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  • News & Announcements | The 13th Floor
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  • Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
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  • Conspicuous Cognition
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  • eugyppius: a plague chronicle
    Kamala Harris and the Rise of Progressive Nothing Politics - Last Tuesday, Kamala Harris gave A Very Important Speech at “the Ellipse,” which Wikipedia says is an elliptical lawn near the White House in Washington D.C.
  • Sustain What
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  • Can't Get Much Higher
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    Smart, But Not Too Smart: IQ as a Double-Edged Sword in Leadership (and Romance) - Balancing smarts and social skills
  • Freethink Media
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  • The Future of Being Human
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    America's Counter-Cultural Revolution - The climactic clash between the institutionalized and the instinctual - Yuri's debut in The American Mind
  • The New York Review of Books
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  • Yascha Mounk
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  • Quote Investigator
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  • Israel Institute of NZ
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  • Regan's Substack
    Foundational Divides - The essential dimensions of a worldview
  • The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry
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  • Roy Spencer, PhD.
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  • A life just as ordinary
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  • Schiffradio.com
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  • Thinking Directions
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  • Down to Earth Kiwi
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  • The Breakthrough Journal
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  • Anthony B. Bradley
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  • Doomberg
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  • Doug Casey's International Man
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  • Kiwipolitico
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  • Plain Sight
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  • The Scholar's Stage
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  • Journal of Free Black Moms
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  • A Havenstein Moment.
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  • Democracy Project
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  • Skeptic
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  • The China Space Monitor
    China's International Space Efforts - Plus another Thousand Sails launch 🛰️ More satellite direct-to-device news 📱 and BYD getting involved in astronaut transit 🧑🏻‍🚀
  • Institute for Progress
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  • The Cobden Centre
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  • Autonomia
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  • Unmasked (Ian Miller)
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  • Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)
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  • Texas Institute for Property Rights
    All Men are Created Equal: Shattering Paradigms Book 1 - In 1857, Samuel Dawson, the son of a slaveholder, befriends Will, a slave boy. The parents of the two twelve-year The post All Men are Created Equal: Sha...
  • thesecondrenaissance
    Independence and Romantic Relationships: The Lesson of Shel Silverstein’s The Missing Piece - Unfortunately, a great many people do not enjoy fulfilling romances.
  • After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)
    A Mission for Businesses and Entrepreneurs: Help Bring Back Childhood - Market forces got us into this mess, and market forces can help us escape
  • Objective Standard Institute
    Why I Used to Skip School Every Day - A podcast episode has helped me finally understand why I used to skip class every day and go exploring instead. The post Why I Used to Skip School Every ...
  • Truth on the Market
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  • Statecraft
    Does Anyone in Government Care About Productivity Growth? - "This is a big, structural problem with our government"
  • Paul Wells
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  • An Africanist Perspective
    Harris or Trump? What the outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election portends for America's Africa policy - Despite the two presidential candidates' different approaches, US-Africa policy will remained hobbled by historical blinkers and the harsh realities of geo...
  • Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.
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  • Africa-Israel Weekly
    Michigan Muslims Endorse Trump - Obama expresses bewilderment
  • Reason for Living
    Why I Used to Skip School Every Day - A podcast episode has helped me finally understand why I used to skip class every day and go exploring instead.
  • The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson
    The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 74) - Untimely Thoughts on a World in Transition
  • Macroscience
    Metascience 101 - EP8: "Invention vs. Diffusion" - IN THIS EPISODE: Journalist Derek Thompson and economist Eli Dourado investigate the bottlenecks standing in the way of the invention vs.
  • Asimov’s Addendum
    AI is Entirely New, AI is Exactly the Same - Thoughts on the new White House AI Memorandum
  • Changing Lanes
    Automated Driving: the Outside View - Also, the 2024 Progress Conference
  • The New Era
    Swearing (after she was told not to) - My interview with Abi Roberts
  • Toppermost
    Cosmic Psychos - One of the most notorious Australian pub rock bands, Cosmic Psychos play beer-fueled, garage-accented, heavy-hitting punk rock with no frills and no pret...
