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No Right Turn

End the government, not te Tiriti - For the last few months the Waitangi Tribunal has been holding an urgent inquiry into National's "Treaty Principles Bill". They've already issued one inter...
Flying Out

Bop Baby Bop - Meteor Rockabilly - *Vendor: *Ace Records *Type: *VARIOUS ARTISTS *Price: * 52.00 Hoping to give Sun a run for its money, Meteor kicked off promisingly in 1952 with the R&...
Zero Hanger

AFL Draft Analysis: North Melbourne Kangaroos - The Roos have a big decision to make for this year's draft.
Homepaddock

Sowell says - The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one’s own behaviour. — Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) Oc...
Kiwiblog

US election results - Over 150 million people have voted in the United States at around 200,000 polling places. At this stage no one in the world knows the result. Everyone wi...
SkyscraperCity Forum

Abolizione province - SOPPRESSE MINI-PROVINCE, 4 MESI DISEGNARE AREE - Bisognerà attendere quattro mesi per la completa soppressione delle mini-province con meno di 220 mila a...
Conversable Economist

Housing: Supply Chasing Demand - To explain the high and rising price of housing, the standard economic intuition is that growth in supply isn’t keeping up with growth in demand. One pie...
Point of Order

NZ’s economy is being smashed since the RBNZ breached its remit: prominent US economist Greg Mankiw has explained why - Rob MacCulloch writes – When you have the wrong Board Chair and wrong Governor of a Central Bank, who aren’t up with state-of-art thinking about how intere...
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

Exit Polls: 72% of Americans HATE the Economy - Follow me on X. I’ll be jumping around to various Spaces for live broadcasts
The Daily Doom

The Chaos Commences - Some are ready to burn it all down.
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Orange Man (Still Mostly) Bad - There is no way Donald Trump should be winning this election. He is a blatantly narcissistic loudmouth who has zero charisma and personal appeal as a candi...
The Inquiring Mind

The left hate grassroots organisations that they don’t own - As a self declared proponent of the free availability of information I believe @NZFreeSpeech should be open and honest about who supports it and how … The ...
The Free Press

Election Night with The Free Press! - Our live show begins tonight at 7 p.m. EST—and we’ve got a lineup you won’t find anywhere else.
Slow Boring

Tuesday thread - The only feed I’m watching » https://x.com/Redistrict. See you all in the chat soon at 7 PM ET!
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Objectivism VS Islamism -
Watts Up With That?

Natural Climate Change Factors - By Andy May “Consensus” scientists do not believe that solar variability, internal climate variability (in this model simplified to the ~67-year stadium wa...
Quote Investigator

Article About the Quote Investigator at the Big Think Website - Journalist Kevin Dickinson of the website Big Think interviewed me and wrote a wonderful article about quotations and misquotations. The article is titled:...
The Curmudgeon

Unworthy Foes - One of the major difficulties with being the master race, especially when uttering oracular threats to stir up a bit of rah-rah for World War III, is that ...
Breaking Views

David Farrar: The impact of alcohol monopolies - Simon Court said:“My bill would repeal the monopolies held by the Invercargill, Mataura, Portage and Waitakere Licensing Trusts. It would break these commu...
EconLog

Martin Anderson on Ronald Reagan’s Smarts - Yesterday, I posted over on my Substack on a long interview that my late Hoover Institution colleague Martin Anderson did about his time with Nixon. I...
Cato at Liberty

Brasilia-Washington Tech Policy Connections - Currently, Brazil is considering several regulations that would change the technology landscape of the most populous country in Latin America.
The Double Standard

The Government’s cynical manipulation of the Treaty Principles Bill - In a cynical manipulation of Parliamentary Processes the Government is changing the date of introduction of the Treaty Principles Bill. And the Waitangi Tr...
John D. Cook

Maybe Copernicus isn’t coming - Before Copernicus promoted the heliocentric model of the solar system, astronomers added epicycle on top of epicycle, creating ever more complex models o...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Biden administration lets Medicaid pay for Native American “traditional medicines” - Just yesterday I wrote about the drive in New Zealand to integrate indigenous medicine (Rongoā Māori, or RM) with modern (often called “Western”) medicine....
The Footy Almanac

NFL Week 9 – The Jack Campbell Cup - It's halfway through the NFL season and an ideal stage for Earl O'Neill to reflect on the teams' performances and progress so far.
JoNova

The Big Battle — The People versus The Blob - By Jo Nova When you use AI to replace every mention of “our democracy” with “our bureaucracy,” everything starts making a lot more sense. pic.twitter.co...
Down to Earth Kiwi

Dirty Politics: Ipsos Pollsters confess to The Platform that 87% of Kiwis Oppose Capital Taxes "in some form", but Radio NZ reported 67% "Support Them". - State owned broadcaster, Radio NZ, reported in no uncertain terms, with Big Bold Headline, "Survey of 1000 people shows 65% would support...
Sustain What

An Election Sanity Playlist - As I wrote the other day, music (for me, writing and performing it) can be a key to sanity in turbulent times. Of course listening matters too.
Spiked Online

Stop blaming climate change for Spain’s disastrous floods - The post Stop blaming climate change for Spain’s disastrous floods appeared first on spiked.
The Daily Sceptic

Farmer Took Own Life in Fear of Inheritance Tax Raid, Says Son - Farmer John Charlesworth has taken his own life in fear of the Government’s inheritance tax raid, his son has said. The post Farmer Took Own Life in Fear...
No Minister

The 2024 US Presidential Election - I’m going to leave this post up all day at the top of the blog for commentary as things develop, updating it as the day progresses. At midnight last night,...
A Halfling's View

