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The Inquiring Mind

The Liz Truss Show: #31| Bradford’s Grooming Gangs - The Liz Truss Show: #31| Bradford’s Grooming Gangs | Fiona Goddard’s Story of Abuse, Cover-Ups and Failure Uploaded to You Tube April 28, 2026 Link below h...
Futurism

Riot Games Denies Using Anti-Cheat Software That Bricks Hackers’ Computers - Another chapter in gamer outrage. The post Riot Games Denies Using Anti-Cheat Software That Bricks Hackers’ Computers appeared first on Futurism.
Watts Up With That?

Real-World Observations Do Not Support The Position That Climate Change Is Human-Caused - Real-world observations show both cooling and warming trends in the Arctic, Antarctic, and Tropical oceans since ARGO monitoring was introduced in 2004. ...
Zero Hanger

Barking belief: Why the Western Bulldogs’ season is far from dead - The cavalry are a-coming. Time to see if the Sons of the West possess the mettle to meddle with the very best.
Doug Casey's International Man

The Iran War Could Trigger Gold’s Return as Money - The Iran war could accelerate the decline of the US dollar, intensify the scramble for strategic commodities, and help drive gold’s return as a primary m...
The Integrity Institute

News Briefing: 26 May 2026 - POLITICAL DONATIONS, LOBBYING & INTEGRITY
JoNova

The Bubble Pops: Big Miner BHP quietly backs away from decarbonization - BHP Australia By Jo Nova The ABC and the Guardian think they are onto some hot scandalous leak, but they don’t seem to realize the awful truth they are...
Tim Worstall

Jack, the sparrow, adventure - So, the little sparrow who got blown out of his nest. Or, as I think happened, the nest came down, one of the parents died, and he (?? how to tell with b...
Breaking Views

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: What does Auckland FC's victory say about ambition? - We've got to start this week talking about that Auckland FC win on Saturday night.Did we not discuss on Friday's show the need for us in this country to be...
Israel Institute of NZ

When Recognition Requires No Responsibility - Last week, a coalition of Western governments — including New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy — issued yet another j...
The Free Press

The Veterans Who Become Novelists - What draws so many veterans to fiction after war? Elliot Ackerman and fellow novelist Karl Marlantes reflect on storytelling, remembrance, and the search f...
The Double Standard

Open Mike 26/05/2026 - 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...
The Daily Sceptic

Nearly Half of Labour’s New Homes Wiped Out by Migration-Driven Demand - Damning new figures reveal that nearly half the homes built since Labour took office have been wiped out by housing demand from net migration. The post N...
Mises Wire

The Wicked Witch of Eccles Hates Sound Money - The Federal Reserve might be experiencing a change of leadership, but the process of currency debasement that began more than a century ago continues.
Institute for Energy Research

Memorial Day Weekend: Travel Still Booming - Driving, busing, flying, cruising, or riding the rails. Freedom from locational stasis is an essential part of high-energy, modern life.… The post Memori...
Why Evolution Is True

Turtle yoga at Botany Pond - As you may know from following the Botany Pond reports here, Vashti had one brood that vanished from the pond two days after the babies jumped into the wat...
Marginal Revolution

New Aesthetics awards - Patrick Collison tweets: Tyler and I just published a list of the recipients of the New Aesthetics grants: https://newaesthetics.art/grants. Thank you ve...
Astral Codex Ten

Open Thread 435 - ...
Spiked Online

Restore Britain is the enemy of populism - The post Restore Britain is the enemy of populism appeared first on spiked.
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Climate Anxiety? Get A Life! - By Paul Homewood The BBC is worried about climate anxiety! As we explained earlier, the heatwave that’s been felt across parts of the UK and Europ...
ArchDaily

Clay House / Norenaarquitectos - Casa Barro was born with the goal of re-signifying traditional construction methods and returning them to their rightful place in our spaces, designs, an...
The Daily Economy

From Diocletian to Today, the Folly of Price Controls Endures -
Mises Institute Blog

Does Demand Create Supply? - Mainstream economists believe that if government increases spending and injects new money into the economy, then productive wealth will follow. Austrian ec...
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

The Swallows Skim, and All Is Hushed - A special Memorial Day edition on battle, sacrifice and remembrance - from the Civil War to the Great War to the unwon wars of our own time...
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

"Attacked by the White House, Congress & His Own University" - John Stossel tells my story
Classical Compass Rose

The Students Who Were Forbidden to Speak - Pythagoras required five years of silence before admitting anyone to genuine instruction. He understood something about how mathematical understanding form...
Kunstler

For the Honored Dead - “I told my staff today that we need an ICD code for Trump Derangement Syndrome, because it is a real thing … It should be studied.” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr
The Weekly Sift

The Monday Morning Teaser - This week, Senate Republicans left town for the Memorial Day recess without passing the reconciliation bill they’ve been drafting ever since Democrats refu...
The Curmudgeon

Another Fiendish Provocation - Is there no end to the depravities of the Russian Bear? Having interfered with one of Michael Green's pseudonyms when it was playing with its toys a couple...
Sawahil

Senegal: As Faye and Sonko Split, It's Advantage Sonko - The now ex-PM can hang austerity around his rival's neck while promising reform.
Brownstone Institute

Article Written and Published by Libelists? - Article Written and Published by Libelists? by Jessica Rose at Brownstone Institute [image: Article Written and Published by Libelists?] Here’s the artic...
Living Resources Center