  • Market Urbanism
    A Case for Urban Renewal - Is it even possible today to write a vigorous argument in favor of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s? I doubt it. Jeanne Lowe's 1967 "Cities in a R...
  • Asymmetric Information
    Your average wombat is probably smarter🍋 - World Wombat Day gave me the excuse to review the new Apple Intelligence
  • Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf
    GUEST REVIEW: ...And Ladies of the Club, by Helen Hooven Santmyer - Please enjoy a final guest review while our baby works on some teeth.
  • Kibao
    Who In Africa is Ready for EVs? - New data shows a continent divided into emulators, innovators, and stragglers
  • Boom (UK)
    The 'parent gap' between rich & poor - Richer people are more likely to become parents
  • What You Can Do For Liberty
    What If It Turns Out You Were Important? - Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could do only a little. — Edmund Burke
  • visa's voltaic verses ⚡️
    straight outta tartarus - in search of the inner sanctums
  • Peter Winsley
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  • Too Clever By Half
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  • Armas
    The Hard Country: The River and the Line. - Chapter 2 of the book is out!
  • Croaking Cassandra
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  • The Roots of Progress
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  • Syncretica
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  • Maximum Progress
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  • Global Shield's Newsletter
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  • The Jolly Libertarian
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  • New Zealand Arts Review
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  • Don't Let It Go
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  • HardmoneyJim
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  • The Kerrant
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  • Lindsay Mitchell
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  • Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)
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  • Case Closed
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  • Tross Publishing
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  • Houston Strategies
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  • Theatreview
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  • Happy Future
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  • Fictionosophy
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  • Austin Vernon's Substack
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  • FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE
    AI is a tool, not an agent - The challenge will be to keep it that way
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  • 647 Reasons Why
    DAYS 1-3 - 90 Mile Beach - Days 1-3 of my trek across the entire length of New Zealand
  • The Logical Place
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    How Reading Your Journal Entries Can Make You Happier - From someone who's journaled over 750,000 words
  • Cranmer’s Substack
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  • Offsetting Behaviour
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  • Everyday Price Index | AIER
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  • Barrie Saunders
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  • Craig Biddle
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  • Let Grow
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  • Rosie Campbell
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  • Gross Output
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  • Wildlife – PERC
    Rewarding Recovery Will Benefit the Wolf and All Imperiled Wildlife - PERC filed an amicus brief in Defenders of Wildlife v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The post Rewarding Recovery Will Benefit the Wolf and All Imperiled...
  • Johnny Grey Studios
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  • Overthinking Everything
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  • The Free Market Futurist
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  • PERC - Property + Environment Research Center
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  • Bawerk.net
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  • Spiked Online
    After the Pogrom Book Donation - The post After the Pogrom Book Donation appeared first on spiked.
  • THE CIVILIAN
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  • Te Papa
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  • Political Correctness Watch
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  • Stu-Topia
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  • Demystifying Science
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  • a/symmetric
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  • In Due Course
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  • Outliving Iran
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  • Creative Deduction
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  • Better things are possible
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  • The Prophet of Causation
    A Causality Walk for Consciousness - Chapter 3
  • Wright in Racine
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  • PM of NZ
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  • Reviews - 13th Floor
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  • Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)
    Project 2025 vs. The Public’s Health, Part III - Part III: The NIH
  • TheMoneyIllusion
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  • Magazine Articles – Quadrant Online
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  • What's New Under the Sun
    Time for More Living Literature Reviews - A Third Anniversary Post
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  • Harry’s Substack
    The Complexity-Worshippers - The new attack on reason
  • Private Lands – PERC
    PERC and RMEF Team Up to Launch Innovative Wildlife Conservation Initiatives - Our expanded partnership marks the beginning of a multiyear effort focused on pioneering big game conservation efforts across the Rocky Mountain West and...
