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SkyscraperCity Forum

MANILA | Hokka Tower II [28F|com|u/c] - Warehouse Skyscraper [image: 110764]
Homepaddock

Beautifying the blogosphere - ‘Cornflowers’ by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt pic.twitter.com/iLY0yjnep9 — #WOMENSART (@womensart1) June 7, 2026
bad cattitude

empathy vs reciprocity - reciprocity's alkahest and the cycle of civilization
Spiked Online

Orwell, Spain and the totalitarian left - The post Orwell, Spain and the totalitarian left appeared first on spiked.
Kiwiblog

Guest Post: Family Law Is Economic Policy: How Legal Risk and Redistribution Can Damage New Zealand’s Future - A guest post by: Artem Muravev: The post Guest Post: Family Law Is Economic Policy: How Legal Risk and Redistribution Can Damage New Zealand’s Future fir...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Book review: Econometrics for Dummies - I just finished reading Roberto Pedace’s 2013 book Econometrics for Dummies. As you might expect from a book written as part of Wiley’s ‘Dummies’ series, t...
No Minister

League or Union? - Last night in the Super City at 1910 hrs the national rugby team set about defending a remarkable legend of success at Eden Park where over 30 years they h...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

MEDIAWATCH: Oh my Christ – Jack Tame beat the sh*t out of Paul Henry on Q+A - Wow. Wow. Wow. All week Paul Henry has been given deep passionate hugs by the right wing media who have...
Watts Up With That?

AI Data Centers Are the Heroes, Not the Villains - As America celebrates its 250th birthday, let’s remember that the data centers powering AI are financing America’s future, not draining it. The post AI D...
Techdirt

This Week In Techdirt History: July 12th – 18th - This Week in 2016 This Week in 2011 This Week in 2006
The New York Review of Books

‘So-Called International Law’ - On July 13 Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a campaign to destroy the International Criminal Court. Calling the ICC “a global tribunal staffed by u...
JoNova

Sunday - 10 out of 10 based on 2 ratings
Slow Boring

Saturday discussion post - Somewhere between Washington and Canada. Read more
On Substack

Jonathan Wilson’s World Cup Diary - A day in the life of a reporter on the road, growing his Substack, and contending with the Americanization of the world’s game
The Daily Sceptic

IMF: Tax Raid on High-Earners Will Backfire - Andy Burnham has been warned by the International Monetary Fund that a tax raid on top earners would backfire and cost the Treasury billions of pounds. T...
Marginal Revolution

Saturday assorted links - 1. How Roman concrete lasted for so long. 2. All restaurants in Germany are worthy of five stars? 3. They are making improvements to Refine. 4. New limit...
Breaking Views

Ani O'Brien: A week is a long time - 18 July 2026 - Note: apologies this isn’t my best wrap up. I got home from an event at 10.30pm last night and hadn’t even started writing it. I kept falling asleep writin...
Wildlife – PERC

Conservation Victory: New Federal Rule Reestablishes Incentives for Species Recovery - PERC and RMEF proudly support the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s rescission of the Endangered Species Act’s ‘blanket’ 4(d) rule The post Conservation V...
Why Evolution Is True

Caturday felid trifecta: Riley, the cat who belonged to a town; new cat song, “You stepped in it”; beloved Portland cat passes away; and lagniappe - I found this video on Facebook (below) and investigated further: It’s the story of a cat named Riley who became the “village cat” of the town of Ambleside ...
Futurism

As Much of the East Coast Is Choking on Wildfire Smoke, Texas Is Drowning in Life-Threatening Floods - It's the perfect storm of extreme weather events. The post As Much of the East Coast Is Choking on Wildfire Smoke, Texas Is Drowning in Life-Threatening ...
FIRE

Are AI companies doing authoritarians’ dirty work? - Are AI companies exporting authoritarian censorship worldwide? A new report warns that repressive regimes may be shaping what LLMs will say.
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

An Evening for Some Terpsichore - Welcome to another brand new post-coma edition of Mark Steyn on the Town. On today's show, Mark plays the palace and tries the St Tropez twist. Plus: songs...
The Curmudgeon

Thrift is for the Little People - Moisture provision profiteers are losing about a fifth of the water they pump because of leaky pipes, according to research by Greenpeace. Naturally, this ...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Grid Upgrade Costs Could Soar 500% - By Paul Homewood h/t Rob Carter The least surprising news of the year! From the Telegraph: A net-zero overhaul of Britain’s electricity grid is at ri...
Why not reason?

The Soul of a Nation was Revealed on the Field - I grew up in a country that is often associated with soccer.
Brownstone Institute

Who Is Really in Charge of Public Health? - Who Is Really in Charge of Public Health? by Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute [image: Who Is Really in Charge of Public Health?] *Click icon for f...
Construction Physics

Reading List 07/18/26 - A setback for California Forever, a $500 million artillery shell plant not producing any shells, the difficulty of recycling EV batteries, manufacturing wi...
The Inquiring Mind

Classic Aussie Crime Drama: Blue Heelers – #101 – S03 E15 – Fair Crack Of The Whip #2/2 - From Wikipedia Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series that was produced by Southern Star Group and ran for 12 years on the Seven Network, from 1...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Interview with Scott Holleran on TWA Flight 800: Part One - Scott Remembers July 17 and 18, 1996 and His Close Encounter with the Catastrophe
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Chartbook 459 Spain v. Argentina 1816-2026: uneven and combined development in the world economy & on the pitch. - Viewed with the lens of economic history, Spain v.
The Daily Economy

War: The Dreaded Enemy of Liberty -
Yascha Mounk

The Good Fight Club: Refounding Liberalism, Gen Z’s Political Instincts, and a Watergate Ghost Story - Francis Fukuyama, Linda Chavez, and Rachel Janfaza join Yascha Mounk to discuss what a radical liberal agenda might look like today.
Persuasion

