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Futurism

Elon Musk Emailed Extensively With Jeffrey Epstein, Begging to Visit His Notorious Island - "Do you have any parties planned?" The post Elon Musk Emailed Extensively With Jeffrey Epstein, Begging to Visit His Notorious Island appeared first on F...
Cato at Liberty

Tracking the Unseen Costs of "State Corporatism" - As I document, research shows that policy-driven capital misallocation can lead to lower productivity, weaker growth, and a smaller economy over the long t...
Techdirt

Tom Homan To Minneapolis: Look, I Warned You If You Weren’t Nice, We’d Have To Kill Again, And Look What You Made Us Do - A couple weeks ago, in the wake of the murder of Renee Good, we wrote about “border czar” Tom Homan’s ridiculous TV comments suggesting that if Democrats d...
John D. Cook

AGI, ASI, A*I – Do we have all we need to get there? - Demis: “[to get to AGI] maybe there’s one or two big innovations needed” Sam: “everything based off what we see today is that it will happen.” Ilya: “But...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Can the NZ Left win the 2026 Election? Should it win? - With the rise of NZ First making a Labour/Green/MP Government less likely (thanks to Eru, Doc, Mariameno and alienating woke...
The Realization of Wholeness

Varieties of Dualism, Part Three - "I am a soul tethered to a body."
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

My Warning About AI Music from 1988 - Did I get it wrong or right? You tell me.
Flashbak

23 Fabulous Vintage Snapshots of People In Barrels - Love is in the air. And as thoughts turn to Valentine’s Day, we look at a great album of snapshots of people getting naked, getting cosy and having bar...
Marginal Revolution

Supply is elastic, installment #6437 - In Italy’s storied gold‑making hubs, jewellers are reworking their designs to trim gold content as they race to blunt the impact of record prices and app...
Homepaddock

Woman of the day - Woman of the Day suffragette Daisy Solomon (1882-1978) joined Elspeth McClelland in trying to send a Votes For Women message to No. 10 Downing Street in 19...
Kiwiblog

General Debate 31 January 2026 - The post General Debate 31 January 2026 first appeared on Kiwiblog.
The Inquiring Mind

Donald Trump’s ‘board of peace’ looks like a privatised UN with one shareholder: the US president - It is hard to believe that Donald Trump has only been back in the White House for a year. His accomplishments are many – but most of them are of … Donald T...
Watts Up With That?

Starmer Government Greenlights 15 Minute City Legal Enforcement - Ordinary residents of trial cities will only be permitted 100 days per year outside their 15 minute region. But special people get a free pass.
Real Clear Energy

Trump: Iran Already Has U.S. terms - Morgan Phillips, Fox Business
IPWatchdog Articles

Other Barks & Bites for Friday, January 30: Senator Cantwell Criticizes Cuts to Federal R&D Funding; Kalyan Deshpande Named Chief Judge of PTAB - This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Federal Circuit denies yet another mandamus petition seeking relief from the settled expectations doctrine for disc...
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

Final 2026 Defense Appropriations – Finally - The negotiated agreement on 2026 funding for military modernization, readiness, and operations could make up for the Pentagon's lagging execution as well...
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

All about the latest writing scams - There’s a new writing scam doing the rounds just now. Authors are being stalked online by strangers purporting to represent a ‘book club’, or who are ‘affi...
The Free Press

Two Whole Milks with . . . RFK Jr. at the ‘Disneyland for Cows’ - At a Pennsylvania dairy farm, MAHA’s main man, RFK Jr., talked with Gabe Kaminsky about dietary guidelines, legalizing pot, and eating a Big Mac with Trump.
The Curmudgeon

Not the Right Kind of Toxic - Team Starmer is once more empurpled with righteous indignation; this time because the Farage Falange candidate in the approaching Manchester by-election ha...
Retraction Watch

Guest post: Forget pickles and ice cream. I published a fake paper on pregnancy cravings for prime numbers - I had grown weary of the constant stream and abuse of spam invitations to submit manuscripts to journals and to attend fake conferences on the other side o...
Why Evolution Is True

O Mio Babbino Caro - This is my favorite of all operatic arias; indeed, it may be my favorite piece of vocal classical music, and it’s a good way to end a dreary week. The aria...
Truth on the Market

Netflix, WBD, and the Myth of the Streaming Monopoly - The proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) assets by Netflix is already being cast as a landmark antitrust “test case.” If past deals are a...
The Daily Sceptic

Bill Gates Caught Sexually Transmitted Disease from “Russian Girls”, New Jeffrey Epstein Emails in DOJ Release Claim - Bill Gates slept with Russian girls, got a sexually-transmitted disease and asked for antibiotics to slip to his then-wife Melinda, new Jeffrey Epstein f...
David Stockmans Contra Corner

The Economics Of Immigration, Part 1 - Click on Title to Read
Utopia - you are standing in it!

The Bjorn Lomborg Conundrum: Sceptic but Not Quite - Lomborg has performed a valuable service in exposing the economic wreckage of Net Zero and the hollowness of green utopianism. But by clinging to the premi...
Breaking Views

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Winston Peters might be story of the year - Now, listen — I think it’s a little early in the year to be making too many predictions about election year. But having said that, I do think there is a ve...
The New York Review of Books

Fifteen Below Zero - Driving to St. Paul from the airport you pass under Fort Snelling, an enormous limestone structure from the early nineteenth century. In November 1862, fol...
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Netanyahu Admits: Israeli Soldiers Died to Protect Palestinians -
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Berlin hospitals struggle to treat hundreds of slip-and-falls after repeated snow and ice storms because environmental laws forbid the use of melting agents on stairs and sidewalks - A hospital spokeswoman has urged Berliners to attach spikes to their shoes and try "walking like penguins" to avoid falling in the treacherous conditions t...
No Minister

What Is a Vanguard in Modern Society? - Tom was absolutely right to point out that any discussion of Leninism is incomplete without addressing Lenin’s concept of the Vanguard. In my earlier piece...
The Double Standard

Open Mike 31/01/2026 - 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...
David Stockman's Contra Corner

The Economics Of Immigration, Part 1 - Talk about fiddling while Rome burns. Donald Trump and his unhinged immigrant bashers surely take the cake. They are rushing headlong into a mass deporta...
The Breakthrough Journal

After Revelatory Environmentalism - Utopia, Apocalypse, and the Return of the Real
The Works in Progress Newsletter

The nuclear renaissance - Episode eleven of the Works in Progress Podcast has some radioactive hot takes
Greg Mankiw's Blog

Congrats to President Trump and Kevin Warsh - As readers of this blog know, I am not a fan of most of President Trump's economic policy, especially regarding international trade. But today the presid...
Energy in Depth

IEA: LNG Goes Global as United States Solidifies Position as World Leader - Global natural gas demand and LNG supply are on track to hit record highs in 2026, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) latest Gas Market...
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

*For a New Liberty* Book Club Reboot - Seventeen years ago, I ran a book club on Murray Rothbard’s *For a New Liberty*. For the next four months, I’m going to re-run the club. Each Friday, sta...
Conversable Economist

Tariffs and Inflation: Where Are We? - One of the predictions made by economists when President Trump announce the start of his freewheeling tariff policies in April 2025 was that the costs of...
Middle East Uncovered

Slavery Did Not Bypass the Middle East - In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi documents the scale, duration, and normalization of slavery across the Islamic world, and the lack of historic...
Living Resources Center

The Sociopath Who Played Himself - From Breitbart: Actor Giancarlo Esposito crystallized today’s Democrat Party by admitting he is willing to see people die to fulfill his revolution. This...
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

January 6's Implications on Don Lemon's Arrest - The bar has been lowered when it comes to journalists documenting illegal activities due to Jan. 6 and how they treated independent journalists who were there
Classical Compass Rose

School Architecture Educates. Or Miseducates. - What do our school buildings say about human dignity? Do they whisper, “You are small in a meaningless system,” or do they say, “You are being initiated in...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Brothers, You Asked for It - Gavin Newsom, the Democratic Party, and their Culpability in the State's Skyrocketing Cost of Living
SkyscraperCity Forum

SOUTHBANK > Melbourne Square > MSQ Residences: 234m/71st, 182m/59st / completed | Aura: 222m/67st/res, 175m/btr / proposed | BLVD: 244m/74st/res / u.c - *Malaysian developer plans massive 6-tower Southbank project* *Kuala Lumpur-listed developer PJ Development has lodged one of the largest single developm...
Gus Van Horn

Four Wins - *A Friday Hodgepodge* *Whenever possible, I list three wins at the end of each day. Here are a few from a recent review of my planner.* *** *1*. Until rec...
The Enlightened Examiner

Collectivized Immigration - Renée Good and Alex Pretti are the latest victims of the phenomenon Ayn Rand terms “collectivized ethics.”
The Enlightened Examiner

Collectivized Immigration - Renée Good and Alex Pretti are the latest victims of the phenomenon Ayn Rand terms “collectivized ethics.”
Mises Institute Blog

Fraud as Policy: The Incentives of the Modern Welfare State - Politicians and the media always express shock when they hear about the latest fraudulent schemes involving the welfare system. They shouldn't be surprised...
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

Minnesotacide - Programming note: Tonight, Friday, I'll be back here at SteynOnline with Part Eight of our seventy-eighth Tale for Our Time, Hugo Bettauer's pertinent sati...
Why not reason?

