Federal judge orders Trump administration to release Tufts University grad student Rumeysa Ozturk from ICE lockup.

The transatlantic slave trade has long been associated with the mass kidnapping of Africans to the Americas, but an often-overlooked chapter in this history is the enslavement and forced exile of Native Americans to the Caribbean. Among the destinations for these indigenous captives was Jamaica, a British colony central to the imperial sugar economy. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Native American prisoners—primarily captured in colonial wars in New England and the Southeastern colonies—were transported to Jamaica as slaves.

[The Price of Our Values: The Economic Limits of Moral Life by Augustin Landier and David Thesmar. (University of Chicago Press, 2025; 181pp.)]

The authors of this valuable, though flawed, book are distinguished French economists. Landier is professor of finance at HEC Paris and Thesmar is professor of finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

While Joseph Schumpeter and the Austrian School often find themselves at odds over fundamental questions in economic theory—particularly over value theory, capital, and the role of entrepreneurship—it would be a mistake to overlook the significant common ground they share when it comes to their diagnosis of the state and its dangerous proclivity to grow.

“The Constitution has much to say to us regarding foreign policy, if we will only listen. For over half a century the two major parties have done their best to ignore what it has to say.”—Ron Paul

In all the recent discussion regarding USAID, it is good to look to some prescient wisdom from the past, to key development economists who have shaped the field and have been proven right so often because of their insightful analysis. In discussing foreign aid and development economics, it would be impossible (or negligent) to avoid the work of P.T. Bauer.

Lately, James Lindsay has burned much of his credibility in attacking largely non-interventionist right-wingers as “Woke Right.” 

On Friday morning, President Trump proclaimed on his Truth Social: “We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!” Trump is being hailed as a hero for demanding that the IRS bring Harvard University to its knees.