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The Future of Being Human

Why Modem Futura is more than just another tech podcast - As we pass our tenth full episode of Modem Futura, I take a look at why we started, what we hope to achieve, and what makes this more than just another tec...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Why did the editor of *British Journal of Aesthetics* say Kant is key to Modernist Art? - Kant is “rightly regarded as the founder of modern aesthetics.” That is Harold Osborne, longtime editor of the scholarly British Journal of Aesthetics. Osb...
Why Evolution Is True

Readers’ wildlife photos - This being Sunday, John Avise is here with some pictures, and remember that he’s moved on to butterflies. John’s captions and IDs are indented, and you can...
The Footy Almanac

Almanac (Last-minute) Gift Suggestions: Wine, Dunkeld Writers Festival Tickets, Books, Memberships - John Harms has some gift ideas for Christmas.
Watts Up With That?

‘Abject Nonsense’: Biden Admin’s New Report On Gas Exports Basically Undermines One of Its Key Conclusions - Available data and recent history contradict one of the key points of the Biden administration’s long-awaited study on liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports ...
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

A Se'nnight of Steyn: December 15 - 21 - In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...
SkyscraperCity Forum

MANGALURU | Bejai | Poorvi Estella | 28 Flrs | U/C - [image: Image] [image: Image]
Breaking Views

David Farrar: Grant Duncan on the change in universities - Grant Duncan writes:What’s unusual lately, though, is to see university administrators taking public stands on contentious political events, shutting down ...
Flashbak

The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand - Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling...
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

How To Explore The Explorers Club - A photographic tour of The Explorers Club in New York City
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Chartbook 342 Are we all dead in the long run? John Maynard Keynes and the politics of time - Guest essay by Stefan Eich
Spiked Online

The delicious humiliation of the centrist dads - The post The delicious humiliation of the centrist dads appeared first on spiked.
The Daily Sceptic

Furious German Protesters Demand Mass Deportations Following Christmas Market Attack by Saudi Doctor, Leaving Five Dead Including a Nine Year-Old Boy - Over 1,000 Right-wing protesters have flooded Magdeburg, demanding mass deportations after a Saudi psychiatrist allegedly killed five people and injured ...
The Inquiring Mind

The Late,Late Movie: Shirley Valentine – Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, -
Cato at Liberty

Regarding the Efficacy and Constitutionality of the Debt Ceiling - If the goal is financial discipline, the debt ceiling is not a viable substitute for rigorous scrutiny of appropriations. Americans would be better off by ...
Johnny Grey Studios

Johnny's festive offerings - Christmas Newsletter 2024 - Unfitted Kitchen furniture, a recipe from Prue Leith, 2025 dates for South Downs food festival...
bad cattitude

sunday memepool 2: the call - will you answer?
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

Why ABC Settled With Donald Trump - George Stephanopoulos, who couldn’t resist saying “rape” instead of "sexual assault" in his March interview with Nancy Mace, did Trump an enormous favor.
The Roots of Liberty

Burning Down The House - It’s entertaining, in a macabre and apocalyptic fashion, to ponder the hypocrisy of the party that insisted “democracy itself” was at stake before the elec...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Quotation of the Day… - Tweet… is from page 189 of Thomas Sowell’s 1993 collection, Is Reality Optional?: There are people who seem to think that the world owes them an awful lot,...
The Free Press

Things Worth Remembering: Winston Churchill’s Christmas Message to America - ‘In the midst of war, raging and roaring over all the lands and seas, creeping nearer to our hearts and homes, we have tonight the peace of the spirit.’
The New York Review of Books

Syria: The Prison Gates Thrown Open - As Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) pushed south from Idlib Province, the rebels’ first priority was to liberate prisons. From Aleppo to Hama to Homs, videos eme...
The Logical Place

Government departments should act in the public interest - When I was a senior civil servant, the prevailing ethos was that the civil service should act in the interests of the elected government of the day. It was...
Quotulatiousness

Canada’s founding peoples - Fortissax contrasts Canadians and Americans ethnically, culturally, and historically. Here he discusses Anglo-Canadians and French-Canadians: To understand...
Tim Worstall

Snigger - I have been feeling averse to Sir Keir Starmer for a while now. He has the look of a chippy and disingenuous car park attendant who cannot quite cope wit...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

On Your Bike, Met Office! - By Paul Homewood Since when was it the Met Office’s job to tell us how to travel? https://x.com/metoffice/status/1870068472404639918
Hoover institution Commentary

‘Command and control’: Labor’s cuts to hawkish think tank raises hackles - A review of national security research in Australia has led to a proposal to cut funding for think tanks, notably the Australian Strategic Policy Institute...
Marginal Revolution

One thing I have learned doing Emergent Ventures - As you likely know, we have sent money to quite a few different individuals in different countries around the world. And one thing I have learned is tha...
Harry’s Substack

Not Left, Not Right . . . Try Up (Part II) - Fleshing out the argument
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

So, who is going to get jugged here? - We agree, again, with Marina Hyde here: I don’t think it is an exaggeration to state that the health of our dangerously unwell society depends on this ki...
ArchDaily

Ivens Apartment / X Atelier - The renovation of this apartment consists in the total usage of this familiar residence volumetry, set on the rooftop. In this sense, overlapping spaces ...
EconLog

My Weekly Reading for December 22, 2024 - Learning Fiscal Discipline: Colorado’s Success, Shortcomings, and Regulatory Ruse Excerpt: At its core, TABOR codifies limits on both taxation and sp...
No Minister

The Power of Big Ice Cream - You’ve heard of Big Oil, Big Tech and Big Pharma. Now it has been revealed that there is another player in this game: Big Ice Cream: San Francisco’s new co...
Manhattan Contrarian

Cautious Optimism On The Demise Of The Green Energy Fantasy - * It has been obvious now for many years to the numerate that the fantasy future powered by wind and sun is not going to happen. Sooner or later, reality w...
SAVVY STREET

Addressing the Gaps in Libertarian Theory - Libertarianism as a political philosophy needs to be subsumed by a complete philosophy of reason. The post Addressing the Gaps in Libertarian Theory appe...
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Arride – to smile or laugh at; to please, gratify, or delight; to smile upon; to be agreeable or pleasing to.
Kiwiblog

