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Cato at Liberty

President Trump’s 32nd Equity Stake Takes the Ownership Spree to Venezuela - The Trump administration’s 32nd corporate equity stake takes its opaque ownership spree to Venezuela, where Washington is now in business with a politicall...
David Stockman's Contra Corner

America’s Trade Disaster: Bad Seed Of The Eccles Building Money-Printers - We won’t ask how those big, beautiful Trumpian tariffs are faring. Not after the July goods deficit posted at nearly $4 billion per DAY, which sums to a ...
Reason Foundation

Automated license plate readers require scrutiny—and due process - A response to Charles Fain Lehman’s “In Defense of Flock” article. The post Automated license plate readers require scrutiny—and due process appeared fi...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

YouTube Videos I’m Recommending Right Now - Here’s a big batch of 14 recent videos. These are keepers.
SkyscraperCity Forum

PUNTA DEL ESTE | Quartier de la Brava | 2 x 72m | 2 x 24p | E/C - Ubicación: Av. Miguel Ángel esq Av. Leonardo Da Vinci Google Maps Street View En una de las zonas más exclusivas de Punta del Este, nace un nuevo Quartier....
Armageddon Newsletter

Trump has just lost his life insurance policy: J.D. Vance proves to the Deep State that he is ‘one of the boys’ - When Donald Trump chose J.D.
Futurism

The People Maintaining Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars Are Being Treated Horribly, Insider Claims - "There's a lot of cleaning up poop." The post The People Maintaining Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars Are Being Treated Horribly, Insider Claims appeared first ...
Breaking Views

Reynold Macpherson: A Social Media Ban May Solve the Wrong Problem - New Zealand’s proposed ban on social media for people under 16 starts from a serious concern. Children can be harmed online. They can be exposed to bullyin...
The Double Standard

Open Mike 05/09/2026 - Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to th...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

This U.S. Citizen Is Suing ICE for Arresting Him 3 Times. His Lawsuit Is Moving Forward. - Despite carrying a REAL ID, Leo Garcia Venegas has been repeatedly detained by immigration agents. Now he’s suing to block immigration raids targeting Lati...
Public Lands – PERC

PERC Interns: In Their Own Words - This summer, PERC hosted six remarkable interns at our headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. The post PERC Interns: In Their Own Words appeared first on PERC.
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

9/11—25 Years Later: Objectivism, Islamic Totalitarianism, and America’s Crisis of Ideas - 25 Years Since 9/11, ARI Reflects on the Legacy of the Attacks
ROBERT FRIPP

At this point, your interest in me has probably come to an end… - Words 112 · RF@80 Series.
The Daily Economy

Why Universities Embrace Cheats -
Why Evolution Is True

Readers’ wildlife photos - Very few people are sending in wildlife photos, so if you have some good ones, shoot them my way, please. Fortunately, ecologist Susan Harrison has come t...
The Footy Almanac

Almanac Sport: South West District Football Netball League Grand Final Preview - Dandy Andy presents a preview of this weekend's grand final matches in the South West Football Netball League.
Truth on the Market

Competing Too Well: Europe’s New Guide to Dominance - Brussels has finally given Article 102 an instruction manual. Issued Sept. 3, the European Commission’s first comprehensive Guidelines on exclusionary ab...
The Daily Sceptic

Stock Up on Food Because of El Niño, Says Minister - Environment Secretary Dame Angela Eagle has advised the British public to stock up on food because of the approaching El Niño weather phenomenon, said to...
Tim Worstall

Eh? - He is warning that too much money is being borrowed to buy shares. This is happening in ETF funds, as they’re called. …. Bailey thinks too much borrowed ...
Kunstler

Insurrection for Real - “The Democrat agenda is to legalize crime and criminalize the middle class.” —Stephen Miller
Brownstone Institute

More Access. More Choice. Less Cost. - More Access. More Choice. Less Cost. by Margaret Hampton at Brownstone Institute [image: More Access. More Choice. Less Cost.] Secretary Kennedy is right...
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

What do fixed bottle tops achieve? - A cap is roughly 2-3% of a bottle's plastic mass. Tethering adds slightly more plastic with a thicker hinge and sometimes a larger cap, so the measure do...
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 1214 Dollar exposure. Starbase Louisiana. Spain's lost empire & "The Acropolis of the New World". - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Slow Boring

You can’t blame housing shortages for literally everything - Plus alternate Reconstructions, saving D.C. real estate, and the truth about Tupac
Mises Wire

MMT and the Price Controls That Never Happened - Without established exchange-ratios between a currency and goods, a fiat-token cannot meaningfully serve as a unit of account because it has no referent. T...
MacleodFinance Substack

A yen for gold - The yen carry trade is blowing up, driving up global bond yields. Investors are slowly learning that the only safe havens are to be found in gold, silver, ...
Quotulatiousness

Never discount the political muscle of “King Coal” - On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, John Ringo remembers when a friend of his accidentally discovered that “King Coal” is still a behind-th...
American Institute of Economic Research

Made in (North) America: Canada Is Not Our Enemy - In the US, we have a tendency to stamp products as “American-made” and imagine that that product was entirely made within our borders. The truth is that ...
GeekPress

Hilbert Space - *"In Hilbert Space*, All Things Are Quantumly Possible"
Mises Institute Blog

Economic Coercion and the Limits of Liberty: US Sanctions and Cuba’s Tourism Sector - The US had tried unsuccessfully for more than 60 years to bring down Cuba’s regime, it being done at a huge cost to the Cuban people. The Trump administrat...
DGMLive

Robert Fripp @80 - Week 17 - Robert Fripp was 80 on 16th May 2026. To celebrate this, DGM is curating a Fripp@80 series, with weekly digital releases throughout the year drawn from Rob...
Zero Hanger

AFL puts clubs on notice as Zak Butters trade talks face scrutiny - Talks around how a deal can be done between Port Adelaide and any rival will be "scrutinised" after eyebrows were raised earlier in the week.
Notes On Liberty

The Rebel Realist: My Arctic and Realist Journeys Converge - For decades, the high priests of the Arctic establishment—the tenured mandarins, the deep-state bureaucrats, and the military-industrial gatekeepers—have p...
Kiwiblog

Top 70 Schools: University Entrance (UE) for LEAVERS - Top 70 Schools: University Entrance (UE) for LEAVERS Three notes: – The leavers data includes all students who begin a school year and leave during, or a...
Marginal Revolution

Share price numbers for the Hugging Face incident - …major publicly traded cybersecurity firms lost roughly $65–80 billion, or about 8–10% of their combined value, in the days following disclosure of the H...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: Do You Have Similar Flaws? - How strange it is...
Point of Order

Professor to become a Tumuaki at NZ’s major science society, where the Treaty galvanises governance - Bob Edlin writes – The Royal Society of New Zealand seems to have been conflicted, when announcing its new president. The headline on its press statement ...
Techdirt

Court Tells HHS To Stop Using AI To Cite Fake Studies, Or Willfully Misinterpret Others In Grant Solicitations - To quote the opening line from the court opinion that this post is based upon, “Millions of American teenagers have sex.” This post is has nothing to do wi...
The Whakataki Times