The Good Fight Club: Refounding Liberalism, Gen Z's Political Instincts, and a Watergate Ghost Story - Francis Fukuyama, Linda Chavez, and Rachel Janfaza join Yascha Mounk to discuss what a radical liberal agenda might look like today.
Mises Wire

AI: The Ominous Opportunity - Do we embrace artificial intelligence, or do we fear it? Both, actually.
Retraction Watch

Weekend reads: Private info in ‘most’ arXiv preprints; why did George Church decline authorship; 28 misconduct cases in China - 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...
ROBERT FRIPP

The quality of an idea is determined by the world of its origination… - Words 64 · RF@80 Series.
Quotulatiousness

The current state of play in the Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022 - I don’t make a habit of sharing reports from the ongoing fighting in Ukraine, as the war has ground on (how do you say “short, victorious war” in Russian?)...
Tim Worstall

We need new immigration judges, no? - An Albanian former drug dealer who snuck back into Britain 40 days after being deported has been allowed to stay in the country after a judge ruled it wo...
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day – Mr Burnham’s supposed hatred of “neoliberalism” and Thatcher edition - “Andy Burnham’s line about reversing ‘40 years of neo-liberalism’ – i.e. since the Thatcher government’s reforms – is beginning to grate somewhat. ‘Brita...
The Footy Almanac

Almanac Tribute: Four ‘encounters’ with Garry Sobers – RIP Garry Sobers - With the passing of one of the greatest cricketers ever, Garry Sobers, Barry Nicholls recalls four encounters he had with the great man.
Notes On Liberty

My Arctic Journey, Part 3: On Thin Ice (2009) - On Thin Ice: The Inuit, the State, and the Challenge of Arctic Sovereignty (2009) was conceived as part two of a three-part series on Arctic geopolitics, i...
The Whakataki Times

Newly Spawned “Mega Chris” Takes Natbour Campaign On The Road - MEETING THE PUNTERS. The post Newly Spawned “Mega Chris” Takes Natbour Campaign On The Road appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
The Double Standard

Four Promises, Fifty Years On - Norman Kirk once said people do not ask for much: someone to love, somewhere to live, somewhere to work, and something to hope for.
New Zealand Arts Review

et al. the fundamental practice coming to the Auckland Art Gallery - John Daly-Peoples et al. the fundamental practice Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Opening 8 August 2026. Next month the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki...
Quillette

Claire's Weekly Letter: Wars of Choice -
The Daily Doom

THE DEEPER DIVE: Tiny Bits of Truth and Huge Gulps of Lies - What is the real state of our union?
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

A week is a long time: 18 July 2026 - A New Zealand Politics weekly wrap-up
Croaking Cassandra

Real wages haven’t fallen 6.4 per cent (or at all) - Various media last weekend (I think this was the first) latched onto a chart in the OECD’s latest Employment Outlook publication which appeared to show tha...
Point of Order

The corruption of privilege (and why it matters) - The exercise has many names – privilege walk, power line, power walk – and a well-documented lineage. It originated in North American social-justice educat...
Brash & Mitchell

ROGER PARTRIDGE: The corruption of privilege (and why it matters) - The exercise has many names – privilege walk, power line, power walk – and a well-documented lineage. It originated in North American social-justice educat...
Cato at Liberty

JD Vance and the Dismal Science - Economics earned the “dismal” epithet that Vance now repeats, in other words, not by calculating away human freedom but by taking it seriously.
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

“They Used AI” Is Not an Argument - Rouse declared, “They used AI.” These are the first three words of her interview; the president of a major scholarly association reacted to a fair concer...
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Trump’s New Anti-Legal Immigration Rules Target Students, Spouses of US Citizens - Trump solidifying his reputation as the most anti-legal immigration admin ever.
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

Trump’s New Anti-Legal Immigration Rules Target Students, Spouses of US Citizens - Trump solidifying his reputation as the most anti-legal immigration admin ever.
The Free Press

There Is Good and Evil. Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Isn’t Afraid to Say So. - Nolan trusts Homer—and his audience—to recognize that villains deserve defeat and heroes deserve to triumph, writes Spencer Klavan.
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Orange Casey Strikes Out! - Click on Title to Read
ArchDaily

House in San Isidro / Ábode arq - Built on a narrow shared lot in San Isidro, near the Río de la Plata, the project was conceived as an exploration of the relationship between architectur...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

The Collapse at Netflix Signals the End of Audience Capture - The most popular strategy in the tech world has stopped working. That's good news for all of us.
The Integrity Institute

News Briefing: 18 July 2026 - ELECTION 2026 AND POLITICAL PARTIES
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Four reasons why I liked The Odyssey - The story Chris Nolan has been trying to tell all along
American Innocence by Anna Gát

Four reasons why I liked The Odyssey - The story Chris Nolan has been trying to tell all along
HardmoneyJim

From Cigars to Bitcoin: The Simple Truth About Why Prices Rise - What a neighborhood cigar shop can teach you about the global financial system — and about whether you’re an investor or a speculator.
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Orange Casey Strikes Out! - Trumpety’s prime-time address Thursday night presented newly declassified intelligence, claiming it was powerful evidence of deep vulnerabilities and for...
Flashbak

The Many Pulpy Delights of Gold Key’s Star Trek Comics - Star Trek ran for only seventy-nine episodes before the show was cancelled in 1969. Two years. It might have gone the way of mid-60s two-season shows t...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

What's Putin Thinking!? Is the War with Ukraine in it's Endgame? - There are decades when nothing happens; and there are weeks when nothing happens.
Building the Builders

Gena Gorlin and Linda Mann on building a life of art - A recording from Dr. Gena Gorlin's live video
Conversable Economist

Is Progress Sustainable? Mokyr’s Nobel Lecture - “Progress” is a word that often generates both a lot of positive vibes, and also a lot of pushback? Progress toward what? At what cost? So it’s perhaps u...
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Why both Republicans and Democrats should support aggressive permitting reform - Bipartisan deals are often impossible, but on permitting it’s totally possible—because permitting delays kill projects that members of both parties deeply ...
Institute for Energy Research

New York Imposes a Data Center Moratorium - On July 14, New York Governor Kathy Hochul issued the nation’s first statewide moratorium on large data centers, those of 50 megawatts… The post New York...
John D. Cook

Visualizing Medical Code Hierarchy - Quick follow up to the previous two posts on ICD-10 codes and HCPCS codes. This post uses Python’s squarify library to create treemaps visualizing how ma...
Energy in Depth

New S&P Global Study: U.S. LNG Set to Become America’s Second Largest Net Export Industry – Without Raising Energy Costs - Liquified natural gas (LNG) exports are expected to be the second-largest net export industry in the United States within five years, according to a new ...
Astral Codex Ten

Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures - Finalist #2 in the Book Review Contest
Libertarian Land

The Macroeconomic Effects of Tariffs - A recent study points out the dearth of historical research on the macroeconomic effects of tariffs, especially as a tool to analyze modern-day tariffs.
Truth on the Market

Brazil’s Gatekeeper Bill Gets a Tuneup, Not a Rethink - Brazil may soon become the first country in the Americas to regulate digital platforms before they do anything wrong. Bill 4,675/2025 would let the Admin...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Welcome to Trillionistan. Don’t Get Comfortable. - Not long ago, the notion of *trillions* belonged either to the furthest cosmic reaches of the universe or the submicroscopic world of atoms. These number...
Skeptic

Spy vs. Spy - What inspires people to betray their country? Dive into the secret world of espionage with Michelle Ainsworth’s review of two gripping new books. Explore t...
The Breakthrough Journal

A Practical Climate Test: Clean Cooking for the World’s Poor - A recognition of Kirk Smith and his refusal to prioritize climate change over the needs of the world’s poor
Middle East Uncovered

Trump’s Gamble on Iraq - The White House is testing whether Iraq’s Iran-linked political establishment can be persuaded to serve Baghdad instead of Tehran. Time will tell whether i...
Anthony B. Bradley

Weekly Top Five Articles: Formation Cannot Be Optimized - Five articles on formation, constraint, and what holds a life together
Anthony B. Bradley

Weekly Top Five Articles: Formation Cannot Be Optimized - Five articles on formation, constraint, and what holds a life together
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

He-Man’s Pronouns, Alien Disclosures, and Christopher Nolan's Odyssey - Three very different films reveal something surprisingly similar: we need stories of courage, mystery, and meaning. But can Hollywood still deliver?
The Rebuild

From “First They Ignore You” to “Everybody Loves It” - The Rebuild Conversation with Matthew Lewis
The Enlightened Examiner

Stop Attacking Socialists - On how to move forward in championing capitalism.
The Enlightened Examiner

Stop Attacking Socialists - On how to move forward in championing capitalism.
Kunstler

Acceleration - “. . . the Democrat Party. . . are morally bankrupt nincompoops who have been beaten by the establishment like the rented mules they are. “ —Kurt Schlichte...
Greg Mankiw's Blog

Thank you, British Academy - I am deeply honored to be named an International Fellow of the British Academy.
Gus Van Horn

Blog Roundup - *A Friday Hodgepodge* *1*. "*How About a Genuine America-First Policy?*," by Peter Schwartz ( *PeterSchwartz.com*): The movement Trump launched claims that...
Doug Casey's International Man

The Truth About the US Treasury Market - Artificial demand from central banks, foreign exporters, and leveraged traders has distorted US Treasury yields and enabled an unsustainable explosion in...
Energy Transition Absurdities

5 Big Energy Stories - 7.17.2026: The Tide is Turning - Energy: Visualizing 75 Years of U.S.
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

Make Movies for Patriots, Not the "Modern Audience" - A proposal to produce 12 films about legendary American stories that have been forgotten and deserve more recognition
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

American Homer? - Some Literary Speculations
The Common Reader

My review of Nolan's Odyssey in GQ Australia - with spoilers
DGMLive

New music available: Chicago (Alt Take) - To celebrate Robert Fripp's 80th Birthday DGM are curating a Fripp@80 series, with weekly digital releases throughout the year drawn from his extensive sol...
Sawahil

West Africa, Horn, MENA: Links for 7/17/2026 - News and analysis from Dakar to Riyadh.
Reason Foundation

Loopholes in Florida laws allow law enforcement to collect excessive fines - Florida has laws meant to discourage local governments from relying on ticket revenue, but significant gaps remain in how those laws are enforced. The po...
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Why Won't Bill Gates Stand Up for Himself? - People hate him because they're stupid and conspiratorial
The Roots of Liberty

OPM - Space Edition - Those who have read my bio, here or on Facebook or on LinkedIn, are aware that I self-identify as a retired rocket engineer.
Law & Liberty

Natural Right on Horseback - *Young Washington* shows the circumstances that formed America's first president.
EconLog

A World Cup Final Through Austrian Eyes - Imagine that history made one small exception. For one evening only, time stopped separating generations. High above the noise of a packed World Cup fina...
Hoover institution Commentary

Nuclear Arms ‘No Longer Deter’ In Drone Era - Hoover Institution fellow Rose Gottemoeller urged Ireland to consider its vulnerability to conventional missile and drone attacks and welcomed news of join...
Zero Hanger

AFL MRO: Geelong veteran, youngster charged with rough conduct - The Match Review findings from Thursday's clash between the Cats and St Kilda have been revealed.
Uncharted Territories

Geopolitics Dispatch - Summer 2026
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Nova Festival Survivors Attacked for Staying Alive -
No Right Turn

Eating Labour's lunch - Yesterday the Greens announced a significant election policy: default union membership. New employees would automatically be enrolled in a "default union",...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

Honda Is Paying the Price for Falling for Biden-Era Climate Policies. Let’s Spare Others the Same Fate. - This article was originally published at The Empowerment Alliance and is re-published here with permission. The importance of codifying into law the guara...
Real Clear Energy