Journeys in Middle-earth 4 - The Songs and the Book
Greater Auckland

What should AT do with PT for Whangaparaoa after Penlink Opens - Auckland Transport created a bit of a kerfuffle with Whangaparaoa residents last year with the suggestion the the Gulf Harbour ferry could be stopped aft...
ChinaTalk

China on Harris and Trump Tech Policy - + Shitao drunk autumn painting to take you home
Why Evolution Is True

Where to watch the election - If you don’t want to be glued to the tube, I’ve learned from Luana of a good site to see the election returns in real time—that is, if you’re a fanatic abo...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Price gouging at Walmart - Sample data for 2023 * Walmart net profit: 2.13% * City of Chicago sales tax on WalMart purchases: 10.25% * US federal government tax rate on Walmart: 29.1%.
Curbed - All

What Am I Supposed to Do During This Drought Watch? - Your dry-spell questions, answered.
Truth on the Market

Should the GDPR Prohibit AI? - The European Data Protection Board’s (EDPB) Nov. 5 stakeholder consultation on AI models and data protection—organized to gather input for an upcoming Ir...
Wright Chat

Click Here for General Discussion Posts • Re: Video: "Frank Lloyd Wright's unbuilt "Civic Center at Point Park"" - There's a smorgasbord on their Vimeo page... both individual videos and a continuous 12 minute video of all three Pittsburgh projects (PointPark Apartments...
Institute for Energy Research

California Governor Newsom Wants to Camouflage the Cause of His State’s High Energy Prices - California has the highest gasoline prices and one of the highest residential electricity prices in the nation due to its… The post California Governor N...
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

5 Things to Watch on Election Night (Besides Trump vs. Harris) - I'll be watching for results from two House races and one key Senate race on Tuesday night, in addition to some important referendums in several states.
IPWatchdog Articles

SCOTUS OKs SG Argument in Trademark Case on Scope of Profits Disgorgement Awards - Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the U.S. Solicitor General leave to participate in oral arguments for Dewberry Group, Inc. v. Dewberry Engineers ...
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

IS ANYTHING TRULY NEW? - THE PARADOX OF ORIGINALITY: ARE WE BUILDING THE FUTURE WITH THE PAST?
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Gas Power Will Remain Crucial - By Paul Homewood This chart from the NESO report is worth a look: In simple terms, the gray bits represent unabated gas generation. Each season gives an ...
Official Blog

Los KempenseGeoBuddies derrochan creatividad y entusiasmo en el Megaevento KGB3 - La experiencia KGB 3 fue mucho más que un Megaevento: fue una aventura de geocaching de varios días, con ocho eventos a lo largo de cinco días. Tuve la opo...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

So is David Seymour’s new food provider involved in the Christchurch Uni food poisoning? - I asked yesterday if David Seymour’s 3 Buck Chuck corporate slop food providers were involved in any way with the food poisoning at Christchurch Uni. ACT a...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Why I Hope Trump Will Win - Like most people in the world, I have no say in the American elections, but like most people in the world, American politics are enormously important to me.
History Reclaimed

Ukraine’s Histories Reclaimed – and Lost? - The struggle between Ukraine and Putin’s Russia is a struggle over history. Ukraine reclaims its own history as a nation-state independent of Russia. Putin...
Energy in Depth

House Report Details “Cronyism” in Biden-Harris EPA’s EJ Grantmaking Programs - Once a central plank of the Biden-Harris administration’s climate agenda, the White House’s enormous environmental justice (EJ) spending programs are ins...
Reason for Living

Politics and Living Your Best Life - Too much politics is bad for your mental health. But if we want to live lives based on rational values, we must engage in politics—in a certain way.
Notes On Liberty

Taxes, Tariffs, Tardy Tallying, and Thanksgiving Truce - November’s Challenge to Bridge America’s Divide
ArchDaily

Maiden House / FORRM Architects - Within its historic urban neighborhood adjacent to the campus of the University of Texas, the Maiden House presented an opportunity to blend Austin's ric...
Macroscience

Metascience 101 - EP9: "How to Get Involved" - IN THIS EPISODE: Professor Heidi Williams, Professor Paul Niehaus, and Matt Clancy walk through academic, non-profit and private sector paths to research, ...
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Our Electoral Serfdom - Reminder: Our online Zoom conference on open borders continues this Monday evening, November 11, with Richard Ebeling and me. We wrap up our series on op...
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Links in Progress: Expanding the Mediterranean's busiest port - Plus: New tunnels, monorails, canals, small modular reactors, and horseless carriages
Roy Spencer, PhD.

Urban Legends of Climate Change: Palm Springs, California - This is the first of what will likely be a series of posts regarding urban heat island (UHI) effects in daily record high temperatures. My previous UHI wor...
Fictionosophy

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card - Speaker for the Dead uses some bizarre sci-fi concepts to explore important moral issues—hitting the nail on the head on some, but muddying the waters on o...
Energy Transition Absurdities

Washington Update From the U.S. Oil & Gas Association - 11.5.2024 - This Is A Great Country Because of the Following...
Gus Van Horn

Who Bleeds Less Wins. Hoping It's Harris. - At *RealClear Politics* is a piece on what Democrat operatives think it will take for Harris to win today. In this close race between two historically terr...
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

Incoming Landslide Alert! - The first votes are in! New Hampshire has a law permitting municipalities of one hundred residents or less to open their polls at midnight and close them a...
Living Resources Center

Toxic Mama Kamala - People voting for Kamala say, “You have to vote Democrat to ensure your right to love and live as you please.” Seriously? Kamala wants a command and cont...
Toppermost

Dressy Bessy - Centered around singer/guitarist Tammy Ealom's angular melodies, Denver indie pop band Dressy Bessy emerged in the late '90s and stuck to their colorful,...
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