Why Trump’s Approach on Iran is the Only Approach - I understand Trump’s position on Iran. You cannot negotiate with terrorists. But you also can’t “regime change.” You cannot give the Iranian people liber...
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 1112 Semiconductor decoupling. Powell's politics. Industrializing Ogaden. Free trade and the Magna Carta. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Slow Boring

The man behind Memorial Day - A John Logan appreciation post
Law & Liberty

Living Memories Engrained in Bronze - The World War I Memorial is a moving tribute to the hallowed sacrifice of the American veteran.
IPWatchdog Articles

Aurora Patents is Seeking a Software and Medical Device Patent Agent (Remote) - Aurora Patents is looking for a Software and Medical Device Patent Agent to help with patent portfolio management, application drafting, prosecution, and...
ROBERT FRIPP

The quality of presence and beingness... - Words 10 · RF@80 Series
DGMLive

Stormy Monday Selection #77 - This month Mr Stormy has selected a live instrumental mix of Frame By Frame from the band’s 50th anniversary A Celebration Tour.
Kiwiblog

The Opening of Forest Charter School (Orewa) - A privilege to attend the above event last Friday. As opposed to ill-informed assertions that “every brain learns the same” world leading Neuro-Scientist...
GeekPress

Rubber Band Magic - *Danny Urbanus:* "Penn & Teller FOOLED by a simple rubber band!" (Video, via Studio Neat.)
The Antiplanner

Front Range Rail Is Another Big Boondoggle - Colorado’s proposed Front Range Rail “will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars yet produce no real benefits,” says an opinion piece in yesterday...
The Antiplanner

Front Range Rail Is Another Big Boondoggle - Colorado’s proposed Front Range Rail “will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars yet produce no real benefits,” says an opinion piece in yesterday...
Hoover institution Commentary

Facing Death (With Sebastian Junger) - A ruptured aneurysm sent Sebastian Junger to the edge of death—and into a profound inquiry about consciousness itself.
Brash & Mitchell

GRAHAM ADAMS: Why was UNDRIP ‘affirmed’ in the India FTA? - Exactly how a clause “affirming” the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples found its way into the India-New Zealand Free Trade Agr...
Quotulatiousness

CP-121 Tracker; carrier-borne ASW powerhouse turned aerial firefighter - Polyus Published 31 Jan 2026 This is an aircraft carrier borne submarine hunter, dressed up like a firefighter. Its story is one of Cold war posturing, coa...
No Right Turn

Climate Change: A weak policy - Back in 2023, Aotearoa had a serious climate policy. Non-agricultural emissions were covered by the ETS, and despite some initial hiccups, there was reason...
Quillette

Homeric Heresies - Outrage over a black Helen of Troy misunderstands the long Western tradition of radically reinventing classical myths.
Offsetting Behaviour

SEZs as policy trial areas - A decade ago, I coauthored a report looking at how greater localism and subsidiarity could be achieved in a very centralised country where local councils...
Real Clear Energy

The Coal Conversation - Amy Oliver Cooke, RCEnergy President Donald Trump will say it: beautiful, clean coal. <a...
Risk & Progress

Managing Migration - A modest proposal for a new approach to immigration
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: Reduce Your Audience To One - The approval of a knowledgeable person.
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Propugn – to fight or contend for or on behalf of someone or something; to defend, champion, or vindicate an opinion or doctrine; to contend or fight for, ...
SkyscraperCity Forum

Chapter London Bridge | Southwark | 133m | 39 fl | Completed - Apparently there's an exhibition on Wednesday and Thursday this week (4pm-8pm) of plans for "Quill" - a 28-storey tower to replace Capital House (the King'...
Flying Out

Foundry (Vinyl LP) - *Vendor: *Short Span *Type: *YU SU *Price: * 78.00 Presenting the remarkable second album by the Chinese musician, DJ and creative chef Yu Su. An evolu...
The Footy Almanac

Round 11 – GWS v Brisbane: No one ever built a statue to Judas - In the washup of a gargantuan effort from the Giants over the reigning kings of the jungle, Ian Latham reflects on being loyal and having a bob each way.
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

The Sisters Of Mercy Announce Auckland Concert For December - Legendary UK post-punk band The Sisters Of Mercy have announced just their third New Zealand visit since forming in 1980, with a one-off concert at Auckl...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

You have more chance of winning lotto than getting a state house or any help from this Government - ‘There is nothing lucky about living in public housing’: Tenant says Willis is out of touch over Lotto comments Responding...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

Gambling to Solvency: The Savings & Loans Crisis, Part III - The accounting magic, brokered deposits, and burning condos that cost taxpayers $124 billion
Point of Order

No to SMPs for minerals - Resources Minister Shane Jones invited leaders from the minerals sector and diplomats, including a high-ranking official from the US State Department, for ...
No Minister

Resting Septum Face - A few months ago I posted about the connection between Nose Ring Theory and The Rule of Law, which is that women with nose rings are batshit crazy and to b...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

The Opening of Forest Charter School (Orewa) - A privilege to attend the above event last Friday.
Andrew Whiteside

Event: Constellations – July 2026 - Constellations brings a Matariki love story to the Q Theatre stage from 2 – 19 July. Presented by Silo Theatre and adapted by Nī Dekkers-Reihana, Nick Payn...
The Whakataki Times

Labour Believes They Can Win Election If They Get Their Hands On A Horse-Sized Duck - QUACKED THE CODE. The post Labour Believes They Can Win Election If They Get Their Hands On A Horse-Sized Duck appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
UnHerd