Grant Duncan on the change in universities - Grant Duncan writes: What’s unusual lately, though, is to see university administrators taking public stands on contentious political events, shutting do...
UnHerd

Donald Trump’s cultural renaissance - He will lead by example
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

The Infamous TDB Political Awards 2024 - Remember how the majority of the mainstream media claimed the last Budget was ‘vanilla’ when it was incredibly radical? Remember when Victoria University’s...
The Whakataki Times

Local Mum Really Leaning On The “Santa Won’t Come” Threat To Round Off The Year - DESPERATE TIMES. 40 year old Katie Herbert, mother to boys Jack, 6, and Elliot, 8, is already at the end of her tether this holiday season. The post Loc...
misfits' architecture

Ch. 5, pp. 187–193 - We’re up to Chapter 5 now. I don’t think the book is going to suddenly turn steamy but the first subtitle is 5.1 Housing for “Sexual Phenomena” – or at lea...
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Palestinians, Wake Up! -
Paul Wells

Vacuum - Canada's government is terribly weakened at a moment of crisis
Living Resources Center

It’s Not Just a War on Liberty. It’s a War on Cognition. - The lawless Biden regime is pardoning people who haven’t been tried or convicted. They’re issuing regulations that prevent incoming President Trump from ...
Slow Boring

Saturday thread - Nice piece from Noah Smith.
Mises Institute Blog

The French Revolution - What happens when the Department of Government Efficiency fails? Human devolution or political revolution? Or both? Mark Thornton discusses some pertinent ...
Mises Wire

The French Revolution - What happens when the Department of Government Efficiency fails? Human devolution or political revolution? Or both? Mark Thornton discusses some pertinent ...
The Double Standard

Open mike 22/12/2024 - Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to th...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Magdeburg Christmas Market Attack - Yesterday, a Saudi-born man named Taleb al-Abdulmohsen rented a black BMW sport utility vehicle and drove it into a crowd at the Christmas market in Magdeb...
Wright Chat

Click Here for General Discussion Posts • Article: "Lutron Bathes Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West In New Light" - Lutron Bathes Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West In New Light David Statistics: Posted by DavidC — Sat Dec 21, 2024 4:28 pm ------------------------------
Freethink Media

🚀 Future Explored: Freezing humans - Is sci-fi about to become reality?
Principled Perspectives

Christmas the Secular, Christmas the American - Is it appropriate for non-Christian Americans to celebrate Christmas? Many do, and why not? I’m an atheist—or, more precisely, a person of reason—and I h...
JoNova

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Skeptic

Wokeness Poisons Science - Part II of my series on why I am no longer woke
Construction Physics

Reading List 12/21/2024 - Commercial fusion, Boom’s new funding round, efficient industrial policy, AI fighter jets, and more.
Retraction Watch

Weekend reads: Shoddy commentaries flood journals; key hydroxychloroquine paper retracted; a researcher confesses - Dear RW readers, can you spare $25? The week at Retraction Watch featured: Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 450. There are mor...
The Curmudgeon

Conscience Money - From the time of St Paul until now, it has been the privilege of Christians to re-write the teachings of their Saviour; and the late Archbishop of Canterbu...
Energy Transition Absurdities

Granholm's Long, Strange Trip at DOE - As congress struggled with yet another chaotic episode of negotiations over another catastrophic continuing resolution, all I could think was how wonderful...
Yascha Mounk

Francis Fukuyama on the World in 2025 - In a tour d'horizon, Yascha and Frank discuss the fall of Assad, the rise of China, the crisis in Europe, and what awaits the United States under Trump.
Flying Out

Glorious (Gold Vinyl LP) - *Vendor: *Interscope *Type: *GLORILLA *Price: * 72.00 Grammy-nominated recording artist *GloRilla* releases her highly anticipated debut album *Gloriou...
Zero Hanger

Departed GWS midfielder joins another team for 2025 - It was recently announced he signed with local club Rochester.
Quillette

Quillette Editors’ Choice of 2024 - Jamie, Jon, Iona, and Claire share their favourite essays from this year.
Thinking Directions

Three Misconceptions Concerning Analyzing Negatives - In my previous article titled So You Hate Your Job, I said, When you feel forced into a decision to take a job, it means you need to seriously look...
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

By Any Other Name. - *The Natural Choice: As a starter for ten percent of the Party Vote, “saving the planet” is a very respectable objective. Young voters, in particular, rai...
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Miami meetup with Rob Henderson - December 28
David Stockman's Contra Corner

It’s Time To “Allocate”, Mr. President-Elect - For crying out loud, Mr. President-Elect. During your first time at the plate you didn’t accomplish the worthy purpose of producing the most conservative S...
Regan's Substack

A girl's gotta get status somehow - Clashing values and waxing floors
Conversable Economist

More Police, Fewer Prisons, and Other Ways to Reduce Crime - What does the existing research evidence say about how to reduce crime? Jennifer Doleac offers and over overview in “Why Crime Matters, and What to Do Ab...
John D. Cook

Putting a face on a faceless account - I’ve been playing around with Grok today, logging into some of my X accounts and trying out the prompt “Draw an image of me based on my posts.” [1] In mo...
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: Worry Is Like Paying Interest On a Debt You Don’t Owe - Mark Twain? William Ralph Inge? Harry A. Thompson? Havelock Ellis? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Excessive worrying is debilitating to one’s ...
FIRE

One day after FIRE lawsuit, Congress passes changes to filming permits in national parks - The EXPLORE Act loosens restrictions on how the National Parks Service issues permits for filming on public lands.
Curbed - All

Curbed’s 20 Most-Read Stories of 2024 - From feral cats to the squatters of Beverly Hills, these are the stories that readers loved most this year.
Real Clear Energy

Oil Falls on Demand Growth Concerns, Robust Dollar - Paul Carsten, Yahoo Finance
Reason Foundation

Intoxicating hemp products in Ohio need regulation, not prohibition - A prohibition on intoxicating hemp would be a step backward for Ohio, pushing demand underground and exposing consumers to risk and uncertainty. The post...
IPWatchdog Articles

