Libertarian Reporting for 2026-09-09
Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 74 articles from 11 sites. We chose these from 1963 articles found on 36 sites.
Today's featured sites are:
Reason Magazine, Cafe Hayek, LewRockwell, Law & Liberty, Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute, The Libertarian Institute, John Locke Foundation, International Liberty, Antiwar.com Blog, Mises Institute, C4SIF.org.
The American Prison Experiment: A 250-Year History of Good Intentions and Bad Results
A strange trip through the U.S. prison system's never-ending cycle of failure and reform
Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Some Links
TweetMark Penn and Andrew Stein report that most young people who express support for socialism – surprise! – have no idea what actual socialism means. A slice: Say socialism and college-educated youn...
Cafe Hayek
Sep 8, 2026 - cafehayek.com
‘Normals’ vs. the Revolutionary Pod People
I think it evident to anyone that we are in the middle of a real “cultural war,” that is, a vigorous, often vicious, mostly angry, take-no-prisoners struggle for what is left of the American country w...
LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Can Ohio Tolerate Ramaswamy's Religious Toleration?
In November, we will learn whether Buckeye Republicans have been sufficiently persuaded by a more tolerant vision of the fusion of faith and freedom.
Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Retaliation
Plus: Capitalism blaming, desalination innovation, Houthis fire on Saudi Arabia, and more...
Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
The Advantage of the Stronger
More is at stake in the US-Canada trade war than just tariffs and revenue.
Law & Liberty
Sep 8, 2026 - lawliberty.org
Referees Have Nothing To Hide. The NFL and NCAA Should Show Every Big Replay Review Live on TV.
Plus: The NBA’s punishments to Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers are great, but not quite enough; and an ode to the friendships connected by fantasy football
Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
The Reckoning of 2028
Walk through the financial districts of London, New York, or Singapore at six in the evening, and you’ll catch the last act of a performance that grows harder to maintain by the quarter. The tailored ...
LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Better Serfdom Is Not Freedom
For the life of me, I just cannot understand why anyone would choose serfdom over freedom. After all, we’ve been given only one life to live. Wouldn’t it be better to live that one life in freedom rat...
LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The week in regulations: Honey taxes and airline delays
August’s job numbers were better than expected. President Trump threatened to cut off trade to all nations that export more to America than they import. Hostilities in Iran flared up again. Diesel fue...
Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute
Sep 8, 2026 - cei.org
Trump Is Weaponizing the Department of Education After Pledging To Kill It
Instead of abolishing the department, the president increased its budget. It's now pursuing investigations against school districts for seemingly political reasons.
Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
The Illusion of Freedom: How Wealth and Oligarchy Captured America
Writes Bill Madden: What we are experiencing is the logical conclusion of an economic cycle where a relatively few super-rich families own and control everything. The wealth transfer from the people ...
LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Epstein Files, 9/11, and Other Important Matters Obscured by the Iran War
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks will arrive this Friday but I’m not sure how much attention that date will receive. Those landmark events of a quarter-century ago were certainly among...
LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Donald Trump Is Rearranging the Empire, Not Dismantling It
Roughly 4,000 soldiers of the Army’s 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, unpacked their gear in the second week of May. The Associated Press reported that the Pentagon had scrapped ...
The Libertarian Institute
Sep 8, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
China and the Rule of Law
China's growth is not the result of command.
Law & Liberty
Sep 8, 2026 - lawliberty.org
All That’s Wrong In Ukraine
Ukraine is in trouble. It is losing the war in Eastern Europe, it is losing its land, and it is losing its people. Ukraine’s demographic survival is in danger: it is wasting away. Since the conflict i...
The Libertarian Institute
Sep 8, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
New in SCOTUSBlog: Empower the Supreme Court's supermajority on substantive matters
Five votes can do anything; six votes should do everything.
Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Was D.C. Bar's Liquor License Denied Partly Based on Owner's Speech Criticizing Anti-Masking/Vax-Proof Requirement Speech?
The D.C. Circuit just let a case making this allegation go forward.
Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
The Candlestick Makers Are Back, and This Time They’re Not Joking
In 1845, the French economist Frédéric Bastiat petitioned parliament on behalf of the nation’s candlestick makers. They were being ruined, he wrote, by an unscrupulous rival that was flooding the mark...
LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Harrison Berger: AOC 2028 | U.S. BOMBS Iranian Wedding | 2028 Dems CAN’T Escape the Israel Question
AOC gets asked a simple question with enormous consequences: should Benjamin Netanyahu be arrested if he lands in the United States while an ICC warrant hangs over him? We unpack why her cautious answ...