Pilot Flying Dangerously Low At Cape Town Test Revealed To Be Du’Plessis Kirifi - FLIGHT RISK. The post Pilot Flying Dangerously Low At Cape Town Test Revealed To Be Du’Plessis Kirifi appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
No Minister

Why Liberalism Keeps Getting Crushed Between the Two Collectivisms - Liberalism — the philosophy of individual rights, limited government, free speech, and voluntary association — should, in theory, be the natural victor in ...
Dr Oliver Hartwich

Birds of a feather - Voting for Forest & Bird's 'Bird of the Year' opens today, featuring a unique election-themed twist and various bird parties with playful, clever campaigns...
The Integrity Institute

Democracy Briefing: Wellington City Council cannot escape blame for Moa Point - About 14 billion litres of raw sewage have gone into Wellington’s south coast over the last seven months, and it’s still flowing daily.
The Free Press

Is It Right to Hold Your Kids Back in Kindergarten? - ‘People will do anything to get an edge,’ said one Florida mom. ‘At what point does it become too ridiculous? When does it stop?’
The Inquiring Mind

Tweedy Pubs: Richmond - Quite fun exploring the history of various pubs. Uploaded July 15, 2026 Link below
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Shane Te Pou – Matua Pita Tepene I wish you weren’t in Israel right now - Tēnā koe, Te Rangatira I’ve met you several times over the years and have always respected you. You have struck...
The Future of Being Human

Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 as an original scholar, and more insights into AI as a primary author - My latest deep dive into using frontier AI models to research and write scholarly papers — this time with the just-released Fable 5.1 model from Anthropic
John D. Cook

Hugging Face Easter Egg - NVIDIA has offered by buy Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. 129303 is the Unicode code point for the Hugging Face emoj (U+1F917), which you can verify wi...
Marcus on AI

Hot take on GPT-6 Astra - An impressive system that can (to some unknown extent) build symbolic world models
UnHerd

Why universities embrace cheats - Outcomes are more important than education
Quillette

The $64 Question, Again - Anna D. Shapiro’s recent revival of Eric Bentley’s 1972 play about the HUAC hearings offered entertainment along with the pleasures of moral certainty and ...
Real Clear Energy

Energy Future: Made in China By Coal - Clemente & Palmer, RCEnergy The stark reality: In China, 55% of power is produced by coal and the cost of household electricity is 8 cents per kWh. In the ...
Sustain What

A Film About Crossing Boundaries in Search of a Less Imperfect Union - Ian Cheney is one of my favorite filmmakers and I can’t wait to see the new one
Skeptic

The Kurds and Kurdistan: How History Left 35 Million People Without a Country - To most of us, at least at a first glance, maps appear to describe reality. They show states, borders, capitals, and frontiers with the reassuring preci...
Homepaddock

Woman of the day - This woman is about to be executed in Iran. Her name is Taraneh Rahimi. 20 years old. From Isfahan. Her crime? Joining the January uprising and stopping th...
JoNova

Iran shuts down a UK power plant for four days, but that’s no biggie… - Image by emely krause from Pixabay By Jo Nova Net Zero makes our grids fragile Australians may not be aware but Iranian hackers managed to knock out a U...
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

I Never Met Wendell Berry - Wendell Berry just passed at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, he was ninety-two. I never met him, though I wish I had. The post I Never Met Wendell Berr...
IPWatchdog Articles

Federal Circuit Affirms Judgment that Swiss Pharma Company Did Not Infringe Iron Deficiency Therapy Patent Claims - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a decision today in Biofer S.p.A. v. Vifor (International) AG affirming a judgment of non...
Brash & Mitchell

RODNEY HIDE: The watchdog comes last - I am grateful for Family First's Bob McCoskrie drawing my attention on X to a shocking result on the just released Quality of Life survey. The survey asked...
The Curmudgeon

Cleopatra's Proboscis - Rare and exotic indeed is the migrant swarm which can gladden the stout heart of your true British patriot; particularly when the migrants in question comp...
Construction Physics

How Will the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Affect Housing Supply? Part III - This is my third and final essay looking at the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, and how it’s likely to affect housing supply.
Persuasion

I Taught a Short Story. My College Fired Me For It. - Academic censorship is very real.
Free Range Kids

Mom Arrested, Sentenced for Letting Son, 5, Walk in Neighborhood - In a quiet gated community in Virginia, Karyann Parkinson took a little bike ride with her 5-year-old son one morning this summer. They passed the grassy...
ArchDaily

Casa Solis 21 / iHouse estudio - Casa Solís 21 is a temporary residence located in a rural setting in Soca, Canelones, conceived as a weekend home for a family seeking a space to gather ...
Paul Wells

The West Coast Panel on chaos in the BC Conservatives - Moore, Zussman and Segal on Kerry-Lynne Findlay’s incredible shrinking caucus
Israel Institute of NZ

Durban at 25: The Conference That Changed the Language of Antisemitism - Twenty-five years ago, representatives from around the world gathered in Durban, South Africa, for a United Nations conference dedicated to one of the most...
Spiked Online

Pauline Hanson is gunning for Aussie establishment - The post Pauline Hanson is gunning for Aussie establishment appeared first on spiked.
Can't Get Much Higher

Are Albums Obsolete in the Streaming Era? A Statistical Analysis - Daniel Parris weighs in on an age old debate
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day – Activist scientists - Caught pushing an apocalyptic scenario they knew couldn’t occur, climate scientists are now claiming their policies prevented it. A clique of stealth act...
The Roots of Progress

We’re hiring: Event Manager & Education Program Operations Manager - Help us inspire young people to build an ambitious future, or create events that bring together the progress community
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Where Did The Heatwave Go, Daily Mirror? - By Paul Homewood It seems the Mirror has overtaken the Express in fake weather alerts! This was a couple of weeks ago: The Met Office has said more heatwa...
Middle East Uncovered

Hamas Won Gaza’s Last Election. Twenty Years Later, Palestinians May Finally Get the Chance to Choose Differently. - They promised an end to corruption and a better government under the banner of “Change and Reform.” What followed was repeated wars with Israel and ultimat...
Energy in Depth

The Refining Challenge Behind Today’s Fuel Prices - With average gasoline prices topping $4 per gallon and diesel closing in on all-time highs of $5.80 in wake of the Iran conflict, the White House recentl...
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Mind The Yields—Kevin Warsh Now Has The Conn - Click on Title to Read
FIRE

Florida wants colleges out of politics, but its plan has a loophole - Florida wants public colleges out of politics. But a loophole in its neutrality plan could give administrators a new license to speak out.
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Silver Diner DC Meet-Up This Weekend - At the urging of Jason Ford, I am hosting a Bet On It meet-up at the Fair Lakes Silver Diner this Saturday at 10 PM ET. All are welcome. Hope to see you ...
Institute for Energy Research

China’s Coal-to-Gas Industry Is Set to Triple by 2030 - China is building the world’s only large-scale coal-to-gas industry as a buffer against supply shocks and to supplement its national… The post China’s Co...
Conversable Economist