Other Barks & Bites for Friday, December 20: CAFC Affirms Orange Book Delisting; House IP Subcommittee Discusses Unfair SEP Licensing Practices in China; and the UK Considers AI and Copyright - This week on Other Barks & Bites: the Second Circuit affirmed a district court’s summary judgment dismissing trademark infringement claims against PepsiCo’...
Conspicuous Cognition

Elite failures and populist backlash - The impact of elite failures on anti-establishment feelings is complex and indirect.
Point of Order

Fast-track Approvals Bill passes but Te Pāti Māori threatens applicants - The Centrist reports – The coalition government’s Fast-track Approvals Bill has passed its third reading, paving the way for rapid approval of many large d...
Note to Noteworthy

The Rollup Method: Turn Long Notes Into Simple Ideas - Defeat informational overwhelm so you can start creating more.
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

Nearing the end of 2024 - Here we are at the end of 2024 already. Blink, and the year’s gone, it seems. For me it’s been a very busy year – so busy, in fact, that I’ve had no time f...
Truth on the Market

Antitrust at the Agencies Roundup: Rounding up the Roundups - It’s Not All About Price, Except When We Say So I don’t know if this is the end of an era, the end of an error, a bit of both, or something far more comp...
Fictionosophy

Spiritual Values in Charles Dickens's Holiday Stories - The warmth of Dickens's happy endings and the joy he envisions as possible to everyone make his Christmas stories a cozy pick for reading beside a cracklin...
The Intrinsic Perspective

UFOs are a soft sci-fi genre - Real "first contact" will be technosignatures from far away
Statecraft

What Can the Brits Teach Us About State Capacity? - More than you might think.
Asymmetric Information

Invitation to participate in research on economic paradigm change & innovation policy🍋 - Your response will be appreciated
Institute for Energy Research

Biden Has Set a New Climate Goal for States to Achieve - The Biden administration has set an ambitious new goal under the Paris Climate Agreement, aiming to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas… The post Biden Has Set a ...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Review of The Gab Cinque Band's "The Wheel" - The Long-Awaited Full-Length Debut of One of Today's Most Exceptional Artists
Reason for Living

Reason for Living Book Update and New Video Content - The test-reader draft of the book is now complete, and I have a new video out about the ideas behind Reason for Living and what's coming in 2025.
The Tracinski Letter

The Crank Realignment - Top Stories of the Year: #3
Sawahil

Dakar to Riyadh: Links for 12/20/2024 - News and analysis from the Sahel, North Africa, the Horn, and the Middle East
Kunstler

Yet Another Christmas Carol - “The nation appears to be having a kind of moment involving a gross, naked emperor and a bunch of people noticing this isn’t a nudist-friendly zone.” — Jef...
Gus Van Horn

Four Random Things - *A Friday Hodgepodge* *This will be my last post for 2024 due to my yearly blogging break. I plan to return on January 6, 2025.I hope you have a merry Ch...
Asimov’s Addendum

Born on the Fourth of July? The Bipartisan House AI Task Force Report - Standards, industrial policy, and the very visible shadow of China
ChinaTalk

Norway Notes - Vikings, Oslo Vibes, and WWII
Eating Policy

Um, Congress, you might want to take a look at this - What might DOGE have brewing?
Anthony B. Bradley

Weekly Top Five Articles - The Novel’s Legacy, Building Bonds, and Helping Teens Battling Depression
Law & Liberty

Western Civilization Gets Glicked - Two new movies weigh the consequences of buying into a national "dream."
Doomberg

Ctrl+Alt+Delete - Can Germany reboot its nuclear power industry?
GeekPress

Leslie Groves - *"General Leslie Groves*, Bringer of the Bomb"
Sinification

Countering US Tariffs: China's Economic Strategy (Part 2) - "If we focus only on self-reliance and import substitution, China risks becoming another Soviet Union." – Zhang Yansheng
The Antiplanner

Urban Wishful Thinking Index - Something called the Oliver Wyman Forum has worked with the University of California, Berkeley to publish an annual “urban mobility readiness index.” This ...
Astral Codex Ten

Take The 2025 ACX Survey - ...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

How the Eco-Left Tried to Sneak a Little Green New Deal Into Your Gas Tank - We dodged an economic bullet aimed at your car’s gas tank. As Congress recently considered the 1,500+ page continuing resolution (CR) to fund the governme...
PM of NZ

A small step in the right direction - *in the news...* *The PM will not attend the Waitangi shenanigans.* Baby steps. But I'd be ever watchful of his token native, one Mr. Potaka. In my op...
Doug Casey's International Man

Here’s What China is Doing to Usurp the US Dollar… - The irony of the incredible stable coin demand is that it exists due to the desire to EVADE the Western controlled financial system. The post Here’s What...
Capitalism Magazine

Corporate DEI: Doomed To Fail - Besides abandoning DEI programs, what should companies do then if they want to achieve long-term success?
No Right Turn

2024 OIA stats - Over on Kikorangi *Newsroom*'s Marc Daalder has published his annual OIA stats. So I thought I'd do mine: - *82* OIA requests sent in 2024 - *7*...
New Zealand Arts Review

Olafur Eliasson: The Leonardo da Vinci of our time - Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Olafur Eliasson, Your Curious Journey Auckland Art Gallery Until March 23, 2025 Reviewed by J...
Down to Earth Kiwi

Merry Xmas & End of Year Comments on the Value of DownToEarth Kiwi. (You can even make money out of us). - This blog costs me money - it generates no income. Is that a bad thing? As the third richest bloke in NZ once told me, because he likes...
Gross Output

Business Spending Rebounds, Recession Avoided - “By integrating the vital role of the supply chain into national income accounting, Mark Skousen’s development of gross output (GO) has created a more dy...
Journal of Free Black Moms

Thirty Years - Married like that.
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed - A year-long investigation by an indie journalist is a call to action
Autonomia

Man of the Year: the Assassin - The assassin dominated 2024 as a harbinger of altruism
The Daily Doom