The Libertarian Institute
Sep 8, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Why America's Prisons Keep Failing
C.J. Ciaramella discusses 250 years of prison reform, the crisis facing state prisons, and whether America can build a more humane system.
Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Probing the link between oil and gas prices
Robert Romano writes for the Daily Torch about the impact of falling oil prices on gas prices. “The big Oil Companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower price...
John Locke Foundation
Sep 8, 2026 - johnlocke.org
The Near Entirety of Americans Are Engulfed by a Nationalistic Stockholm Syndrome
“America’s state religion, is ‘patriotism,’ a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that ‘treason’ is morally worse than murder or rape.” ~ William Blum One meaningless jingoistic clich...
LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Out, damned spot! Precautionary regulation could threaten the future of wearable AI
California may become the first state to take major statutory action to regulate wearable recording devices like smart glasses. Senate Bill 1130 has passed both chambers of the California legislature ...
Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute
Sep 8, 2026 - cei.org
Schools with racial preferences could lose tax exemption
The Dallas Express reports a significant development involving the federal Treasury Department and IRS. The U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service proposed new regulations Thursday that...
John Locke Foundation
Sep 8, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Donald Trump’s Historical Illiteracy
I’ve written several times (here, here, here, here, here, and here) about Trump’s economic illiteracy. Five of those columns were about Trump’s blind spot on trade and one dealt with his affinity for ...
International Liberty
Sep 8, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
Forensic Election Fraud Analysts Allege Defendants Defamed Them as "Retaliation for Plaintiffs' Refusal to Report False Findings of Election Fraud"
Their defamation and breach of contract case against Stefanie Lambert can go forward, a judge concluded.
Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Second Amendment Roundup: 1st Volley of Briefs Filed in Viramontes
AR-15 ban issue attracts filing of 45 amicus briefs in Supreme Court.
Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Leipzig False-Flag Drama Is Cover for Germany’s Expansion of Drone War on Russia
The Leipzig false-flag event is a desperate attempt to cover up and gaslight the public into perceiving Russia as a threat. European news headlines have been dominated by Germany’s accusation that Rus...
LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
NYC tax dollars to fund influencers promoting socialism
Editors at the New York Post highlight Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s latest bad idea. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialist revolution is on the march — with an army of nearly 200 social-media “influencers” promo...
John Locke Foundation
Sep 8, 2026 - johnlocke.org
God’s Little Helpers
Stalin once said, `The death of one person is a tragedy. The death of thousands is a mere statistic.’ He was quite right, of course. Palestine is the current example of Stalin’s cynical observation. T...
LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Is AI Creating a ‘Society of Cheats’ — and Incompetents?
It was decades ago now that commentator Alan Keyes, responding to talk of “crises” (e.g., the economic crisis), added perspective. The real crisis we need worry about, he warned, is our “moral crisis....
LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The ‘Longstanding Tradition’ of Defense Corruption in Ukraine
Corruption in Ukraine is a long standing issue. As the Guardian headlined more than a decade ago: Welcome to Ukraine, the most corrupt nation in Europe – Guardian, Feb 6 2015 The inflow of money to Uk...
LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Ep 087 “Hybrid Warfare in the New Age: Japan Expands the Conflict Aperture (Part Two)”
Hybrid warfare Is a can of worms, a fascinating conjoining of kinetic and non-kinetic means of achieving victory or stale between warring nations. This second episode examines an historical example of...
The Libertarian Institute
Sep 8, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Senator seeks to revoke NEA charter
Editors at the New York Post ponder a US senator’s proposal for holding a national teachers union accountable for its misdeeds. A key US senator wants fellow lawmakers to consider revoking the Nationa...
John Locke Foundation
Sep 8, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Today in Supreme Court History: September 8, 1953
9/8/1953: Chief Justice Fred Vinson dies. The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 8, 1953 appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Brickbat: Thinkin' About My Doorbell
A police officer in Greenville, North Carolina, was placed on administrative leave after a Ring doorbell video showed officers entering… The post Brickbat: Thinkin' About My Doorbell appeared first on...
Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Ron Paul on the ‘Golden Age’ Iran War Update: Americans Have Paid $100B in Extra Energy Costs
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: After trillions spent on Middle East wars, hundreds of billions on Ukraine, a staggering $100 Billion has already been spent by the American people for extra energy...
Antiwar.com Blog
Sep 8, 2026 - antiwar.com
Economic Coercion and the Limits of Liberty: US Sanctions and Cuba’s Tourism Sector
In the name of “liberating” Cuba, the Trump administration is imposing tyrannical hardships on Cubans.