Gross and Net US Investment - Each year, more than half of the total or gross investment by US firms just makes up for depreciation in older equipment and knowledge. in recent year, i...
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Base your needs on the requirements of a healthy body... - Donald's Commentary on The Handbook of Epictetus #39
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Caught Pushing An Apocalyptic Scenario They Knew Couldn’t Occur, Climate Scientists Are Now Claiming Their Policies Prevented It - Clique of stealth activists, including the former head of the National Academies of Science, claimed a high-emissions future was possible long after it had...
Glenn’s Substack

In Which I Ask the Machines for Criticism - Grok, Claude, and Chat GPT weigh in on my Demonic AI piece.
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 175 - Free Thoughts with Bowen & Twyman, Ep. 43 - Listen now | Q&A
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 175 - Free Thoughts with Bowen & Twyman, Ep. 43 - Listen now | Q&A
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

A Father's Admonition - Happy Thursday to one and all and welcome to this week's edition of Laura's Links. The preparations for the Jewish New Year are well underway, and by that ...
American Energy Alliance

President Trump Takes An Axe To Biden’s Green New Deal - President Trump has cut much of the Biden administration’s funding for its green new deal agenda, except for about $600 billion in Congressionally approv...
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

1840s poetry: Charlotte Bronte’s "Preference," and more - Part of a quick review of the 19th century, before we launch into the 20th.
The Trichordist

Remembering Gloria Steinem - Our friend Blake Morgan remembers his godmother, the incomparable Gloria Steinem.
Gus Van Horn

RE: 'Where are all the dead bodies?' - The saying *extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence* can be a guardian against being mislead, but only when one recognizes a claim as *being* e...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Best Insults in History - 1. “He had delusions of adequacy. “ — Walter Kerr 2. “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.“ — Winston Churchill3. “I have never...
bad cattitude

attempted murder of agency - considering lindsay clancy and the idea of madness
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

Hochul and RGGI Affordability - Governor Hochul has said that affordability comes first, however this post shows that her Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) record says otherwise. ...
Curbed - All

What Will Become of the Ed Sullivan Theater? - There’s an opportunity, post-Colbert, for it to become a Broadway house once again.
The Rebuild

Why Back-to-School Shopping Got Pricey - JD Vance’s Toaster Boy Economics in Action
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

The Postmodern Defense of Lindsay Clancy - O.J. Simpson for middle-class white women
Eating Policy

The Crisis We've Been Waiting For - It's time for government to move fast and build things
Uncharted Territories

Weapons of Mosquito Destruction - We Can Already Eradicate Mosquitoes If We Want. Why Don’t We?
The New York Review of Books

An Ecosystem of Her Own - Maren Hassinger’s alchemical touch transforms the most resistant materials into evocations of the endlessly changing natural world.
Living Resources Center

A Doctor’s Note for Killing Your Children - The conventional wisdom (translation: insanity) seems to be: “If someone kills their children, they’re a monster. But if someone who’s suicidal and depre...
Perennial Meditations

The Unchosen Life—What Kierkegaard and the Stoics Knew About Freedom - Dying Every Day (Day 156)
Sawahil

Notes on the Coup Attempt in Niger - Niger’s junta has a particular kind of vulnerability.
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

Why You Still Can't Pump Your Own Gas in New Jersey - It’s a sad state of affairs that in the Land of the Free, Americans are still fighting for the freedom to pump gas.
ChinaTalk

China on the Hugging Face Incident - Why Beijing seeks to re-narrate AI safety
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Defending Confederate Monuments Reveals the Moral Emptiness of the Right - Just acknowledge slavery was bad
The Logical Place

Why Pakistani Politicians End Up in Jail - Pakistan has a remarkable political history. Prime ministers and presidents do not merely lose elections or retire from public life. They have repeatedly b...
Law & Liberty

Abusing Aristotle - The New Right's "common good" dresses textbook collective action problems in lofty philosophical language.
Sinification

China’s Mandate to Rule the Waves and Secure the Future | Di Dongsheng - “We will probably need around thirty years, advancing step by step, to secure control over and rights of access to ports, straits, canals and shipping rout...
Astral Codex Ten

College EA Meetups Everywhere: Times & Places - ...
The Cobden Centre

Hansard: Discussion on “Banks of Issue” from 1875 - Banks Of IssueVolume 223: debated on Tuesday 13 April 1875 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1875-04-13/debates/a60e4abe-0ad1-46ba-bc04-ca783527f0d4/Ban...
The Antiplanner

July Air Travel Up 3.7%, Driving 0.7%, from 2019 - Americans flew 3.7 percent more trips in July of 2026 than during the same month in 2019, according to TSA passenger counts. But they drove only 0.7 percen...
The Antiplanner

July Air Travel Up 3.7%, Driving 0.7%, from 2019 - Americans flew 3.7 percent more trips in July of 2026 than during the same month in 2019, according to TSA passenger counts. But they drove only 0.7 percen...
Hoover institution Commentary

Gifts from Our Mortal Enemies - The Putin dictatorship and the “holier than thou” regime in Iran have unwillingly and unwittingly each given our government and our military the gifts of f...
An Africanist Perspective

Book Review 4/26: A Man of the World: Tom Mboya, the Cold War and Decolonization in Kenya (by Daniel Branch) - The political life of one of Kenya’s most brilliant politicians & policymakers; and lessons on leadership in Africa
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

Answers to Stuff You Wanted to Know. - MP accommodation, ACC’s investments, Māori tax, child poverty, public servants, overhangs, and the small matter of several billion dollars for the Paris Ag...
Ayn Rand Centre UK

The Well-Deserved Fall of Milo Yiannopoulos -
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

Stoic Morning Practice: Be Fair To Yourself - Some mornings, the first voice you hear is a prosecutor.
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

Building the Reliable and Resilient Grid That Virginia Needs: Why Transmission Investment Is a Consumer Issue - As Texas's former chief consumer advocate and a former Commissioner at the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT), I spent nearly six years working to k...
The Common Reader

Finding Emily - Oh my god I loved this film.
Manhattan Contrarian

Here's An Idea To Get 30% Cheaper Groceries In New York Without Taxpayer Subsidies: Allow Walmart! - * During his campaign for office last fall, our new Mayor Zohran Mamdani promised to make groceries “affordable” for New Yorkers; but he provided few speci...
The Daily Doom

The Fog of War and the Lies of Lunatics and Lutniks - The fog of war is getting so thick you could cut it with a sword. Even the liars are stumbling on their own words.
Tross Publishing

THE FRAUD OF FEMINISM - By Ron Asher Modern New Zealand is based on certain truths but also on an increasing number of lies, e.g. the Treaty of Waitangi was a "partnership" (no,...
Cremieux Recueil

Everyone Loves Cargo Cults - And progress will be slower because of it
Stewart Margolis

What Constitutes Support? - I was hosting a podcast recently when the question arose of what constitutes support.
Greater Auckland

Western rail crossings – getting ready for even more CRL benefits - This is a guest post from Auckland Transport’s Head of Level Crossings, Tom Willetts. (The header image is one of ours, showing the level crossing at Ros...
Doug Casey's International Man

Doug Casey on America’s Fading Hegemony and the New World Order - America’s fading global dominance, escalating conflicts with Iran, Russia, and China, and the financial and geopolitical risks of a rapidly changing worl...
Energy Transition Absurdities

TV Segment: David Blackmon Talks U.S.-Venezuela Oil Deal - I’ve been invited for a couple of hits on NTD News the past few days talking about the U.S-Venezuela Oil Deal.
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

We knew natural immunity was immensely valuable, yet the ‘experts’ decided to ignore it - One of the most important questions of the pandemic was answered almost immediately
CO2 Coalition

Reality Check for PA’s Failed Green-Energy Mandates - by Gordon Tomb Each month, Pennsylvania’s 6 million electricity customers—all facing rising bills—are charged for services of questionable value without ...
The Contrarian Capitalist

Mid-Week Macro 02/09/2026 - WTI rallies above $90, Diesel Crack above $100 - September/October warrants caution across the markets. Fuel is sending a stark warning.
Official Blog

☀️ LE LIVRE D’HÉLIOS ☀️ — Geocache of the Week - Letterbox Hybrid GC7V294 by Tristaaaaan Difficulty: 3 Terrain: 1.5 Location: Île-de-France, France N 48° 51.124′ E 002° 20.576′ You step into a Paris books...
The UnPopulist

Texas’ Efforts to Deny That Islam Is Even a Religion Will Jeopardize All Faiths - The state is cracking down not just on Muslims, but on the Constitution itself
The Breakthrough Journal

Software Won’t Expand the Grid - A practical take on grid-enhancing technologies
Retraction Watch

Oxford researchers retract Nature paper on ‘atmospheric thirst’ for calculation errors - Nature has retracted a paper on the atmosphere’s role in the severity of droughts around the world after the authors discovered they made a coding error th...
The Economic LongWave

Canada’s Market Cap-to-GDP Ratio Just Reached a Record 226% - Canadian equities are now valued more highly relative to the domestic economy than they were at the 1999 technology-bubble peak.
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Just bury your trash - What if everything we know about recycling is wrong?
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

Travel Guide #15: The New South and Smoky Mountains - Listen now | A road trip through TN, NC, and GA via Great Smoky Mountains National Park (20 min, 20 photos)
The War on Prices

The Scottish Government’s Accidental Tribute to Market Prices - The Scottish Government has just published a consultation on a proposal to introduce legal price caps for “essential” food items, such as bread, milk and e...
The Library of Celaeno

War Plan Reddish-Orange Man - Is The Liberation of Canada at Hand?
AAS Economics (Frank Shostak)

Still no US downturn? - Waiting...waiting...waiting...
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for August, 2026: +0.68 deg. C - The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for August, 2026 was +0.68 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, up from the...
The Roots of Liberty

Unions And Socialism - In a conversation about capitalism (but not really), some Internet rando coughed up an ad hominem/straw man by accusing me of being anti-union simply becau...
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: August 2026 - August is normally a quiet month in DC, since Congress is away on recess.
EconLog

The NIMBY Prisoner’s Dilemma - In the last thirty years or so, the United States has seen persistent shortages of housing, waste disposal facilities, electricity generation, and oil r...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Ironic Inheritance: How Andrew Carnegie’s Millions Still Underwrite the Academy - Overwhelmingly left-leaning college professors tend to offer sharp critiques of “ultra-wealth,” concentrated capital, and the supposed moral failings of ...
Flashbak

Wigs: Selling Hair in 1980s London - “Is your hair gone with the wind?” – sign in a wig shop, Stepney, Tower Hamlets, London People were keen to fix their hair in the 1980s. Before the buz...
Autonomia

This and That - September’s calendar, DSA alert, movies, books, romantic realism in action, new courses, thoughts on Tim Curry, Dolly Parton, Tim Cook
Offsetting Behaviour

For a sense of proportion: datacentre water use - I like this chart, from Andreas Heuser and Phil Whittington's excellent piece making the case for datacentres. Nobody has a sense of perspective on ind...
The Tracinski Letter

Surviving in a Pit of Vipers - [image: Ragnar Lothbrok is remembered as one of the most feared names to ever sail out of the north, and the story of how he died is almost as famous as an...
No Right Turn

Finally - Methanex is one of Aotearoa's biggest and least efficient polluters, burning 37% of our entire natural gas supply to produce a few hundred thousand tons of...
New Zealand Arts Review

Michael Dell’s enigmatic landscapes at Föenander Gallery - Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Michael Dell. The Sun Comes |Up Föenander Gallery Until September 15 Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Michael Dells paintings ho...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

RENOWNED IRISH RAP GROUP KNEECAP RETURN TO AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND FEBRUARY - Irish rap renegades KNEECAP today announce their return to New Zealand for two dates in February 2027, as part of a worldwide tour revealed to fans yeste...
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

If our politicians care about affordability, they will pass permitting reform - The #1 election issue in America this year is affordability. The #1 thing this Congress can do for affordability is pass permitting reform.
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

The National Academy of Advocacy - A growing climate scandal at the US National Academy of Sciences
JunkScience.com

Is It Time For The Nuclear Option In The AI Race? - My latest at the Daily Caller.
A Halfling's View

Reflections on Ἀθηνᾶ and the Akropolis Museum - The Deeps of Time - Part 2
McFaul's World

August 2026: Trump’s Trade Wars, Venezuela, and an Unforgettable Vacation - Reflections from a month spent at home and abroad
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Hyperscale Normalization - If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s *$70 a year*, *$18 a quarter*, or *$7 a month*, and in return you get a week...
Watts Up With That?

When Media on the Left and Right Agree That Data Center Attacks Are Unfair, Maybe We Should Listen - Data centers are facilitating the very technology that can help modernize the grid, enhance our energy security, and ensure that the U.S. – not China – i...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

The Overton Window is a Really Dumb Concept - People in our sphere like to talk about this thing called the Overton Window.
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Dumb and Dumber (Nos. 135 & 136) - Watching the Education Apocalypse in Slow Motion
Libertarian Land

Some Negatives of Inheritance Taxes - I have long argued against the estate tax and other inheritance tax policies.
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

The Internet Killed the Scene - A movement that cannot decide what it is will eventually be defined by whoever packages it best.
Ruxandra’s Substack

Curing cancer won’t redeem AI - Fears around AI are about loss of human agency and purpose. Curing cancer won’t fix that.
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #61: When Leaders Must Speak about Tragedy - Ronald Reagan’s Challenger address shows the power of saying what the moment requires
Risk & Progress

A Job-Free Future - Reframing the technological unemployment debate
Changing Lanes

Book Review: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies [repost] - The cause of AI safety deserves better than this
Anthony B. Bradley

You May Love Your Children, But Do They Feel It? - What nine peer-reviewed studies reveal about parental warmth, rejection, and child development
Anthony B. Bradley

You May Love Your Children, But Do They Feel It? - What nine peer-reviewed studies reveal about parental warmth, rejection, and child development
Doomberg

With American Characteristics - The US enters the great state-owned enterprises game.
Stats Chat

NRL Predictions for Round 27 - Team Ratings for Round 27 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ...
Liberty Scott

Fuel tax increases delayed.... but the central planning isn't going away - As many of you will know, I could write a *lot* about this, but I want to make two related points.... The land transport funding system as it stands is l...
Andrew Whiteside

Event: Welch and Rawlings – Feb 2027 - Completing a three-year odyssey of Southern Hemisphere visits, the legendary Gillian Welch and David Rawlingshead south once again this February to fulfil ...
A Havenstein Moment.

War Plan Red - It’s all one trade
Peter Boghossian

In Defense of Bad Faith - “Ask a Trans Person Anything” did not mean Mia Hughes
Tim’s Substack

Semper Fi - Why do men revere an institution that failed them?
Dramatic Pause

By the Numbers: Duncan Greive - *Duncan Greive was a writer and editor who went on to found some businesses. First The Spinoff, the Daylight, now **Lume**.* *1. How many podcasts do you...
Principled Perspectives

Data Centers -- Some Thoughts - Wow! As 2026 arrived, hardly anybody cared or even knew about data centers, it seemed. Suddenly, AI data centers dominate the news—and, unfortunately, no...
Fictionosophy

Children of Time on the Future of the Human Race - Children of Time is a fascinating work of sci-fi examining a variety of issues, including powerlust versus leadership, progress versus conflict, dogma vers...
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Fahrenheit 451 (1966) - In a future time when books are banned, a secret underground preserves the world’s literature.
The Weekly Sift

Margins of Permission - Bullies seem to have a finely tuned awareness of where the margins of permission lie as regards abuses, and choose their targets based on whose suffering w...
Chris Trotter

Haters and Wreckers. - The repellent tactics of a bigoted, elitist, ideologically-driven minority are knocking down New Zealand.
Johnny Grey Studios

Late Summer Newsletter 2026 - FT Weekend festival 5 September 2026 Dear friends If you’re in or near London this weekend how about visiting the UK’s cleverest festival, in Hampstead (of...
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: Aztecs, by Inga Clendinnen - Aztecs: An Interpretation, Inga Clendinnen (Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Eudemian Ethics I.3 - The Opinions to Consider
Market Urbanism

The 5% problem: Can human and automated drivers coexist? - Andrew Miller at Changing Lanes recently re-posted his 2025 article, “The 50% problem.” He’s positively inclined toward self-driving cars, but recognizes t...
Real Clear Energy: Video

Is the U.S. Power Grid Ready for Winter? - The former head of FERC warns that just 9 substations could trigger a nationwide blackout lasting 18 months because Large Power Transformers take up to 2 y...
One Useful Thing

Agency and Agents - From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories
The Jolly Libertarian

This is Not Real Life - Truth, the old saying goes, is stranger than fiction. Which may be why I like biographies. They're the stories of real people. They tell us about real he...
The Beauty of Things

Home-Keeping at Eagle Pond - A reflection on friendship after visiting the home of Jane Kenyon and Donald Hall
Michael Newberry, Artist

Art History as a Sandbox - Only a Handful of Monumental Art Cycles For a few years in the early 1980s, I lived in Staten Island, walking distance from the Staten Island Ferry. Whenev...
The Shrewd Artist

Art History as a Sandbox - Only a Handful of Monumental Art Cycles
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Art History as a Sandbox - Only a Handful of Monumental Art Cycles
HardmoneyJim

Where does the money in your bank account come from? We used to know the answer. - BUT THEN WE LOST THIS KNOWLEDGE, LEAVING A “BLACK HOLE” IN THE SCIENCE OF ECONOMICS
Equal to Reality

Their Phantom Liberty - If a King cannot leave, he is never free, however gilded the cage that holds him is.
O'Shannassy's Dispatches from Collapse

Once Upon a Credit Bubble In the West - What’s the Default Ideological Position On Default?
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: I Think There Is a World Market for About Five Computers - Thomas J. Watson Sr.? Thomas J. Watson Jr.? Chris Morgan? David Langford? Howard H. Aiken? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Collections of bone...
Lindsay Mitchell

Hipkins' play for the Maori seats - Yesterday Labour promised to reinstate the Maori Trades and Training Fund (MTTF) at a cost of $21 million annually. The fund was initially set up as part...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

The 7K Q&A: Kete Diplomacy, Wedding Bells, and the Mechanics of Sovereign Debt - Post Wedding & Honeymoon Recap + I answer why Countries borrow in Foreign Currency
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

Politicizing everything, accomplishing nothing - There are consequences for letting the personal get too political.
Freedom and Flourishing

Henry B. Veatch’s Neo-Aristotelian Defense of Reality, Reason, and Rights - *This is a guest essay by Dr Edward W. Younkins, Professor of Accountancy and Business at Wheeling* *University, and Executive Director of its Institu...
Thinking Directions

The Thinker Identity (Part 3) - In my article two weeks ago, I introduced the idea of the “Thinker Identity,” and I offered that a thinker develops five characteristic ways of thinkin...
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

Making Sense of Lancaster County’s Controversial Coroner - Did a newborn infant in Lancaster County die from measles? The PA Department of Health said yes. The coroner said no. Who was right?
Gale Winds

What Toilet Paper Teaches Us About Abundance - How knowledge, innovation, and freedom transformed a basic necessity.
Wildlife – PERC

Public Comment: Supporting a tiered approach to grizzly bear recovery - A tiered 4(d) rule rewards recovery progress and gives states and landowners the clarity they need to keep it going. The post Public Comment: Supporting ...
Schiffradio.com

The Bond Buybacks Just Doubled… And Now There’s a Military Option - Warsh talks tough, buybacks double, a military option surfaces, gold falls $140, and boat prices collapse 50%. The post The Bond Buybacks Just Doubled… A...
Yascha Mounk

Abigail Marsh on Psychopaths (Rerun) - Yascha Mounk and Abigail Marsh discuss how to recognize psychopathy—and what to do when you meet a psychopath.
History Reclaimed

Late-Summer 2026 History Reclaimed newsletter - Our late-summer 2026 issue takes on British empire revisionism wherever it appears: the Scots who built the empire, the myths of the Boer War, Churchill an...
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

The Discovery of the Good Life - A Case for Liberalism from What We Cannot Know
Macroscience

Pierre Azoulay on Open Science as an Economic Institution - Economics of Ideas, Science, and Innovation Lecture 4
The Future of Freedom Foundation

FFF’s Fantastic New Book - I am pleased to announce the publication of The Future of Freedom Foundation’s newest book, which is undoubtedly the finest book we have published in our...
Robert Nasir’s Joyous Newsletter

Evict Your Enemies - In which Robert shares thoughts and strategies on how to clear the road ahead ... personally and politically. Ten Steps for getting your adversaries the He...
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 525 - Making Sense of Modular - The latent economies of modular volumetric construction include bulk purchasing aligned with reliable supply chains and predictable demand, reducing w...
Knowledge Problem

The Psychology of the Democratic Individual and the Science of Association - Essay 11 in Reading Tocqueville at 250
Knowledge Problem

The Psychology of the Democratic Individual and the Science of Association - Essay 11 in Reading Tocqueville at 250
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Mumbo-jumbo and all that - The Mullahs of Mumbo-jumbo advance the cause of racist superiority
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