You don’t seek friends to become their teacher - In relationships, the worst thing that can happen to someone who enjoys thinking and learning is to push away people who love the same things.
Kunstler

Now You Will Know - “The ICE derangement syndrome is off the charts because we are amidst a pandemic of progressive leftist mental illness, which is an extremely disproportion...
Astral Codex Ten

Best Of Moltbook - ...
Tim Worstall

Wonder if I can guess the reasoning here? - From a PR email: Paris – At a time when the climate crisis has never been more urgent, the French Senate yesterday adopted a bill to revive oil and gas e...
Journal of Free Black Thought

“Antiracism” That Erases Black History - A white actor canceled for depicting black heroes
Journal of Free Black Thought

“Antiracism” That Erases Black History - A white actor canceled for depicting black heroes
Curbed - All

Will Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Make Everyone Else’s Go Up? - Surprisingly, housing experts for and against the mayor’s proposal agree on one thing.
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 498 - Platforms : Bridging the Gap between Construction and Manufacturing - Decades after large-scale building programs in almost every industrialized nation, prefab, offsite and industrialized building systems’ use remains marg...
SAVVY STREET

Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin - A philosophical discussion on ethics and mathematics. The post Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin appeared first on SAVVY S...
Energy Transition Absurdities

5 Big Energy Stories - 1.30.2026: Huge Panama Canal Ruling, Exxon Results Dominate the News - Hong Kong company’s concession to operate Panama Canal ports is ruled unconstitutional - A potentionally huge decision out of Panama reinforcing the US pos...
Sawahil

West Africa, Horn, MENA: Links for 1/30/2026 - News and analysis from Dakar to Riyadh.
GeekPress

Cutting An Infinite Pancake - *"A team of mathematicians* seeks to cut an infinitely large pancake into as many pieces as possible, in a new take on an old puzzle."
Spiked Online

Stealing the Holocaust from the Jews - The post Stealing the Holocaust from the Jews appeared first on spiked.
Doug Casey's International Man

The Venezuela Oil Mirage: How Washington Mistook Tar for Black Gold - Dismantling Washington’s fantasy of a Venezuelan oil bonanza by showing why the Orinoco Belt’s extra-heavy crude is economically closer to tar than Saudi...
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 998 Is India-EU a big deal? Mexico's slow growth. Debord on the Spectacle and MLK: "by all means keep moving”. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
ChinaTalk

China’s AI Landscape: a free-for-all, not a central plan - what 6000+ filings with regulators reveal
Everyday Price Index | AIER

The Fed Takes a Wait-and-See Approach - The Federal Reserve held its target range for the federal funds rate constant in January 2026 at 3.5–3.75 percent. This decision was consistent with mark...
American Institute of Economic Research

The Fed Takes a Wait-and-See Approach - The Federal Reserve held its target range for the federal funds rate constant in January 2026 at 3.5–3.75 percent. This decision was consistent with mark...
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Moving to San Diego, Interviews, Book Reviews, and More - Links, January 2026
The Roots of Liberty

The Current Thing - History reveals, pretty clearly, that the populace (and the media) has trouble multitasking or parallel processing.
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Labour Throw Motorists Under The Bus - By Paul Homewood You will remember I wrote to my local Labour MP a couple of months ago to discuss the problems facing electric car drivers who don’t...
Slow Boring

E-Verify isn’t magic - Plus flags, Morris Katz, teacher training, and the classics of Russian literature
Mises Wire

Unger The Weather - In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon examines the demands of philosopher Peter Unger, namely, that we be forced to give up our wealth to fund...
Anthony B. Bradley

Weekly Top Five Articles - Screens Before Age 2 Causes Brain Damage & Teen Anxiety, Free-Choice Marries & Arranged Marriages Don't Different in Romantic Passion, and more. . .
Anthony B. Bradley

Weekly Top Five Articles - Screens Before Age 2 Causes Brain Damage & Teen Anxiety, Free-Choice Marries & Arranged Marriages Don't Different in Romantic Passion, and more. . .
Law & Liberty

Venezuela’s Zombie Transition Cannot Last - The United States cannot tutor the remnants of the Maduro regime into democracy. Deeper change is necessary.
EconLog

Sam’s Links: January Edition - *Sam works on innovation policy at **Progress Ireland**, an independent policy think tank in Dublin, and runs a publication called **The Fitzwilliam*. *M...
Reason Foundation

Congress introduces bipartisan push to fix FCC satellite delays and bolster commercial space - The Satellite and Telecommunications Streamlining Act would modernize the Federal Communications Commission’s satellite licensing procedures. The post Co...
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

The missing piece in how we practice Stoicism - Note: If you’re on my email list, you’ll get early access Monday morning. This is the overview.
ArchDaily

Parede Townhouses / extrastudio - The word house functions as both a verb and a noun. To house is a transitive verb, which requires a direct object to complete its meaning. The purpose of...
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

Five years ago tomorrow we left the EU - Five years ago tomorrow (31 January), the UK formally left the European Union (EU). That gave us options—more open trade deals with Commonwealth and othe...
The Logical Place

In Defence of Profits Within Regulated Markets - Debates about profit often proceed as if the word names a moral failing rather than an economic function. “Profit motive” is treated as shorthand for greed...
Kibao

Africa Treats Its Diaspora Like a Bank Account, Not a Brain Trust - Numerous platforms exist to mobilize diaspora financial capital. Can we do the same for people and their expertise?
Quotulatiousness

Corruption – there … and also here - Copernican draws some examples of life in a corrupt authoritarian society (the old Soviet Union) and compares them with similar situations in the western w...
Hoover institution Commentary

California, Beyond The Governor’s Narrative - Gov. Gavin Newsom’s State of the State concluded that 2025 was “challenging . . . yet one of our finest years.” But for many Californians, 2025 was their w...
Public: Michael Shellenberger

"This is all very planned. They know what works. It's like a war out there." - Independent journalist Hailey West says that interfering in law enforcement operations is "a badge of honor" among activists in Minneapolis
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: The Satisfied Sigh of a Stoic - The sign of a well-lived life.
Quillette

A History of Morality Clauses - The century-old moral panics and persecutions by Anthony Comstock and the Society for the Suppression of Vice are echoed today by cancellation campaigns fr...
Point of Order

The ACC job that was not mentioned when runanga announced its new CEO - Bob Edlin writes – The December 5 announcement that Renata Blair had been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whātua made no mention o...
No Right Turn

No deals with the US - So, Shame Jones is officially trying to sell our country to Donald Trump, by negotiating a secret critical minerals deal behind everyone's back. My immedia...
Autonomia

This and That - February’s calendar, Melania Trump’s and Scott Holleran’s new movies, Iran, Minneapolis and America’s 250th Birthday
Zero Hanger

Youngster’s injury opens door for Wanganeen - A reoccurrence of a hamstring injury halted the teenager
UnHerd

Starmer’s surrender to Beijing - Xi Jinping holds all the cards
The Daily Economy

New York State on Track for a Decade of Population Decline -
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

My Friend Jay Bhattacharya Just Dropped Truth Bombs on the New York Times - The "fringe epidemiologist" is now running the NIH. And he's not pulling any punches.
Matua Kahurangi

When debate turns violent at a UK university - Not everyone’s on X or glued to social media, so you may not have seen the clip doing the rounds from the London College of Communication.
The Daily Doom

So Many Mission Fails, Instead of "Mission Accomplished" - Trump keeps racking up Herculean failures for the US. Today's news lays out several massive fails for the past year that will bear enormous cost for the US...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

The GoySlop Ideology: The Lie of Libertarianism - The American Founding Ideology didn't Come From Austria
A Havenstein Moment.

