Libertarian Reporting for 2026-10-12
Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 37 articles from 6 sites. We chose these from 1961 articles found on 36 sites.
Today's featured sites are:
Reason Magazine, Cafe Hayek, International Liberty, LewRockwell, C4SIF.org, The Libertarian Institute.
Trump Has Been Trampling Free Speech for More Than 40 Years—and It Keeps Getting Worse
The president stands out from his modern predecessors by openly displaying his contempt for the First Amendment.
Reason Magazine
Oct 11, 2026 - reason.com
New York's Controversial Anti-Swastika Law Turns Prosecutors Into Speech Police
Graffiti vandals are now being investigated for hate crimes.
Reason Magazine
Oct 11, 2026 - reason.com
Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 25 of the Second Edition (2025) of GMU Econ alum Benjamin Powell’s excellent book Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy: Passing a law that mandates higher pay does noth...
Cafe Hayek
Oct 11, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Part I of the Global Entitlement Crisis
I wrote a two-part series about the western world’s looming fiscal crisis in 2024 and 2025. Now it’s time for an entire week on the issue. Starting tomorrow, we’ll look at nations most likely to trigg...
International Liberty
Oct 11, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
Canada's First Nations Are Using Their Land To Build Dense Housing
Exempt from Vancouver's building restrictions, Squamish Nation is constructing a 6,000-unit residential high-rise.
Reason Magazine
Oct 11, 2026 - reason.com
Today in Supreme Court History: October 11, 1972
10/11/1972: Roe v. Wade argued. The post Today in Supreme Court History: October 11, 1972 appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Reason Magazine
Oct 11, 2026 - reason.com
Confessions by Two Alleged Al Qaeda 9/11 Conspirators are Inadmissible and Why it Matters
Last week, military judge Lt. Col. Michael Schrama, ruled that the US government failed to establish that Mustafa al-Hawsawi, an alleged facilitator of the 9/11 attacks, gave voluntary confessions to ...
LewRockwell
Oct 11, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Relax! Trump Says Oil Will ‘Drop Like a Rock’
Numerous oil tankers at sea are being hit, and not just in the PG. The Black Sea cauldron is burning oil and coming under attack. Saudi Arabia can’t get its oil out via land or sea, thanks to two wa...
LewRockwell
Oct 10, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Pakistan-Saudi-Yemen-Iran Riddle
The House of Saud is attacking Ansarallah to protect the death cult in West Asia, Pepe Escobar writes. Let’s start with exclusive intel. On Thursday, Yahya Ali al-Ra’i, speaker of the Sana’a-based Hou...
LewRockwell
Oct 10, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Wojtowicz, Infoanarchism (2016)
Mentioned in Wojtowicz, Libertarianizm in Polish: Stanislaw Wojtowicz, “Infoanarchizm,” libertarianizm (Jan. 22, 2016). I reprint the Google translation below (along with the comments). My comments to...
C4SIF.org
Oct 10, 2026 - c4sif.org
When Will This White House Madness End?
It was another horrific week in Washington with President Donald Trump actually succeeding in coming out with an apparently improvised comment that equaled or maybe even exceeded his ghastly performan...
LewRockwell
Oct 10, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
NATO – A Globalized Military Network
NATO is the extended arm of the European Union (EU); it is the militarization of the EU bloc. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is the military protection for globalization. NATO intends to co...
LewRockwell
Oct 10, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Some Links
TweetPhil Magness and Gabriel Giguère argue that “Canada shouldn’t give Trump ammunition for his illegal trade war.” A slice: While Canada has legitimate grievances against the Trump administration’s ...
Cafe Hayek
Oct 10, 2026 - cafehayek.com
The Great British Exodus: Taxes, Housing Costs, and Terrible Healthcare Are Driving Young Brits Away
More than 1.2 million British nationals have left the United Kingdom since 2021.
Reason Magazine
Oct 10, 2026 - reason.com
Government Should Liquidate Itself
This should surprise no one: The Social Security Trust Fund is expected to run dry by 2032, at which point benefits will be slashed or taxes increased. Since slashing benefits is political suicide, w...
LewRockwell
Oct 10, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
SpaceX Found a Way Around the FCC
The company’s spectacular IPO obscured a quieter breakthrough that could transform satellite communications.
Reason Magazine
Oct 10, 2026 - reason.com
Mamdani's $131.5 Million DoorDash Settlement Is Not What He Says It Is
The mayor characterized it as a victory against corporate greed. Meanwhile, 65 percent of affected drivers were underpaid by $1 or less, and the average underpayment was $7.70.
Reason Magazine
Oct 10, 2026 - reason.com
The Day Accountability Arrived
The multicultural tower of babel collapsed when the fictional narrative of the US Navy escorting millions of barrels of oil daily exiting the Strait of Hormuz could no longer be maintained. This orch...
LewRockwell
Oct 10, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Anti-war blog – And, they kill school girls…
While the anointed masters of modern morality discuss the layers of consent over recent revelations between ‘Jane Doe’ and the Cornell 7, or with all the vigour of Christian conservatives during the S...