How To Remember, Remember the 5th of November - Why we must vote for the forgotten men and women to Make America Great Again
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Chartbook 331: 46 in medias res - A mosaic of the Biden administration. - In the last month I pulled myself together and wrote a long synthetic piece on the Biden administration for LRB .
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Dr. Rob Henderson livestream AMA - Nov 4, 2024 - Election predictions, Madison Square Garden Rally, IQ and leadership, thoughts on Tim Walz, and more
Doomberg

Storage Units - A do-it-yourself guide to nullifying the green new math.
Changing Lanes

Aristotle and A.I. - Ancient wisdom and future technology
Anthony B. Bradley

The Forgotten Commitment: Why Churches Owe Baptized Boys More Than a Youth Group - I'm sorry if youth group was all you experienced
Law & Liberty

Democracy from the Bottom Up - We consider our votes important precisely at the time they have become devalued.
SAVVY STREET

Transcript: Panel Discussion on the 2024 US Presidential Election, Episode II - A savvy political panel predicts a Trump landslide in 2024. The post Transcript: Panel Discussion on the 2024 US Presidential Election, Episode II appear...
Premise Check (Billy Beck)

It’s Election Day, 2024 - 2:28 AM EDT —
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

Smoke-Free Projection Extended by 9 years - As published in The Guardian yesterday, analysts at Cancer Research UK believe the government's smoke-free by 2030 target is doomed. Instead, the charity...
The Cobden Centre

Conditions exist for an equity market crash - The relationship between the credit cycle and equity markets is well established. The credit cycle has its foundation in bank credit, which expands while...
Flashbak

Stock Car Racing in 1972 - In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1...
Quotulatiousness

It’s not really about Peanut and Fred - Tom Knighton explains that the online furor isn’t really about poor Peanut the Squirrel and Fred the Raccoon … but they’ve become a trigger for a lot of si...
Tim Worstall

Is this blog still readable in the South tho’? - Clichéd images of the north have historically revolved around whippets and flat caps — but now a judge has added swearing to the list of stereotypes. Ove...
Mises Institute Blog

The American Empire - We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire.
Mises Wire

The American Empire - We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire.
GeekPress

Arecibo Collapse - *"Jaw-Dropping Report* Reveals Causes of Arecibo Telescope Collapse". (Via H.R.)
The Antiplanner

NM’s Rail Runner Is “Financially Healthy”? - I’ve heard there is an election somewhere today, but it’s probably not important. What is important is that the state of New Mexico recently released a rep...
Hoover institution Commentary

Ben Ginsberg: The Looming Legal Battles After Election Day - Hoover Institution fellow Ben Ginsberg joins a panel discussing the looming legal battles after the election.
Cremieux Recueil

American Elections Are Unfair - Unfortunately, unfairness is baked in
The Whakataki Times

Local Woman Instantly Forgets About Animal Welfare After Boyfriend’s Trifecta Comes In - YUP TO THE CUP. Wellington woman Rosie Neilson, 26, experienced a miraculous ethical transformation this afternoon. The post Local Woman Instantly Forg...
Astral Codex Ten

Mantic Monday: Judgment Day - ...
The Truth Fairy

The Kindergarten Intifada - The national effort to indoctrinate American children against Israel
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

The most heretical idea in the world - My talk at Hereticon about the moral case for fossil fuels.
Kunstler

Gallery 15 - En plein air paintings by JHK 2023
Principled Perspectives

On this Election Day 2024, One Final Election Note - Even if you cannot vote for Trump, I urge you NOT to vote for Kamala Harris. Better to abstain. Also, vote Republican for Senate and House races. If Harr...
The Tracinski Letter

May You Live in Ordinary Times - The Case for Kamala Harris
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Tom Irvine Band: Under the Wharf (digital outlets) - For many decades – from Warren Cate and Warren Love back in the Nineties and early 2000's to Danny McCrum ... Source: Tom Irvine Band: Under the Wharf (d...
RenewNZ

Giving legal force to gender ideology - The Law Commission wants the Human Rights Act 1993 amended to make it unlawful to discriminate on the grounds of gender identity and expression. Earlier th...
Punishingly Haimona

When Writing About The 'Right Topic' Is Wrong - The booming market for US Election hot takes is a double edged sword for non-US experts and pundits.
Retraction Watch

University of Newcastle investigating top melanoma researchers - The University of Newcastle in Australia is investigating the work of two prominent skin cancer researchers, Retraction Watch has learned. Commenters on P...
UnHerd

Will soccer moms win it for Kamala? - The election will be won in the suburbs
Museum Street (Henry Cooke)

Six questions the US election is about to answer - And two more it won't right away.
Quillette

The Last of the Human Warriors - Advancing technology is changing the way we fight wars and our understanding of heroism.
Building the Builders

Fantastic Builders and Where to Find Them, 3rd installment - “Every day I touched 50 faces” (Estée Lauder)
Science For Everyone

The best class I took in college - What made it so good?
FIRE

Commitment to democracy doesn’t end at the ballot box - We need to support a robust culture of free speech for democracy to thrive.
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

My New Favorite Music Genre Is Polish Noir - These 10 artists create music that is mystical, melancholy, magical, and more.
No Punches Pulled

THE BIG DAY - The whole world will stop tomorrow to watch the American election. Praise to Wellington’s Post’s cartoonist Jeff Bell who has summed the outcome up brillia...
Institute of Economic Affairs

Unplugging progress: the case against EV tariffs - Those of us who would welcome cheaper, greener vehicles, have cause for concern: Western policymakers seem keen on ensuring they … Continue reading "Unpl...
Conflicted

Unhinged - The the self serving machine of climate change advocacy, climate anxiety, and climate litigation
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Best of Immigration News and More - Election week – November 4, 2024.
The War on Prices

Why Didn't Democrats Blame The Fed for High Inflation? - The recent high inflation remains a big political problem for Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats.
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