Powell is unsustainable. - Plus, rampant goldbuggery!
CO2 Coalition

Real Environmental Crisis Is Not Climate Change - By Vijay Jayaraj What if the worst environmental problem wasn’t the one everyone is talking about? While Western elites sip fair-trade coffee and obsess ...
The UnPopulist

Has the Trump Administration Crossed the Rubicon When Lawlessness Makes Lawful Transition Impossible? - It may have reached a point when its only option for avoiding accountability would be keeping Democrats out of power
Sustain What

How to Make the Most of AI Before it Takes Over (just kidding, sort of...) - LIVE Sustain What AI survival chat Friday with two top-tier experts
The Footy Almanac

Almanac Footy: Finally the prize – North Melbourne’s perfect 1999 premiership season - After the demise of the Fitzroy FC Philip Mendes turned his allegiance to North Melbourne and celebrated his first VFL/AFL premiership in 1999 as he recounts.
Israel Institute of NZ

Hipkins, the UN, and the Gaza Board of Peace: A Masterclass in Selective Moral Outrage - Chris Hipkins has been having a field day condemning New Zealand potentially joining Donald Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace. “Absolute disgrace,” he calls it. ...
Persuasion

Text Is (Still) King - Why the written word will never die.
Greater Auckland

Weekly Roundup 30-January-2026 - Another roundup to cap off your week, can you believe its already the end of January? This week in Greater Auckland On Tuesday we ran Scott’s op-ed from...
The Integrity Institute

News Briefing: 30 January 2026 - WEATHER, DISASTER, CLIMATE
Can't Get Much Higher

Which Hit Songs are Being Forgotten? - Because every song fades away
JoNova

The 15 minute city is back - … By Jo Nova Surprise! The Blob wants to track your car, limit your travel, get more of your money (but only so they can fix the weather!) How could th...
Samizdata

Labour isn’t fixing policing or illegal immigration – it’s building a surveillance state - Surveillance states don’t drop from the sky. They emerge alongside seemingly reasonable excuses that do not ring alarm bells for the ordinary citizen, pi...
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

You, Me, Everybody: Midnight (digital outlets) - We'll be honest, bluegrass doesn't pass our way that often – although last year we interviewed the Eric Clapton of the genre, the youthful Billy Strings....
Institute for Energy Research

Washington State’s Climate Change Program Benefits Were Inflated by a Factor of 28 - The Washington State Climate Commitment Act (CCA) was supposed to reduce 8.6 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions over its… The post Washington State...
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

The austerity-proof public service - NZ Herald
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Men Have Grown Twice As Much As Women Over Past Century - Rob Henderson's Office Hours #24
HardmoneyJim

Panic buying in the gold market - EXPECT EXTREME VOLATILITY. CHASING THIS RALLY COULD BE VERY RISKY. I AM NOT SELLING MY PHYSICAL GOLD.
Libertarian Land

The Trump-Kennedy Center - The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees voted recently to change the Center’s name to the Trump-Kennedy Center. Beyond concerns about whether such a change re...
History Reclaimed

Professor David Abulafia - David Abulafia died on 24th January 2026. We pay tribute to our friend and colleague
FIRE

The American people fact-checked their government - When states lie, crowds can correct. From Paris 1961 to Minneapolis 2026, smartphones and Community Notes expose power’s lies in real time.
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Noncitizens Stole 30% Fewer Welfare Benefits Per Capita Than Citizens 2013–2024 - Welfare fraud is a problem, but 95% is by American citizens.
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

Noncitizens Stole 30% Fewer Welfare Benefits Per Capita Than Citizens 2013–2024 - Welfare fraud is a problem, but 95% is by American citizens.
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

Mr. Bezmenov Goes to Washington - What I noticed while visiting our nation's capital (20 photos, 20 min)
Construction Physics

On Technologies vs. Commodities - A theory that has gained traction in the renewable energy space is that renewable energy sources like wind and solar are based on manufactured “technologie...
The Rebuild

What Democrats Can Learn From Denver - How to Create the Virtuous Cycle
High Capacity

Podcast: China's top AI players and their differing AI strategies - A deep dive into the key players in China's AI industry
The Cobden Centre

Making sense of historical data - By Dr Frank Shostak In order to make the data “talk,” economists utilize a range of statistical methods that vary from highly complex models...
Sinification

China's Demographic Crisis and the Return to 400 Million – by PKU Prof. Zhang Junni - "My third recommendation is to formulate forward-looking plans for immigration, a highly sensitive subject that nevertheless demands strategic forethought."
Cremieux Recueil

Laser Eye Surgery - Why I chose to do it, whether I expected it to work, and if it does
The Antiplanner

Central Oregon Transit Boondoggle - The key to building a large bureaucracy is to concentrate the benefits of that bureaucracy on a few people who will lobby for more money while spreading th...
The Antiplanner

Central Oregon Transit Boondoggle - The key to building a large bureaucracy is to concentrate the benefits of that bureaucracy on a few people who will lobby for more money while spreading th...
The Whakataki Times

Man Can’t Understand Why Girlfriend Is Too Tired for Sex After Doing His Laundry And Cooking His Meals - WHERE'S THE ROMANCE?! The post Man Can’t Understand Why Girlfriend Is Too Tired for Sex After Doing His Laundry And Cooking His Meals appeared first on T...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

Global Environmental Summit That Demands Solutions, Not just Spending Money - When Armenia, a small nation tucked between the Black and Caspian Seas, joined the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) earlier this month...
The Tracinski Letter

The Metaphysics of a Corn Seed - There is more going on here, philosophically, than you might expect. I have one more new chapter posted at The Prophet of Causation. Like I said, I’m push...
Schiffradio.com

Powell’s Absurd Admissions Send Gold & Silver Soaring - Peter Schiff examines the Fed's misguided policies, the soaring gold market, and the looming dollar crisis, urging listeners to act before it's too late....
New Zealand Arts Review

Slow Burn: Women and Photography - Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Slow Burn Ahi Tāmau Lissa Mitchell Te Papa Press RRP $35.00 Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Slow Burn Ahi Tāmau presents a ran...
Stats Chat

NFL Predictions for the Super Bowl - Team Ratings for the Super Bowl The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along wit...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

COVID Helped Start California's Decline, And Gavin Newsom Is Making Sure It Continues - CA population decline accelerate while Florida and Texas surge
Kiwipolitico

Acquiescence is not consent, or a basis for rule. - As a follow up to my previous post (and harkening to a regular theme in my writing), consider this: Used as the basis for authority, repression obeys a for...
Chris Trotter

Checkmate? - While Te Pāti Māori and the Greens are seen as Labour’s only available coalition partners, it has no winning moves.
The Prophet of Causation

The Metaphysics of a Corn Seed - Chapter 9
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

The Human League Announce NZ Tour - Following on from their fantastic shows in 2024, the timeless Synth-Pop geniuses of The Human League will return to New Zealand in February 2027 with the...
Interintellect

Reflections on the Telemachy, Books 1-4 of The Odyssey - Mythology as delight, Mentor(ship), and Xenia
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

At what age does adulthood begin in 2026? - Reading a recent Stuff article about a 26 year old woman leading the East Cape flood response, I felt two things at once.
Outliving Iran

How to Be a Hero - Nothing is too terrifying if you understand it
Official Blog

l.e.g.o. Box TB Hotel – Geocache of the week - Traditional GC86BFD by FLF Difficulty: 2 Terrain: 1.5 Location: Germany N 49° 18.623 E 007° 16.962 Some geocaches are clever. Others are beautiful. And the...
McFaul's World

Talking Trump on The Court of History Podcast - Discussing the fallout from the U.S. president's reckless Greenland gambit
Building the Builders

The psychology of evil - How to think about the worst in your friends, your enemies, and yourself
American Energy Alliance

Gov. Spanberger Moves to Increase Electricity Prices With Plans to Rejoin RGGI - WASHINGTON DC (1/28/26) – Last week, Governor Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), who ran a campaign based on affordability, including lower energy bills, announc...
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

