Libertarian Reporting for 2026-09-15
Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 50 articles from 11 sites. We chose these from 1970 articles found on 36 sites.
Today's featured sites are:
LewRockwell, Law & Liberty, Reason Magazine, The Libertarian Institute, Cafe Hayek, Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute, John Locke Foundation, International Liberty, Main Feed, The Libertarian Alliance, Antiwar.com Blog.
Politically Americans Have No Where To Go
I have lost confidence in Trump, who represents Israel and not Americans. But when you look at the Democratic alternative, it is genuinely scary. The Democrats used a totally corrupt Department of ...
LewRockwell
Sep 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Free Speech Maximalism’s Terror Problem
We can protect the First Amendment’s liberties without endangering public safety.
Law & Liberty
Sep 14, 2026 - lawliberty.org
The 'Stop Nick Shirley Act': Yet Another Anti-Doxxing Law That Chills Free Speech
A lawsuit argues that a recently passed law to protect immigration service providers in California is "overbroad and vague."
Reason Magazine
Sep 14, 2026 - reason.com
The Reality of Republican Socialism
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city grocery store proposal is not a serious socialist threat to free enterprise. We already know they don’t work: Baldwin Market (2019-1924), owned by the town of...
The Libertarian Institute
Sep 14, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Some Links
TweetThe Wall Street Journal‘s Editorial Board wisely counsels skepticism of AI CEOs’ calls for government regulation of AI. A slice: The CEOs [of AI firms] can also see how the politics of AI are mov...
Cafe Hayek
Sep 14, 2026 - cafehayek.com
The week in regulations: Waters of the United States and ASCII formatting
The country reflected on the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. President Trump promised a $5,000 check to every American adult if Republicans win the midterm elections. Inf...
Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute
Sep 14, 2026 - cei.org
9/11 and 25 Years of ‘Endless Wars’… More Like 250 Years
Since 2001, the United States has embarked on a path of “endless wars” or “forever wars”. Twenty-five years ago this week, the United States and the world were shocked by the terrorist attack that bec...
LewRockwell
Sep 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Major Questions, Nondelegation, and the Section 338 Tariffs Against Canada
Why the major questions and nondelegation doctrines bolster the legal case against Trump's Section 338 tariffs.
Reason Magazine
Sep 14, 2026 - reason.com
Augusto Sandino’s Ghost Should Haunt Every Latin America Hawk
On January 3, 2026, American aircraft struck targets across Caracas while special operations teams seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and flew both to New York on n...
The Libertarian Institute
Sep 14, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
AI Slowdown
Plus: Commercial surrogacy regulation, Russian weapons, a new drug in San Francisco, and more...
Reason Magazine
Sep 14, 2026 - reason.com
Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA Sponsored by Israeli Govt-Aligned Outfit, Leaked Contract Shows
A year after Charlie Kirk’s killing, his organization has buried his criticism of Israel to maintain support from the Israel-based International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. With close ties to t...
LewRockwell
Sep 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Should Data Centers Go Seasteading?
With their reputation figuratively underwater, data centers might be going literally underwater too.
Reason Magazine
Sep 14, 2026 - reason.com
The 2028 Digital ID Deadline Approaches
Something shifts beneath the surface of ordinary life. Not with announcements or spectacle, but through the quiet consolidation of systems that now track, verify, and gatekeep nearly every exchange be...
LewRockwell
Sep 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Liberty Unlicensed
John Milton’s Areopagitica reveals the poet’s commitment to freedom as the pursuit of virtue and truth.
Law & Liberty
Sep 14, 2026 - lawliberty.org
Police Department May Decline to Release Names of Officers Trained by ICE
"[T]he Department submitted credible evidence that threats, doxxing, and other forms of harassment have been directed toward law enforcement charged with enforcing existing federal immigration laws."
Reason Magazine
Sep 14, 2026 - reason.com
AOC, Mamdani blasted for apparent 9/11 indifference
John Solomon writes for Just the News about one congressman’s angry response to two high-profile leftists. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford, who is leading efforts to gird America a...
John Locke Foundation
Sep 14, 2026 - johnlocke.org
AI Predictive Crime Programs Take Shape as Public Opposition Mounts
As Americans turn against artificial intelligence, AI companies are building programs to surveil and identify troublemakers in advance. An investigative report published this week by The American Pros...
