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The Free Press

This Week in Canada: Extremism Is Extremely Normal - In Rupa Subramanya's latest This Week in Canada newsletter, she writes that a foiled terror plot does not mean we are safe, about how race-based sentencing...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Met Office Charlatans Claim Hottest Year by 0.02C!!!!!! - By Paul Homewood As we approach year end, 2025 is on track to be one of the UK’s warmest years on record, joining 2022 and 2023 in the top three warmes...
Why Evolution Is True

Send in your cat photos! - This will be the final reminder to send in your photo of cats with a Christmas theme (or Hanukkah theme, as we now have several Jewish cats). The instruct...
Asimov’s Addendum

How to Prevent Open Standards from Getting Captured Again - The bundling problem and the thin line between product and protocol.
Journal of Free Black Thought

Inequality Has Become Its Own Explanation - “Systemic Racism” can’t be explained by pointing to disparities
Journal of Free Black Thought

Inequality Has Become Its Own Explanation - “Systemic Racism” can’t be explained by pointing to disparities
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

Substack Live: Yuletide with Yuri - Recording from the 12/19 livestream covering Brown, conservative infighting, and winning the culture (45 min)
Curbed - All

Building Marty Supreme’s New York - Production designer Jack Fisk on creating a 1950s playground for Timothée Chalamet.
Institute for Energy Research

Anti-Energy Threats Still Abound - Fueling The Conversation, Week of December 23rd, 2025 During this holiday season, it’s important to take a moment to be… The post Anti-Energy Threats Sti...
Marginal Revolution

Three that Made a Revolution - Another excellent post from Samir Varma, this time on the 1991 reforms in India that launched India’s second freedom movement: Three men you’ve probably ...
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Chartbook 421: The end of American soft-power? From Coca-colonization to Fanta-ization - “I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror”.
Anthony B. Bradley

New Report: Boys Without Models, Men Without Expectations - Why boys are growing up anxious, drifting, and unsure of what adulthood requires, and what the data say about why
Anthony B. Bradley

New Report: Boys Without Models, Men Without Expectations - Why boys are growing up anxious, drifting, and unsure of what adulthood requires, and what the data say about why
Mises Wire

From the Desk of Lew Rockwell - Sound economics and economic freedom have never been more crucial than today. With your help, we will continue fighting against the state and its tyranny.
DGMLive

New music available: Bunkamura Orchard Hall - 8th December 2015 Hearing 21st Century Schizoid Man so early in the set feels decidedly odd given its usual deployment at the end of a show. But then, shak...
The Inquiring Mind

The Late Movie: Still Crazy Like A Fox (1987) – Jack Warden, Michael Jayston, Graham Chapman, Rosemary Leach -
Reason Foundation

Examining the K-12 open enrollment laws passed in 2025 - In 2025, at least 99 open enrollment-related proposals were introduced in state legislatures across the country. The post Examining the K-12 open enroll...
The Daily Sceptic

Non-Crime Hate Incidents to be Scrapped Nationwide - Non-crime hate incidents are to be scrapped nationwide under plans that police chiefs will present to the Home Secretary next month. The post Non-Crime H...
The Rebuild

2026 New Year's Resolutions for Democrats! - 2025 was a wake-up call. The first year of Donald Trump’s comeback term brought back a familiar problem: rising costs and broken promises on affordability.
Slow Boring

Nobody will read this article - And that’s fine — no matter what I wrote about today, it would be doomed.
Law & Liberty

Terror on the Beach - Many Jews came to Australia precisely because they thought they would be safe. The Bondi massacre changed that.
EconLog

Silver and Gold - With the holidays upon us, what could be better than Christmas movies? And Christmas songs? And Christmas movies with great Christmas songs, like “Silver...
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day – the Uniparty is not even hiding that it is the Uniparty anymore - There are also no prizes for guessing why Sir Keir is behaving in such an anti-democratic fashion. “If there is a Conservative government, I can sleep at...
Tim Worstall

Hoo, Boy - Spud never does grasp the difference between net and gross in investment flows, does he? US companies have sold $1.7tn of investment-grade bonds in 2025,...
Doomberg

Silent Allies - The oddly muted response from Putin and Xi to Trump’s Venezuela play.
Quotulatiousness

Vagabond by Tim Curry - Andrew Doyle reviews Tim Curry’s new autobiography Vagabond: Tim Curry is a shapeshifter. I have a childhood memory of the moment I learned that the demon ...
Watts Up With That?

A Hybrid Future For Europe? - As I reported earlier this week, the EU has now formally abandoned its 2035 ban on the sale of new petrol/diesel cars.
SkyscraperCity Forum

Eindhoven: Kastelenplein - Nu de plannen concreter beginnen te worden is het tijd voor een eigen draadje: *Kastelenplein krijgt slotpark, voorburcht en hoftuin: grote metamorfose le...
GeekPress

AI Fake KIdnapping Scams - *FBI*: "Criminals Using Altered Proof-of-Life Media to Extort Victims in Virtual Kidnapping for Ransom Scams"
The Antiplanner

The Right to Be Cool - As of April 1 of last year, New York City had more than one million apartments, but 47,720 were vacant. That’s up from about 27,000 in 2015 and 45,000 in 2...
The Antiplanner

The Right to Be Cool - As of April 1 of last year, New York City had more than one million apartments, but 47,720 were vacant. That’s up from about 27,000 in 2015 and 45,000 in 2...
ArchDaily

Shaping Desire: How Architects Redefine Commercial Spaces - In contemporary architecture, commercial spaces have become more than points of sale; they are stages where identity, image, and experience converge. Sto...
Mises Institute Blog

Thank God for Private Enterprise - It’s difficult and often dangerous to depend on the government. But statists, no matter the problems, will often say government services aren’t fully funde...
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

Sorry, no, these planning reforms are terrible - We have a very simple test about planning laws and reforms.
Utopia - you are standing in it!

