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The Inquiring Mind

Ian Bragg Thriller Series: #3 – The Replacement by Craig Martelle read by Chris Abernathy – Audiobook -
Futurism

Top Spy Says Tech Corporations Are Closer to Running Entire World Than Governments - Who would know better? The post Top Spy Says Tech Corporations Are Closer to Running Entire World Than Governments appeared first on Futurism.
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

A Nation Assembled, Not United: Nigeria’s Fragile Road to Independence - Part XI: Institutions, Incentives, and the Unfinished Business of Nigerian State-Building
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Tories to Ditch ZEV Mandate - By Paul Homewood https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/13/next-conservative-government-ditch-ban-petrol-cars/ I briefly mentioned the Tories’ about tu...
Tim Worstall

If only he knew, eh? - Most people think that economics is about money, that government spending is constrained by tax, and that public services must always come second to “bal...
Slow Boring

Confessions of a former “studies say” guy - Wrestling with questions about how we know what we know
Law & Liberty

Conservative Responsibility and the Lunatic Fringe - Nobody likes an overzealous hall monitor, but denying extremists attention can keep the conservative movement out of the fever swamps.
Reason Foundation

Punishing safer nicotine alternatives backfires on public health - Taxing products equally, despite their unequal risks, is the exact opposite of desirable fiscal and public health policy. The post Punishing safer nicot...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Tories to Ditch ZEV Mandate - By Paul Homewood https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/13/next-conservative-government-ditch-ban-petrol-cars/ I briefly mentioned the Tories’ about tu...
The Free Press

Kidnapped by Russia. Plus. . . - Today in The Front Page: The children kidnapped by Russia. Could Luigi Mangione walk free? Why are AI firms hiring writers? And much more.
Living Resources Center

Honesty: Not Just for Virtue, But for Mental Health - Just when I start to wonder if my 20 years of writing this column has been worth it, I get an email like this: “Dear Dr. Hurd, I strive to live up to the...
Sawahil

The Iraqi Scholar Muhammad Mahmud al-Sawwaf and His Travels in Africa - A portrait of politics and religion in 1972-1973 at a pivotal moment for Saudi Arabia and Africa.
Doomberg

China Speed - Has the world’s largest oil importer finally unlocked shale?
Quotulatiousness

“The ‘liberal international order’ – a technocratic oligarchy sustained by tightly interlocked institutions” - Last week, Len D. Pozeram wrote about how the real (but mostly unacknowledged) American empire is facing unprecedented challenges and may indeed be in seri...
Watts Up With That?

Ford takes $20bn hit to reverse course on electric cars - Ford will take a $19.5bn (£14.5bn) hit as it tore up plans to invest significant sums into electric cars.
Marginal Revolution

What should I ask Joanne Paul? - Yes I will be doing a Conversation with her. From the Google internet: Joanne Paul is a writer, broadcaster, consultant, and Honorary Senior Lecturer in...
Existential Crunch

December 2025 Updates - Old posts, new papers
Toppermost

Séamus Begley - Séamus Begley stood out for the remarkable rhythmic precision and dexterity of his playing - he was also a very fine singer. The post Séamus Begley appea...
The Daily Sceptic

Shell Oil Sued Over “Causing Typhoon” in Philippines in Major Test Case - Shell Oil has been sued over a claim that it was partly responsible for a typhoon in the Philippines in 2021 in a major test case backed by Greenpeace an...
Flashbak

Spirit Writing And Surreal Visions by Comtesse Pillet-Will And Raffaele Mainella For Nos Invisibles, 1907 - “Our altar is raised, adorned with all its ornaments, sparkling with all its lights, ready to receive the almost divine word from the Beyond.” – Nos Invi...
GeekPress

Finding Good Books - *How to* find good books to read. (Via Marginal Revolution.)
The Antiplanner

The Problem with Energy Blinders - Blinders are used to keep horses focused on the road ahead and not get distracted by people or other things on either side of them. Too many people who wor...
The Antiplanner

The Problem with Energy Blinders - Blinders are used to keep horses focused on the road ahead and not get distracted by people or other things on either side of them. Too many people who wor...
Hoover institution Commentary

Partner Of First Strategic Choice - The Trump administration’s newly released National Security Strategy elevates the Western Hemisphere to a priority region. Under an “Americas First” policy...
The Daily Doom

Big Storm Swirls around Trump and his Economy - While I may be tempted to write in greater depths about some of these stories in my weekend Deeper Dive, we’ll have to see what more the week brings, but...
Cremieux Recueil