With Duncan Garner on the NZ Education Syetem -
PM of NZ

Timely shopping advice - *Your house isn’t the most expensive thing you’ll ever buy. Your government is. So shop around.* As various would-be thieves actively spin their lies vyi...
The Many Ways I Let You Down

Goodnight, Sweet Transvestite, and Flights of Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest - What makes Frank-N-Furter one of the most masculine characters in cinema?
Keiran Murphy (FLW Historian)

What is the oldest part of Taliesin, part 3 - Reading Time: 4 minutes Photo look (plan) southwest at the fireplace area in the Taliesin drafting studio. I took this photo in 2005. About 2 weeks ago I...
Capitalism Magazine

Jeff Bezos Earned His Amazon Fortune - The Amazon founder’s innovations save customers 22 hours a year on average, giving them the gift of time.
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Immigrants Are 24% Less Likely to Be Disabled Than US-Born Citizens - Immigrants, legal and illegal, are less likely to be disabled at nearly every age — and even when they are, they lean on disability benefits less than US-b...
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

Immigrants Are 24% Less Likely to Be Disabled Than US-Born Citizens - Immigrants, legal and illegal, are less likely to be disabled at nearly every age — and even when they are, they lean on disability benefits less than US-b...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Tim Curry: 1946-2026 - Legendary Actor Leaves Behind Exemplary Body of Work
Muss Montessori School

Can Montessori Education Reduce Mobile Addiction in Kids? - Yes, Montessori education can help reduce mobile addiction in kids by giving them hands-on activities, independence, movement, creativity, and meaningful...
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

Vinay Interview! Telling the Truth from His Time INSIDE the FDA >> “They changed the report.” - Vinay Prasad ran the FDA center that regulates vaccines until April. In a new Reason interview he says children died of myocarditis from the COVID vaccine,...
Virginia Postrel

Don’t Just Delete This Email: How to unsubscribe - Good advice for your inbox in general even if you love my Substack!
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

The AI Illusion: America's Magic Bubble - In a lot of ways it was inevitable America and its Capital region of Israel would become the powers obsessed with Artificial Intelligence…
Conspicuous Cognition

Most Questions About AI Aren’t About AI - Why the AI revolution is a golden age for polymaths, philosophers, and moderate epistemic despair
Kiwipolitico

Some recent social media snippets (mine). - A few years ago former KP colleague Lew decamped for more fertile writing territory and to attend to more important priorities. To my surprise he began pos...
Let Grow

A “Hot Mess”of a Middle School And the Principal Who Pulled Off an Attendance Miracle - [image: LG_BLOG_image_middle School Mess] Nine years ago, Liberty Middle School in Pickens County, South Carolina, had so many kids held back year after ye...
On Substack

New on Substack: Creator match, audience-specific content blocks, global reply rules, advanced podcast transcript editing, and more - Reach new subscribers, deepen relationships with the ones you have, and build a more sustainable business around your work
Maximum Progress

Contra Weisenthal on Highways - Does it matter whether building more houses lowers prices not?
The Grumpy Economist

French Fables - An interesting brouhaha has broken out in France, lately famous for reinvigorating the idea of wealth taxes: The French government should default on (“annu...
Science+Story

The Missing Ingredient in Expert Trust - Your public value as an expert increasingly lies in helping people make good decisions. Especially when nobody knows the answer.
Reason for Living

The Object of Our Emotions Is Not Necessarily Their Cause - To be objective about our emotions and overcome bouts of depression, anger, or indulgence, it can help to focus on the state we’re in and not assume the ob...
Institute of Economic Affairs

Britain spends more on planning applications than Japan spends on extending high-speed railways through earthquake-prone mountains. - Britain builds high-speed rail at almost six times the cost of Japan, new IEA analysis finds Every French city with … Continue reading "Britain spends mo...
Existential Crunch

No place to hide? - Regional Resilience and Vulnerability to Global Catastrophic Risk
A life just as ordinary

The Ace of Lace - Ace of Lace If you’ve spent any time sitting at a high table in a good local taproom over the last few years, staring down at an empty Nonic pint glass, yo...
Not On Your Team, But Always Fair

Why left-progressives adopt appalling people as moral mascots - They make for stronger signals of shared moral heroism
Happy Future

The New Artillery Shell Factory is a Dud - “It was just a bunch of guys taking turns going at the machine with a sledgehammer every night.”
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

Saving Us from Government Intrusion Would Make the SAVE Act Redundant - In a truly free society, voting would be a minor administrative event, not a matter of life and death.
Wright in Racine

Chasing a Racine Wright Rainbow - © Mark Hertzberg (2026) The sun was shining when we went to dinner with our grandchildren. It was sunny when we left the restaurant but the pavement and th...
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Mortal Limits, Human Minds - Aristotle knew what the LLMs don’t.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

Mortal Limits, Human Minds - Aristotle knew what the LLMs don’t.
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

The Great Election Re-Gifting - How yesterday’s government commitments become tomorrow’s election promises
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

My Appearance on Rita Panahi’s Show - Discussing my upcoming documentary “The Illegal Highways”
The Intrinsic Perspective

Buying a house as a mid-century modern midwit - 2.8%—that’s the mortgage rate I just gave up.
Asimov’s Addendum

When Smaller Models Win - Chess, LoRA, and the case for specialized AI
Africa-Israel Weekly

Qatar is Targeting the Black Community: Why? And why now? - Check out our articles to learn more:
Private Lands – PERC

A Long Shadow - For a century, one disease has hung like a cloud over the West’s most iconic animal. A Colorado lab, a federal rule change, and a shift in science are be...
Tribes – PERC

Reclaiming Bison on Fort Peck - The reservation in northeastern Montana built one of the largest tribal bison herds in the country—and demonstrated what tribal stewardship can achieve ...
The Trumpland Diary

𝐈 𝐖atched 𝐓he Patriot Games So You Don’t Have To - America's best white home schoolers competed at field day activities to see who gets a higher education.
Cranmer’s Substack

COVID: OFF-LABEL - Medsafe approved Pfizer’s booster at six months. New Zealand moved to five, then to four, and finally, three. The more interesting story is how the law cha...
Jensen's Economic, Precious Metals, & Markets Newsletter

Gold And Silver Led The Current Run In Interest Rates; Diesel Shortage Hits Markets; Trump Calls UAE After Its Gold Transfer To Iran - An interesting pattern has been developing since 2018.
Harry’s Substack

Claude is now smarter than me - An amazing conversation with my favorite AI agent
Interintellect

Can religion save us from ennui? TS Eliot's The Cocktail Party: Online play-reading on November 1. - Sign up to choose a role.
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

Three Years Later - On the approaching anniversary of my father's death
Mike’s Substack

Two Experiments, One Law - Rome, 1907. Montreal, 1954. Neither laboratory knew about the other. They read the same law from opposite directions.
Mike’s Substack

Two Experiments, One Law - Rome, 1907. Montreal, 1954. Neither laboratory knew about the other. They read the same law from opposite directions.
Toppermost

Therapy? - It’s a given that even someone who has never listened to Therapy? has heard Screamager... The post Therapy? appeared first on Toppermost.
Outliving Iran

Outliving Iran: A Memoir (Part 2) - The significance of a car, dial-up, and tear gas
Theatreview