Winter Is Coming: The Work to Keep Us Warm Is Underway - Larry Behrens, RCEnergy As temperatures near 100 degrees across the country, the last thing on the minds of most Americans are worrying about is…heat. Not ...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: Don’t Fool Yourself - Discipline begins where excuses end.
The Logical Place

Antisemitic Language Is Harmful, Not Just Offensive - Freedom of expression includes the freedom to say things that other people find disagreeable, insulting or even deeply offensive. A free society cannot pro...
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

204 Million Voter Records: What the Declassified China Files Actually Say - A declassified tranche describes how PRC-linked entities collected, bought, and analyzed American voter data for a decade. We read the text — and the metad...
A Halfling's View

Nolan's Odyssey - A Review of the Cinematic Retelling of Homer
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Ealing Studios’ Libertarian Moment: Five Films - It’s noteworthy that five of the most libertarian films ever made were produced by Britain’s Ealing Studios in the brief period, 1949-1957.
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

New Sound Thinking Podcast featuring The Rolling Stones, Madonna & More is Live Now! - This week on Sound Thinking with Graham Reid and Marty Duda we review The Rolling Stones, Madonna, Jack White, Lenny Kaye, Gin Wigmore, Gram Antler and m...
UnHerd

The Labour party is insulting - The Left has a history of cruelty
Andrew Whiteside

Movie Review: The Odyssey - The Odyssey is one of the great works of literature and tells the story of Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, attempting to return home after the Trojan War. Ch...
IPWatchdog Articles

Federal Circuit Partially Vacates Court of Federal Claims’ Assessment of Copyright Award - In a precedential decision authored by Judge Hughes on Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) vacated-in-part and remanded a ...
The War on Prices

Childcare and Affordability Podcasts - On the Cato podcast this week, I spoke with Chelsea Follett about the economics of childcare: why it is expensive, what government policies drive prices hi...
Greater Auckland

Weekly Roundup 17-July-2026 - We hope everyone has had a great week after the long weekend! Here is a collection of all things cities and transport to enjoy! This Week in Greater Auck...
The UnPopulist

The World Needs America to Save Its Liberal Democracy - If this system of government dies in the land of its birth, it will have a hard time surviving elsewhere
Capitalism Magazine

The Anatomy of Deflation - Deflation is usually thought to be a synonym for falling prices. There could be no more serious error in all of economics.
Curbed - All

Cary Fukunaga Is Selling His Broome Street Penthouse for $9 Million - The director’s three-bed, three-bath can also be bought in a package deal with an adjoining penthouse.
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: People Don’t Really Read Your Books; They Only Say They Do To Keep You From Feeling Bad - Mark Twain? C. E. M. Joad? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: New authors often receive lavish praise from friends, acquaintances, and relatives,...
Israel Institute of NZ

FOUNDATION – Zionism: Definition, Development, and Debate - Introduction: Before the Argument Debates about Zionism are often conducted through the frameworks examined in the series that follows. Zionism is variousl...
Chris Trotter

Looking Back. - Is it wrong to look back with nostalgia to a time when young people still had faith in the future?
Can't Get Much Higher

The Intergenerational Duet - Gen Z 🤝 Baby Boomers
Mises Institute Blog

The Most Overvalued Stock Market Since 1927? - Is the U.S. stock market more overvalued than at any point in the last 150 years—except for 1927? Mark Thornton believes today's extreme valuations, rising...
Conflicted

The Geopolitics of Climate Continues - My post up at Civitas Outlook
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Upcoming Events - Los Angeles, Capla-Con, Cincinnati, Laramie
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Episode 3 - A Visceral Reaction - Megha Lillywhite Breaks the Spell of Children’s Illustration
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

New York Court Refuses to Block State’s Plan for a Renewables Program - For several months my “to do” list has included writing a post about an Article 78 proceeding Richard Ellenbogen and I had submitted with Mathew Hardin. A...
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Childhood Patterns, Dangerous Female, MAGA Kabuki - Links and recommendations
AAS Economics (Frank Shostak)

Has US CPI Inflation Peaked? - Perhaps not, but it's close
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Timeline 1800-1899: Rudyard Kipling poems from the 1890s - "Gentlemen Rankers”, “The King”, and “If”
Living Resources Center

“Democratic Socialism” in Practice — EVERYWHERE - Here’s what “democratic socialism” for America means, in practice. “We get a majority to vote for ending the presidency, ending the courts, ending the U....
An Africanist Perspective

Why is it so difficult (and crazy expensive) to fly within Africa? - Thinking through the economics and politics of connectivity over a vast continent
Journal of Free Black Thought

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey Is Not "Woke" - The controversy around the film is contrived
Journal of Free Black Thought

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey Is Not "Woke" - The controversy around the film is contrived
Perennial Meditations

St. Thomas Aquinas: The Things We Love - Perennial Meditations (Vol. 9)
ChinaTalk

China’s Mythos Moment - How will Beijing respond when it comes?
American Institute of Economic Research

Shareholders and Stakeholders in Corporate Law - This paper argues that the stakeholder theory of corporate governance, as distinct from shareholder theory, is essentially vacuous.
The Cobden Centre

How to avoid the Crash - “The Guide says there is an art to flying”, said Ford, “or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself...
GeekPress

Tap-To-Pay Fraud - *"Scammers* Are Tapping into Contactless Payments"
The Antiplanner

A Second-Rate Collection in a Third-Rate Location - “A second-rate collection of trains on a third-rate site,” was how John White, transportation curator of the Smithsonian, described Steamtown when Pennsylv...
The Antiplanner

A Second-Rate Collection in a Third-Rate Location - “A second-rate collection of trains on a third-rate site,” was how John White, transportation curator of the Smithsonian, described Steamtown when Pennsylv...
Roberto’s Substack