  • Hunters and Anglers – PERC
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  • Roots of Progress
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  • A City for People
    Making it easier to build granny flats - City for People submits in support of more homes in existing urban areas.
  • One Sock: Heather Roy's Blog
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  • Notes On Liberty
    New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is out - You can read the whole thing here.
  • Notes On Liberty
    New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is out - You can read the whole thing here.
  • Folarinism
    White identity politics won’t save Britain - It fails to provide a vision for a good life and a realistic solution to the problems we face
  • Jackson Upmann
    Coming soon - This is Jackson Upmann.
  • High Capacity
    A warped hall of mirrors: US-China competition and industrial policy - China doubled down on industrial policy and advanced manufacturing in its latest Third Plenum. As US-China competition heats up, both countries are drawing...
  • Leaving Groupthink, Inc.
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  • CEE – Econlib
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  • Liberty Scott
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  • FDR Liberated
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  • BloodhoundBlog
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  • Drinks and Drinking
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  • Anti-Dismal
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  • Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World
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  • A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand
    Ned Fletcher's book: "unsatisfactory" and "badly flawed" - *N*ew Zealand/Australian historian Bain Attwood reviews Ned Fletcher's *English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi* in the *Australian Book Review. *His c...
  • Fizzifood
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  • Growing to Truth
    Duh, Of Course Hamas Lied About Casualty Statistics - The UN revised their Gazan casualty statistics, claiming fewer women and children were killed than previously reported
  • Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays
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  • Keith Weiner Economics
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  • Earthly Idealism
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  • from FEE
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  • Jack’s Substack
    Electricity Cheapest in a Decade - NZ residential electricity most affordable in recent history
  • The Fundy Post
    Genesis -
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  • round houses
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    Understanding Trumpers - WSJ oped and substack post.
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  • The Popehat Report
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  • Patrick T. Brown, PhD
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  • Michelle Kamhi
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  • positive check
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  • Dominic Frisby
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  • Splitting Headache
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  • Pirate Wires
    Dean Preston: San Francisco's Millionaire Marxist - the card carrying dsa sf politician also happens to be a millionaire who refuses to allow more housing in the city
  • Professor Werner
    Washington’s “development economics” is actually designed to prevent development - Published in China by Guancha.cn newspaper on 7 September 2023 at: https://www.guancha.cn/Werner/2023_09_07_707650_3.shtml
  • Uranium-238
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  • Premise Check (Billy Beck)
    "A Completely Different Conquest" - Watch now (2 mins) | Amsoc Will Be Different
  • New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism
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  • Comments on: Bert Kelly
    By: Better to be popular than right « Economics.org.au - […] Bert Kelly […]
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  • Origin Stories
    Breaking Performance Addiction... - ... and wrapping up my first season of Origin Stories
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    It’s Crunch Time for The Daily Doom and Doom Time for The Great Recession Blog - The Great Recession Blog is officially done for good, and my writing continues on TheDailyDoom.com. This site will eventually be completely terminated. If ...
  • Stories by Rudi Edsall on Medium
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  • The Gutter
    Woden's Day Thing: 4/26/22 - All right already
  • The Market Urbanism Report Blog
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    Conservatives Can Lead on Conservation and Climate Solutions - Supporting policies that leverage incentives and partnerships to protect our natural heritage should be a big part of our strategy to address environment...
  • Rational Optimist
    Who really discovered DNA's structure? Five people. - Tuesday 28th February marks the 70th anniversary of – in my view – the most important day in the entire history of science. On a fine Saturda...
  • Matt Ridley - Blog RSS
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  • Search Results for “willey house stories” – Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
    Willey House Stories Part 22: Calling the Kettle Back—Chapter 7: Repatriation - In this seven-chapter subseries of the Willey House Stories, Steve Sikora reflects on Frank Lloyd Wright’s fireplaces, their purpose, and meaning—and the...