Mises Institute
Sep 8, 2026 - mises.org
Learning valuable lessons from American history
Thaddeus McCotter writes for American Greatness about the importance of studying lessons from the nation’s history. Once more in these trying times, Americans are compelled to recognize and reflect up...
John Locke Foundation
Sep 8, 2026 - johnlocke.org
The Practice of Government Is the Opposite of the Theory of Government
TweetEconomics textbooks teach that a core function of government is to “internalize externalities.” Observation teaches that a core function of government is to externalize internalties – as I explai...
Cafe Hayek
Sep 8, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from pages 304-305 of my late, great colleague Walter Williams’s 2015 book, American Contempt for Liberty, which is a collection of many of Walter’s columns and essays; this quotation specif...
Cafe Hayek
Sep 8, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Trump Loses Two More Sanctuary City Cases - And Picks up A Rare Win
The unusual victory arises from a connection to the Contracts Clause.
Reason Magazine
Sep 7, 2026 - reason.com
The Summit Washington Couldn’t Stop
A photograph moved across the Western wires with a caption in capital letters. “COUNTER US POWER,” it read, above an image of the Kyrgyzstan president walking China’s Xi Jinping past an honor guard in...
The Libertarian Institute
Sep 7, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Help Workers by Breaking Down Barriers to Labor Mobility
Labor Day is a great time to remember that we can make workers vastly better off by empowering more of them to vote with their feet, both within countries and through international migration.
Reason Magazine
Sep 7, 2026 - reason.com
Let NATO’s Free-Riders Fight WWIII
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave an interview during the G20 gathering in Asheville, North Carolina, in which he calmly diagnosed Canada’s self-inflicted problems: “We’ve had a ‘free rider’ probl...
LewRockwell
Sep 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
RFK Jr.'s MAHA Cooking Show Is Government Propaganda. I Kind of Love It?
I think it's cool that conservatives are trying to make it cool to care about nutrition. But this isn't the government's place.
Reason Magazine
Sep 7, 2026 - reason.com
The State Spins a New Idea for Recruiting in an Age of War
Have you ever watched cars in motion and thought the wheel spokes were rotating backwards? It’s the stroboscopic effect that occurs when we sample reality at an inappropriate frequency, making the unr...
LewRockwell
Sep 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Washington Is Losing the Global Battle of Public Opinion
For decades, one of the keys to Washington’s power has been its ability to use favorably inclined allies as force multipliers. Now, facing its first peer competitor in generations, Washington has been...
The Libertarian Institute
Sep 7, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Robert Anderson's Cold War
How Eisenhower’s treasury secretary became a Cold War fixer, intelligence go-between, and a man no one wanted to discuss.
Reason Magazine
Sep 7, 2026 - reason.com
If Canada is 'Ripping Off' the U.S., Why Is It Falling Behind?
Americans have been widening the prosperity gap with our neighbors for years.
Reason Magazine
Sep 7, 2026 - reason.com
Germany’s Airport Terror Plot: a Flight of Fancy Leading Europe to War
Germany’s latest false-flag stunt at Leipzig is a sign of desperation by a bankrupt political system to distract from its abject, total failure. This week saw yet another audacious attempt at gaslight...
LewRockwell
Sep 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Inside the Fight ff MI6 and CIA Proxies Over Who Is To Lead Ukraine
This fight over the future of Ukraine is intensifying. Not only on the frontline, or between local power centers in Kiev, but also between the security services of the Anglo-American ‘allies’. On Wedn...
LewRockwell
Sep 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Court Grants TRO Barring "Threatening, Intimidating, and Retaliation Action … Without a Legitimate Law Enforcement Purpose" Against ICE Watcher
From Judge Michael Newman (S.D. Ohio) Friday in Moorman v. Doe No. 1; since this is a decision at the… The post Court Grants TRO Barring "Threatening, Intimidating, and Retaliation Action … Without a ...
Reason Magazine
Sep 7, 2026 - reason.com
Professor Investigated for Mocking a University 'Land Acknowledgment' Gets a $600,000 Settlement
The agreement follows a 9th Circuit ruling that the University of Washington violated Stuart Reges' First Amendment rights by treating his dissent as intolerable "disruption."
Reason Magazine
Sep 7, 2026 - reason.com
Looks Like Anglin Was Right, After All
Donald Trump does not want to kill millions of Iranian civilians. But Trump has a gun to his head and time is running out. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is getting dangerously low, long-term interes...