Elegy for the Royal Navy - Britain has gone down with its ships
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Are Living Standards Higher in France or Mississippi? - Earlier this month, in Part V of my series on the U.S. vs. Europe (previous versions available here, here, here, and here), I shared a chart showing the OE...
The Organon Architecture Blog

"To act within the marketplace, but not to be governed by the values of the market-place, is a considerable personal discipline." - What Robert Fripp describes below between audient and musician is the same --or should be -- between client and architect ... *"A customer acts within ...
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Why Democrats and Republicans both need comprehensive permitting reform - Both Republicans and Democrats should absolutely want strong NEPA reform, strong Clean Water Act reform, strong transmission reform, and permitting certainty.
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

How Anyone Can Think Like a Roman Emperor - Stoicism and Majesty as a State of Mind
Dramatic Pause

RBG: Of Many, One: A Response - *A response RBG: Of Many, One, presented by Auckland Theatre Company and Auckland Live in collaboration with Sydney Theatre Company, a play about the mos...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

What I'm Hearing from Readers - It’s painful to admit, but the comments emails from readers are sometimes better than my articles. Here are some recent responses.
Greater Auckland

Top 10 politicians who made City Rail Link happen - This year will see the opening of the City Rail Link project. A transformational change to Auckland. CRL will double the potential capacity of trains that ...
Samizdata

The Moscow Raid & trends in the long-range war - Latest from Perun…
Techdirt

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad pushing back on some of our criticism about John Oliver’s AI chatbot segment and his call ...
Cranmer’s Substack

Elon Musk Filed a Prospectus. Every Journalist Should Read It. - It promises to save humanity from the fate of the dinosaurs. It may also eat your business model.
The UnPopulist

Massive Insider Trading Can't Be Ruled Out of Trump's Carnival of Grift: An Executive Watch Roundup - Our late-May selection of the president's latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law
Ayn Rand Centre UK

David Sacks Is Dangerously Stupid -
Greg Mankiw's Blog

What I've been reading - I am a bit late to this party, but I finally got around to reading Dan Wang's *Breakneck*. It is a thoughtful and very readable book that taught me a lo...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Springsteen Tour Increases Security After Increased Death Threats - The Accelerating Decline of Free Speech as a Value
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Isabella Reinhardt: “The Idea of a hero is being degraded” - The University of Austin classics professor has concerns over the translation upon which Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is based
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

Budget Bill Revisions to the CLCPA - In late February the Hochul Administration “leaked” a New York Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA) memo that said that “full compliance with ...
The Enlightened Examiner

Netanyahu’s Legacy - Regardless of whether an agreement with Iran is reached, I stand by this piece.
The Enlightened Examiner

Netanyahu’s Legacy - Regardless of whether an agreement with Iran is reached, I stand by this piece.
Can't Get Much Higher

You Can't Kill It If You Tried: A Conversation with Keith Jopling - Author Keith Jopling stops by to talk about how the album has survived in the digital age
The Logical Place

Legalism versus Justice - Legalism can sometimes be at odds with justice. By legalism, I mean an excessive attachment to the letter, procedure, or technical machinery of the law, ev...
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Does Looksmaxxing Give Women the Ick? - The male beauty arms race is getting weird
Mike’s Substack

Personality Versus Academic Egalitarianism - How Today’s Schools Oppose Greatness
Mike’s Substack

Personality Versus Academic Egalitarianism - How Today’s Schools Oppose Greatness
bad cattitude

sunday memepool 2 - when life gives you stupid...
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

A Memorial to the Erased Statues and Monuments - A compilation of all the statues and monuments that have been destroyed or removed during the American Woke Revolution
The New York Review of Books

The Education of Pope Leo XIV - Father Bob Prevost, today known to the world as Pope Leo XIV, says that when he first arrived in Peru as an Augustinian missionary in 1985, thirty years ol...
Flashbak

Raymond Pettibon’s Punk Album Covers For Black Flag, Sonic Youth and More Hardcore Bands - “My work is intimately connected to paper in ways I don’t even understand myself…” – Raymond Pettibon Did you ever buy an LP because you liked the cove...
New Zealand Arts Review

RBG: Of Many, One. A Timely Reminder and a Triumph - Auckland Theatre Company and Auckland Live present RBG: Of Many, One A Sydney Theatre Company production By Suzie Miller Dir Priscilla Jackman Design David...
misfits' architecture

Getting Emotional - Since my Architecture Is Not Architecture post of three weeks ago, I’ve been more aware of designers wanting me to engage with something on some emotional ...
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

From Spectator Dissidence to Organised Power: Why Comfortable Elites Critique Government but Rarely Contest It - Part I: Opinion Without Organisation, and the Political Problem of Comfortable Dissent
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

The Endorsement Power of Zohran Mamdani - And how he should wield it
The Kerrant

Still Performing: Jim Henson, Kyle Busch, and the Danger of Powering Through - Jim Henson and Kyle Busch lived in different worlds, but their deaths share a haunting pattern: two elite performers, still creating and competing, appar...
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: ’Twas Not My Lips You Kissed, But My Soul - Judy Garland? Anne Edwards? Barron Polan? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: The following romantic lines present a declaration of love. They are...
Capitalism Magazine

“See For Yourself” - The ability to see clearly—to form your own hypothesis about what’s actually in front of you, independent of what you’ve been told to expect—is the foundat...
Energy Transition Absurdities