Attribution Stealth Advocacy at the NAS - Weather Attribution Alchemy, Part 2 - Climate Science Plays by Special Rules
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Be My Guest at UoC Friday - Read more
The Intrinsic Perspective

You don't have to endorse anyone, you can just vote (and other thoughts on the election) - 1. T'was the election of endorsements. 2. Polls and prediction markets have sucked. 3. Voting as virtue ethics
Libertarian Land

De-Regulation, Not Rent Control, is the Right Response to the Housing Crisis - In recent months, President Biden and Vice President Harris have both endorsed government interventions aimed at curbing rent increases, particularly targe...
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

15 Band Ideas for the Future - An Interruption from the Election Chaos
The Library of Celaeno

The Lomez Challenge - And some proposed solutions
bad cattitude

getting squirrely - playing for peanuts
Journal of Free Black Thought

RSVP: American Excellence: The Omni-American Future Gala - With the Emmet Cohen Trio, Coleman Hughes, and more—Harlem, Nov. 12, 2024
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

Guilt trips and emotional blackmail won’t solve Harris’ ‘man problem’ - My Latest NY Post Article
One Useful Thing

The Present Future: AI's Impact Long Before Superintelligence - You can start to see the outlines of an AI future, for better and worse
The Roots of Liberty

Symptom, Not Cause - Editor’s Note: This is my final post before the election.
Reason Foundation

Missing middle housing policies balance interests while addressing the affordable housing crisis - While some progress has been made, medium-density housing is still far outpaced by traditional single-family homes. The post Missing middle housing polic...
Eating Policy

Schedule F distracts from an uncomfortable truth - Trump's stunt to test public servants for loyalty would only make our civil service problems worse. But there is a problem.
The Upheaval

Machine Antihumanism and the Inversion of Family Law - An essay by Jeff Shafer
Manhattan Contrarian

What To Expect If Harris Gets Elected - * Without doubt, Vice President Kamala Harris has made it as difficult as possible to pin down exactly where she stands on major policy issues. * Besides s...
Stats Chat

Top 14 Predictions for Round 10 - Team Ratings for Round 10 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ...
Capitalism Magazine

Anti-Trumpites for Trump - Harris is the most anti-American Progressive that has ever gained the nomination of a major political party in American history.
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

Heilung: Return To Australia and play NZ For The First Time In Nov 2024 with Special Guest Eivør - [image: Heilung] HEILUNG, the ground-breaking collective renowned for their captivating performances, announce their highly anticipated rituals across Au...
Glenn’s Substack

Thoughts on the Post Election - It'll be here soon.
Conspicuous Cognition

There is no "censorship industrial complex" - Biased and misguided online censorship is a genuine problem. However, popular claims about a sinister "censorship industrial complex" are hysterical, consp...
Interintellect

Anna Gát's: What to Read This Weekend #71 - Hereticon, Kamala, Kraftwerk, Aumann, McGilchrist, Paul Graham, Ribbonfarm, happiness, feminists, Tolstoy, Girard, heroin, cheese, fiction, dating, Germany...
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Brendan Carr: “There’s no question NBC knows” Saturday Night Live broke the law - FCC must act immediately to address NBC’s Kamala Harris cameo last night on SNL, which violated the “equal time” rule, says FCC Commissioner
Can't Get Much Higher

The Ween Of American Rock Critics: A Conversation with Steven Hyden - Steven Hyden stops by to talk about his recent book on "Born in the U.S.A." and all things music criticism.
Freethink Media

The war over microchips is coming - Watch the Freethink Interview with author and professor Chris Miller.
The Future of Being Human

Can AI influence how you feel about someone without you knowing? - A new study suggests that it can
The New York Review of Books

Who Owns the Mountains? - When the Tug River flooded in the spring of 1977, it swept away thousands of homes in the rural Tug Fork Valley, across parts of Kentucky, West Virginia, V...
Yascha Mounk

Join Francis Fukuyama and me on election night! - Plus, five surprising electoral maps you may see on your TV screen on Tuesday.
Sinification

CICIR's Liu Chong on US-China Nuclear Talks - Today’s edition opens with an introduction by Jingdong Yuan, Director of SIPRI’s China and Asia Security Programme.
Israel Institute of NZ

A Labour-light PM - The following was submitted to the New Zealand Herald and not published. I am surprised at the reaction of Chris Luxon to Israel’s banning on UNWRA and lab...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

The 3K Subscriber Special & 2-Year Anniversary Q&A: US Election Predictions, Biden's Record, & Ethiopia - Thanks for the 3K subs! Let's talk about My predictions for the US Election
misfits' architecture

Ch. 4, pp. 169-173 - I’d like to belatedly thank Andrew N. Nelson for compiling his The Compact Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary although, now I think of it, I’ve n...
Regan's Substack

Foundational Divides - The essential dimensions of a worldview
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Unpacking My Lynn Christopher Sculpture - Artists Collect Too
Virginia Postrel

Talking academic politics with Steve Teles: Why universities have few conservative professors, why they need more, and what to do about it - And yet another guest gives a shoutout to Michael Oakeshott.
A life just as ordinary

Herevana – #203 – Wilderness Rolling Meadows - Here we have a Wilderness Brewing Wilderness Rolling Meadows. IT’s be rare for a Wilderness beer not to be really enjoyable, and so a BA peach apricot affa...
Schiffradio.com

Data of the Dead – Ep 988 - Peter Schiff analyzes recent economic data, jobs report, GDP numbers, inflation concerns, and criticizes government policies. He discusses impacts on mar...
Thinking Directions

Further Thoughts on “Motivation by Love” - I was recently interviewed on the Yaron Brook Show on the topic of “Motivation by Love.” The main point of the interview is that it’s important to go dee...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Short Take: On The Anti-Oracles and Their Counterparts - The existence of Leftism is actually a shocking epistemic revelation.
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Disposed to Relief - After weeks of speculation, on Wednesday *the Budget was finally delivered*. You’ll have to come to one of our events for my lukewarm takes on its impact...
Science+Story

