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Homepaddock

Woman of the day - Woman of the Day cobbler Jemima Nicholas, born in 1750 in Fishguard organised a defence of her village during a French invasion and captured twelve enemy s...
Conversable Economist

Effective Taxes on Carbon: An International View - There are three main ways to tax carbon emissions: through a fuel tax (like a gasoline tax), through an explicit tax on carbon emissions, and through an ...
John D. Cook

Giant Steps - John Coltrane’s song Giant Steps is known for its unusual and difficult chord changes. Although the chord progressions are complicated, there aren’t that...
The Inquiring Mind

Parliament’s excuse for quitting X doesn’t survive a simple Grok test - NZ Parliament’s X account, with around 35.2k followers, has decided to stop posting on the platform. Clerk of the House David Wilson said he ended … Parlia...
Greg Mankiw's Blog

Economic Theory Summer Camp - Organized by my colleague Eric Maskin. Click here for information.
Futurism

Sam Altman Fumes That It Takes Longer to Train a Human Than an AI, Plus They Eat All That Wasteful Food - "It also takes a lot of energy to train a human." The post Sam Altman Fumes That It Takes Longer to Train a Human Than an AI, Plus They Eat All That Wast...
Flashbak

Family Find a Stunning Album of Lost Photos of 1950s New York - “As I began unsealing each packet and holding the negatives up to the light, it was like a trip back in time, back to the New York of the early ’50s.” – ...
Spiked Online

Cancelling a man with Tourette’s is a new low for the woke elite - The post Cancelling a man with Tourette’s is a new low for the woke elite appeared first on spiked.
No Minister

NZTU Takes Apart The National Component Of The Coalition Government At Select Committee. - Here is the You Tube heading: Budget Policy Statement 2026: Taxpayers’ Union SLAMS Government spending plans. This is an excellent watch as National Party ...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

NZ Queen Bed Frame Size Guide: Fit for Your Space - You start shopping for a new bed and suddenly hit the same question everyone does sooner or later. What exactly...
Marginal Revolution

The Software Upgrade in Chinese Civic Behaviour - I have not been to China recently enough to judge these claims: Behaviour is notoriously harder to engineer than buildings. A recent trip to the Fragrant...
Cato at Liberty

Market Structure Brings Market Surveillance - Congress is expanding the Bank Secrecy Act regime, again.
Truth on the Market

From Discount to Discrimination: The Strange Economics of Anti-Competitive Antitrust - Antitrust has always been a strange regulatory enterprise. Businesses are largely free to engage in various commercial practices involving price, output,...
Persuasion

An Efficient Government Is A Limited Government - If we want an institution to be good at what it does, we must first define its role.
Watts Up With That?

Claim: The “Open Fridge Effect” Baltic Sea Level Drop is Proof of Global Warming - The last time these extreme weather conditions were recorded was shortly after the Little Ice Age.
Cremieux Recueil

The Other Type of Flynn Effect - When we talk about the Flynn Effect, we need conceptual clarity
The Weekly Sift

Kindness or Cruelty? - I am begging my fellow politicians, my fellow Illinoisans, my fellow Americans to realize that right now in this country we are not fighting over policy or...
Curbed - All

Building Industry’s Hostile Offices - Talking to production designer Simon Rogers about bringing menace to this season’s many workplaces.
The Daily Sceptic

Nottingham Killer Was Not Sectioned “Because He Was Black” - Nottingham killer Valdo Calocane, who killed three people in June 2023, was not sectioned after a previous violent attack because he was black and there ...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Is There a Political Downside to Tax Migration? - I’m a big fan of tax migration. I cheer when productive people escape high-tax states or high-tax nations. And when the geese with the golden eggs fly away...
Mises Wire

The End of Artificial Employment - AI is not the killer—it is the coroner.
Mises Institute Blog

The End of Artificial Employment - AI is not the killer—it is the coroner.
Breaking Views

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: You know what's ironic about Hipkins' State of the Nation speech? - Listening to Chris Hipkins' State of the Nation speech today, I found it really hard to take him seriously.The speech was mostly just a list of things wron...
Real Clear Energy

Live Update: NYC in Snow Lockdown - NBC NY
The Double Standard

Open Mike 24/02/2026 - Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to th...
Why Evolution Is True

The subspecies of “progressives” and how they’re mutually reinforcing - I’m not sure who Frederick Alexander is, but he’s written an intriguing article at The Gadfly (click below to read for free) Alexander lists five types of ...
IPWatchdog Articles

Analysis of March-In Rights Guidance Marks a Sad Day for the GAO - The Government Accountability Office (GAO) just released its assessment of the Biden Administration’s “Draft Interagency Guidance Framework for Consideri...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Pensioner facing police investigation for the crime of calling serially dishonest German Chancellor Friedrich Merz "Pinocchio" - In the latest retarded case of political repression to afflict the Federal Republic of Germany, police are investigating a pensioner for the crime of assoc...
Institute for Energy Research

In Gov. Newsom’s California, It Makes Sense to Get Gasoline from the Bahamas - This story is baffling. Bloomberg reports that California is starting to import gasoline from the Bahamas, while the state sits… The post In Gov. Newsom’...
Reason Foundation

Pension Reform News: Rules on how public pensions should invest in crypto - Plus: Alaska could take on billions in extra costs by rolling back reforms, unfunded public pension liabilities are a debt, and more. The post Pension Re...
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Talking points roundup: US nuclear’s failure to launch, China’s "coalar" power, solar having zero real "capacity," and more - Also: China’s coal-dependent solar power, fraudulent claims about solar and wind, solar’s unreliability, global emergencies, and the myth of solar and wind...
DGMLive

Stormy Monday Selection #74 - This month's archive discovery comes from the Exposure tapes recorded in New York in 1978.
Sustain What

The Power, Danger and Wonder in Extreme Winter Weather - "When you see Jim Cantore, the basic rule is run the other way."
The New York Review of Books

Trading with the Enemy - Friday’s Supreme Court decision rebuffing President Trump’s signature foreign policy initiative—worldwide tariffs imposed pursuant to an asserted national ...
Middle East Uncovered

What It Means to Stay Awake While My Region Holds Its Breath - For activists, journalists, and reformers across the Middle East, the threat of escalation is personal. We understand what is at stake and what we stand to...
The Curmudgeon

Gallery Rogues - Doubtless emboldened by the judiciary's recent quibbling over the Palestine Action proscription, another terrorist cell has committed an outrage in the Lou...
The Free Press

Screens Are Stressing You Out of Your Mind - Every era has its social contagions. In the 18th century, it was romantic despair. In 2026, it’s the compulsive scroll—and it’s rewiring our stress respons...
The Breakthrough Journal

Surgeon General Pick Deepens Rift Between Trump Admin and Farmers - RFK ally expected to sail through upcoming Senate vote
Matua Kahurangi

Credit where it’s due: Ngāti Manuhiri helped stop the rockpool plunder - I don’t hand out praise to iwi very often.
FIRE

Victory! High school clears publication of stalled student articles after FIRE’s intervention - After FIRE intervenes, a Florida high school lifts its block on student articles critical of the school board — AI excuses and all.
Roberto’s Substack

Judicial Insecurity in America: Trump’s Deranged Tariff Crusade Shatters the Rule of Law, Screws Consumers, and Turns the Supreme Court Into His Personal Punching Bag - Listen up, because this clown show is exactly why the United States is drowning in judicial insecurity right now.
Note to Noteworthy

Important One-Minute Update - Hi beloved readers,
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

In the New Toy Story Movie, Toys Lose Their Jobs to AI - The tech backlash is now mainstream—and even tech companies are joining in
GeekPress

Shatner Guitar Album - *"Shatner* is making an album with 35 metal icons -- and an AI-generated Les Paul, apparently". (Via Dave J.)
First Stones NewsLetter

AOS + TBC + PE: What is wrong with the following picture? - Why is everybody missing the point? Is the DIM in or out? If it's in, can it be taken out and if it's out, can it be kept out? Or is it that the Democrats ...
The Daily Economy

Moralizing Markets: Vatican Bank Wades into Faith-Based Indexing - Can the Holy See and other normative authorities harness profit-seeking systems... without undermining their purpose?
Marcus on AI

Turns out Generative AI was a scam - Or at least very very far from what it has been cracked up to be
American Energy Alliance

Timeline Of Destruction: How California Went “Green” - Despite being an oil-rich state and ranking third in refining capacity behind Louisiana and Texas, California has surpassed even Hawaii, which imports pr...
Gus Van Horn

SCOTUS Correctly Dumps IEEPA Tariffs - Friday, the Supreme Court issued its long-awaited ruling on the dubious legality of Trump's "emergency" tariffs, which the President claimed the Internation...
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

Does Peak Population Mean Peak Energy? - Probably not and here is why
Energy Transition Absurdities

EU Elites’ Private Jet Splurge Proves Their “Climate Emergency” Is Nothing But a Grift - Welp, here we go again.
Techdirt

Who Knew? Mindless And Corrupt Deregulation Apparently Kills People - You might recall that a central pillar of the Trump administration during the last election season was that a second Trump term would “take aim at big tech...
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #35: Use a Roadmap - Tell them where you’re going before you take them there
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Chartbook 434 Back to the 1970s (again) - Trump and the balance of payments. - Trump loses in the Supreme Court.
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Immigrants Use Less Welfare, Even Counting Their U.S.-Born Children - Countering a persistent critique of our welfare analysis
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

Immigrants Use Less Welfare, Even Counting Their U.S.-Born Children - Countering a persistent critique of our welfare analysis
Perennial Meditations

How to Live with Contradictions - Perennial Questions (Vol. 3)
bad cattitude

upon a platform of lies - the very model of modern majoritarian mendacity
ArchDaily

Roberval Courthouse / Groupe A - The Roberval Courthouse is set within an exceptional natural site, at the heart of the historic downtown, at the meeting point between a heritage urban f...
Living Resources Center

Race, Gender & Sexual Orientation Are Not Achievements - The Governor of Oregon brags about being a lesbian. As if it’s a virtue. But virtue implies a choice. I always thought sexual orientation was not a choic...
EconLog

The Man Who Would Be King of Saudi Arabia (with Karen Elliott House) - Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been dragging Saudi Arabia into the modern world over the last decade. Journalist and author Karen Elliott House lay...
The Roots of Liberty

Energy Deliverance - I have often warned my readers that giving the government a tool invariably leads to its expansive misuse at some future point.
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Why Low Human Capital Obsesses over Pedophilia - The passions behind this are really ugly and should be opposed by all decent people
Slow Boring

Democrats don’t need a Project 2029 - The party needs fewer big ideas, not more.
Law & Liberty

What Social Security Should Do—and What It Shouldn’t - With the depletion of Social Security on the horizon, policymakers would do well to pay attention to a new collection on reimagining the system.
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

AI data centre surge would put UK’s climate change targets at risk - By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby From The Times: The data centres needed to power the government’s artificial intelligence revolution would use mor...
Astral Codex Ten

Open Thread 422 - ...
Doomberg

Infinity Machines - Advances in offshore oil and gas development vastly expand global hydrocarbon potential.
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Moralizing Markets: Vatican Bank Wades into Faith-Based Indexing - Markets have long been accused of lacking morality. On February 10, the Vatican decided to supply one. The Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR), com...
Tim Worstall

MoD’s Financial Recognition Scheme - As Chair of Fighting With Pride, the LGBTQ+ military charity, I spend much of my time talking to veterans who were dismissed from the Armed Forces becaus...
Quotulatiousness

“Public intellectuals” - Ted Gioia charts the rise of what we now struggle to avoid … the “public intellectual”: I see this term “public intellectual” everywhere nowadays — and it ...
Kiwipolitico

Media Link: AVFA season 6 episode 1, - Selwyn and I are back the podcast. we hoping to go to a subscription model soon, running one show a month. We hope our listeners will see value in subscrib...
SkyscraperCity Forum

[AL][Korridori VIII] Elbasan-Qafë Thanë - *“Zgjerimi i rrugës Elbasan- Qafë Thanë, (Faza 1)”* Operator Ekonomik Kontraktues: ALB-BUILDING. Kohezgjatja e kontrates: 18 muaj. [image: Image] [image:...
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

Labour’s State of the Nation: Softer, smaller, safer - I went to the Labour Party State of the Nation
Hoover institution Commentary

The Man Who Would Be King Of Saudi Arabia With Karen Elliott House - Karen Elliott House joins Russ Roberts to discuss Mohammed bin Salman’s drive to modernize Saudi Arabia while tightening his grip on power.
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Tucker Carlson 'Grills' US Ambassador Mike Huckabee #1664 -
The Whakataki Times

Palmerston North Man Confirms That “Actually Palmy Is Pretty Central To Everything” - LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION. The post Palmerston North Man Confirms That “Actually Palmy Is Pretty Central To Everything” appeared first on The Whakataki ...
Austin Vernon's Substack

2026 Geothermal Update - Progress grinds forward as the great filter looms.
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

We Didn’t Just Get Expensive Electricity. We Built a System That Makes It Inevitable. - Most Americans don’t think about electricity until the monthly bill arrives. It comes once a month, often quietly, but lately it’s landed like a thud. Heat...
Real Clear Energy: Video

Pa. Farmer Turns Down $15M From Data Center Developers - Cumberland County farmer Mervin Raudabaugh, 86, chose instead to sell the development rights to his 261 acres in Silver Spring Township for just under $1.9...
The Trumpland Diary

Truth Predict: Trump Launches Crypto Gambling Platform - The Trump Crime Family Just Took Corruption to a Whole New Level
The Beauty of Things

Poetry Contests with Cats on a (Very) Snowy Evening - A list of formalist-friendly poetry contests. PLUS: poetry by Gail White
Quillette

Podcast #325: Why We Need to Talk About Transgender School Shooters - Jonathan Kay speaks with journalist Adam Zivo about the 10 February school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia—a mass murder perpetrated by a trans...
Point of Order

Epstein files, duty and service to the public – a British monarch and an American president have very different approaches - Simon Louisson, a Wellington journalist who briefly was a political and media adviser to the Green Party, has been prompted by the arrest of Prince Andrew ...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: A Stoic’s Strategic Empathy - The big, breathing organism of humanity.
No Right Turn

An attack on democracy as well as the homeless? - Over the weekend the regime announced its long-expected policy of "move on" orders for homeless people. Having massively increased homelessness while slashi...
The Integrity Institute

Democracy Briefing: Hipkins plays it safe while the clock ticks - Chris Hipkins delivered his State of the Nation speech this afternoon in Auckland, and the verdict is clear enough: there wasn’t much in it.
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

The People Who Locked You Down Are Worried About Jay Bhattacharya Having "Too Much Power" - Let me see if I have this straight.
Zero Hanger

Collingwood captain “ready” for Saints, premiership teammate “touch and go” - The skipper has two weeks to prove his fitness for Opening Round.
Kiwiblog

A proud sponsor - I’m pleased to announce that Curia is a proud sponsor of the ANZ Ukraine Cooperation Forum. It is launching in March, and meeting in Lviv. bringing toget...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

The support of speaking freely depends on who is in power. - I have huge respect for the way David Farrar operates Kiwiblog.
UnHerd

Why Trump will win the tariff war - Lawfare has never stopped him
The Footy Almanac

Almanac Music: Lanigan’s Ball - Dips reflects on a folk song from the Emerald Isle that has stayed with him for decades, recently brought back to the front of mind for reasons unknown.
Chris Trotter

Sending Them Home. - Transforming the revenge fantasies of anti-immigrant populists into enforceable public policy will not be easy.
Skeptic

How America Lost Its Sense of Humor - On the Biology of Why We Laugh … and a Brief History on Why We Stopped In today’s America, humor—like nearly everything else—has become serious business, ...
Greater Auckland

Auckland’s next harbour crossing: A costly failure that needs fixing - The following is an op-ed I wrote which ran in The Post on February 13th 2026. We need cross-party consensus for good long-term political decision-making...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

The Making of Nigeria’s Petrostate: Gowon's Post War Years - From Civil War Ruin to Petro-State Boom: Nigeria 1970–1976
The UnPopulist

What Do Liberalism and Religion Owe Each Other? - When religion becomes an identity it can't play the vital role of cultivating the virtue and morality necessary for a self-governing people
Israel Institute of NZ

Security, Proportionality, and the Barrier - A Hard Case in an Unforgiving War Few security measures in modern counterinsurgency have generated as much moral heat — and as little careful analysis — as...
Libertarian Land

Centralized versus Local Policymaking: - Evidence from China
Mike’s Substack

Atlas and Anthropology - Atlas is built on a simple premise:
Mike’s Substack

Atlas and Anthropology - Atlas is built on a simple premise:
JoNova

Monday - 9.9 out of 10 based on 7 ratings
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

The War For Status - and an event in NYC
The Future of Being Human

What we miss when we talk about "AI Harnesses" - AI Harness Engineering is suddenly in vogue. But does the seemingly innocuous "harness" metaphor come with hidden risks?
Why not reason?

Alyssa Liu’s gold is more than a medal — it’s hope - Alyssa Liu is an American daughter of a Chinese immigrant.
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Relax, Donald Quintus Trump: People Should Know When They Are Obliterated! - [image: Image]
Can't Get Much Higher

RIP to a Great Songwriter: A Conversation with Billy Steinberg - Today we celebrate the like of one of the 20th century's great hit-makers
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

The Box Trick of Mohammed - Welcome to the latest in our series of audio adventures, Tales for Our Time, and Part Three of our serialisation of The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax ...
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

Washington's Birthday: Multiculturalism Leads to Multiple Holidays and Histories - Newcomers' new holidays and new heroes subvert American culture with the help of the red guard indoctrination system - NYC public schools are a case study
The Logical Place

Artificial intelligence does not require consciousness - Please explain how AI can be intelligent without being conscious. Great question—and it’s one that sits right at the fault-line between philosophy of mind...
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

Bread, Circuses, and The Politics of Distraction - Our obsession with scandals serves a political class that doesn’t want us to focus on the real threats to America.
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day – A glimpse into the mind of Rupert Lowe - While you might think free parking in NHS hospitals is a bit of throwaway populist fluff, it still tells you a lot about how populists think. If they do ...
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

Bernie Sanders seems to be missing the point here - This is all a bit Canute really, isn’t it? Bernie Sanders has warned that Congress and the American public have “not a clue” about the scale and speed o...
Quote Investigator

Dialogue Origin: “I Got Me a Dream” “Eat Your Eggs” - Lorraine Hansberry? Stephen King? Helene Keyssar? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: I am trying to find the source of the following dialogue. Th...
Manhattan Contrarian

Mayor Mamdani Declares That New York Has A "Budget Crisis" - * One of the first tasks that a new Mayor has in New York City after taking office is to present a budget. Given that an annual New York City budget is wel...
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

Who’s winning the war for your mind? - How skilled propagandists infiltrate our consciousness, and how we resist them
misfits' architecture

LI Yu - LI Yu (李漁; Lǐ Yú) 1611–1680 was a Chinese playwright, novelist and publisher. He was born 19 years after Michel de Montaigne died and five years before Wil...
The Daily Doom

THE DEEPER DIVE: Tariff Turmoil and Tantrums - Friday was the day everything fell apart for King Donald McRonald. The Supreme Court finally got up the courage to tell the wannabe emperor he cannot dec...
Yascha Mounk

The Good Fight Club: Why Japan’s “Weirdo” Victory Matters, the Rise of Chinese Soft Power, and the End of Asian Stability - Yascha Mounk, Bethany Allen, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, and Chang Che examine how Asia is preparing for a more dangerous world.
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

Everything is not relative: The world votes with its feet - The Long Read
Freethink Media

Biology’s New Era - The historic shift from studying life to engineering it.
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

Reverse Outlining - What you actually wrote versus what you think you wrote
Construction Physics

Reading List 02/21/26 - Welcome to the reading list, a weekly roundup of news and links related to buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology.
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

Jordan Peterson's Most Important Rule for Life - Peterson’s message is not to ignore injustice. His message is to take responsibility for your life despite the presence of injustice.
Retraction Watch

Weekend reads: Did a prof invent his own ‘Nobel Prize’?; former dean omits pharma ties; AI generated quotes found in now-retracted article on AI - If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news...
New Zealand Arts Review

Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo - Reviewed by Malcolm Calder Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Creative Director: Alan Lane 8pm Eden Park, Auckland 19-21 Feb 2026 Reviewer Malcolm Calder 20 ...
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Iran, Bunker Busters And Empire First, Part 2 - Click on Title to Read
Paul Wells

Danielle Smith's nine questions - It never hurts to ask, I hope
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

Stephen Colbert Fibs, Hillary Clinton's 'transparency' and Illegal Alien Truckers - My Latest Appearance on Sky News Australia's 'The Media Show'
Outliving Iran

"A Great Artist Can Come from Anywhere" - How the promise of Ratatouille saved me from crime and fueled decades of transformation and the pursuit of an enlightened, cosmopolitan soul
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Lung: Fog (Yellow Bike/digital outlets) - Now this is unexpected, a new album from one of Palmerston North's hardest and brutally raw bands which emerged in the late Eighties and delivered a bunch ...
Anthony B. Bradley

Weekly Top Five Articles - Why white male Trump supporters believe they are losing, teen cannabis use associated young adult anxiety disorders, sexting norms for teens, and more...
Anthony B. Bradley

Weekly Top Five Articles - Why white male Trump supporters believe they are losing, teen cannabis use associated young adult anxiety disorders, sexting norms for teens, and more...
The Realization of Wholeness

Varieties of Dualism, Part Four - "I am the master of my body"
The Roots of Progress

Links and short notes, 2026-02-20 - “Some kind of turning point,” Elon on Dwarkesh, a social network for AIs, and lots more
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Premium: The Hater's Guide to Anthropic - In May 2021, Dario Amodei and a crew of other former OpenAI researchers *formed Anthropic* and dedicated themselves to building the single-most-annoying ...
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Work Out - This week we learned that the UK’s unemployment rate hit a near five-year high in the last quarter of 2025, climbing to 5.2%. Among 16 to 24-year-olds, u...
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

Trade Policy Uncertainty: Insights from a Roundtable - The United States has benefited from the opportunity to shape a trade governance that extends well beyond tariffs. International rules on standards, inte...
Gale Winds

Tesla Model 3 has 100x Fewer Moving Parts Than A Toyota Camry - "The best part is no part" - Elon Musk
CO2 Coalition

India Builds a Fossil Future One Coal Plant at a Time - by Vijay Jayaraj In 2022, Alex Epstein released “Fossil Future,” his treatise on why humanity requires more coal, oil and natural gas to flourish. When t...
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Bet On It Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 3 - *Summary*Rothbard now applies the normative standards developed in chapter 2 to explain what libertarians have against government (or as Rothbard, inspi...
The Economic LongWave

🌊Toronto’s Real Estate LongWave in Gold (1946–Present) - When priced in real money, the illusion of perpetual growth disappears.
Kunstler

Does It Smell Like Victory? - "We're either gonna get a deal or it's gonna be unfortunate for them.” — POTUS Donald Trump
American Institute of Economic Research

Delayed Data Unlikely to Resolve Disagreements at Fed - Delayed data confirms inflation remained well above target in December. The Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCEPI), which is the Federal R...
Interintellect

Why Odysseus Turns Down Immortality - Identity, Endurance, and the Courage to Set Sail
Sawahil

West Africa, Horn, MENA: Links for 2/20/2026 - News and analysis from Dakar to Riyadh.
ChinaTalk

Chinese Peptides - A special report!
Syncretica

Hierarchies of Storage from Electrons to Bits - Grid hardware is a lot like computer hardware
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

The Stoic Trick I Use When I Can’t Sleep - 3am.
The Antiplanner

The Antiplanner’s LibraryThe Great Train Heist - The Sonoma-Marin commuter train had to go on the ballot four times before voters finally approved it. I’m pretty sure it only won because they had finally ...
The Antiplanner

The Antiplanner’s LibraryThe Great Train Heist - The Sonoma-Marin commuter train had to go on the ballot four times before voters finally approved it. I’m pretty sure it only won because they had finally ...
Schiffradio.com

Gold Back Above $5,000, Oil Breakout, Dollar Trouble Ahead - With national debt up $2.6 trillion in one year and trade deficits exploding despite tariffs, the dollar faces collapse while oil and gold signal inflati...
Flying Out

Into The Dojo (2026 Reissue) - *Vendor: *Proville Records *Type: *BLACK SEEDS, THE *Price: * 60.00 The recording of *Into The Dojo *began in May 2005, when band members *Barnaby Weir*...
Roots of Progress

Save the date: Progress Conference 2026 - Last year we hosted the second annual Progress Conference. The 2025 conference was bigger than 2024: more days and more people, bringing together over 35...
Stats Chat

Out of warranty? - A new medical study (reported here and here) used MRI to look at the shoulders of a reasonable representative sample of 602 people over 40 in Finland. R...
Energy in Depth

Old Quotes, New Scare Story: DeSmog’s Latest Take on Produced Water Falls Flat - A recent report from DeSmog in partnership with Rolling Stone paints a sweeping picture of a national environmental disaster, claiming the oil and natura...
Conflicted

Origins of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence - How concerns about federal judiciary workload turned into an opportunity to put scientists closer to judges
JunkScience.com

Peeling Back the Apple: Shareholder activists seek to expose company’s China entanglements - Here are the media release and audio presentation for the shareholder proposal filed with Apple by the Free Enterprise Project of the National Center for P...
Stewart Margolis

Does Capitalism Need a Makeover? - Over the many years that I’ve been involved with the Objectivist movement, I’ve heard a number of debates on whether Ayn Rand should have used the word sel...
Wildlife – PERC

How Virtual Fencing is Revolutionizing Wildlife Conservation and Rangeland Health - Property and Environment Research Center outlines roadmap for conservation success with pioneering GPS-collar technology, removing thousands of miles of ...
Private Lands – PERC

How Virtual Fencing is Revolutionizing Wildlife Conservation and Rangeland Health - Property and Environment Research Center outlines roadmap for conservation success with pioneering GPS-collar technology, removing thousands of miles of ...
McFaul's World

Where Do Ukraine Peace Talks Stand after Geneva? - And, as we approach the four-year anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion, have Putin’s war objectives changed?
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

We can be Weirdos: How To Think Like Socrates - Listen to my conversation with Dan Schreiber
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Issue 22: Why Europe doesn’t have a Tesla - Plus: Why communist reforms almost always failed, the golden age of vaccines, and the everything plant.
Free Range Kids

Advice Columnist: NEVER LET YOUR KID DO ANYTHING ALONE TILL AGE 11! - The situation was this: A 6-year-old rode off on his bike and stayed out for two hours, without his parents knowing where he was. That would have had me,...
The Rebuild

Trump is Making the Dollar Weaker - And That’s Quietly Eroding Your Purchasing Power
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 501 - Wanted : Integrated Product Delivery for Buildings - Increasing process entanglement, systemic trade and labour shortages, the colossal environmental footprint of building construction, and skyrocketing ...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Has the Zodiac Killer Been Identified? Part Two - Considering Marvin Merrill as a Zodiac Suspect
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Connections for 1840-1849: Marx's Communist Manifesto - The context, the content, the major errors, and a creepy finale.
Statecraft

How a Congressional Office Actually Works - “You need zen”
The Cobden Centre

Speech and Panel Discussion on Brussels Bureaucracy - A couple of weeks ago I gave this speech on EU bureaucracy, followed by a panel discussion at the Martens Centre think tank in...
Freedom and Flourishing

Does Aristotle’s assertion that a viable political system requires a supportive culture still have relevance today? - Some readers may be wondering why anything written about culture and politics over 2000 years ago could possibly have contemporary relevance. Fred D. ...
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

America, A Love Story - Ragtime, and the romance of the work in progress. A revisitation.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

America, A Love Story - Ragtime, and the romance of the work in progress. A revisitation.
Andrew Whiteside

Event: Rainbow Games 2026 - Rainbow Games 2026 has confirmed its return to Auckland from 29 October to 1 November, marking the next phase of delivery for New Zealand’s largest communi...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Marx’s philosophy and the *necessity* of violent politics - In my Modern Philosophy course we focus on the younger Marx and discuss Marx and Engels’s The Communist Manifesto. One question we raised is why Marx and E...
Autonomia

Ideas: The Virtue of Productiveness - Cal Newport offers insight on so-called remote work conflict
Houston Strategies

Silver: a precious metal that's a scrap metal in transit lines - After a bit of a break here at Houston Strategies, another excellent guest post from Oscar Slotboom.--- The price of silver metal is up substantially in th...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

Marlon Williams Announces the Tā te Manawa Tour - Marlon Williams has today officially announced a very significant tour. It’s one that is truly for fans, and one that also marks a temporary departure fr...
Let Grow

HOW TO GIVE KIDS SCREEN-FREE PLAY TIME - [image: Two little boys friends climbed tree and look smiling. Happy children play in summer barefoot forest. Carefree childhood.] Nicole Cooper is a mom, ...
Doug Casey's International Man

Doug Casey on Why Millennials and Gen Z are Trapped by Debt, Inflation, and Broken Promises - Millennials and Gen Z are being squeezed by debt, inflation, and a broken system—and the next decade’s upheaval may force a radical rethink of work, savi...
Capitalism Magazine

America’s Triage: On Trump’s Economic Nationalism - "You should not be dependent for that which is fundamental to your sovereignty on any other nation."
On Substack

What the markets are saying - Making prediction market data easier to reference and share
Classical Compass Rose

Is the Head of a Classical School a CEO? - The comparison is common. It is also mistaken. A school is not a business.
Ruxandra’s Substack

The 30-Year Success Story the US FDA Ignored - And why there is hope this is changing now
Official Blog

Ondrstroj — Geocache of the Week - Traditional GC6030Y by BajkerPatejl Difficulty: 4 Terrain: 1.5 Location: Olomouc Region, Czechia N 50° 16.862′ E 017° 20.391′ A cleverly disguised geocache...
Michael Newberry, Artist

Memoir: Chapter 16, Santa Monica Splendor (Part 1) - [After a short break, I’m resuming my art memoir here on Substack. I am about 3/4s through. The chapters continue where I left off, with some slight revisi...
Public: Michael Shellenberger

They Were Already Censoring And Spying On Us - It would be nice if our worst fears stopped coming true
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 149 - Inclusion Wins (Amri Johnson) - Listen now | An interview with Global Inclusion Strategist Amri Johnson
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 149 - Inclusion Wins (Amri Johnson) - Listen now | An interview with Global Inclusion Strategist Amri Johnson
Dead Language Society

How far back in time can you understand English? - An experiment in language change
Uncharted Territories

Can We Build AI in Space? - It looks like radiation, cooling, shipping costs, and other apparent obstacles are manageable, and will make datacenters in space competitive
Splitting Headache

Somethings: Machine Identity - On Search engines and AI “people”
Existential Crunch

Nuclear war, nuclear winter, and the food system - A contribution to the United Nations Independent Scientific Panel on the Effects of Nuclear War
Mises Wiki - Recent changes [en]

W - Kanopi deleted page W Removing all content created by Kapitalizt
One Useful Thing

A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era - It's not just chatbots anymore
Dramatic Pause

By The Numbers: Laura Vincent - *Laura Vincent (Ngāti Māhanga, Ngāpuhi) is an author whose work spans fiction, poetry, and food writing. She has written the food blog hungryandfrozen.co...
The Shrewd Artist

Memoir: Chapter 16, Santa Monica Splendor (Part 1) - An Art Memoir: Depth, Light, and Love
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Memoir: Chapter 16, Santa Monica Splendor (Part 1) - An Art Memoir: Depth, Light, and Love
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla Claims They ‘Saved The World’ From COVID Despite Past Blatant Inaccuracies - After banking billions in profits, Pfizer’s leader attempts to rewrite history
The Library of Celaeno

The Canada Question - America vs. The International Right
Theatreview

Comment posted to review of “Katy Borrows Is Cooked” - Comment posted to review of Katy Borrows Is Cooked – “Problems with production and narrative flow subvert entertainment potential” – A much kinder review t...
Conspicuous Cognition

AI Sessions #9: The Case Against AI Consciousness (with Anil Seth) - Watch now | What is it like to be a ChatGPT?
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Live with Peter Saint-Andre and Adrian Lory - A recording from Peter Saint-Andre's live video
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Dumb and Dumber (Nos. 127-128) - Watching the Education Apocalypse in Slow Motion
The Grumpy Economist

A new Fed-Treasury Accord? - A reporter asked me about a new Fed-Treasury Accord, referencing articles in Bloomberg and Forbes about Kevin Warsh’s comments.
Notes On Liberty

New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is out now! - Enjoy it here…
Changing Lanes

Waymo’s Remote Assistance Isn’t Scandalous - Normalize talking about the human–AV partnership
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Why the World Is Drawing a Line on Social Media for Kids - What looked politically impossible just months ago has become a global movement to restrict kids’ access to social media. Here’s how it happened.
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

Weaponizing the FDA Against Vaccines - By rejecting Moderna’s application for an mRNA influenza vaccine, RFK Jr.’s FDA is advancing his anti-vaccine agenda.
An Africanist Perspective

How African policymakers should prepare for the coming commodity boom - Projections point to elevated commodity prices in important sectors. Here's how African policymakers can avoid mistakes of the past.
Dr Oliver Hartwich

Dismantling the competition myth - Australia's economic transformation since the 1980s resulted more from Hawke-Keating reforms that opened markets than from the Trade Practices Act. Effecti...
A Havenstein Moment.

Absolutely insane and devoid of common sense - Totally insane cognitive dissonance
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

AI Agonistes - Time for the industry to put up or shut up
Risk & Progress

The Gravity Telescope - From Galileo’s glass to gravity’s grand lens
HBL

False: All claims, positive or negative, require evidence - A member wrote: The burden of proof is on him who claims to know. Yes, I cover this in How We Know. I think the articles published under Ayn Rand’s editors...
Virginia Postrel

A Plague of Mysterious, AI-Written Emails from "Fellow Authors" - Early AI adopters are using it to scam authors.
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Ep24 "Which Way Western Man?" Part 1 w/ Brynhildr - The Start of a long series discussing and close reading “Which Way Western Man?” by William Gayley Simpson (1892-1990) The work that introduced Nietzsche t...
Toppermost

Peter Case - Peter Case first came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s with the power pop bands, the Nerves and the Plimsouls. The post Peter Case appeared first on...
The Trichordist

Is it still windowing if we never stream? Or is it a strike? - Streaming platforms may claim neutrality toward AI-generated music, but the economics tell a different story. If AI tracks enter the royalty pool without c...
Market Urbanism

Supply skepticism lite - A recent “supply skeptic” paper by various academics has gotten a lot of attention in housing-related social media. The somewhat sensationalistic title is:...
PM of NZ

Mot du jour numero 12345 - Noticed in despatches today. "*Disinhibited*" The usage: The afore-mentioned esteemed member of the judiciary was disinhibited after having possibly q...
Equal to Reality

The Hidden Engine of Value - Why true capitalism is more than profit: the principles that distinguish lasting value from mere financial gain.
History Reclaimed

Colonial Employment Legislation in India and Ceylon - It is often claimed that British imperial history is a story of exploitation. If that's the case, why did the British legislate to protect workers' condit...
High Capacity

Does China care about AGI? - Chinese tech leaders and researchers talk openly about AGI. But Chinese policymakers don't seem focused on the "race to AGI" like in the US.
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

Legality Is Not Legitimacy: How Lawful Appointments Can Erode Public Trust in New Zealand - A lawful process is not always a legitimate one. Exploring how political appointments, revolving doors, and institutional trust shape New Zealand’s standin...
Too Clever By Half

When a blogging account is deleted - Have you seen this blog? ¶ Deleting an account *might* delete the blog or blogs it owns—but it might not. ¶ And deleting the account might have other...
The Jolly Libertarian

A Chat With CoPilot on Artificial General Intelligence and Sentience Part 2 - Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky! *Earlier in this two part series I chatted with CoPilot about what AGI is, contrasting it with AI as it now exists. We d...
Tim’s Substack

The Border Appears Closed, but it Still Leaks - The only way to seal our Southern Border is to bring back the Army
Glenn’s Substack

The Coming Revolution Down South - Will Cuba be Libre soon, and if so what happens next? And after that?
Stu-Topia

Amorous Anguirus - Stuart K. Hayashi This is a practice drawing I did on Feb. 10, 2024, of Anguirus, the first monster ever to co-star in a movie with Godzilla. Anguirus is b...
The Tracinski Letter

The Big Immigration Lie - A News Link Round-Up
The Enlightened Examiner

The Two Palestines - Does ‘Palestine’ represent the oppressed, or a tiger justly confined to a cage?
The Enlightened Examiner

The Two Palestines - Does ‘Palestine’ represent the oppressed, or a tiger justly confined to a cage?
Overthinking Everything

The hard problem with hard problems - For reasons that are neither here nor there, I’ve been getting Claude Code to write a solar system simulation for me recently.
Jackson Upmann

3 Months, 1 Habit, Stronger Self-Esteem - How Tracking Wins Is Transforming My Confidence
What You Can Do For Liberty

Advice From Milton Friedman: Find Allies - In politics, it takes a critical mass to get anything done.
Macroscience

Do Not Surrender to the Tech Tree - A defense of human agency in a techno-deterministic world
The New Era

Technocracy Rising - Watch now | Patrick Wood and Hrvoje Morić discuss the Epstein file release, Tether, Mark Carney's speech at Davos...and the galloping pace of technocracy.
Sinification

Why China Is Falling Behind in AI | by PKU Scholar Hou Hong - "[Chinese] entrepreneurs are left with a stark choice: bow down to platform dominance or flee overseas." – Hou Hong
Kibao

AI in Africa: Less Leapfrogging, More Sequencing - My four-point response to the question: “Can AI Take Off in Africa?”
Croaking Cassandra

A very poor start by the Governor - When I stopped regular blogging in December I wrote This is one of those issues that has really got my goat. (There won’t be any other return to blogging, ...
Lindsay Mitchell

A litany of excuses - The latest Salvation Army *State of the Nation Report 2026* presents a litany of excuses for the sorry state of New Zealand's social statistics, in parti...
HardmoneyJim

Breaking: Texas launches new gold coins - is this a step toward monetization? - THESE COINS ARE NOT "LEGAL TENDER," BUT THIS MOVE SEEMS TO BE A STEP IN THAT DIRECTION
The Prophet of Causation

The Uncaused Life - Chapter 10
The Future of Freedom Foundation

A Grand Jury Nullification of Malicious Tyranny - In what can be called an act of grand-jury nullification, a federal grand jury has rebuffed an effort by the U.S. Justice Department to seek criminal ind...
A Halfling's View

Publication and Interpretation - Part 1 - What Burrows v Police Tells Us About Publication
Liberty Scott

Herzog deserves to be welcomed - If Isaac Herzog were not Jewish and certainly were not Israeli, an objective assessment of him would see him ticking most mainstream liberal boxes on pol...
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (February 2026) - What the Doomsday Clock and annual global risk reports are telling us
Fictionosophy

Self-Discovery in John Varley's Gaean Trilogy - John Varley's Gaean trilogy is full of romance, friendship, culture shocks, tough moral questions, and reflections on leadership and community.
Wright in Racine

Sitting Down with Frank Lloyd Wright - © Mark Hertzberg (2026) A quick test: think “Frank Lloyd Wright.” Chances are that images of Fallingwater, the Robie House, the SC Johnson Administration...
The Intrinsic Perspective

My New Org to Solve Consciousness (or Die Trying); A Rogue AI Community That Wasn't; David Foster Wallace Is Still Right; Cow Tools Are Real, & More - Desiderata #38: links and commentary
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

India's freedom from global blocs is the future - The case for autonomy in a fractured wor
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

Sneak Peek: 'Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth' - The celebrated 20th century American painter's works are currently on display at North Florida's Cummer Museum
Asimov’s Addendum

Can Open Source Survive AI? - The stories of Stack Overflow, Tailwind, FFmpeg, and curl
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for January, 2026: +0.35 deg. C - The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for January, 2026 was +0.35 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, up a littl...
Forbidden Science

Why I am suing Texas Tech - And how you can help
Harry’s Substack

One quick question - -- that puts ICE in perspective
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: January 2026 - 📣 Announcements
Barrie Saunders

Cutting losses – governments too slow to learn - Updated 3.20pm Business generally works out when to cut losses because the risks of failure are too high for shareholders and workers. Government on the ot...
Tross Publishing

NEW BOOK FROM TROSS PUBLISHING - It is with both pleasure and pride that Tross Publishing presents a new, ground-breaking book, "Who was behind the Bolshevik Revolution?" by Ron Asher. R...
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

All about the latest writing scams - There’s a new writing scam doing the rounds just now. Authors are being stalked online by strangers purporting to represent a ‘book club’, or who are ‘affi...
SAVVY STREET

Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin - A philosophical discussion on ethics and mathematics. The post Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin appeared first on SAVVY S...
Building the Builders

The psychology of evil - How to think about the worst in your friends, your enemies, and yourself
Robert Nasir’s Joyous Newsletter

What Can You Do, When You Have To Deal With People? - Yes, there is an answer ... quite a few, in fact! Here are five of them, each & all of which can make your life better!
RenewNZ

Zero Day comes for the Iranian regime - Last year reports emerged that Tehran, the capital city of Iran, was running out of water. One expert predicted that “zero day” was not far off. As the Isl...
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

JOINT REVIEW: Philosophy Between the Lines, by Arthur M. Melzer - Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing, Arthur M.
Africa-Israel Weekly

'iShowSpeed' Shows Arab Racism, (Slavery) of Black Africans - Like Black Eldridge Cleaver in 1969. popular Black American Influencer given rude awakening in Algeria
The War on Prices

Profit-Led Inflation: Trivial or Wrong? - A good new overview from Christopher Conlon
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

on tedium - repeatedly doing a thing that's not working
Gross Output

The Divided Economy: Business Still Trying to Catch Up to the Consumer Boom - “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...
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

New Report: Texas Water Policy Can Promote Conservation and Limit Waste - Voluntary water markets offer a path to protect farms, cities, and rivers without mandates The post New Report: Texas Water Policy Can Promote Conservati...
Spiked Online

spiked summit 2026 – supporter tickets - The spiked summit takes place *Saturday 27 June 2026* in Westminster – a flagship live event featuring bold debate, live Q&As and 500+ engaged attendees....
Eat More Electrons

What is Think Tank impact? (And what is it not?) - Why no one should care about your 18 reports
Public Lands – PERC

A Better Way To Fund National Parks—Paid For By Their Most Eager Visitors - When those tourists visit national parks, they’ll be supporting them more than ever. The post A Better Way To Fund National Parks—Paid For By Their Most ...
Leport’s Substack

Looking for reviews - Dear friends and family,
Institute of Economic Affairs

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

Mary’s Monumental Survival - The Secular Side of the Story
Maximum Progress

The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander on the design of cities and homes
The Many Ways I Let You Down

כָּל הַמְאַבֵּד נֶפֶשׁ אַחַת… כְּאִלּוּ אִבֵּד עוֹלָם מָלֵא - Saying Goodbye to Playwright Stanley Makuwe
Competitive Enterprise Institute

The Attention Wars: Why Netflix Is Buying the Past to Own the Future - The old “streaming wars” are over; the “attention wars” have begun. In the new battle, Netflix’s strategic acquisition of Warner Bros’ Discovery makes pe...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

The Attention Wars: Why Netflix Is Buying the Past to Own the Future - The old “streaming wars” are over; the “attention wars” have begun. In the new battle, Netflix’s strategic acquisition of Warner Bros’ Discovery makes pe...
In Due Course

What colourblindness hath wrought - One of the more questionable trends in social justice thinking over the past decade has been the suggestion that there is something wrong with “colourblind...
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: Tudor Trade War - The true effects of Henry VII's "industrial policy"
The Scholar's Stage

35 Theses on the WASPs - On the Rise and Fall of a Past Establishment
The Kerrant

Thinking Small Is How You Stay Small - Brian Easton is right about one thing: New Zealand is small. Where he go...
Regan's Substack

Socialism is for losers - And Capitalism doesn't need a PR team
Africa’s Bright Future

Why I Sued Próspera Africa for Defamation - Update on my efforts to advance startup cities in Africa
Texas Institute for Property Rights

The End is Near - I am no longer posting on this website. You can continue reading my posts at jbrianphillips.com The post The End is Near appeared first on Texas Institut...
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Are You the Queen of Your House or Just a Lowly Servant? - Maybe I don’t have to serve my house all the time, maybe it is my house that exists to serve me.
Earthly Idealism

The Warmth of Collectivism - “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” So said New York’s new mayor, socialist Zohran Mamdani.
Thinking Directions

Value Jars, an Emotional Resilience Tool - Emotional resilience is your ability to recover quickly after you get triggered, so that you can take a purposeful, value-oriented emotion. The more emot...
Keith Weiner Economics

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

Money And Collateral - Roasted Barley Is No Substitute For Coffee!
round houses

restoring the house of tomorrow - In the early 1930s, the house of the future, as conceived of by architect George Fred Keck, was round (or, technically, 12-sided) and had floor-to-ceiling ...
Reason for Living

Try Declarations, Not Resolutions, for 2026 - I’m trying an alternative to New Year's resolutions this year: New Year’s declarations.
Anti-Dismal

Coase versus Becker on utility maximisation - Ronald Coase and Gary Becker explain and discuss the theory of rational maximizing utility. They describe how consumers rank preferences and then attempt t...
What's New Under the Sun

Innovation Job Market Papers 2025 (2/2) - Dozens of papers from new PhDs about Innovation
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

Good News Story. - *Gospel:* What, after all, is a magic spell, if not a formulation of words to effect actual change in the real world? Wasn’t that why the Greek followers ...
Objective Standard Institute

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

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

Bondi, Tarrant, victimhood, faith, the primitive, relativism, cultural boundaries of knowledge - Can humanity be rescued from irrationality
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

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

How South Korea's job market motivates intensive parenting - A new article in Works in Progress & some extra context
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...
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...
Catherine Mosse

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

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

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

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

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

Thomas Kuhn’s Copernican Revolution - Reflections on a classic in the history of science
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?
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

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

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

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

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

Are capital gains taxes fair?🍋 - NZ lacks a specific capital gains tax. But introducing one may not increase fairness.
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?
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!)
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...
Journal of Free Black Moms

Ep. 17 - Change the World Be a Mom (Sheila Qualls) - Listen now | An interview with wife and mother of five Sheila Qualls
Better things are possible

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Important Announcements - I’m going in, this Substack's going on ice, and a book is coming
Down to Earth Kiwi

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

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

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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...
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Understanding Trumpers - WSJ oped and substack post.
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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...
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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...
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The Continental Telegraph

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Pirate Wires

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Uranium-238

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Woden's Day Thing: 4/26/22 - All right already
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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...
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Adam Smith’s Enlightened World

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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 ...
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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

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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...
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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...
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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…
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Joakim Book | Life of an Econ Student

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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

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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

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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 →
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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

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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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For The New Intellectual

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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

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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

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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

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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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