Record Oil Deal’s Benefits Go Beyond Big Business - The Bureau of Land Management held a federal oil and gas lease sale in the Delaware Basin of southeastern New Mexico on May 20 that shattered every previou...
John D. Cook

Hilbert transform as an infinite matrix - The previous post linked to a post I wrote a few years ago about the Hilbert transform and Fourier series. That post says that if the Fourier series of a...
Curbed - All

The Small, Beautiful Things of New York Design Month - Juicy dimmers, smokestack incense holders, and handles inspired by Noguchi.
Perennial Meditations

Two Paradoxes, One Truth - Dying Every Day (Dying Daily)
The Common Reader

The literary world needs to wake up! - The Commonwealth Prize
The Intrinsic Perspective

Dumbo Could Already Fly - 100% pure human copium about OpenAI solving Erdős problems
Construction Physics

Reading List 05/23/26 - Squatter removal services, Apple finding uses for defective chips, process heat use in California, the brewing Colorado River crisis, and more.
Yascha Mounk

James Traub on Why American Classrooms Are Failing Democracy - Yascha Mounk and James Traub examine how progressive teaching methods are producing citizens who can’t think critically.
Persuasion

James Traub on Why American Classrooms Are Failing Democracy - Yascha Mounk and James Traub examine how progressive teaching methods are producing citizens who can’t think critically.
Sustain What

Ocean Observations Underpinning Climate Forecasts Are at Risk Just When the World Needs Foresight the Most - Hopefully you saw my recent Sustain What conversation on the importance of bolstering long-term observational science and the capacity to integrate finding...
Retraction Watch

Weekend reads: arXiv to ban researchers with hallucinated references; U.S. restrictions on foreign coauthors; retracted papers by Max Planck - If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news...
Manhattan Contrarian

Driving Behind A Tesla - * Today I had the experience of driving for an extended period behind a Tesla. One of my daughters was with me. We were in a rural area of upstate New York...
Schiffradio.com

Consumer Sentiment Just Hit an All-Time Low. Trump Calls it Best Economy Ever. - Trump says best economy in 250 years. Consumer sentiment just hit an all-time low. Saylor just went underwater on $64B. Pick a story. The post Consumer S...
The Daily Doom

Wars and Rumors of Wars ... Again - Today the drums of war are not the usual loud Trump bluffs that are then routinely followed by Trump TACO trades on the stock market and feinted major at...
Glenn’s Substack

And Away We Go! - Starship V.3's successful launch and return sets us on the path to a Kardashev II civilization.
Cato at Liberty

More Perspective on the Cash-for-Capitol-Attackers Fund - It all points not only to corruption but to a march toward authoritarian rule imposed by way of the streets. Trump intends to use public money to reward fo...
Note to Noteworthy

What Spirituality Really Means - Is spirituality about “God” or something else?
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Spoiler Alert:The Donald’s Phony Golden Age’s Gonna Be Warshed Out - Click on Title to Read
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Spoiler Alert:The Donald’s Phony Golden Age’s Gonna Be Warshed Out - It is perhaps fitting that the Donald swore-in a new Fed Chairman today—and with not so much as hint that he recognized the irony at hand. To wit, he did...
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #47: The Honor of Being on the Shelf - Great ideas live beyond the moment
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Horstine the Whale: An Obituary - Look at you, you fucking dumbass.
CO2 Coalition

Energy Apartheid Denying Africa Tech Future - By Vijay Jayaraj Africa’s push to host world-class data centers — AI’s digital engines — is running up against a political embargo on the fuels that reli...
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

Ippolito Appointed to MedPAC - I am thrilled to announce that AEI Senior Fellow and health economist Dr. Benedic Ippolito has been appointed to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission...
Harry’s Substack

What is 'The rule of law, not of men'? Part II - As the law must be objective in its derivation, so it must be objective in its form: objective laws are clearly defined, mutually consistent, unambiguous, ...
Michael Newberry, Artist

Updates on the Madonna and Child, and 2nd Edition of Evolution Through Art, ETA. - Breakdown of Some of the Processes Update on the 17th of my space series the Madonna and Child. Today I’m blocking in the figures with transparent shadows ...
The Shrewd Artist

Updates on the Madonna and Child, and 2nd Edition of Evolution Through Art, ETA. - Breakdown of Some of the Processes
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Updates on the Madonna and Child, and 2nd Edition of Evolution Through Art, ETA. - Breakdown of Some of the Processes
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

A week is a long time: 23 May 2026 - A NZ Politics weekly wrap-up
McFaul's World

My Conversations with Stephen Colbert - Revisiting two appearances on The Late Show during pivotal moments in U.S.-Russia relations.
The Tracinski Letter

“The Most Brazenly Corrupt Action in US Presidential History" - A News Link Round-Up
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

Commission still confusing competition with counting - BusinessDesk
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Premium: What If...We're In An AI Bubble? (Part 2) - Last week I ran the first part of my What If…We’re In An AI Bubble? Series, where I asked questions and posed scenarios as to the consequences of the man...
Gale Winds

Warriors of Teancum Men's Retreat - What manner of men ought ye to be?
Middle East Uncovered

Inside Gaza’s Women-Only Boxing Club - For women and girls displaced by war, the Gaza Boxing Women Club offers athletic training and a place to gather, cope, and keep moving forward together.
Conversable Economist

Agricultural Production Functions Without Prices - I admit this story is insider stuff for those with experience of academic seminars for economists. But it made me laugh, so I pass it along. It’s how Jes...
Energy in Depth

