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The Inquiring Mind

Rumpole of the Bailey: Leo McKern – #21 – S04 E02 – Rumpole and the Blind Tasting - The classic comedy drama written by John Mortimer QC, starring Leo McKern together with an excellent supporting cast Link below https://youtu.be/0pnjaQierj...
Zero Hanger

FINAL TEAMS: Hawthorn vs Gold Coast – Round 7, 2026 - TEAM NEWS: Hawthorn and Gold Coast have finalised their lineups for the match at UTAS Stadium. Who are you tipping to win?
The Integrity Institute

News Briefing: 25 April 2026 - MEDIA RNZ: Christopher Luxon cancels weekly TVNZ Breakfast slot, lodges complaint over press gallery conduct
Kiwiblog

A heroic principal - If you click on the link you’ll see Pauls Valley High School (in Oklahoma) principal Kirk Moore tackle an armed intruder. Moore was wounded and shot, but...
Watts Up With That?

Activist Yorkshire Councillor Demands the British Government make Fossil Fuel Extraction More Difficult - North Yorkshire councillor and anti-fracking activist Steve Mason has demanded a little known loophole in Britain's fracking ban be closed. The post Acti...
SkyscraperCity Forum

DUBLIN | St Vincent's, Fairview - New LRD Application for 811 apartments and hospital buildings on the ground of St Vincent's Hospital, Fairview. Very close to proposed developments on Rich...
The Common Reader

The Stranger, The Drama, and the criticism of Ben Lerner - Two new films and one great review
Point of Order

Anzac then and now: as trans‑Tasman defence relations get closer, NZ must be on guard - Anzac Day 2026 arrives in tumultuous times: unresolved conflict in the Middle East, the erosion of the old international order, the famous Doomsday Clock s...
No Minister

Britannia Rues The Waves - It looks like the Labour Prime Minister of Great Britain, Sir Keir Shitstain Starmer, will be gone sooner rather than later due to a combination of two yea...
Michael Newberry, Artist

The Space Series - I have been working on the Space Series since 2022. The shadowed self is transparent and the stuff of the universe, while it is the light who defines us. E...
The Daily Sceptic

News Round-Up - A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘cris...
The Free Press

Let the Kids Smoke - A new tobacco ban in Britain for anyone born after 2008 may make the next generation safer. So why do I feel like we’re losing something?
John D. Cook

How nonlinearity affects a pendulum - The equation of motion for a pendulum is the differential equation where g is the acceleration due to gravity and ℓ is the length of the pendulum. When t...
UnHerd

Starmer versus the Blob - Weak politicians need a scapegoat
The Whakataki Times

TIME SLOT SNUB: Leigh Hart Confirms He Will Also Not Be Coming Back On TVNZ Breakfast - BOOKING BUST. The post TIME SLOT SNUB: Leigh Hart Confirms He Will Also Not Be Coming Back On TVNZ Breakfast appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
Techdirt

Good News If You Have A Sony TV And Were Hoping It Would Become Less Useful For No Reason - If you own one of the Sony Bravia lines of televisions (like I do) and were hoping that the expensive television would suddenly become slightly less functi...
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Was It You, Barron? Someone Made 3.5X On The Donald’s Spirit Airlines Socialism,Part 2 - Click on Title to Read
Slow Boring

What the offline discourse class is talking about - Swing-state letter writers are not arguing about whether petty theft is a new kind of political protest.
Homepaddock

Woman of the day - A World War II heroine, Phyllis Latour Doyle, to remember on Anzac Day: The male agents kept dying in the shadows, so British intelligence disguised a 23-y...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

The Washington Post vs Elizabeth Warren - People sometimes will get excited about big-picture tax fights – whether politicians should raise taxes, whether they should add a VAT, or whether they sho...
Virginia Postrel

From the Archives: Must Love Dogs? If You Want the Job - This is one culture war that crosses party lines.
Persuasion

This Week At Persuasion - An exclusive event with Francis Fukuyama and Yascha Mounk in London! Plus, Michael Shermer on The Good Fight.
Conflicted

House Science Asks NAS About Its COI Problems - NAS Wrote Guidelines on Research Integrity. It's Not Following Them.
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Was It You, Barron? Someone Made 3.5X On The Donald’s Spirit Airlines Socialism,Part 2 - Well, a hat tip goes to Marjorie Taylor Greene for pointing out the absurdity of the Donald’s out of nowhere campaign to bailout the financial trainwreck...
Futurism

Three Years Ago Today, “Avengers” Director Joe Russo Predicted There Would Be a Fully AI-Generated Movie Within Two Years - How'd that work out? The post Three Years Ago Today, “Avengers” Director Joe Russo Predicted There Would Be a Fully AI-Generated Movie Within Two Years a...
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

The Reds, Pinks and the Purples: Acknowledge Kindness (digital outlets) - We set aside the odd name that prolific Californian Glenn Donaldson has chosen to work under – nine albums in six years – and cut straight to the gently ...
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

A week is a long time: 25 April 2026 - A NZ Politics weekly wrap-up
Marginal Revolution

Growth is getting harder to find, not ideas - Relatively flat US output growth versus rising numbers of US researchers is often interpreted as evidence that ideas are getting harder to find. We build...
Samizdata

There is something off about this narrative regarding Jeffrey Epstein - I will start by saying that there is no doubt whatsoever that Jeffrey Epstein carried out multiple sex offences against children. He was justly convicted...
The Daily Economy

Proposed Lifetime Smoking Ban to Become Law in Britain -
The Footy Almanac

Almanac Footy: The Muse is musing on the demise of hot gospellers and orators - The Muse has been listening to coaches' press conferences and they're driving him mad. He remembers the days when coaches actually said something.
ArchDaily

O16 House / studiokian - Starting from a desire to blend a unique, tropical, and private sanctuary for a house, comes a dwelling that welcomes the user to indulge in natural elem...
The War on Prices

Note to Bessent and Congressional Republicans: Greedflation Is Still Bad Economics - Republicans spent the better part of four years mocking the political left’s greedflation narrative—and rightly so.
Institute for Energy Research

The Strait of Hormuz Remains Effectively Closed and the U.S. Blockade of Iranian Ports Continues - The U.S. blockade is working, with the U.S. Navy turning away 33 ships attempting to reach Iranian docks, of which… The post The Strait of Hormuz Remains...
Cato at Liberty