BBC Framing Asks Jews to Answer For Violence Against Jews - Since the antisemitic terror attack on Bondi Beach last week, there has been a large amount of discussion on BBC radio and broadcast channels… The post BBC...
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Australia’s Most Shameful Week: Bondi Response Guarantees More Massacres #1616 -
The Footy Almanac

Almanac Reviews: ‘Serendipity’, Christmas movie? - RagingBull reviews the 2001 feel good movie 'Serendipity', a movie he believes should be considered a Christmas movie, and one he likes.
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: Let The Dreadful Be Before Your Eyes - Every day.
Manhattan Contrarian

Birthright Citizenship: Interpreting The Phrase "Subject To The Jurisdiction Thereof" - * Birthright citizenship — the idea that anyone born in the United States is automatically a citizen, with full right to receive all benefits and vote when...
Real Clear Energy

Our Energy Problem Isn't the Market — It's Policy - The Miller Report, RCInvestigations "You've been lied to." In this episode of *The Miller Report: Real Clear Journalism*, Maggie Miller sits down with Jas...
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

Will NZ-India trade deal survive NZ Parliament? - Labour now holds the fate of New Zealand-India trade deal
Techdirt

Larian Studios The Latest To Face Backlash Over Use of AI To Make Games - I guess I’m a masochist, so here we go. In my recent post about Let It Die: Inferno and the game developer’s fairly minimal use of AI and machine learning ...
Point of Order

Māori trade lobby (waving the Treaty) is miffed by FTA with India – but it’s hard to find the discriminatory provisions - Bob Edlin writes – Here at PoO we can understand the disappointment of the dairy industry, after the Government announced a “free trade” agreement with Ind...
JunkScience.com

Milloy talks energy with David Asman and Lydia Hu on FOX Business - From the December 22, 2025 edition of The Bottom Line.
No Minister

Heads Up! - A SpaceX Starlink satellite appears to have partially broken up and is tumbling and falling out of orbit: … the anomaly led to venting of the propulsion ta...
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Boun – to prepare; make ready; to dress; prepared; ready.
Kiwiblog

War on a woke font! - The Guardian reports: US diplomats have been ordered to return to using the Times New Roman typeface in official communications, with secretary of state ...
The Daily Economy

7 Fiat Myths Debunked -
The Jolly Libertarian

It Could Have Been a Wonderful Life - Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky! I've read Atlas Shrugged three times over the years and next year I hope to read it again, possibly writing a chapter...
UnHerd

Andrew Tate’s bruised masculinity - The Bottom G will leave no legacy
The Daily Doom

"Transparent" Trump Reveals he Has MUCH to Hide in The Redacted Epstein Files - The Epstain all over Trump's white shirt just keeps getting uglier and uglier as the pretty girls victimized in these statutory rapes by rich elites keep g...
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...
The Double Standard

Advantage’s 2026 predictions - Advantage gets out the crystal ball and postilated what may happen next year.
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...
Stats Chat

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

“Over the moon”: Local club lands services of cut Carlton midfielder - The second ex-AFL signing of the off-season for the grassroots side.
The Curmudgeon

There Are Limits - Justice hath taken up her pen, Humanely legislating: We'll crate no pig, nor cage a hen, Nor shoot a hare that's mating. Because we are a kindly race And s...
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

The Return of the Bond Market Vigilantes - Against the background of the parlous state of US and Japanese public finances, there are already clear signs suggesting that next year we will see the r...
The Many Ways I Let You Down

Policing the Air Around the Knife - Following the antisemitic massacre at Bondi Beach that left fifteen people dead, the Australian government has decided the problem is not the knife, or eve...
Public: Michael Shellenberger

CBS Reporter Making Unsupported Allegations Of Censorship Against Bari Weiss Has History Of Biased And Inaccurate Reporting - Prominent Florida Democrat debunked claims made by “60 Minutes” journalist Sharyn Alfonsi about “pay-to-play” Covid vaccine distribution
Futurism

Korea Tests Ultra-Rugged Robot to Explore the Moon’s Mysterious Caves - Wheels of steel. The post Korea Tests Ultra-Rugged Robot to Explore the Moon’s Mysterious Caves appeared first on Futurism.
Doug Casey's International Man

Will America Bounce Back? - Can the US truly recover after a major economic collapse? This article explores the fading pioneer spirit, the long-term impact of statism, and the key c...
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 2025-26 - Joyeuses Fêtes | Happy Holidays -
Cato at Liberty

The Trump Executive Order Is a Good Step for AI Policy - The fact that an executive order is directing preemption of potentially disruptive AI policy rather than of technological development, however, is a positi...
Sustain What

Sammy Roth on Climate, Culture and the Changing Media Environment - A recording from Andy @Revkin's live video
The UnPopulist

No Sweetheart, Favoritism Isn't Driving ‘The Great Feminization’, Modernity Is - And it’s a good thing for women and the world, contrary to claims of the neo-right’s new darling
Macroscience

How Bad Is It When the Government Cancels Active Research Grants? - Are we headed for a chaotic new normal?
FIRE

The trouble with banning Fizz - On college campuses across the country, students and administrators are debating bans on Fizz, a mobile app that lets users within a particular community c...
Free Range Kids

A Short, Happy Message about Crime - PERCEPTION: “I CAN’T LET MY KIDS PLAY OUTSIDE — CRIME IS SOARING!” REALITY: 2025 had “THE LARGEST ONE-YEAR DROP IN MURDER EVER RECORDED.” So says the Sub...
The Integrity Institute