  • Points of Interest
    Highlighting "The Parenting Handbook" - This fall, Montessorium was lucky to bring education writer Samantha Blaisdell onto our content team. Samantha is a former teacher, trained mechanical engi...
  • Competitive Enterprise Institute
    Kathleen and Charles Moore Prepare to take their Fight Against Taxing Unrealized Gains to Supreme Court - In 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The new law was a reform of the federal tax code, but also included a provision called the Mandatory ...
  • StephenFranks.co.nz
    Who’s calling the shots on co-governance? Lawyers or MPs? Will the Court of Appeal order disclosure? - On Wednesday 15 February the Court of Appeal will hear the arguments of two King’s Counsel, that the government should come clean on whether its lawyers ar...
  • A gay man on gender and sexuality
    What you still can't say on Twitter - Suspended for 12 hours
  • Anarchist History of New Zealand
    1988: The Meade Report - In 1987 Labour 4.0 Prime Minister David Lange gave himself the education portfolio shortly after winning re-election that year. One of the education groups...
  • Master Resource
    ‘Greenhushing’ Joins Greenwashing (woke firms in legal peril?) - “Fear among corporate firms of being called out on misleading and or exaggerated environmental and sustainability claims is growing as regulators clamp ...
  • Consulting by RPM || Free Advice Blog
    Receipts for BMS Ep 254: Kark Marx Was Kind of a Big Deal - Here is the link to my podcast critique of Phil Magness’ promotion of his paper, co-authored with Michael Makovi, on Karl Marx. In this episode I allude to...
  • Knowledge Problem
    Knowledge Problem archive 2002-2020 - This is the archive of the Knowledge Problem blog, all 4,690 posts. The search function will help you locate posts on the various topics Mike and I wrote a...
  • Cactus Kate
    World Cup Wonderfulness - In Australia - I attended a World Cup final this weekend. No it was not the "team of $55m" wonderfulness final. It was a T20 cricket one. In Melbourne. England v P...
  • Coordination Problem
    Rationalizing the Discussion on Migration and Policy - |Peter Boettke| Michael Clemens is one of the most powerful voices in the economics profession for the free flow of people throughout the world. He brings ...
  • Coordination Problem
    Rationalizing the Discussion on Migration and Policy - |Peter Boettke| Michael Clemens is one of the most powerful voices in the economics profession for the free flow of people throughout the world. He brings ...
  • Bernard Darnton
    Crab Nebula: the Real 4th of July Fireworks - On around the 4th of July 1054 a supernova exploded, creating the spectacular Crab Nebula. It was recorded by Chinese astronomers but was it also recorded ...
  • Mencken's Ghost
    Announcement: New Substack Publication - I have started a new Substack Publication. Details:
  • Cities Matter
    Auckland at a Turning Point 2: Marking Down the Labour Market - *Reality Bites* For some years I have been calling out the over-exuberant growth expectations behind Auckland’s planning. I have also argued that creat...
  • American Consequences
    The Silver Linings of the April CPI Report - May 18, 2022 Despite persistent inflation, there are good investment opportunities ahead in several niche areas. The post The Silver Linings of the April...
  • Focus on Right and Wrong, Not Right and Left | SEPARATE!
    Our Individual Rights Are Going Down The Bathtub Inflation Overflow Drain - I’ve recently tried to brush up on my inflation skills. Being young and ignorant the last time it seriously impacted ... Continue reading
  • A Lady on Fire
    How to Lose - Anger is not the answer. I. Calibrating to Humanity The first company I ever started was with my partner who’s also a software engineer. We had spoken to a...
  • Organic Architecture + Design Archives
    JOURNAL OA+D V10:N1 :: COMING SOON - $20.00 - JOURNAL OF ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN VOL. 10 / NO. 1 :: COMING SOON :: THE WORK OF MACKIE AND KAMRATH :: ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE IN TEXAS Essay by Katie P...
