Most serious writing that advocates repeal of the 17th Amendment was published more than a decade ago. At the time, libertarian and constitutionalist circles showed modest interest in restoring Senate selection to state legislatures. That discussion never matured into a sustained reform effort, and it eventually faded.
In recent years, and with particular intensity since Donald Trump’s ascent to the political center stage, trade deficits have been increasingly cast as symbols of national weakness. Persistent US trade deficits are treated not as accounting outcomes, but as evidence of unfair dealing, foreign predation, or elite incompetence. Surpluses are praised as victories, while deficits are framed as losses demanding correction through tariffs, subsidies, and industrial policy.
Trump is close to launching a major attack on Iran as it continues a massive buildup of military forces in the Middle East, according to a report from Axios.
Macron: “Free speech is a pure bullshit if nobody knows how you are guided through this so-called free speech—especially when it is to be guided from one hated speech to another hated speech.”
In his keynote speech at the sixty-third annual Munich Security Conference on February 14, American Secretary of State Marco Rubio missed an opportunity for the Trump administration to set the Western alliance on a new course that would recognize the desires of developing countries for access to capital and the freedom to trade, which is the driving force of the BRICS movement.
A recent Wall Street Journal article recently outlined yet the latest attempts by the US government to bring down Cuba’s socialist government, a process that has been going on without much success for the past 65 years.
[From Isonomia Quarterly 4.1 Spring 2026. Read the full article at Isonomia Quarterly.]
There’s no doubt that the Americas were irrevocably changed by European contact. The decimation and sociopolitical transformation of the Western Hemisphere was so thorough that many scholars speak of an indigenous genocide—the intentional destruction of native societies. But there’s also no doubt that the story is not so simple.
Steve Bannon, who has condemned “Austrian economics, limited government,” also spent many hours chumming it up with Epstein.
