Elon Musk recently took to X to denounce Trump’s “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” as a “disgusting abomination.” This sharp rebuke came mere days after Musk’s seemingly amicable departure from his informal position within the Trump administration as a “special government employee” heading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The Trump administration has stepped up apprehensions of suspected illegal immigrants considerably in recent weeks, and the federal government has expanded its deportation efforts well beyond targeting the criminal aliens who were the primary focal point during the campaign. The administration has instead turned to raiding job sites and other areas where immigrants are known to be found, in hopes of further increasing total apprehension numbers.
“By this time next week, the U.S. and Iran could be at war.” From Andrew Day of The American Conservative.
Categorically speaking, there are two explanations for political differences between people. Mistake Theory posits that the reason libertarians and, say, Marxist-Leninists, don’t agree with each other is that we have firmly-held, genuine beliefs about how to solve problems in the world. Politics is simply “the science of society,” and good politics tends towards the greatest good. Most people simply differ on how best to achieve the greatest good.
In his controversial book Softwar: A Novel Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin, US Space Force officer Jason Lowery presents Bitcoin, not as money or a market asset, but as a weapon of national defense. According to Lowery, proof-of-work (PoW) is not simply a consensus mechanism—it is a new form of power projection that turns kinetic force into digital deterrence.
[This article is a selection from Chapter 5 of Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal.]
Claudia Goldin is a Harvard labor economist who won the 2023 economics Nobel, and she has a new mission in life: boost pay for the players in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, she wrote that the pay disparity between WNBA players and their male counterparts in the NBA is “embarrassing.”
She writes:
