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Futurism

White House Provides Explanation of Scabby Mark Appearing on Trump’s Neck - "Whoa, this is new." The post White House Provides Explanation of Scabby Mark Appearing on Trump’s Neck appeared first on Futurism.
Retraction Watch

Preprint server removes study attributing increased infant mortality to vaccines - A preprint server has withdrawn a study that suggested children vaccinated in the second month of life are more likely to die soon after when compared to t...
Kiwiblog

Unconvinced by KiwiSaver changes - The Government announced: Since 2010, Kiwis have been able to withdraw from their KiwiSaver accounts to assist with the purchase of a first home so long ...
The Inquiring Mind

Why Police Should Treat Sovereign Citizens Like Everyone Else - New Zealand Police guidance on “sovereign citizens” risks profiling dissent. The rule of law demands equal treatment, not special categories. … Why Police ...
Watts Up With That?

Mass Protests Planned Over AI “putting the UK’s climate targets at risk” - More Climate activists evolving into AI activists.
Mises Institute Blog

War Guilt in the Middle East - Into the heart of the peasant and nomadic Arab world of the Middle East there came, on the backs and on the bayonets of British imperialism, a largely Euro...
Real Clear Energy

U.S.-Iran: Live Updates - CBS News
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #36: Command the Virtual Room - On Zoom, you are competing with email and other distractions
Middle East Uncovered

The Future of Iran’s Proxy Network - With Khamenei gone, Gaza and other societies devastated by the Islamic Republic’s web of militias face a rare opportunity to break from the ideology that d...
Marginal Revolution

What the recent dust-up means for AI regulation - From my new Free Press column, I see these as the most important facts: Congress has not passed explicit regulation of AI foundation models, and an execu...
SkyscraperCity Forum

Durrës Tower | 8-17-24-30 fl/kate | 66 m - 90 m - 110 m | U/C - Leje Ndërtimi për objektin: “Durrësi Tower”, me vendndodhje në Bashkinë Durrës, me subjekt zhvillues shoqërinë “T&Xh” sh.p.k. [image: Image] [image: Imag...
The Weekly Sift

Stop Asking - Boil it all down and what do we have? We have a military operation with no clear ends at all. Stop asking what the US government’s intentions are, they do ...
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Trumpy Puts Washington’s War Machine Out On Loaner To Bibi! (Part 1) - Click on Title to Read
JunkScience.com

How to save Trump EPA’s ‘biggest deregulatory move in history’ - My latest at the Washington Examiner.
Cato at Liberty

Tariff Refund Delays Could Cost Taxpayers $700 Million a Month - We calculate in Figure 1 that $700 million in interest is added to the final bill every month that the government delays tariff refunds, or around $23 mill...
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Trumpy Puts Washington’s War Machine Out On Loaner To Bibi! (Part 1) - The sheer barking hypocrisy of the Donald’s, yes, unprovoked and senseless attack on Iran over the weekend is surely one for the record books. After year...
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

The Shrinking Economic Weight of Energy - Part 1: A Fossil Fuel Energy Transition Started 50 Years Ago
Breaking Views

Ryan Bridge: The issues we care about - We have a new issues poll out this morning. It's from IPSOS. 1000 people. Was taken after Waitangi weekend. The numbers are bad for National, because they ...
Mises Wire

The Fight for Liberty and the Beltway Barbarians - Are we emphasizing “the negative”? In a sense, yes, but what else are we to stress when our values, our principles, our very being are under attack from a ...
Why Evolution Is True

The New York Times highlights faith again - Originally I was going to call this post “The New York Times coddles faith again,” but there is not all that much coddling in this review of Christopher Be...
The Rebuild

The Affordability Report: Week of March 2nd - Big couple of weeks!
The Curmudgeon

Shoulder to Something or Other - No matter how unsustainable a moderate and sensible administration may find such fripperies as social security, infrastructure and wages, there is always m...
Conflicted

A Climate Science Manual for Judges Discredits Itself - My guest post at the Civitas Institute
John D. Cook

Differential equation with a small delay - In grad school I specialized in differential equations, but never worked with delay-differential equations, equations specifying that a solution depends ...
The Free Press

It’s 2028. AI Has Made You Much Happier. - The viral Citrini memo warned that artificial intelligence would crash the economy. But what if it does the opposite, freeing us from drudgery and inviting...
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Maybe Parents Are Just Misinvesting - An anonymous guest post
Conversable Economist

Can AI Tools Be Pro-Worker? - There are certainly examples where new technology has replaced jobs. The US had 350,000 telephone switchboard operators in 1950, and the job just went aw...
Spiked Online

The Iran War has nothing to do with Epstein - The post The Iran War has nothing to do with Epstein appeared first on spiked.
Curbed - All

A Space to Gather (and Work) Above the Supreme Store - Industrious’ new concept in Nolita takes over one floor of a storied Bowery building.
The Daily Sceptic

The Real Story of Gorton is Empty Ballot Boxes - The controversial Green victory in last week's by-election has been blamed on cheating and sectarianism. But the real story, says Clive Pinder, is that u...
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 502 - The Grid and Modern Theory : Christian Norberg-Schulz’s case study houses - Well-known for his numerous publications and their contributions to architectural pedagogy in his native Norway and abroad, Christian Norberg-Schulz ...
GeekPress

Hsieh Forbes Column On Coffee And Dementia Protection - *My latest Forbes column* is out: "Coffee And Tea Consumption Associated With Lower Dementia Rates". Key points: The anti-dementia benefit appears to app...
Gus Van Horn