News Briefing: 23 December 2025 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE, TRADE, NATIONAL SECURITY
David Stockmans Contra Corner

The Idiocy Of Fighting Narco-Terrorists With A Useless $200 Billion Surface Navy - Click on Title to Read
The Weekly Sift

Blackouts - These documents are more blacked out than Pete Hegseth on New Years Eve. – feral streep, on the redactions in the newly released Epstein material No Sift n...
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Premium - How The AI Bubble Bursts In 2026 - Hello and welcome to the final premium edition of Where's Your Ed At for the year. Since kicking off premium, we've had some incredible bangers that I re...
Israel Institute of NZ

When Hanukkah Is Acknowledged — Then Neutralised - In the wake of the antisemitic terror attack at Bondi Beach, Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick delivered a speech that, at first glance, seemed to mark...
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

4 years ago the Biden White House issued this demeaning and nasty Xmas message - Never forget what they tried to do to you.
Retraction Watch

Professor in India adds coauthors who ‘kindly covered’ publication fee, removes others - Earlier this year, Klaus Heese, a professor at Hanyang University in Seoul, noticed a review article he’d worked on had finally been published. But his nam...
Chris Trotter

Crowning Parliament. - If not by the people, then in the people’s name. How Christopher Luxon and his coalition can win in 2026.
Persuasion

Don't Jawbone AI Companies - How to fight back against government censorship of chatbots.
The Works in Progress Newsletter

The first cancer vaccine - Watch now | Hepatitis B is a tiny virus that causes hundreds of thousands of deaths from liver disease and cancer each year. The vaccine against it became ...
Astral Codex Ten

Open Thread 413 - ...
David Stockman's Contra Corner

The Idiocy Of Fighting Narco-Terrorists With A Useless $200 Billion Surface Navy - Talk about attacking a gnat with 1,000 pounds of TNT! We are referring, of course, to the Donald’s latest gambit of sending a $40 billion carrier battle ...
Breaking Views

David Farrar: NZ and India agree an FTA - I was sceptical when Christopher Luxon said prior to the election that he thought they could do a free trade agreement with India within three years. India...
Capitalism Magazine

The “Heritage American” Myth - Descendants of founders are heirs; newcomers are employees. Both contribute, but only heirs embody the founder's vision. Every nation has a core ethnic gro...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Christmas/Summer Contributions Drive 2025 - Comrades It’s been a hell of a year. Despite the hacks that knocked us off line this year, despite the threats from the Atlas Network against us, despite t...
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

The Invention of "Climate Risk" - Politically Brilliant but Fatally Flawed - Part 3 of the THB series on insurance and climate change
Matua Kahurangi

Free trade, open borders: The India deal New Zealanders never voted for - Even though I am on annual holidays, I thought it was right to write something on this topic, because in my opinion we really are losing our Kiwi way of li...
McFaul's World

End of an Era: Stepping Down as FSI Director - A song by former students brings down the curtain on 11 years in the job
Why not reason?

Watchout: freight train coming - I watch Bannon, Tucker, and JD Vance speak about nonsense I despise, and I see them receive roaring applause.
Spiked Online

The anti-Semitic delusions of Candace Owens - The post The anti-Semitic delusions of Candace Owens appeared first on spiked.
John D. Cook

Trying to fit exponential data - The first difficulty in trying to fit an exponential distribution to data is that the data may not follow an exponential distribution. Nothing grows expo...
JoNova

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Energy Transition Absurdities

5 Big Energy Stories - 12.22.2025: Burgum Bombs Big Wind, And Your Sweater Is Killing Mother Gaia - Burgum Suspends Offshore Wind Licenses Effective Immediately - In another example of glorious WINNING for America by Trumpian energy policy, Interior Secre...
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

Stirring Up and Piping Down - Welcome to the conclusion of our Christmas Tale for Our Time - Mark's own short story "Plum Duff", prompted partly by the grim headlines from around Europe...
Gus Van Horn

Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year! - *Today, I begin my annual blogging hiatus, which will last until Tuesday, January 6, 2026, when I will resume posting here. I may or may not pop up on Twit...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

The Return of the Weirdo - Will this be the cool new thing of 2026?
Kunstler

Seeing Is Believing (Not) - ". . . power that goes unpunished only learns one lesson: it can do whatever it wants." —Roger Stone
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

The Year in the Rear-View - What I've been up to in 2025.
Living Resources Center

Will the DOGE Reductions Stick? - “Thanks to DOGE, the number of federal employees has been reduced by at least 270,000 since January [2025]. A decline that large has not happened since t...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Breaking Through the Darkness: John Bush Celebrating the Songs of Anthrax 1993 - 2003 - One of Contemporary Music's Most Exceptional Figures Revisited Some of His Best Work
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

Why The Atlantic's COVID Vaccine Confession Matters - Vaccines remain vital, but scientific dogmatism threatens public trust.
IPWatchdog Articles

Not Just AI: Traditional Copyright Decisions of 2025 That Should Be on Your Radar - In a year dominated by artificial intelligence (AI) copyright cases, 2025 also featured several influential cases on traditional copyright issues that wi...
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

The Amazing Generation is the Book Parents Have Been Asking For - Our new guide for kids ages 9–12 comes out December 30th.
The Roots of Liberty

The WWW Menace - There’s an Internet “rule” called Rule 34, which posits that “if it exists, there’s porn of it.” Not yet blessed with a moniker, but certainly deserving of...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

The Nationalization of AI Threatens Innovation and the American Mind - Reports in early December indicate that President Donald J. Trump is preparing to sign an executive order that would block state-level laws regulating ar...
American Institute of Economic Research

The Nationalization of AI Threatens Innovation and the American Mind - Reports in early December indicate that President Donald J. Trump is preparing to sign an executive order that would block state-level laws regulating ar...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