  • The 1014
    Blog Number 7 - Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph...
  • Julian Burnside
    Witness J – Another Victim of National Security’s Tightening Grip? - Too few Australians know about the case of Witness J – not to be confused with the case against Witness K and Bernard Collaery, itself a disgraceful overre...
  • Center for Industrial Progress
    Holiday talking points, me vs. a catastrophist climate scientist - I hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend. Here’s what I’ve been up to that may be of interest. My top 6 talking points for conversations this holiday se...
  • Center for Industrial Progress
    Holiday talking points, me vs. a catastrophist climate scientist - I hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend. Here’s what I’ve been up to that may be of interest. My top 6 talking points for conversations this holiday se...
  • Popehat
    Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
  • Reviving Reason
    The Case for Vaccine Mandates—Refuted - Vaccination status doesn’t tell us whether a person poses a threat to others.
  • Armed and Dangerous
    Sample post. - Checking to see if RSS works.
  • Catallaxy Files
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  • The Rational Capitalist
    The Rat Cap Podcast: Episode 13 - The Rat Cap Podcast: The History of Slavery and the Western Heroes Who Abolished It (libsyn.com)Slavery has existed everywhere since the beginning of time....
  • No Minister
    Die MSM, Die – Systemic Corruption - Die MSM, Die – Systemic Corruption
  • Mish Talk
    The Psychology of QE is Far More Important Than the Amount of It - Let's discuss what QE really does vs the psychology of QE.
  • Check Your Premises
    Two upcoming events. - There are two upcoming events that are likely to be of interest to Ayn Rand Society members. The first event—the one not put on by the ARS—is a panel at ne...
  • 'The Critic' Magazine
    Senator Marco Rubio says business-as-usual with Beijing is “not an option” - In an exclusive interview with Kapil Komireddi, the US senator condemns the Communist Party of China as a "genocidal regime" which poses "the greatest thre...
  • Travel Secrets by Shar Lemond
    No Highway by Nevil Shute – Book Review - *“Therefore, go forth, companion: when you find* *No Highway more, no track, all being blind,The way to go shall glimmer in the mind.* *Though you h...
  • Scott Holleran
    Remember the Alamo - I first learned about the Alamo in earnest from the late John David Lewis. This Objectivist thinker and teacher demonstrated the central facts about the ba...
  • Comments on: Wind Turbine Noise: Real Impacts on Neighbors
    By: Joshua - My home is about 4000 feet from a proposed 650 foot 5mw turbine and 7000 feet from another. Can you respond to what your recommended setbacks may be for th...
  • The Long Run
    The launch of the new Economic History Society website – and the new home of the The Long Run blog - The Economic History Society is very happy to launch its new website as of November 2020. This site streamlines everything that the Society has to offer, i...
  • Urban – PERC
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  • Kiwi Gun Blog
    More Evidence of Buyback Failure - The Kiwi Gun Blog has been gathering as much hard data as possible to prove what a disaster the gun buy back was. Here is a classic example – The wonderful...
  • Stories by MIT Legatum Center on Medium
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  • The Devil's Kitchen
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  • News - Democracy Action
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  • John P. McCaskey
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  • Joakim Book | Life of an Econ Student
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  • Center for the Legalization of Privacy
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  • Legalize Privacy
    Barr and Wray are Coming For Your Apple Encryption - An extra I did earlier this week, after Tom Hall sent me the video of a press conference by Attorney … Continue reading →
  • Kuo's Gulch | Justice, Independence, Productivity, Honesty, Integrity, Pride, Rationality
    Man and His Inherent Productivity - If there’s anything we have learnt from the Coronavirus pandemic, is that people are willing to submit themselves to authoritarianism for the sake of a fal...