Why Peanut Allergies Have Surged - Since the American Academy of Pediatrics issued its peanut-avoidance advice 25 years ago—without strong scientific evidence—food allergies in the US have e...
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Three Big Ideas #53 - *Three Big Ideas* is our fortnightly roundup of ideas (and our takes on them) in entrepreneurship, innovation, science and technology, handpicked by the ...
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Timeline 1800-1899: Major events of 1830-1839 - Summary of the decade from my Timeline project: Industrialization, Clausewitz & Tocqueville, Hugo, Schumann, and more.
Manhattan Contrarian

"Affordability": Two Theories Of How To Achieve It - * “Affordability.” That’s the new political mantra of Democratic politicians. Or maybe it’s one of two mantras, the other being that deporting illegal alie...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

A Clear Example of Private vs Public Sector Accountability. - As many will know - Scott Robertson was sacked as All Blacks coach two years into a four year contract.
PM of NZ

And you pay this poser $0.5m or more? - It is now almost a week into the tragedy at the mount. And the overpaid tosser that poses as your Mayor today finally admits that council staff were inde...
Andrew Whiteside

Event: A View from the Bridge – Apr/May 2026 - Set in the docklands of 1950s Brooklyn, the play follows Eddie Carbone, a wharfie who lives by his own code. When two undocumented cousins arrive seeking w...
An Africanist Perspective

The international development community isn’t adapting fast enough to official aid cuts. That’s a big problem. - On the urgent need for a pivot to spending more time trying to supporting specific countries interested in boosting their state capacity; and catalyzing co...
Robert Nasir’s Joyous Newsletter

What Can You Do, When You Have To Deal With People? - Yes, there is an answer ... quite a few, in fact! Here are five of them, each & all of which can make your life better!
Macroscience

Five Prescriptions for Simplifying Science Policy - Some thoughts on a National Academies’ report on reforming federal science.
A Halfling's View

Revisiting Homer's World - A Review of Emily Hauser's "Mythica"
Stewart Margolis

What Is An Objectivist? - I was rather surprised when someone I have known in the Objectivist movement for forty years publicly proclaimed that he would no longer be calling himself...
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

The Dying Animal - MAGA in twilight
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Dumb and Dumber (Nos. 125-126) - Watching the Education Apocalypse in Slow Motion
One Useful Thing

Management as AI superpower - Thriving in a world of agents
The Shrewd Artist

Midnight Thoughts - What I thought about while simultaneously painting an all-nighter.
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Midnight Thoughts - What I thought about while simultaneously painting an all-nighter.
Skeptic

What is Truth, Anyway? - - Do you believe global warming is real? - Do you believe in the germ theory of disease? - Do you believe masks work and should be mandated? ...
The Trichordist

Don’t Sell What You Don’t Have: Why AB 1349’s Crackdown on Speculative Event Tickets Matters to Touring Artists and Fans - After years of just talk, there is new momentum federally and in the states to fix how concert and event tickets are sold and resold. California AB 1349 co...
Quote Investigator

Proverb Origin: Generals Always Prepare to Fight the Last War - Robert Blatchford? Arthur Bugs Baer? Roy K. Moulton? Robert de Saint-Jean? Ford Madox Ford? Georges Clemenceau? P. L. Garvin? Anonymous? Question for Quote...
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Coping with your Emotions - What to actually do when you notice you're getting upset
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

A Frightening Interview - Dr. Kirk Milhoan is the new chairman of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee. His comments on a recent podcast should scare the American public.
Changing Lanes

The Crisis in the Bike Industry - Kevin McLaughlin on why e-bikes are great but the sector isn’t
Statecraft

One Year of Trump’s Economic Statecraft - Three thoughtful liberal observers, one mega-episode.
Yascha Mounk

Atul Gawande on Medicine and Mortality - Yascha Mounk and Atul Gawande discuss how a simple system can improve patient outcomes.
Toppermost

Vulfpeck - Vulfpeck burst onto the scene in 2011, a bunch of University of Michigan music grads with a cheeky vision: recreate the vibe of those mythical German ses...
Doomberg

A Brief History of Times - Trump, Exxon, and the next three years.
Real Clear Energy: Video

Commodity Big Picture - Countries across the globe are looking for their slice of the pie when it comes to securing their own sovereignty, says Benoit Gervais. He argues commoditi...
RenewNZ

Zero Day comes for the Iranian regime - Last year reports emerged that Tehran, the capital city of Iran, was running out of water. One expert predicted that “zero day” was not far off. As the Isl...
The Library of Celaeno

Contra Parvini - What Academic Agent Gets Wrong
JunkScience.com

Winter Storm Threat Should Boost Trump Pro-Coal Policy - My latest in the Daily Caller.
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Indiana University Hoosiers - Nobody knows what the origin of ‘Hoosier’ is. Party fun for visitors to Indiana includes recounting the many speculations on the label’s origins. This year...
The Roots of Progress

Links and short notes, 2026-01-26 - The wisdom of Vitalik, Voices from 2099, ultrasound BCI, preventative MRIs, a browser written by AI, and much, much more
Glenn’s Substack

Of Squids, Ink, and Minnesota's Corrupt Machine - Tim Walz, et al., try to change the subject, even at the expense of supporters' lives.
The Weekly Sift

Resistance - In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. – commonly attributed to George Orwell What did we learn from the Holocaust? ...
Capitalism Magazine

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, ICE, and Illegal Immigration - ICE agents enforcing the law aren't the threat to American values. The threat is the accumulated mass of people who broke the law to enter, refuse to assim...
The Intrinsic Perspective

It Only Snows Like This for Children - The Lore of the World: Snow
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Flattery vs. Freedom - On the Character of a Free People
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

"Climate Change Presses On" - Global Weather Catastrophe Losses 1990 to 2025
Free Range Kids

Letting Your Kid Ride His Scooter is “Neglect”? - UPDATE: Mallerie Shirley’s “Neglect” charge has just been reversed! We are awaiting details, but this is fantastic news. We are hopeful that our “Reasona...
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

JOINT REVIEW: Philosophy Between the Lines, by Arthur M. Melzer - Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing, Arthur M.
Africa-Israel Weekly

'iShowSpeed' Shows Arab Racism, (Slavery) of Black Africans - Like Black Eldridge Cleaver in 1969. popular Black American Influencer given rude awakening in Algeria
bad cattitude

follow the money, not the media - the gatoguide™ to making sense of minnesota (and what's to come)
DGMLive

Stormy Monday Selection #73 - A perfect blend of Boz from the original master tapes with an epic recording of Islands from the 2018 tour.
Stu-Topia

Which Is Her Real Personality? All of Them - Stuart K. Hayashi There is a hit video-game visual-novel called Slay the Princess. It’s independent, made mostly by a husband-and-wife team. What is meant ...
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

Food as a Love Language - Nourishing the Spirit
Tross Publishing

Don’t Pollute OUR River With YOUR Apartheid - In January, 2026, parts of the Wanganui River were closed so that people claiming to be "descendants of the river tribes" could paddle down its waters in...
Roy Spencer, PhD.

March, 2000: “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past” - …posted without comment: The Independent, March 2000: “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past“
Perennial Meditations

Why We Never Really Begin to Live - Sundays with Seneca (Vol. 7)
The Future of Being Human

Can modern scholarship escape AI? - I wrote a paper ...
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

Keeping Up with the Jones Act - Thinking morally Right or Wrong, not politically left or right demands repealing the Jones Act.
misfits' architecture

Second Thoughts (a.k.a. Part 2) - The first second thought has to do with orientation. At approx. 45°N, Villa Rotonda has no problems with view and no problems with illumination although th...
The Trumpland Diary

ICE Executes Another U.S. Citizen in Minneapolis - The latest murder is even worse than Renee Good's
Paul Wells

Three more speeches - Carney in Quebec City, Zelensky at Davos, Poilievre next Friday: your weekend wrap
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

AMERICAN DIPLOMACY AT THE END OF A BARREL - In mid-January, presidential historian Richard Norton Smith, during his visit to the Rockefeller Center, offered a simple but profound conservative standar...
Flying Out

Into Oblivion (Vinyl LP) - *Vendor: *Century Media *Type: *LAMB OF GOD *Price: * 77.00 *LAMB OF GOD*’s tenth album, *Into Oblivion*, sees them embracing their position as music ve...
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #31: Make a Big Promise - Set up the payoff so your audience leans in.
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

