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SkyscraperCity Forum

Pisa, Toscana (Italy) - Several months ago I moved from Leeds to the town of Pisa in Tuscany, Italy. I'll try to share some of the photography I've done since moving here [image: ...
Kiwiblog

General Debate 25 December 2025 - The post General Debate 25 December 2025 first appeared on Kiwiblog.
Futurism

Uncles Tremble as Man Invents Vaccine Delivered by Beer - Talk about a beer and a shot! The post Uncles Tremble as Man Invents Vaccine Delivered by Beer appeared first on Futurism.
Homepaddock

Te Harinui -
Watts Up With That?

Fuel rationing chaos looms in New York State - Rationing gasoline and diesel under the Climate Act is a predictable prescription for chaos. It is the mobility these motor fuels provide that guarantees r...
Techdirt

MAGA Legislators Want To Add Mercenaries To Trump’s Perverse Take On The ‘War On Drugs’ - Yeah, the economy sucks and trade-war tariff agendas are only making things worse. But as Trump promised/threatened during a recent national address from t...
Why Evolution Is True

A lot more osculation of faith at The Free Press - I’ve often argued that the Free Press is soft on religion, even more so than its MSM equivalent, the New York Times. The editor of the FP, Bari Weiss, is J...
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Why There Is Still No Peace On Earth - Click on Title to Read
The Daily Sceptic

Will Labour Ban Christmas Carols Next? - If Christmas songs fall foul of Labour's 'banter ban', Christmas carols – with their 'offensive' assertions of the divinity of Christ that are deemed bla...
The Free Press

Conquer Your Trauma Like Ebenezer Scrooge - Decades before Freud, ‘A Christmas Carol’ showed how to face childhood anguish and choose a better life, writes Charles Lane.
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Panic-Stricken Climate Alarmists Resort to Bolder Lies - The real misinformation has been repeated predictions of apocalypse, fabricated links between bad weather and a harmless gas necessary for life on Earth an...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Starmer to push Britain into stricter net zero targets under EU deal - By Paul Homewood h/t Doug Brodie Labour are now trying to cause as much damage to this country as possible, before they are kicked out: Sir Keir Star...
Dead Language Society

“Christmas” is a weird word - Merry Sending of the Smeared One!
The Trichordist

Meet the New AI Boss, Worse Than the Old Internet Boss - Senator Marsha Blackburn’s AI bill would apply a familiar idea to an unfamiliar technology: product safety. Instead of treating algorithms as untouchable “...
Conversable Economist

Economics of the Attention Economy - It’s become commonplace to observe that the modern economy is clearly about more than land, raw materials, and hours of labor. It’s about attention, inte...
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Why There Is Still No Peace On Earth - A few months after the horrendous slaughter of World War I had been unleashed by the “guns of August 1914”, soldiers along the western front famously bro...
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

The Rescuer Trap: The Ethics of Love - Parentified and Codependent present The Rescuer Trap
Sustain What

"Happy XMas (War is Over)" - A search for holiday songs led me to an Oscar-winning animated film inspired by the Lennon-Ono classic
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

2025 - Year end roundup
Living Resources Center

The Bill of Rights Trumps Woke Mayors/Governors - The Supreme Court won’t let President Trump send National Guard troops to Chicago in order to enforce laws the Chicago city government and Illinois state...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Naughty Santa collection - Related: Scrooge’s Hero Journey and the Meaning of Life (text). Audio version below:
Curbed - All

Curbed’s 10 Most-Read Listing Stories of 2025 - Including a 27-room Park Avenue maisonette, a Hamptons modern by an I.M. Pei architect, and the Upper East Side Bubble House.
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Is Turkey About to Start a War With Israel? #1618 -
John D. Cook

Automation and Validation - It’s been said whatever you can validate, you can automate. An AI that produces correct work 90% of the time could be very valuable, provided you have a ...
JoNova

Merry Christmas - Christmas has started in some parts of the world, spreading west, hour by hour through all the countries marked in grey. It truly is a global phenomenon....
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

A Lesson from Luke - One of Steyn's earliest forays into the demographic thesis of America Alone...
Mises Wire

Why Are Houses So Expensive? It's Deliberate Government Policy - Historically, it has been very poor manners in Washington to admit that keeping home prices high is a deliberate policy. High prices are not the "unintende...
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (24 December 2025) - Resolving the governance gap and institutionalizing global risk reduction
Texas Institute for Property Rights

Give Me Your Tired… Never Mind - For one-hundred forty years, the Statue of Liberty has stood as a beacon for those aspiring for a better life The post Give Me Your Tired… Never Mind app...
Construction Physics

How Accurate Are Learning Curves? - We’ve talked several times on this substack (as well as in my book), about the learning curve, the observation that costs of a produced good tend to fall b...
Mises Institute Blog

More Largesse from Santa Claus Trump - All children eventually learn that the presents under the Christmas tree come from family and friends, who must pay for them with their own money, and not ...
The Inquiring Mind

The Late, Late Movie : Major Dundee – Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, James Coburn, Jim Hutton, Michael Anderson Jr, Warren Oates director Sam Peckinpah - Watch soon as may disappear https://youtu.be/tADWQLOcSNw?si=JIvcKos60WWOSU_9
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

DHS Doesn’t List CECOT Deportees in Its Worst of the Worst Data - Just 4% had a conviction for a violent crime.
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

DHS Doesn’t List CECOT Deportees in Its Worst of the Worst Data - Just 4% had a conviction for a violent crime.
Marginal Revolution

Who would you like to see as a Conversations with Tyler guest? - Comments are open, I thank you for your suggestions for the coming year… The post Who would you like to see as a Conversations with Tyler guest? appeared...
Perennial Meditations

A Meditation on the "Present" of Christmas - Perennial Wisdom (Ep. 257)
Doug Casey's International Man

Doug Casey’s Top Prediction for 2026… What It Means for You and Your Money - 2026 could mark a historic turning point. Doug explains how investors can prepare for rising instability, currency debasement, and a potential commoditie...
ArchDaily

Lupita Pizzaria / XXXI.studio - Lupita, now a Lisbon staple known for its high-volume, authentic Neapolitan pizza, has unveiled its latest architectural project. Following the success o...
DGMLive

Season's Greetings from DGM. - A very happy festive season to all our visitors from the DGM Team.
The Roots of Liberty

Accountability, Once Removed - People who believe in representative government should support the premise that government be as local as possible.
Slow Boring

Give yourself the gift of doing things - Taking action and helping others is good and feels good.
Law & Liberty

Love Around the Corner - A 1940 classic offers an early glimpse of Jimmy Stewart's incredible talent.
Spiked Online

Why Christmas cheer matters more than ever - The post Why Christmas cheer matters more than ever appeared first on spiked .
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 961 Zero-sum economics. Trump's family network. India's coal addiction. Mobiles and stables. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Energy Transition Absurdities

Burgum, Trump Strike Another Big Blow To Big Wind - Interior Secretary Doug Burgum leveled the Trump administration’s latest broadside at the struggling U.S.
Tim Worstall

Sigh - This insight has profound implications far beyond biology. Schrödinger showed that order is not natural or free. It is costly, fragile, and temporary. It...
Quotulatiousness

Welcome to Bland World - Ted Gioia yearns for the return of the weirdo, the eccentric, and the non-conformist to spice up our bland, smooth, grey world: “People are less weird than...
GeekPress

fMRI Errors? - *"fMRI Signals* Often Misread Neural Activity"
American Institute of Economic Research

401(k)s Built America's Wealth and Proved All the Critics Wrong - For decades, pundits have declared that Americans shouldn’t have to save for retirement in the casino of the stock market. They argued that individuals s...
Quillette

Podcast #318: Christmas in Byzantium - Jonathan Kay speaks with History of Byzantium podcast host Robin Pierson about the Christian traditions and imperial culture that took root in the eastern ...
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

When even The Guardian says you’re biased against capitalism - A new - grandly ambitious - history of capitalism is out. About which The Guardian’s review says: Even Marx and Engels gave the devil his due in The Comm...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

Offshore Wind Is Not a National Security Threat. Misusing the Term Is. - The Trump administration’s renewed effort to halt offshore wind development by invoking “national security” concerns reflects a fundamental misunderstandin...
The Daily Doom

A DEEPER DIVE into the Mystery of Christmas - This article is a Christmas letter to all my readers. As such, it is religious in nature. If you don’t like that sort of thing, you may want to take a pa...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: Don’t Always Be Beginning To Live - Begin.
Real Clear Energy

Let Americans Choose Their Cars – Not the Gov't - James Glassman, RCEnergy There's a lot of crowing in certain quarters about the 2% decline in U.S....
No Minister

Merry Christmas To All - The season of goodwill to all men, and especially to all our readers and silent commentators. I hope you all have a lovely Christmas with friends and famil...
Zero Hanger

“An outstanding signing”: Ex-Sun makes club switch for 2026 - The 30-year-old has a new club for next year.
Breaking Views

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR -
The Beauty of Things

A Visit From St. Nicholas - by Clement Clarke Moore
Point of Order

Season’s greetings - The Point of Order team extends season’s greetings to all our readers. We are taking a break for the Christmas holidays and will be back in the New Year.
The Integrity Institute

Democracy Briefing: Following the Money in 2025 - We talk a lot about money in politics in New Zealand, but we rarely actually examine it in detail.
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Merry Epstein Christmas - On the latest "revelations"
The Footy Almanac

The Ashes (in song): ‘We won The Ashes’ (Glenn Butcher) - Poet and song-writer Glenn Butcher at his lyrical best with this number.
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day – A Cheerful Message of Yuletide Tyranny - And what we, the people, need to worry about is therefore that this is merely the start of Project Stop Fascism. Labour were only elected 18 months ago, ...
Stats Chat

NFL Predictions for Week 17 - Team Ratings for Week 17 This is a new competition for me. It took some time to get the data into the appropriate form and understand the game schedule. ...
UnHerd

Labour’s anti-porn fantasy - Workshops reek of hapless boomerism
Chris Trotter

Merry Christmas! - Wishing all the readers and subscribers to my Substack a very happy holiday.
Why not reason?

Message to my rational friends - A year‑end message to my rational friends who are worried about the future — and to myself:
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 ...
Marcus on AI

Two takes on AI and the future of America - Speculation is meeting reality
Stewart Margolis

A Holiday Letter to Myself - For those of us who value the United States, and more generally freedom and rationality, 2025 has been a very rough year.
Cato at Liberty

DHS Doesn’t List CECOT Prison Deportees in Its Worst of the Worst Data - The United States should have allowed most of these immigrants to reside and work in the country legally. They could have been economic assets to the Unite...
Public: Michael Shellenberger

We’re Not Tired Of Winning - Investigative journalism delivers real change
Objective Standard Institute

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

Hopping Mad - Advertising for a brand of Brazilian sandals features a film star unforgivably implying moral equivalence between left and right feet: a blasphemy made all...
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

The Neo-Romantic Literary Life - Post-Dimes in the 2020s
Freedom and Flourishing

Why is a sensible person like you driving a car like that? - No-one has asked me that question yet, but I thought I should have a speech ready just in case it happens. The car is a BYD Atto 3. It is an electric ...
Truth on the Market

Google Is Not a Pipe - Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, with support from populists on both the political left and right, contends that Google Search is a common-carrier servic...
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

Faith Misunderstood, Conscience Misused: A Catholic Reflection on the NZDF Scenario and the Secular Misinterpretation of Religious Identity - A Catholic legal and moral analysis of NZDF’s scenario linking Christian communities to extremism. Calls for clarification, consultation, and religious dig...
Retraction Watch

Court tosses out researcher’s bid to overturn funding ban - A federal court has terminated a former researcher’s lawsuit against the U.S. government agency that barred her from receiving federal funds following an a...
The Double Standard

Peters spits the dummy over India Free Trade deal - "National preferred doing a quick, low-quality deal over doing the hard work necessary to get a fair deal that delivers for both New Zealanders and Indians."
A Halfling's View

From a Book to Firenze - The Stream of Consciousness and Memory
Israel Institute of NZ

When Grief Becomes a Sales Strategy - The New Zealand Herald wants us to believe it took a principled stand after the Bondi terror attack. Its front page, splashed with a moral injunction — “To...
Conflicted

Congress needs to end philanthropic funding to NAS - While maintaining key US scientific capabilities like NCAR, NOAA, and university research
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Political Caption Competition - Luxon can dance Indian AND sell out sovereignty to India at the same time
Flashbak

A Trip Along The Mother Road: Route 66 in 1992 - In 1992, Canadian photojournalist Martina Stanek took a trip down Route 66 in the USA. Martina worked for Agence Gamma, then joined Agence France-Presse ...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Savage's 'Lost Generation', or: Thoughts on the DEI scam and what happened after 2015 - Jacob Savage’s long piece on “The Lost Generation” has been making the rounds for a week now.
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Workout #1 - Getting in My Reflective Reps
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Dumb and Dumber (Nos. 123-124) - Watching the Education Apocalypse in Slow Motion
Persuasion

A Holiday Plea From Frank and Yascha - Donate today to help us fight for the values of a free society in 2026!
The Tracinski Letter

The Dilemma of Choice - A Selection from The Tracinski Letter
The Roots of Progress

American Dynamism: Progress begins at home - Talks and writing from Progress Conference 2025
Matua Kahurangi

The Great Replacement isn’t a theory anymore - it's reality - For years, “The Great Replacement” has been dismissed as a conspiracy theory.
Toppermost

Chet Atkins - In the pantheon of guitar greats, few figures loom as large yet as unassumingly as Chet Atkins. Dubbed ‘Mr. Guitar’ by peers and fans, Atkins wasn’t just...
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: One of the Symptoms of Approaching Nervous Breakdown Is the Belief That One’s Work Is Terribly Important - Bertrand Russell? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Many people are forgoing holidays and overworking themselves. Here is a pertinent quotation:...
Statecraft

How to Track Santa - "Rudolph's nose does show up on the infrared spectrum"
Asimov’s Addendum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Cries - Another jeu d’esprit for the holidays
Reason Foundation

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

Obesity Economics: How Subsidies Distort the American Diet - Federal subsidies drive food production, consumption, and — unintentionally — chronic disease. Now we’re being asked to subsidize weight loss drugs to figh...
The Rebuild

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

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

Public School Students’ Online, Off-Campus Speech Rights: Lessons from a First Amendment Victory, Part 2 - A recent federal appellate court decision in favor of a public high school student’s online, off-campus First Amendment speech rights reins in a school’s...
Doomberg

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

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

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

Obesity Economics: How Subsidies Distort the American Diet - *“Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.” -Thomas Jefferson* Let me intro...
Manhattan Contrarian

Birthright Citizenship: Interpreting The Phrase "Subject To The Jurisdiction Thereof" - * Birthright citizenship — the idea that anyone born in the United States is automatically a citizen, with full right to receive all benefits and vote when...
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

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

Milloy talks energy with David Asman and Lydia Hu on FOX Business - From the December 22, 2025 edition of The Bottom Line.
The Jolly Libertarian

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

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

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

Policing the Air Around the Knife - Following the antisemitic massacre at Bondi Beach that left fifteen people dead, the Australian government has decided the problem is not the knife, or eve...
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 2025-26 - Joyeuses Fêtes | Happy Holidays -
The UnPopulist

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

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

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

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

Blackouts - These documents are more blacked out than Pete Hegseth on New Years Eve. – feral streep, on the redactions in the newly released Epstein material No Sift n...
Official Blog

Resumen de la temporada 2 de CITO 2025 - La temporada 2 de Cache in Trash Out® 2025 ha llegado a su fin, así que ¿por qué no echamos un vistazo a los logros de esta temporada? ¡Esta temporada se h...
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

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

4 years ago the Biden White House issued this demeaning and nasty Xmas message - Never forget what they tried to do to you.
The Works in Progress Newsletter

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

Open Thread 413 - ...
Capitalism Magazine

The “Heritage American” Myth - Descendants of founders are heirs; newcomers are employees. Both contribute, but only heirs embody the founder's vision. Every nation has a core ethnic gro...
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

The Invention of "Climate Risk" - Politically Brilliant but Fatally Flawed - Part 3 of the THB series on insurance and climate change
McFaul's World

End of an Era: Stepping Down as FSI Director - A song by former students brings down the curtain on 11 years in the job
Gus Van Horn

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

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

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

The Year in the Rear-View - What I've been up to in 2025.
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

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

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

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

The Amazing Generation is the Book Parents Have Been Asking For - Our new guide for kids ages 9–12 comes out December 30th.
Real Clear Energy: Video

Oil Prices Tumble to Lowest Levels Since 2021 - Jason Schenker, president of Prestige Economics, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the outlook of the oil sector amid global tensions.
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

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

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

A pernicious evil. - The target should be 0%.
The Whakataki Times

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Perennial Christmas Presents - True stories of a grief-stricken holiday widow and my first consciously-held Christmas
Harry’s Substack

"Affordability" is an anti-concept - The difference between the earned and unearned must not be erased
One Useful Thing

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

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

Music 2025: everything now - The year in recordings, including a surprising amount of Bach
The China Space Monitor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Key Vote YES on H.R. 4776 - The American Energy Alliance supports H.R. 4776 the SPEED Act. The SPEED Act makes important modifications to the National Environmental Policy Act, incl...
Greater Auckland

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

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

The Brutality of the U.S. Empire Is on Display in Venezuela - I can’t help but feel very sorry for the Venezuelan people. Imagine living under a brutal and corrupt illegitimately elected dictatorship, a national-sec...
Spiked Online

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

The American Public's Affordability Demands - They favor deflation and prefer deregulation to subsidies
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

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

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

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

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

Live video on Substack, one year in - How creators made live video their own, and where it’s going next
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

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

December 2025 Updates - Old posts, new papers
Liberty Scott

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Africa could be the richest continent on Earth - Nothing is missing except the freedom to build.
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

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

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

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

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

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

More Hospital Tips - From an insider
Boom (UK)

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

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

Bondi Beach, Antisemitism, and Moral Clarity - The events at Bondi Beach this week are horrifying — an act of antisemitic terror in a place synonymous with ...
The Grumpy Economist

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Country Gets the Immigrants It Deserves - Embrace capitalism if you want to attract the best immigrants.
Catherine Mosse

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Future is Israel & Africa - Dumisani's Interview with the Jerusalem Center for Security & Foreign Affairs
M.M.E.F. News

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

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

Principles of Economics, 11e - The new edition of my favorite textbook will be available on January 9, ready for spring semester classes.
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Book Notes: The Technological Republic (2025) - How Not to Make a Techno-Nationalist Elite
Lindsay Mitchell

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

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

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

WELLINGTON THEATRE AWARDS 2025 - WELLINGTON THEATRE AWARDS 2025[Links to reviews inserted by Theatreview] Most Promising Newcomer Awards (any gender or skill): Most Promising Newcomer Awar...
First Stones NewsLetter

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

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

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

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

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

Sharing the Source of my Love of Reason - Now that I have the life experience to know just how important rational principles are for happiness and success, I’ve decided to go back to their root in ...
What You Can Do For Liberty

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

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

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

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

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

IFP Update: November 2025 - 📣 Announcements
Earthly Idealism

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

Altruism Is Not the Same Thing as Being Kind - The moral confusion that turns generosity into self-destruction.
In Due Course

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

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

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

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

Another nuclear ban falls, this time at the Asian Development Bank - Eight quick thoughts on the trend and what it means
Democracy Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

From the Archives: Gothic Revival Architecture Is Like Dreadlocks - You can try embedding ideology into a style but if people like the look, the meaning will get diluted over time.
Hunters and Anglers – PERC

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

Outcomes Review: Realigning Legislative Incentives - How might a state legislature shift from outputs to outcomes?
Classical Compass Rose

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

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

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

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

The Florida Japan-handle - Culture, Urbanism, History and Geology in Oahu, Hawaii
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

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

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

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

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

The Pinnacle of St Ives. - When Ambition Meets Reality
StephenFranks.co.nz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mr. Savior - Is God really a savior?
Barrie Saunders

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

Pooh, AI, and the Man with a Red Flag - How you feel about the impact of AI on society depends largely on your personality. In A.A. Milne-speak, if you’re a Tigger, you’re bouncing off the wall...
Science+Story

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

When Your Child is Sick - (And: Come See Me This Thursday, October 16, in Beverly Hills!)
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

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

It's Better Than Going Blind - Or how "Under Pressure" became my favorite song
The Organon Architecture Blog

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

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

Ep. 17 - Change the World Be a Mom (Sheila Qualls) - Listen now | An interview with wife and mother of five Sheila Qualls
What's New Under the Sun

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

Trump Trade War Hits Business: Economy Slows to a Crawl - “By integrating the vital role of the supply chain into national income accounting, Mark Skousen’s development of gross output (GO) has created a more dy...
Institute of Economic Affairs

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

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

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

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

a dome with portholes - Dome house in the California desert.
Notes On Liberty

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Important Announcements - I’m going in, this Substack's going on ice, and a book is coming
Anti-Dismal

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

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

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

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

Farmville - The Autonomous Future of Agriculture
No Punches Pulled

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

Password Reset - Reset Password Reset Your Password The post Password Reset appeared first on AYN RAND CENTRE.
Austrian Economics Newsletter

Mass Formations For The Masses - Crowd Psychology and the Canadian Electorate
Skeptic

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writings hosted elsewhere - The Breakthrough Institute Interactive Brokers Campus
Regan's Substack

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

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

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

🎄On the something day of Christmas 🎵🥂 - It's that time of the year again
The Prophet of Causation

The Self-Writing Slate - Chapter 5
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
Craig Biddle

Conceptual Fallacies and How to Avoid Them - Logical fallacies are not the only errors that retard thinking. Conceptual fallacies do, too, and often in subtler, more destructive ways. Just as logica...
Craig Biddle

Conceptual Fallacies and How to Avoid Them - Logical fallacies are not the only errors that retard thinking. Conceptual fallacies do, too, and often in subtler, more destructive ways. Just as logica...
Bawerk.net

Revolutionizing Financial Management: The Benefits and Features of Natco Credit Union’s Online Banking Services - In today's fast-paced digital age, convenience and accessibility are paramount, especially when it comes to... The post Revolutionizing Financial Managem...
Te Papa

Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet - Tory Whanau has revealed that she’s struggling so much financially that she may have to part with her beloved mayoralty, that of New Zealand’s capital city...
THE CIVILIAN

Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet - Tory Whanau has revealed that she’s struggling so much financially that she may have to part with her beloved mayoralty, that of New Zealand’s capital city...
Political Correctness Watch

- * Israel’s message to terrorists is simple: ‘Just stop attacking us’* Israel’s attacks on Hezbollah via exploding pagers and now walkie talkies are one of...
Andrew Bernstein

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

I Don't Know. - The power, the leverage, the epistemological clarity, the strategic value, the style & dignity, the surprising truths, and the simple peace of mind that fl...
Reviews - 13th Floor

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

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

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

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

Lamb, courgette & triple cheese layered bake - JW – as requested, here’s the method behind the madness! This recipe is a cross between a moussaka and a (lower-carb) lasagne. I’ve used courgettes, grou...
TVHE

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

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

DRAGONVALE! CHEATS MOD ANDROID IOS NO SURVEY 2024 NEW - Created page with "Hey there, DragonVale fans! Are you ready to take your DragonVale gaming experience to the next level? Well, you're in luck because we...
Technological Optimism with Thomas Walker-Werth

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

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

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...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

Receipts for BMS Ep 254: Kark Marx Was Kind of a Big Deal - Here is the link to my podcast critique of Phil Magness’ promotion of his paper, co-authored with Michael Makovi, on Karl Marx. In this episode I allude to...
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Knowledge Problem 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...
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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 ...
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The Silver Linings of the April CPI Report - May 18, 2022 Despite persistent inflation, there are good investment opportunities ahead in several niche areas. The post The Silver Linings of the April...
Focus on Right and Wrong, Not Right and Left | SEPARATE!

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

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...
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The value of value-added in schools - We’re developing New Zealand’s first contextualised value-added model to help evaluate New Zealand secondary schools on a variety of outcome measures. Joel...
Professor Werner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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...
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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

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THE WEEKLY WRIGHT-UP

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