Libertarian Reporting for 2026-10-05
Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 32 articles from 9 sites. We chose these from 1965 articles found on 36 sites.
Today's featured sites are:
Reason Magazine, Cafe Hayek, International Liberty, The Libertarian Alliance, LewRockwell, Main Feed, Tom Woods, John Locke Foundation, Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute.
The Millennial Internet Is Dead, and Politicians Killed It.
Social media use is declining, and what's left has shifted from conversation to passive scrolling.
Reason Magazine
Oct 4, 2026 - reason.com
Comparing the Credentials Of Three Decades of Fifth Circuit Nominees
The Butler didn't do it.
Reason Magazine
Oct 4, 2026 - reason.com
Police Allegedly Destroyed $37,000 of Legal Hemp. Georgia's Supreme Court Just Upended 60 Years of Precedent.
The ruling has major implications for property owners when the government ruins their possessions in the exercise of "police power."
Reason Magazine
Oct 4, 2026 - reason.com
Vance’s Asserts Actual Decline
TweetHere’s another letter to a long-time correspondent. Mr. McKinney: Thanks for sharing John Carney’s tweet in response to my recent open letter to J.D. Vance – a letter in which I document some of ...
Cafe Hayek
Oct 4, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Some Links
TweetCharles Cooke gives details of just how much of our modern, convenient lives depend upon data centers. A slice: Certainly, we wildly underestimate the extent to which we rely on data centers. Tak...
Cafe Hayek
Oct 4, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 258 of F.C. Benham’s 1932 paper “The Balance of Trade,” which is Chapter XVIII of the 1932 report of a commission in the U.K., chaired by Sir William Beveridge; the title of the co...
Cafe Hayek
Oct 4, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Say No to ECB Bailouts
I have a three-part series on Europe’s looming fiscal collapse (see here, here, and here). Based on this data from Robin Brooks, the crisis will likely start in France (it’s a bad sign when the light ...
International Liberty
Oct 4, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
Today in Supreme Court History: October 4, 1965
10/4/1965: Justice Abe Fortas takes the oath. The post Today in Supreme Court History: October 4, 1965 appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Reason Magazine
Oct 4, 2026 - reason.com
The AI Panic Has Become Much Too Convenient
Something peculiar is happening in the artificial-intelligence industry. Three researchers connected with Anthropic have publicly announced that the technology they are helping to develop may destroy ...
The Libertarian Alliance
Oct 4, 2026 - libertarianism.uk
Minneapolis Activists Used Encrypted Group Chats To Outmaneuver ICE. Now the Feds Want To Prosecute Them.
"I think courts are going to be very suspicious of how broad this is," one Minnesota lawyer tells Reason.
Reason Magazine
Oct 3, 2026 - reason.com
The U.S. Is Sending a Third Aircraft Carrier and a Second Marine Division to the Middle East
The months ahead are shaping up to be a time of war, economic problems, food shortages and global chaos. There is no end in sight for the war in the Middle East or the war with Russia. Meanwhile, glob...
LewRockwell
Oct 3, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Two More Weeks – Let the Prosecutions Begin!
My X feed is filled with Republicucks breathlessly announcing that some Deep State Villain is about to get his/her/they/their comeuppance. Trumpenstein and his loyal team, FBI Director Kash Patel and ...
LewRockwell
Oct 3, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Judge Temporarily Blocks Dep't of Education Release of Names of Individual Foreign Donors to U.S. Colleges
From Judge Tanya Chutkan (D.D.C.) Thursday evening in Ass'n of Am. Univ. v. U.S. Dep't of Ed.: Section 117 of… The post Judge Temporarily Blocks Dep't of Education Release of Names of Individual Forei...
Reason Magazine
Oct 3, 2026 - reason.com
Mamdani Promised To Freeze the Rent. Now His Rent Freeze Is in Court.
A lawsuit alleges New York City's Rent Guidelines Board broke the law by arbitrarily predetermining the outcome.
Reason Magazine
Oct 3, 2026 - reason.com
How Hospitals Turned on Their Patients During COVID
The ruling elite typically aims to accumulate an immense amount of wealth, which often can only be obtained by extracting it from a large number of people, hence requiring each of those people sacrifi...