Religion, Power, and Liberty: When Faith Seeks to Rule - The steadfast gaze of one who refuses to be silenced before the whip: the beauty and pride of Parastoo Ahmadi are the very translation of resistance agains...
Manhattan Contrarian

New York Court Refuses To Block State's Plan For A "Renewables" Program - * For a couple of years now, I have been collaborating with a small group of friends here in New York to see if we can introduce some rationality into the ...
Glenn’s Substack

Seizing the Day - Will Trump invoke the Guarantee Clause to impose election integrity? A prediction.
Stewart Margolis

No One Mourns the Wicked - Is it wrong to celebrate the death of a political or ideological opponent?
Freedom and Flourishing

Did the Enlighteners Reject Aristotle? - In his book, *The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-*1790, Ritchie Robertson uses the term “Enlighteners” to describe the proponents of th...
Outliving Iran

Outliving Iran: A Memoir (Part 1) - Up from poverty, violence, and darkness
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

The Retreat Continues - Updated again, lower again. CMIP7's highest emissions scenario now has less than half the CO₂ of RCP8.5.
JunkScience.com

Milloy comments on potential shareholder lawsuit against New York Times re Nick Kristof Gaza column -
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

“Fascist!” and “Nazi!”—Hyperbole vs. History - My talk on rhetoric and intellectual self-defense, at the 2026 Galt’s Gulch conference in San Diego: Related: The full audiobook of my Nietzsche and the N...
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

The OpenAI Bubble - *Thanks for reading this week’s free Where’s Your Ed At newsletter. As I said last week, I’m taking the rest of this week off, so there won’t be a premiu...
Official Blog

absa. 75 amagats.(dejen la llave en su sitio) — Geocache of the Week - Traditional GCBPM33 by absa75 Difficulty: 2 Terrain: 1.5 Location: Ripollet, Spain NN 41° 30.200’ E 002° 08.859’ Some geocaches lead you to new places. Oth...
Keith Weiner Economics

The Declared Principle of America - With the recent 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence, I thought it was appropriate to write about the key idea, the Declared Princ...
American Energy Alliance

Don’t Sink Alaska’s Gasline for a Half-Baked Tax - Alaska has been chasing a natural gas pipeline for half a century. After decades of false starts, political promises, and failed deals, the massive proje...
Dead Language Society

The fatal letter - The near-death and resurrection of “h”
Sustain What

Paths to Safer Seafood Harvests – Lessons and Solutions from Maine's Bountiful, Dangerous Coasts - A discussion of the dangers facing those harvesting the bounty of the sea and steps that can cut risk, both on boats and ashore.
Dramatic Pause

By The Numbers: Nī Dekkers-Reihana - *Nī Dekkers-Reihana (Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa and Ngāti Porou) is an award-winning performer and theatremaker. Their many credits as a performer include Auckla...
The Grumpy Economist

Trade Basics - Follow the money past the initial recipient.
Schiffradio.com

The AI Cash Cows Just Became Cash Vacuums… This Breaks the Bond Market - In 1914 the Fed ran on 40 people and no computers. Today it takes 23,000. Fire them all and let AI do it... it can't do any worse. The post The AI Cash C...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

How to improve our system - As well as the article below - this week I am researching why countries in Europe have school lunch programmes.
Autonomia

Movies: Young Washington - The best movie of 2026 dramatizes the rational man’s path to patriotism
PM of NZ

Looking forward to cheaper house builds. - So Luxo has signed us up to trading with the sub-continent. Recent investigations on my part shows that their building code (IS 875) evolved from the Briti...
Paul Wells

When we cease to understand the world - On the need for humility in world affairs
CO2 Coalition

Japan Chooses Reliable Energy Over Climate Nonsense - By Vijay Jayaraj Not long ago, Japan stood before the world pledging to become a paragon of decarbonization. Government papers were filled with talk of ...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

If legacy media didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all - Variety applauds 'authenticity' and 'representation' in remake of 'Moana,' while attacking Elon Musk for 'Odyssey' critiques
Offsetting Behaviour

Canada stepping up - The Wall Street Journal had an excellent two-parter on Mark Carney's handling of a rather difficult situation: a century-long ally and decades-long free-...
Conspicuous Cognition

Highbrow Propaganda - Ideological power, populist distrust, and the strongest rational case against rationalism
McFaul's World

The End of Democracy? Is the Populist Wave Unstoppable? (Video) - A timely discussion with former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves.
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

On downregulating one's baser appetites and improving the human condition via grey-market pharmaceuticals from someplace in China - An off-topic Tuesday post
Marcus on AI

Breaking: Demis Hassabis endorses preflight safety testing for AI - Good news, for once.
Changing Lanes

Ten Times Safer - A review of Families for Safe Streets’ AV framework
Sinification

Investing in People—or Just More Things? | Economic Digest: June 2026 - Local Government Financing | Structural Splits | Rebalancing, or Just Adjusting the Course? | Capital Markets | Property Market | Artificial Intelligence
Doomberg

Artificial Bloom - Rare earths, short sellers, and Chinese competition
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Watch this New In-Depth Interview About Stoicism and the Art of Living - I joined Andre Duqum for a wide-ranging discussion of Stoicism, modern psychology, emotional resilience, and the practical pursuit of wisdom.
Stats Chat

Currie Cup Predictions for Round 1 - Team Ratings for Round 1 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the r...
The Tracinski Letter

Your Government Is Murdering People Again - A News Link Round-Up
A Havenstein Moment.

