At the Popehat blog, Ken White has a nifty post under the headline "Libertarianism as Ten Questions Rather than Ten Answers."

John Tamny's new book, Who Needs the Fed? What Taylor Swift, Uber, and Robots Tell Us About Money, Credit, and Why We Should Abolish America's Central Bank, is the topic of my column this week. Please check the column out at the New York Sun (here), Reason (here), and Newsmax (here).

After the column was published, the New York Times provided yet another example of the phenomenon I wrote about. It was a food section article about the chef and restaurant operator David Bouley:

The commentariat is in a collective uproar over the blistering attack on a federal judge, Gonzalo Curiel, that was unleashed over the weekend by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump.

"If he is willing now to bully a judge overseeing a case involving his business, what respect for the separation of powers can we expect if he is president?" the Washington Post asked in an editorial, accusing Mr. Trump of displaying "disrespect for constitutional norms." A columnist at the paper, David Post, described the comments as "terrifying... a not-too-thinly-veiled attack on the notion of judicial independence and the rule of law."

Yuval Levin's new book The Fractured Republic: Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism was the topic of my column last week. Please check the column out at the New York Sun (here), Reason (here), and Newsmax (here).

The Libertarian Party's presidential ticket of the former governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson, and the former governor of Massachusetts, William Weld, is the subject of my column this week. Please check it out at the New York Sun (here), the New Boston Post (here), and Newsmax (here).

It's starting to look like a pattern: another resounding defeat for the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, dealt by the federal judges who ride the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Today the opinion came from Judges Raggi, Wesley, and Droney, who struck down a $1.2 billion civil penalty that had been imposed on Bank of America. The appellate judges found that the federal prosecutors had failed to show any evidence that the bankers had violated the federal mail and wire fraud laws under which they had been charged.

The search engine operator Google changes the design of its main search web page, Google.com, from time to time to honor special events. The redesign is known as a "Google doodle." Today's "Google doodle" marks the 95th birthday of Yuri Kochiyama.

Officially, Google explains the situation as follows:

It's with great pleasure that Google celebrates Yuri Kochiyama, an Asian American activist who dedicated her life to the fight for human rights and against racism and injustice. Born in California, Kochiyama spent her early twenties in a Japanese American internment camp in Arkansas during WWII. She and her family would later move to Harlem, where she became deeply involved in African American, Latino, and Asian American liberation and empowerment movements. Today's doodle by Alyssa Winans features Kochiyama taking a stand at one of her many protests and rallies.

Hillary Clinton's connections to Goldman Sachs, and what they will mean going forward in the presidential campaign or in a Hillary Clinton administration, are the topic of my column this week. Please check it out at the New York Sun (here), Newsmax (here), and Reason (here).

A left-leaning New York Times columnist, Eduardo Porter, writes this sentence in an article about how to increase economic growth:

Eliminating onerous regulations — things like occupational licenses that restrict eligibility for a variety of jobs and overly tight zoning laws that prevent the building of new homes — would improve economic efficiency and equity.

If some news organization wants to run a ridiculously one-sided piece criticizing Donald Trump's idea of allowing sales of health insurance across state lines, that's annoying. But what's really outright galling is that the news organization is NPR, which is taking taxpayer funding to run this sort of nonsense.

Usually the only poll that matters is the one taken on election day, but anyone feeling pessimistic about the state of the Republican Party these days, or about partisan division in America more generally, might take some heart from this Morning Consult ranking of state governors based on a "survey of more than 66,000 voters in all 50 states" conducted between January and May. (How the "survey" was conducted — phone? online poll? — is undisclosed, at least as far as I can tell.) From the report:

Republicans take eight of the spots on the list of 10 most popular governors. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is America's most popular governor, and he is followed very closely by fellow Republican Larry Hogan of Maryland.

My column this week begins:

It's a story that hits so many hot-button issues of the presidential campaign—free trade agreements, energy costs, monetary policy, taxes, income inequality, the loss of middle-class manufacturing jobs to foreign competition and technological change, corporate political influence, and government officials-turned-high-priced-Washington-lobbyists—that you might expect to see it on the front page of The New York Times.

Yet in this particular case, the story is about the Times, which earlier this month announced it would take a $41.4 million loss "related to the announced closure of a paper mill operated by Madison Paper Industries."

Please check the whole column out at the New Boston Post (here), Reason (here), and Newsmax (here). It is a classic.

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent editorial on David Ganek's case against the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara. The editorial calls Mr. Bharara's insider-trading campaign "one of the decade's great white-collar injustices."

The troubles faced by brothers and sisters of the leading presidential candidates are the subject of my column this week. Please check it out at the New York Sun (here) and Newsmax (here).

In the New Yorker, Jeff Toobin has an article about the U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, that goes further than most other coverage does in detailing how judges and defense attorneys think he has overstepped, or at least pressed the outer limits of, the bounds of appropriate conduct.