Comment re Public Service Announcements: Election Meltdown - Message from Circa:Public Service Announcements: Election MeltdownMore shows added – on now until 5 September! Coup schmoo!The real news is that Public S...
HBL

One contradiction in the fear of laissez-faire - Here’s one contradiction—of countless such—in the fear of unregulated markets. The contradiction is implicit in the oft-heard claim that the financial cris...
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Does Early Access to Social Media Harm Later Learning? New Evidence from Italy - Students who got social media accounts by age 12 progressed less than those who waited until age 14
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (August 2026) - The UK's resilience action plan and national risk register, and new polling on public perceptions of global threats
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

Is China a geopolitical titan or a financial house of cards? - August 8, 2026
Too Clever By Half

Google's unprecedented lapse - On August 3, a bug in Google's automated security system disabled hundreds, and probably thousands, of Blogger blogs. ¶ [image: A classical portrait of ...
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

"Pruning Season" - A poem contemplating impermanence, and a book announcement
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Britannia’s Rules - We’re often asked what entrepreneurs in our network think about the country. The truth is, it’s been hard to give a precise answer. Until now. This week ...
Precise Thinking

The Jews and Antisemitism - In May of 1953, two first-grade girls were waiting for a school bus at the corner of a quiet suburban street.
Conflicted

New project: Real In Its Consequences - Who controls how we define mental illness?
The New Era

Morphing - When institutions rely on predefined indicators, dashboards, and standardized categories, they begin to treat these tools as reality itself.
Science of Doom

The Last 0.2%: Solar, Batteries and the Cost of Eliminating Gas - A ten-year thought experiment across South Australia, Victoria and NSW
Dead Language Society

Medieval beach reads - How to read Middle English and Scots texts in the original
Stu-Topia

Willingly - Stuart K. Hayashi I keep hearing from Sam Harris fans that neuroscience proves that humans don’t have free will. They want me to mull over their case and c...
Leport’s Substack

Thank You for an Incredible Launch! - Your support means the world. Here's where you can find me next.
Why not reason?

Learning to Meet People Where They Are - Lots of group chats I am part of consist of Brazilian people.
Croaking Cassandra

Yet more “pretty (il)legal” stuff from the Reserve Bank - A month or so ago the Reserve Bank announced the appointment of a new Assistant Governor (a deputy chief executive) responsible for its financial stability...
Richard Werner’s Substack

Yen Turning Point - While official intervention captures the headlines, the credit creation fundamentals are the strongest indication of a change in direction of the yen again...
Don't Let It Go

The Sunshine Redistribution Act - On July 14, the House of Representatives passed the Sunshine Protection Act (“SPA”) by a vote of 308 to 117. The bill would abolish the twice-yearly clock ...
What You Can Do For Liberty

UPDATE: Top 25 Liberty Events and Conferences in 2026-2027 - Want to make new friends, learn about liberty, and network with pro-liberty thinkers?
News - Democracy Action

SUBMISSION ON THE INDIA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL - *To:* Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee *Submitted by:* Democracy Action Inc. PO Box 87141 Meadowbank 1742
Statecraft

The James C. Scott Memorial Episode - “Scott, by God, that man has earned it.”
The Enlightened Examiner

No. 1 - Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
The Enlightened Examiner

No. 1 - Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
In Due Course

On becoming less full of shit - This post is inspired by a series of articles that Dan Williams wrote on the subject of “becoming less left-wing.” While I found that series interesting in...
Africa’s Bright Future

Your Favorite Regulation Is Probably Hurting You - Most people think regulations protect the poor. The data says the opposite.
Houston Strategies

High Speed Rail Update: the alignment in northwest Harris County is (unofficially) DEAD, but could Terafab make a Robotaxi project possible? - Updated August 6 with new information about Terafab, and some speculation about another possible outcome for the corridor (see Terafab section). Additional...
Hunters and Anglers – PERC

In Roosevelt’s Arena - PERC joins America's conservation leaders at the grand opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library The post In Roosevelt’s Arena appeared firs...
Schreibmaschiner (David McLoughlin)

Bill Birch saved my life, and other reminiscences of an important NZ politician’s career - Bill Birch, who died on Friday, probably saved my life. It was 1983. He was Minister of Energy in Rob Muldoon’s National Party government and as such had o...
Building the Builders

Gena Gorlin and Linda Mann on building a life of art - A recording from Dr. Gena Gorlin's live video
Greg Mankiw's Blog

Thank you, British Academy - I am deeply honored to be named an International Fellow of the British Academy.
Roberto’s Substack

Religion, Power, and Liberty: When Faith Seeks to Rule - The steadfast gaze of one who refuses to be silenced before the whip: the beauty and pride of Parastoo Ahmadi are the very translation of resistance agains...
Keith Weiner Economics

The Declared Principle of America - With the recent 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence, I thought it was appropriate to write about the key idea, the Declared Princ...
RenewNZ

Definition of Woman and Man Bill – a return to Truth - It should never have come to this. Our MPs debating the definition of a man or a woman. But the fact that it has, means we have arrived at a critical infle...
Austin Vernon's Substack

How Ukraine Built a War Fighting State - The engine is revving after years of war.
Freethink Media

Stories of American exit in the nation's 250th year - Special Issue Release: The Opt-Out Nation
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Twisted Teens: Florida Water Blues - Way back in 1963 in his liner notes to the Beatles' debut album Please Please Me, the PR man/reviewer Tony Barrow opened his extensive liner essay with “...
Matua Kahurangi

Winston Peters announces citizens-only voting policy - New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, today in Warkworth, has unveiled a strong new policy to restore integrity to the country’s electoral system.
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

From Fireworks to Flying Flags - And Other Symbols of Liberty
Splitting Headache

How skills, agents, and other AI features work - It’s prompts all the way down
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

mudslide - on getting swept up in other people's concerns
Andrew Bernstein

Video: A Case Against Determinism-with Professor Andrew Bernstein and James Valliant -
Butterpaper

The cars that ate Vivian Street - part 1 - Wellington City boasts an enviable location, nestled tightly around a sheltered port on a harbour that curls in from the ocean. It’s a dense and lively c...
Gross Output

Good Sign: Business Spending is Finally Making a Comeback! - “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...
The Organon Architecture Blog

Project: 'Rural' Renovation, 2012 - I've been asked again about old projects. About which I really should talk more. Here's one that was slightly unusual, renovation of a large old colonial ...
The New Atlantis

AI’s Builders Are Both Arrogant and Afraid - The builders of the terrible, doomed tower of Babel sought to reach the sky to make a name for themselves. Was their sin one of overweening ambition? In ...
Roots of Progress

Progress in Medicine, the Roots of Progress Institute’s new summer career exploration program, has started - 30 high school students are learning about the history and future of medicine, biotech, health Starting June 15th, the Roots of Progress team brought tog...
Flying Out

Hotter Than July (Secondhand Vinyl LP) - *Vendor: *SECONDHAND *Type: *STEVIE WONDER *Price: * 20.00 Artist: Stevie Wonder Year: 1980 Genre: Funk / Soul Sub-Genre: Soul, Disco Tracklist: A1. Di...
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