The Dog and Pony Show - An impenetrable veil
Free Range Kids

Mom vs. The Monster Under the Bed: A Surprising Poem - Just re-discovered this oh-so-wonderful poem by Carrie Shipers of Wisconsin, author of Family Resemblances: Poems (University of New Mexico Press). It wa...
Market Urbanism

Which U.S. cities mix commercial and residential the most? - A new NBER paper by Yu-Hsin Ho (an incoming Harvard grad student) and three co-authors including Chiang-Tai Hsieh, contrasts zoning-segregated U.S. metro a...
Leport’s Substack

DEFROSTED is Out Today! - Grab your copy wherever books are sold!
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Lottery Winnings - Within weeks, Andy Burnham will walk into Number 10 carrying a plan for the biggest rebalancing of power in Britain’s modern history. On the diagnosis, a...
The Weekly Sift

Arms and Wisdom - Arms are of little value in the field unless there is wise counsel at home. – Cicero This week’s featured post is “Graham Platner’s exit, and the debate it...
The Intrinsic Perspective

Anthropic runs like Wile E. Coyote into the brick wall of consciousness research - When the AI companies first began talking about existential risk, it was common to hear some version of:
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

The Practice: Feel it first - The Field Note
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

You Have to Understand What You Hate - On Jonathan Chait, DSA, and my advice to young writers
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Why Did We Let Big Tech Take Over Education? - Sophie Winkleman lays out the damage from the screen-based school day and shows how to roll it back.
Real Clear Energy: Video

America Is Blocking Chinese EVs. I Flew to China to Find Out Why. - Everyone online keeps saying Chinese EVs are cheap knockoffs that could never compete with Tesla, Mercedes, BMW, or the rest of the world. So I flew 9,000 ...
The Trichordist

This Isn’t Just Copyright—It’s Trade Discrimination Against American Creators - Readers of this blog know we’ve spent years supporting the American Music Fairness Act and its predecessor legislation, as well as the tireless efforts of ...
RenewNZ

Definition of Woman and Man Bill – a return to Truth - It should never have come to this. Our MPs debating the definition of a man or a woman. But the fact that it has, means we have arrived at a critical infle...
History Reclaimed

he Fate of the Dancing Girl: Partition, Restitution, and the Afterlife of an Indus Valley Icon - The bronze figurine of the Dancing Girl of Mohenjo Daro was made 4500 years ago by the Indus Valley Civilisation. She resides in a museum in India but she ...
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #54: Leadership Begins with Moral Purpose - Great leaders remind people of what is worth doing
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Dehumanizing View Of People Behind Anthropic’s Dystopian Plan To Destroy Millions Of High-Paying Jobs - Claude creators say AI “creatures” can be “machines of loving grace” that are “better than humans at essentially everything” — except low-wage service jobs
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

A 21st Century Declaration of Independence, Anyone? - A draft of the Declaration of Independence from the welfare state.
O'Shannassy's Dispatches from Collapse

A Unified Theory of Money - A Journey From Ancient China to the Inside of Your Own Mind.
Austin Vernon's Substack

How Ukraine Built a War Fighting State - The engine is revving after years of war.
Gale Winds

The Extraordinary Rise in the American Standard of Living Since 1970 - The best time to be alive and build things.
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

The personal cost of political tribalism - People suffer when partisans sacrifice personal decency for The Cause™.
Precise Thinking

Obamalisk - "Tower of Power"
Freethink Media

Stories of American exit in the nation's 250th year - Special Issue Release: The Opt-Out Nation
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Twisted Teens: Florida Water Blues - Way back in 1963 in his liner notes to the Beatles' debut album Please Please Me, the PR man/reviewer Tony Barrow opened his extensive liner essay with “...
Macroscience

Five Reasons to Study the Economics of Innovation - Launching the Economics of Ideas, Science, and Innovation video series.
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Why San Francisco isn’t bigger - Large swaths of America’s cities were originally underwater. We stopped half a century ago, but there is plenty more land left to take.
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Who Will Love Me Now? - John Adams once said that the key to the human condition was summed up in the question: “who will love me?” It’s a deep and profound question.
Asimov’s Addendum

Where Does Intelligence Reside? - Why AI needs markets — and how specialized production / open protocols can enable this.
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 520 - Digitally integrated business model - The introduction of CAD and eventually highly detailed modelling in architecture and construction has favoured the virtual planning of buildings ensurin...
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

The Dynamite Fishermen of Democracy - Party politics increasingly treats voters like fish to be stunned before election day. But when campaigns win by blasting the civic lake, communities are l...
Keiran Murphy (FLW Historian)

Why I Love Wisconsin - Reading Time: 5 minutesAt the midpoint under the sky, you can just see the edge of Taliesin in this photo I took in August 2005 from Highway County C. I...
Reason for Living

Don’t Be a Hyacinth: The Danger of Letting Others Set Your Standards - Have you ever put yourself into an awkward situation because you were trying to impress someone?
Michael Newberry, Artist

Newberry Books - For over five decades, Michael Newberry has painted, taught, and written about art with a single conviction: that art is the technology of the soul. These ...
The Roots of Progress

We're hiring a Head of Communications and a Program Manager - Help us build a culture of progress and restore an ambitious vision for the future
Public Lands – PERC

Public Comment: Conservation Requires Better Wild Horse and Burro Management - PERC joined with conservation partners to submit a public comment supporting incentives to restore healthy herds and rangelands. The post Public Comment:...
Toppermost

The Beths - The Beths most comfortably slot in as pop-punk, an old-fashioned two-guitar-bass-and-drums act... The post The Beths appeared first on Toppermost.
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

We don’t believe the Resolution Foundation for a moment here - Of course, we rarely do believe the Resolution Foundation. We’ve found that to be a good guide to life in general. But specifically we don’t believe them ...
Let Grow

Toy Story 5: The Truth About Kids, Screens, and Loneliness - [image: Cali, Colombia May 12 2026: Smartphone Displaying Disney Pixar Toy Story 5 Movie Logo] Toy Story 5 is billed as a battle of Toys vs. Tech, but that...
Dr Oliver Hartwich

Memory is a terrible statistician - Nostalgic views of New Zealand's past often overlook harsh realities. While some measures of well-being have improved since the 1970s, significant challeng...
Houston Strategies