We're Finally Fighting Back - *Will it be enough?* Over the weekend, the United States and Israel launched widespread, coordinated attacks against Iran. The apparent aims are of neuteri...
Institute for Energy Research

Transit Funding Increases, but Transit’s Market Share Declines - Fox News reports that bus and rail commuting in the United States remains below pre-pandemic levels, despite increased spending by… The post Transit Fund...
Capitalism Magazine

How Congress Can Fix the Debt Crisis (Before It’s Too Late) - By 2036, interest costs, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are projected to consume 100 percent of federal revenues.
Africa-Israel Weekly

Operation Epic Fury vs. Operation Roaring Lion - The Qatari Elephant in the Room
The Breakthrough Journal

Two New Papers Are Wrong About Cancer Risk from Nuclear Plants - Poor Research Design and Strong Claims Don’t Mesh Well
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

Property of Allah - Programming note: Tonight, Saturday, I'll be here with Part Eleven of our current Tale for Our Time, Sax Rohmer's Mohammedan caper The Quest of the Sacred ...
Techdirt

Semafor Keeps Hosting Ridiculous “Restoring Trust In Media” Events That Only Further Undermine Trust In Media - You might recall that when political news website Semafor entered the media industry on the back of $25 million in private money, they made all kinds of pr...
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Lebanon joins Iran, Britain and France join US & Israel -
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Iran’s power broker Ali Larijani is a Kant scholar - According to The New York Times, Ali Larijani has effectively been running Iran since January 2026. He was in “charge of crushing, with lethal force, the r...
Journal of Free Black Thought

Black Americans Are Not Hyphenated Citizens - Time to ditch the term "African American"
Journal of Free Black Thought

Black Americans Are Not Hyphenated Citizens - Time to ditch the term "African American"
The Daily Economy

Unpacking The ‘Petrodollar War Theory’ -
DGMLive

New music available: THRaKaTTaK - An hour of improvised music from the 1995 tour of Japan and the USA.
Energy Transition Absurdities

Monday Situation Report - It's Going Well, So Far - A quick-hit roundup of the current status in the Middle East and around the world.
Living Resources Center

Iran: Savor the Moment - Imagine hating America so much that you will defend a foreign government in a place you’d NEVER choose to live because that government would cover your f...
Brownstone Institute

The Murray Rothbard I Knew - The Murray Rothbard I Knew by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute [image: The Murray Rothbard I Knew] *[I wrote the following essay for a book cele...
Reason Foundation

Technology can help shift overdose prevention and response to more effective harm-reduction strategies - As technology begins to enter harm-reduction settings, it brings real potential to expand access and improve overdose response. The post Technology can h...
Risk & Progress

Colossal Cities - Conquer the housing crisis
UnHerd

What Iran means for Putin - Multipolarity is a disaster for Russia
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 1029 Americans leaving. Keynes and art. Sam Nitro & Kautsky's neo-imperialism. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
EconLog

The Power of Introverts (with Susan Cain) - Introverts are underrated. So says Susan Cain in her conversation with EconTalk’s Russ Roberts about her book, *Quiet*. She explains why introversion isn...
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Labor Freedom Is the Best Explanation for the US-Europe Income Gap - Germans have such terrible policies it's amazing they have any economy at all
The Roots of Liberty

The White Flag Of Righteousness - Ding, dong, the Ayatollah’s dead.
Law & Liberty

To Protect, Serve, and Identify - It is possible to curb excessive masking while still protecting law enforcement.
Slow Boring

Lobsters and the limits of neoliberalism - We don’t need an abundance agenda for *everything*
ArchDaily

The Sister Houses / oitoo - The village of Sistelo, in the mountainous Peneda-Gerês National Park in northern Portugal, is known for its terraced landscape, where corn fields and gr...
Tim Worstall

So says a man who has no fucking clue of the opinions of Iranians - The one thing that we can be sure of is that if regime change is the plan, it is unlikely to succeed, because anything really acceptable to the people of...
Quillette

Toppling a Tyrant - The assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei has opened a narrow window for regime change in Tehran.
Utopia - you are standing in it!

One view of Iranian strategy - Some observations and comments on Trump and Israel’s war on Iran: 1. Tehran is not looking for a ceasefire and has rejected outreach from Trump. The reason...
Quotulatiousness

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator - Forbrukerrådet – Norwegian Consumer Council Published 27 Feb 2026 Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathwa...
Zero Hanger

Swann content with MRO stance after first jumper punch charge - The newly minted AFL administrator is satisfied with the sanction handed to West Coast’s Harry Schoenberg.
Astral Codex Ten

Open Thread 423 - ...
The Antiplanner

BART Proposes to Close 15 Stations - BART is proposing to close 15 stations if voters don’t agree in November to a tax increase to support the bloated agency. BART’s 2025 ridership was only 49...
The Antiplanner

BART Proposes to Close 15 Stations - BART is proposing to close 15 stations if voters don’t agree in November to a tax increase to support the bloated agency. BART’s 2025 ridership was only 49...
Hoover institution Commentary

“They’re Not Like Us”: Michael McFaul On Autocrats Vs. Democrats And The Fight For The Twenty-First Century - Putin and Xi don’t think like we do—and that misread has shaped decades of U.S. policy. Michael McFaul on autocracy, Ukraine, NATO, Taiwan, and why democra...
The Double Standard

On The Iran War - Funny...when Russia invaded Ukraine, New Zealand didn’t wait for Putin to tell us whether his aggression was legal under international law. Different story...
The Whakataki Times

Local Man Adds “Long Black Drinker” To His Edgy But Highly Curated Personality - EARTHY TONES. The post Local Man Adds “Long Black Drinker” To His Edgy But Highly Curated Personality appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
Real Clear Energy: Video

Oil Price Surges as U.S.-Iran Conflict Continues - Oil surged by the most in four years as traders gauged the impact of the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz as the conflict between the US and Iran ...
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: The Individual Has Always Had to Struggle to Keep from Being Overwhelmed by the Tribe - Rudyard Kipling? Friedrich Nietzsche? Arthur Gordon? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: The peer group exerts enormous pressure on the individual....
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: We Don’t Have A Lot To Lose - The present is equal for all.
The Grumpy Economist

EFG Review - Friday, I had the pleasure of attending the NBER Economic Fluctuations and Growth meeting at the San Francisco Fed, organized by Luigi Bocola and Linda Tesar.
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

The reality of why Jacinda is in Australia - Former Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern moving to Australia Dame Jacinda Ardern is moving to Australia. The news comes after...
Point of Order

Pork producers – perturbed by cheaper imports – press for a level playing field, but others struggle against imports, too - The Otago Times reports: Farmers are renewing calls for the government to enforce the same animal welfare standards that local pig farmers face on importe...
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

What it actually costs to live "green" like Chris Hipkins - Forget "let them eat cake", now it's "let them have solar"
The Footy Almanac

Opening Round – AFL Footy Fixture 2026: Who, where, and when - AFL footy starts this week so check out who, where, and when your team is playing.
No Minister

Counting Labour’s Unicorns - From the NZ Taxpayers Union Home page. Very creative and apt. Hipkins cries “made up” and pretends the whole thing was just a harmless feel-good policy. Th...
Tross Publishing

THE SMEAR OF “ANTI_SEMITISM” - When Tross Publishing published its latest book, Who was behind the Bolshevik Revolution?, we expected criticism from the highly organised lobby that see...
The Daily Doom

THE DEEPER DIVE - Just a note that I updated my original coverage of the US-Israel War with Iran. My original coverage had be rushed out on Saturday morning because I alre...
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Votive – consisting of or relating to a vow, wish or desire; an object given, offered or consecrated in fulfilment of a vow or in gratitude or devotion; gi...
The Logical Place

Iran must not have nuclear weapons - Why preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons must be a higher priority than international law The world’s modern legal order, embodied in treaties, nor...
The UnPopulist

Trump's Unauthorized Strikes on Iran Take America's Imperial Presidency to New Heights - Khamenei's departure is nothing to mourn but regime change might require more than air strikes
The Integrity Institute

Democracy Briefing: How should NZ respond to the US bombing of Iran? - The United States has carried out what is clearly an illegal bombing of Iran, a brutal theocracy with a long record of repression at home and proxy warfare...
Chris Trotter

Regime Change. - If the Israelis and Americans are demanding regime change in Iran, then New Zealand needs to ask: “What sort of regime change?”
Dramatic Pause

Critical Corner: Abilitopia and White Noise - *In this edition of Critical Corner, reviews of two new dance shows from New Zealand’s leading disability-led arts organisation Touch Compass.* I need to...
Greater Auckland

A Metro for Auckland? - The City Rail Link (CRL) is routinely described as transformational. An overused term for infrastructure projects, but one that is surely appropriate in ...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

"The War Jimmy Carter Should Have Fought" - And a Step in the Right Direction
The Scholar's Stage

On Bombing Iran - Thoughts on Trump and the Maximalist Demand
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

SPLIT ENZ ANNOUNCE THEIR FOREVER ENZ TOUR, MAY 2026 - Kiwi music legends SPLIT ENZ featuring Tim Finn, Eddie Rayner, Neil Finn, and Noel Crombie reunited for their first show in 18 years, playing their 1,000...
Matua Kahurangi

Hey Australia, can we have Pauline Hanson? We’ll gladly give you Jacinda Ardern. - Politics makes for strange envy.
Marcus on AI

Is AI already killing people by accident? - The writer Tyler Austin Harper (of The Atlantic, etc.) sent me a thread this morning, asking whether a mistargeting yesterday that killed nearly 150 school...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Noted geopolitical nonentity Ursula von der Leyen announces her determination to begin intensively monitoring the Iran situation as soon as the weekend is over - Also Iran thread.
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

We've Never Seen TDS Like This - Online Left Devastated As David Ellison’s Paramount Wins Warner Bros Bidding War - 'Ellison scares the s*** out of me'
Israel Institute of NZ

Autopsy of a Canary - What the Bondi Beach Chanukah Massacre Reveals About Antisemitism Today On 14 December 2025, Jews gathered at Bondi Beach to celebrate the first night of C...
IPWatchdog Articles

‘Patent Prosecutor’ or ‘AI-Agile IP Counselor’?—A High-Stakes Crossroads - In a 2017 IPWatchdog article, I challenged practitioners engaged in patent prosecution: strive to embody the traits of an “IP counselor,” who brings a br...
Perennial Meditations

Praising What is Truly Yours - Sundays with Seneca (Vol. 11)
Persuasion

Hope and Fear in Tehran - A letter from an Iranian.
JoNova

Monday - 8.7 out of 10 based on 19 ratings
Can't Get Much Higher

When Chinese and US Culture Meet: A Conversation with Yi-Ling Liu - China and the US are two of the biggest global superpowers. But how do their cultures interact?
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

The Most Misunderstood Personality Trait - Agreeableness and disagreeableness
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Renewed Commitments - Doing What I Can
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

Falling in Love with "Her" AI - Yuri's review of "Her", a 2013 SciFi Romance movie about a man who falls for his AI companion and predicted 2026
bad cattitude

sunday meanpool - 100% not safe for anyone
Sustain What

Amid All, a Dose of Sunday Sanity with Texas-Spawned Songwriter and Poet Vince Bell - Watch now | Vince embodies the kind of resilient determination to create and connect we all need
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

What a North Korean Defector Can Teach Americans About Freedom and Prosperity - After escaping North Korea, Yeonmi Park learned that everything she was taught about equity, communism, and the ‘Dear Leader’ was a lie.
Liberty Scott

Regime change in Iran should be celebrated.... if it happens - Unless you're an Islamist, a tankie or a Jew hater, all of whom loathe individual freedom, secular liberal democracy and capitalism, you'll be elated at ...
Yascha Mounk

Francis Fukuyama on Trump’s War With Iran - Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama examine why military strikes rarely achieve their political objectives.
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

The EV Tax Bombshell Coming Down The Road - By Paul Homewood Millions of electric car drivers in Britain were spied on by the government through their mobile phones as part of a “bizarre nanny st...
Doomberg

War Dashboard - What to look for when energy markets open tonight.
Samizdata

Godspeed - “When we are finished, take over your government, it will be yours to take. This will be… probably… your only chance for generations. For many years you ...
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

Is Britain’s nationalised water better than Britain’s privatised water? - To repeat a point we’ve made before. Britain has four different arrangements for water. Thus if we wish to compare the performance of the different arran...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

AI Can Help Deliver America’s Next Phase of Energy Dominance - The U.S. has spent the past decade reshaping global energy markets. It became the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas. It emerged as a leading ...
Growing to Truth

Help has arrived. - After almost 50 years of chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”…
Growing to Truth

Help has arrived. - After almost 50 years of chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”…
Glenn’s Substack

Cutting Off the Head of the Snake - Or maybe the Gordian Knot
misfits' architecture

Houses With More Than One Staircase - Houses can have more than one staircase for a variety of reasons. More often than not, it’s to enable two different classes of people to not meet each othe...
Outliving Iran

You Never Owned Me - An open letter to all dictators who tried subjugating me
Anthony B. Bradley

Available for Pre-Order: The Fatherhood Effect: Consequences of a Dad-Deprived Culture--and Practical Strategies for Positive Change Paperback – November 17, 2026 - Friends,
Anthony B. Bradley

Available for Pre-Order: The Fatherhood Effect: Consequences of a Dad-Deprived Culture--and Practical Strategies for Positive Change Paperback – November 17, 2026 - Friends,
Why not reason?

Freedom requires more than killing national enemies - I see people calling Trump a liberator for taking down Maduro and Khomeini.
Autonomia

Podcast: U.S. Retaliates Against Iran, Paramount Merger with Warner Bros. Outbidding Netflix - Listen now | Scott Holleran on the meaning, impact and prospects of this historic week’s news of American military defense and Hollywood mergers and acquis...
Kiwipolitico

US and Israel gone rogue. - First the US kidnaps the president of a sovereign state after killing more than a score of civilians on the open seas without warrant or evidence of wrongd...
New Zealand Arts Review

Rocky Horror Show: An Anecdotal Soundtrack of my Life - Rocky Horror Show By Richard O’Brian GMG and Trafalgar Entertainment Director Christopher Luscombe Set Hugh Durrant Costumes Sue Blane Choreographer Nathan...
The Economic LongWave

🔥Everyone in FIRE Has a Recovery Thesis Right Now. Japan Had One Too. In 1991. - 🏦 The Environment Changed. The Calibration Didn't. A data-grounded framework for Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate professionals navigating the transiti...
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

Kindness Rocks Kickoff - From Seeing to Making
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

My 24 Rules for Reading - These have been invaluable for me. Maybe they will help you too.
Notes On Liberty

New Episode of Mutual Exchange Radio with Kevin Carson on the Methodenstreit - For those who are unaware, I’ve been one of the hosts of the Center for a Stateless Society’s flagship podcast Mutual Exchange Radio for a number of years ...
Flashbak

Brutal 20th Century Architecture in Modern Belgrade - In Minimal Belgrade, Mirko Nahmijas shares his pictures of Brutalist architecture in the Serbian capital. The grey shaped concrete was popular betwee...
Paul Wells

Danielle Smith watches her back - Guest writer Ken Boessenkool on the party factions Alberta's premier has to manage
Asymmetric Information

2B RED: The economics of dictators🍋 - Plenty of reading on an endlessly fascinating topic
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

Iran: The Regime That Bankrolls Global Terror - A primer on 40 years of Iranian-funded death — and why it still matters today.
The New York Review of Books

For the Fossil Record - “I took the opportunity to observe the surviving lemurs in their natural habitats—and it was love at first sight.”
Ruxandra’s Substack

A response to Dario Amodei on AI & clinical trials - AI won't automatically accelerate clinical trials
Construction Physics

Reading List 02/28/26 - LA permitting costs, trickle-down housing, Panasonic stops making TVs, robotaxi remote operators, geothermal progress.
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Timeline 1800-1899: Major events of 1840-1849 - Summary of the decade from my Timeline project: Afghanistan, anarchism, artificial fertilizers, Washington as Zeus, and more.
Lindsay Mitchell

How the Sallies have evolved to become part of the problem - The 2026 Salvation Army *State of the Nation Report* *revealed* their official conversion to wokeism by repeatedly finding excuses for Maori over-represe...
Manhattan Contrarian

Why Government Can't Solve All Human Problems: A Health Care Example - * Here’s something nearly everyone can agree on: healthcare in the United States is too expensive. Private health insurance premiums rise inexorably well a...
An Africanist Perspective

Conflict in the Horn of Africa isn’t inevitable. People can choose peace. - Ideas matter. And it's high time key players in the Horn (politicians, academics, journalists, analysts, and military strategists) chose to escape the pro-...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Some of the challenges of starting/running a small business. - I was living in Russell (Bay of Islands) 2017 – 2021.
The Library of Celaeno

Nag-Swarming Substack 2: Excessive Tumblrshrew! - Here we go again...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Ep26 "Which Way Western Man?" Part 2 w/ Brynhildr - Chapter 2 "The Continuing search: From St Francis to Nietzsche"
Theatreview

Comment on “Pōneke Gangster” - Comment on Pōneke Gangster – “Highly-skilled and energised, intelligent and quick-witted, an impressive opening night” – I’m curious to know more about, Wh...
The Jolly Libertarian

1984 Revisited - Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky!Who is George Orwell? In his marvelous compendium, *Intellectuals*, historian Paul Johnson skewers over a dozen leftis...
Truth on the Market

Your State Government Has a Friend Request Pending - A bevy of states are racing to mandate “digital choice” in social media. The new bills promise easy data portability and forced interoperability among pl...
Reason for Living

Self-Awareness as a Tool for Success - If we want to align our actions with our intentions, full self-consciousness is key.
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

The So What of Contingency Deployment Costs - America can afford a budget for its military that matches strategy. Congress must now pass both another budget reconciliation with mandatory funds for de...
ChinaTalk

Anthropic v DoW - Second Breakfast takes it on!
McFaul's World

Recording: Q+A Live with Michael McFaul - A recording from Michael McFaul's live video
Andrew Whiteside

Theatre Review: Rocky Horror Show is just magnificent - The Rocky Horror Show is the most intriguing and dynamic musical ever produced and now the show has returned to New Zealand for a short season at the Civic...
FIRE

Statement: A ‘papers, please’ approach to the internet at odds with free speech - Age-gating the internet means forcing you to hand over your ID, sacrifice your anonymity, and put your sensitive data at risk.
The Realization of Wholeness

John Galt, Alternative Christ - Ayn Rand creates her version of the greatest man
Gale Winds

Truflation vs. BLS: Who's Right? - On says 2.37%, the other 0.69%.
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Premium: The Hater's Guide to Private Equity - We have a global intelligence crisis, in that a lot of people are being really fucking stupid. *As I discussed in this week’s free piece*, alleged financ...
Market Urbanism

Can young Americans reinvent the starter home? - Learn the answer in the Miami Herald and 30 other papers that syndicated my op-ed this week.
The Future of Being Human

Why we're giving away our book on thriving with AI - Jeff and I have released two free, AI-readable versions of AI and the Art of Being Human. Here's why — and some things you can do with them that surprised ...
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

Why Fiction? - The struggle against anti-humanism in our new age
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Should everyone be taking statins? - Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, but it’s also one of medicine’s biggest success stories.
The Enlightened Examiner

The Subjectivist Trap of Personal-Contextual Values - Why personal contexts are only part of the market story.
The Enlightened Examiner

The Subjectivist Trap of Personal-Contextual Values - Why personal contexts are only part of the market story.
Kunstler

The Man Who Might Wreck the Country - “That a government’s primary responsibility is to its citizens should not be a controversial proposition.” —Coddled Affluent Professional on X
Sawahil

West Africa, Horn, MENA: Links for 2/27/2026 - News and analysis from Dakar to Riyadh
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Permission Control - *Today’s newsletter comes from our Research Director, **Eamonn Ives**. Normal service with Philip resumes next week!* While I’m hardly the world’s most s...
Doug Casey's International Man

When Central Bankers Worry About Aliens, the Problem Isn’t Aliens - How shock narratives—such as an “alien disclosure” event—can shatter market confidence, spark extreme volatility, and provide cover for rapid expansions ...
Dr Oliver Hartwich

The Temptations of Unfreedom Revisited - In early 2004, a struggling German graduate contacted Lord Ralf Dahrendorf for guidance, leading to opportunities that highlighted Dahrendorf’s commitment ...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Defusing the Social Security Time Bomb - On February 11, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published its annual Budget and Economic Outlook report, covering 2026 to 2036. Among the projectio...
American Institute of Economic Research

Defusing the Social Security Time Bomb - On February 11, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published its annual Budget and Economic Outlook report, covering 2026 to 2036. Among the projectio...
Tim’s Substack

Mexico Rocks - I remember walking across a floodplain in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, with a hydrologist visiting from Washington, DC, and another NGO friend of mine after ano...
Offsetting Behaviour

Recursive technology, non-recursive adoption, and Schumpeterian displacement - Tyler pointed to this piece, from Citadel Securities, making the point Tyler's made before: AI is growing more powerful by leaps and bounds, but people a...
Objective Standard Institute

MAGA Isn’t Making America Great - Kiyah breaks down her views on Trump and the MAGA movement.
Freedom and Flourishing

Is Character Education Compatible with Individualistic Perfectionism? - *This is a guest essay by Dr Edward W. Younkins, Professor of Accountancy and Business at Wheeling University, and Executive Director of its Institute f...
Skeptic

I, Man: Reflections on Boxer Imane Khelif’s Admission That He Is Male - In what will certainly fail to go down as the news of the century, Imane Khelif, male boxer and women’s boxing Olympic medalist, has finally publicly ad...
Libertarian Land

Should Policy Restrict Share Buybacks? - Many politicians believe that corporate share buybacks create “perverse” incentives for firms to prioritize short-term investments over future ones.
Public: Michael Shellenberger

The Epstein Conspiracy Wasn’t What We Suspected - The available evidence does not point to a sex blackmail operation run by the Intelligence Community
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

The Next Era of American Conservation - As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States, it’s time to add a new chapter to America’s conservation legacy, with private lands, market-b...
Public Lands – PERC

The Next Era of American Conservation - As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States, it’s time to add a new chapter to America’s conservation legacy, with private lands, market-b...
Wildlife – PERC

The Next Era of American Conservation - As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States, it’s time to add a new chapter to America’s conservation legacy, with private lands, market-b...
Private Lands – PERC

The Next Era of American Conservation - As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States, it’s time to add a new chapter to America’s conservation legacy, with private lands, market-b...
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

One Rep in the Rain - I took my son to the park on Saturday.
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

A President unbound: Trump’s second term and the erosion of constitutional constraint - Quadrant
The War on Prices

Against a Two-for-One Offer of Price Controls on Food and Credit Cards - Jared Bernstein, former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under Joe Biden, has resurfaced with a new affordability wheeze: cap the price of groceri...
Africa’s Bright Future

How Africa Imported Europe’s Worst Idea - What happens when you copy a declining continent's labor code
American Energy Alliance

Grounded: California’s Burgeoning Aviation Fuel Crisis - California’s declining oil production and refinery closures, caused by the state’s energy policies, could create an “aviation fuel crisis.” An increasing...
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

Dems refused to stand during Trump’s State of the Union — because they reject American pride - My Latest New York Post Article
Statecraft

When FAFSA Broke, They Called This Guy - “Two moms can’t produce a baby in 4.5 months”
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

EdTech is Borrowing Zuckerberg's Playbook - The "No Evidence of Harm" Refrain is a Familiar Deflection
The Cobden Centre

What causes stagflation? - By Dr Frank Shostak In the late 1960’s Edmund Phelps and Milton Friedman (PF) challenged the popular view that there can be a sustainable...
Schiffradio.com

Spin Of The Union - Trump claims we have the hottest economy in the world and the greatest turnaround in history, but the numbers tell a completely different story—GDP growt...
Barrie Saunders

Engineers – your country needs you - The essence of the 226 page Infrastructure Commission report is that NZ spends enough on infrastructure, but the value we get is poor compared with like co...
No Right Turn

Our outdated anti-corruption laws - Last year a group of VTNZ staff were fired after being caught taking bribes to falsify driving test results. This isn't the first time this has happened, a...
Stats Chat

Waiting for the details - In August, the Guardian and the BBC reported a successful clinical trial of an “AI stethoscope”. I’ll note at the start that this isn’t ChatGPT, it’s the...
Uncharted Territories

Saudi Arabia’s Ordeal - Between the Sandworm and the Quicksand
Building the Builders

The first principle behind "first principles" - Unearthing the builder's greatest superpower
CO2 Coalition

EPA’s CO2 Reversal Is Welcome Opening For Developing World - by Vijay Jayaraj On a crisp, sun-drenched afternoon in the spring of 2023, I found myself walking down Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., in front ...
The Shrewd Artist

Painting Immersion Coming to End on Eve - Solving diptych (two related paintings) and lighting problems
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Painting Immersion Coming to End on Eve - Solving diptych (two related paintings) and lighting problems
Official Blog

Geocache of the Week Flashback Edition – Wellingtonie - Traditional GCXGEX by Johannis10 Difficulty: 2.5 Terrain: 1 Location: Baden-Württemberg, Germany N 48° 45.024′ E 008° 42.600’ Discover a Geocache of the We...
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

Why Police Should Treat Sovereign Citizens Like Everyone Else - New Zealand Police guidance on “sovereign citizens” risks profiling dissent. The rule of law demands equal treatment, not special categories.
Dead Language Society

Why the worst idea in linguistics won’t die - The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is mostly wrong
Toppermost

Doves - Doves signature sound retains an element of the loops and beats that characterised their work as Sub Sub. The post Doves appeared first on Toppermost.
Flying Out

The Buddhafinger (Secondhand Vinyl LP) - *Vendor: *SECONDHAND *Type: *TADPOLE *Price: * 160.00 Artist: Tadpole Year: 2024 Genre: Rock Sub-Genre: Alternative Rock, NZ Tracklist: A1. Intro A2. A...
A Havenstein Moment.