Note to Bessent and Congressional Republicans: Greedflation Is Still Bad Economics - Ryan Bourne and Nathan Miller Republicans spent the better part of four years mocking the political left’s greedflation narrative—and rightly so. But la...
The UnPopulist

Only Liberal Societies Can Handle Alien Life - Their existence will raise confusing and difficult questions for earthlings that authoritarians won’t have the credibility to negotiate
ChinaTalk

WarTalk: Out of Ammo + Polymarket - + Phelan on the couch when it happens
IPWatchdog Articles

Other Barks & Bites for Friday, April 24: Judge Albright to Leave Federal Bench in August; China Rejects 1.27 Million Deceptive Trademark Applications; Music Labels Voluntarily Dismiss Verizon Copyright Suit - This week in Other Barks & Bites: Judge Alan Albright indicates that he will leave the Western District of Texas bench in August to re-enter private prac...
The Double Standard

Open Mike 25/04/2026 - 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

Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ crackers - This week’s Jesus and Mo strip, called “bite2”, is new but came out a bit late on Wednesday. In response to last week’s criticism of Islam, Mo now gets th...
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Premium: How OpenAI Kills Oracle - *Soundtrack — **Brass Against — Karma Police* ------------------------------ It was January 21, 2025. *Per The Information*, Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracl...
JoNova

ANZAC Day - 0 out of 10 based on 0 rating
Truth on the Market

The Price of Watching Prices: Italy’s Slow Slide from Markets to Management - If regulators could make markets behave simply by watching them more closely, Italy would be about to crack the code. Instead, the Italian government’s l...
The Rebuild

From 50-Year Opportunity to 11th-Hour Amendment: The Rebuild Conversation with Rep. Josh Harder - Rep. Josh Harder on the first major federal housing bill in 50 years — and why Section 901 could kill 72,000 build-to-rent homes a year. Build, don't ban.
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Trump Forces Israel to Continue One-Sided Ceasefire -
Real Clear Energy

Brent Crude Hanging at $105 - Trading Economics
Curbed - All

Candice Bergen and Marshall Rose’s Co-op at 1040 Fifth Is for Sale - The four-bedroom, 4.5-bath in one of Rosario Candela’s most celebrated buildings listed for $35 million.
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Chartbook 443 "Obscurity to Notoriety" - Bessent, the UAE and how"swap lines" morph into "slush lines". - The UAE is in discussions with the Trump administration about a swap line.
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

Utah’s HB410 makes it easier to save the Great Salt Lake - This year, the Utah Legislature continued its efforts to pioneer the state’s water policy, ensuring more water reaches the Great Salt Lake through the vo...
Middle East Uncovered

You’re Invited: Celebrating 1 Year of Middle East Uncovered - Join us in New York for a night of conversation and celebration as we mark one year of independent journalism and the community that makes our work possible.
The Economic LongWave

Economic Winter Always Begins as Fear - The economic season nobody wants to talk about what it actually does, why it has to happen, and what comes after the clearing.
McFaul's World

Live Q+A today: 12 pm PDT / 3 pm EDT - I'll be hosting a Zoom call with subscribers
Gale Winds

Will We Run Out Of Words? - 26 letters give us infinite possibilities.
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

Highly Credentialed Health Experts Made Completely Insane, Debunked Claims About COVID Vaccines - NGO funded research shows how experts discredited themselves
Skeptic

Desmond Morris (1928–2026): A Keen Observer of the Human Condition - Zoologist by career, TV celebrity in the 1960s, renowned surrealist painter, and bestselling author of more than 70 books, Desmond Morris left a legacy ...
Conversable Economist

World War Trade - The world economy is now about a year into President Trump’s assault on the global trading system. Richard Baldwin reviews what has happened and suggests...
DGMLive

This Week In DGM World - More progress at the studio, a missing tape and Stormy's work on the Exposure Sessions.
Sustain What

Can a Super El Niño Later this Year Break the U.S.'s Dry Spell Blues? - One of my oldest friends from journalism, Thomas Yulsman, is the outgoing director of the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado.
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Issue 23: We're freezing our eggs. Maybe you should too - Works in Progress Issue 23 is out today.
Spiked Online

That gang rape in Brighton confirms it – Britain is broken - The post That gang rape in Brighton confirms it – Britain is broken appeared first on spiked.
Breaking Views

ANZAC DAY 25th April 2026 - At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we remember them. Their courage, sacrifice, and quiet service endure beyond time.Lest we forget.In remembr...
Africa-Israel Weekly

Arab/Islamic Regimes are Fueling the Genocides in Africa - Dumisani Washington's speech at the Capitol Hill Forum on Terrorism & Religious Violence hosted by EMET and ICON, April 22, 2026
Gus Van Horn

Four Neat Things - *A Friday Hodgepodge* *1*. Until yesterday, I had no idea that lots of hobbyists keep *pet isopods* -- the kind of animal that includes the roly-polies I u...
The Enlightened Examiner

Objective Value in Economics – Part I - Beyond subjective value: reclaiming the law of identity in economic theory with abundance as the missing link.
The Enlightened Examiner

Objective Value in Economics – Part I - Beyond subjective value: reclaiming the law of identity in economic theory with abundance as the missing link.
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Record Low Carbon Power Is A Problem, Not An Achievement - By Paul Homewood Following the hoopla from NESO about record “low carbon electricity” yesterday, it is worth looking at the overall picture for the day: ...
Mises Wire

U.S. consumer sentiment falls to record low on inflation - While April's reading was slightly improved from the preliminary reading, it remained the lowest in data back to 1978.
Mises Institute Blog

U.S. consumer sentiment falls to record low on inflation - While April's reading was slightly improved from the preliminary reading, it remained the lowest in data back to 1978.
Uncharted Territories

Why Did Islam Spread So Fast in North Africa & Spain? - Opponent weakness, incentives, taxes, ecology, nomads, land
The Curmudgeon

Targeted Savings - Those who fear that His Majesty's Government lacks the capacity for joined-up thinking will rejoice at Team Starmer's latest purge of antisemitic tendencie...
Kunstler

The Siege of Iran, and Other Matters - What matters now is ending the war as quickly and decisively as possible. . . After that, people can wrestle over the “moral and constitutional” quandary t...
Anthony B. Bradley

Weekly Top Five Articles: The Hollowing of the Inner Life - What Five Recent Pieces Reveal About a Culture That Keeps Measuring What It No Longer Knows How to Form
Anthony B. Bradley

Weekly Top Five Articles: The Hollowing of the Inner Life - What Five Recent Pieces Reveal About a Culture That Keeps Measuring What It No Longer Knows How to Form
Doug Casey's International Man

The Great Iran Lie and the Persian Gulf Catastrophe - Reckless US escalation with Iran could trigger a Persian Gulf oil shock, expose the fragility of the global financial system, and push the world toward e...
Why not reason?