GDP is Inevitable - GDP is a reviled metric, but it's highly correlated with everything we care about. I explain one mathematical reason why.
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...
Zero Hanger

More surgery pain for King as St Kilda provide pre-season injury update - Another summer setback for St Kilda's key forward.
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: Expect The Falling Mud - It'll happen.
Point of Order

Treaty principles, unelected Māori with voting rights and a letter of resignation – what would Mandela make of this? - Bob Edlin writes – PoO was somewhat bemused to learn that Napier mayor Richard McGrath’s executive assistant had quit her job, saying she could no longer w...
Real Clear Energy

Dec: 16, 2025: Energy Infrastructure Finance Bulletin - Is the obsessive focus on the kind of resources America uses to generate electricity misplaced? What can be done to make America's power grid - the means...
ArchDaily

How Environments Shape Outdoor Dining Spaces: 24 Architectural Approaches - Outdoor terraces occupy a familiar threshold in cities around the world, operating as social rooms that sit between interior space and open air to host r...
Techdirt

Mike Pence Calls For RFK Jr.’s Ouster…But Not For The Reasons You Would Think - There are lots of good reasons to call for the impeachment or ouster or RFK Jr. He’s flatly unqualified for the role. He’s introducing all kinds of health ...
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
No Minister

Clueless in Paris and London - I’m detecting several themes here, but cluelessness underpins them all. No, not about Islamism, or at least not just about Islamism. Turns out the elites w...
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

NZ Courts think its 2018 and declare puberty blockers reversible - New Zealand's activist judiciary strikes again
The Trumpland Diary

HEALTHCARE 101 - Why Donald Trump’s Healthcare “Plan” Is A Slap in the Face to America
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Elision – the omission of a sound or syllable when speaking; the use of a speech form that lacks a final or initial sound which a variant speech form has; ...
No Right Turn

A victory for Māori in Nelson - Way back in 1839, the New Zealand Company bought the area that is now Nelson from local iwi and hapu. As part of the deal, they promised that Māori would r...
Retraction Watch

Dana-Farber settles suit alleging image manipulation for $15 million - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has settled a lawsuit filed under the False Claims Act, admitting researchers used images and data that were “misrepresented a...
SkyscraperCity Forum

CURITIBA | Complexo Carrefour Champagnat | 60p | 5x40p | PRO - Uma negociação milionária sacramentou nesta semana a venda de um terreno de 90 mil metros quadrados na região mais valorizada de Curitiba. O tradicional su...
UnHerd

Zack Polanski’s degrowth dystopia - The Green insurgency will cannibalise Britain
Spiked Online

Qatar’s rise was made in the West - The post Qatar’s rise was made in the West appeared first on spiked.
Sustain What

In Yet Another Atmospheric River Assault, What "Broke the Pacific Northwest's Plumbing"? - I propose it was broken a long time ago and, sure, climate change is likely contributing to epic rains there now.
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

Civic Courage Is Mens et Manus - Civic courage bridges the gap between conviction and consequence. It is mens et manus for democratic life: the disciplined capacity to think independentl...
Energy in Depth

WI Senate Scrutiny Highlights Growing Concerns Over Bloomberg SAAG Program - The Wisconsin State Senate’s decision to launch a special committee investigating the Department of Justice’s use of externally funded environmental lega...
Curbed - All

Curbed’s 20 Most-Read Stories of 2025 - A real-estate tour with Timothée Chalamet’s mother, life in an empty Brooklyn supertall, and Hamptons lawsuits made the list.
Kiwiblog

A win for us - The Post reports: Media and Communications Minister Paul Goldsmith has made clear that a law change designed to assist the media was shelved because of c...
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Why Trump Finally Went too Far - Erika Kirk hate, JD as White Kendi, and more
Cato at Liberty

Stablecoins, Money Market Funds, and the Regulatory Mess We Refuse to Clean Up - Despite the GENIUS Act being passed into law in July and creating the first US-based legal framework for issuing stablecoins, there remains much room for i...
The Curmudgeon

Colonial Architecture - Insidious and un-American elements are treacherously conspiring to undermine the Trumpsterisation of the White House. The monarch and his head-tribble have...
Doug Casey's International Man

Monroe Doctrine 2.0: The Donroe Doctrine - How the US is reviving a modernized Monroe Doctrine to counter China’s growing influence in the Western Hemisphere as global power shifts toward a multip...
Paul Wells

"I don't really understand the emotional reaction" - Donald Trump's man in Ottawa on trade and neighbours
History Reclaimed

The Conversion of a Slave Trader: John Newton’s friendship with Alexander Clunie - The purchase of a painting led Richard Longfoot to research the crucial role of Captain Alexander Clunie in the conversion of John Newton from slave captai...
Chris Trotter