Preparing for a Storm - Mike Huckabee is a traitor.
The Tracinski Letter

They’re Tightening Their Grip Because They’re Losing It - A News Link Round-Up
Stewart Margolis

How Should We “Deal” with Iran? - When Trump bombed Iran’s nuclear sites eight months ago, I was tentatively pleased and said so on social media.
A Halfling's View

Publication and Interpretation - Part 2 - What Burrows v Police Tells Us About Interpretation
HardmoneyJim

Gold and the quiet birth of a new monetary order - GOLD IS NOT ONLY RISING, IT IS ALSO COMPETING WITH FIAT CURRENCIES
Sinification

The Bureaucratisation of Chinese Research: More Money and Less Innovation – by Zhang Hong, a Biologist at CAS - "The kind of research in China that relies on amassing manpower and resources is much like collecting stamps—the papers it produces are [ultimately] just a...
Asimov’s Addendum

Dangerously Skip Permissions - The pragmatic case against scraping the open web and how market-shaping protocols could make agents safer.
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

What RFK Jr.’s CDC Doesn’t Want You to Know - The CDC is withholding critical information about vaccine-preventable diseases from the American public. Why?
Changing Lanes

Airports Are Too Safe - The case against checkpoint screening
Overthinking Everything

On Mediocrity - One of the harshest words in my vocabulary is "mediocre". Let me tell you what I mean by it.
The Trichordist

Say No to Suno - A “smash-and-grab” wave is hitting music: unauthorized AI platforms are recutting and reselling human creativity at industrial scale, flooding services wit...
Energy in Depth

U.S. Natural Gas 2004-2024 - The post U.S. Natural Gas 2004-2024 appeared first on .
Fictionosophy

Efficacy and Influence in Naomi Alderman's The Power - The Power is a morbidly fascinating work of speculative fiction that rests on dark premises about human nature.
Greg Mankiw's Blog

Economic Theory Summer Camp - Organized by my colleague Eric Maskin. Click here for information.
Cremieux Recueil

The Other Type of Flynn Effect - When we talk about the Flynn Effect, we need conceptual clarity
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Talking points roundup: US nuclear’s failure to launch, China’s "coalar" power, solar having zero real "capacity," and more - Also: China’s coal-dependent solar power, fraudulent claims about solar and wind, solar’s unreliability, global emergencies, and the myth of solar and wind...
Roberto’s Substack

Judicial Insecurity in America: Trump’s Deranged Tariff Crusade Shatters the Rule of Law, Screws Consumers, and Turns the Supreme Court Into His Personal Punching Bag - Listen up, because this clown show is exactly why the United States is drowning in judicial insecurity right now.
Note to Noteworthy

Important One-Minute Update - Hi beloved readers,
First Stones NewsLetter

AOS + TBC + PE: What is wrong with the following picture? - Why is everybody missing the point? Is the DIM in or out? If it's in, can it be taken out and if it's out, can it be kept out? Or is it that the Democrats ...
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Immigrants Use Less Welfare, Even Counting Their U.S.-Born Children - Countering a persistent critique of our welfare analysis
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

Immigrants Use Less Welfare, Even Counting Their U.S.-Born Children - Countering a persistent critique of our welfare analysis
Austin Vernon's Substack

2026 Geothermal Update - Progress grinds forward as the great filter looms.
The Trumpland Diary

Truth Predict: Trump Launches Crypto Gambling Platform - The Trump Crime Family Just Took Corruption to a Whole New Level
The Beauty of Things

Poetry Contests with Cats on a (Very) Snowy Evening - A list of formalist-friendly poetry contests. PLUS: poetry by Gail White
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

The Making of Nigeria’s Petrostate: Gowon's Post War Years - From Civil War Ruin to Petro-State Boom: Nigeria 1970–1976
Mike’s Substack

Atlas and Anthropology - Atlas is built on a simple premise:
Mike’s Substack

Atlas and Anthropology - Atlas is built on a simple premise:
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

Bread, Circuses, and The Politics of Distraction - Our obsession with scandals serves a political class that doesn’t want us to focus on the real threats to America.
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

Who’s winning the war for your mind? - How skilled propagandists infiltrate our consciousness, and how we resist them
Freethink Media

Biology’s New Era - The historic shift from studying life to engineering it.
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Lung: Fog (Yellow Bike/digital outlets) - Now this is unexpected, a new album from one of Palmerston North's hardest and brutally raw bands which emerged in the late Eighties and delivered a bunch ...
The Roots of Progress

Links and short notes, 2026-02-20 - “Some kind of turning point,” Elon on Dwarkesh, a social network for AIs, and lots more
Interintellect

Why Odysseus Turns Down Immortality - Identity, Endurance, and the Courage to Set Sail
Syncretica

Hierarchies of Storage from Electrons to Bits - Grid hardware is a lot like computer hardware
Roots of Progress

Save the date: Progress Conference 2026 - Last year we hosted the second annual Progress Conference. The 2025 conference was bigger than 2024: more days and more people, bringing together over 35...
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

We can be Weirdos: How To Think Like Socrates - Listen to my conversation with Dan Schreiber
Free Range Kids

Advice Columnist: NEVER LET YOUR KID DO ANYTHING ALONE TILL AGE 11! - The situation was this: A 6-year-old rode off on his bike and stayed out for two hours, without his parents knowing where he was. That would have had me,...
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

America, A Love Story - Ragtime, and the romance of the work in progress. A revisitation.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

America, A Love Story - Ragtime, and the romance of the work in progress. A revisitation.
Houston Strategies

Silver: a precious metal that's a scrap metal in transit lines - After a bit of a break here at Houston Strategies, another excellent guest post from Oscar Slotboom.--- The price of silver metal is up substantially in th...
Let Grow

HOW TO GIVE KIDS SCREEN-FREE PLAY TIME - [image: Two little boys friends climbed tree and look smiling. Happy children play in summer barefoot forest. Carefree childhood.] Nicole Cooper is a mom, ...
On Substack

