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Mises Wire

Surprise, Surprise. Government Capital Stock Is Deteriorating - Despite the eternal promises of members of Congress, government office space is rapidly deteriorating. Unfortunately, Congress has no plans to deal with th...
The Inquiring Mind

Ballykissangel – #6 – S01E06 – Missing You Already -
The Daily Sceptic

Defence Black Hole Triples to £15 Billion - The defence spending black hole facing Andy Burnham has tripled to £15 billion after Downing Street admitted it had not yet identified the cuts needed to...
The Cobden Centre

Speech in Iceland “The Rise and Fall of Civilisations” - I recently gave this speech in Iceland on the rise and fall of civilisations. In this lecture, I talk through different theories of the...
GeekPress

Hsieh Forbes Column: "Midjourney's Whole Body Ultrasound System—A Radiologist's Thoughts" - *My latest Forbes* is out: "Midjourney's Whole Body Ultrasound System -- A Radiologist's Thoughts"
Tim Worstall

Well, yes, but….. - OK, one answer is why the hell doesn’t this already happen? All foreign criminals face deportation Home Office to expand removal orders beyond high-level...
Flashbak

Johnny Rotten in Jamaica, 1978 - ‘First thing that happened at the airport was this group of Rastas saw us and they were, like ’hey Johnny Rotten mon! God save the Queen!’. And we looked...
Quotulatiousness

PBS-1 Soviet AK Silencer (the Original, not the Dead Air One) - Forgotten Weapons Published 13 Feb 2026 The Soviet Union had made fairly extensive use of silencers on Mosin Nagant rifles during World War Two, as tools f...
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Trump Gets a Lesson in Americanism from the Supreme Court -
No Right Turn

Climate Change: Overdoing it? - Climate change is here, causing increasingly severe weather. In April, Wellington was flooded by extreme rainfall, making 40 homes uninhabitable and killin...
The Double Standard

Daily review 02/07/2026 - Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the P...
Marginal Revolution

Emergent Ventures India, 17th cohort - This is all from Shruti: Aryamman Bhatia is part of the team building HackerFab IITB, an open-source student-built chip microfabrication lab. He received...
ArchDaily

Concrete Memory: 12 Postwar Monuments Across Eastern Europe - A monument is usually the most conservative building a state will commission. It is expected to stabilize memory, to make history legible, and to give pu...
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Adultification – the process or bias where children are treated, perceived, or expected to act as if they are adults; the process or bias where children ar...
Techdirt

No, Tim Sweeney, Valve Isn’t ‘Irresponsible’ For Having An AI Disclosure Tag On Games - There are bad takes on AI, and then there are bad takes on AI. Some of you think my takes on the use of AI in gaming are bad. Cool, love you, kiss kiss. I ...
No Minister

Thursday’s Quick Hits - ==================== Bringing The Heat – American Style The 1930’s were a very hot time in the USA, as was the late 19th century. But to anybody who has ev...
Dramatic Pause

A Response: Dangerous Goods - *A response to Dangerous Goods, the centrepiece of the second week of the Auckland Live Cabaret Festival, and potentially the highlight of the whole fest...
The Daily Doom

AMERIKA THE BOUNTIFUL: Politicians, Profiteers and Price Gougers - “These prices are ridiculous. It’s hot out, so you need to lower them. You must stop profiteering off the heat wave.” President Trump increasingly runs a...
Notes On Liberty

The Return of the State of Doom: Drone Strikes, Desperation, and Putin’s Nuclear Temptation - How Ukraine’s Successfully Waged War of Asymmetric Attrition Could Trigger Russia’s Nuclear Escalation, and Collapse the Western Order. The skies over Mosc...
Zero Hanger

The premiership Hawk who helped Rugby convert realise AFL dream - Matt Hill will make his AFL debut against Melbourne on Saturday
PM of NZ

Co-governance works in Far North. Not! - *arrangements and practices that the department itself should have managed better over a sustained period* *the review confirmed that, since at least 202...
UnHerd

How Britain became Zombieland - Decisive leadership is absent
The UnPopulist

Liberal Societies Need Grand Stories About Themselves - An interesting new book by a former Economist writer says that would jolt individuals out of their ennui
Slow Boring

Congress waits, cities experiment - Trump leaves a bipartisan housing bill unsigned while cities take matters into their own hands.
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

OPEN MIC – THURSDAY 2nd JULY 2026 - FACT OF THE DAY: A sloth’s digestive system is so slow that it takes up to two weeks to fully...
Andrew Whiteside

Intervew: Alison Bruce on Macbeth - Alison Bruce is a New Zealand actor famous for many TV Film and Theatre roles – In July 2026 she stars in Auckland Theatre Company’s Macbeth as Lennox. In ...
Futurism

“Televised Nervous Breakdown”: CEO of Palantir Suffers a Bit of a Meltdown During Live Interview - "This is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me!" The post “Televised Nervous Breakdown”: CEO of Palantir Suffers a Bit of a M...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

They’ve Forgotten How Hot It Was in The Past! - By Paul Homewood A relevant Facebook post by Joe Bastardi: https://www.facebook.com/joe.bastardi.77/posts/pfbid0fXFUbdtF6pCe6PQfNBtkBtREBRS2CySSt6BMub74ieUW...
The Breakthrough Journal

From Paper to Real-Life Reactors: The Holistic View of the Reactor Pilot Program - 250 years later, the American nuclear experiment continues
Living Resources Center

“Dr. Hurd for President!” - “Dr. Hurd for President!” — a satisfied Dr. Hurd Digest reader The post “Dr. Hurd for President!” appeared first on Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D. | Living Resou...
A Havenstein Moment.

Free markets where there are losses? - Hello and I am all colours, Sam.
Doug Casey's International Man

Doug Casey on the Private Equity Takeover Nobody Is Talking About - Private equity is turning Main Street businesses into financial assets, creating new risks for investors, customers, employees, and local communities. T...
The Integrity Institute

News Briefing: 2 July 2026 - OMBUDSMAN RULING: PM’S OFFICE AND CLIMATE LOBBYING
The Daily Economy

The Founders Wouldn’t Back a ‘Billionaire Tax’ -
Persuasion

The Supreme Court Isn’t Trump’s Lackey - Progressives advocating radical measures like court packing need to think again.
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

When Physics Meets Advocacy: Ellenbogen’s Take on Advocate’s Heat Pump Plan - Heat pumps are the central building-electrification technology in New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (Climate Act) transition plans...
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

Zohran Mamdani and the Remaking of American Politics - Preorder my book, out in October
Breaking Views

Ryan Bridge: Should we care what the IMF thinks? - Don't you find it annoying when some economist or think tank or some 'group' comes to our country and tells us what they think we need to do to make it bet...
Why not reason?

The Road to Self-Reliance - Children cry because it is the only way they know how to get their needs met.
American Energy Alliance

The Unregulated Podcast #278: Let Them Eat Cold Soup - On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the leftward lurch of Democrat primaries across the country, Republican’s od...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

Healing Sounds Are the Medical Miracle of the 21st Century - It sounds like sci-fi, but it's all coming true.
Reason Foundation

Webinar: Public pension systems investing in crypto - A recent Reason Foundation webinar explored how public pension systems should evaluate cryptocurrency investments. The post Webinar: Public pension syste...
Official Blog

Sören de Stoker – Geocache of the week - Traditional GC9QV9P by CowboYvar Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 1.5 Location: Zuid-Holland, Netherlands N 51° 51.480′ E 004° 23.464′ At first glance, Sören de St...
Real Clear Energy

Oil Prices Falling - Sam Meredith, CNBC
IPWatchdog Articles

Reforming 35 U.S.C. § 132(a): Why New Matter Amendments Shouldn’t Require a New Application - Most patent attorneys know the Jerome Lemelson story—the prolific inventor whose aggressive use of continuation and continuation-in-part applications res...
Energy Transition Absurdities

Shell LNG Outlook 2026: The Hormuz Shock And The Coming Supply Crunch - The new Shell LNG Outlook 2026 published on June 30 carries a clear message: The world’s current energy realities dictate that reliable energy infrastructu...
Conversable Economist

Interview with Mervyn King: All Things Monetary Policy - Christopher Jeffrey interviews “Mervyn King on his career and big ‘mistakes.’” The subtitle reads: “The former BoE governor speaks with Christopher Jeffe...
Paul Wells

Not just the next singer - At Montreal's jazz festival, adventures in listening
Gale Winds

Time Pricing the 4th of July Cookout - Independence and abundance.
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Public’s Repudiation Of Woke Radicalism Drives Democrats’ Socialist Turn - Deliberate deception, excess of college grads, and the collapse of the Left's core agenda are all playing a role
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Galt’s Gulch 2026, San Diego - Action shot from my talk at the Galt’s Gulch event in San Diego: More event coverage here:
Why Evolution Is True

Supreme Court upholds ban on trans-identified men participating in sports in public schools - In a decision split along ideological lines yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on trans-identified boys and men competing in girl’s an...
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

From Fireworks to Flying Flags - And Other Symbols of Liberty
Curbed - All

The Playboy Illustrator’s Spread at the Hotel des Artistes - The late LeRoy Neiman once kept nine apartments at the co-op on West 67th. His last four are now for sale.
Kunstler

KunstlerCast_446 — Mel K on the Infiltration and Betrayal of America - Mel K is an investigative writer, host, and producer.
The War on Prices

The Economics of Sector-Specific Minimum Wages - State and local governments are increasingly turning to sector-specific minimum wages.
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

State of the Republic - Our literal in-house ROCK STAR, Tal Bachman, hosted Live Around the Planet today. The show began with what the U.S. (and President) should be doing to solv...
Energy in Depth

New Jersey’s $50 Billion Climate Superfund Bill Stalls as Democrats, Labor Raise Red Flags - The climate superfund campaign, already reeling from failures in states around the country this year, just hit another wall in New Jersey. After weeks of...
Dead Language Society

The long shadow of the Celtic languages - Everything we can learn from the word ‘rich’
The Free Press

This Week in American History: The Man Who Argued Against Independence - Two hundred fifty years ago this week, John Dickinson made the best case against independence. Then he led troops to defend it.
Institute for Energy Research

Weather Conditions Affect Renewable Energy Output - When there is less sun and less wind, solar and wind power output will drop. The same is true of… The post Weather Conditions Affect Renewable Energy Out...
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Trump Violated the Constitution By Trying to Deport US-Born Americans - It's another example of the unconstitutional mass deportation agenda.
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

Trump Violated the Constitution By Trying to Deport US-Born Americans - It's another example of the unconstitutional mass deportation agenda.
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☕️ A Simple Stoic Morning Practice - Not a perfect routine, just a better beginning.
ChinaTalk

Taiwan's War on Renewables - The Political Economy of Energy Poverty
Law & Liberty

Year 251 - The great experiment before us now is an experiment in the possibility of cultural recovery.
The Logical Place

Against legalising heroin injecting rooms - The arguments against legalised heroin injecting rooms are not all the same. Some are moral or legal objections; others are practical objections about loca...
The Whakataki Times

Local Man Accepts Community Service Award For Using Social Media To Point Out “AI Slop” - MORE SLOP I SEE The post Local Man Accepts Community Service Award For Using Social Media To Point Out “AI Slop” appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
Existential Crunch

How much do we actually know about AMOC collapse? - Exploring uncertain timelines and consequences
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Posts on the Declaration of Independence & major anniversaries - On the context, the importance, and the uniqueness of the Declaration of Independence.
Hoover institution Commentary

Choosing Freedom -
Mises Institute Blog

The Birthright Citizenship Ruling Will Create More Conflict over Immigration - This decision—as with birthright citizenship in general—will increase political conflict over the presence of foreign nationals—both legal and illegal—with...
American Institute of Economic Research

Revolutions Worlds Apart: Why America Chose Liberty and France Chose Terror - Why did the American Revolution succeed while the French Revolution failed? It’s an excellent question that comes up almost every time anyone lectures on...
Cremieux Recueil

Will Making Your Kids Tall Shorten Their Lives? - Bonus: How to get human growth hormone (HGH) for cheap
Watts Up With That?

In France, The Government Tries to Prevent the People From Getting Air Conditioning - Somehow the Left has gone from being the advocate of the working class, to seeking to punish the working class. Why, I cannot explain. The post In France...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

Industrial Sovereignty Is a Choice - Attending the recent Reindustrialize Summit in Detroit made me more optimistic about American industry than I have been in years. The backdrop was fitting:...
Point of Order

Oops – Maipi-Clarke corrects what she boasted about her interest in corrections and blames a “wording error” - Bob Edlin writes – Māori Party firebrand Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke, responsible for “The Haka Heard Around The World”, perhaps finds it challenging to com...
Astral Codex Ten

Chip Off The Old Block - ...
Kiwiblog

Finally they admit there is a problem - Otago Public Health academics write: Estimates of illicit tobacco use in Aotearoa New Zealand differ sharply. Although tobacco industry-funded studies su...
The Tracinski Letter

So Much for Originalism - A News Link Round-Up
The Common Reader

The 2026 Hyperstition Unslop AI fiction writing contest - You can find the winner and runners-up here. I am just starting to read the results. My impression so far is that this is not slop, but it’s also not espec...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

Remember This When They Try To Push More Masks: One Of The Most Prominent Pro-Mask Mandate Studies Was A Misleading Disaster - The CDC relied on bad science to promote its policies, as usual
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Typewriters and fertility - Workplace technological changes were instrumental in creating new tasks for women over the last century. This paper studies the adoption of the typewriter ...
One Useful Thing

The twilight of the chatbots - How work changes along the exponential
The Footy Almanac

Almanac Life: Tyrendarra - Pestwac reflects on a time when the geology and geomorphology of south-western Victoria dominated his working life. As is often the case in his stories, ra...
Tross Publishing

SHOULD TAXPAYERS PAY FOR BUILDING A CHURCH? - By John McLean In the wake of the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, which ended once and for all the centuries old French threat to England, the British Governmen...
Retraction Watch

Editors of Courant math journal to leave Wiley, establish new roots with independent publisher - Editors of a journal run by a prestigious math institute will close up shop and form a new journal with an independent publisher, with one editor citing Wi...
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day – The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism - “We have many migrants who make a deeply valuable contribution to our country, including in our healthcare system and hospitality sector and we depend on...
Matua Kahurangi

Brian Tamaki exposed ACT's free speech problem - Most people know how I voted at the last election.
Truth on the Market

Brussels Goes Gate-Hunting: AWS, Azure, and the DMA’s Cloud Problem - The European Commission wants to treat cloud computing as a gatekeeper market. That is the wrong diagnosis, and it would lead to the wrong cure. The Comm...
The Curmudgeon

Not Very Sporting - Once more the forces of Western civilisation have been outsubtled by the devious cunning of the Oriental mind. According to a report by a "geopolitical con...
JoNova

Bafflement?! Germany, a global leader in renewables but has one of the highest EU electricity prices - Germany had nuclear power for 66 years | Kühltürme AKW in Phillipsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany By Fischer.H By Jo Nova If renewables are expensive, i...
Skeptic

The Terrorist in the Brain - What can Robin Williams and Bruce Willis teach us about dementia? This article explores the complex biological realities of brain diseases, controversies i...
A Halfling's View

Skynet on the Brain - How an Old Literary Fear and a 1984 Blockbuster Are Quietly Writing Our AI Policy
Offsetting Behaviour

Refugee sponsorship - About a decade ago, Canada's Counsellor for Immigration at the High Commission in Canberra came to Wellington to explain how Canada's refugee sponsorship...
Israel Institute of NZ

Before “Never Again” - Israel is not the product of the Holocaust, but the restoration of an indigenous people — and misreading that history reshapes the moral language of our ti...
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

Britain's Labour government can be a party of growth – but not like this - CapX
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Proof Of The Maestro’s Giant Policy Error, Part 3 - Click on Title to Read
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

The Practice: The vine doesn't announce - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 5.6, in Gregory Hays' translation.
The New Era

Jamie Andrews on PCR and Fakery - Full interview coming
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

June 2026 at THB - A busy month at THB — here's what you missed
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

The AI Industry Is Losing - If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s ...
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

A Nation Hungry for Connection - There Is Hope
On Substack

Introducing country leaderboards and post translations - Users everywhere can now translate posts, and country leaderboards are available in France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the U.K.—with more coming soon
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Nazi Socialism: What's at Stake? - After getting ChatGPT to score Nazi Germany’s economic freedom, I prompted it to ponder the bigger issues. While the current version of ChatGPT is less i...
Cato at Liberty

The Controversy About the Kennedy Center - The way to avoid controversy about the Kennedy Center, therefore, is to eliminate all government involvement.
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Marcus Aurelius Was Not an Emotionless Stoic - A short excerpt from my biography on the real man behind the Meditations
Don't Let It Go

At MS NOW: “The Supreme Court stood up for privacy — but only to a point” - Why the majority in Chatrie v. United States (Fourth Amendment geofence warrant case) reached the right result for the wrong reason — and why it matters Th...
Libertarian Land

The Controversy About the Kennedy Center, - Since starting his second term, President Trump has attempted to control the Kennedy Center, including its name, board, and programming. The Kennedy Center...
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Distrust, Heat Deaths, Power Laws - Links and recommendations
Can't Get Much Higher

Punk Ladies: An Album a Day - Featuring Sleater-Kinney, The Raincoats, The Linda Lindas, and others
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Indigenous Activists Defend Progress against Western Civilization - Links, June 2026
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

Symbolic Crimes Reflect Subverted Times - Incidents at the DC Reflecting Pool, NYC Knicks Parade, Massachusetts lake, Montreal, WNBA, and another LA fire represent the absolute state of the West
Changing Lanes

Forty Per Cent More Driving - A CHANGING LANES interview with Benjamin Shiller
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

The chief things wrong with Britain today - Britain's central problems are structural and political rather than technical. The solutions to most are widely understood, but the incentives to impleme...
Anthony B. Bradley

The Last Institution That Expects Men to Grow Up - The peer-reviewed case for how the military builds leaders, citizens, and adults
Anthony B. Bradley

The Last Institution That Expects Men to Grow Up - The peer-reviewed case for how the military builds leaders, citizens, and adults
Yascha Mounk

Charles Fain Lehman on Why Cities Got Safer - Yascha Mounk and Charles Fain Lehman explore how strategic policing drove the decline in violent crime—and why Baltimore was left behind.
EconLog

1776 in the US and Latin America - We are approaching the 250th anniversary of the United States’ Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776. However, that same year carries a different...
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

AI Infrastructure Is a New Asset Class, and Washington Has Work to Do. - Capital markets have classified AI infrastructure as a distinct asset class. The policy architecture that governs it still belongs to the last industrial...
Doomberg

Peak “Not Oil” - Natural gas liquids and the war in Iran.
Brash & Mitchell

LINDSAY MITCHELL: 'Too sick to work' needs addressing - ACT announced welfare policy at the weekend. Their concern is about the growth in people who are on a benefit because they are too sick to work. Readers he...
SkyscraperCity Forum

FORTALEZA | Ivens Monumental | 174,64m | 47p | EC - *Ivens Dias Branco Condominium* *Idibra e Carlos Ott, Diagonal* *Altura:* +150 m | *Andares:* 50 | *Realização:* Idibra | *Arquitetura:* Carlos Ott Archite...
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

mudslide - on getting swept up in other people's concerns
Spiked Online

Workers must defend their right to private opinions - The post Workers must defend their right to private opinions appeared first on spiked.
The Grumpy Economist

Sluggish expectations - As part of a big revision of “Inflation”, a short book resulting from last year’s Brunner lecture, I wrote the following short section.
John D. Cook

Derivative equals inverse - Here’s kind of a strange problem with an interesting solution: find a function f such that the derivative of f equals the inverse of f for all positive x...
Stu-Topia

Stop Saying There’s No Such Thing As Originality - Stuart K. Hayashi There are many philosophic YouTube videos (including at least four TEDx Talks), putting on a pretense of profundity, saying that because ...
Quillette

How Canada Jumped the Rails on ’Gender-Affirming Care’: A Quillette Investigation - The career arc of Canadian Paediatric Society president Natasha Johnson helps explain why her country has become such an outlier in the treatment of trans-...
Stats Chat

NRL Predictions for Round 18 - Team Ratings for Round 18 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ...
Manhattan Contrarian

In France, The Government Tries To Prevent The People From Getting Air Conditioning - * A remarkable feature of governments in Europe is the extent to which they operate explicitly against the interest of their citizens and voters. * They gi...
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Eleven Sentence Essay (Essay 62) - Some nostalgia for an old style.
The Jolly Libertarian

A Book on Optimism and Abundance From an Unusual Perspective - In a recent essay I looked at Ray Kurzweil's book, *The Singularity is Nearer* and his optimistic view of the future. As I put it: Kurzweil is very optim...
Capitalism Magazine

A Declaration of Independence from Tyrannical Government - The “monkish ignorance and superstition” of today is the misplaced belief that the individual is to be sacrificed to the group, the collective, to the nati...
Chris Trotter

All Good, Sweet As: The Pakeha Guilt Conspiracy. - “Real New Zealanders” know all the words to Kumbaya – and can sing it in te reo, too!
Autonomia

This and That - Patton on war strategy and Iran Deal 2, new book reviews and interviews with Hoenig and Binswanger, marginalized dates in July, a new coordinated siege on ...
Dr Oliver Hartwich

What NZ must learn from Germany’s sudden €20 billion military meltdown - Germany's military procurement failures highlight the need for New Zealand to spend wisely on defense. [...]
Greater Auckland

Our PC120 feedback to central Local Boards - Currently, Local Boards in Auckland are being asked to consider two different options when it comes to PC120. In our view, Option B is ideal as it focuse...
Glenn’s Substack

Bringing Back the 'Spoils System?' Yes, Please. - A better name would be an "accountability system." And it's just the beginning.
Journal of Free Black Thought

The Vote My Grandfather Never Had - We must exercise the right our ancestors bled to bequeath us
Journal of Free Black Thought

The Vote My Grandfather Never Had - We must exercise the right our ancestors bled to bequeath us
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Trump v. Cook Carve-Out Leaves the Fed Above the Law - On the same morning, in two opinions both written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court tripped over itself. In *Trump v. Slaughter*, SCOTUS r...
McFaul's World

June 2026 Newsletter: Iran, Ukraine, and Lessons in Leadership - Reflections on the choices that shape American leadership abroad and at home.
FIRE

The KIDS Act would put Washington in charge of how we can communicate online - Congress’s KIDS Act would give government broad power over online speech platforms, including social media, chatbots, video games, and adult websites.
The Weekly Sift

Just Say No - If you don’t want to be prosecuted for crimes, don’t do crimes. – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, responding to Republican fears of investigations by a future De...
The Trichordist

Europe at the Crossroads: Will the Law Strengthen Authors’ Rights or Surrender the “Crown Jewels” of Human Creativity? @Helienne Lindvall’s ECSA Keynote - ECSA President Helienne Lindvall argues that Europe's AI future depends on protecting authors' rights, transparency, consent, and the value of human creati...
Uncharted Territories

When Architecture Became Self-Conscious - From Renaissance to Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, and Historicism
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Proof Of The Maestro’s Giant Policy Error, Part 3 - By the lights of the monetary Keynesians who have ruled the roost since Greenspan became addicted to the Fed’s printing presses in the 1990s, the table b...
Middle East Uncovered

Inside Baghdad's Financial Reckoning - Behind closed doors, Iraq's ruling coalition is weighing asset sales, monetary reforms, and other politically sensitive measures as mounting debt and finan...
Marcus on AI

Off for adventures - Leaving you with a couple laughs
Africa-Israel Weekly

The Black Christian Leadership Council on Israel Relations Announces Its Formation - A new collective of Black American pastors renews a century-old alliance and announces the Unfinished Business Holy Land Tour
Perennial Meditations

Seneca on Learning to Die - Dying Every Day (Dying Daily)
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

BRIEFLY NOTED: Reader Recommendations - We’ve already established that I usually don’t read the comments on these posts, because I am a weak and fallible human and thus seek to avoid “engagement”...
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

My Latest Appearance on Sky News Australia's The Media Show - L.A. Decay and ABC battling the FCC
Brownstone Institute

The NIH Emails - The NIH Emails by Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute [image: The NIH Emails] A cache of internal emails obtained from within the US National Institu...
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and a Turning Point in New Windsor - A tense confrontation in the final years of the Revolutionary War exposed the tensions and ambition that would carry Hamilton from military aide to a chief...
Sawahil

Notes on a Mauritanian Prisoner Release - A confident-seeming Mauritanian state frees some notorious accused jihadists.
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 1147 It's all about the chips. China's hydropower exceptionalism. Something for Smiley-stans. Debating the nongmin. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
The Roots of Liberty

Decluttering - George Carlin titled his 1981 album “A Place For My Stuff.” It included his now-legendary eponymous bit, in which he pointed out that a house is just a “pi...
DGMLive

Stormy Monday Selection #78 - This month Mr Stormy revisits the multitrack tapes from the League of Gentlemen sessions and brings us the isolated organ and guitar parts from Boy At Piano.
ROBERT FRIPP

Six Forms of Crimsonising - Words 45 · RF@80 Series.
The Antiplanner

Celebrating Density - An urbanist named Devon Zuegel compares an aerial photo of the city center of Siena, Italy with a Houston freeway interchange (specifically, the eastern in...
The Antiplanner

Celebrating Density - An urbanist named Devon Zuegel compares an aerial photo of the city center of Siena, Italy with a Houston freeway interchange (specifically, the eastern in...
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: Mathematics Is the Simple Bit. It’s the Stuff We Can Understand. It’s Cats That Are Complicated - John Horton Conway? Mariana Cook? Alexander Masters? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: A prominent mathematician once said something like the fo...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

Special Economic Zones Are Not Cheat Codes - Let's talk about why Special Economic Zones have the success rate of less than a coin flip
Lindsay Mitchell

TOP's Citizen's Income policy - *Source: Opportunity Tax Reset policy* Let's look at the costings first. Each Citizen's Income would be $19,400 annually. At December 2025 there were ...
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Freehearted Giving - A Discovery About Myself
AAS Economics (Frank Shostak)

Cycles & Sectors - What's Changed - Time for some adjustments?
bad cattitude

sunday meanpool - triple mean (because you people are incorrigible)
The Beauty of Things

Forest dRIVE 3 Live Event — TODAY! - Please join us online Sunday, June 28 at 7pm ET for a Thomist Reader Series event
The New York Review of Books

The Unraveling of Afghan Asylum - Afees Monsef has a grave magnetism that makes him easy to find, even in a crowd.1 We first met in the spring of 2025, at a gathering in the basement of the...
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

America at 250: The Degrowth Movement Is the Antithesis to Our Individual Rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness - We must proudly champion a vision of abundance, innovation and freedom, recognizing that human life and human flourishing is the ultimate standard of the g...
O'Shannassy's Dispatches from Collapse

The World's 2,000 Year Quest for a Unified Theory of Money - What Ancient China Discovered About Money, Markets and the State
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

From NZH: “Gap grows in maths, writing: More than 90% of poor children fall behind by Year 3” - Derek Cheng writes:
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

A, B, C, D: Four Scientists and the Anatomy of a Cover-Up - What four key figures said in private — and what they told the public — about where COVID-19 came from
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

How National lost the Conservation Bill argument - Lawyers read statutes. Voters read headlines.
Sustain What

On a Human-Heated Planet, Cut Carbon Dioxide for Long-Haul Relief and Spread A.C. Now - The U.S. is poised for a low-key version of Europe's insane heat event, but air conditioning gives a huge advantage (to those who can afford it, here or th...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

The European Commission have shut off air conditioning for employees in their Brussels headquarters, while leaving the AC on for themselves - Also open thread.
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...
Construction Physics

Reading List 06/27/26 - Trump refuses to sign a housing bill, the high cost of US-made doors, slow trucking, why we stopped making new land, and more.
Schiffradio.com

The Great Rotation Has Begun. Here’s How to Make Your Money Back - Stretch hit $71 intraday. Strategy down 85% from peak. The first lawsuit just landed. And CNBC has gone completely silent. The post The Great Rotation Ha...
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #52: One Year Down… The Conversation Continues - One year ago, I began writing these weekly Rhetoric Tips as I was preparing for the publication of Voices of Reason: Lessons for Liberty’s Leaders. My goal...
New Zealand Arts Review

Mt Eden Chamber Music Festival 2026 - John Daly-Peoples Mt Eden Chamber Music Festival Eden Arts Mt Eden Village Centre Church July 2 – 5 Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Now in its tenth year the...
JunkScience.com

Milloy talks European heat wave on FOX Business - From the June 26, 2026 episode of The Bottom Line.
Conflicted

Ouroboros - The climate movement devours itself leaving behind broken institutions
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 518 - Business models: vertically integrated - configured-to-order - The marginal application of comprehensive factory-assembled and industrialized building systems has taught us that while mass production increased e...
CO2 Coalition

Vatican Newspaper Taints ‘Encounter of Faith and Reason’ With Climate Falsehood - By Frits Byron Soepyan By reporting the sensational claims of UNICEF, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano joins in the fearmongering of climate al...
Gus Van Horn

Recipe: Pardon Me Mac and Cheese - *Editor's Note: I will blog sporadically or not at all until Tuesday, July 7 due to OCON and the upcoming holiday. I will probably continue to post daily o...
The Economic LongWave

🌊Jeremy Grantham’s Warning Is Not About AI. It Is About the End of Autumn. - 🫧The crash is already here — not because technology has failed, but because the financial system has overcapitalized the future again.
Stewart Margolis

Are We Optimizing the Right Things? - If you’ve never heard the term looksmaxxing, congratulations!
The Library of Celaeno

Nolan's Odyssey Is Not The Movie You Think It Is - The Making of a Modern Horror Masterpiece
Macroscience

Making Our Own Luck - What if we could predict transformative scientific breakthroughs before they happen?
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Lee Martin: Marlene (leemartinmusician.com) - The vinyl of this album arrived unexpectedly and came with no information about singer Lee Martin. It turns out she's South African-born from Christchurc...
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 Rebuild

Scorpions, Frogs, and Houses - Trump Detonated Housing Reform For No Good Reason
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

Rising Stars: The Red Clay Strays - The band’s foundational years offer a masterclass in independent artistry
The Works in Progress Newsletter

What's really slowing down the AI buildout - America has the electricity to power its data centers; the problem is getting it where it's needed.
Schreibmaschiner (David McLoughlin)

Culture wars spat sees Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger blocked for criticising Wikipedia - The progressive editors who control Wikipedia have blocked Larry Sanger – the online encyclopedia’s co-founder – from editing it in retaliation for him ca...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

JAMES Announce Australian and New Zealand Tour - With over 30 million albums sold across a storied career, JAMES are amongst the most commercially and artistically successful bands of their era. They re...
Freedom and Flourishing

The Architecture of Freedom: Randy Barnett’s Natural Law Case for a Free Society - *This is a guest essay by Dr Edward W. Younkins, Professor of Accountancy and Business at Wheeling University, and Executive Director of its Institute fo...
Tim’s Substack

Time Changes Everything - Except the Progressive Liberal Narrative
Too Clever By Half

The jump-break feed is best for engagement - [image: Children jumping] You've got five *feed options* in Settings: [image: A dialog box titled "Allow blog feed." "Use Jump Break" is selected.] ...
Sinification

Shao Yuqun on the Post-Summit Shift in Trump’s Taiwan Policy - "If war breaks out across the Strait because the Taiwan authorities push for 'Taiwan independence', the US will not send troops to intervene..."
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 ...
Keiran Murphy (FLW Historian)

Craziness in Frank Lloyd Wright’s life 1925-28 - Reading Time: 7 minutesFrank Lloyd Wright’s 1926 arrest in Minnesota. Photograph from Hennepin County Library. Since I mentioned it in last post, today ...
Market Urbanism

Yes, homelessness is still a housing problem (even if some homeless are from out of state) - Supporters of new housing tend to believe that high housing costs increase homelessness, because expensive cities tend to have the largest number of homele...
Greg Mankiw's Blog

The Invite - Over the past week, I have been watching some films at the Nantucket Film Festival. The best I saw was *The Invite*, a dramedy about a couple (played by ...
HardmoneyJim

Inflation Mind Tricks - THE 40-YEAR CON BEHIND THE INFLATION "NUMBER"
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

The Coalition Coffin: Where Campaign Promises Go After Election Day - Why MMP voters feel disillusioned when campaign promises enter coalition negotiations and emerge as something else entirely.
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...
Thinking Directions

The Key to Sustainable Real World Results and Other Updates - Dear Blog Readers, I’m sorry there have been so few articles coming out recently. I’m looking forward to commencing a regular writing schedule after OC...
Fictionosophy

The Challenge of Facing Reality in Endling - Endling is an interesting novel that explores the process of grappling with tragedy and portrays clearly the problems that can result when one avoids facin...
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Postmodern Marriage - The fourth in a series . . .
An Africanist Perspective

How Sahelian (and African) militaries can get better at fighting and winning wars - African states will continue to struggle against non-state armed actors unless the region’s militaries undertake significant organizational and technologic...
The Intrinsic Perspective

Screentime correlates more with kids' brains than IQ; Matt Yglesias gets Dan Dennett wrong; Why literary fiction awards keep falling for AI scams; & more - Desiderata #40
The Roots of Progress

Progress in Medicine, the Roots of Progress Institute's new summer career exploration program, started last week - 30 high school students are learning about the history and future of medicine, biotech, health
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Alan Greenspan's Legacy - The Folly of Attributing His Deleterious Actions to Objectivism or Capitalism
Liberty Scott

Has Brexit been a disaster? - It's not surprising that a decade since the UK's vote on leaving the European Union that the pro-EU media is crowing. RNZ has republished a CNN piece calle...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Killer Kitty Glitter: Warcrimes are in the Eye of the Beholder - The CatGirl Cocktail Hour Part 2: The Dumbest Evilest Thing Soldiers Will Still Probably Make
Harry’s Substack

Who is "struggling" financially? - The victims of the government's inflation
Ruxandra’s Substack

The US moves to reclaim the therapeutic pipeline - A welcome move from the FDA and HHS
The Trumpland Diary

𝐔𝐅𝐂 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝟐𝟓𝟎: “𝐀 𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞” - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞 White House Cage Fighting 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭-𝐀-𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩
Risk & Progress

Bits of Being - The search for the nature of reality
Conspicuous Cognition

How Tribes Construct Rival Realities - Henry Nowak, George Floyd, and the hidden interpretive machinery that drives political conflict.
Kiwipolitico

Media Link: “A View from Afar” on Systemic Change. - Selwyn Manning and I discussed some of the things that I have been thinking about recently in today’s podcast. I have written about these themes on these p...
Real Clear Energy: Video

LNG and Its Bright Future - ‘Power Lunch’ co-anchor and senior national correspondent Brian Sullivan sits down with Cheniere Energy CEO Jack Fusco to discuss LNG and the global energy...
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...
Wright in Racine

A Change of Landscape at SC Johnson - Photos and text © Mark Hertzberg (2026) SC Johnson is almost finished demolishing the former St. Mary’s Hospital building (1933) on their campus in Racine....
Precise Thinking

The Dogs of War - Emotion Trumps Reality
History Reclaimed

History Reclaimed Newsletter Summer 2026 - Welcome to the History Reclaimed Summer 2026 newsletter. From debunking pre-Columbian population myths to analyzing slavery in Ghana and museum restitution...
Outliving Iran

Zeus vs. The Dark Ages - How an anonymous dissident smuggled the Enlightenment into the Middle East and allowed my teenage mind to grow despite the surrounding darkness of censorsh...
HBL

The “real numbers” are intervals - I have long opposed the idea in mathematics that there exist “real numbers,” e.g., that the square root of 2 is a “real number.” Or that pi is a real numbe...
The Enlightened Examiner

Murray Rothbard, Horses, and Cows - On marginal utility and the problem of fluid units; or, how six horses become one.
The Enlightened Examiner

Murray Rothbard, Horses, and Cows - On marginal utility and the problem of fluid units; or, how six horses become one.
Eating Policy

Philanthropy’s Willie Sutton Problem - Third wave philanthropy will need to work with government, but it will also have to work ON government
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Inflation: the struggle for simplicity - Why the Reserve Bank must distinguish monetary inflation from supply shocks
Interintellect

Anna Gát: The truth about taste and AI - Reflections of a salon series we just wrapped up.
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...
Public Lands – PERC

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
Let Grow

Children, Entertain Thyselves! - [image: Blog Kids Entertain Png] Want your kids to entertain themselves? Of course you do -- so read on! This practical post comes from Laura Wyatt-Smith, ...
Theatreview

Theatre Leader Strengthens Celebration of Wellington Arts Scene - Theatre Leader Strengthens Celebration of Wellington Arts Scene Wellington Theatre Awards Trust Ngā Whakarākei O Whātaitai Appoints New Administrator WEL...
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.
Statecraft

Merit vs. Tenure: Reforming Federal Firing - ”The current rules are just so incredibly unadministerable”
Asimov’s Addendum

The Architecture of Participation: Progress at Bellagio and globally - AI Sovereignty, the Architecture of Participation, and our Rockefeller-sponsored Bellagio Convening
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Three Big Ideas #63 - 🎖️ *Philip Salter, Founder* The King’s Birthday Honours landed last week, which gives me an excuse to return to ask the same question we’ve been asking ...
Cranmer’s Substack

Sinead Boucher Buys an Event - Matthew Hooton’s appointment is not a conventional hire. That is precisely the point.
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...
Building the Builders

Agency IS a virtue, actually - The hardest part of “just doing things” is HAVING THINGS YOU WANT TO DO.
Asymmetric Information

2B RED: On the matter of maps🍋 - Learning from your atlas
In Due Course

Harari vs. Henrich - What science actually says about human evolution
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...
Toppermost

Beirut - A few days later I was playing Beirut’s 'Gulag Orkestar' on repeat ... The post Beirut appeared first on Toppermost.
Virginia Postrel

Everyday Abundance: Our history podcast is live! - The hidden histories behind everyday activities and the technologies you didn't even know were technologies.
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Episode 2 - The Collapse of Literature - Liza Libes and the Truth about Publishing
The Shrewd Artist

Little Landscape Going to a New Home in New York - Sent today, arriving Thursday, happy to send this to a forever home in New York.
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Little Landscape Going to a New Home in New York - Sent today, arriving Thursday, happy to send this to a forever home in New York.
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.
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Limbic Capitalism Has Been Driving Addiction for Hundreds of Years - Historian David Courtwright helps us understand how we got here and what’s likely to come in this chapter from The Age of Addiction.
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Will Trump Break JFK’s Agreement on Cuba? - In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union (i.e., Russia) came within an inch of all-out nuclear war with each other. To resolve the crisis,...
Reason for Living

Breaking the Loop at its Source - By getting the "loop" driving our self-destructive behaviors clearly visualized, we can get serious about breaking it. That’s the only way to make behavior...
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

President Trump’s Childhood Vaccine Schedule - Donald Trump recently issued two executive orders claiming that children in the United States are receiving too many vaccines.
Free Range Kids

“1500 Photos a Day Is Not Enough for Them” - On Twitter (forgive me!) I asked if anyone who’d been a camper back in the day wished their parents had had photos of them sent home daily, as so many ov...
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...
Equal to Reality

The beauty in the broken glass - How an Animated Musical helped me find my authentic self.
The Realization of Wholeness

Varieties of Dualism, Part Five - "I am my feelings"
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Why America can’t build the natural gas pipelines it needs — my interview with Senator Alan Armstrong - Natural gas pipelines don’t emit anything that can contaminate water. Yet the Clean Water Act lets states that dislike interstate pipelines block them for ...
Africa’s Bright Future

Why Africa Stays Poor (It's Not Colonialism) - My conversation with John Papola on Dad Saves America
Houston Strategies

Houston Metro vs. Dallas DART: Houston wins as costly light rail nearly destroys DART - Another fantastic and devastating (for DART) guest post from Oscar Slotboom.--- Updated 6/3/2026 to include the official announcement of the Dallas Stars m...
Leport’s Substack

DEFROSTED Release Date Update + New Event Date - New Date, Same Future
Robert Nasir’s Joyous Newsletter

Pride Month: Right On Target! - Life on Earth With Robert Nasir - Episode 95 - streamed live on Jun 1, 2023
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (June 2026) - The growing gap between risk and readiness
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for May, 2026: +0.53 deg. C - This month I’m adding Australia to the Global, USA48, and Canada time series plots. The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anom...
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.
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: May 2026 - It was a packed month at IFP!
Spiked Online

Summer Appeal Donation – Pint Glass Offer - The post Summer Appeal Donation – Pint Glass Offer appeared first on spiked.
Freethink Media

Why you seriously need to play more - Monthly Issue: The neuroscience and philosophy of play.
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...
Mike’s Substack

Personality Versus Academic Egalitarianism - How Today’s Schools Oppose Greatness
Mike’s Substack

Personality Versus Academic Egalitarianism - How Today’s Schools Oppose Greatness
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?
Michael Newberry, Artist

Updates on the Madonna and Child, and 2nd Edition of Evolution Through Art, ETA. - Breakdown of Some of the Processes Update on the 17th of my space series the Madonna and Child. Today I’m blocking in the figures with transparent shadows ...
American Innocence by Anna Gát

If Machines Could Talk - What LLMs still get wrong about human language -- and people.
Yes In Our Backyards

The “Great Upzoning” of New Zealand’s cities, in two charts - Taking stock of 15 years of remarkable progress
The Many Ways I Let You Down