My Party, Your Party. - “Been there, done that, still got a rosette somewhere!”
JoNova

Bombshell: Uber-Green CSIRO admits 100% renewables is “not possible” - … By Jo Nova It’s all so unfair. They just wanted to save the world and be treated like heroes, but nothing is working out. The CSIRO has suddenly step...
IPWatchdog Articles

CAFC Affirms Dismissal of Patent Suit Over Peer-to-Peer Tech, Citing Waiver and Judicial Estoppel - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Tuesday affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a patent infringement suit brought by Cooper...
The Integrity Institute

News Briefing: 17 December 2025 - ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
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...
Greater Auckland

What’s in the RoNS files? - Earlier this week, Te Waihanga, The Infrastructure Commission, called for more transparency for infrastructure investment. I thoroughly agree. A lack of t...
Israel Institute of NZ

Inventing Palestine: How a Modern National Identity Emerged by Erasing Jewish History - The question of whether a distinct Palestinian Arab national identity existed before the mid-20th century is not merely academic. It lies at the heart of t...
Persuasion

The Separation of Powers Is (Almost) Dead - Congress is no longer a safeguard of American democracy.
A Halfling's View

The Quiet Revolution - Tikanga and the Law - Evolution or Revolution
Institute for Energy Research

California Proposes a Road Usage Tax - As the Washington Examiner explains, California’s newest tax proposal is basically a subscription service that bills monthly for how often… The post Cali...
The Many Ways I Let You Down

Groundhog Day on Bondi Beach - Slogans, silence, rinse, repeat.
Truth on the Market

‘The Law Merchant,’ by Milgrom, North, & Weingast - In “The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade: The Law Merchant, Private Judges and the Champagne Fairs,” Paul Milgrom, Douglass C. North, and Bar...
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...
The Roots of Progress

In defense of slop - When costs fall, average quality does too
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Owen Jones Weaponises the Massacre of Jews. Again. -
David Stockmans Contra Corner

On The Blithering Economic Crackpottery Of Donald J. Trump - Click on Title to Read
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day – There’s Good News for Britain: Things Are Really Bad - Britain is like an alcoholic who has spent a decade reassuring himself that, despite his binges and blackouts, he is “high functioning”. The reality is, ...
Mises Wire

What Happened to Climate Change? - Once it stopped being useful to cement power, politicians abandoned “climate change” narratives for others they found more effective.
The Double Standard

Open Mike 17/12/2025 - Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to th...
Breaking Views

Perspective with Ryan Bridge: Another fiscal result telling us what we already know - Well, of course you heard it here first last Monday - the surplus has been pushed out again.It's like waiting for Christmas when you're a ten-year-old, the...
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...
The UnPopulist

Patrick Deneen's Bullshit Case Against Liberalism - He distorts everything about this governing system and offers a scary 'aristopopulist' authoritarianism as an alternative
EconLog

Diving into Tariffs at Liberty Fund Today - *From the editors:* We have an in-depth discussion about tariffs across two Liberty Fund sites today. EconLog contributor David Hebert has a piece on the...
Energy Transition Absurdities

Blasts From the Past: My EV Stories at the Daily Caller Saw What Was Coming at Ford, GM, and Others - Monday’s announcement by Ford CEO Jim Farley that his company would be forced to take “special charges” totaling $19.5 billion as it tries to unwind its in...
Why Evolution Is True

The University of Auckland passes free speech and institutional neutrality policy - The newish government of New Zealand is finally seeing the light, and has mandated that every one of the country’s eight universities (all government funde...
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Monogamous Humans, Erectile Dysfunction, Growth Minds - Links and recommendations
FIRE

How schools still abuse ‘institutional neutrality’ to silence speech - Universities are invoking “institutional neutrality” to muzzle students and faculty. But the fix is simple: restrain administrators, not speech.
John D. Cook

Multiples with no large digits - Here’s a curious theorem I stumbled across recently [1]. Take an integer N which is not a multiple of 10. Then there is some multiple of N which only con...
Why not reason?

Reason organizes yourself - Reason organizes the mind.
Journal of Free Black Thought

The Compton Cowboys – A Modern Renaissance - Reclaiming the Legacy of Black Cowboys
Journal of Free Black Thought

The Compton Cowboys – A Modern Renaissance - Reclaiming the Legacy of Black Cowboys
Africa’s Bright Future

Africa could be the richest continent on Earth - Nothing is missing except the freedom to build.
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

The Zohran Mamdani Machine - Can he actually build one?
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Strong Public Support To Restrict Social Media for Children in Germany - A huge majority of adults favors a minimum age for social media – and even adolescents themselves see harm from social media.
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

The Enemy's Feet - Welcome to the conclusion of our seventy-sixth Tale for Our Time: Christmas at Thompson Hall by Anthony Trollope...
The Daily Economy

Junk the CAFE Standards -
Gus Van Horn

Squabbling About Climate Policy Beneficiaries - Bjørn Lomborg argues at *The New York Post* that the backlash against economy-crippling "climate" policies isn't confined to the United States: The main UN...
ChinaTalk

Second Breakfast: Hegseth’s Second Strike - Tony Stark and Justin Mc return for Second Breakfast.
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

An Open Letter to Brown University President Christina Paxson - Take accountability for the deaths of two students and resign in disgrace
Changing Lanes

Don’t Ask a Tourist About High-Speed Rail - The first thing to build is the foundation
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...
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

Poor Madsen’s Almanack - Based on shrewd observation of likely weather patterns and early budding of snowdrops and Indian maize, Madsen has been able to describe the events of 2026...
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 953 The fiscal politics of gambling. Sanctions are biting. Ubuntu and the "Table of Drops". - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
The Rebuild

Why Is It So Hard to Renovate? - Simple home renovations now cost five figures in big cities
Statecraft

99.8% of Federal Employees Get Good Performance Reviews. Why? - Trump's head of talent, on the federal workforce.
The Works in Progress Newsletter

English has become easier to read. - It's not because of shorter sentences.
Anthony B. Bradley

Bless Me Father, For I Have Groyped - Because Fuentes claims Catholicism as central to his worldview, his public claims are rightly subject to accountability within the Catholic Church.
Anthony B. Bradley

Bless Me Father, For I Have Groyped - Because Fuentes claims Catholicism as central to his worldview, his public claims are rightly subject to accountability within the Catholic Church.
Yascha Mounk

Kelly Born on All the Ways AI Is Changing Politics - Yascha Mounk and Kelly Born discuss the socioeconomic impact of artificial intelligence.
Mises Institute Blog

Obama’s PowerPoint Death Parade Led to Trump’s Venezuelan Killings - President Trump and Hegseth are cashing a blank check for carnage that was written years earlier by President Barack Obama.
Sinification

Sanctions and Economic Warfare in the US–China Contest: The "Renmin School" Playbook - A review of "Sanctions and Economic Warfare" by Di Dongsheng, Ji Xianbai and Wei Zilong
The Cobden Centre

Trump is at it again with his tariff craziness. How should Canada respond? - By Walter E. Block Before we answer the question, let us give some evidence of the accuracy of this description. He calls tariffs “the...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

The Loaded Language of Protectionism - Language matters. Words have not only technical meanings; they also summon particular attitudes and impressions. And sometimes these attitudes and impres...
American Institute of Economic Research

The Loaded Language of Protectionism - Language matters. Words have not only technical meanings; they also summon particular attitudes and impressions. And sometimes these attitudes and impres...
Quillette

Father and Son, Partners in Terror - The identity of the Bondi Beach terrorists reveals some uncomfortable but important truths about antisemitism within Australia’s Muslim population.
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: I’m Not Crazy. My Reality Is Just Different Than Yours - Lewis Carroll? Cheshire Cat? J.C. Penney Department Store? Sue? Apocryphal? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: The famous English fantasy author L...
Manhattan Contrarian

Birthright Citizenship? I Think It's An Open Question - * On his first day in office in his second term, January 20, 2025, President Trump issued a collection of Executive Orders. One of those was number 14160, ...
Capitalism Magazine

The Hazard of Doing Business with China – and What to Do About It - Moral, profit seeking businesses must be vigilant about the China risk; it is in their self-interest to compete and trade freely and not help authoritarian...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

The Myth of Significant Change/Improvement in Education under the Coalition. - After 34 years of working in Education in New Zealand I am desperate for Erica Stanford to make truly meaningful and substantial change.
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...
The Footy Almanac

Almanac Cricket: Cricket by the Sea - There's a certain amount of delight watching a leisurely game of country cricket with the sea for a backdrop as Mickey Randall explains.
Marcus on AI

“A case for AI models that understand, not just predict, the way the world works” - Terrific interview at Marketplace Tech
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
Conversable Economist

AI is Coming: Interview with Anton Korinek - Tim Sablik interviews Anton Korinek “On how rapid advances in AI might reshape the nature of work and how economists can help society prepare” (Econ Focu...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

The Best Online Articles of 2025 - My favorite longform writing of the year
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Premium: Mythbusters - AI Edition - I keep trying to think of a cool or interesting introduction to this newsletter, and keep coming back to how *fucking weird* everything is getting. Two ...
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
Official Blog

Bestätigte Souvenir-Momente in 2026 - Das Jahr 2025 neigt sich dem Ende zu und es ist Zeit, den Blick auf ein brandneues Jahr voller Geocaching-Abenteuer zu richten. Egal, ob Du einen großen Ca...
David Stockman's Contra Corner

On The Blithering Economic Crackpottery Of Donald J. Trump - Just when you thought that the Donald has already won the derby for economic crackpottery, he comes up with another even more fakakta entry. This one spi...
Astral Codex Ten

Open Thread 412 - ...
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Philosophy and Psychology - Complementary Paths
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Conservatives: Get Over the Dark Ages [Open College transcript] - Un-edited transcription of this previously released podcast. Audio links: iTunes. Stitcher. YouTube. Transcription: The Initial Debate It’s a faux pas in s...
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

How the Financial System Invented “Climate Risk” Untethered from Climate Science - Part 2 of the THB series on insurance and climate change
Texas Institute for Property Rights

A Predictable Consequence - When Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs in April, the White House website stated tariffs do not raise prices. In The post A Predictable Consequ...
Glenn’s Substack

More Hospital Tips - From an insider
Objective Standard Institute

Sunrise on the Reaping and the Causality Confusion - Angel dives into the ideas behind Sunrise on the Reaping and why philosophy isn’t just for books.
Kunstler

Free and Fair? - "The prison sentence made Ms. Peters, 70, a martyr for the election-denial movement, and launched a fruitless campaign by Mr. Trump’s followers to win her ...
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 ...
bad cattitude

if not invasion, what? - calling things by their names
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

How a 1989 Trip to a Texas Grocery Store Exposed The Lie Of Socialism - Boris Yeltsin deserves credit for laying bare the lie of socialism that so many others had refused to see.
The Roots of Liberty

Pounds Of Flesh - In Guy Ritchie’s 2019 UK gangster movie The Gentlemen, American expat Mickey Pearson (Matthew McConaughey) seeks to go legit by selling his lucrative pot b...
Perennial Meditations

🖼️ Know Yourself, Thinking, and Habits - Monday Muse (Vol. 116)
The Whakataki Times

LAST WEEK AT WORK: Bloke Clicks Rapidly Between Tabs To Appear To Be A Productive Employee - FAKE FOCUS. The post LAST WEEK AT WORK: Bloke Clicks Rapidly Between Tabs To Appear To Be A Productive Employee appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

Statement on the Bondi Beach Terror Attack – Standing in Solidarity with the Jewish Community - I unequivocally condemn this atrocity as an act of terrorism driven by antisemitism - a poisonous hatred that has no place in any society.
Flying Out

Mask (LP + CD) - *Vendor: *Beggars Banquet *Type: *BAUHAUS *Price: * 52.00 *Mask* is the band’s second album and was released by Beggars Banquet in 1981. On their sopho...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

Europe: Paying the Price for Closing Coal (Part 1) - This article was originally published at Coal Zoom and is republished here with permission. Will Rogers once said: "If you find yourself in a hole, stop d...
Real Clear Energy: Video

Chevron CEO on Oil Price, Demand, Venezuela, AI Power - Chevron Chief Executive Officer Mike Wirth discusses the impact of lower oil prices on exploration, discussions with the Trump administration on remaining ...
JunkScience.com

Paris Climate Deal Now Decade-Old Disaster - My latest at the Daily Caller.
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...
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Keira Bell: “There’s no excuse for experimenting on children” - Survivor of trans medical scandal speaks out against UK government’s unethical puberty blocker study
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Emerson on Stoicism - Marcus Aurelius and American Transcendentalism
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...
DGMLive

On This Day 40 Years Ago - Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists - Live was recorded in the Continental Ballroom at George Washington University in Washington DC.
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Ny Oh: Wildwood (digital outlets) - For someone who grew up in Tauranga Nami Ludlow has done well for herself. A Ny Oh she played keyboards, guitar and theremin in Harry Styles' touring b...
Can't Get Much Higher

All the Books: 2025 - If you're looking for a new book, I'm here for you
Leport’s Substack

SALE For the THRILLER'S LOVERS on your list - CHANGE OF HEART Hard cover only $15.91
The Future of Being Human

Revisiting custom GPTs — the good, the bad, and the ... interesting! - It's been a minute but I thought it time to take a fresh look at OpenAI's custom GPT feature. I found myself both frustrated and surprised!
Conspicuous Cognition