The Bad "B" Movie "Weekend at Biden's" Dives Just Like Biden's Economy - The puppet masters' gig is finally up, as the WSJ exposes the White House's game even as the numbers around Biden's rigged economy continue to fall apart.
Roots of Progress

Looking back on the 2024 Blog-Building Intensive Fellowship - This fall, our second class of 24 blog-building fellows completed our eight-week blog building intensive. The second interaction of our fellowship progra...
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Department Of Homeland Security Illegally Targeted Covid Dissent, New Documents Suggest - DHS’s cybersecurity agency went far beyond its congressional mandate in hunting wrongthink and monitoring emotions
Greater Auckland

Weekly Roundup 20-December-2024 - Twas the Friday before Christmas and all through the week we’ve been collecting stories for our final roundup of the year. As we start to wind down for th...
Eat More Electrons

[More!] Ridiculous decarbonization - The World Bank is still pushing for emissions reductions in the poorest & lowest emitters
Can't Get Much Higher

Your Great-Grandson's Holiday Favorite - Using Spotify playlist data to guess the next classic Christmas song
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

THB Insider #12 - Coal, LNG, China S&T Agreement, a new preprint, and more!
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Michael Kiwanuka: Small Changes - In one of those blink-and-miss it cameos, British soul singer Kiwanukahad momentary cameo in the Danny Boyle-Richard Curtis 2019 film Yesterday. Not that...
Science For Everyone

Academic Mixtape 27 - ho, ho, ho
thesecondrenaissance

Champions of Free Will and Moral Values: The Romanticists -
The Roots of Progress

A progress policy agenda - My wishlist of policy goals to advance scientific, technological, and economic progress
Let Grow

The Perfect Gift…That Can Change Your Life - [image: Everyday Vitality Grid] What can change your life for the better? Hope and a plan of action. That’s what you get in the book Everyday Vitality. It’...
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Higher Ed is a Woke Seminary - My Words and Numbers podcast
The New Era

So Woke is dead. What’s next? - Just don’t expect Left/Right politics.
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

PERC Reports Winter 2024 - This special issue of PERC Reports explores creative ideas to address the conservation challenges of the Pacific Northwest. The post PERC Reports Winter ...
Tribes – PERC

PERC Reports Winter 2024 - This special issue of PERC Reports explores creative ideas to address the conservation challenges of the Pacific Northwest. The post PERC Reports Winter ...
Fisheries – PERC

PERC Reports Winter 2024 - This special issue of PERC Reports explores creative ideas to address the conservation challenges of the Pacific Northwest. The post PERC Reports Winter ...
Public Lands – PERC

Conservation Conflict - Managing wildlife and parks in the Pacific Northwest The post Conservation Conflict appeared first on PERC.
Wildlife – PERC

Conservation Conflict - Managing wildlife and parks in the Pacific Northwest The post Conservation Conflict appeared first on PERC.
Ideas Beyond Borders

The Story of Barzakh Café - From Mauritania to a Brooklyn, El Atigh Abba's story is one of many travels, tribulations, and triumphs—which eventually led him to open Barzakh Café
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Smash The Technopoly! - Neil Postman, Marshall McLuhan, and The Anxious Generation
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Why Did Trump Buckle with CIA Appointment? - REMINDER: For 35 years, you all have kept us going with your generous (tax-deductible) donations. We need your generous end-of-year support for the comin...
Conflicted

The pearly gates of science - Peer review in context
One Useful Thing

What just happened - A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI
Changing Lanes

The Missing Middle, the Jones Act, Utility Death Spirals, and How to Be Unhappy - Off-Ramps for 19 December 2024
Ruxandra’s Substack

On how to test more drugs - Some personal takeaways from organizing a workshop focused on policies for making clinical trials cheaper and faster.
Existential Crunch

Resilient foods - How to feed everyone, even in the worst of times
The Cobden Centre

Bitcoiners’ Guide to Austrian Economics - By Per Bylund Austrian economics is a scholarly tradition that consists of a body of theory that explains how an economy works. Austrian economists develop...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

A Final Comment on some aspects of NZ's Education year. - Unfortunately, a deeply concerning year for education in NZ.
Schiffradio.com

The Great Rate Cut Rug Pull – Ep 1000 - Jerome Powell's rate cut, market drops, economic risks, inflation, and the future of the economy. The post The Great Rate Cut Rug Pull – Ep 1000 appeared...
Virginia Postrel

Answer Time: Can We Imagine Pluralistic Futures? - A feature for paying subscribers.
Butterpaper

Forum closure - The Butterpaper forum is closing tomorrow (20/12/24). It’s been quite for the past decade, with the advent of social media, and now the software that ran...
Lindsay Mitchell

What does society expect from fathers? - We live in a society utterly confused about parenthood and the role of fathers. The last Labour government made fathers increasingly irrelevant. In 20...
A Havenstein Moment.

Risky Business - Fed Fun Day
The Jolly Libertarian

Ethical Conundrums are the Heart and Soul of Louise Penny's Three Pines Novels - *Louise Penny*It comes as no surprise to her legions of fans that Louise Penny's latest novel, *The Grey Wolf*, immediately shot to the top of the best ...
Interintellect

Our New Platform Is Live 🎉 - Check out the new interintellect.com
Africa-Israel Weekly

Israel critics ignore racism, slavery in Arab Islamic world - Excerpt from this week's Forum on Israel, Africa, & Black America
The Library of Celaeno

The Mudsill Theory Revisted - or, the Commodification of the Neo-lumpenproletariat Lolcow
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

Justin on Dr. Drew - Hello all!
A Halfling's View

The Campaign Continues - Quid est veritas
The Breakthrough Journal

Nuclear Waste: Yes, In (or Under) My Backyard - By Matthew L.
Official Blog

Top 8 Geocaches of the Week 2024 - Each week, we highlight a diverse array of geocaches from around the globe. This year was a treasure trove of unique finds, from a birthday cake-inspired g...
Objective Standard Institute

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Unity of the Holidays and OSI - The three big holidays form the season of reason—a meaningful representation of the virtuous cycle of life. The post Hiding in Plain Sight: The Unity of...
Maximum Progress