LewRockwell
Sep 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The pointless trade war against Canada
Starting a trade war with Canada is one of the strangest decisions of Donald Trump’s presidency. Over at the Daily Wire, I try to make sense of it: Politics is almost never about the merits. This is o...
Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute
Sep 14, 2026 - cei.org
American defense against ‘cheap precision’
John Ferrari and Dillon Prochnicki detail a current challenge for American national defense. Operation Spiderweb demonstrated that locally launched drones can impose strategic costs far behind the fro...
John Locke Foundation
Sep 14, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Unconstitutional Conservatism?
For a century, the British Conservative Party has put interest over constitutional fidelity.
Law & Liberty
Sep 14, 2026 - lawliberty.org
Flock Cameras Watching You
Welcome to America, where apparently standing around is now enough to have your movements searched through a nationwide surveillance network. Records obtained from the Plano, Illinois Police Departmen...
LewRockwell
Sep 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The City Is Not London—How Babylon’s Temple Banks Built the Financial System
“Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.” — Matthew 6:12 When we look into antiquity, we tend to see primitive people. But ancient Babylon (c. 2000–539 BCE) and our world today are not t...
LewRockwell
Sep 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Brickbat: Keeping the Peace
Immigrant-owned small businesses in East Harlem that spoke out against Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plan for city-owned supermarkets say they are suddenly… The post Brickbat: Keeping the Peace appeared firs...
Reason Magazine
Sep 14, 2026 - reason.com
Saudi Output Drops to Zero
We’re at the end of the line. After seven months of unprovoked warfare, the situation in the Middle East has ballooned into a full-blown crisis. Overnight, Saudi oil exports have fallen to zero. ZERO!...
LewRockwell
Sep 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The German Foreign Minister Grumbled That Ukraine Isn’t Buying Enough German Guns
The more upset his taxpayers become with their country’s lack of tangible returns from the billions of euros that it’s given to Ukraine, the more that support for the AfD is expected to surge. German ...
LewRockwell
Sep 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
AEI scholars make case against Trump tariffs
Stan Veuger and other American Enterprise Institute scholars offer a legal argument against Trump administration tariffs. For the President to invoke authority under Section 122 in the way that he has...
John Locke Foundation
Sep 14, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Politician Humor
As explained in my four-part series (here, here, here, and here), politicians are loathsome creatures who put their personal ambition above the national interest. The opposite of genuine patriotism. B...
International Liberty
Sep 14, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
Federal Court Allows Libel-by-AI Claim (Brought by Protagonist of Apple TV's Black Bird Series) to Go Forward
From today's decision by Judge Thomas Durkin (N.D. Ill.) in Keene v. Google LLC: Keene is an author, television producer,… The post Federal Court Allows Libel-by-AI Claim (Brought by Protagonist of Ap...
Reason Magazine
Sep 14, 2026 - reason.com
The Builders and the Parasites
Capitalism doesn’t build surveillance states — it builds infrastructure. What gets done with that infrastructure afterwards is somebody else’s problem, and it’s a problem the folks building it never s...
LewRockwell
Sep 14, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Calling Red “White” Doesn’t Make Red White
TweetHere’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal. Editor: Aluminum-industry lobbyist Mark Duffy’s case for tariffs on aluminum is weak (Letters, September 14). He trumpets a reality that no tariff oppo...
Cafe Hayek
Sep 14, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Senate Lawmakers Return – But They Won’t Stay Long
There isn’t much time for work between now and Election Day, but Congress doesn’t seem to mind.
Main Feed
Sep 14, 2026 - libertynation.com
Oklahoma Judge's Ruling Contained AI Hallucinations
From Reuters (Mike Scarcella) last week, linked to yesterday by David Lat (Original Jurisdiction): The judge, Lawrence Wheeler of the… The post Oklahoma Judge's Ruling Contained AI Hallucinations appe...
Reason Magazine
Sep 14, 2026 - reason.com
Today in Supreme Court History: September 14, 1901
9/14/1901: President Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated. He appointed three members to the Supreme Court: Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rufus Day,… The post Today in Supreme Court History: September ...
Reason Magazine
Sep 14, 2026 - reason.com
Moving Soon? Here Are 10 Modern Conveniences That Will Make It Easier.