"Social justice" versus survival: The fatal risks of groupthink on the streets - A conversation about addiction, homelessness, and saving lives by transcending ideology with Kevin Dahlgren.
Conflicted

Pardon me, your intent is showing - How a National Academy of Science event created an organization that legitimizes severe constraint on open debate about climate and energy
The War on Prices

Profit-Led Inflation: Trivial or Wrong? - A good new overview from Christopher Conlon
Tim’s Substack

The Duranta Dam Turkey Shoot - Phase 2 of the Tanker Wars
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

on tedium - repeatedly doing a thing that's not working
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Premium: The AI Bubble Is A Time Bomb -
Conspicuous Cognition

AI Sessions #8: Misinformation, Social Media, and Deepfakes (with Sacha Altay) - Watch now | Henry and I chat with Dr Sacha Altay about:
Marcus on AI

AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy - When AI Can Fake Majorities, Democracy Slips Away
Gross Output

The Divided Economy: Business Still Trying to Catch Up to the Consumer Boom - “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...
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

New Report: Texas Water Policy Can Promote Conservation and Limit Waste - Voluntary water markets offer a path to protect farms, cities, and rivers without mandates The post New Report: Texas Water Policy Can Promote Conservati...
On Substack

Introducing the Substack TV app, now in beta - Taking subscriber video to the bigger screen
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Our Expanding Immigration-Control Tyranny - One can hope that the tyranny that is settling in on America will cause a critical mass of the American people to engage in some serious soul-searching a...
Spiked Online

spiked summit 2026 – supporter tickets - The spiked summit takes place *Saturday 27 June 2026* in Westminster – a flagship live event featuring bold debate, live Q&As and 500+ engaged attendees....
Eat More Electrons

What is Think Tank impact? (And what is it not?) - Why no one should care about your 18 reports
Liberty Scott

Loony leftwing teachers - In the UK... *"A Labour MP was prevented from visiting a school in his constituency because the teaching unions and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign do ...
Freedom and Flourishing

Does Humanomics Need a Moral Anchor? - *This is a guest essay by Dr Edward W. Younkins, Professor of Accountancy and Business at Wheeling University, and Executive Director of its Institut...
Public Lands – PERC

A Better Way To Fund National Parks—Paid For By Their Most Eager Visitors - When those tourists visit national parks, they’ll be supporting them more than ever. The post A Better Way To Fund National Parks—Paid For By Their Most ...
Dead Language Society

Scots, English, and the linguistic uncanny valley - English’s fascination with its closest cousin
Asimov’s Addendum

What does Anthropic's Latest Economic Index Data Really tell us? - "if you listen very hard, the tune will come to you at last"
Michael Newberry, Artist

The Payoff of Visual Perception: Exaltation - Seeing through an artist’s eyes Another work that recently came back into my possession is this life drawing on red paper (1987), I was 30, and it was the ...
Leport’s Substack

Looking for reviews - Dear friends and family,
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Meta's Legal Team Abandoned Its Ethical Duties - From Big Tobacco to Menlo Park — and the collapse of legal ethics
Institute of Economic Affairs

Never forgetting the absurdities of fascism - ‘Classics Revisited’ revisits a publication from a previous century from a present-day perspective, to show how much, or how little, … Continue reading "...
Notes On Liberty

New issue of Isonomia Quarterly coming out soon - In February. Perhaps it’ll even be on time. Until then, check out last quarter’s issue here. And don’t forget to subscribe. Paying subscribers get print co...
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

The Mouth of the Leviathan: On the Coming Feast of the Stadium and the Famine of Everyone Else - Christchurch’s new stadium shifts spending away from local venues. In a cost-of-living crisis, who survives: the ratepayer-funded giant or the unpaid small...
The New Era

Tech for Freedom Newschat Episode 2 - Claus and I focus on Digital ID, Technocratic businesses, low-cost airlines, CBDCs and more...
What You Can Do For Liberty

Top 25 Liberty Events and Conferences in 2026 - Want to make new friends, learn about liberty, and network with pro-liberty thinkers?
Precise Thinking

Mary’s Monumental Survival - The Secular Side of the Story
Equal to Reality

Beauty as Necessity: Cultivating a Rational Environment for the Soul. - Reflections on Urban Dullness and the Pursuit of Spiritual Sustenance in Modern Britain.
The Beauty of Things

Saturday Stack LIVE and LOGOS unboxing video - A recording from Zina Gomez-Liss's live video
Too Clever By Half

What's wrong with Blogger's responsive themes? - *A CATALOG OF DISCONTENTS ¶ * [image: A man wearing horn-rimmed glasses holding his hand in front of him with his thumb pointing down] So why do the Re...
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

"Bleeding but Unbowed" - As the women of Iran unveil themselves, they sing in the name of freedom
Private Lands – PERC

Clear Rules Are Key to Effective Wetlands Conservation - Conserving wetlands is a worthwhile investment, but more regulation does not automatically mean better conservation. The post Clear Rules Are Key to Effe...
First Stones NewsLetter

I feel so sorry for Renee Good ... - Because ...
Harry’s Substack

ICE vs. the rule of law, not of men - ICE agents are not owed obedience
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

The Nigerian Republic in a Ditch: The Rise and Tragic Fall of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa - How Nigeria’s First Republic Collapsed Under the Weight of Tribalism
Maximum Progress

The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander on the design of cities and homes
The Many Ways I Let You Down

כָּל הַמְאַבֵּד נֶפֶשׁ אַחַת… כְּאִלּוּ אִבֵּד עוֹלָם מָלֵא - Saying Goodbye to Playwright Stanley Makuwe
Market Urbanism

Getting tax policy backwards - In the WSJ, Jeff Yass & Steve Moore play the world’s smallest violin for the poor homeowners who are sitting on more than half a million dollars of nominal...
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

How to quickly deter China from invading Taiwan — my interview with Ethan Thornton of Mach Industries - The US government can help deter China and other threats by radically improving the way it procures weapons
Theatreview

Aroha Awarau - Playmarket New Zealand Playmarket is deeply saddened by the passing of playwright Aroha Awarau. A champion for Māori story sovereignty, Aroha built a caree...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

The Attention Wars: Why Netflix Is Buying the Past to Own the Future - The old “streaming wars” are over; the “attention wars” have begun. In the new battle, Netflix’s strategic acquisition of Warner Bros’ Discovery makes pe...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

The Attention Wars: Why Netflix Is Buying the Past to Own the Future - The old “streaming wars” are over; the “attention wars” have begun. In the new battle, Netflix’s strategic acquisition of Warner Bros’ Discovery makes pe...
Fictionosophy

Persuasion: Or, When to Trust Your Own Judgment - Persuasion’s moral is subtler than many of Austen’s other novels but it is nevertheless timeless and important if we want to make good decisions.
Existential Crunch

End time economics - Supply and demand after global catastrophes
In Due Course

What colourblindness hath wrought - One of the more questionable trends in social justice thinking over the past decade has been the suggestion that there is something wrong with “colourblind...
HBL

Trump’s Gestapo is now murdering protestors - ICE is Trump’s Gestapo or SS. They have no proper function, no constitutional authorization, and are loyal to Trump personally. In Minneapolis on Wednesday...
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: New Science Funding Edition - It's time to seed new institutions of science and technology for the 21st century
Roberto’s Substack

The Axis of Oppression: Iran, Islam, and the Postmodern Left’s Betrayal of Freedom - Introduction: A Regime on the Brink, a World in Denial
Splitting Headache

Somethings: Mightier than the sword - My favorite pen, electric dreams and a really (un)lucky woman
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: Tudor Trade War - The true effects of Henry VII's "industrial policy"
The Scholar's Stage

35 Theses on the WASPs - On the Rise and Fall of a Past Establishment
The Kerrant

Thinking Small Is How You Stay Small - Brian Easton is right about one thing: New Zealand is small. Where he go...
Dramatic Pause

How I Review: Madeleine Chapman - In the third edition of how I review, an interview with journalist and author Madeleine Chapman.
Regan's Substack

Socialism is for losers - And Capitalism doesn't need a PR team
Africa’s Bright Future

Why I Sued Próspera Africa for Defamation - Update on my efforts to advance startup cities in Africa
Virginia Postrel

Recent Work and an Exciting New Project - Plus recommended reading
Note to Noteworthy

Christianity Inverts Morality - Christian morality distorts the true purpose of morality, turning a tool for flourishing into a destroyer of life.
Texas Institute for Property Rights