America’s Energy Economy: Why Natural Gas and Nuclear Still Matter - Energy debates in America are often framed as a choice between the future and the past. But when it comes to the U.S. economy, that framing misses a crucia...
Real Clear Energy: Video

Oil Prices Tumble to Lowest Levels Since 2021 - Jason Schenker, president of Prestige Economics, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the outlook of the oil sector amid global tensions.
Quillette

The Hatred We Must Name - We have ignored, enabled, downplayed, and pandered to vicious antisemitism for too long. The victims of the Bondi massacre paid the price.
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Rabbit as King of the Ghosts: The Rabbit's Advice (digital outlets) - One of the best reissues this past year was The Three EPs by the Beta Band, a beguiling collection of – as the title says – three EPs by Scotland's slack...
SAVVY STREET

Philosophy and Psychology: Self-Directedness and Self-Determination - Where Aristotle, modern philosophy, and humanistic psychology intersect. The post Philosophy and Psychology: Self-Directedness and Self-Determination app...
The Tracinski Letter

The True Party of the “Working Class” - Notes on “Main Currents of Marxism,” Part 1
A Havenstein Moment.

A pernicious evil. - The target should be 0%.
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Open Objectivism or Closed? Elements: “Intellectual Property” and “Ownership” - Objectivism is a set of scientific claims about reality. Scientists study reality—the same reality that is open to everyone—and discover facts about realit...
The Whakataki Times

Night ’n Day Pie Warms Both Hands And Soul Of Hungover Tradie - LIFE SAVED. The post Night ’n Day Pie Warms Both Hands And Soul Of Hungover Tradie appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
Flying Out

Blame It On The Weather (Vinyl LP) - *Vendor: *MA *Type: *MA *Price: * 65.00 *Maarire Brunning-Kouka*, the Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa-based rapper, singer songwriter, and sound artist b...
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Soul Workout - On Self-Knowledge, Self-Deception, and Self-Improvement
Splitting Headache

The Birthday Post🎂 - Happy Birthday to Me
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

See You in South America - My tour of Peru and Bolivia
Can't Get Much Higher

What's the Saddest Christmas Song? Mailbag - This month we dive into questions about One Direction, Brazil, novelty songs, and so much more
The Future of Being Human

Are we living in a foveated reality? - Video games trick players by only rendering in high detail what's being observed. So do spatial computing headsets. Even our eyes and brain do it. Maybe th...
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

My Best Premium Tweets - December 2025
Texas Institute for Property Rights

Socialism is not a Gorgeous Idea - In a recent podcast, actress Amanda Seyfried said, “Socialism is a gorgeous idea, and I know it doesn’t work perfectly.” The post Socialism is not a Gorg...
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

A Real-Life Professor Proton - Julius Sumner Miller
bad cattitude

sunday memepool 2 - don't be scared
The New York Review of Books

L’Affaire Carlson - On November 5 the president of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, convened an uncomfortable meeting. “I made a mistake, and I let you down,” he told a...
Perennial Meditations

Living Each Day as a Whole Life - Sundays with Seneca (Vol. 4)
Flashbak

The McKenzie Tapes: A Fabulous Collection of Recordings From New York Area Gigs, 1985 – 1993 - David McKenzie recorded a huge number of gigs at New York area music venues mostly from 1985 to 1993. You can hear many of his recordings at The McKenz...
Sinification

Briefing: Trump's National Security Strategy - An analysis of reactions by China's establishment intellectuals to the new US National Security Strategy
Cremieux Recueil

Fertility Goes Up When Men Win - Successful fertility policy might need to raise male incomes specifically
Autonomia

Perennial Christmas Presents - True stories of a grief-stricken holiday widow and my first consciously-held Christmas
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

"Heritage Americans" Is a Claim to Unearned Status - What is at stake in the debate over identity
Harry’s Substack

"Affordability" is an anti-concept - The difference between the earned and unearned must not be erased
A Halfling's View

Safer Online Services Lite - The Perils of Crystal Ball Gazing
One Useful Thing

The Shape of AI: Jaggedness, Bottlenecks and Salients - And why Nano Banana Pro is such a big deal
Marcus on AI

Six (or seven) predictions for AI 2026 from a Generative AI realist - 2025 turned out pretty much as I anticipated. What comes next?
Dead Language Society

European languages are exotic - Blame it on the “Dark Ages”
Fictionosophy

Choosing Oneself: Lessons from Alchemised - Alchemised presents a dark world with strong characters who must reject the idea that suffering is noble along with unearned guilt to have a chance at happ...
Paul Wells

Music 2025: everything now - The year in recordings, including a surprising amount of Bach
Construction Physics

Reading List 12/20/25 - Tesla’s robotaxi crash reports, a fusion startup merger, the decline of US injection molding, Wyoming’s snow fences, and more
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!)
Yascha Mounk

Francis Fukuyama on 2025 - Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama look back at this year—and make predictions for 2026.
Conspicuous Cognition

AI Sessions #6: AI Companions and Consciousness - Watch now | A deep dive into the philosophy, ethics, politics, social science, and likely future of human-AI relationships.
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

I've been substacking all wrong - too small, too hard, too slow
An Africanist Perspective

Book Review (12/25): The Second Emancipation - Explorations in African leadership
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: It Actually Doesn’t Take Much To Be Considered a Difficult Woman. That’s Why There Are So Many of Us - Jane Goodall? Karen Karbo? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Shortly after English primatologist Jane Goodall died in October 2025, I repeatedly...
The Logical Place

Against musical purism - Musical purism—the belief that music ought to be created, performed, or judged according to rigid notions of authenticity, historical correctness, or styli...
Andrew Whiteside