The Importance of Philosophy in the World that Lies Ahead - I believe psychotherapy helps a person understand what she feels and why by offering questions that encourage deeper thinking for inner clarity.
Conspicuous Cognition

How Brexit Created Britain’s New Political Tribes - This is a guest post by James Tilley, a Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford, about his excellent new book with Sara Hobolt, Tribal Politics: ...
Sawahil

West Africa, Horn, MENA: Links for 4/24/2026 - News and analysis from Dakar to Riyadh.
Brownstone Institute

Government Cannot Make Us Healthy - Government Cannot Make Us Healthy by Mollie Engelhart at Brownstone Institute [image: Government Cannot Make Us Healthy] It feels a little uncomfortable ...
Eating Policy

A Three Horizons Framework for Government Reform - We keep propping up a system that’s run out of time to adapt
Energy Transition Absurdities

BP’s Shareholder Revolt: Are Big Institutional Investors Setting BP Up to Fail? - British energy giant BP just endured one of the most embarrassing annual general meetings in recent memory.
Living Resources Center

They Mean It - Leftists pretend everyone thinks like they do (more precisely: FEELS like they do). When they see evidence to the contrary, their first screams are : “Ou...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

📨 Lucky's Letters #6: Tell Me What To Do - Lucky receives a practical request.
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

Come awf it - The ‘awf’ sound for ‘off,’ and similarly ‘orf’ for ‘off,’ ‘larst’ for ‘last.’ ‘gorn’ for ‘gone,’ is a feature of what linguists call Conservative RP, the...
Tim Worstall

This is not, in fact, true - If consumers spend less, as falling confidence suggests is likely, and businesses see a downturn in activity and, as a result, invest less, the unavoidab...
Reason Foundation

Research consistently shows e-cigarettes help smokers quit. When will U.S. policy catch up? - When smokers who want to quit believe that switching to an e-cigarette offers no health benefit, they have no incentive to make the switch. The post Res...
The Roots of Liberty

Nothing Good... - Democratic strategist and Crypt Keeper stand-in James Carville recently offered up a playbook for Team Blue the next time it has the reins of government.
Law & Liberty

The Pontiff and the Postliberals - Sohrab Ahmari tries to blame neoconservatives for the failings of his own movement.
EconLog

We Can’t Agree on Inequality—Here’s Why - Centuries of argument have left a stubborn question unresolved: how much economic inequality is acceptable? Unlike inequalities rooted in race, gender, o...
RenewNZ

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

Britain’s Green Party … not your weird cousin’s old Green Party - The Green Party have been more of a punchline than a party for decades in British politics, but the Green Party of today shares only a name with its earlie...
GeekPress

Ping Pong Robot - *"Ping-pong robot Ace* makes history by beating top-level human players". (Click through to see video.)
Hoover institution Commentary

Call for Papers: Renewing Indigenous Economies Research Workshop -
Everyday Price Index | AIER

He Wrote an Op-Ed. Then Police Tracked Him - The ACLU is raising concerns about the abuse of automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology in the wake of a disconcerting story out of Kansas. The ...
Brash & Mitchell

RODNEY HIDE: The Maori Electorates: Racist Relic That Must Go - The Maori electorates are a 19th-century anachronism that should have been abolished twice—first when universal suffrage arrived in 1893, and again when MM...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

Good News: Fifth Circuit Says Government’s Tax Power Is Not Designed to Control Behavior - This article originally was published at The Empowerment Alliance and is re-published here with permission. A somewhat under-the-radar decision by the U.S...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

National’s economic doom spiral is now upon us and social cohesion is disintegrating – why running NZ as a company is killing us - The economists keep underestimating how badly the economy is functioning under this Government’s ideological experiment of budget austerity for hollowed...
Quillette

The Roots of Recession - As an energy shock looms, a new book reframes recession as the product of historical circumstance, not cyclical inevitability.
Israel Institute of NZ

Guest Post – Ian Dunwoodie – Auckland Council Procurement Policy Review - April 18, 2026 – Auckland Council Auckland Council has asked its staff to report back on its Procurement Policy, and how it aligns with UN frameworks conce...
The Daily Doom

Boys and their Toys - *The chief of the International Energy Agency now says that the energy crisis we are facing is “the biggest energy security threat in history”*—not in *r...
Dr Oliver Hartwich

The art of the contradiction - President Trump exhibited contradictory statements regarding the Iran conflict, alternating between demands for surrender and regime change while allies he...
Theatreview

2026 ADAM NZ PLAY AWARDS - Playmarket New Zealand 2026 ADAM NZ PLAY AWARDS Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Adam NZ Play Awards, recognising the best in new unproduced wr...
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: God’s Only Excuse Is That He Does Not Exist - Stendhal? Marie-Henri Beyle? Friedrich Nietzsche? Albert Camus? Prosper Mérimée? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: An atheist who was angry abou...
Chris Trotter

Powering Up, or Spiralling Down? - As NZ First gains altitude, National’s plane is slowly spiralling down. Can Captain Luxon restart his party’s engines?
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Why I think AI will be a new fundamental of human flourishing - Watch now | AI can have the same scale of positive impact on human flourishing as low-cost energy—if we properly value it, integrate it, and liberate it.
Retraction Watch

Buying a first author slot can cost you anywhere from $56 to $5,600 - The market for fake authorship on a research paper has prices to match every budget, according to a new dataset compiled from thousands of advertisements o...
Public: Michael Shellenberger

“Deconstruction” Of Western Values Behind Corruption of American Universities - New Yale report critical of campus censorship whitewashes its role in ruining universities
One Useful Thing

Sign of the future: GPT-5.5 - One impressive step on the curve
Greater Auckland

Weekly Roundup 24-April-2026 - Another Friday, and here are the latest stories about cities to tide you over the long weekend. This week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt examined t...
Paul Wells

A disgrace - A column from Le Devoir's Monday editions, by Jean-François Nadeau
A Halfling's View