How Scientific Incentives Stalled the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance, and How We Can Fix It - My latest post at Tim Hwang's Macroscience
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

My Interview on the "Not Going Back Podcast" - My interview with former Democratic Party fundraiser Evan Barker
Dominic Frisby

Rachel From Accounts, The End Of The Year Show, We’re All Far Right Now: What A Week - Watch now (1 min) | Comedy, Music and Mugs
Toppermost

Richard Dawson - A Northumbrian singer/songwriter with a flair for shambolic psych-folk and exploratory rock, Richard Dawson became a fixture in the underground folk scen...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

No jurisdiction for Supreme Court MACA 'judgment' - Earlier today, The Capital Letter, New Zealand’s review of administration, legislation and law, published my article explaining why the Supreme Court had n...
Cremieux Recueil

Evaluating a Sitting Senator's Healthcare Claims - If you're a public official who wants to to use numbers, use correct numbers, and if you're going to speculate, try not so speculate wildly, lest you end u...
Energy in Depth

A Tale of Two Studies: DOE Study Rehashes Debunked Claims While New Analysis Highlights Critical Impacts of U.S. LNG - The U.S. Department of Energy released its long-awaited study on LNG exports Tuesday, and while the administration didn’t officially call for a ban on LN...
No Punches Pulled

SHALLOW THINKING - For avid newspaper readers like me (admittedly a sadly fading sector in an age of smartphone-induced ignorance) a highlight is the amusement I deprive from...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

New CDC-Funded Study Finds Some Vaccinated Children More Likely To Get COVID - CDC will be forced to admit what Team Reality has long suspected
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Links in Progress: All the single people - And how China will lose 51 million people in 10 years
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

The Rise of the British Deep State and the Coming of the American Revolution - Part 2 in a series
History Reclaimed

From Ararat to Albion: The Interwoven Histories of Britain and Armenia, 1918-20 - At the end of the First World War Britain was briefly and unsuccessfully engaged in the defence of an independent Armenia.
Journal of Free Black Thought

The Counter-Disinformation Industry Promotes Left-wing Groupthink, Not Truth - How I got out of the industry, and how you can protect yourself from it
Splitting Headache

Let me remove the goddamn camera from the lockscreen Apple![38 Before 38] - Another Rant
Real Clear Energy: Video

Is There ANY Optimistic Climate News? YES. There Is. - The climate emergency appears to have taken a turn for the worse this week as the world's most powerful nation and second largest greenhouse gas emitter ju...
Building the Builders

Discussion thread #2: Your best examples of the "leaden mean"? - Hello, dear readers!
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Soulscape 28, Art Inspires Us to Reach for the Impossible - The World Is Not Enough
Sustain What

Drone Realities & Delusions, Pet Eaters, Aliens, Clown Panics... - Live at 4 p.m. ET today: meet medical sociologist Robert E. Bartholomew
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

Aloe Blacc – Don’t Go Alone: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day - Grammy-nominated and multi-platinum artist Aloe Blacc has officially announced his new album Stand Together – due Friday, February 28, 2025. To celebrat...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

The Economic & Geopolitical History of Rwanda Part II: Post Independence Struggles, The Rwandan Civil War, & The Precursor to Genocide - What happened in Rwanda before the genocide? Let's find out
Michael Newberry, Artist

Soulscape 27, Art Doesn’t Just Reflect Life—It Reveals Us - Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, c. 1665, Mauritshuis, The Hague. WC. Whether an artist intends it or not, simply by painting or drawing reali...
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Interview: How the incoming administration can unleash American energy - My interview with Kimberly Guilfoyle from 11/18
The China Space Monitor

Biweekly Brain Droppings - A "High-Speed Laser Diamond" Constellation, the First LM-8A departs for Wenchang, and some Yangtze River Delta Supply Chain Findings
Glenn’s Substack

Shoot Local - My experience with a gun made in my hometown of Maryville, Tennessee by Smith & Wesson
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Growing Concerns - For a government that came into office with the laudable if stretching ambition of making Britain the fastest growing economy in the G7, today’s growth f...
Macroscience

How Scientific Incentives Stalled the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance, and How We Can Fix It - Peptide-DB: A Million-Peptide Database to Accelerate Science
Libertarian Land

Eliminate Government Holidays - The United States currently recognizes eleven federal holidays: Independence Day (1870), Washington’s Birthday (aka Presidents’ Day) (1879), Christmas (188...
Roy Spencer, PhD.

Hot Death Valley Days: Don’t Trust Those Temperatures - AP photo/ Ty O’Neil. Summary In our continuing examination of the world record hottest temperature of 134 deg. F recorded at Greenland Ranch (now Death Val...
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

DIPLOMACY IN EVERYDAY LIFE -
Private Lands – PERC

New Fund Offers Relief for Wyoming Ranchers Facing Wildlife Disease Risk - Ranchers and Conservationists behind East Yellowstone Brucellosis Compensation Fund aim to address challenges of elk migrations on private lands The pos...
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Episode 4 - Wrapped in the Dialectic - Stolen Valor
The Upheaval

The Counter-Revolution Begins - 7 principles for the Trump revolution if it wants to win bigly
Kiwipolitico

About Syria. - I have been thinking about Syria and coverage of the fall of the Assad regime, and to be honest I believe that there is something missing from the picture ...
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Cato's Report to the DOGE - DOGE shouldn't dodge the real dilemma
Wright in Racine

Greek Church Roof Resplendent Again - © Mark Hertzberg (2024) The brilliant blue dome roof of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin shines again. First...
HBL

Cartels are fine - [image: Author photo] Thread: Bilateral Economics Re: Member’s post of 11/30/24 I think Rockefeller was on balance a hero, but not an Ayn Rand Hero. Of ...
Institute of Economic Affairs

Not Invented Here #5 – Food - This is the fifth in a series of articles about how ideological interest groups react when their institutional preferences are … Continue reading "Not In...
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: Reentry, by Eric Berger - Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age, Eric Berger (BenBella Books, 2024).
Happy Future

Technology Development and the Collapse of IDM 2.0 - Silicon Statesmanship #5: Explaining TD, TD culture, and how it hobbles IDMs
Free Range Kids