When Global Conflict Hits, Domestic Energy Delivers - Disruptions tied to the Strait of Hormuz are the latest reminder that energy security and national security are deeply connected, and that stable, abunda...
Truth on the Market

‘Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory,’ by Armen Alchian - One of the most persistent criticisms of law & economics is that it rests on unrealistic assumptions. Economic models often assume firms maximize profits...
Sinification

Hormuz and the Global Order: From Maritime Chokepoints to Continental Corridors - Chinese analysts on the prolongation of Hormuz disruption, the shifting global order and China’s strategic positioning in the continuing crisis.
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Bet On It Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 13 - *Summary*This chapter, on “Conservation, Ecology, and Growth,” is an early statement of free-market environmentalism. It begins by ridiculing leftists’...
The Breakthrough Journal

Can the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Match Regulation to Risk? - The Proposed Part 57 Licensing Framework Is a Start
Marcus on AI

This one weird trick might cost your retirement fund billions - You should scream to your congresspeople
ChinaTalk

China’s AI optimism isn’t what it seems - The enthusiasm seems real. But for a population that lived through the mass layoffs of the 1990s, optimism and fear can look identical from the outside.
Tim’s Substack

LZ Margo . . . The Dead Went Last - A Memorial Day Tribute
Reason Foundation

Disaster recovery should not be complicated by politics - Housing recovery needs certainty and speed. The first weeks and months after a disaster determine whether a community can recover. The post Disaster reco...
Anthony B. Bradley

Weekly Top Five Articles: The Moral Crises Americans Pretend Not to See - Sports gambling, AI campuses, sexual shame, workplace conflict, and the slow unraveling of American formation.
Anthony B. Bradley

Weekly Top Five Articles: The Moral Crises Americans Pretend Not to See - Sports gambling, AI campuses, sexual shame, workplace conflict, and the slow unraveling of American formation.
The Roots of Liberty

Counterweights - The fundamental underpinning of “market forces” is akin to Newton’s Third Law.
Journal of Free Black Thought

Birthright Citizenship - We owe this tradition a more nuanced conversation
Journal of Free Black Thought

Birthright Citizenship - We owe this tradition a more nuanced conversation
EconLog

Development by Consent - March 2026 marked the 250th anniversary of the publication of *An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations* (1776). However, Adam Smit...
Doomberg

Contrarian Indicators - Our long-shot prediction of Britain’s next prime minister and the future of North Sea oil.
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Memorial Day and Remote War: Has Our Nation Lost Its Capacity to Mourn? - When my eldest daughter, now 23, was five years old, she delivered her first “out of the mouths of babes” moment. When walking into our local supermarket...
American Institute of Economic Research

Memorial Day and Remote War: Has Our Nation Lost Its Capacity to Mourn? - When my eldest daughter, now 23, was five years old, she delivered her first “out of the mouths of babes” moment. When walking into our local supermarket...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

The Coal Conversation - President Donald Trump will say it: beautiful, clean coal. Alaska will host the first new coal-fired power plant built in the U.S. since 2013. Xcel Energy,...
Freedom and Flourishing

Are there no policies worth retaining to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Australia? - *This is a guest post by Geoff Edwards.* *Tasmania-raised, Geoff has held economist positions at the Productivity Commission, La Trobe and Melbourne Uni...
Paul Wells

Still running - What's the opposite of calling the question? Welcome to your 2026, Alberta
Cremieux Recueil

Obesity is Falling - Slowly but surely, America is getting thin again
American Energy Alliance

Iran Conflict Supply Shocks Highlight Importance of Domestic Energy Production - The Wall Street Journal reports that the Iran conflict has caused about 15% of global oil supply to be removed from the market. Due to the supply loss, B...
FIRE

Fearing controversy, schools cancel graduation speeches - From Rutgers to NYU, schools are canceling graduation speeches over politics, trading open discourse for fear and censorship at commencement.
A Havenstein Moment.

It's Deceptive, Right? - “We know, of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only s...
A Halfling's View

Drawing a Line - Personal Beliefs Should be of no Interest to Professional Regulators
Changing Lanes

Substack Live, the Roots of Progress Fellowship, a Pricing Update, and Memes - Off-Ramps for 21 May 2026
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

Kevin O'Leary has no idea what he's talking about - The problem with lecturing others on how to live
On Substack

Open Tab: Ashlee Vance - The veteran tech journalist on getting close to Elon, why he walked away from the best job in media, and showing audiences where the world is headed before...
The War on Prices

Out to Lunch: California's $20 Fast-Food Wage - My interview of UC San Diego's Jeff Clemens
Market Urbanism

Vacancy chains – linked - Kudos to the Pew housing research team for successfully tracing a real-life moving chain in Washington, D.C. They started at the bottom, with a woman named...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Entrepreneurship and Ethics — new publication - My essay is part of the just-published Springer volume Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics, edited by professors Christoph Luetge ...
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Intelligent Design - In our latest interview for our UK AI Fieldbook series, Mann Virdee speaks to Jarek Rzepecki about how AI can help design complex hardware as a single, u...
Gus Van Horn

Evasive Relative Picks Wrong Target - *Due to major obligations affecting my schedule, I will take a beak from blogging until Friday, May 29. I will appear sporadically on X/Twitter in the mean...
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 513 - Junior Trelement industrialized building system - The endless battle of standardization versus customization, a longstanding obstacle stinting the uptake of industrialized construction, has often guid...
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Modern Hindu Temples - Most ancient architectural traditions have withered, but one is enjoying a golden age: Hindu temple architecture.
Conspicuous Cognition