The 'Opposite of Marketing' Isn't Research Communications - Why media-centric communications makes us all bad actors.
Forbidden Science

Why the public should not “believe in science” - Instead, we should publicly and freely discuss it
The Breakthrough Journal

Is an Equitable Carbon Offset Industry Possible? - The C-Quest Capital Scandal and Western Elitism
Free Range Kids

When Societies Get Stuck in a Bad Place - We no longer live in an era of footbinding, writes my Let Grow Co-Founder Peter Gray, the psychologist who studies the importance of mixed-age, unsupervi...
Eat More Electrons

[Weekend read] Clean Energy in Africa has a Dirty Image Problem - A lot of the energy and climate world seems stuck using images that are tired clichés, in poor taste, or even straight-up racist.
Sawahil

Dakar to Riyadh: Links for 11/1/2024 - News and analysis from the Sahel, North Africa, the Horn, and the Middle East
Construction Physics

How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S. - I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly reading about the times and places where radical chang...
Ideas Beyond Borders

IBB Bulletin: Regardless of the Results - Which presidential candidate is better for the Middle East? Either way, IBB's work continues.
Doug Casey's International Man

Here’s How to Profit From Oil’s Next Big Move… - Let’s work through a few options ideas for one to position for a big move in oil (something we see as an above average probability). The post Here’s How ...
Kiwipolitico

US military-industrial-sports complex. - A US friend of mine wrote on social media about attending a Homecoming football game at her niece’s Red State university. Although the referees stunk and h...
Plain Sight

Losing- but finding – my sporting religion - "I would still go to the pub of rugby, or more often the televised off-licence, but what was on offer was increasingly the sporting equivalent of Speights....
The Scholar's Stage

Republican Debates on China: A Political Compass for Potential Trump Appointees - A Preliminary Taxonomy
Journal of Free Black Moms

Ep. 11 - Saying No to the Narrative (Kemi Ingram) - An interview with wife and mother of three Kemi Ingram
A Havenstein Moment.

A Strange Asymmetry - More thinking, less talking
Democracy Project

Geoffrey Miller: New Zealand’s breakthrough free trade deal with the Gulf - New Zealand’s new free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council is a major win for both sides. Todd McClay, New Zealand’s trade minister, announce...
Skeptic

The Most Important Election of My Lifetime…Again - And other hyperboles, such as “if Trump wins I’m leaving the country,” or “if Harris wins it will be the end of our country”
The China Space Monitor

China's International Space Efforts - Plus another Thousand Sails launch 🛰️ More satellite direct-to-device news 📱 and BYD getting involved in astronaut transit 🧑🏻‍🚀
Institute for Progress

Institute for Progress (IFP) — October 2024 Update - Hope you all have been enjoying the beginning of fall and the end of conference season (at least for the IFP team).
Autonomia

Obituary: Teri Garr - The actress and her exceptional and enduring talent and career
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

How Effective Are Vaccines Targeted To Respiratory Viruses? - And we see once again an important media talking point goes to die
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

Are We The Baddies? - *Difficult Questions: Does denying human equality and rejecting the principles of colour-blind citizenship place you among the baddies? Yes, I’m afraid it...
Texas Institute for Property Rights

All Men are Created Equal: Shattering Paradigms Book 1 - In 1857, Samuel Dawson, the son of a slaveholder, befriends Will, a slave boy. The parents of the two twelve-year The post All Men are Created Equal: Sha...
thesecondrenaissance

Independence and Romantic Relationships: The Lesson of Shel Silverstein’s The Missing Piece - Unfortunately, a great many people do not enjoy fulfilling romances.
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

A Mission for Businesses and Entrepreneurs: Help Bring Back Childhood - Market forces got us into this mess, and market forces can help us escape
Objective Standard Institute

Why I Used to Skip School Every Day - A podcast episode has helped me finally understand why I used to skip class every day and go exploring instead. The post Why I Used to Skip School Every ...
Statecraft

Does Anyone in Government Care About Productivity Growth? - "This is a big, structural problem with our government"
Paul Wells

Wells sur Trudeau en français! Avec Chantal Hébert - Mon livre sort en français. C'est Chantal qui a eu l'idée.
An Africanist Perspective

Harris or Trump? What the outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election portends for America's Africa policy - Despite the two presidential candidates' different approaches, US-Africa policy will remained hobbled by historical blinkers and the harsh realities of geo...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Just providing more funding to schools will not solve the attendance crisis. - The Education Review Office have published a report correctly calling school attendance in New Zealand a crisis and stating:
Africa-Israel Weekly

Michigan Muslims Endorse Trump - Obama expresses bewilderment
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 74) - Untimely Thoughts on a World in Transition
Asimov’s Addendum

AI is Entirely New, AI is Exactly the Same - Thoughts on the new White House AI Memorandum
The New Era

Swearing (after she was told not to) - My interview with Abi Roberts
Market Urbanism

A Case for Urban Renewal - Is it even possible today to write a vigorous argument in favor of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s? I doubt it. Jeanne Lowe's 1967 "Cities in a R...
Asymmetric Information

Your average wombat is probably smarter🍋 - World Wombat Day gave me the excuse to review the new Apple Intelligence
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

GUEST REVIEW: ...And Ladies of the Club, by Helen Hooven Santmyer - Please enjoy a final guest review while our baby works on some teeth.
Kibao

Who In Africa is Ready for EVs? - New data shows a continent divided into emulators, innovators, and stragglers
Boom (UK)

The 'parent gap' between rich & poor - Richer people are more likely to become parents
What You Can Do For Liberty

What If It Turns Out You Were Important? - Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could do only a little. — Edmund Burke
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

straight outta tartarus - in search of the inner sanctums
Peter Winsley

Therapeutic and generative benefits from poetry and music - In a 2016 paper I explored why Shakespeare is important for young people. Shakespeare’s works are immortal because successive generations have treasured hi...
Too Clever By Half

Spam in bulk? No problem! - Only you can prevent comment pollution. src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaz_BXQIxwDTRsTl-GKrX6-I8Bb1wpBwSxqf3Jpj6oKLLccQZ1Gm...
Armas

The Hard Country: The River and the Line. - Chapter 2 of the book is out!
Croaking Cassandra

Pretty (il)legal - The title of this post was, of course, a reference to the efforts of former Minister of Finance and National campaign manager Steven Joyce to defend the us...
The Roots of Progress

Big tech transitions are slow - With implications for AI
Syncretica

*Optimal* Stockpiles in Everything - Everyone is talking about stockpiles - but how much and when?
Public Lands – PERC

A Guide for Implementing Conservation Leasing - Conservation leasing is emerging as a new way to conserve public lands, and changing the way we think about land use in the process. The post A Guide fo...
Maximum Progress

The Internet is Good, Actually, And Other Assorted Links - Jason Crawford asks for a definitive defense of the internet.
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (23 October 2024) - Civil defense, and the impacts of climate change on other threats
The Jolly Libertarian

Isaiah Berlin's Argument Against Utopianism - *Recently my wife and her sister and I were in downtown Edmonton and I stopped by a second hand bookstore. I managed to snag a copy of Isaiah Berlin's Th...
New Zealand Arts Review

ATC’s six plays for 2025 - John Daly-Peoples AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY 2025 SEASON John Daly-Peoples Auckland Theatre Company have announced their 2025 Season of six plays ranging fro...
Don't Let It Go

Update on my Auction of Vintage Bracelet Owned by Ayn Rand - Get your bids in! And for those who missed the original announcement, or who need a refresher, here’s the post with information about the item I’m selling,...
HardmoneyJim

"A Black Hole in Economics" is now available on Amazon.com - Thank you for your patience! This book project was nearly two years in the making, and I’m pleased with the result.
The Kerrant

Electoral College Critics: Ready to Reconsider Your Favorite Leaders? - Critics often bash the U.S. Electoral College as undemocratic, but is it really an outlier? This post argues that many advanced democracies—including tho...
Lindsay Mitchell

Needless attack on government directive by public health academics - In September 2024 the government issued a directive to government agencies not to prioritise services on the basis of race. Shortly after, a group of pub...
Existential Crunch

The consequences of large-scale blackouts - What happens to a society when the lights go out?
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

A student should not be forced to learn about tikanga to be a lawyer - My oral submission to the Regulation Review Committee
Case Closed

September 2024 Space Stock Review - Includes Commentary on: BKSY, RKLB, LUNR, SATS, VSAT, CMTL, and BA
Tross Publishing

AN INSPIRING STORY OF COURAGE - By John McLean On 10th September, 2024, the death occurred of Dale Collett, a hero of the Rhodesian Bush War and an inspiration for all those who suffer ...
Houston Strategies

A simple solution to help Houston traffic, our tax-debt-spend problem, HSR bankrupted Japan, Austin builds towards affordability, METRO comedy! - Just a few small items this week:Charles Blain in City Journal: Saddled With Taxes and Debt - Houston-area leadership is losing touch with the fiscal restr...
Theatreview

Commennt posted to There Used to Be Magic, Once - Jennifer O’Sullivan October 17th, 2024 Kia ora John, and thank you for coming along to the festival again! Context for the following: I’m on the board of t...
Happy Future

Failure Mode: Welchification - American Reindustrialization Must Learn from GE’s Mistakes
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...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election in a Philosophic and Historic Context - Time is Running Out on a World-Historic Idea
Austin Vernon's Substack

Human Driving Increases Transportation Cost 10x - Why ground transportation still has a lot of legs.
Martini Mandate

Marxists, Beards and Follies - Sri Lanka has elected a Marxist president. He is described as a neo Marxist, which is what you call a revolutionary who’s shaved his beard. The problem i...
647 Reasons Why

DAYS 1-3 - 90 Mile Beach - Days 1-3 of my trek across the entire length of New Zealand
The Logical Place

Socialism in the 21st Century: A Regressive Ideology in Modern Times - Socialism, once hailed as a visionary and revolutionary alternative to capitalism, has deep roots in the progressive movements of the 19th and early 20th c...
Note to Noteworthy

How Reading Your Journal Entries Can Make You Happier - From someone who's journaled over 750,000 words
Cranmer’s Substack

HMNZS MANAWANUI - Details are already starting to emerge of the frantic rescue efforts that saved the crew of the stricken vessel on Saturday evening and which continued unt...
M.M.E.F. News

MMEF Events for 2025 and Your Voices Please - *Kia Ora Koutou MMEF Supporters,* What an eventful 2024! The AMI 3-6 Diploma tauira graduated in August, and their joy was palpable! Completing an ...
Offsetting Behaviour

Where are the food carts? - I still don't get why there aren't more food carts on Wellington's waterfront. On a good sunny day, you might find, along a stretch of gorgeous waterfron...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

AIER Defends Local Control in Key New Hampshire Tax and Education Cases - AIER has submitted amicus curiae briefs to the New Hampshire Supreme Court in the combined cases Rand v. State and ConVal v. State. We took this step becau...
Barrie Saunders

Answer is no Brian - Is New Zealand’s retirement strategy sustainable?
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: The Coal Conquest - There was no shortage of trees
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...
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Living in the Parent Ghetto - Despite my sincere efforts, I have become one of Those Moms Who Only Hang Out With Other Moms
Ruxandra’s Substack