All of Me - Thanks to John Stossel, here is a half hour of me getting the chance to make all the points swirling around in my head and heart: How we got so afraid fo...
What's New Under the Sun

Innovation Job Market Papers 2024 (3/3) - Dozens of papers from new PhDs about innovation
Theatreview

Whakaari Aotearoa Drama New Zealand Research Opportunity - Whakaari Aotearoa Drama New ZealandResearch Opportunity Mahi Whakaari o Aotearoa – Drama New Zealand is committed to supporting kaiako in all sectors of dr...
An Africanist Perspective

What sorts of reforms under Trump could reshape Africa-U.S. relations for the better? - Most reasonable people agree that Africa-US relations need a proper reboot. The coming opening for reforms under Trump presents some interesting opportunit...
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

Escaping the Politics of Self-Deception - How and why I broke out of the perfect rhetorical fortress.
Boom (UK)

China to lose 51 million people in 10 years - How is China responding to population decline?
Peter Winsley

I too have been thinking about the future New Zealand economy - New Zealand was one of the wealthiest countries in the world in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1950, New Zealand ranked third in the OECD for GDP per capita. Howe...
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (4 December 2024) - Continental preparedness, global food security, and learning from crisis – and a new opportunity
Croaking Cassandra

Orr on Q&A – Part II - My post this morning was based on Adrian Orr’s Q&A interview as found on TVNZ+. However, it turns out that that wasn’t the full interview which (thanks to ...
Institute for Progress

IFP — Giving Tuesday and November 2024 Update - We hope you all had a restful Thanksgiving break.
Israel Institute of NZ

The Jewish Nakba - November 30 marked the commemoration of the exodus of Jews from Arab countries, one of the larger humanitarian crises of the 20th century – all the more tr...
Market Urbanism

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Museum Street (Henry Cooke)

Labour's long win on defence policy - A declassified conversation with George Bush shows Jim Bolger "wanted" to remove the nuclear ban in 1991. But he couldn't.
Stats Chat

United Rugby Championship Predictions for Week 8 - Team Ratings for Week 8 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ra...
Kibao

Solar Geoengineering: The Global South’s Stake in a High-Stakes Debate - The Global South needs neither a climate laboratory nor a knowledge vacuum
Rosie Campbell

Leaving OpenAI - After almost three and half years working on AI safety, policy, and governance, this was my last week at OpenAI. There are so many exciting things happenin...
FDR Liberated

Simplify Success with Proven Small Business Service Solutions - Running a small business comes with its fair share of challenges, from managing daily operations to meeting customer expectations. However, success does no...
Overthinking Everything

Setting up my new blogging engine - I have a typewriter! Hear me typewrite. It goes click clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickBING. KACHUNK! SHUNK click click click click click click...
Offsetting Behaviour

Misuse of land use planning - If you thought McDonald's was some kind of public health hazard, using processes under the Resource Management Act to try to block one from opening in Wa...
Creative Deduction

Why a tolerant society is not a free society - Individual freedom is the libertarian ideal, the abstract value which guides moral action. As a political idea, libertarianism emerged in the latter part o...
Don't Let It Go

Motivation by Love vs. Motivation by Fear - The first half of my current trip around the sun–my birthday is at the beginning of June–has featured too much of the latter. The main event was choosing #...
Spiked Online

Spiked Mug Donation - The post Spiked Mug Donation appeared first on spiked.
Ayn Rand Society

Ayn Rand Society news: two new books, an upcoming meeting, and a new platform - I’m writing (after a long silence) with some news about the Ayn Rand Society.
Punishingly Haimona

Can An Apology Also Be An Insult? - A Stuff column trades in, well-intentioned, bigotry.
Democracy Project

Malcolm McKinnon: Māori and other nationalisms - Māori sovereignty, tino rangatiratanga, mana motuhake, a declaration of independence, partnership under Te Tiriti: these are all staples of Māori political...
Plain Sight

An Abundance Agenda manifesto for Aotearoa - "I would much rather that we live in a society of mutual abundance and optimism than our current experience of pessimism and scarcity" - Mike Grimshaw
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Financialization and Missed Boats - When Mythology Papers over Reality
The War on Prices

Wage and Rent Controls On The Ballot In 2024 - Much of the 2024 presidential election campaign was dominated by the fallout from high inflation, with both candidates eventually advocating forms of price...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

The Warlord's Reading List, by Anarchonomicon - The Guide to Warfare in the 21st Century for Ghetto Operators, Regime Transition Teams, and Cartel General Staff
Houston Strategies

HCTRA: from model agency to delay, divert and do nearly nothing - This week we have one of Oscar Slotboom's best guest posts to date, although sadly with bad news about the state of HCTRA, which used to be one of the crow...
StephenFranks.co.nz

Allow easy firing of dud bosses - Think about the impossibility of creating here a Google or an Amazon, or Microsoft, or an Apple or a Tesla or a Space X. A Steve Jobs or Elon Musk has to ...
HardmoneyJim

Post-election Market Update - Trump Trade or Trump Bump?
Science+Story

Be the Right Kind of Wrong - Why Learning from Your Mistakes Publicly Enhances Your Expert Status
The Prophet of Causation

The Self-Writing Slate - Chapter 5
Tross Publishing

IS PAUL GOLDSMITH THE BIGGEST LIAR IN PARLIAMENT? - By Toby Whittaker Although unlikely to be passed into law the ACT Party’s Treaty Principles Bill has certainly exposed some ugly facets of New Zealand po...
What You Can Do For Liberty

Ten Great Pro-Liberty Films You Can Watch For Free Right Now - Keep up your freedom-loving spirits with this selection of ten films, chosen to inspire and entertain you.
In Due Course

How Steve Bannon baited the American left into overplaying its hand - Although he’s not quite finished with us yet, I think it fair to say that Steve Bannon will be remembered for two things: first, his media management strat...
RenewNZ

The day the Garbage spoke - One result in the US election last week spoke volumes. The final count in the State of Washington DC was Harris 93% – Trump 7%. It was a result which highl...
Case Closed