LewRockwell
Sep 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Larry Johnson: How Long Can the Military Fight Trump’s War Against Iran
“Total control” is easy to say on a podium, but war has a way of grading claims in real time. We sit down with Larry Johnson to sort through the latest reports of US strikes linked to the Strait of Ho...
The Libertarian Institute
Sep 7, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Who Owns California's Gold?
The Gold Rush was not only a scramble for wealth. It was also a scramble for property rights.
Reason Magazine
Sep 7, 2026 - reason.com
The Real Elites vs. The Ruling Elites
Always and everywhere, political institutions are controlled by elites. It doesn’t matter if the regime type is democratic or monarchical. It doesn’t matter if there is a written constitution or not. ...
LewRockwell
Sep 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
How the Law of Displacement Can Solve the Data Center Crisis
Much of what is written here is guided by the fact I spend a lot of time thinking about the problems the world faces and what solutions could potentially address them, either now or in the future when...
LewRockwell
Sep 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
US Envoys Present ‘New’ Ideas in Moscow and Kiev That Could Rekindle Negotiations
The trip by President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow and Kiev was met positively in both capitals. Following their meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev on...
The Libertarian Institute
Sep 7, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Liberal Education Worthy of the Name
Harvey Mansfield has enraged liberal critics by advocating academic rigor. But his critique of Harvard has been vindicated.
Law & Liberty
Sep 7, 2026 - lawliberty.org
The Argument We Forgot How to Have
American free expression doctrine is younger and thinner than we think. An older legal tradition solved problems we are still arguing about.
Law & Liberty
Sep 7, 2026 - lawliberty.org
The Green Energy Paradox: Saving Nature by Destroying It
The environmental movement used to be about protecting nature: clean rivers, clean air, fewer toxic chemicals and less destruction of the countryside. Now, apparently, we are going to save nature by d...
LewRockwell
Sep 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Specter of Nuclear War Raises Its Head
When Trump recently declared the shift in his war against Iran from military to economic sanctions, I thought he had found his exit strategy. But no sooner were the words out of his mouth than Netany...
LewRockwell
Sep 7, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
9-7 election data dump: North Carolina’s election begins
North Carolina’s election began on September 4, with county boards of elections distributing absentee ballots and accepting voted ballots online from military and overseas voters. County boards accept...
John Locke Foundation
Sep 7, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Trademark Censorship and Bullying: A Lawyer Named Atticus v. “Atticus”
See A Lawyer Named Atticus v. “Atticus”: Trademark Law, Referral Fees, and Who Gets to Practice Law: Related The Patent, Copyright, Trademark, and Trade Secret Horror Files The Velvet Elvis and Other ...
C4SIF.org
Sep 7, 2026 - c4sif.org
US, South Korea and Japan Begin Joint War Games
The US, South Korea, and Japan kicked off five-day Freedom Edge war games in and around the Korean Peninsula. “The exercise will also incorporate multi-national maritime and aviation capabilities, and...
The Libertarian Institute
Sep 7, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Russia Slams Deployment of Long-Range US Missile Launcher to Norway
The US has moved a launcher into Norway capable of firing Tomahawk missiles. The deployment drew a strong rebuke from Moscow. “A US Air Force C-17A Globemaster III delivers a US Navy Containerized La...
The Libertarian Institute
Sep 7, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
How Often Are Articles in Top Law Reviews Written In Part By AI?
A guest post from Julian Nyarko.
Reason Magazine
Sep 7, 2026 - reason.com
Today in Supreme Court History: September 7, 1958
9/7/1958: The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas denied the Little Rock School Board's petition to suspend… The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 7, 1958 appeared fi...
Reason Magazine
Sep 7, 2026 - reason.com
Being Unprincipled Isn’t Applause-worthy
TweetHere’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal. Editor: Patrick Walsh is right that Alexander Hamilton was more of a protectionist than Andrew Langer made him out to be (Letters, September 7). But th...
Cafe Hayek
Sep 7, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Assessing Unions on Labor Day
In honor of Labor Day, I’ve occasionally written columns (2010, 2011, and 2020) about the role of unions in a free economy. Let’s repeat that exercise this year, starting with this video from John Sto...
International Liberty
Sep 7, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
9/1/26 Nolan Denaro on JD Vance, Pete Hegseth and the Failures of MAGA War Hawks
Download Audio. Scott interviews writer and podcast host Nolan Denaro about several columns he’s written recently for Antiwar.com. They dig into the shortcomings, failures and overall depravity of the...