Review: The Greatest Christmas Show - Less than a week before the big day an Australian show came to the Bruce Mason Centre in Auckland promising festive cheer, music and fun. It had a lot of c...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Bondi, Tarrant, victimhood, faith, the primitive, relativism, cultural boundaries of knowledge - Can humanity be rescued from irrationality
Energy in Depth

New Climate Lawsuit Hires Law Firm Accused of “Misconduct Bordering on Criminal” - A proposed class action filed in Washington last month is the latest effort to expand climate liability beyond its already contested limits – an undertak...
HardmoneyJim

Why do the rich get richer? - I ANSWER THIS AND OTHER QUESTIONS FROM READERS AND VIEWERS
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

No, This Viral Study Doesn’t Prove the COVID Vaccine Worked To Prevent Deaths - Here's What It Actually Says - Propaganda efforts ramp up around COVID vaccines
Truth on the Market

The Invisible Hand Screws Up Your Regression - You’ve probably heard the claim: “Chinese imports destroyed millions of American manufacturing jobs.” Most likely, that number comes from the famous “Chi...
The Roots of Progress

Links and short notes, 2025-12-19 - Claude’s soul, industrial leapfrogging, slop from the 1700s, the genius of Jeff Dean, and much more
Precise Thinking

Ayn Rand's Definition of Art - -- And Why It Matters
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

Season’s greetings – and here’s to 2026 - It’s been a funny old year, this 2025. For a start there’s been the ease with which it’s possible to make sentences that include the words ‘dumpster fire’ ...
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

‘Tis the Reason - Season’s Greetings! I promised myself that I wouldn’t end the year harping on about the dynamism-denting Employment Rights Bill, tempting as that is. Ins...
Skeptic

Interviewing the Children of Nazi Leaders: Guilt, Trauma, and the Legacy of Atrocity - History can be a mirror or a wall. For many people, it’s a mirror only when they see their own family reflected in it—an ancestor who fought in a war, s...
Thinking Directions

Goodwill to Man - A few years ago, I spent some time thinking about the meaning of Christmas. I am afraid I shocked my Christian neighbors when they realized I was looking...
The Breakthrough Journal

Could the U.S. Unlock a Shale Revolution for Critical Minerals? - Tapping new critical mineral resources with technology and innovation
The Intrinsic Perspective

How Kids Actually Get Good at Math in America - Teaching (Very) Early Math: Part 1 of.... yikes
Conversable Economist

The Late 1800s: High Tariffs and Expanding Trade Together? - The world economy has been in the midst of a second age of globalization for the last few decades–although, at present, it is not altogether clear whethe...
Sawahil

West Africa, Horn, MENA: Links for 12/19/2025 - News and analysis from Dakar to Riyadh.
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #26: Why a Feedback Partner Helps - Behind every great speaker is someone who offers honest feedback, insight, and encouragement.
Roy Spencer, PhD.

The Record Hot UK Summer of 2025: Validation of the UKMO Methodology, but the Record Was Only in Tmin - SUMMARY There has been criticism of the UK Met Office’s methodology for monitoring long-term changes in UK-average temperatures, starting with Tallbloke’s ...
Kibao

Why one of the year’s biggest AI-for-development stories isn’t actually about AI - What India’s monsoon breakthrough reveals about how technology really works in development
High Capacity

US-China recoupling in an age of decoupling - Love will find a way? Powerful forces keep pulling the US and China together even as geopolitics tries to pull them apart.
Hoover institution Commentary

Make American Healthcare Competitive Again - [Subscription Required] ‘The GOP’s plan won’t completely address the affordability crisis unless it includes policies that expand the supply of providers a...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Summer Reading for Children - and their adults. - Pretty much my favourite time every day when my children were growing up - from when they were 18 months until approximately 14 years old - was “book-time”.
No Right Turn

Climate Change: Losing the battle but winning the war - Aotearoa declared a climate emergency in 2020. Despite this, the government granted petroleum exploration permits to two companies in 2021, letting htem ex...
Schiffradio.com

Silver’s Epic Rally Signals Bitcoin’s Imminent Collapse – Ep 1054 - Peter Schiff forecasts an imminent Bitcoin crash, critiques Trump's economic policies, and highlights the surging silver market in this episode of The Pe...
Stewart Margolis

Who Are the Real Men? - Hint: John Galt Was Not an Alpha
Freedom and Flourishing

What did Aristotle have to say about mortality? - I had not thought much about what Aristotle had to say about mortality before reading the chapter on mortality in Edith Hall’s book, *Aristotle’s Way*...
History Reclaimed

History Reclaimed: December 2025 Newsletter - This Christmas 2025 newsletter examines British history disinformation, from BBC bias and imperial history to war cemeteries, slavery, eugenics, restitutio...
American Energy Alliance

Key Vote YES on H.R. 4776 - The American Energy Alliance supports H.R. 4776 the SPEED Act. The SPEED Act makes important modifications to the National Environmental Policy Act, incl...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Once again on Candace Owens and the novelty take social media treadmill - The outraged emails have hit my inbox, and the indignant unsubscribers are there too.
Greater Auckland

Weekly Roundup 19-December-2025 - It’s our final Weekly Roundup for the year! This time next week, we’ll be in a pleasant fog of Christmas dinner and wrapping paper, with the most pressin...
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

New Ban Bars 1 in 5 Legal Immigrants, Even Citizens’ Spouses & Kids - It's the president's most extreme attack on legal immigration yet.
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

New Ban Bars 1 in 5 Legal Immigrants, Even Citizens’ Spouses & Kids - It's the president's most extreme attack on legal immigration yet.
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Why I support the SPEED Act - Today Congress decides whether it’ll be easy or hard to build in the US. Tell your Representative Vote YES on SPEED Act + Amendments 34/35/36!
Spiked Online