Are We Building Conscious AI Servants? - Was Richard Dawkins right to attribute consciousness to Claude? Can we turn to consciousness "experts" to settle such questions? Is it ethical to design AI...
The Rebuild

The Baptist-Bootlegger Case for Family Pricing - Affordability Policy is About Economics *and* Values
The Cobden Centre

Price Inflation Accelerates as Wars and Deficits Expand - By Ryan McMaken Fears over price inflation returned in a big way this week as bond yields rose in the wake of recent government...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Myth, Memory and the BNZ - Winston should be ashamed
Lindsay Mitchell

Is Whanau Ora lifting student attendance? - I was asked the following question via Family First: "How is the Whānau Ora network developing and what are its prospects. In particular, is it helping s...
Interintellect

The Long Now Foundation joins Interintellect in partnership for a new online series - A beautiful new miniseries will focus on Bayo Akomolafe, and will be hosted by Denise Hearn.
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

If Machines Could Talk - What LLMs still get wrong about human language -- and people.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

If Machines Could Talk - What LLMs still get wrong about human language -- and people.
Conflicted

Nuckin' Futs - When researchers show you who they are, believe them
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Teddy Thompson: Never Be the Same (digital outlets) - Teddy Thompson has impeccable musical genes, the son of Richard and Linda Thompson, he grew up in a musical environment, ... Source: Teddy Thompson: Neve...
Yes In Our Backyards

The “Great Upzoning” of New Zealand’s cities, in two charts - Taking stock of 15 years of remarkable progress
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Treasure Your Attention - Jonathan Haidt's advice to the NYU Class of 2026 on how to flourish in a world that raises many obstacles to human flourishing.
Official Blog

Le phare Amédée – Geocache of the Week - Traditional Cache GC416NJ by Aa62 Difficulty: 3 Terrain: 2 Location: New Caledonia S 22° 28.636 E 166° 28.068 One of the joys of geocaching is that the who...
Libertarian Land

What are the Effects of Reform Prosecutors? - Many prosecutors run on reform platforms, which advocate lessened charges for low-level offenses.
The Grumpy Economist

Warsh's Challenges: Monetary Policy - This is an OpEd at the Washington Post, their title “How to protect the economy from the ghosts of 1979.”
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

What the Stoics actually said about being a man - Hello fellow Stoics,
Uncharted Territories

What Immigrants Should the West Accept? - The ROI of immigration, productivity, identity, crime, housing pressure, national cohesion, secularism, terrorism, and elite competence
Dead Language Society

English has no future - Will, shall, and other mysteries
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

The Science of Evil: Why Good People Follow Bad Orders - Stanley Milgram’s experiments, and history more broadly, suggest that far more Adolf Eichmanns walk among us than Dietrich Bonhoeffers or Oskar Schindlers....
Africa-Israel Weekly

IBSI's Mission Expands to West Africa - 3,000-Year Africa-Israel Frienship Celebration in Ghana and more upcoming events
Eat More Electrons

The Empty Quadrant contains no countries. But it does hold big lessons for the scale of energy needed in poor countries - (Please use our stuff but don’t plagiarize it)
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Ep30 Reading Banned Books w/Pete Quinones - A Quick interview with Peter R. Quiñones of The Pete Quinones Show on banned books and longform podcasting.
Skeptic

The Religion of Alien Belief - Neil deGrasse Tyson brilliantly exposes why UFO belief persists in the age of smartphones, but stops just short of his own argument’s radical conclusion. A...
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Questionable Treatment - A Rant on Heidegger and Byung-Chul Han
The Many Ways I Let You Down

Democracies Are Not Monasteries - Research suggests less speech means more violence. So why do those in power still want us to shut up?
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 91) - Untimely Thoughts on a World in Transition
Don't Let It Go

My latest at the PLF Blog: The Supreme Court’s last best chance to stop the surveillance state - When you text your doctor, share your location with a rideshare app, or use your credit card at checkout, you aren’t broadcasting your private life to the ...
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

Don’t Worry, Be Smug About China Because The Future Is American - After President Donald Trump’s friendly and deferential visit with China’s Xi Jinping, Matthew Hennessey, a Wall Street Journal editor, wrote a column al...
Leport’s Substack

What If the Future Was Worse Than Death? - Coming in two weeks, DEFROSTED thrusts readers into a chilling world of scientific ambition, political control, and humanity pushed to its limits.
JunkScience.com

Milloy slams GE Vernova for money losing wind business - This presentation (media release|audio presentation) will be made at the May 20, 2026 annual meeting of GE Vernova shareholders.
Maximum Progress

The Causal Effect of Income is (Often) Zero - Evidence on the effect of income on health, education, crime, and child outcomes from lotteries and RCTs
Asimov’s Addendum

The Third Artificial Intelligence - Will the state discipline AI, or will AI discipline the state?
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

"Resolved." - They updated the label. They dropped the recommendation. And then they invented a word for what the injured do not deserve.
Tross Publishing

HOW TO CURE ANTI-SEMITISM. - By John McLean Ordinary Australians, like their cousins in New Zealand, are having it tough at the moment - rising food and fuel prices, unaffordable hou...
Stats Chat

United Rugby Championship Predictions for the Quarter Finals - Team Ratings for the Quarter Finals The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along...
Fictionosophy

A Monster Calls On Self-Honesty and the Power of Stories - A Monster Calls is an intriguing exploration of grief, emotional complexity, the importance of stories, and self-honesty.
Dr Oliver Hartwich

