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[ad_1]  Download Audio. Scott interviews Jeff Deist about the significance of Ron Paul, who Deist used to work for, as well as Murray Rothbard. They then discuss the challenges and opportunities that the movement both men helped create and lead faces going forward. Discussed on the show: Jeff Deist is General Counsel of Monetary Metals. He previously worked as President of the Mises Institute, where he serves as a writer, public speaker, and advocate for property, markets, and civil society and as a longtime advisor and chief of staff to Congressman Ron Paul, for whom he wrote hundreds of…

[ad_1] Ukraine can look stable on a map while collapsing through its supply lines and that’s where we start. Zelensky claims his relationship with Donald Trump has “absolutely changed” after a private meeting, but we stress-test that optimism against a tougher metric: what the United States is actually providing in money, weapons, and air defense right now, and what it can realistically sustain.   From there, we dig into Russia’s ramped-up posture and why the Black Sea may matter more than another small shift in the Donbas. Larry Johnson explains the stepped-up strikes on Kiev and the strategic impact of…

[ad_1] Steve Stewart-Williams on Evolutionary Psychology, Pseudoscience, and the Politics of Gender In this conversation with Timur Sevincer and Nikil Mukerji, Steve Stewart-Williams, author of the new book A Billion Years of Sex Differences, discusses what evolutionary psychology actually claims, how the field can deepen our understanding of human nature, where the field has gone wrong, why the charge of pseudoscience misses the target, and how skeptics should respond when real science becomes politically unwelcome. Common Misunderstandings About Evolutionary Psychology Timur Sevincer: As skeptics, we care about pseudoscience, but also about exaggerated, distorted, or plainly false scientific claims. Which claims about…

[ad_1] The U.S. Supreme Court is seemingly under fire right now from every political direction. From the right, President Donald Trump has spent the last year pestering, bullying, and lambasting the Court, including launching repeated attacks against two of his own judicial appointees for daring to rule against him. Meanwhile, from the left, progressive activists are apparently gearing up to launch another big political push in favor of court packing, judicial term limits, and other measures designed to strip the Court’s conservative justices of the 6–3 majority they now command over the bench. Is anybody willing to say even just…

[ad_1] The article is here; the Abstract: The Trump Administration has been trying to attach “viewpoint diversity” mandates to federal funding, especially for universities. This Article analyzes the parallels between these new proposals and a much older one: the Fairness Doctrine. The arguments for both are similar. Lawyers who want to argue in favor of the constitutionality of viewpoint diversity mandates may get some help from Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC, which upheld the Fairness Doctrine against constitutional challenge. But the arguments against the Fairness Doctrine—ultimately accepted by the Reagan Administration’s FCC in 1987, when it rejected the Doctrine—are also…

[ad_1] The wave of violence committed by ICE officers only continues to increase, while the agency implements new changes against transparency and accountability, and top officials blatantly threaten more bloodshed on American streets. Here at The Free Thought Project, since January of 2025 we have been tracking the progression of abuses committed by agents of the Immigration and Custom Enforcement across the United States amid the agency’s weaponization by the Trump administration. Part one of this series documented how Trump’s immigration crackdown served to empower the police state, using immigration enforcement as a false pretext advancing a campaign to target and…

[ad_1] How stupid does he think voters are? President Donald Trump is touring the West Coast, selling Republicans’ midterm pitch to voters. As part of this, he’s trying to answer for high gas prices—which just hit a national average of $4.09 a gallon—but doing so in the most characteristically Trump way possible: deflecting blame for the war in Iran and focusing instead on how big businesses have erred. The Reason Roundup Newsletter by Liz Wolfe Liz and Reason help you make sense of the day’s news every morning. “Mike Wirth, Chairman and CEO of Chevron, just gave, in an interview with…

[ad_1] Some excerpts from Thursday’s long decision in Zafar v. Saghier, by Texas Court of Appeals Justice Wade Birdwell, joined by Justices Mike Wallach and Brian Walker:In what we construe as three overarching issues, Zafar asserts that (1) the evidence was insufficient to support the compensatory damages awarded for Saghier’s criminal attorney’s fees and mental anguish; (2) the award of exemplary damages was premised on a defective jury charge and, regardless, must be adjusted in accordance with the statutory cap if this court reverses any of the compensatory-damage awards; and (3) the trial court abused its discretion by allowing Saghier’s…

[ad_1] Darshan Magdum, a member of the viral boy band Boy Throb, has announced that his U.S. visa has been approved. “I got the visa!” Magdum exclaimed on a FaceTime call with his fellow bandmates on Monday. Magdum, originally from India, has been at the forefront of Boy Throb’s rise to stardom due to his struggles with the U.S. immigration system. Dressed in pink velvet tracksuits, Boy Throb began sharing adaptations of popular songs in October 2025 to prove they were a real band so that Magdum could obtain a visa and perform with them in the United States. Earlier…

[ad_1] The Fifth Circuit has launched a new design for its website. I love the glow-up! Here is the before design (courtesy the Internet Archives): And here is the after design. The home page now indicates which cases are currently being argued, as well as links to the latest opinions. The Opinions page also has a full text search, which seems to work quite well. I also like the calendar feature, which neatly displays which cases are being argued in which courtrooms at which times. Congratulations to everyone involved with the renovation, especially Clerk extraordinary Lyle W. Cayce who will…