Vibe Shift book launch and Q&A with Brendan O’Neill - Brendan O’Neill launches his new book Vibe Shift with a live conversation and Q&A. In a central London setting, Brendan will discuss the arguments at the...
The War on Prices

The American Public's Affordability Demands - They favor deflation and prefer deregulation to subsidies
Official Blog

CITO 2025 Season 2 Recap - Cache in Trash Out® 2025 Season 2 has come to an end, so why not look back at this season’s accomplishments? Over 2,100 CITO Events have occurred this seas...
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.
ChinaTalk

Rahm on Trump and China: “He is the worst negotiator.” - Rahm Emanuel returns to ChinaTalk with a characteristically blunt assessment of U.S.-China relations and verdict on year one of Trump 2.0.
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

Rethinking economics (and everything else) - A conversation with Amanda Claypool
The Cobden Centre

Not all Central Banks are created equal - For those of us who think central banks are a destabilising blight on the economy, responsible for encouraging malinvestment and engines of inflation, it’s...
On Substack

Live video on Substack, one year in - How creators made live video their own, and where it’s going next
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

The Rescuer Trap: The Skeptic's Guide to Autonomy - Parentified and Codependent present The Rescuer Trap
Conflicted

Mitigating the impact of retractions on policy making - What role for scientific journal editor at the interface of science and policy?
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

Nigerian Independence Day: A Marriage of Convenience - Part XI: Institutions, Incentives, and the Unfinished Business of Nigerian State-Building
Existential Crunch

December 2025 Updates - Old posts, new papers
Toppermost

Séamus Begley - Séamus Begley stood out for the remarkable rhythmic precision and dexterity of his playing - he was also a very fine singer. The post Séamus Begley appea...
Liberty Scott

What the Gaza protestors could have done to not stir up Jew Hatred - I’m not going to pretend that I would protest for any movement that has the support of Hamas or Fatah, but of course anyone in a liberal democracy has th...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Ep21 H.P. Lovecraft's THE RATS IN THE WALLS - An Anarchonomicon Read-Through
The Library of Celaeno

The White at The End of the Tunnel - Hope for Savage's Lost Generation
The Trumpland Diary

HEALTHCARE 101 - Why Donald Trump’s Healthcare “Plan” Is A Slap in the Face to America
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

Fun Lovin’ Criminals Announce New Zealand Tour Dates for March - Fun Lovin’ Criminals announce shows in Auckland and Christchurch, to go with their previously revealed appearance at Wellington’s premier one-day music f...
CO2 Coalition

Europe’s ‘Green’ Emperor Is Naked and Cold - By Vijay Jayaraj Europe stands as the self-proclaimed cathedral of the “green” transition. Bureaucrats in Brussels and politicians in Berlin have spent d...
Market Urbanism

Could NYC really build more without zoning? - I am arguing on Twitter about whether New York City (where I live) could really build a significant amount of new housing if zoning was less restrictive. O...
Africa’s Bright Future

Africa could be the richest continent on Earth - Nothing is missing except the freedom to build.
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

The Zohran Mamdani Machine - Can he actually build one?
Changing Lanes

Don’t Ask a Tourist About High-Speed Rail - The first thing to build is the foundation
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

Debating Science: No Thanks - Anti-vaccine activists RFK Jr., Aaron Siri, and Steve Kirsch have asked that I debate them on vaccine safety. One of them offered me $1 million to do it. H...
Statecraft

99.8% of Federal Employees Get Good Performance Reviews. Why? - Trump's head of talent, on the federal workforce.
Kiwipolitico

Addressing some mistruths. - The Bondi Beach mass murder attack is yet another inevitable sequel to the Israel-Palestine conflict. The precise nature of the sequels are seldom known, m...
Dramatic Pause

Ghostfield: A Response - A response to Foster Group’s new work Ghostfield, a dance piece that blends the physical and projected.
Tim’s Substack

America's National Security Strategy - Simple, eloquent, understated, and indicative that responsible adults are finally in charge of our nation
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
Glenn’s Substack

More Hospital Tips - From an insider
Objective Standard Institute

Sunrise on the Reaping and the Causality Confusion - Angel dives into the ideas behind Sunrise on the Reaping and why philosophy isn’t just for books.
Boom (UK)

How South Korea's job market motivates intensive parenting - A new article in Works in Progress & some extra context
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: An Amish Paradox, by Charles E. Hurst and David L. McConnell - An Amish Paradox: Diversity and Change in the World’s Largest Amish Community, Charles E. Hurst and David L. McConnell
The Kerrant

Bondi Beach, Antisemitism, and Moral Clarity - The events at Bondi Beach this week are horrifying — an act of antisemitic terror in a place synonymous with ...
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

Statement on the Bondi Beach Terror Attack – Standing in Solidarity with the Jewish Community - I unequivocally condemn this atrocity as an act of terrorism driven by antisemitism - a poisonous hatred that has no place in any society.
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...
misfits' architecture

Architects of their own demise - A November 24 article on Dezeen and probably everywhere else screamed outrage because, in the US from 1 July 2026, architecture is on track to no longer be...
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...
Leport’s Substack

SALE For the THRILLER'S LOVERS on your list - CHANGE OF HEART Hard cover only $15.91
Stu-Topia

‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ Tom Cruise, and His Cruelty - Stuart K. Hayashi Having seen yet another adulatory Instagram post about Top Gun: Maverick, I can take no more. After everything the public has learned a...
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

A Country Gets the Immigrants It Deserves - Embrace capitalism if you want to attract the best immigrants.
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...
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

Technology to fashion, the paradox of originality - FILE - In this Nov.
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