Five Ideas to Survive a Hot, Dry Summer - The West is dry, overdue for fire, and running low on water. The institutions meant to help are struggling to keep up. Here's where to start. The post Fi...
Eat More Electrons

More evidence won’t save development - We don’t need more studies. We need a new coalition rebuilt on political priorities
Earthly Idealism

The Effective Egoist Case for Freedom - It is striking, sad, and not at all surprising how little interest there is in celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Anti-Dismal

Coase versus Demsetz on the neoclassical model - In the modern, Coaseian-inspired view of the neoclassical model, there are no firms. Harold Demsetz sums up the Coasian view of the neoclassical model succ...
Asymmetric Information

2B RED: On the matter of maps🍋 - Learning from your atlas
Jackson Upmann

How Traveling Raised My Confidence (And Can Raise Yours Too) - Time to get uncomfortable
Competitive Enterprise Institute

AICOA’s heavy-handed approach would harm consumers, stifle innovation, and degrade security and privacy - Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) re-introduced a modified version of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), w...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

AICOA’s heavy-handed approach would harm consumers, stifle innovation, and degrade security and privacy - Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) re-introduced a modified version of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), w...
Kibao

Kenya Wants to Sell Your Data. But It’s Complicated. - The headline is scarier than the policy. The policy is still worth worrying about.
misfits' architecture

Relationship Issues - We humans aren’t good at imagining things outside our experience so it’s only human that we’ve now gone and built this thing called AI that’s not good at i...
The Realization of Wholeness

Varieties of Dualism, Part Five - "I am my feelings"
Martini Mandate

Teetotallers and the Decline of Human Civilisation. - Alcohol is having its tobacco moment. Young people are going off it, and a growing chorus of busybodies would like the rest of us to give it up completel...
round houses

utopian usonia - Beautiful tour of the Bertha & Sol Friedman Residence in the Usonia community of Pleasantville, NY, narrated by the owner of the house, Brian Renz. The hou...
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Can AI Be The Thing That Finally Aligns Humanity? - Getting AI to do what we want is the easy part. The real challenge is figuring out what we actually want in the first place.
Spiked Online

Summer Appeal Donation – Pint Glass Offer - The post Summer Appeal Donation – Pint Glass Offer appeared first on spiked.
Classical Compass Rose

The Practice of Integrated Human Attention - The Benedictine Rule and the hesychast tradition of Mount Athos are the most rigorously tested models of integrated attention ever developed. What might we...
The Kerrant

Still Performing: Jim Henson, Kyle Busch, and the Danger of Powering Through - Jim Henson and Kyle Busch lived in different worlds, but their deaths share a haunting pattern: two elite performers, still creating and competing, appar...
Note to Noteworthy

What Spirituality Really Means - Is spirituality about “God” or something else?
Yes In Our Backyards

The “Great Upzoning” of New Zealand’s cities, in two charts - Taking stock of 15 years of remarkable progress
Syncretica

Read 'Em and Weep: Australian Power Edition - batteries and renewables make prices go down in practice and theory
Craig Biddle

Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles - The post Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles appeared first on Craig Biddle.
Craig Biddle

Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles - The post Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles appeared first on Craig Biddle.
A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

No, native schools did not ban te reo - While considering Elizabeth Rata's recent Research Report into the History of New Zealand Education -- which I recommend, by the way -- I remembered a l...
The Claude Megson blog

INTERVIEW: "Celebrating the work of New Zealand architect, Claude Megson" - Great to see so many at the launch last week of Giles Reid's and Jackie Meiring's book on Claude Megson -- it was literally standing room only! (I could ...
What's New Under the Sun

A little progress is worth a trillion dollars - Estimating the value of progress with a rough calculation and a new web tool
Barrie Saunders

TVNZ – a reassessment - Apart from 7 years abroad I have grown up with TVNZ’s channel one and was privileged to serve six years on its board – 2011 to 2017 Up until recently I ret...
Fizzifood

Fragrant Lamb & Coconut Curry - Jonny – this one’s for you! I love a good butter chicken (not that sickeningly sweet version – I’m talking about the deeply aromatic and creamy type). Some...
Notes On Liberty

Rising Sun Over the Arctic: Japan’s Arctic Journey from North Pacific Hegemon to Democratic Polar Partner - by Barry Scott Zellen
First Stones NewsLetter

PsycHHology Engineering: What is Narcissism? Narcissism—as used in modern day cultural wars--is two things: - (1) replacement mental-illness du jour for Contemporary (1 'h) psychology's most recent mental-illness-bipolar-disorder-soup and (2) a euphemism for Selfis...
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: Why Scotland Succeeded - It was capital, not education
Pablo’s Translations

Los científicos analizan la estabilidad del universo tras la desaparición de Chuck Norris - Expertos analizan si las leyes de la física y la estabilidad del universo cambiarán tras la muerte de Chuck Norris y el fin de sus "Condiciones". ¡Descúbrelo!
The Scholar's Stage

China and the Future of Science - [The following post is a polished transcript of a speech I recently gave to a private gathering of American technologists.
Seiler on Science

Teaching Physics Inductively - James Ellias’s Inductive Summary of Physics
Democracy Project

Geoffrey Miller: New Zealand’s next steps as Middle East war escalates - New Zealand is once again feeling the fallout of a geopolitical crisis. With a de facto blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in place, oil prices soared past t...
The Prophet of Causation

A Morality of Choice - There is a great deal of work left to do to turn the completed draft of The Prophet of Causation into a published book, including sorting through all the t...
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”…
Objective Standard Institute

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

On Mediocrity - One of the harshest words in my vocabulary is "mediocre". Let me tell you what I mean by it.
Mises Wiki - Recent changes [en]

W - Kanopi deleted page W Removing all content created by Kapitalizt
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.
Forbidden Science

Why I am suing Texas Tech - And how you can help
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...
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...
Austrian Economics Newsletter

Money And Collateral - Roasted Barley Is No Substitute For Coffee!
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!)
Boom (UK)

How South Korea's job market motivates intensive parenting - A new article in Works in Progress & some extra context
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...
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!
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...
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...
The Truth Fairy

When Your Child is Sick - (And: Come See Me This Thursday, October 16, in Beverly Hills!)
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 ...
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.
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
A Force for Good | How economics, morality, and markets combine

Tải App 33win – Lợi Ích Tuyệt Vời Khi Tải App - Tải app 33win chính là lựa chọn tối ưu dành cho những ai muốn tham gia giải trí mọi lúc, mọi nơi. Trong bài viết này, chúng tôi sẽ hướng dẫn chi tiết cách ...
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.
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
thesecondrenaissance

Finding Meaning and Purpose in a Godless Universe - In the 1880s, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was at his intellectual peak.
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...
647 Reasons Why

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

14 Practical steps to improve Cash Flow - A positive cash flow keeps the heart of any business pumping, but a negative cash flow will eventually cause the business to fail. A growing business may...
from FEE

Why a Free Society Cannot Transform Wishes into Rights - Only by defending voluntary arrangements, respecting one another’s self-ownership, can we achieve positive progress.
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: […]
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

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Thursday, 6 December 2007

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