The Libertarian Institute
Oct 10, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
The Dead Don’t Die! Zombie Cells Don’t Either….
My favorite Zombie flick provides a loose analogy to what happens in our bodies as we age. . . Cells become crippled, lose function and become toxic, but don’t die. “They are like the wounded tiger fe...
LewRockwell
Oct 10, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
On Budget Deficits and Trade Deficits
TweetHere’s a letter to MarketPlace. Editor: Sabri Ben-Achour plausibly identifies U.S. government budget deficits as contributing significantly to U.S. trade deficits (“The cause of the U.S. trade de...
Cafe Hayek
Oct 10, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Energy Ceasefire in a Political Deadlock
The NATO-Russia proxy war in Ukraine is going into another round of negotiations. A Ukrainian delegation is currently in Florida to talk with President Trump’s negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kush...
LewRockwell
Oct 10, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
“Mamdacula” Strikes Again
The first “Mamdacula” video pointed out that Mayor Mamdani’s budget relied on a big bailout from state taxpayers. The second video noted that his crazy housing policy is a threat to middle-class landl...
International Liberty
Oct 10, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
Today in Supreme Court History: October 10, 2012
10/10/2012: Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin I argued. The post Today in Supreme Court History: October 10, 2012 appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Reason Magazine
Oct 10, 2026 - reason.com
10/5/26 Ian Proud on Getting Detained by the UK Government
a Download Audio. Scott interviews Ian Proud about how he recently traveled to Russia to hear a speech from Putin, only to be detained by his own government upon his return. Scott and Proud talk about...
The Libertarian Institute
Oct 10, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Kafka's The Trial "Was Not Supposed to Be an Instruction Manual"
In a Fifth Circuit case (which the court just declined to rehear en banc), a woman had faced potential prosecution for publishing a photo of a transgender politician washing hands in a women's restroo...
Reason Magazine
Oct 9, 2026 - reason.com
Don't Blame AI Labs for What Hackers Do With Their Tools
AI executives are planning for a public revolt after a major attack. A federal power grab is the wrong response.
Reason Magazine
Oct 9, 2026 - reason.com
Despite a Notable Victory in Oklahoma, Legal Challenges to Flock Cameras Still Face Long Odds
State and federal courts have almost uniformly ruled that searches of ALPR databases do not implicate the Fourth Amendment.
Reason Magazine
Oct 9, 2026 - reason.com
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
Prison phone calls, volcanic eruptions, and animal testing.
Reason Magazine
Oct 9, 2026 - reason.com
3 Congressmen Want to Strip Democratic Socialists of America of Legal "Rights, Privileges, and Immunities"
Reps. Clay Fuller, Diana Harshbarger, and Keith Self are cosponsors of H.R. 10501, introduced three weeks ago: The Communist Control… The post 3 Congressmen Want to Strip Democratic Socialists of Amer...
Reason Magazine
Oct 9, 2026 - reason.com
Anthropic Is Banning 'Cruel Behavior' Toward Claude. Chatbots Are Still Not Your Friends.
The AI company's decision might be a justifiable idea. But it appears it was made for the wrong reason.
Reason Magazine
Oct 9, 2026 - reason.com
Statement About Maine Lobster Industry as a Whole Can't Be Actionable Group Defamation
From today's First Circuit decision today in Bean Maine Lobster, Inc. v. Monterey Bay Aquarium Found., written by Judge Julie… The post Statement About Maine Lobster Industry as a Whole Can't Be Actio...
Reason Magazine
Oct 9, 2026 - reason.com
Trump Announces Deal to Import Russian Diesel
President Donald Trump announced an agreement with Russia to supply millions of tons of diesel to the US and global markets. The announcement came a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky cr...
The Libertarian Institute
Oct 9, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Épater le bourgeois (shock the middle classes) Has Been the Revolutionary Rallying Cry of the Left in the Cultural War Against Judeo-Christian Morality and the Nuclear Family for Well over a Hundred and Fifty Years
Why Marxist Organizations Like BLM Seek to Dismantle the “Western Nuclear Family” Épater le bourgeois (shock the middle classes) has been the revolutionary rallying cry of the left in the cultural war...
LewRockwell
Oct 9, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
The Intersection of the Enlightenment, Freemasonry, Illuminism, and the Religion of Humanity Represents a Profound Shift in European Thought During the 18th and 19th Centuries
The intersection of the Enlightenment, Freemasonry, Illuminism, and the Religion of Humanity represents a profound shift in European thought during the 18th and 19th centuries. This era marked a trans...
LewRockwell
Oct 9, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Will Mamdani Make Housing More Affordable?
Emily Eisner and Kenny Burgos debate Zohran Mamdani's housing policies.
Reason Magazine
Oct 9, 2026 - reason.com
Is Hair on Your Head "Personal Property" for Purposes of Robbery Law?
From the Sept. 30 decision in People v. Barraza by California Court of Appeal Justice Richard Huffman, joined by Justices… The post Is Hair on Your Head "Personal Property" for Purposes of Robbery Law...