America's epistemological crisis (reprise) - Polarization, populism, and perspective
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...
Splitting Headache

Somethings: Keep a record - On notebooks, Doestoyevsky, and young Marisa Tomei.
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.
The Logical Place

The False Consensus Effect - Introduction Human beings are social reasoners. We form beliefs not only by observing the world, but by inferring the intentions, commitments, and likely v...
misfits' architecture

I❤️U2 vs. 我也爱你 - This problem of efficiency of language conversion into unicode – and hence anything computer-related and especially AI related – isn’t going away. I’ll con...
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...
Harry’s Substack

Who Owns You? - The debate over assisted suicide
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

The More We Learn, The More We Should Be Reminded Of The Narrative On COVID Vaccine Efficacy - It's easy now to forget what was said about the efficacy of COVID vaccines
The New York Review of Books

‘The Ancient and Long-Forgotten Language of Cinematography’ - Films are rarely made in response to film critics, so it is unlikely that Bi Gan’s wildly ambitious new film was inspired Susan Sontag’s 1996 essay “The De...
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

Technology to fashion, the paradox of originality - FILE - In this Nov.
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

Wonderful Mystery Ride - The case of the renegade flume ride seat
Construction Physics

Reading List 12/13/2025 - Boom Supersonic’s gas turbine, the reliability of learning curves, a fake bridge collapse, using coal mines for geothermal energy, and more.
A Havenstein Moment.

The Art of the Absurd - Monetize. Monetize. Monetize. Monetize.
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Meaningful permitting reform that Republicans and Democrats can agree on - Republicans and Democrats can finally enact meaningful permitting reform if they start with the House’s promising SPEED and PERMIT Acts and improve them ba...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Te Kaupapa, Waatea’s Weekend Political Panel Show with Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Bomber - Join Waatea’s Matthew Tukaki, and Maori Party Co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Editor of The Daily Blog, Martyn Bradbury for Te Kaupapa Waatea’s Weeken...
Freedom and Flourishing

Can Polarized Moral Politics be Bridged by a Neo-Aristotelian Philosophy of Freedom and Flourishing? - *This is a guest essay by Dr Edward W. Younkins, Professor of Accountancy and Business at Wheeling University, and Executive Director of its Institut...
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

A plan that isn’t really a plan - The Occasional Saturday Satire
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #25: Use Contrast to Create Clarity - The power of opposites makes your message more memorable
The Breakthrough Journal

Greenwashing With Chinese Characteristics - China's "Green Electrostate" Is Neither
Thinking Directions

Thoughts on Following a Daily Plan - What skills are needed to follow through on a plan for the day? How about a plan that was made up at least one day before? And how will the tasks actuall...
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...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Trump's National Security Strategy and the European Union, or: A sly plan to make life much, much harder for the Eurotards in Brussels - On 5 December, the Trump administration released a concise 29-page document outlining their National Security Strategy as required by the Goldwater-Nichols...
McFaul's World

The Case for Selective Economic Decoupling with Autocracies - US leaders should continue selectively decoupling in key economic and security domains
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

DHS Classifies Just 4% of ICE Arrests as “the Worst”—Most for Nonviolent Offenses - DHS's new "depraved immigrants" list fails to make the point DHS wants.
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

DHS Classifies Just 4% of ICE Arrests as “the Worst”—Most for Nonviolent Offenses - DHS's new "depraved immigrants" list fails to make the point DHS wants.
American Energy Alliance

AEA Statement on the PERMIT Act - WASHINGTON DC (12/12/25) – This week, the U.S. House began what is slated to be two weeks of permitting action. Most notable on the calendar so far has b...
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.
The Trichordist

Trump’s Historic Kowtow to Special Interests: Why Trump’s AI Executive Order Is a Threat to Musicians, States, and Democracy - Trump’s AI executive order is not a national AI standard — it is a federal power grab engineered by David Sacks, riddled with constitutional defects, desig...
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...
Schiffradio.com

QE is Back! Cost of Living Will Soar – Ep 1053 - QE is coming back — and President Trump isn’t happy about Peter Schiff saying it out loud. After Schiff’s Fox interview, Trump fired off a Truth Social p...
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.
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"
Skeptic

🚨 Annual Fundraiser: Exclusive Autographed Items from Our Archives - Dear Supporters of Science, Reason, and Skepticism, Over 30 years ago, Pat Linse and I founded Skeptic magazine and the Skeptics Society—starting in my g...
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...
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