New purge to give totalitarian control of police, schools, prison, bureaucracy of German state - The Alternative for Germany (AfD) aims to fundamentally reshape German governance by purging civil servants deemed misaligned, threatening democratic norms...
Macroscience

Metascience Is Ignoring the National Labs - The original focused research organizations.
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

Justice is coming for victims of dangerous illegal-migrant truckers - My Latest New York Post Article
The Economic LongWave

🌊Why the Next Economic Winter Won’t Surprise Anyone Who Understands the Cycles - 💰From Schumpeter’s innovation engine to the Kuznets real estate rhythm, here’s the full map of booms, busts, and the unstoppable rhythm of capitalism.
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Timeline 1700-1900: Connections for 1870-1879 - Ibsen, Millay, and Webster on the role of women; Ingersoll on the US Centennial.
Real Clear Energy: Video

Tucker Goes After Kevin O'Leary on Data Centers - Krystal and Saagar discuss Tucker humiliating Kevin O'Leary on data centers.
Kiwipolitico

Media Link: “A View from Afar” on Geopolitical Change, Institutional Lag and Industrial Resilience in the Contemporary Moment. - This month Selwyn Manning and I use the Xi-Trump bilateral summit as an anchor point for a discussion about the larger backdrop to recent events, and with ...
Chris Trotter

Going Home. - It’s not the same society; we’re not the same people.
Syncretica

Read 'Em and Weep: Australian Power Edition - batteries and renewables make prices go down in practice and theory
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Can AI Replace Me Already? - Results of an AI Turing test survey: Women are ready for our new reality, old people aren't
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

Yes, We Can Get Along Despite Our Philosophical Differences - If we can agree on protecting individual rights, abundant opportunities exist for making common cause with those who otherwise don’t share our philosophy.
History Reclaimed

“Not Your Victim” by Marie Kawthar Daouda: Book Review - Dr Mark Stocker reviews Not Your Victim by Marie Kawthar Daouda, an intelligent and courageous critique of how modern identity politics, victimhood culture...
The Jolly Libertarian

Comparative AI: The AIs Analyze Each Other - This is Part 3 of my three part series on how the major AIs are similar and how they are different. For this installment I posed exactly the same questio...
HardmoneyJim

Why your money keeps losing value - AND WHY IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

My Testimony for the House Judiciary Committee - Fairfax, VA highlights the value of immigration to the country
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

My Testimony for the House Judiciary Committee - Fairfax, VA highlights the value of immigration to the country
News - Democracy Action

Submission on India Free Trade Agreement - Submission to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee on the New Zealand–India Free Trade Agreement Opposing the inclusion of UNDRIP in the Agre...
The Library of Celaeno

Multibipolarity - Sex, IQ, and The Politics of Idiocy
Stewart Margolis

"National Service" Rears Its Ugly Head - Fox News just published an editorial by Gen.
Why not reason?

Israel Is Not Primarily What Protects Jews from Antisemites - Nazis did not care what Jews thought.
Theatreview

THEATREMAKERS PROGRAMME 2026 - THEATREMAKERS PROGRAMME 2026 Mic Drop by Adyush Aditya and Marcus Savelio was the inaugural recipient of the Theatremakers Programme support. They worked...
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

the min-max mystery - I'm still dissatisfied with the pleasure principle
The Trichordist

The Growing Backlash Against AI Data Centers: Local Resistance and the Infrastructure Crunch - Communities in the U.S. are increasingly resisting the rise of AI-driven data centers due to concerns over electricity demand, water usage, noise pollution...
The Beauty of Things

What He Really Wanted - A personal story of literary mentorship gone very wrong
Free Range Kids

Congress to Consider Letting Kids Be Kids - Bi-partisan bill would stop investigating Free-Range parents Son in Famous Meitivs of Maryland Case Weighs In — as Does His Mom How do you get more kids ...
The Trumpland Diary

Donald Trump's Rebranding of America - How Trump is reshaping the country in his own image
Houston Strategies

HCTRA is wonderful! (according to HCTRA) while investigative reporters circle... - Part 2 guest post from Oscar Slotboom documenting the outrageous looting of HCTRA. You can find Part 1 here.---Before the main content of this post, I want...
Reason for Living

Projects Update: Homing in on What I Love - I've learned that a key part of finding work you love is finding something that integrates your various passions and values.
HBL

Immigration—some mostly new thoughts - Angry articles about immigration have flared up again among Objectivists, but both sides seem to have no difficulty ignoring the points I’ve made. Or, more...
Let Grow

Congress Introduces a “Let Grow” Law! - [image: United States Capitol Building In Washington Dc] How do you get more kids out and about on their own – and assure parents this won’t be mistaken fo...
Craig Biddle

Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles - The post Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles appeared first on Craig Biddle.
Craig Biddle

Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles - The post Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles appeared first on Craig Biddle.
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

So all those who remember Smoot Hawley are dead then? - A standard - and we do so dislike the accusation of cynicism, we prefer realist - timetabling of the next banking crisis is a few years after the retirem...
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

Restoring Rivers Requires Cooperation, not Litigation Shortcuts - An amicus brief in a case before the California Supreme Court case on restoring flows to California’s rivers The post Restoring Rivers Requires Cooperati...
The Future of Freedom Foundation

The Viciousness of the Twin Evils on Iran - The common assumption is because the Iranian regime is engaged in evil, that makes the U.S. government’s war on Iran something good. Nothing could be fur...
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: 50 Years of Text Games, by Aaron Reed - 50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon, Aaron A.
What You Can Do For Liberty

