means that fifty-one of every hundred citizens can have their way with the other forty-nine. “But I want to keep my possession...
LewRockwell
Sep 5, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
From Clancy, to Benoit, to Fisher and Gaza…children are innocent
One of the current trending intrigues asks how a mother, Lindsay Clancy, should be handled. She has admitted to the murder of her three children. Despite the usual cavalcade of conspiracy theorists an...
The Libertarian Institute
Sep 5, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
The Fallacy of Stable Prices
Though Herbert Hoover was a pioneer among presidents in getting the government to “do something” about a depression, he was no maverick. He had the support of distinguished court economists who promo...
LewRockwell
Sep 5, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
NYC Law Could Force Uber and Lyft to Keep Dangerous Drivers on the Road
A federal judge temporarily blocked it from taking effect. But the legal fight is ongoing.
Reason Magazine
Sep 5, 2026 - reason.com
Anti-Conspiracy Fanatics: Psychologically Brainwashed Wards of the State
“People conspire, that’s not a theory.” ~ Michael Palmero Never has such an asinine term had such an impact against truth as the use of the thought-destroying phrase “conspiracy theory.” While bought ...
LewRockwell
Sep 5, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Authoritarianism Rises as Governments Fear Losing Power
All Republics eventually turn against their citizens when they begin to see their power slipping away through their fingers. Today in Europe, free speech has vanished. In the US, you see “See Somethin...
LewRockwell
Sep 5, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
When the Pumps Run Dry: The First Signs of Fuel Scarcity
The driver pulls off Interstate 80 at exit 234, expecting the routine of a familiar truck stop. The digital price display is dark. A single sheet of printer paper hangs behind the glass, taped at the ...
LewRockwell
Sep 5, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
We’re Living in a Tragicomic Parody
It’s hard to take a joke when our entire economy and financial system is the joke. We’re blessed/cursed to be living in a very peculiar era in which parodies are taken with the utmost seriousness, an ...
LewRockwell
Sep 5, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
N.C. Court Has Jurisdiction over Alienation of Affection Claim Brought Against Ex-Arizona-Senator Kyrsten Sinema
This tort, which lets people sue their spouses' lovers for interfering with the marriage, is litigated in about 150 new cases per year in North Carolina.
Reason Magazine
Sep 5, 2026 - reason.com
Opera Star Anna Netrebko Loses Follow-Up Defamation Case Against the N.Y. Metropolitan Opera
From Netrebko v. Metropolitan Opera Ass'n Inc., decided Thursday by Judge Analisa Torres (S.D.N.Y.): In early 2022, the Met fired… The post Opera Star Anna Netrebko Loses Follow-Up Defamation Case Aga...
Reason Magazine
Sep 5, 2026 - reason.com
How Would You Have Applied Massachusetts Law in the Lindsay Clancy Trial?
[A.] I know lots of people have opinions about the Lindsay Clancy trial, and I wanted to pass along the… The post How Would You Have Applied Massachusetts Law in the Lindsay Clancy Trial? appeared fir...
Reason Magazine
Sep 5, 2026 - reason.com
Today in Supreme Court History: September 5, 1922
9/5/1922: Justice George Sutherland takes the oath. The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 5, 1922 appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Reason Magazine
Sep 5, 2026 - reason.com
Market Theater, Gold, and the AI Bubble
Mark Thornton argues Washington is trying to manage bond yields, suppress gold’s warning signal, and sell AI as an inflation cure—even as debt and malinvestment pile up.
Mises Institute
Sep 5, 2026 - mises.org
Mario Spoltore Wins Our 2026 Impact of the Year Award
The Impact of the Year is European Students For Liberty’s only peer nominated award, for which our students nominate other volunteers, whose work in their opinion made the greatest impact toward a fre...
Blog - Students For Liberty
Sep 5, 2026 - studentsforliberty.org
A Federal Indictment Charges an ICE Officer With Lying About a Shooting That DHS Eagerly Defended
The habitually dishonest department uncritically accepted a story that was immediately contradicted by video footage and physical evidence.
Reason Magazine
Sep 4, 2026 - reason.com
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
Fancy timepieces, traitors, and lengthy footnotes.
Reason Magazine
Sep 4, 2026 - reason.com
The Right to Trial is Vanishing. Could Bolder Juries Save It?
A new campaign by the Cato Institute aims to educate jurors on their right to vote their conscience against unjust laws and sentences.
Reason Magazine
Sep 4, 2026 - reason.com
Texas Labeling Islamic Group a Terrorist Organization Infringes on Campus Free Speech
By labeling this group a terrorist organization, the state is chilling more than Muslims' freedom of expression.
Reason Magazine
Sep 4, 2026 - reason.com
A Primer on Government Spending and Red Ink, Part III
Part I of this series explained that government spending is the problem. Part II of this series explained that red ink is a symptom of that problem, but it is also a symptom can turn into a problem. T...
International Liberty
Sep 4, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
The 2026 Group of the Year Is Team Georgia
European Students For Liberty operated in 42 different countries last year. Our volunteers around the continent hosted events and conferences, wrote articles, and ran campaigns with real-world impact....
Blog - Students For Liberty
Sep 4, 2026 - studentsforliberty.org
Sean Combs (P. Diddy)'s Defamation Suit Can Go Forward (Including Against NewsNation)
From Judge John Cronan (S.D.N.Y.) today in Combs v. Mitchell: Plaintiff Sean Combs is a well-known musician who uses the… The post Sean Combs (P. Diddy)'s Defamation Suit Can Go Forward (Including Aga...
Reason Magazine
Sep 4, 2026 - reason.com
The Lindsay Clancy Trial Was Never Going To Answer the Question Everyone Was Asking
In the court of public opinion, there is little room for ambiguity here. But those who watched the trial know that reality is far less satisfying.
Reason Magazine
Sep 4, 2026 - reason.com
Ground Troops Needed to Defeat Iran. U.S. Army 1M Short…
—– Writes R. Cort Kirkwood: As expected, boosters for the war against Iran now admit what everyone knew when President Trump scrapped the Constitution and attacked the country on behalf of Israel. An ...