The Deaths They Said Couldn’t Happen - From two teenage boys to 60 documented cases, the growing evidence of rare fatal vaccine reactions.
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Music playlist for 1820-1829 - Feeling Romantic (in the historical sense)?
The Jolly Libertarian

MAGA and the True Believer - Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky! Recently I published an overview of Eric Hoffer's book, *The True Believer*. I had read the book twice before but only r...
Matua Kahurangi

Elon Musk is right: The world is waking up to trans ideology madness - Elon Musk has once again said the thing everyone else is too scared to say.
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
Stewart Margolis

Who's to Bless and Who's to Blame? - Israel versus Palestine
Macroscience

To Get More Effective Drugs, We Need More Human Trials - We're optimizing the wrong steps in drug discovery.
Andrew Whiteside

Review: A Christmas Crisis is mad-cap fun - As Christmas is approaching there can be no better way to get into the festive spirit than attending Dynamotion’s latest offering A Christmas Crisis. This ...
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
Dead Language Society

How debt shaped the way we speak - And what it shows about how language works
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Your Fascist Immigration Policies - Eschewing all hyperbole.
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...
The Tracinski Letter

Tracinski for Congress - No, the title above is not a typo or some form of irony.
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.
Wildlife – 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.
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...
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 492 - The Turning Point of Building - If precast reinforced concrete panels epitomized prefab production in the 20th century, flexibility and adaptability emerged as two symbolic theories de...
Conflicted

Have re/insurers views of climate change risk decreased US real estate values? - Oopsie.
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

The Death of God and the Birth of Socialism - Part 10b in a series . . .
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
Roy Spencer, PhD.

Canada Summer Temperature Trends, 1900-2023: Part Deux - Summary An improved method for merging weather station temperature data leads to revised temperature trends for the period 1900-2023 for the 6 largest sout...
Asimov’s Addendum

Our Anthropic IPO Christmas Wishlist - Tell Us What You’re Optimizing For
Autonomia

The 20th Anniversary of “Brokeback Mountain” - Scott Holleran recalls the debut and release of Focus Features historic gay-themed movie
Spiked Online

Xmas Appeal Donation – Vibe Shift Offer - The post Xmas Appeal Donation – Vibe Shift Offer appeared first on spiked.
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
The Intrinsic Perspective

Our Overfitted Century - Cultural stagnation is because we're stuck in-distribution
The Weekly Sift

Decent World Order - No Sift next week. The next new articles will appear on December 22. The degree to which America is clearly a country that is open for sale is also really ...
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 ...
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

Rate-Capping Confirms National’s Impoverished Imagination. - *Nice To Have Been Given: Dunedin wasn’t built out of rates; it was built out of investors’ confidence in its future. The city’s magnificent botanic garde...
An Africanist Perspective

Firms or Families? Another installment in the Mission 300 electrification debate - On the politics and logics of policy tradeoffs
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.
Free Range Kids

BAD LUCK is not BAD PARENTING: The Unending Trials of the Dad Whose Son Died Walking Home - North Carolina dad Sameule Jenkins is due back in court this month on charges stemming from the downstream impact of his arrest after the tragic death of...
The Beauty of Things

2025 Books and Gifts for the Close Reader - Shop on Bookshop.org to support your local bookstore. Check out Goldberry Books & their big IRL event Monday 12/8! (And don’t forget those December birthda...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Capital Punishment - Is the Ultimate Punishment Ever Justifiable?
SAVVY STREET

Is IDS* Rising Among Libertarians? A Rejoinder to Petersen’s Libertarian Hitler - A false IDF narrative has taken hold of many libertarians, but not all. The post Is IDS* Rising Among Libertarians? A Rejoinder to Petersen’s Libertarian...
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.
High Capacity

AI agents and the 90% problem - Useful AI agents are still limited by their reliability on real-world tasks. But Chinese AI agents are pushing the limit.
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.
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

ICE Raids vs. Rule of Law: Interviewing Institute for Justice’s Josh Windham - Podcast audio: [powerpress] In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Agustina Vergara Cid interviews Josh Windham, a senior attorney with the I...
On Substack

New: Livestreaming from desktop - Plus: enhanced clips and new data on how creators use clips to grow
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Three Big Ideas #49 - *Three Big Ideas* is our fortnightly roundup of ideas (and our takes on them) in entrepreneurship, innovation, science and technology, handpicked by the ...
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Castro Didn’t Participate in the JFK Autopsy - Last week, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius wrote about “a startling document” that the CIA has kept hidden for some 50 years. The document appar...
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...
Precise Thinking