LewRockwell
Oct 3, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Irresistible Appeal of Anarchism
It is sometimes helpful to preface an essay with a strong quote or two to give the reader direction in what follows. In this case, I found many quotes worthy of that task, so I cite the following and...
LewRockwell
Oct 3, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
How the Fed’s Printing Press Created Today’s Wall Street Casino
Black Monday’s 23% collapse of the stock market came on October 19, 1987. We happen to recall this event vividly because when the market was experiencing its sizzling morning plunge on that day, we we...
LewRockwell
Oct 3, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The State as an Extension of Self: Psychological Evil
“Alas, when the freedom of the individual is defined and woven into the freedom of an imaginary whole, the individual ceases to have any freedom uniquely their own. It is no longer your freedom, but o...
LewRockwell
Oct 3, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Florida Sues Pfizer, Accusing It of Covid Vaccine Deception and Profiteering
More than five years after the Covid vaccine rollout, some states, thankfully, are still unwilling to close the books on what happened during the pandemic. Florida is opening another front. On Thursda...
LewRockwell
Oct 3, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
More on J.D. Vance’s Economic Cluelessness
TweetHere’s a letter to National Review Online. Editor: Michael Brendan Dougherty completely misses the point of Dan Foster’s excellent response to J.D. Vance’s express desire to “undo” 40 years of gl...
Cafe Hayek
Oct 3, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Iran Has Published a Naive Letter to the American People
The letter is truthful, a point made early in the letter: “As the first casualty of the endless wars waged by the US government has without exception been the truth, with the American people perpetual...
LewRockwell
Oct 3, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Today in Supreme Court History: October 3, 1990
10/3/1990: Justice David Souter takes the oath. The post Today in Supreme Court History: October 3, 1990 appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Reason Magazine
Oct 3, 2026 - reason.com
Artificial Intelligence and the Debt Market – Full Episode – LN Radio
On this edition of Liberty Nation Radio we examine two growing aspects of American culture and economy – will they end in boom or bust?
Main Feed
Oct 3, 2026 - libertynation.com
Ep. 2801 The GOP’s Young People Problem, and What Should Be Done
Independent Pollster Rich Baris discusses his new book Burn It Down: What the Polls Say Young Americans Really Want. Sponsors Getting clobbered by your competitors? Invisible in the search engines?… R...
Tom Woods
Oct 3, 2026 - tomwoods.com
2 Lawsuits Cast Further Doubt on the Claim That ICE Agent Jonathan Ross Killed Renée Good in Self-Defense
According to complaints filed by Good's family, Ross was not in any danger when he fired three shots into her car.
Reason Magazine
Oct 2, 2026 - reason.com
Justice Gorsuch on Abuse of Emergency Powers
In a recent talk, he decried a situation where "everything is an emergency."
Reason Magazine
Oct 2, 2026 - reason.com
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
Water rights absurdities, ponderous parking ordinances, and fast trains.
Reason Magazine
Oct 2, 2026 - reason.com
Want To Stop the Iran War? Don't Pay the Bill
Congress can stop Trump's Iran war by failing to fund it.
Reason Magazine
Oct 2, 2026 - reason.com
Rand Paul Was Right To Block the Senate's Attempt To Censor the Internet
The bill’s “duty of care” could pressure platforms to suppress lawful speech in the name of protecting children.
Reason Magazine
Oct 2, 2026 - reason.com
A Court Rules That San Francisco's Empty Home Tax Is Illegal
San Francisco's tax on vacant homes is bad policy. Now it's also bad law.
Reason Magazine
Oct 2, 2026 - reason.com
Is a tax revolt brewing?
Property taxes have been a hot topic at the North Carolina General Assembly. Responding to growing concerns from voters, in June 2026, the General Assembly approved legislation to enact a one-year mor...
John Locke Foundation
Oct 2, 2026 - johnlocke.org
This week in health care policy: September 28 – October 2, 2026
Drug pricing CMS finalizes GLOBE pilot. On September 30, CMS finalized the Global Benchmark for Efficient Drug Pricing model, a program that ties Part B drug rebates to prices paid in 19 countries. It...