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Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Tom has worked in journalism — sometimes as an amateur, sometimes professionally — for more than 35 years and has been a full-time libertarian writer, editor, and publisher since 2000. He’s the former managing editor of the Henry Hazlitt Foundation, the publisher of Rational Review News Digest (2003-present), former media coordinator and senior news analyst at the Center for a Stateless Society (2009-2015) and also works at Antiwar.com. He lives in north central Florida.

Shadow Protectionism: The US Government vs. Chinese Phone Makers

April 20, 2018April 20, 2018 Thomas L. Knapp

Are cheap Chinese phones and Internet routers really a significant threat to national security? Probably not. The more likely motive behind these moves is the inclination of US president Donald Trump, and his administration, toward “economic nationalism” in the form...

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Freedom is Winning in the Encryption Arms Race

April 17, 2018April 17, 2018 Thomas L. Knapp

If you thought the perpetual whining from law enforcement about encryption was about fighting terrorism, think again. It’s mostly about the money. Like other mobsters, politicians and their accomplices hate the idea of their rackets coming to an end.

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Trump Isn’t the First War Criminal President; He Should be the Last

April 16, 2018April 16, 2018 Thomas L. Knapp

The strikes on Syria constitute a war of aggression. The Syrian regime has never attacked, nor threatened to attack, any of the three countries which just attacked it, nor are its alleged domestic crimes, however horrible, the bailiwick of those...

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The Senate vs. Facebook: Beware Untrustworthy Partners, Revisited

April 12, 2018April 12, 2018 Thomas L. Knapp

Back in early 2015, when then-president Barack Obama signed an executive order on cybersecurity “information sharing,” I pointed out in a column that the federal government is the last organization any sane human being would trust to secure the privacy...

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Mueller is Desperate — But For What?

April 10, 2018April 10, 2018 Thomas L. Knapp

So far Mueller’s secured indictments of a few Trump associates on charges having little or nothing to do with his overt mission, and of a few Russians for running an Internet “troll farm” that posted some cheesy social media ads....

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First They Came for Backpage

April 9, 2018April 9, 2018 Thomas L. Knapp

In 2016, after a court slapped down the attempts of Kamala Harris (D-CA), then attorney general of her state and now a US Senator, to prosecute Backpage for “pimping,” I suggested that merely dismissing the charges was not enough. I...

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