I should have been braver - On the Letby case and its flaws. And why I should have spoken publicly more, earlier.
Let Grow

Kristen Bell & Dax Shepard Let Their Kids “Free-Range” for 7 Hours! - [image: Kristen Hands Up] Kristen Bell and hubby Dax Shepard went to Copenhagen and let their kids "Free-Range" -- yep, that's the term Kristen uses -- for...
Rosie Campbell

AI’s dangerous capabilities: Are we measuring the wrong thing? - Dangerous capability evaluations are a crucial tool for AI governance. But without accurate threat models, they could give us a false sense of security.
Gross Output

Slowing Gross Output Confirms Fed’s Need to Cut Rates - “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...
Wildlife – PERC

Rewarding Recovery Will Benefit the Wolf and All Imperiled Wildlife - PERC filed an amicus brief in Defenders of Wildlife v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The post Rewarding Recovery Will Benefit the Wolf and All Imperiled...
Johnny Grey Studios

FOOD FESTIVAL AFTERMATH. - Glamour on the Unfitted Kitchen Stage. Still coming down off the high of the first South Downs Food Festival… I can’t stop thinking about...
Overthinking Everything

Using what you're given - Sometimes the universe hands you fruit and you've got to use it somehow.
The Free Market Futurist

The AI Doomsday Cult - I recently posted the next chapter of my book in progress: The Prophet of Causation, a guide to Ayn Rand’s philosophy from the perspective of the central r...
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

The Search for Markets to Help Manage California’s Groundwater - What role have groundwater market actually played in implementing the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act? The post The Search for Markets to Help Ma...
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...
Spiked Online

After the Pogrom Book Donation - The post After the Pogrom Book Donation appeared first on spiked.
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...
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...
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...
Stu-Topia

A Fallacy Called ‘Privilege, or It Didn’t Happen’ - Stuart K. Hayashi Ten years ago, if on social media you talked about a strange event that happened to you, often someone would quip, “Show pictures or it d...
Demystifying Science

Addressing Virus Skeptics - The Confusing misuse of the words isolate and cause
a/symmetric

We're going on hiatus - But do stick around
In Due Course

Key stages in the decline of academic Marxism - The fact that my previous post, on John Rawls and the death of Western Marxism, attracted several times more readers than anything I’ve previously publishe...
Outliving Iran

This Movie is Why I'm Alive - How Ratatouille showed me the beauty of the world that wished to kill me
Creative Deduction

Solving immigration is a question of economics - Across Europe and the USA, immigration is the hottest of political topics. How many immigrants is too many? Who should be allowed in and who should be turn...
Better things are possible

Managing on-street parking for local benefit; the case for Parking Benefit Districts - Parking is often the centre of debate in our cities, particularly on-street car parks, who gets to use them and how we manage them.
The Prophet of Causation

A Causality Walk for Consciousness - Chapter 3
Wright in Racine

My Wright Eye – September 6, 2024 - © Mark Hertzberg (2024) I have just finished helping lead my 17th Road Scholar Frank Lloyd Wright tour. The number is important because it speaks to my cha...
PM of NZ

Upcoming turkey shoot in the Far North - *The 13 councillors voted unanimously, reaffirming a decision they made in May to continue with their Māori ward for the October 2025 local elections* .....
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 ...
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

Project 2025 vs. The Public’s Health, Part III - Part III: The NIH
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...
What's New Under the Sun

Time for More Living Literature Reviews - A Third Anniversary Post
Tribes – PERC

Economic Potential of Wind and Solar in American Indian Communities - This academic paper combines data on wind and solar endowments, reservation characteristics, and utility-scale renewable energy projects to offer three i...
Harry’s Substack

The Complexity-Worshippers - The new attack on reason
Private Lands – PERC

PERC and RMEF Team Up to Launch Innovative Wildlife Conservation Initiatives - Our expanded partnership marks the beginning of a multiyear effort focused on pioneering big game conservation efforts across the Rocky Mountain West and...
Hunters and Anglers – PERC

PERC and RMEF Team Up to Launch Innovative Wildlife Conservation Initiatives - Our expanded partnership marks the beginning of a multiyear effort focused on pioneering big game conservation efforts across the Rocky Mountain West and...
Roots of Progress

Introducing the 2024 Blog-Building Intensive Fellows - We’re thrilled to announce our second cohort of our Blog-Building Intensive Fellowship! This year’s fellows are a group 25 of impressive progress think...
A City for People

Making it easier to build granny flats - City for People submits in support of more homes in existing urban areas.
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...
Notes On Liberty

New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is out - You can read the whole thing here.
Folarinism

White identity politics won’t save Britain - It fails to provide a vision for a good life and a realistic solution to the problems we face
Jackson Upmann

Coming soon - This is Jackson Upmann.
High Capacity

A warped hall of mirrors: US-China competition and industrial policy - China doubled down on industrial policy and advanced manufacturing in its latest Third Plenum. As US-China competition heats up, both countries are drawing...
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

When ideology meets industry - No, "wokeness" is not a cult. It’s the product of a subversive industry that uses well-meaning people as workers and customers.
CEE – Econlib

Occupational Licensing - [An update of Occupational Licensing, by David S. Young.] Occupational licensing today directly affects more than one in five workers in the United State...
Liberty Scott

Charles Moore on the prospects of Trump in Foreign Policy - From the Daily Telegraph: *One of Mr Trump’s clearest messages, amplified by his choice of J D Vance, is that he does not want to help Ukraine defeat Vl...
FDR Liberated

Top Strategies for Enhancing Customer Satisfaction in Business Services - Customer satisfaction is the cornerstone of any successful business. In […]
BloodhoundBlog