October 2024 Space Stock Review - Includes Commentary on: LLAP, BKSY, RDW, RKLB, MNTS, VSAT, and CMTL
Outliving Iran

Souls Breathing Through Screens - How we managed to survive under a totalitarian state
Syncretica

Election Thoughts and Takeaways - A few thoughts if for no other reason than having something to reply to a lot of direct messages with:
High Capacity

Beijing braces for impact: What Trump 2.0 might mean for US-China relations - Both sides have learned lessons from the first US-China trade war. For Trump, it's that tariffs and sanctions are powerful tools. For Beijing, it's that a ...
The Kerrant

Trump’s Path Back: How Shifting Politics and Powerful Voices Reshaped the Election - As we reflect on the recent election, it’s hard to ignore the signals that former President Obama gave, albeit subtly, during the primaries. In his state...
The Free Market Futurist

The Birth of the “Progress Movement” - I have a long tradition on Election Day of writing about anything except the election.
Notes On Liberty

Taxes, Tariffs, Tardy Tallying, and Thanksgiving Truce - November’s Challenge to Bridge America’s Divide
Premise Check (Billy Beck)

It’s Election Day, 2024 - 2:28 AM EDT —
The Truth Fairy

The Kindergarten Intifada - The national effort to indoctrinate American children against Israel
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Daylight Saving: Libertarian Video Shorts - Daylight saving creates chaos among the populace. [2 min] Comedian Michael McIntyre jokes about daylight saving time. [1 min] A short segment from the Jo...
A life just as ordinary

Herevana – #203 – Wilderness Rolling Meadows - Here we have a Wilderness Brewing Wilderness Rolling Meadows. IT’s be rare for a Wilderness beer not to be really enjoyable, and so a BA peach apricot affa...
Forbidden Science

Why the public should not “believe in science” - Instead, we should publicly and freely discuss it
The Scholar's Stage

Republican Debates on China: A Political Compass for Potential Trump Appointees - A Preliminary Taxonomy
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...
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

straight outta tartarus - in search of the inner sanctums
Armas

The Hard Country: The River and the Line. - Chapter 2 of the book is out!
The 13th Floor

Mousey And The Dreams Of Our Mothers’ Mothers: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview - Mousey is the nom-de-plum of Christchurch-based artist Sarena Close and she is just about to release her very personal third album, The Dreams Of Our Mot...
Austin Vernon's Substack

Human Driving Increases Transportation Cost 10x - Why ground transportation still has a lot of legs.
Martini Mandate

Marxists, Beards and Follies - Sri Lanka has elected a Marxist president. He is described as a neo Marxist, which is what you call a revolutionary who’s shaved his beard. The problem i...
647 Reasons Why

DAYS 1-3 - 90 Mile Beach - Days 1-3 of my trek across the entire length of New Zealand
Cranmer’s Substack

HMNZS MANAWANUI - Details are already starting to emerge of the frantic rescue efforts that saved the crew of the stricken vessel on Saturday evening and which continued unt...
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: The Coal Conquest - There was no shortage of trees
Craig Biddle

Conceptual Fallacies and How to Avoid Them - Logical fallacies are not the only errors that retard thinking. Conceptual fallacies do, too, and often in subtler, more destructive ways. Just as logica...
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Living in the Parent Ghetto - Despite my sincere efforts, I have become one of Those Moms Who Only Hang Out With Other Moms
Bawerk.net

Revolutionizing Financial Management: The Benefits and Features of Natco Credit Union’s Online Banking Services - In today's fast-paced digital age, convenience and accessibility are paramount, especially when it comes to... The post Revolutionizing Financial Managem...
THE CIVILIAN

Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet - Tory Whanau has revealed that she’s struggling so much financially that she may have to part with her beloved mayoralty, that of New Zealand’s capital city...
Te Papa

Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet - Tory Whanau has revealed that she’s struggling so much financially that she may have to part with her beloved mayoralty, that of New Zealand’s capital city...
Political Correctness Watch

- * Israel’s message to terrorists is simple: ‘Just stop attacking us’* Israel’s attacks on Hezbollah via exploding pagers and now walkie talkies are one of...
Stu-Topia

A Fallacy Called ‘Privilege, or It Didn’t Happen’ - Stuart K. Hayashi Ten years ago, if on social media you talked about a strange event that happened to you, often someone would quip, “Show pictures or it d...
Demystifying Science

Addressing Virus Skeptics - The Confusing misuse of the words isolate and cause
a/symmetric

We're going on hiatus - But do stick around
Better things are possible

Managing on-street parking for local benefit; the case for Parking Benefit Districts - Parking is often the centre of debate in our cities, particularly on-street car parks, who gets to use them and how we manage them.
Reviews - 13th Floor

WORD CHCH Literature Festival 2024: 13th Floor Report - [image: WORD] The 13th Floor’s Shamin Yazdani headed south to Christchurch to take in the WORD CHCH Literature Festival. Here is her report: I spent the ...
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

Project 2025 vs. The Public’s Health, Part III - Part III: The NIH
TheMoneyIllusion

A long strange trip - For readers who don’t already know this, my new blog is over at Substack: scottsumner.substack.com This will be my final Money Illusion post. The blog bega...
Magazine Articles – Quadrant Online

A Journey of Death - "When he was released ahead of schedule from his prison sentence of nearly 20 years, Jiao Zhimin was in his early forties. On his way to his father’s hou...
Hunters and Anglers – 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...
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

Not One of Us - Recent attacks by opposition MPs on ACT party MPs Karen Chhour and David Seymour about not being "Māori enough" and the like reveal more about the attacker...
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.
CEE – Econlib

Occupational Licensing - [An update of Occupational Licensing, by David S. Young.] Occupational licensing today directly affects more than one in five workers in the United State...
Liberty Scott

Charles Moore on the prospects of Trump in Foreign Policy - From the Daily Telegraph: *One of Mr Trump’s clearest messages, amplified by his choice of J D Vance, is that he does not want to help Ukraine defeat Vl...
Yes In Our Backyards

Mixed-use development is coming to NZ cities, here’s One Small Trick to take it further - Allowing neighbours to sell their planning rights to incoming developments will make a good policy even better
BloodhoundBlog