Summer Plans? The World's Largest Pro-Liberty Festival Is In July - Don't fight for liberty alone: come meet like-minded friends!
Earthly Idealism

Review: *Love Thy Stranger* by Bart D. Ehrman - How Christianity Polluted the Moral Conscience of the West
Liberty Scott

Is New Zealand a capitalist command economy? - Head of Lifestyle Economics at the UK's Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), a free-market thinktank, has written an excellent piece at The Critic called...
Building the Builders

All for Alice - Two origin stories in one 2020 blog post
The New Era

Reform's 'Thai Billionaire' - Christopher Harborne's links to Reform are coming out.
Precise Thinking

A New Look at Immortality - The Redemption of a Tortured Self: Selfhood Story #4
Matua Kahurangi

Maiki Sherman resigns: when did words become career-ending? - Now, let me start by saying this.
Autonomia

Obituary: Ted Turner - Flawed founder of Turner Classic Movies and CNN was a visionary genius
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for April, 2026: +0.39 deg. C - This month I’m adding plots for USA48 and Canada, too. The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for April, 2026 was +0.39...
Private Lands – PERC

Reflecting on Ted Turner’s Crowded Life - A great lasting memory and a true southern gentleman, lion of conservation, and source of inspiration until the very end. The post Reflecting on Ted Turn...
In Due Course

Naomi Klein’s husband doubles down on public grocery stores - The road to neoliberalism is paved with good intentions
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (May 2026) - Preparedness in an age of polycrisis
Toppermost

Living Colour - Living Colour pushed boundaries fusing hard rock, funk, jazz, punk with a social conscience that hit like a thunderbolt. The post Living Colour appeared...
Existential Crunch

The end of the fallout bunker - In Germany, at least
Science of Doom

Tropical Cyclones: Cat 4+ Counts and the Annoying 1990 Boundary - In Recent Trends in Tropical Cyclones last year we looked at the data for 1990-2024 from IBTrACS and compared this to a paper, Trends in Global Tropical Cy...
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

The Subtle Horror of Package Inserts - If you want to scare yourself about vaccine safety, just read the package insert.
Croaking Cassandra

A central banker’s fiction - No, this is nothing to do with (say) Neil Quigley’s months-long spin and obfuscation from last year (eg here or here). Decades ago, when the Commonwealth c...
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: April 2026 - We're excited to once again be co-hosting the Progress Conference with the Roots of Progress Institute, October 8–11 in Berkeley, CA.
Wright in Racine

Progress on the Burnham Block, Chapter 2 - © Mark Hertzberg (2026) The gift wrap at Frank Lloyd Wright’s American System-Built (ASB) Model C3 house at 1835 N. Layton Boulevard in Milwaukee takes the...
The Roots of Progress

What is happening in the world - AI, stagnation, populism, my theory of wokeism, and more
Stu-Topia

Humans Are a GMO and Have Been One Since the Stone Age - Genetically Modified As an Effect of the Technology of Our Apelike Ancestors Stuart K. Hayashi Photo by Wolfgang Sauber; courtesy Wikimedia CommonsIn the n...
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

'Perspectives': An Interview with 'The Chambermaid' author, Dorothy Fletcher - The Florida author chats about her latest novel, what inspires her writing, and how creatives can stay organized
Principled Perspectives

Re: Supreme Court Updates: Justices Further Weaken Voting Rights Act, Igniting Political Scramble by The New York Times - My FaceBook Post ANOTHER DEFEAT FOR RACISM!!! Don’t believe the NYT wording. Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 “prohibits voting practices o...
Statecraft

What Trump Can Learn From Nixon - "The Plot That Failed: Nixon and the Administrative Presidency," by Richard P. Nathan
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

Einstein-Inspired Poetry - From Cringe to Courage
Africa’s Bright Future

Nobody Is Stopping Africa From Getting Rich - Someone once said: “I want to live in a world where people migrate out of taste, not out of hunger.” That world is possible. But only if we stop making exc...
A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

No, native schools did not ban te reo - While considering Elizabeth Rata's recent Research Report into the History of New Zealand Education -- which I recommend, by the way -- I remembered a l...
Eating Policy

A (shorter) Three Horizons Framework for Government Reform - We keep propping up a system that’s run out of time to adapt
The Future of Being Human

Why I'm falling out of love with Claude - I hope it's just a phase, but Anthropic, what have you done to my trusted AI writing companion?!
Virginia Postrel

Time's Arrow and the Drive to Matter - Or, entropy and the meanings—yes, plural—of life. Plus, TV and disposable diapers in Works in Progress, good news, and nerdy fun.
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. ...
One Useful Thing

Sign of the future: GPT-5.5 - One impressive step on the curve
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
Happy Future

The Trouble with Transformers - And the long slouch towards cyberpunk
Asymmetric Information

Position vacant: Editor-in-chief, NZ Economic Papers🍋 - Applications now open, closing 18 May 2026
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...
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 ...
Schreibmaschiner (David McLoughlin)

Fly me to the Moon…and Mars. And save us from the maudlin media doomsters - Enough of all the media doomstering. The successful 10-day Artemis II Moon fly-around was a profound event that brought back the bright optimism of my chil...
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 Realization of Wholeness

Tyrant of Your Heart - My favorite song
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...
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
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...
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."
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...
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.
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.
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
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.
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...
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?”
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 "...
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!)
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!
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.
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