A plan that isn’t really a plan - The Occasional Saturday Satire
HBL

Climate craziness takes a new twist - In retrospect, it was predictable—what climate hysterics would do as the years rolled on with more and more of their predictions being refuted by direct ob...
The Enlightened Examiner

What Is Economics? - The following is an exposition of a new theory of economic value, which reframes the current perspective of the science in question.
The Enlightened Examiner

What Is Economics? - The following is an exposition of a new theory of economic value, which reframes the current perspective of the science in question.
The Trichordist

Trump’s Historic Kowtow to Special Interests: Why Trump’s AI Executive Order Is a Threat to Musicians, States, and Democracy - Trump’s AI executive order is not a national AI standard — it is a federal power grab engineered by David Sacks, riddled with constitutional defects, desig...
Africa-Israel Weekly

The Future is Israel & Africa - Dumisani's Interview with the Jerusalem Center for Security & Foreign Affairs
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 Zealand Arts Review

Eddie Clemens’ new sculpture for Wellington - John Daly-Peoples Eddie Clemens Fibre-Optic Colonnade Car Wash Shed 21 Wellington John Daly-Peoples Another outstanding public work of art for Wellington C...
Greg Mankiw's Blog

Principles of Economics, 11e - The new edition of my favorite textbook will be available on January 9, ready for spring semester classes.
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...
Public Lands – PERC

State Trust Land Revenue Diversification Through Conservation - Examining practical considerations for integrating conservation uses into existing trust land management frameworks. The post State Trust Land Revenue Di...
Interintellect

Grant Mulligan: Don’t die without reading the Odyssey - STARTS TONIGHT: "Why I’m hosting an Interintellect salon on a nearly 3,000-year old poem"
The Shrewd Artist

Unlocking the Passionate Artist Within - Principles unleash the artist, while rules erase them.
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Unlocking the Passionate Artist Within - Principles unleash the artist, while rules erase them.
Michael Newberry, Artist

Unlocking the Passionate Artist Within - I saw a post on FB on the end-of-year exhibition of students at the Florence Academy of Art, and I really wanted to love it, but didn’t. The works are clea...
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...
Building the Builders

Raising humanity's psychological ceiling - Why I think ambitious builders are underserved, and why I've devoted my life to serving them
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

Put Kids First or They’ll End up Last. There’s No In-Between - My Video on New York Post's 'Red Hot Takes'
The Scholar's Stage

Book Notes: The Technological Republic (2025) - How Not to Make a Techno-Nationalist Elite
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...
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

PERC Reports, Winter 2025/26 - This special issue contemplates big ideas for the next era of conservation. The post PERC Reports, Winter 2025/26 appeared first on PERC.
Private Lands – PERC

PERC Reports, Winter 2025/26 - This special issue contemplates big ideas for the next era of conservation. The post PERC Reports, Winter 2025/26 appeared first on PERC.
Theatreview

WELLINGTON THEATRE AWARDS 2025 - WELLINGTON THEATRE AWARDS 2025[Links to reviews inserted by Theatreview] Most Promising Newcomer Awards (any gender or skill): Most Promising Newcomer Awar...
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

The Death of God and the Birth of Socialism - Part 10b in a series . . .
First Stones NewsLetter

FTR: I—qua Minnesotan--want to separate myself from the rest of the Minnesota Rabble that allowed Islamists in the persons of Somalians to rob us blind. This is my defense for such separation. - Minnesota Rabble means those who think that being afraid of their own shadow is a compliment.
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- ...
Outliving Iran

The Girl Who Saved My Life - Our forbidden friendship, my impossible escape, and the hero left behind in Iran
Reason for Living

Sharing the Source of my Love of Reason - Now that I have the life experience to know just how important rational principles are for happiness and success, I’ve decided to go back to their root in ...
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

Rate-Capping Confirms National’s Impoverished Imagination. - *Nice To Have Been Given: Dunedin wasn’t built out of rates; it was built out of investors’ confidence in its future. The city’s magnificent botanic garde...
What You Can Do For Liberty

The Unthinkable: Is It Time to Work for the Feds? - For the first time in decades, patriots have a chance to retake the bureaucracy.
The Beauty of Things

2025 Books and Gifts for the Close Reader - Shop on Bookshop.org to support your local bookstore. Check out Goldberry Books & their big IRL event Monday 12/8! (And don’t forget those December birthda...
The New Era

Digital ID Protest London - Jeff Peel interviews Fiona Rose Diamond ahead of the mass protest in London on Saturday against Digital ID
Too Clever By Half

Could Google delete your blog? - Spoiler: *Yes, Google can delete your blog. ¶ * [image: cartoon villian with black hat and twirly moustache] But someone else could have deleted it, if ...
Forbidden Science

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

Venezuelan Boats, Presidential Pardons, and the Drug War - How One Bad Policy Begets Another
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: November 2025 - 📣 Announcements
Earthly Idealism

Seek Love - Lesson 7: Seek Pleasure (3 of 3)
Jackson Upmann

Altruism Is Not the Same Thing as Being Kind - The moral confusion that turns generosity into self-destruction.
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Castro Didn’t Participate in the JFK Autopsy - Last week, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius wrote about “a startling document” that the CIA has kept hidden for some 50 years. The document appar...
In Due Course

Anatomy of a kvetch - It appears to be an unspoken conviction, among academics, that there is no field of study so uncool that it cannot be made at least somewhat cooler by appe...
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

Epictetus' 20 Rules for Stoic Social Mastery: Cut the Noise, Claim Your Calm - Why a 2,000-year-old slave's social rules are more relevant than any modern self-help book
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!
Houston Strategies

The $10 Million Mile: How The Boring Company Changes the Transit Equation for Houston - This week we have one of the best guest posts yet from Oscar Slotboom on progress at Elon Musk's Boring Company and the implications for Houston. TL;DR Exe...
Eat More Electrons