RIP Geno Petro, a hound at the head of the pack. - Geno Petro has passed away. He was one of the best writers to work with us here over the years – and I have the proof. Cura ut valeas, frater. Requiescat i...
Anti-Dismal

100 years of the theory of the firm. Or may be only 50. - Depending on how you pick your starting point there has been, roughly, 50 or 100 years of the mainstream economic theory of the firm. In support of the 1...
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

Lamb, courgette & triple cheese layered bake - JW – as requested, here’s the method behind the madness! This recipe is a cross between a moussaka and a (lower-carb) lasagne. I’ve used courgettes, grou...
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

Excerpt 1 -- from a new essay series - Work in progress - (for interera.co)
Keith Weiner Economics

Commodities, Consumer Goods, Prices, and Time - Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley, at the Cato Institute, write about the Simon Abundance Index. SAI is named for Julian Simon, famous for his bet with the Malth...
Earthly Idealism

The Unhappy Millionaire - I’m excited to share the first two episodes of a podcast I’ve launched along with Ayn Rand Institute CEO Tal Tsfany: The Unhappy Millionaire. The premise i...
The Visible Hand

What is an ATAR and what does this have to do with income? - Cross-post from Substack. Look I’m from New Zealand – so when everyone around me started talking about ATARs I just smiled and nodded. In fact I probably c...
Mises Wiki - Recent changes [en]

DRAGONVALE! CHEATS MOD ANDROID IOS NO SURVEY 2024 NEW - Created page with "Hey there, DragonVale fans! Are you ready to take your DragonVale gaming experience to the next level? Well, you're in luck because we...
Technological Optimism with Thomas Walker-Werth

What Happened to Technological Optimism? - I haven't given up the good fight. I'm just taking it to a more fundamental level.
Progress Forum Digest

Why you, personally, should want a larger human population - Also: The City That Can't, how to raise a genius, FDA reform, and more
Jack’s Substack

Electricity Cheapest in a Decade - NZ residential electricity most affordable in recent history
The Fundy Post

Genesis -
Power + Market

In the Aftermath of the $355 Million Ruling Against Trump, Business Owners Are Even Less Safe than Before - By: Daniel Kowalski Willing buyer and willing seller. These five words form the very basis from which the system of capitalism is based on. You have someth...
Samizdata

Let’s just defund the UN and leave it immediately - Hidden deep below the headquarters of the United Nations’ aid agency for Palestinians here is a Hamas complex with rows of computer servers that Israel’s...
The Grumpy Economist

Understanding Trumpers - WSJ oped and substack post.
The Popehat Report

The Popehat Report Is Moving To Beehiiv - As I mentioned before, the Popehat Report is moving to Beehiiv, a different platform for blogs and newsletters. You can find it at www.popehat.com. The nex...
Law of Markets

An economic philosopher of the highest rank - He explains how capitalism, and only capitalism, can and does make us prosperous. Alas, he also shows how rare this perspective is by being so rare himself...
Michelle Kamhi

Where I’m Coming From - In today’s toxically polarized climate, individuals willing to engage openly in civil discourse with people they may disagree with are all too rare and mer...
George Reisman's Blog

A 2024 Mid-Priced Automobile Sells for the Same $300 Price Paid for a Model T Ford in 1924 - It really does, if you can pay for it in *Gold* dollars. Based on the present price of gold bullion, of approximately $2,000 per ounce, a twenty-dollar U...
Precise Thinking

Finding the Benevolent Universe when the World is in a Pickle - by
Democracy Action

Is the government staying true to its promises? - In November 2023, National released the coalition agreements made with ACT and NZ First. The Coalition Government agrees to defend the principle that Ne...
Oh look it's a blog - Lorin Clarke

Won't somebody think of the children - I’ve been working with children lately. I have been astonished and astounded by how creative they are. It must be physiological. It’s just a fact that th...
The Continental Telegraph

The BBC and terrorism - The language we use matters – it provides clarity to our own thoughts and enables us to be… The post The BBC and terrorism appeared first on Continental ...
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
Uranium-238

Introduction to the Iran Nuclear Deal - Putting a price on nonproliferation
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

Agustina Vergara Cid on the Immorality of the U.S. Immigration System - [image: Agustina Vergara Cid on the Immorality of the U.S. Immigration System] *Immigrants who “get in line” are punished for wanting to work.* The post A...
Comments on: Bert Kelly

By: Better to be popular than right « Economics.org.au - […] Bert Kelly […]
Cafe Hayek

Some Links - (Don Boudreaux) TweetWriting in the Wall Street Journal, NYU physicist Steven Koonin reports on how the Biden White House inadvertently told the truth abou...
Origin Stories

Breaking Performance Addiction... - ... and wrapping up my first season of Origin Stories
The Great Recession Blog

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

Round 12 v Bulldogs — who needs a midfield anyway? - Round 12 v Bulldogs — who needs a midfield anyway? I honestly did not see a way we could do this one. I was expecting an absolute massacre in the midfield ...
Alastair Cavendish: British Freedom

So They Smashed that Old Man of Whitehaven - Hot on the heels of the Theatre Royal in Stratford promoting a Black Out evening, a performance of the play Tambo and Bones which they...
The Gutter

Woden's Day Thing: 4/26/22 - All right already
The Market Urbanism Report Blog

Can Prospera Become A Startup City Blueprint? - The emergence of startup cities is a story we’ll cover extensively these next few years. Prospera of Honduras is a leading example.
Energy – PERC

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

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...
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 ...
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 ...
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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1828 – Championing Freedom

How to Boost Economic Growth and Sustain it? - Economic growth is nothing but GDP increase that refers to the combined value of products and services a country produces annually. So, obviously economi...
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...
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

Fire Insurance Regs Hurt California Homeowners - The unintended consequences of California’s price restrictions on insurance rates leave insurers unable to cover losses after catastrophic wildfire damag...
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

Making the UN Global Goals A Reality: Why Trade, Enterprise & Weather Intelligence Matters - The UN General Assembly is this month marking 75 years since it came into being — 75 years of international cooperation, dialogue and work for developmen...
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…
M.M.E.F. News

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