"It is better to be king of your silence than a slave of your words," - Judge Ema Aitken and the Architecture of Greek Tragedy
Offsetting Behaviour

Australian defence - It's weird that NATO and others benchmark defence adequacy by spending as a fraction of GDP. Surely treating inputs as targets rather than outcomes has b...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

Why I Believe in Karma - Let me share the evidence
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

The hidden reason houses cost too much - NZ Herald
Astral Codex Ten

Links For April 2026 - ...
Can't Get Much Higher

Bless the Twang Down in Africa - Because country doesn't just belong to America
FIRE

University of North Texas cancels art show — then power-washes protests - UNT canceled an artist’s exhibit, then scrubbed student protests against its actions.
The Trichordist

Kafka’s Hypothetical Market Strikes Again: The DSPs’ Latest Move to Silence Songwriters by Throwing GMR Out of Phonorecords V - The streaming services' joint motion to exclude Global Music Rights (GMR) from Phonorecords V highlights their intent to limit representation for songwrite...
American Energy Alliance

Supreme Court Unanimously Rules in Favor of Chevron, Moving Climate Lawfare to Federal Court - WASHINGTON DC (04/23/2026) – On April 17, 2026, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of Chevron in Chevron USA Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish, allowi...
On Substack

Inside Lena Dunham’s Substack press tour - Lena Dunham and her social strategist on coming back online, her new memoir Famesick, and embarking on a Substack book tour
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Psy-Phi Dialogues #4 - A recording from Peter Saint-Andre's live video
Flashbak

Pissing Women in London, 1995 - “We looked relatively sober and in control” – Sophie Rickett on Pissing Women, 1995 In Pissing Women, Sophie Rickett photographed women taking a leak...
Libertarian Land

Tax Burdens and the French Revolution - New research uses regional per capita tax burdens in 1780s France to examine the relationship between tax burdens and rioting.
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

Zohran Mamdani's City Council Problem - What the socialist mayor will need to do
Wildlife – PERC

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

*Hypatia* interview on Woke and the Origins of Postmodernism - Stephen Hicks: “Many problems in the academic world have their roots in postmodernism.” Interview by Hypatia’s Dr. Astrid Elbers and published in Dutch in ...
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

Why “Cheap Renewables” Don’t Deliver Cheap Electricity - In a recent article I noted instances where Governor Hochul and Public Service Commission Chair Rory Christian have raised the possibility for limited chan...
JunkScience.com

Milloy reads AI bias/climate riot act to IBM management at annual shareholder meeting - Here is the media release and audio presentation for the IBM shareholder proposal of the Free Enterprise Project of the National Center for Public Policy R...
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

What Female Teacher Scandals Tell Us About Sexual Desire and Social Currency - A close look at a misunderstood pattern
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 509 - Loft-Liner, the split-level mobile home - The mobile home has come up regularly in this blog, and while it’s certainly not a model of building industrialization most pursue today, we have trie...
Classical Compass Rose

2. On the Joy of Browsing the Stacks - The art of the purposeless journey through arranged knowledge requires a willingness to be diverted and the openness to the genuine possibility of surprise.
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

SPLC paid to fuel Ku Klux Klan’s hate, then raised money to put it out - My latest NY Post article
Roy Spencer, PhD.

The Urban Heat Island and Urban Cool Island: A Few Examples for U.S. Major Metropolitan Areas - I’ve been spending recent months applying our novel methodology of quantifying the urban heat island (UHI) effect on surface air temperature, now using Lan...
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

Cargo Cult Climate Economics - Part 2 of 2 on a damning new paper that takes on the top-down climate-economics literature — “The empirically inscrutable climate-economy relationship”
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

EMERGENCY: $150 for a 15-minute train ride at the World Cup - NJ Transit is a case study on government price gouging and an imminent public safety risk that must be stopped before it gets people hurt
Construction Physics

Construction Costs Rarely Fall - Not long ago we looked at construction productivity trends for the US and for countries around the world. We found that in the U.S., and in most other larg...
Journal of Free Black Thought

When Vegans Appropriate Atrocity - The Movement's Race Problem
Journal of Free Black Thought

When Vegans Appropriate Atrocity - The Movement's Race Problem
The New York Review of Books

Drawn to the Void - John Wright of Derby introduced chiaroscuro to British audiences, using everything from blazing bladders to ivory planets to illuminate his dazzled subjects.
Johnny Grey Studios

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

Jesus: Ancient Revolutionary, but Not the Father of the Enlightenment - Review of Tom Holland's Dominion
Toppermost

These New Puritans - The brooding swell of sound that simultaneously unnerves and enlivens the listener... The post These New Puritans appeared first on Toppermost.
The Cobden Centre

Speech in Budapest “Is the West in Civilisational Decline?” - Max Rangeley speech in Budapest, “Is the West in Civilisational Decline?” – in this speech I talk through different theories of the rise and...
The Antiplanner

Increase Fertility by Working at Home - Monthly reports from the people at WFH Research show the latest trends in working from home. The April report brings this together with another thread that...
The Antiplanner

Increase Fertility by Working at Home - Monthly reports from the people at WFH Research show the latest trends in working from home. The April report brings this together with another thread that...
American Institute of Economic Research

Hayek’s Dilemma: How Much State Can Liberty Survive? - My colleague Paul Mueller recently published an AIER Paper on Fusionism. He was kind enough to share it with me for review. I agreed with most, and disag...
Kiwipolitico

Regime transition sequencing. - I was reading a recent article in which the author wrote that the US has actually made the transition to democracy in Venezuela more difficult than it coul...
Manhattan Contrarian

Update On New York Climate Act Negotiations: Details Starting To Emerge - * We’re now more than three weeks past the mandatory April 1 deadline for New York’s annual state budget. So far, few details have emerged about the reason...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

The World’s Most Educated Countries - Versions of below have been in media around the world in the last two weeks.
The Logical Place

The Colonisation of India - The history of India is often discussed today in a highly selective way. British rule is denounced, often with great moral fervour, as though India’s exper...
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Radical Common Sense - I know you know.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

Radical Common Sense - I know you know.
Free Range Kids

Lenore, Do You Not CARE About Kids and Phones? - “Lenore, did you say you don’t CARE about kids and phones?” That’s what a child psychologist just emailed me. MY RESPONSE: It’s NOT that I don’t care abo...
Freethink Media

Monthly Issue Release: The Energy Transition - The next Strait of Hormuz, AI's energy demand, and the "self-healing" grid of the future.
Private Lands – PERC

Advancing Conservation Through Virtual Livestock Fencing - An academic paper exploring virtual fencing technology's potential to facilitate conservation. The post Advancing Conservation Through Virtual Livestock...
Building the Builders

Sift, don't swallow - A builder's guide to therapy fads, starting with IFS
Tim’s Substack

So . . . now what? - The Mensa Brothers provide lucid, reasonable speculation to counter the tsunami of uninformed media/Substack/Vet Bro hysteria
CO2 Coalition

An Earth Day Musing - by James “Jed” E. Dukett The Clean Air Act (CAA) was signed on December 31, 1970, seven months after the first Earth Day. The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendmen...
Stewart Margolis

Diversity Is a Feature, Not a Bug - NOTE: Before we jump into this week’s essay, I wanted to recommend a new Substack called Ethics Under Glass. The author, Fred Groh, says it “is about the f...
The Library of Celaeno

Beluga Kali Yuga - A Tale of Cetacean Degeneration
Official Blog

No books in this box! — Geocache of the Week - Traditional GCACQY9 by msmandi Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 1 Location: Ohio, United States N 40° 02.046′ W 083° 01.006′ What if a geocache wasn’t the main att...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

SPLC caught funding an array of "white supremacist" groups, proving once again that right-wing extremism has never been in such great demand and such low supply - The Southern Poverty Law Center is a sleazy American political advocacy organisation that exists primarily to collect donations from morally overexcited gu...
Marcus on AI

ChatGPT doesn’t know its whisk from its elbow - Medical illustrators can rest easy
HardmoneyJim

AAS Economics initiates online discussion of stablecoins - HERE'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN SOMETHING NEW
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

The Caplan-Khan Culture Convo - A candid talk with the iconoclastic geneticist
bad cattitude

down on the problem farm - the southern poverty law center and the dilemma of profitable problems
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

USCIS Cut Green Card Approvals in Half to Help ICE Arrest Legal Immigrants - A deliberate effort to thwart people's efforts to stay on the right side of the law.
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

USCIS Cut Green Card Approvals in Half to Help ICE Arrest Legal Immigrants - A deliberate effort to thwart people's efforts to stay on the right side of the law.
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

What Ian Malcolm Understood That John Hammond Didn’t - 'Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy.'
Perennial Meditations

You Already Know This. So Why Doesn't It Work? - Dying Every Day (Day 143)
Dead Language Society

How to pronounce Middle English - A complete guide + audio
Doomberg

Sore Thumb - Brazil’s burgeoning energy trade with China foretells a clash with the US.
Andrew Whiteside

Movie Review: Michael - Michael is a biopic that covers the formative years of Michael Jackson’s life from 1966 to 1988. Beginning with the creation of the Jackson 5 by his obsess...
No Right Turn

Schools belong in the OIA - For the past decade, successive governments have been chipping away at the Official Information Act, exempting agencies and passing secrecy clauses, reduci...
Capitalism Magazine

The Invisible Hand at Sea - The Azorean case shows that sustainability arises more from local responsibility than from distant centralized control.
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Dare to be a Daniel - Be not corrupt, corrupted or craven
Energy in Depth

Earth Day to Mayday: New York’s Climate Crusade Meets Its Utility Bill - Five years ago, New York City celebrated Earth Day in the Empire State by filing a climate lawsuit against major oil and gas companies, a Hail Mary attem...
Lindsay Mitchell

Luxon isn't talking to me - Speaking after his cabinet meeting yesterday, affirming his continuing leadership of the National Party, Prime Minister Chris Luxon said: "Everyday Kiwis...
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

Watching the Vote We Cannot Cast - New Zealand politics is becoming a closed conversation among elites. Why citizens are reduced to spectators and how democracy is quietly hollowed out.
The Jolly Libertarian

It Can't Happen Here! Or Can It? - Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky!A review of 22 Cells in Nuremberg by Douglas Kelley Its run in the local theatre was very short-lived so my wife and I on...
Leport’s Substack

DEFROSTED book launch and signing event - Dear Friends and Family,
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 90) - Untimely Thoughts on a World in Transition
Sinification

Liquidating an "Empire": China's Strategy to Capitalise on US Hegemonic Strain | by Wu Xinbo - "Whilst avoiding systemic conflict with the US, how can we employ an effective and precise negotiating strategy to harvest the strategic resources that the...
Changing Lanes

NVIDIA Doesn’t Matter (for Driving Automation) - The full-autonomy frontier it can’t reach
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

The Death of Public Health - Robert F, Kennedy Jr, the nation’s #1 public health official, isn’t interested in public health.
Yascha Mounk

Jacob Mchangama on the Global Free Speech Recession - Yascha Mounk and Jacob Mchangama discuss how democracies and dictatorships alike have turned against online speech freedom.
Stats Chat

Green and full of terrors - If you want to get a health story into the papers it helps if it sounds controversial and it especially helps if it tells people they can eat food they w...
Flying Out

Hairy (Vinyl LP) - *Vendor: *Who Shot Scott *Type: *WHO SHOT SCOTT *Price: * 63.00 WHO SHOT SCOTT opens a defining new chapter with his long-awaited debut album ‘HAIRY’- a...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

THE DAMNED Announce: The Final Damnation 50th Anniversary Australian and New Zealand Tour - Iconic British punk pioneers, The Damned will bring their legendary live show to Australia and New Zealand as part of their 50th anniversary farewell cel...
Too Clever By Half

Pesky floating links thing settles down - [image: A circular button with a star and a pencil icon and the text "Automatically insert Google Search links into your post."]Still in Beta ¶ [image: Th...
The Roots of Progress

Announcing Progress Conference 2026 - Oct 8–11 in Berkeley, CA: A four-day event to connect people in the progress movement
The Weekly Sift

Woe - Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkn...
Greg Mankiw's Blog

What I've been reading - I just finished the new book by my ertswhile colleague Al Roth. Highly recommended! The subtitle is a good summary.
The New Era

Loss of Agency - In conversation with Doc Malik
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

"Airport Security" and "Homeland Security" - One Step Up and Two Steps Back
The Breakthrough Journal

The Hidden Obstacles Facing Renewable Energy - Solar panels and wind turbines are cheap. So why are we facing an electricity supply shortage?
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #43: Make the Invisible Visible - Great speakers don’t only explain ideas, they help people see them
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