TxDOT 2027 UTP: amid reduced funding, high priority projects are protected while others suffer - Another excellent analytical guest post from Oscar Slotboom, author of Houston Freeways. Some fairly big changes for TXDoT plans in Houston.--- The release...
Africa’s Bright Future

AI Could Make Workers Richer - Everyone is talking about AI as if it can only mean one thing: ordinary workers getting crushed.
The Library of Celaeno

Karoline Leavitt is Right! - Gen-Z, laziness, and the American Dream
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Freedom Versus the Income Tax - Leftist critics of President Trump’s war on Iran often couch their criticism in terms of other things that could be done with the billions of dollars tha...
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (July 2026) - Lowering food system insecurity, and governing for peace and safety
Tim’s Substack

Happy American No Kings Day - We've kept the Republic for 250 years
Fictionosophy

Taiwan Travelogue: A Bittersweet Account of Friendship Under Imperialism - Taiwan Travelogue is a bright novel touching on various aspects of the development of a culture, with a flawed exploration of power imbalances in friendships.
The Shrewd Artist

Madonna of the Stars, Signed - Just Now Finished, The 17th in My Space Series
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Madonna of the Stars, Signed - Just Now Finished, The 17th in My Space Series
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: June 2026 - We hope everyone had a lovely Independence Day weekend!
Lindsay Mitchell

Residents must retain their right to participate - According to Treasury, "People present in New Zealand each year are increasingly non-NZ citizens": "In 2024, there were 476,000 resident visa holders to ...
Matua Kahurangi

Winston Peters announces citizens-only voting policy - New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, today in Warkworth, has unveiled a strong new policy to restore integrity to the country’s electoral system.
Virginia Postrel

Ambition Without Hierarchy: The American Experiment at 250 - Plus an artist fights fires in Amsterdam, music industry anxiety, and more
What You Can Do For Liberty

Five Great Films for Your Independence Day - It’s time to get ready for your July 4th celebrations. And what better way to remember what it’s all about than with a good film?
Risk & Progress

Try Everything - “One thing at a time” is for losers.
Harry’s Substack

Alan Greenspan--Not a Eulogy - The Maestro mastered the art of selling out
Principled Perspectives

July 4, 1776: Words that Will Never Be Erased - “It is . . . from the perspective of the bloody millennia of mankind's history . . . that I want you to look at the birth of a miracle: the United Stat...
Interintellect

Interintellect Hosts Wrote: Fiction, Murder, Plato, Gambling, Sartre, India, Brutalism - 📖 A selection of recent essays by our salon hosts.
In Due Course

Why do sociologists think that they are critical theorists? - One of the more frustrating features of American political culture is the homeostatic mechanism that appears to exist within the Democratic party, which en...
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

Poems for America: A Short Collection - Celebrate Independence Day with Emerson, Whitman, and more
The New Era

Bat Soup or Bat Shit? - Jeff Peel interviews Jamie Andrews
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for June, 2026: +0.46 deg. C - The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for June, 2026 was +0.46 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, which is down...
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

From Fireworks to Flying Flags - And Other Symbols of Liberty
Existential Crunch

How much do we actually know about AMOC collapse? - Exploring uncertain timelines and consequences
Cremieux Recueil

Will Making Your Kids Tall Shorten Their Lives? - Bonus: How to get human growth hormone (HGH) for cheap
One Useful Thing

The twilight of the chatbots - How work changes along the exponential
Tross Publishing

SHOULD TAXPAYERS PAY FOR BUILDING A CHURCH? - By John McLean In the wake of the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, which ended once and for all the centuries old French threat to England, the British Governmen...
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

Britain's Labour government can be a party of growth – but not like this - CapX
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

A Nation Hungry for Connection - There Is Hope
Don't Let It Go

At MS NOW: “The Supreme Court stood up for privacy — but only to a point” - Why the majority in Chatrie v. United States (Fourth Amendment geofence warrant case) reached the right result for the wrong reason — and why it matters Th...
Splitting Headache

How skills, agents, and other AI features work - It’s prompts all the way down
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

mudslide - on getting swept up in other people's concerns
Stu-Topia

Stop Saying There’s No Such Thing As Originality - Stuart K. Hayashi There are many philosophic YouTube videos (including at least four TEDx Talks), putting on a pretense of profundity, saying that because ...
The Jolly Libertarian

A Book on Optimism and Abundance From an Unusual Perspective - In a recent essay I looked at Ray Kurzweil's book, *The Singularity is Nearer* and his optimistic view of the future. As I put it: Kurzweil is very optim...
Africa-Israel Weekly

The Black Christian Leadership Council on Israel Relations Announces Its Formation - A new collective of Black American pastors renews a century-old alliance and announces the Unfinished Business Holy Land Tour
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

BRIEFLY NOTED: Reader Recommendations - We’ve already established that I usually don’t read the comments on these posts, because I am a weak and fallible human and thus seek to avoid “engagement”...
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

My Latest Appearance on Sky News Australia's The Media Show - L.A. Decay and ABC battling the FCC
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

Special Economic Zones Are Not Cheat Codes - Let's talk about why Special Economic Zones have the success rate of less than a coin flip
The Beauty of Things

Forest dRIVE 3 Live Event — TODAY! - Please join us online Sunday, June 28 at 7pm ET for a Thomist Reader Series event
Andrew Bernstein

Video: A Case Against Determinism-with Professor Andrew Bernstein and James Valliant -
Butterpaper

The cars that ate Vivian Street - part 1 - Wellington City boasts an enviable location, nestled tightly around a sheltered port on a harbour that curls in from the ocean. It’s a dense and lively c...
The Economic LongWave

🌊Jeremy Grantham’s Warning Is Not About AI. It Is About the End of Autumn. - 🫧The crash is already here — not because technology has failed, but because the financial system has overcapitalized the future again.
Gross Output

Good Sign: Business Spending is Finally Making a Comeback! - “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...
Schreibmaschiner (David McLoughlin)