  • Malthouse Blog
    Staff Profiles in Courage: Ryan Mann - Staff Profiles in Courage: Ryan Mann There’s a new crew on deck at the mighty Malthouse. Old faces have left for new adventures, replaced by a new inter...
  • Coffee House
    In Congo, the Church is doing the government’s business - Once I am sure there’s nothing going on I step inside letting the door thud shut The opening lines of…
  • 1828 – Championing Freedom
    How to improve the UK’s election debates - Gordon Brown expressed regret over enabling television debates in the UK. In their recent form, it is easy to see why: they are rarely insightful, overly r...
  • Inductive Quest
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  • Comments on: (Expensive) markets in everything
    By: Zaphod Dentbrox III PHD - You guys are a bunch of suckers for hipster creatives at an ad agency,
  • sportreview.net.nz
    Cricket world cup final FAQ - This content was lovingly emailed to general sporting masochists in EMERGENCY Sport Review newsletter #70 – join them and get this carry on every week at s...
  • A Force for Good | How economics, morality, and markets combine
    New Blog Location; This Page is Now Defunct - Hello. A Force for Good as permanently relocated to my personal website: www.jonmmurphy.com. Please update your bookmarks accordingly. This website will...
  • Montessori Rocks
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  • Carl Menger Center for the Study of Money and Banking
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  • The Sand Pit
    The value of value-added in schools - We’re developing New Zealand’s first contextualised value-added model to help evaluate New Zealand secondary schools on a variety of outcome measures. Joel...
  • EconTalk
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  • AYN RAND CENTRE (UK)
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  • Planetizen
    A New Green Thumb Tool for Planners - A New Green Thumb Tool for Planners James Brasuell Wed, 07/12/2017 - 09:00 Primary Image [image: Philadelphia Park] "A joint venture between The Nature Con...
  • For The New Intellectual
    Surrealist Writers Union Goes on Strike -
  • makingnewzealand
    The Argument for Stopping Urban Sprawl - It's true that only about 1 part in 125 of New Zealand's land area is covered over in sprawl, with much less than that being actually built on (much of the...
  • The Dim-Post
    Half-formed thoughts of the day - I was thinking about the Women’s March on Washington, and the global nature of it, and also the global nature of the White Nationalist movement: Trump, Put...
  • The Frank Lloyd Wright Newsblog
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  • PrairieMod
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  • Blog - Minkz
    Ichigo Ichie, Moment Hunters, new work by Mina - [image: NewlyDrawnGirl.jpg] *Ichigo Ichie, Moment Hunters - new work by Mina opening 12 March, 5 - 8 pm* On a recent trip to Japan, Mina fell in love wit...
  • Affordable Auckland
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  • Life Behind the IRon Drape
    Signing off - My Last Blog Post | Nicky Hager; Heather Du Plessis-Allan; Deborah Hill-Cone; Giovanni Tiso - Individualism & the Tyranny of Each Other. - The secret of being a bore is to tell everything – Voltaire. When the last human who understands individualism passes, so will pass the entirety of h...
  • Michael Newberry, Artist
    Pandora’s Box Part 2 - ... pathetically, only Hope remained inside. In the other version the box held all of humanity's glories. When she opened the box progress, knowledge, and ...
  • Tibor's space
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  • Politics without God
    Should You Try to Be Morally Perfect? - Off-topic but perhaps of interest... Back in March 2012, I gave a lecture titled "Should You Try to Be Morally Perfect?" as part of the CU Boulder Philosop...
  • The PRODOS blog
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  • THE WEEKLY WRIGHT-UP
    Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home. - *Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home.* *--*Matsuo Bashō, (Japanese poet, 1644-1694) from *Oku no Hosomichi* Jack Quinan and Sandra Q....
  • TheBubbleBubble.com - Warning About Post-2009 Economic Bubbles
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  • Titanic Deck Chairs
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  • Socialism
  • Tariffs
  • Taxation
  • Technology
  • Tragedy of the Commons
  • Underground Economy
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