Droning On - Greetings from Kiev. Before I go any further, I know I promised to start each day by linking to a pro-war column (the Iran war, not the Ukraine one) but my...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

Nigeria's Corruption Machine: How the Second Republic Built a System That Could Only Run in One Direction - Can Democracy Work in Nigeria? Let's See Nigeria's Second Attempt
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Is a Warning: Technical Debt Is Now a National Security Risk - Anthropic’s launch of Project Glasswing should be understood less as a product announcement and more as a policy warning. The post Anthropic’s Project G...
Roots of Progress

Announcing Progress Conference 2026 - Oct 8–11 in Berkeley, CA: A four-day event to connect people in the progress movement The post Announcing Progress Conference 2026 appeared first on Root...
Real Clear Energy: Video

AI Data Centers Causing Electricity Cost to SKYROCKET - Americans are drowning while markets soar. The panel breaks down brutal data on inflation, debt, and collapsing affordability, exposing how policy, bailout...
The Tracinski Letter

"Never Again a Country Without Consequences" - A News Link Round-Up
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

“I Love Banned Books” and “Lemon Pound Cake” - Free speech is in the air
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Music of the 1860s, part 2 - Philosophy and a love triangle, the claw machine in the opera house, and Vienna’s unofficial anthem.
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

Government (Public) Education Is The Root Cause of The Rise of Conspiracy Theories - Social media act as amplifiers but making conspiracy theories lose their appeal requires restoring freedom and individual rights in education.
PM of NZ

The no-to-apartheid message maybe is getting through - At last the National MPs are paying attention. They've probably noticed that they are haemorrhaging potential voters with inaction over endless Maorific...
New Zealand Arts Review

Zines: a comic version of NZ subcultures history - Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Zines NZ: From punk to present Bryce Galloway Massey University Press RRP $55.00 Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples One of the alm...
Keiran Murphy (FLW Historian)

The Kitchen at Taliesin West - Reading Time: 6 minutesThe photo above looks through the kitchen there. Cooking takes place beyond what you see on the right; the door to the studio is i...
The Shrewd Artist

WIP, Start, Madonna and Child, 17th In My Space Series - My first clothed figure in decades.
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

WIP, Start, Madonna and Child, 17th In My Space Series - My first clothed figure in decades.
misfits' architecture

1956 - FILM In 1956, movies were mass entertainment all around the post-war world but output was dominated by the USA across all genres. I never knew that The Kin...
Roberto’s Substack

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

How the Bible Corrupted the Soul of Western Civilization - Part 5 - Did Christianity Create Science?
Schiffradio.com

Hank Paulson Warns of Debt Crisis He Helped Create - Hank Paulson warns of a "vicious" debt crisis — but his only plan is to brace for it, not prevent it. That tells you everything. The post Hank Paulson Wa...
Glenn’s Substack

The Future Belongs to Those Who Show Up - And turn out.
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Can you "OrGaNiZe" Your Way Out of Tyranny? - Every Right Wing conversation, every debate, every Twitter thread, every “what must be done”… Eventually comes to a round of people saying “We need to get ...
A Havenstein Moment.

Glad that's over! - A Carnival of Buncombe
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Don’t Let Big Tech Hide Behind a Rainbow Flag - Lennon Torres on why social media regulation is a prerequisite for LGBTQ safety.
Market Urbanism

Mayors matter - Via Kevin Lewis, a new paper in an influential econ journal demonstrates that mayoral elections have a large influence on housing supply outcomes. It also ...
Precise Thinking

Girl Facing Dragons - Nature, Nurture & Culture
Eat More Electrons

Transparency is the Swiss Army Knife of development - Advocacy is hard when you have too many arguments in your favor
Cremieux Recueil

Fear and Medical Side Effects - What if all it takes for medicine to hurt people is the belief that it hurts people?
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

xerox'd flowers ⚘ - what is killed in the static representation of dynamic life?
Macroscience

Americans Want More Science Funding - So why aren’t agencies spending the money they have?
Happy Future

The Trouble with Transformers - And the long slouch towards cyberpunk
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

What Marcus Aurelius Can Teach Us Coping with Stress - Listen to my chat with Mark Forstater. author of The Spiritual Teachings of Marcus Aurelius
Tross Publishing

Tribal Takeover of New Zealand - By William Chambers Labour Minister Kieran McAnulty on Maori special treatment: “There are provisions that we have in this country that wouldn’t stand up...
Fictionosophy

So Far Gone: A Shallow Look at a Deep Divide - So Far Gone could have been a fascinating tale of competing ideologies and how they play out in the personal realm—but this depth went largely unexplored.
Houston Strategies

Freeway Deck Parks: time for a reality check - Another excellent, deeply analytical guest post from Oscar Slotboom, author of Houston Freeways. Yes, it is long, but it should tell you anything you want ...
Asymmetric Information

Position vacant: Editor-in-chief, NZ Economic Papers🍋 - Applications now open, closing 18 May 2026
Dramatic Pause

Some scattered thoughts on & Juliet - *The hit Max Martin jukebox musical is playing across New Zealand this year. Here are a few scattered thoughts.* Jukebox musicals are, frankly, nobody’s ...
What You Can Do For Liberty

Right-Wing Realtors & Moving Companies - They'll help you flee your blue-state hell.
Reason for Living

A Life Without Anxiety: Impossible and Undesirable - A life without anxiety is impossible and would be meaningless even if it were possible.
Interintellect

Anna Gát: The Sovereign Reader - How to build your "personal culture"?
The Future of Being Human

14 essential AI "I can ..." skills every undergrad should have - I was struggling to find a list of practical interview-ready AI skills that every graduating undergraduate should be able to demonstrate. So I created one.
Thinking Directions

How Do You Validate Aspirational Thoughts? - Aspirational thoughts can be very motivating — if you believe them. By an aspirational thought, I mean any statement about your ability to achieve someth...
Autonomia

Scott Holleran’s new series on “Ordinary People” - Studies of Judith Guest’s 1976 novel coming to Chicago media
The Claude Megson blog

INTERVIEW: "Celebrating the work of New Zealand architect, Claude Megson" - Great to see so many at the launch last week of Giles Reid's and Jackie Meiring's book on Claude Megson -- it was literally standing room only! (I could ...
Risk & Progress

Dynamos of Discovery - The case for a network of superlabs
History Reclaimed

The History Reclaimed Spring 2026 newsletter. - From History Reclaimed. Kings, empires and reparations fill our pages, though there is also a timely reminder of what may happen to nations that forget the...
The Kerrant

America broke up with New Zealand years ago – we just seem not to have noticed - New Zealand’s foreign policy debate is asking the wrong question. The issue is not whether it is time to “break up” with America, but whether we have not...
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Annihilating Iranian Civilization with a Blockade - After threatening to annihilate Iran with bombs, President Trump and the U.S. national-security establishment have decided to do so with their tried and ...
Outliving Iran

'Life, Made Possible:' An Exciting New Direction for Outliving Iran - Expanding the vision of my Substack —and career
Ruxandra’s Substack

Considerations for egg freezing: a practical guide - Some additional notes on practical steps towards egg freezing
round houses

frank lloyd wright in AZ - I took advantage of a brief trip to Arizona to see a couple of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most interesting round houses. First off, though, was a visit to Talies...
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

Why I stopped using willpower on my cut - I’ve lost 12 pounds without arguing with my hunger once. The Stoics figured this out 2,000 years ago.
The Trumpland Diary

Melania's Bizarre Press Conference Yesterday EXPLAINED - This is the most plausible explanation I've heard yet.
Syncretica

What Did We Learn? - Apart from never doing that again of course
Note to Noteworthy

Sound Money and Reason vs. Fiat and Force - Freely chosen hard money enables a full use of reason whereas forced, easy money nullifies it.
HBL

What If Robots Take All the Jobs? - Hint: They can’t People have it all wrong. And it’s not the first time. Robots are going to take your job? No doubt. But your next job will pay so much mor...
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Stacks Up - We produce a lot more than *Perennial Gale* — and if you don’t already follow our other Substacks, this is a good week to see what you’re missing. Over o...
The Realization of Wholeness

Tyrant of Your Heart - My favorite song
Croaking Cassandra

Oil and monetary policy - I didn’t have too much problem with either the Reserve Bank Governor’s speech a couple of weeks ago on a framework for how monetary policy might deal with ...
Gross Output

Fourth Quarter GO Confirms Deepening Stagflation into 2026 - “By integrating the vital role of the supply chain into national income accounting, Mark Skousen’s development of gross output (GO) has created a more dy...
The Many Ways I Let You Down

A Gaye Excursion - Marvin Gaye meets The Beatles and teaches us of the courage screenwriters require when adapting works.
What's New Under the Sun

A little progress is worth a trillion dollars - Estimating the value of progress with a rough calculation and a new web tool
Liberty Scott

It's a victory! - In July 1953, then Premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Kim Il Sung, declared victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War (the "Korea...
Barrie Saunders

TVNZ – a reassessment - Apart from 7 years abroad I have grown up with TVNZ’s channel one and was privileged to serve six years on its board – 2011 to 2017 Up until recently I ret...
Existential Crunch

April 2026 Updates - Once more unto the breach
Let Grow

I Played Dodgeball at My Son’s School. The Way They Played Shocked Me - [image: Groupe De Ballons Colorés En Caoutchouc Sur Le Sol En Bois D'un Gymnase Intérieur] Forgive the clickbait title – that actually sums up what this mo...
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

The Artemis II Rocket Launch with Emerson’s ‘The Poet’ - The Transcendentalism founder once wrote, 'Beauty is the creator of the universe.'
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (April 2026) - Policy trade-offs, and governance systems for the 21st century
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

Dr. Oz Says 221 Hospice Providers Were Suspended in Los Angeles. How Did It Get This Bad? - How many warnings, audits, red flags, and impossible provider clusters it took before the state and federal government acted like this was a real emergency.
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

A golfer’s spring manifesto - Phil Mickelson hits onto the fourth green during a golf match against Tiger Woods at Shadow Creek golf course, Friday, Nov.
Harry’s Substack

AI is a power tool for the mind - You'll love what's coming
Science of Doom

Cheap power, expensive bills: what Australia’s electricity prices really show - Over the past few articles, we’ve looked closely at South Australia, which has become one of the clearest real-world examples of what a high-renewables pow...
Don't Let It Go

ATLAS SHRUGGED Signed And Inscribed Tenth Anniversary Edition #1/2000 - Just a quick post to let you know about an auction I’m currently running on eBay for a special copy of the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Atlas Shrugged. Thi...
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Goths Against Cancel Culture - A Talk with Danielle Astraea of Crucifera - "Veteran goths fought to escape cancel culture, and we can’t let ourselves get pushed back."
The Intrinsic Perspective

IVF epigenetic damage gets worse across generations; The next Project Hail Mary; AI's "odorless" math proofs; Waymo at 100% human oversight? & more - Desiderata #39
Freedom and Flourishing

Would conscious AI also cling to its sense of self? - I began thinking about the question posed above after reading Michael Pollan’s recently published book, *A World Appears**: A Journey into Consciousnes...
Stu-Topia

More Info for My Troubled Friend - Stuart K. Hayashi I have written much-more-interesting blog posts exposing some falsehoods that my troubled friend and I were both told on topics of politi...
Fizzifood

Fragrant Lamb & Coconut Curry - Jonny – this one’s for you! I love a good butter chicken (not that sickeningly sweet version – I’m talking about the deeply aromatic and creamy type). Some...
Africa’s Bright Future

The Lie Keeping Africa in the Dark - How the world's climate promises became a new way to keep Africa poor.
Asimov’s Addendum

Missing Mechanisms for the Agentic Economy - From disclosures to protocols to markets
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: March 2026 - 📰 Media
In Due Course

Actually, Democrats do need a Project 2029 - ...although maybe different from what they're doing
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

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

Somethings: ATMs and iPhone - Also luddism, puzzle games, and the whimsy of LinkedIn.
The Grumpy Economist

War and Interest Rates - You knew about oil prices, discussed in a previous post. Now attention is turning to the sharp rise of long-term interest rates. From Ian Smith, Sam Flemin...
Matua Kahurangi

Chris Hipkins: "I don't recall" is starting to sound like the new "just following orders" - There are topics I’ve deliberately avoided, not because they don’t matter, but because they ignite a kind of blind, tribal fury that makes rational discuss...
Notes On Liberty

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

Solving the Strait of Hormuz Blockage - Markets ensure the disruption can't last more than 1-2 years.
The Beauty of Things

A Person of Interest, a Person with News! - On the 3rd anniversary of my first published poem, reading great fiction and poetry on Substack, and how some people can’t get enough Aristotle. PLUS: cont...
Notes On Liberty