The End is Near - I am no longer posting on this website. You can continue reading my posts at jbrianphillips.com The post The End is Near appeared first on Texas Institut...
The Jolly Libertarian

Book Review: So Who Is John Galt, Anyway? by Robert Tracinski - Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky! Like many, and maybe even most, fans of Ayn Rand's *Atlas Shrugged*, I saw it as a political manifesto. It was a paean t...
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Are You the Queen of Your House or Just a Lowly Servant? - Maybe I don’t have to serve my house all the time, maybe it is my house that exists to serve me.
Earthly Idealism

The Warmth of Collectivism - “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” So said New York’s new mayor, socialist Zohran Mamdani.
Thinking Directions

Value Jars, an Emotional Resilience Tool - Emotional resilience is your ability to recover quickly after you get triggered, so that you can take a purposeful, value-oriented emotion. The more emot...
Mike’s Substack

Seinfeld and the Science of Education - Jerry Seinfeld once remarked that, “No one really knows what’s funny.” That line struck me as deeply honest—and strangely scientific.
Mike’s Substack

Seinfeld and the Science of Education - Jerry Seinfeld once remarked that, “No one really knows what’s funny.” That line struck me as deeply honest—and strangely scientific.
Keith Weiner Economics

Reflections Over 2025 - I know I was busy this year. But now I see that the last piece I wrote for the blog was Reflections Over 2024! And I did almost no writing for Monetary Met...
Austrian Economics Newsletter

Money And Collateral - Roasted Barley Is No Substitute For Coffee!
round houses

restoring the house of tomorrow - In the early 1930s, the house of the future, as conceived of by architect George Fred Keck, was round (or, technically, 12-sided) and had floor-to-ceiling ...
Reason for Living

Try Declarations, Not Resolutions, for 2026 - I’m trying an alternative to New Year's resolutions this year: New Year’s declarations.
Houston Strategies

2025 Highlights - Happy New Year! Time for our annual round-up of the best posts of 2025, with this year featuring as many (or more!) great posts from Oscar as from me. If y...
Anti-Dismal

Coase versus Becker on utility maximisation - Ronald Coase and Gary Becker explain and discuss the theory of rational maximizing utility. They describe how consumers rank preferences and then attempt t...
Wright in Racine

Wright’s Unrealized YWCA For Racine - © Mark Hertzberg (2025) Frank Lloyd Wright had a commission from H.F. Johnson Jr. to design a new YWCA building in Racine, Wisconsin in 1949. I first wrote...
What's New Under the Sun

Innovation Job Market Papers 2025 (2/2) - Dozens of papers from new PhDs about Innovation
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (24 December 2025) - Resolving the governance gap and institutionalizing global risk reduction
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

Good News Story. - *Gospel:* What, after all, is a magic spell, if not a formulation of words to effect actual change in the real world? Wasn’t that why the Greek followers ...
Objective Standard Institute

Zachary Porcu and Craig Biddle on the Foundations of Knowledge - Craig had a thoughtful discussion with Zachary Porcu on the source and nature of knowledge.
Let Grow

Why Letting Kids Do More Is the Ultimate Gift - [image: Birthday Present Father Giving Gift To Daughter] Esther Wojcicki shares why trust and independence matter more than fear, mistakes, or overprotecti...
Wildlife – PERC

It’s Time to Stop Treating Threatened and Endangered Species the Same - A public comment on the proposed rescission of the “blanket rule” that regulates threatened species as if they were endangered The post It’s Time to Stop...
The China Space Monitor

The Chinese Academy of Sciences' Space Program - Plus overseas announcements from Star.Vision, GeeSpace, and SpaceIoT, lots more SatNet Satellites, and a Zhuque-3 partial success (plus me on TV!)
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Bondi, Tarrant, victimhood, faith, the primitive, relativism, cultural boundaries of knowledge - Can humanity be rescued from irrationality
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Staying True and Pure - I didn’t need validation from people who couldn’t understand the depth of my essence.
Cranmer’s Substack

The Architecture of a Capable State: Why Cuts, Cosmetic Fixes and Good Intentions are not enough - Keynote address to the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union AGM – 15 December 2025
Boom (UK)

How South Korea's job market motivates intensive parenting - A new article in Works in Progress & some extra context
The Grumpy Economist

Video - I’ve been traveling a bit lately and catching up on some writing deadlines, hence less posting than usual.
Johnny Grey Studios

Christmas Newsletter 2025 - As we just about manage to cope with the darkness and the news, the coming time of hibernation will be welcome – if of course you are lucky enough to be ta...
Offsetting Behaviour

Surely a case for outcome-based contracting - Outcome-based contracting would have solved this: A stop smoking provider says the decision to cut its contract on the basis it has refused to hand out v...
Catherine Mosse

Inflation: an economic problem or a source of political polarization? - In his book Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt explains how inflation polarizes society by creating a sense of injustice.As inflation accelerates, peop...
M.M.E.F. News

Great news!! MMEF have secured a permanent home for the AMI 3-6 Diploma, starting in April 2026 - Kia ora Koutou MMEF Supporters, Yes, we used two exclamation marks in our headline above--that's because we are so excited! Our latest news, whi...
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

How Drug Boats Could Be Used to Rationalize an Unjust War with Venezuela - Podcast audio: [powerpress] In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Elan Journo discuss the recent American attacks on alleged d...
Ruxandra’s Substack

A manifesto for reviving biopharma productivity - When it comes to Eroom's Law, some of the most important problems are the boring ones
Croaking Cassandra

And that is that - About 15 years ago (partly thanks to a couple of years at Treasury, partly to the financial crises in the US and Europe) I started to get much more systema...
Lindsay Mitchell

Hollow Gesture Replaces Real Action - Do you ever wonder what the Office of the Children's Commissioner - with an annual budget of $11.5 million and 36 full time staff (83 percent female with...
Roots of Progress

Announcing Progress in Medicine, a high school summer career exploration program - Starting today, high school students can apply to Progress in Medicine, a new program by the Roots of Progress Institute. What the Progress in Medicine p...
Pablo’s Translations

EL SEXO Y LOS VALORES - —por Jim Ashley, 9 de diciembre, 2023
A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

New Zealand: A Nation of the Enlightenment - “It is sometimes forgotten that New Zealand, as a neo-European society, is a securely post-Enlightenment society…. a very particular example of post- ...
Forbidden Science

Notes on whether Ivermectin works for COVID-19 - Forbidden Science is a reader-supported publication.
Jackson Upmann

Altruism Is Not the Same Thing as Being Kind - The moral confusion that turns generosity into self-destruction.
A City for People

Cities need infrastructure to grow, but Roads of National Significance ain’t it - Tell the government that Wellington deserves better in the next two weeks!
Democracy Project

New website: www.democracyproject.org.nz - The Democracy Project is now hosted here: www.democracyproject.org.nz The main content of the Democracy Project is at this new site, where you can sign u...
Syncretica

AI Bubble or Not - Getting specific about what bubble
Principled Perspectives

On the Trump/Mamdani 'Lovefest' - My FB Post: “For all the hype of a conflict, President Trump and New York City's next mayor, Zohran Mamdani, had a surprising bond when they met Friday ...
Seiler on Science

Thomas Kuhn’s Copernican Revolution - Reflections on a classic in the history of science
Hunters and Anglers – PERC

Pulling Wetlands Conservation Out of the Political Muck - Ideas for policy and market innovations that can improve wetland conservation The post Pulling Wetlands Conservation Out of the Political Muck appeared ...
Eating Policy

Outcomes Review: Realigning Legislative Incentives - How might a state legislature shift from outputs to outcomes?
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Happy Veterans Day! - Freedom isn’t free. Here’s a sweet short film as thanks to the armed forces, who have held at bay those who would take our freedom from us. Happy Veteran...
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Strangers - America's "stranger culture" changes your personality.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

Strangers - America's "stranger culture" changes your personality.
Folarinism

👀 🎧 New podcast: ALT BLACK POD - Three contrarian voices unpack the culture — identity, power, and the post-woke internet. Ft. Inaya Folarin Iman, Ralph Leonard and Renie Anjeh
StephenFranks.co.nz

Is free speech a right wing conspiracy? - When I was a left wing student, protesting against NZ’s Security Intelligence Service, the Vietnam War and other trending causes, it would have been inconc...
Overthinking Everything

