mises.org: Ahoy! Ahoy! The Telephone, Entrepreneurship, and Cronyism -- https://tinyurl.com/2xste2v3 -- Our history books tell us about how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. They don’t tell us that his company then successfully got the government to grant it monopoly powers, thus harming consumers and stifling technological innovation for nearly a century. #liberty #news

reason.com: Review: Is Exit 8 an Anti-Screens Metaphor or Something Deeper? -- https://tinyurl.com/24mm8xns -- A Japanese thriller explores agency in a world that makes it too easy just to go along for the ride. #liberty #news

mises.org: The Imaginary World of Fed "Independence" -- https://tinyurl.com/2c49f3r5 -- The rhetoric of independence allows the Treasury and the Fed to cooperate when convenient and deflect blame when something goes wrong. #liberty #news

reason.com: How Karoline Leavitt Changed the White House Press Room -- https://tinyurl.com/28olym2t -- The new media seat was a good idea. #liberty #news

reason.com: Woke 1.0, House of the Dragon, and the Absurd Politics of Surveillance -- https://tinyurl.com/2a6lgvh6 -- Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi break down the absurd political fights about America’s surveillance state before jumping into House of the Dragon. #liberty #news

reason.com: Justice Elena Kagan on the Late, Great Prof. Richard Fallon -- https://tinyurl.com/2c98y2zp -- From the Harvard Law Review (thanks to Prof. Richard Re for the pointer): Forty years ago, I walked into Dick…The post Justice Elena Kagan on the Late, Great Prof. Richard Fallon appeared first on Reason.com. #liberty #news

reason.com: En Banc Fifth Circuit Dismisses Alien Enemies Act Case as Moot -- https://tinyurl.com/264tlhxu -- The ruling does not address whether Trump properly invoked the Act. #liberty #news

mises.org: The Prussians Who Built Prussia -- https://tinyurl.com/28smr24g -- The stereotype of the Prussian as the militaristic, state-loving creature probably needs to be rethought. The history of Prussia and its people is more complicated than contemporary historians wish to admit. #liberty #news

reason.com: Court Faults Self-Represented Plaintiff for Including Hidden "Prompt Injection" in Court Filing -- https://tinyurl.com/2y78zzbc -- An excerpt from Connecticut Superior Court Judge Walter M. Spader, Jr. last week in Elliott v. N.Y. Bariatric Group, LLC:…The post Court Faults Self-Represented Plaintiff for Including Hidden Prompt Injection in Court Filing appeared first on Reason.com. #liberty #news

mises.org: How the First World War Destroyed the Gold Standard -- https://tinyurl.com/22ome247 -- The ordinary people of Europe, so devastated by the shells of the First World War, would again be victimized by the new inflationary national currencies that would destroy savings and investment across the European middle class. #liberty #news