“Must Liberalism be Atomistic?” by Jacob Rodriguez - During his inauguration ceremony, the newly elected mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani pledged to run the city as he had run his campaign, as a committe...
First Stones NewsLetter

PsycHHology Engineering: What is Narcissism? Narcissism—as used in modern day cultural wars--is two things: - (1) replacement mental-illness du jour for Contemporary (1 'h) psychology's most recent mental-illness-bipolar-disorder-soup and (2) a euphemism for Selfis...
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: Why Scotland Succeeded - It was capital, not education
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: Boyd, by Robert Coram - Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed The Art Of War, Robert Coram (Back Bay Books, 2002).
Pablo’s Translations

Los científicos analizan la estabilidad del universo tras la desaparición de Chuck Norris - Expertos analizan si las leyes de la física y la estabilidad del universo cambiarán tras la muerte de Chuck Norris y el fin de sus "Condiciones". ¡Descúbrelo!
The Scholar's Stage

China and the Future of Science - [The following post is a polished transcript of a speech I recently gave to a private gathering of American technologists.
Seiler on Science

Teaching Physics Inductively - James Ellias’s Inductive Summary of Physics
Anti-Dismal

The Real History of Communism - From the Adam Smith Institute comes *The Real History of Communism*. It delves into the complex history of communism and explores its resurgent popularity ...
An Africanist Perspective

African policymakers should be clear-eyed about the short and medium term impacts of the U.S./Israel-Iran war - Policymakers should prepare for the fact that the coming shocks to have long lags; and that the cadence of global crises will likely pick up.
Mike’s Substack

Educational Junk Food - Over the past few decades, something interesting has happened in the world of food.
Mike’s Substack

Educational Junk Food - Over the past few decades, something interesting has happened in the world of food.
Statecraft

How the National Security Strategy Gets Made - “Leverage is the favorite verb of the Washington policy community.”
Public Lands – PERC

Don’t Let Federal Agencies Revoke Permits Without Consequence - For American Prairie and other western ranchers, permit certainty would mean that decades-old grazing privileges on federal land would be honored as vali...
Democracy Project

Geoffrey Miller: New Zealand’s next steps as Middle East war escalates - New Zealand is once again feeling the fallout of a geopolitical crisis. With a de facto blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in place, oil prices soared past t...
Equal to Reality

The Future Is Going to Be Golden. - KPop Demon Hunters and the Cultural Realisation That Cynicism Is Starting to Feel a Little Exhausting
Spiked Online

spiked summit 2026 tickets (AFAF Students) - 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....
The Prophet of Causation

A Morality of Choice - There is a great deal of work left to do to turn the completed draft of The Prophet of Causation into a published book, including sorting through all the t...
A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

State of the Nation address on behalf of the Honesty Party - *"My fellow New Zealanders, whether citizens, residents or those just passing through en route to Australian pastures, it gives me little pleasure ...
Growing to Truth

Help has arrived. - After almost 50 years of chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”…
Growing to Truth

Help has arrived. - After almost 50 years of chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”…
Objective Standard Institute

MAGA Isn’t Making America Great - Kiyah breaks down her views on Trump and the MAGA movement.
Overthinking Everything

On Mediocrity - One of the harshest words in my vocabulary is "mediocre". Let me tell you what I mean by it.
Mises Wiki - Recent changes [en]

W - Kanopi deleted page W Removing all content created by Kapitalizt
High Capacity

Does China care about AGI? - Chinese tech leaders and researchers talk openly about AGI. But Chinese policymakers don't seem focused on the "race to AGI" like in the US.
Jackson Upmann

3 Months, 1 Habit, Stronger Self-Esteem - How Tracking Wins Is Transforming My Confidence
Kibao

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

Why I am suing Texas Tech - And how you can help
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

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

Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin - A philosophical discussion on ethics and mathematics. The post Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin appeared first on SAVVY S...
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!
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 "...
Maximum Progress

The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander on the design of cities and homes
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...
Regan's Substack

Socialism is for losers - And Capitalism doesn't need a PR team
Texas Institute for Property Rights

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

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

Money And Collateral - Roasted Barley Is No Substitute For Coffee!
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

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

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

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

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

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

Cities need infrastructure to grow, but Roads of National Significance ain’t it - Tell the government that Wellington deserves better in the next two weeks!
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 ...
Hunters and Anglers – PERC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When Your Child is Sick - (And: Come See Me This Thursday, October 16, in Beverly Hills!)
Journal of Free Black Moms

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Ayn Rand Society

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

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

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

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

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

Writings hosted elsewhere - The Breakthrough Institute Interactive Brokers Campus
BloodhoundBlog

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

🎄On the something day of Christmas 🎵🥂 - It's that time of the year again
Premise Check (Billy Beck)

It’s Election Day, 2024 - 2:28 AM EDT —
The 13th Floor

Mousey And The Dreams Of Our Mothers’ Mothers: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview - Mousey is the nom-de-plum of Christchurch-based artist Sarena Close and she is just about to release her very personal third album, The Dreams Of Our Mot...
Martini Mandate

Sri Lanka – in the news for the wrong reason - First Published in May 2022. I’ve just returned from an unsettling trip to Sri Lanka. The country has run of of fuel, electricity and dollars. Some pla...
647 Reasons Why

DAYS 1-3 - 90 Mile Beach - Days 1-3 of my trek across the entire length of New Zealand
Craig Biddle

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

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

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

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

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

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

Full Interview With Andrew Bernstein On Decline Of US Education - Here is my interview with Dennis Prager from last Thursday. The topic is my 2022 book “Why Johnny Still Can’t Read or Write or Understand Math—And What We ...
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Reviews - 13th Floor

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

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

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

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

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

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

What Happened to Technological Optimism? - I haven't given up the good fight. I'm just taking it to a more fundamental level.
The Organon Architecture Blog

PRIMITIVE ART GROUP/BRAILLE COLLECTIVE - *For interview etc. with Daniel Beban* *BEGINNING TRACK: * - *TRACK 1: *Black Dog, 1989 [to remind listeners] *FORMATION STORY:* *Stuart Porter* ...
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

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Cafe Hayek

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1828 – Championing Freedom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

William Whewell’s “Discoverer’s Induction” (Part 4) - Previous posts: William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 1) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 2) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Ind...
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....
Tibor's space

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