Making connections - If two people seem like they should know each other and don't, maybe you should fix that.
A life just as ordinary

Herevana – #206 – Garage Project – Mountain Call - Mountain Call, a 7.2% Farmhouse Ale from Garage Project’s Wild Workshop, combines sour elements with smoky Lapsang Souchong tea. While initially sweet and ...
Asymmetric Information

Are capital gains taxes fair?🍋 - NZ lacks a specific capital gains tax. But introducing one may not increase fairness.
Austin Vernon's Substack

A Nuclear Fission Regulatory Blank Slate - What if nuclear regulations were reset?
Plain Sight

Constrained and framed? The limitation of academic freedom by research funding and strategies - While most debate on academic freedom concerns the question of what can be stated, argued, proffered and responded to – and how, such a focus has enabled a...
Growing to Truth

Western Values or “Unity”: Republicans Can’t Have Both - Why are many Republican leaders refusing to condemn racist and authoritarian rhetoric within the party?
Growing to Truth

Western Values or “Unity”: Republicans Can’t Have Both - Why are many Republican leaders refusing to condemn racist and authoritarian rhetoric within the party?
Barrie Saunders

The BSA power grab: Post 2 - Media and Communications Minister, Paul Goldsmith’s handling of the BSA power grab follow 80 years of abysmal leadership by National Party governments re b...
Science+Story

Researchers: Start With 'What Would Be Missing?' - Because research stories are stories, not buckets for everything you do.
The Truth Fairy

When Your Child is Sick - (And: Come See Me This Thursday, October 16, in Beverly Hills!)
The Organon Architecture Blog

"Nature Near" - I was lucky enough to be invited to contribute to the local *Montessori Voices* magazine, on the vital importance of bringing nature near. It's as impor...
Freethink Media

Reversing the aging process is worth $38T. But is it possible? - Aging kills 100,000 people a day. Here’s why scientists believe that can change.
Journal of Free Black Moms

Ep. 17 - Change the World Be a Mom (Sheila Qualls) - Listen now | An interview with wife and mother of five Sheila Qualls
Better things are possible

Progress on the Carrington (UNITEC) housing development - In 2023, I published the following post on the plans for the development of land that was formerly part of the Carrington UNITEC Campus.
Peter Winsley

How can more young people enter careers and fulfil their potential - Many young New Zealanders feel that a social contract has been breached. This tacit contract is that, if students worked and studied hard, the government ...
Notes On Liberty

If you haven't already... - ...please subscribe to this new magazine
Musk Watch

Musk invokes "rape of Europe" in anti-immigrant rant - On X, Elon Musk has spent the past week cheering on anti-immigrant protests and political movements worldwide, including in England, Wales, Ireland, Japan,...
FDR Liberated

Designing an Effective Retail Checkout Counter to Enhance Customer Experience - A well-designed retail checkout counter is more than just a register—it’s one of the most important touchpoints in a customer’s shopping journey. It sets t...
Museum Street (Henry Cooke)

Who are the voters swinging away from Christopher Luxon? - An investigation into the voters who switched from Labour to National in 2023 - and are trending away from the party now. Featuring a lot of charts.
Happy Future

Surviving Involution - How long can China eat itself?
Anton Zenith

I Learned to Be Still, and Life Got Louder - Finding the symphony hidden in the spaces between moments
Jack’s Substack

Good News for Euro 6 - New Zealand to import only Euro 6d vehicles from 2028
Science For Everyone

We've moved! - Science for Everyone is still at scienceforeveryone.science, but no longer on Substack
Fisheries – PERC

The National Environmental Policy Act and Climate Change Adaption Within Federal Natural Resource Management Agencies - This academic paper explores how NEPA may be hindering federal agencies from adapting to climate change. The post The National Environmental Policy Act ...
Wright Chat

Click Here for General Discussion Posts • Article: "Step Back in Time at These 12 Frank Lloyd Wright Houses Across the USA" - Step Back in Time at These 12 Frank Lloyd Wright Houses Across the USA David Statistics: Posted by DavidC — Mon Jul 14, 2025 9:35 pm ---------------------...
Science for Health

Think glass is safer? It might actually have more microplastics than plastic bottles—because of the caps! - https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/drinks-in-glass-bottles-contain-more-microplastics-than-those-plastic-bottles-401316
The Upheaval

Important Announcements - I’m going in, this Substack's going on ice, and a book is coming
Down to Earth Kiwi

DownToEarth.Kiwi Closing Due to Threats from National & Labour Parties & Big Business NZ Incorporated - It'd be nice to think we've added something these past years to improve the prosperity of NZ. We were the only economic commentary source...
Ideas Beyond Borders

Gamal Abdel Nasser's Last Gamble - Inside the private conversation where Egypt’s president confronted the lies, the losses, and an Arab world that wouldn’t fight the war it claimed to want
Butterpaper

Happy 100 Art Deco, or maybe not - The Art deco style turns 100 this month. Sort of. But what was it then, what is it now, and how did it become associated with architecture? Architecture ...
The Free Market Futurist

Farmville - The Autonomous Future of Agriculture
No Punches Pulled

THE WORKING FROM HOME RACKET BY PUBLIC SERVANTS - Last year the government announced the working from home racket by public servants was to cease from January, 2025. The public service protested and since ...
AYN RAND CENTRE (UK)

Password Reset - Reset Password Reset Your Password The post Password Reset appeared first on AYN RAND CENTRE.
Skeptic

We’re moving to skeptic.com! - As of April 2, 2025, this Substack will serve as an archive and will no longer be active.
Demystifying Science

Introduction to “The Princess Scientist” - As a female and mother who navigated the world of academia in the biomedical sciences, I have been working on a book that talks about the real “sex discrim...
John Paquette

LLMs and the Nature of Honest Authorship - Editing is not authoring.
Tribes – PERC

10 Ideas for the Interior Department - How to accelerate conservation and cut green tape The post 10 Ideas for the Interior Department appeared first on PERC.
Stories by Rudi Edsall on Medium

Round 1 2025 — The Smithening - I posted my last blog on the Cats on June 6 2023 — a marvel at how we’d beaten the Western Bulldogs with no midfield to speak of — and it’s fair to say a...
Rosie Campbell

I'm going to work on AI welfare at Eleos AI Research! - We need to start taking seriously the implications of digital minds—both for their potential welfare and our own.
CEE – Econlib

Tariffs - A tariff is a fancy word for a tax. The term usually refers to import duties, which are fees levied on goods entering one country from another. Import ta...
Case Closed

February 2025 Space Stock Review - Includes Commentary on ASTS, RKLB, RDW, LUNR, PL, SPIR, SESG, and ETL
Yes In Our Backyards

Supermarkets: More stories of how councils accidentally on purpose banned competition - My previous post, Supermarket YIMBYism, got a bit of traction.
thesecondrenaissance

Finding Meaning and Purpose in a Godless Universe - In the 1880s, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was at his intellectual peak.
Don't Let It Go

Apple Shrugs - a haiku “Nice encryption there… except we’ll need a back door.” “What encryption? Where?” (Inspired by Apple’s decision to pull its iCloud end-to-end encry...
Ayn Rand Society

Papers on Valuing and Desires from our January 2025 session - Please find the following papers attached:
The Ayn Rand Society

Papers on Valuing and Desires from our January 2025 session - Please find the following papers attached:
Creative Deduction

Libertarian Rescue Mission: Can Milei save the Peso? - Javier Milei shocked the political establishment when he romped to victory in the Argentine Presidential election in 2023. A proud anarcho-capitalist, he t...
Punishingly Haimona

Farewell (for now), and thank you. - Many lines from The Simpsons are imprinted in my brain, but there is one that I think about often.
Armas

The intolerable alliance. - Mexico's state and Mexico's cartels, a singular threat.
Patrick T. Brown, PhD

Writings hosted elsewhere - The Breakthrough Institute Interactive Brokers Campus
BloodhoundBlog

Attn. National Association of Realtors: You cannot go to hell fast enough for me. - “Baby, now that I’ve found you, I can’t let you go. I’ll build my world around you. I need you so, baby, even though you don’t need me. You don’t need me…”...
Dominic Frisby

🎄On the something day of Christmas 🎵🥂 - It's that time of the year again
Premise Check (Billy Beck)

It’s Election Day, 2024 - 2:28 AM EDT —
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...
Martini Mandate

