Thomas Knapp

Thomas L. Knapp is director and senior news analyst at the William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism (thegarrisoncenter.org). He lives and works in north central Florida.

Comey’s Numbers Aren’t News…or a Threat

Texas Pols Think They Can Control Speech. Nope.

A Hill to Dye On? RFK, Jr’s Food Coloring Policies

Every Accusation is a Confession: Insurrection Edition

Why the Trump v. Powell Fight is a Sideshow

Trump Will Never Accept Responsibility, But His Disappointed Voters Should

That’s Somebody Else’s Car

Trump Auto Tariffs: File Under “Victory, Pyrrhic”

Mixed Signal: The Other Side of the “Unitary Executive” Coin

Cleveland Rocks (In Some Ways Trump Should But Doesn’t)

Turn Off That (Government) Radio!

Schumer’s Surrender: Much Ado About Nothing Surprising

One Way or the Other: Is Trump Driving Us Down the Road to War? 

How Losing an Eye Might Make the World a Better Place

Yawning Through the Rites of Spring

Real Laws For Artificial Problems

The Press Is More Important Than the President, It Should Start Acting Like It

Why Trump Shouldn’t Negotiate With Putin on Ukraine

Sleeping or Not, DOGE’s Lie

Trump’s Tariff Schemes Hurt Even More When He Flip-Flops

Why the New Boss Could be Worse Than the Old Boss…by Being the Same Boss

Trump’s Return to Office Order: the Opposite of DOGE?

What to Expect When You’re Expecting a New President

Politics Makes People — Including Supreme Court Justices — Stupid

Veterans and Violence: Chicken or Egg?

A Man, a (Bad) Plan, a Canal, Panama

Happy Holidays (There Ought to be a Law to Help With That)

New Jersey Drones: Policy Follows Panic…Ineffectually 

I Heartily Agree With Donald Trump (and It’s About Time)

New Boss, Same as the Old: Brian Mast as Foreign Policy Indicator

Hey Joe, Pardon Me and Everyone Else!

Trump’s Second-Term “Efficiency” Offering: Microwaved Leftovers

Social Media Users Can Walk And Chew Gum. Why Abandon One For The Other?

The Obligatory Election Explanation Column

That’s Entertainment: Popular Alternatives to the Presidential Campaign Circus

Non-Endorsement Isn’t “Neutrality” or “Objectivity”

Election 2024: Prediction and Reasoning

Florida’s Abortion Measure: DeSantis Angles for a Mistrial

The Virtues of Selfies-ness Revisited

All Warrants Should Be Public Records

Failure to Indulge to Oren Cass’s Nationalist Delusions Isn’t An “Externality”

Biden’s War on Temu is a Political War on Your Wallet

Cats, Childlessness, And The Politics Of Subtraction

Election 2024: Finally Weird Enough?

Would-Be Censors Peddle Yet Another Election Meddle

There’s Nothing Really New About “Active Listening”

Marijuana: Your Permission Isn’t Really Necessary

RFK Jr. Was Never Really the Alternative He Pretended To Be

Election 2024: A Step Back From The Permanent Campaign?

Enough With The “Stolen Valor” Whining Already