RIP Geno Petro, a hound at the head of the pack. - Geno Petro has passed away. He was one of the best writers to work with us here over the years – and I have the proof. Cura ut valeas, frater. Requiescat i...
Drinks and Drinking

Stirred Cucumber Drinks - This week’s Robb Report article was about a cocktail called the Archangel. You can read it here if you like, but briefly summarized: the Archangel is a neo...
Anti-Dismal

100 years of the theory of the firm. Or may be only 50. - Depending on how you pick your starting point there has been, roughly, 50 or 100 years of the mainstream economic theory of the firm. In support of the 1...
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Be a Filmmaker For Liberty: Training and Funding Are Available - Ever thought about becoming a filmmaker to promote libertarian ideas? It’s never been easier. Two organizations will help you learn the craft, find fundi...
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

The history of Hawke’s Bay – third edition - My long-standing history of Hawke’s Bay is out this month in new edition. It’s been in print and selling steadily since 2017. This new edition is in full c...
A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

Ned Fletcher's book: "unsatisfactory" and "badly flawed" - *N*ew Zealand/Australian historian Bain Attwood reviews Ned Fletcher's *English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi* in the *Australian Book Review. *His c...
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...
Growing to Truth

Duh, Of Course Hamas Lied About Casualty Statistics - The UN revised their Gazan casualty statistics, claiming fewer women and children were killed than previously reported
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Excerpt 1 -- from a new essay series - Work in progress - (for interera.co)
Keith Weiner Economics

Commodities, Consumer Goods, Prices, and Time - Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley, at the Cato Institute, write about the Simon Abundance Index. SAI is named for Julian Simon, famous for his bet with the Malth...
Earthly Idealism

The Unhappy Millionaire - I’m excited to share the first two episodes of a podcast I’ve launched along with Ayn Rand Institute CEO Tal Tsfany: The Unhappy Millionaire. The premise i...
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
Butterpaper

Vault 2014: Gaza - cities under siege and under attack - Originally published in 2014. All eyes should be on Gaza at the moment, but understandably many are focused on unfolding events in the damp fields of Eas...
from FEE

Why We're Not Supposed to Talk about Climate-Related Deaths - Disaster mortality seems to be a perfectly useful metric for understanding climate change—when the numbers tell the right story.
Thoughts from 40° South

Reflections on October 7th - I have been intending to write down my thoughts on the massacre of Israelis by Hamas terrorists and Gaza civilians on October 7th, 2023, ever since it ha...
Jack’s Substack

Electricity Cheapest in a Decade - NZ residential electricity most affordable in recent history
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...
round houses

island home - Sweet little cylindrical house on Koh Tao, an island in the Gulf of Thailand –
Samizdata

Let’s just defund the UN and leave it immediately - Hidden deep below the headquarters of the United Nations’ aid agency for Palestinians here is a Hamas complex with rows of computer servers that Israel’s...
The Grumpy Economist

Understanding Trumpers - WSJ oped and substack post.
Open Borders: The Case

High-skilled hacks: the business of extraordinary ability - This post is part of my “high-skilled hacks” series, focused on immigration to the United States. The series explores various workarounds and caveats to im...
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...
The Organon Architecture Blog

How to begin creating Organic Architecture ... - *'House for Betta,' 1988, by architect James Schildroth* *Organic architecture is not about assembling boxes and coating them with candy floss. For tha...
Patrick T. Brown, PhD

The Social Feedback Loop that Puts Blinders on Climate Science -
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...
Precise Thinking

Finding the Benevolent Universe when the World is in a Pickle - by
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...
Fisheries – PERC

Free Markets and the Environment - A podcast exploring PERC's unique approach to conservation. The post Free Markets and the Environment appeared first on PERC.
positive check

New location - The EHES blog Positive Check has moved and can be found on the EHES website: *https://ehes.org/category/blog/*
Dominic Frisby

Exclusive Gold-Infused Comedy Show: Don't Miss Out - Laugh and learn about gold with Dominic Frisby! Extra London dates on Feb 14th and 15th. Get your tickets now. #ComedyGold
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 ...
Splitting Headache

Meta Dreams—Somethings - Also, the recency bias of the internet, the death of search, and the most dangerous BigTech firm in the world.
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
Professor Werner

Washington’s “development economics” is actually designed to prevent development - Published in China by Guancha.cn newspaper on 7 September 2023 at: https://www.guancha.cn/Werner/2023_09_07_707650_3.shtml
Uranium-238

Introduction to the Iran Nuclear Deal - Putting a price on nonproliferation
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

Agustina Vergara Cid on the Immorality of the U.S. Immigration System - [image: Agustina Vergara Cid on the Immorality of the U.S. Immigration System] *Immigrants who “get in line” are punished for wanting to work.* The post A...
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 ...
Stories by Rudi Edsall on Medium

Round 12 v Bulldogs — who needs a midfield anyway? - Round 12 v Bulldogs — who needs a midfield anyway? I honestly did not see a way we could do this one. I was expecting an absolute massacre in the midfield ...
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
The Market Urbanism Report Blog

Can Prospera Become A Startup City Blueprint? - The emergence of startup cities is a story we’ll cover extensively these next few years. Prospera of Honduras is a leading example.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
StephenFranks.co.nz

Who’s calling the shots on co-governance? Lawyers or MPs? Will the Court of Appeal order disclosure? - On Wednesday 15 February the Court of Appeal will hear the arguments of two King’s Counsel, that the government should come clean on whether its lawyers ar...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Mencken's Ghost

Announcement: New Substack Publication - I have started a new Substack Publication. Details:
Cities Matter

Auckland at a Turning Point 2: Marking Down the Labour Market - *Reality Bites* For some years I have been calling out the over-exuberant growth expectations behind Auckland’s planning. I have also argued that creat...
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...
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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The Rational Capitalist

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

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

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

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

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

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Monday 19 May 2008

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