Sri Lanka – in the news for the wrong reason - First Published in May 2022. I’ve just returned from an unsettling trip to Sri Lanka. The country has run of of fuel, electricity and dollars. Some pla...
647 Reasons Why

DAYS 1-3 - 90 Mile Beach - Days 1-3 of my trek across the entire length of New Zealand
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Andrew Bernstein

Full Interview With Andrew Bernstein On Decline Of US Education - Here is my interview with Dennis Prager from last Thursday. The topic is my 2022 book “Why Johnny Still Can’t Read or Write or Understand Math—And What We ...
a/symmetric

We're going on hiatus - But do stick around
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
TVHE

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...
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
Publisher's Weekly: Shelf Talker

The Great Book ‘Nobody’ Will Remember - An interview with Drew Beckmeyer
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...
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...
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
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 ...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
Adam Smith’s Enlightened World

Activity: The Virtue of Beneficence - Use this quotation from Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments to discuss whether we can be forced to be generous and kind.
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 ...
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...
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...
Asian Invasion 2019

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...
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 ...
The Market Urbanism Report Blog

How to Deal with Your Psoriasis Symptoms - Learn more about psoriasis, its warning signs and how to treat it. Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that can impact a person’s appearance, ...
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...
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 New Atlantis

How Finitude Makes Us Happy — My Final Post - She looked her age — 27, startlingly close to my own age. Did we share acquaintances or friends of friends? She fixed her hair in a ponytail and wore jea...
'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…
Mencken's Ghost

Neil Peart: Enlightenment in Verse (and Romanticism in Rock) - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13145 Neil Peart was a polymath: a rock drummer, jazz drumm...
Joakim Book | Life of an Econ Student

Publications, January - Welcome to the next decade! Exciting, isn't it? There are some minor changes here too. From now on, I'll post some of my work on Medium –particularly work ...
Center for the Legalization of Privacy

Facebook & Government Responses to CLP Amicus Brief Reveal Conflicting Views of Your Privacy Under Imminent Settlement - Those of you who have been following CLP’s involvement in United States v. Facebook know that, in our amicus brief … Continue reading →
positive check

From West to East: Bolivian regional GDPs since the 1950s - *José Peres-Cajías* *Universitat de Barcelona* The political disruption that is taking place worldwide during the last years has prompted the proliferati...
Open Borders: The Case

Immigration Reform or Revolution? - The idea of unconditionally open international borders, and entirely free migration across them, faces a great deal of resistance. Resistance comes, not on...
Quote Unquote

Holding pattern - I am to attend the next meeting of the Hamilton Press Club on Friday the 13th – speaker: Patrick Gower – so should have a report to post next week. Also th...
The Devil's Kitchen

Own Jones telling... - Via Timmy, I see that Owen Jones *keeps* writing articles... Why I am campaigning for Labour in this seismic election Presumably it's because you're an evi...
Irshad Manji

01/20/2020 – Atlanta, GA - MLK Day 2020: Irshad speaks at the official service to commemorate the 91st birthday and timeless legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. From the sanctuar...
Legalize Privacy

CLP Amicus Brief Gets Coverage in Law360! - Law360, a legal news site for professionals, published an article about three amicus briefs filed in United States v. Facebook. … Continue reading →
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,
Travel Secrets by Shar Lemond

Travel Secrets: In Defense of Men’s Rights - The theme of the Travel Secrets trilogy is femininity. In book one, our heroine, Rachel, was battling her own demons as she conquered her misconception of ...
Thoughts from 40° South

The Evil of Equity - The New Zealand Government has caught the equity bug. Everywhere you look they are trying to achieve it. I asked a senior public servant recently what he ...
Kuo's Gulch | Justice, Independence, Productivity, Honesty, Integrity, Pride, Rationality

The Land of the Rising Sun: My Trip to Japan - Dr. Thomas Sowell has mentioned Japan and Scotland as miracles numerous times in his works, so I thought I will visit it. And was he correct, Japan really ...
Inductive Quest

William Whewell’s “Discoverer’s Induction” (Part 4) - Previous posts: William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 1) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 2) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Ind...
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...
from FEE

The Loophole in a Famous Adage on Limited Government - Ritual obeisance to principles can easily be combined with inflating government’s role to metastasize far beyond general welfare.
Montessori Rocks

Encouraging Problem Solving - “Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.” –Maria Montessori This quote speaks volumes to what the end goal is in a Montessori ed...
Carl Menger Center for the Study of Money and Banking

Internationalization of the Yuan Continues Apace - To the unobservant, which includes most politicians, the United States remains a strong and resolute empire. Just witness the statements from Democratic ...
Cities Matter

Amalgamation and Streamlining City Governance: the Auckland Experiment So Far - *The performance of the Super City – so far, so so* Previous posts indicate that amalgamating local government in Auckland has not yielded efficiencies. Ca...
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...
Professor Werner

Shifting from Central Planning to a Decentralised Economy - by Professor Richard A. Werner, D.Phil. (Oxon) Paper presented at the 14th Rhodes Forum: Dialogue of Civilisations Research Institute, Panel 2: […]
News - Democracy Action

Free Speech - Bruce Moon speaks out in Nelson - Bruce Moon, a retired physicist and avid historian, was invited by the Nelson Institute to give a talk at Nelson’s Elma Turner Library, on 8th April. He ...
EconTalk

Moises Velasquez-Manoff on Cows, Carbon Farming, and Climate Change - Journalist and author Moises Velasquez-Manoff talks about the role of dirt in fighting climate change with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Velasquez-Manoff exp...
sportreview.net.nz

Chipping in for Kane on The Spinoff - sportreview.net.nz was lucky enough to contribute to top website The Spinoff, plumping for Kane Williamson as our greatest ever batsman, despite him only b...
Oswald Bastable's Ranting

Hang them High! - Car thieves. Preferable drag-hang the scum! Our car has had a window broken, ignition switch mangled and the dash trim torn apart by an inept, useless shi...
John P. McCaskey

Ockham on Induction - Summa Logicae, part 3-3, chapters 31–36, trans. John P. McCaskey, September 18, 2017 The text here is from Opera Philosophica, The post Ockham on Inducti...
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

Sherman Booth House For Sale - The Sherman Booth House in Glencoe, Illinois is for sale. The asking price is $1.9 million. The house is a late Prairie Style design, dating from 1915. T...
PrairieMod

Richard Neutra Pillow - *Vendor: *Printful *Type: *Pillow *Price: * 34.00 A simple way to dress up any sofa, chair, bed, or room with a pop of color and a bold double-sided gr...
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...
Drinks and Drinking

What’s the Best Sparkling Water for Cocktails? - We’re here to talk about sparkling water in cocktails. But first: My Obsessive Nature, a.k.a. A Briefish, Seemingly Unrelated Disclaimer on Why Its Hard to...
Affordable Auckland

Prices Only Going Up in Auckland - New figures showing Auckland’s median house price have reached a record high of $820,000 comes as no surprise to Affordable Auckland spokesman Stephen Berr...
Life Behind the IRon Drape

National’s Anti-Money Laundering & Countering Financing of Terrorism Monster - iPredict the State Gulag - This piece of Soviet legislation took down the brilliant iPredict today: *Prediction website iPredict is to be closed down, with the Government deciding ...
Politics without God

The Right to Die: Philosophy in Action Podcast - On Sunday's episode of Philosophy in Action Radio, I answered a question on the right to die. The question was: Should a person who does not wish to live b...
The PRODOS blog

Liz Cheney: Obama is uniquely dangerous president - Above video is set to start at 9 min 46 sec. Transcript Megyn Kelly: Do you think that President Obama is dangerous? Liz Cheney: Yes … I think there’s no q...
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....
Tibor's space

IP Anyone? - Intellectual Property Anyone? Tibor R. Machan There is a debate afoot now about whether one ever owns the likes of a novel, poem, computer game, song, arra...
TheBubbleBubble.com - Warning About Post-2009 Economic Bubbles

Jesse Colombo’s Interview On The Doug McIntyre Show On 790 KABC - I had an interview with Doug McIntyre on 790 KABC today, and here is the audio file. I will also upload this to Youtube shortly. Jesse Colombo’s Interview ...
Titanic Deck Chairs

Willing and Eager Subjects in Training - Obama recently cautioned a group of graduating college kids that some of the arguments flowing to them via their "iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStatio...
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