Welcome to the After Rand - The After Rand project seeks to honor Ayn Rand as a catalyst of intellectual awakening while extending her insights in the way she herself championed: thro...
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!
Stats Chat

United Rugby Championship Predictions for Week 7 - Team Ratings for Week 7 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ra...
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
Let Grow

Why Kids Don’t “Just Do It” Anymore - [image: Two Children Walking With Umbrella In Snowy Neighborhood At Sunset] Most of us would agree that “Just do it” has served Nike pretty well. But this ...
Fictionosophy

Reason and Revolution in Zamyatin's We - We tries to argue for a society that is fully human, but in doing so, it mistakenly eschews reason by mischaracterizing it.
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 ...
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

Thanksgiving as a political resilience tool - Gratitude inhibits the resentment and grievance political opportunists exploit for money and power.
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...
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (24 November 2025) - Resilience in NATO, AI risk in Australia, and investment in AI
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...
The China Space Monitor

Sizing Up China's Commercial Launchers - Plus SpaceSail and China Satcom in Turkey 🇹🇷, Starwin opens a consumer store 🛍️, and Everlight sets up shop in Chengdu 🍲
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

Why AI isn’t intelligent – and the AI theft of my work - I discover that a while back some of my published work was appropriated by Meta and fed into their AI system. I was never approached for licensing, never p...
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
The War on Prices

Labour is Poised to Boost the Black Market at the Expense of True Fans - The UK will reportedly introduce tight price caps on ticket resale
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...
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

fragments - any given thing is a part of a greater whole beyond itself
One Useful Thing

Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3 - From chatbots to agents
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
HardmoneyJim

The Real Risks of Owning Gold (and Why It’s Still Worth Owning) - CAN THE GOVERNMENT TAKE YOUR GOLD?
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...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Are we experiencing another watershed event? - The BSA may be an unwitting catalyst for rolling back the administrative state
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...
Kibao

Make Electrons Generic Again (MEGA) - Why the next leap in Africa’s energy story must be about agency, not just access
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?
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Fiume Gallery: A Dark Theater Experiment - People can't get over the eclectic launch party I threw in May. Here’s what really happened.
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 ...
a/symmetric

We're going on hiatus - But do stick around
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...
Master Resource

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1828 – Championing Freedom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A New Green Thumb Tool for Planners - A New Green Thumb Tool for Planners James Brasuell Wed, 07/12/2017 - 09:00 Primary Image [image: Philadelphia Park] "A joint venture between The Nature Con...
For The New Intellectual

Surrealist Writers Union Goes on Strike -
makingnewzealand

The Argument for Stopping Urban Sprawl - It's true that only about 1 part in 125 of New Zealand's land area is covered over in sprawl, with much less than that being actually built on (much of the...
The Dim-Post

Half-formed thoughts of the day - I was thinking about the Women’s March on Washington, and the global nature of it, and also the global nature of the White Nationalist movement: Trump, Put...
The Frank Lloyd Wright Newsblog

Sherman Booth House For Sale - The Sherman Booth House in Glencoe, Illinois is for sale. The asking price is $1.9 million. The house is a late Prairie Style design, dating from 1915. T...
PrairieMod

Richard Neutra Pillow - *Vendor: *Printful *Type: *Pillow *Price: * 34.00 A simple way to dress up any sofa, chair, bed, or room with a pop of color and a bold double-sided gr...
Blog - Minkz

Ichigo Ichie, Moment Hunters, new work by Mina - [image: NewlyDrawnGirl.jpg] *Ichigo Ichie, Moment Hunters - new work by Mina opening 12 March, 5 - 8 pm* On a recent trip to Japan, Mina fell in love wit...
Drinks and Drinking

What’s the Best Sparkling Water for Cocktails? - We’re here to talk about sparkling water in cocktails. But first: My Obsessive Nature, a.k.a. A Briefish, Seemingly Unrelated Disclaimer on Why Its Hard to...
Affordable Auckland

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

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

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

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

Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home. - *Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home.* *--*Matsuo Bashō, (Japanese poet, 1644-1694) from *Oku no Hosomichi* Jack Quinan and Sandra Q....
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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...
TheBubbleBubble.com - Warning About Post-2009 Economic Bubbles

Jesse Colombo’s Interview On The Doug McIntyre Show On 790 KABC - I had an interview with Doug McIntyre on 790 KABC today, and here is the audio file. I will also upload this to Youtube shortly. Jesse Colombo’s Interview ...
Titanic Deck Chairs

Willing and Eager Subjects in Training - Obama recently cautioned a group of graduating college kids that some of the arguments flowing to them via their "iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStatio...
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008

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