What the markets are saying - Making prediction market data easier to reference and share
Classical Compass Rose

Is the Head of a Classical School a CEO? - The comparison is common. It is also mistaken. A school is not a business.
Michael Newberry, Artist

Memoir: Chapter 16, Santa Monica Splendor (Part 1) - [After a short break, I’m resuming my art memoir here on Substack. I am about 3/4s through. The chapters continue where I left off, with some slight revisi...
Splitting Headache

Somethings: Machine Identity - On Search engines and AI “people”
Existential Crunch

Nuclear war, nuclear winter, and the food system - A contribution to the United Nations Independent Scientific Panel on the Effects of Nuclear War
Mises Wiki - Recent changes [en]

W - Kanopi deleted page W Removing all content created by Kapitalizt
One Useful Thing

A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era - It's not just chatbots anymore
Conspicuous Cognition

AI Sessions #9: The Case Against AI Consciousness (with Anil Seth) - Watch now | What is it like to be a ChatGPT?
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Dumb and Dumber (Nos. 127-128) - Watching the Education Apocalypse in Slow Motion
HBL

False: All claims, positive or negative, require evidence - A member wrote: The burden of proof is on him who claims to know. Yes, I cover this in How We Know. I think the articles published under Ayn Rand’s editors...
Virginia Postrel

A Plague of Mysterious, AI-Written Emails from "Fellow Authors" - Early AI adopters are using it to scam authors.
PM of NZ

Mot du jour numero 12345 - Noticed in despatches today. "*Disinhibited*" The usage: The afore-mentioned esteemed member of the judiciary was disinhibited after having possibly q...
Equal to Reality

The Hidden Engine of Value - Why true capitalism is more than profit: the principles that distinguish lasting value from mere financial gain.
History Reclaimed

Colonial Employment Legislation in India and Ceylon - It is often claimed that British imperial history is a story of exploitation. If that's the case, why did the British legislate to protect workers' condit...
High Capacity

Does China care about AGI? - Chinese tech leaders and researchers talk openly about AGI. But Chinese policymakers don't seem focused on the "race to AGI" like in the US.
Too Clever By Half

When a blogging account is deleted - Have you seen this blog? ¶ Deleting an account *might* delete the blog or blogs it owns—but it might not. ¶ And deleting the account might have other...
Stu-Topia

Amorous Anguirus - Stuart K. Hayashi This is a practice drawing I did on Feb. 10, 2024, of Anguirus, the first monster ever to co-star in a movie with Godzilla. Anguirus is b...
Jackson Upmann

3 Months, 1 Habit, Stronger Self-Esteem - How Tracking Wins Is Transforming My Confidence
What You Can Do For Liberty

Advice From Milton Friedman: Find Allies - In politics, it takes a critical mass to get anything done.
Macroscience

Do Not Surrender to the Tech Tree - A defense of human agency in a techno-deterministic world
The New Era

Technocracy Rising - Watch now | Patrick Wood and Hrvoje Morić discuss the Epstein file release, Tether, Mark Carney's speech at Davos...and the galloping pace of technocracy.
Kibao

AI in Africa: Less Leapfrogging, More Sequencing - My four-point response to the question: “Can AI Take Off in Africa?”
Croaking Cassandra

A very poor start by the Governor - When I stopped regular blogging in December I wrote This is one of those issues that has really got my goat. (There won’t be any other return to blogging, ...
The Prophet of Causation

The Uncaused Life - Chapter 10
The Future of Freedom Foundation

A Grand Jury Nullification of Malicious Tyranny - In what can be called an act of grand-jury nullification, a federal grand jury has rebuffed an effort by the U.S. Justice Department to seek criminal ind...
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (February 2026) - What the Doomsday Clock and annual global risk reports are telling us
Wright in Racine

Sitting Down with Frank Lloyd Wright - © Mark Hertzberg (2026) A quick test: think “Frank Lloyd Wright.” Chances are that images of Fallingwater, the Robie House, the SC Johnson Administration...
The Intrinsic Perspective

My New Org to Solve Consciousness (or Die Trying); A Rogue AI Community That Wasn't; David Foster Wallace Is Still Right; Cow Tools Are Real, & More - Desiderata #38: links and commentary
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

India's freedom from global blocs is the future - The case for autonomy in a fractured wor
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

Sneak Peek: 'Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth' - The celebrated 20th century American painter's works are currently on display at North Florida's Cummer Museum
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for January, 2026: +0.35 deg. C - The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for January, 2026 was +0.35 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, up a littl...
Forbidden Science

Why I am suing Texas Tech - And how you can help
Harry’s Substack

One quick question - -- that puts ICE in perspective
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: January 2026 - 📣 Announcements
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...
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...
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!
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...
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.
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

on tedium - repeatedly doing a thing that's not working
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...
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
Leport’s Substack

Looking for reviews - Dear friends and family,
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 "...
Precise Thinking

Mary’s Monumental Survival - The Secular Side of the Story
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
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...
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...
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

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

Thinking Small Is How You Stay Small - Brian Easton is right about one thing: New Zealand is small. Where he go...
Regan's Substack

Socialism is for losers - And Capitalism doesn't need a PR team
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
What's New Under the Sun

Innovation Job Market Papers 2025 (2/2) - Dozens of papers from new PhDs about Innovation
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 ...
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
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...
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...
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- ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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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