Another nuclear ban falls, this time at the Asian Development Bank - Eight quick thoughts on the trend and what it means
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 ...
Wright in Racine

Kentuck Knob-The Wright House “near Fallingwater” - © Mark Hertzberg (2025) This essay begins with a confession. In 1999 Cindy and I went to Fallingwater. I was interested in Frank Lloyd Wright’s work, but I...
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (24 November 2025) - Resilience in NATO, AI risk in Australia, and investment in AI
Tross Publishing

Maori population changes in the nineteenth century - By John Robinson Significance today of historic and pre-historic population estimates In the second decade of the twenty-first century, approaching 200 y...
Seiler on Science

Thomas Kuhn’s Copernican Revolution - Reflections on a classic in the history of science
Virginia Postrel

From the Archives: Gothic Revival Architecture Is Like Dreadlocks - You can try embedding ideology into a style but if people like the look, the meaning will get diluted over time.
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?
Classical Compass Rose

Nostalgia Manufactured in Real Time - We live in a world where memory is no longer a private resource but a social currency, produced in real time and consumed asynchronously.
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

Permissive Parenting with Rodin - A museum trip reveals etiquette is a lost art
Notes On Liberty

“Towards a Complete Libertarianism” - from Kevin Vallier, in the latest issue of Isonomia Quarterly. Don’t forget to check out the rest, which includes essays on Hayek, the geopolitics of Green...
PM of NZ

How about you stay in your lane Mr Mayor? - A newspaper reports our local Mayor says: *a “detailed investigation” into the cause of the power cuts is needed* Leave such investigations alone, they'r...
Maximum Progress

The Florida Japan-handle - Culture, Urbanism, History and Geology in Oahu, Hawaii
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
Equal to Reality

The Pinnacle of St Ives. - When Ambition Meets Reality
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...
Roberto’s Substack

The Brazilian Anarchy and the Moral Collapse of the War on Drugs - What we have seen in Rio de Janeiro is what one sees in any territory where anarchy takes root: the factual absence of a State capable of monopolizing the ...
Overthinking Everything

Making connections - If two people seem like they should know each other and don't, maybe you should fix that.
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Heaven Is Already Here, It's Just Not Very Evenly Distributed - I want you to enter my home, and find what you've been looking for in a church.
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?
Note to Noteworthy

Mr. Savior - Is God really a savior?
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...
Martini Mandate

Pooh, AI, and the Man with a Red Flag - How you feel about the impact of AI on society depends largely on your personality. In A.A. Milne-speak, if you’re a Tigger, you’re bouncing off the wall...
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!)
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: Joel Mokyr's Nobel - A triumph for history and the importance of ideas
The Realization of Wholeness

It's Better Than Going Blind - Or how "Under Pressure" became my favorite song
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
What's New Under the Sun

What if the NIH had been 40% smaller? - Plus: Send me job market papers
Gross Output

Trump Trade War Hits Business: Economy Slows to a Crawl - “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...
Institute of Economic Affairs

Why the socialist Left and the populist Right are talking past each other - This blog post was first published on IEA Insider. Subscribe at insider.iea.org.uk This piece works as a follow up to The revival … Continue reading "Why...
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.
RenewNZ

Recognising Palestine feeds jihadist ideology - The New Zealand Government must not recognise the so-called state of “Palestine” at the UN this week. Doing so at this point would be a reward for barbaric...
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 ...
round houses

a dome with portholes - Dome house in the California desert.
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 ...
Mike’s Substack

#6 How to Optimize for Student Motivation - My last article was about helping students to adhere to reality by means of controlling error. This approach belongs to both of the high-structure models o...
Mike’s Substack

#6 How to Optimize for Student Motivation - My last article was about helping students to adhere to reality by means of controlling error. This approach belongs to both of the high-structure models o...
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
Anti-Dismal

A history of the contemporary mainstream economic theory of the firm 1920 - 2020. A story of opportunities taken and missed. - We will examine the opportunities that were taken and those that were missed in the development of the mainstream economic theory of the firm over the pe...
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.
Austrian Economics Newsletter

Mass Formations For The Masses - Crowd Psychology and the Canadian Electorate
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
Regan's Substack

A girl's gotta have a backup - You expose yourself to significant risks if you choose to forgo building a career
Keith Weiner Economics

Reflections Over 2024 - How to start an essay on my year… Well, I traveled a lot. First, I went to New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, and then Dubai. I had to come home for our an...
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

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The Prophet of Causation

The Self-Writing Slate - Chapter 5
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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...
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
Robert Nasir’s Joyous Newsletter

I Don't Know. - The power, the leverage, the epistemological clarity, the strategic value, the style & dignity, the surprising truths, and the simple peace of mind that fl...
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

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The Fundy Post

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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

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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

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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

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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...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Kathleen and Charles Moore Prepare to take their Fight Against Taxing Unrealized Gains to Supreme Court - In 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The new law was a reform of the federal tax code, but also included a provision called the Mandatory ...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Kathleen and Charles Moore Prepare to take their Fight Against Taxing Unrealized Gains to Supreme Court - In 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The new law was a reform of the federal tax code, but also included a provision called the Mandatory ...
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

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‘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...
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Knowledge Problem

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Asian Invasion 2019

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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

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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

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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

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Armed and Dangerous

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1828 – Championing Freedom

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The Rational Capitalist

The Rat Cap Podcast: Episode 13 - The Rat Cap Podcast: The History of Slavery and the Western Heroes Who Abolished It (libsyn.com)Slavery has existed everywhere since the beginning of time....
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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

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Malthouse Blog

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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

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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

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For The New Intellectual

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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

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The Frank Lloyd Wright Newsblog

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Monday, October 29, 2007

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