Democracies Are Not Monasteries - Research suggests less speech means more violence. So why do those in power still want us to shut up?
Maximum Progress

The Causal Effect of Income is (Often) Zero - Evidence on the effect of income on health, education, crime, and child outcomes from lotteries and RCTs
Syncretica

Read 'Em and Weep: Australian Power Edition - batteries and renewables make prices go down in practice and theory
News - Democracy Action

Submission on India Free Trade Agreement - Submission to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee on the New Zealand–India Free Trade Agreement Opposing the inclusion of UNDRIP in the Agre...
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.
What You Can Do For Liberty

Summer Plans? The World's Largest Pro-Liberty Festival Is In July - Don't fight for liberty alone: come meet like-minded friends!
Private Lands – PERC

Reflecting on Ted Turner’s Crowded Life - A great lasting memory and a true southern gentleman, lion of conservation, and source of inspiration until the very end. The post Reflecting on Ted Turn...
Science of Doom

Tropical Cyclones: Cat 4+ Counts and the Annoying 1990 Boundary - In Recent Trends in Tropical Cyclones last year we looked at the data for 1990-2024 from IBTrACS and compared this to a paper, Trends in Global Tropical Cy...
Croaking Cassandra

A central banker’s fiction - No, this is nothing to do with (say) Neil Quigley’s months-long spin and obfuscation from last year (eg here or here). Decades ago, when the Commonwealth c...
Principled Perspectives

Re: Supreme Court Updates: Justices Further Weaken Voting Rights Act, Igniting Political Scramble by The New York Times - My FaceBook Post ANOTHER DEFEAT FOR RACISM!!! Don’t believe the NYT wording. Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 “prohibits voting practices o...
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 Future of Being Human

Why I'm falling out of love with Claude - I hope it's just a phase, but Anthropic, what have you done to my trusted AI writing companion?!
RenewNZ

The ANZACs who freed Palestine - It was 9th December 1917. The Jewish celebration of Hanukkah had just begun. It commemorated the liberation of Jerusalem from foreign occupiers in 165 BC. ...
Wildlife – PERC

Wildlife Management Must Be Driven by Science, Not Politics - PERC’s amicus brief in Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The post Wildlife Management Must Be Driven by Science, Not Poli...
Johnny Grey Studios

From tiny tots to Piedmont, via Grand Designs Live - Grand Designs Live [Sunday 3 May] Castello di Montalero cooking experience. Unfitted update. Maximalism! Food Festival in the South Downs. Grandchildren al...
Roberto’s Substack

One does not negotiate with evil. One defeats it. - The Ceasefire That Saved the Ayatollahs: How Trump, Hegseth, and the Pentagon Turned a Civilizational Victory Into a 21-Mile Strait War
Happy Future

The Trouble with Transformers - And the long slouch towards cyberpunk
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...
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

Could this be the solution to America's political divide? - How rural Oregonians are organizing for freedom of association and equal representation.
Splitting Headache

Somethings: ATMs and iPhone - Also luddism, puzzle games, and the whimsy of LinkedIn.
Notes On Liberty

Rising Sun Over the Arctic: Japan’s Arctic Journey from North Pacific Hegemon to Democratic Polar Partner - by Barry Scott Zellen
Austin Vernon's Substack

Solving the Strait of Hormuz Blockage - Markets ensure the disruption can't last more than 1-2 years.
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...
Institute of Economic Affairs

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

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

Money And Collateral - Roasted Barley Is No Substitute For Coffee!
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...
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

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

Pulling Wetlands Conservation Out of the Political Muck - Ideas for policy and market innovations that can improve wetland conservation The post Pulling Wetlands Conservation Out of the Political Muck appeared ...
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

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

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

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

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

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

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

When Your Child is Sick - (And: Come See Me This Thursday, October 16, in Beverly Hills!)
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
The Free Market Futurist

Farmville - The Autonomous Future of Agriculture
No Punches Pulled

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

February 2025 Space Stock Review - Includes Commentary on ASTS, RKLB, RDW, LUNR, PL, SPIR, SESG, and ETL
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...
Andrew Bernstein

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

We're going on hiatus - But do stick around
Reviews - 13th Floor

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

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

A Journey of Death - "When he was released ahead of schedule from his prison sentence of nearly 20 years, Jiao Zhimin was in his early forties. On his way to his father’s hou...
One Sock: Heather Roy's Blog

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

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

What is an ATAR and what does this have to do with income? - Cross-post from Substack. Look I’m from New Zealand – so when everyone around me started talking about ATARs I just smiled and nodded. In fact I probably c...
Technological Optimism with Thomas Walker-Werth

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

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

The Great Book ‘Nobody’ Will Remember - An interview with Drew Beckmeyer
The Fundy Post

Genesis -
Power + Market

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dean Preston: San Francisco's Millionaire Marxist - the card carrying dsa sf politician also happens to be a millionaire who refuses to allow more housing in the city
Uranium-238

Introduction to the Iran Nuclear Deal - Putting a price on nonproliferation
Comments on: Bert Kelly

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

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

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

It’s Crunch Time for The Daily Doom and Doom Time for The Great Recession Blog - The Great Recession Blog is officially done for good, and my writing continues on TheDailyDoom.com. This site will eventually be completely terminated. If ...
Alastair Cavendish: British Freedom

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

Woden's Day Thing: 4/26/22 - All right already
Energy – PERC

Conservatives Can Lead on Conservation and Climate Solutions - Supporting policies that leverage incentives and partnerships to protect our natural heritage should be a big part of our strategy to address environment...
Matt Ridley - Blog RSS

Who really discovered DNA's structure? Five people. - Tuesday 28th February marks the 70th anniversary of – in my view – the most important day in the entire history of science. On a fine Saturda...
Rational Optimist

Who really discovered DNA's structure? Five people. - Tuesday 28th February marks the 70th anniversary of – in my view – the most important day in the entire history of science. On a fine Saturda...
Search Results for “willey house stories” – Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

Willey House Stories Part 22: Calling the Kettle Back—Chapter 7: Repatriation - In this seven-chapter subseries of the Willey House Stories, Steve Sikora reflects on Frank Lloyd Wright’s fireplaces, their purpose, and meaning—and the...
Points of Interest

Highlighting "The Parenting Handbook" - This fall, Montessorium was lucky to bring education writer Samantha Blaisdell onto our content team. Samantha is a former teacher, trained mechanical engi...
Adam Smith’s Enlightened World

Activity: The Virtue of Beneficence - Use this quotation from Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments to discuss whether we can be forced to be generous and kind.
A gay man on gender and sexuality

What you still can't say on Twitter - Suspended for 12 hours
Anarchist History of New Zealand

1988: The Meade Report - In 1987 Labour 4.0 Prime Minister David Lange gave himself the education portfolio shortly after winning re-election that year. One of the education groups...
Master Resource

‘Greenhushing’ Joins Greenwashing (woke firms in legal peril?) - “Fear among corporate firms of being called out on misleading and or exaggerated environmental and sustainability claims is growing as regulators clamp ...
Master Resource

‘Greenhushing’ Joins Greenwashing (woke firms in legal peril?) - “Fear among corporate firms of being called out on misleading and or exaggerated environmental and sustainability claims is growing as regulators clamp ...
Consulting by RPM || Free Advice Blog

Receipts for BMS Ep 254: Kark Marx Was Kind of a Big Deal - Here is the link to my podcast critique of Phil Magness’ promotion of his paper, co-authored with Michael Makovi, on Karl Marx. In this episode I allude to...
Knowledge Problem

Knowledge Problem archive 2002-2020 - This is the archive of the Knowledge Problem blog, all 4,690 posts. The search function will help you locate posts on the various topics Mike and I wrote a...
Knowledge Problem

Knowledge Problem archive 2002-2020 - This is the archive of the Knowledge Problem blog, all 4,690 posts. The search function will help you locate posts on the various topics Mike and I wrote a...
Asian Invasion 2019

World Cup Wonderfulness - In Australia - I attended a World Cup final this weekend. No it was not the "team of $55m" wonderfulness final. It was a T20 cricket one. In Melbourne. England v P...
Cactus Kate

World Cup Wonderfulness - In Australia - I attended a World Cup final this weekend. No it was not the "team of $55m" wonderfulness final. It was a T20 cricket one. In Melbourne. England v P...
Coordination Problem

Rationalizing the Discussion on Migration and Policy - |Peter Boettke| Michael Clemens is one of the most powerful voices in the economics profession for the free flow of people throughout the world. He brings ...
Coordination Problem

Rationalizing the Discussion on Migration and Policy - |Peter Boettke| Michael Clemens is one of the most powerful voices in the economics profession for the free flow of people throughout the world. He brings ...
Bernard Darnton

Crab Nebula: the Real 4th of July Fireworks - On around the 4th of July 1054 a supernova exploded, creating the spectacular Crab Nebula. It was recorded by Chinese astronomers but was it also recorded ...
The Market Urbanism Report Blog

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

The Silver Linings of the April CPI Report - May 18, 2022 Despite persistent inflation, there are good investment opportunities ahead in several niche areas. The post The Silver Linings of the April...
Focus on Right and Wrong, Not Right and Left | SEPARATE!

Our Individual Rights Are Going Down The Bathtub Inflation Overflow Drain - I’ve recently tried to brush up on my inflation skills. Being young and ignorant the last time it seriously impacted ... Continue reading
A Lady on Fire

How to Lose - Anger is not the answer. I. Calibrating to Humanity The first company I ever started was with my partner who’s also a software engineer. We had spoken to a...
Organic Architecture + Design Archives

JOURNAL OA+D V10:N1 :: COMING SOON - $20.00 - JOURNAL OF ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN VOL. 10 / NO. 1 :: COMING SOON :: THE WORK OF MACKIE AND KAMRATH :: ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE IN TEXAS Essay by Katie P...
The 1014

Blog Number 7 - Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph...
Julian Burnside

Witness J – Another Victim of National Security’s Tightening Grip? - Too few Australians know about the case of Witness J – not to be confused with the case against Witness K and Bernard Collaery, itself a disgraceful overre...
Center for Industrial Progress

Holiday talking points, me vs. a catastrophist climate scientist - I hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend. Here’s what I’ve been up to that may be of interest. My top 6 talking points for conversations this holiday se...
Center for Industrial Progress

Holiday talking points, me vs. a catastrophist climate scientist - I hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend. Here’s what I’ve been up to that may be of interest. My top 6 talking points for conversations this holiday se...
Center for Industrial Progress

Holiday talking points, me vs. a catastrophist climate scientist - I hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend. Here’s what I’ve been up to that may be of interest. My top 6 talking points for conversations this holiday se...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
Reviving Reason

The Case for Vaccine Mandates—Refuted - Vaccination status doesn’t tell us whether a person poses a threat to others.
Armed and Dangerous

Sample post. - Checking to see if RSS works.
Catallaxy Files

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1828 – Championing Freedom

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

The Rat Cap Podcast: Episode 13 - The Rat Cap Podcast: The History of Slavery and the Western Heroes Who Abolished It (libsyn.com)Slavery has existed everywhere since the beginning of time....
No Minister

Die MSM, Die – Systemic Corruption - Die MSM, Die – Systemic Corruption
Mish Talk

The Psychology of QE is Far More Important Than the Amount of It - Let's discuss what QE really does vs the psychology of QE.
Check Your Premises

Two upcoming events. - There are two upcoming events that are likely to be of interest to Ayn Rand Society members. The first event—the one not put on by the ARS—is a panel at ne...
The New Atlantis

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

Senator Marco Rubio says business-as-usual with Beijing is “not an option” - In an exclusive interview with Kapil Komireddi, the US senator condemns the Communist Party of China as a "genocidal regime" which poses "the greatest thre...
Scott Holleran

Remember the Alamo - I first learned about the Alamo in earnest from the late John David Lewis. This Objectivist thinker and teacher demonstrated the central facts about the ba...
Comments on: Wind Turbine Noise: Real Impacts on Neighbors

By: Joshua - My home is about 4000 feet from a proposed 650 foot 5mw turbine and 7000 feet from another. Can you respond to what your recommended setbacks may be for th...
The Long Run

The launch of the new Economic History Society website – and the new home of the The Long Run blog - The Economic History Society is very happy to launch its new website as of November 2020. This site streamlines everything that the Society has to offer, i...
Urban – PERC

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

More Evidence of Buyback Failure - The Kiwi Gun Blog has been gathering as much hard data as possible to prove what a disaster the gun buy back was. Here is a classic example – The wonderful...
Stories by MIT Legatum Center on Medium

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

Staff Profiles in Courage: Ryan Mann - Staff Profiles in Courage: Ryan Mann There’s a new crew on deck at the mighty Malthouse. Old faces have left for new adventures, replaced by a new inter...
Coffee House

In Congo, the Church is doing the government’s business - Once I am sure there’s nothing going on I step inside letting the door thud shut The opening lines of…
Mencken's Ghost

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CLP Amicus Brief Gets Coverage in Law360! - Law360, a legal news site for professionals, published an article about three amicus briefs filed in United States v. Facebook. … Continue reading →
Comments on: (Expensive) markets in everything

By: Zaphod Dentbrox III PHD - You guys are a bunch of suckers for hipster creatives at an ad agency,
Travel Secrets by Shar Lemond

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

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

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

William Whewell’s “Discoverer’s Induction” (Part 4) - Previous posts: William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 1) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 2) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Ind...
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...
A Force for Good | How economics, morality, and markets combine

New Blog Location; This Page is Now Defunct - Hello. A Force for Good as permanently relocated to my personal website: www.jonmmurphy.com. Please update your bookmarks accordingly. This website will...
from FEE

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

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

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

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

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

Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home. - *Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home.* *--*Matsuo Bashō, (Japanese poet, 1644-1694) from *Oku no Hosomichi* Jack Quinan and Sandra Q....
Tibor's space

IP Anyone? - Intellectual Property Anyone? Tibor R. Machan There is a debate afoot now about whether one ever owns the likes of a novel, poem, computer game, song, arra...
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Thursday, 6 December 2007

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