How Wayfair, Taskrabbit, and Instacart simplify your transition to a new house or apartment
Reason Magazine
Sep 14, 2026 - reason.com
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest DARRYL COOPER: Bin Laden Is Dead. His War on America Isn’t.
World War II is the one war we’re still not allowed to talk about like history, and that’s exactly why we should. I’m joined by Darryl Cooper to dig into what happens when a past conflict becomes a ci...
The Libertarian Institute
Sep 14, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Trump Dismisses Calls for AI Slowdown
You can’t spell China without AI.
Main Feed
Sep 14, 2026 - libertynation.com
Documenting the forces behind anti-AI narrative
Athena Thorne writes for PJMedia.com about an interesting discovery in the world of online propaganda. On Tuesday, an AI researcher named Jacob Coxon flounced from his job at Anthropic, posting on X t...
John Locke Foundation
Sep 14, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Weighted Student Funding Report: Hits and Misses
A recently released Public School Forum (PSF) report on school finance warns that migrating from North Carolina’s present resource allocation system to a system of Weighted Student Funding — without s...
John Locke Foundation
Sep 14, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 11 of Thomas Sowell’s “Introduction” to Compassion Versus Guilt, a 1987 collection of some of his popular essays: Another political concept often heard in our times is “solution.” ...
Cafe Hayek
Sep 14, 2026 - cafehayek.com
New York City’s Moocher Mayor
I’m not a fan of the “Caviar Communist” who is now Mayor of New York City. So I very much appreciate this video produced by a long-time friend. Before addressing the core message of the video (taxpaye...
International Liberty
Sep 13, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
European Cars Are Spying on Their Drivers. The Same Tech Could Be Coming to the U.S.
New cars in the E.U. must now have cameras that track drivers' eyes and flag distractions.
Reason Magazine
Sep 13, 2026 - reason.com
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest DAVE SMITH: Trump’s Failures Are Bringing the Woke Left BACK
Dave Smith joins Kyle Anzalone for a wide-ranging conversation about Trump’s failures, the changing American political landscape, and what Dave sees as the rise of “Woke 2.0.” After years of backlash ...
The Libertarian Institute
Sep 13, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Zelensky Says He Is Ready to Meet Putin at G20 Summit in US
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he wanted to meet with President Vladimir Putin if the Russian leader attends the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Miami in December. Zelensky was asked in an i...
The Libertarian Institute
Sep 13, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
North Korea Test Fires Ballistic Missiles After US-Led War Games
North Korea fired several short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea, one day after the US, South Korea, and Japan concluded their trilateral Freedom Edge war games. The South Korean Joint Chie...
The Libertarian Institute
Sep 13, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
The Gap That Could Cost Republicans the Midterms
A wedge between voters and the GOP.
Main Feed
Sep 13, 2026 - libertynation.com
America Hijacked: An Honest Indictment That Lets Trump Off the Hook
S.M. Carlson, America Hijacked: How Deep State Actors from LBJ to Obama Killed for Money and Power, and Why They Hate Trump So Much, Second Edition, 268 pages. Paperback ISBN 978-1-7336755-4-3; hardco...
The Libertarian Alliance
Sep 13, 2026 - libertarianism.uk
Today in Supreme Court History: September 13, 1810
9/13/1810: Justice William Cushing died. The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 13, 1810 appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Reason Magazine
Sep 13, 2026 - reason.com
End Trump Oil Embargo on Cuba With War Powers Vote, Coalition Urges House Democrats
Dozens of advocacy groups this week urged House Democratic leaders to force a vote on an existing war powers resolution aimed at endingr President Donald Trump’s unauthorized aggression toward Cuba, i...
Antiwar.com Blog
Sep 13, 2026 - antiwar.com
Trump Backs Off Threats as Gulf States Prepare for Talks With Iran Over Hormuz
President Donald Trump said he does not object to Gulf states meeting with Iran to discuss the Strait of Hormuz, a significant shift after he previously threatened to bomb Oman over its negotiations w...
The Libertarian Institute
Sep 13, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Trump’s Goofy – and Deeply Misguided – Scheme for $5,000 Handout
Last month, I shared some charts from the Congressional Budget Office showing an ever-rising burden of government spending in the United States, along with an ever-rising burden of debt. I augmented t...