Culture wars spat sees Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger blocked for criticising Wikipedia - The progressive editors who control Wikipedia have blocked Larry Sanger – the online encyclopedia’s co-founder – from editing it in retaliation for him ca...
Too Clever By Half

The jump-break feed is best for engagement - [image: Children jumping] You've got five *feed options* in Settings: [image: A dialog box titled "Allow blog feed." "Use Jump Break" is selected.] ...
The Organon Architecture Blog

Project: 'Rural' Renovation, 2012 - I've been asked again about old projects. About which I really should talk more. Here's one that was slightly unusual, renovation of a large old colonial ...
Roots of Progress

Progress in Medicine, the Roots of Progress Institute’s new summer career exploration program, has started - 30 high school students are learning about the history and future of medicine, biotech, health Starting June 15th, the Roots of Progress team brought tog...
Thinking Directions

The Key to Sustainable Real World Results and Other Updates - Dear Blog Readers, I’m sorry there have been so few articles coming out recently. I’m looking forward to commencing a regular writing schedule after OC...
Liberty Scott

Has Brexit been a disaster? - It's not surprising that a decade since the UK's vote on leaving the European Union that the pro-EU media is crowing. RNZ has republished a CNN piece calle...
Ruxandra’s Substack

The US moves to reclaim the therapeutic pipeline - A welcome move from the FDA and HHS
The Trumpland Diary

𝐔𝐅𝐂 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝟐𝟓𝟎: “𝐀 𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞” - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞 White House Cage Fighting 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭-𝐀-𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩
Kiwipolitico

Media Link: “A View from Afar” on Systemic Change. - Selwyn Manning and I discussed some of the things that I have been thinking about recently in today’s podcast. I have written about these themes on these p...
Flying Out

Hotter Than July (Secondhand Vinyl LP) - *Vendor: *SECONDHAND *Type: *STEVIE WONDER *Price: * 20.00 Artist: Stevie Wonder Year: 1980 Genre: Funk / Soul Sub-Genre: Soul, Disco Tracklist: A1. Di...
Wright in Racine

A Change of Landscape at SC Johnson - Photos and text © Mark Hertzberg (2026) SC Johnson is almost finished demolishing the former St. Mary’s Hospital building (1933) on their campus in Racine....
HBL

The “real numbers” are intervals - I have long opposed the idea in mathematics that there exist “real numbers,” e.g., that the square root of 2 is a “real number.” Or that pi is a real numbe...
Eating Policy

Philanthropy’s Willie Sutton Problem - Third wave philanthropy will need to work with government, but it will also have to work ON government
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Inflation: the struggle for simplicity - Why the Reserve Bank must distinguish monetary inflation from supply shocks
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

Five Ideas to Survive a Hot, Dry Summer - The West is dry, overdue for fire, and running low on water. The institutions meant to help are struggling to keep up. Here's where to start. The post Fi...
Eat More Electrons

More evidence won’t save development - We don’t need more studies. We need a new coalition rebuilt on political priorities
Theatreview

Theatre Leader Strengthens Celebration of Wellington Arts Scene - Theatre Leader Strengthens Celebration of Wellington Arts Scene Wellington Theatre Awards Trust Ngā Whakarākei O Whātaitai Appoints New Administrator WEL...
Earthly Idealism

The Effective Egoist Case for Freedom - It is striking, sad, and not at all surprising how little interest there is in celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Statecraft

Merit vs. Tenure: Reforming Federal Firing - ”The current rules are just so incredibly unadministerable”
Cranmer’s Substack

Sinead Boucher Buys an Event - Matthew Hooton’s appointment is not a conventional hire. That is precisely the point.
Anti-Dismal

Coase versus Demsetz on the neoclassical model - In the modern, Coaseian-inspired view of the neoclassical model, there are no firms. Harold Demsetz sums up the Coasian view of the neoclassical model succ...
Asymmetric Information

2B RED: On the matter of maps🍋 - Learning from your atlas
Jackson Upmann

How Traveling Raised My Confidence (And Can Raise Yours Too) - Time to get uncomfortable
Competitive Enterprise Institute

AICOA’s heavy-handed approach would harm consumers, stifle innovation, and degrade security and privacy - Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) re-introduced a modified version of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), w...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

AICOA’s heavy-handed approach would harm consumers, stifle innovation, and degrade security and privacy - Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) re-introduced a modified version of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), w...
Kibao

Kenya Wants to Sell Your Data. But It’s Complicated. - The headline is scarier than the policy. The policy is still worth worrying about.
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

President Trump’s Childhood Vaccine Schedule - Donald Trump recently issued two executive orders claiming that children in the United States are receiving too many vaccines.
misfits' architecture

Relationship Issues - We humans aren’t good at imagining things outside our experience so it’s only human that we’ve now gone and built this thing called AI that’s not good at i...
Equal to Reality

The beauty in the broken glass - How an Animated Musical helped me find my authentic self.
The Realization of Wholeness

Varieties of Dualism, Part Five - "I am my feelings"
Robert Nasir’s Joyous Newsletter

Pride Month: Right On Target! - Life on Earth With Robert Nasir - Episode 95 - streamed live on Jun 1, 2023
Martini Mandate

Teetotallers and the Decline of Human Civilisation. - Alcohol is having its tobacco moment. Young people are going off it, and a growing chorus of busybodies would like the rest of us to give it up completel...
round houses

utopian usonia - Beautiful tour of the Bertha & Sol Friedman Residence in the Usonia community of Pleasantville, NY, narrated by the owner of the house, Brian Renz. The hou...
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Can AI Be The Thing That Finally Aligns Humanity? - Getting AI to do what we want is the easy part. The real challenge is figuring out what we actually want in the first place.
Spiked Online

Summer Appeal Donation – Pint Glass Offer - The post Summer Appeal Donation – Pint Glass Offer appeared first on spiked.
Classical Compass Rose

The Practice of Integrated Human Attention - The Benedictine Rule and the hesychast tradition of Mount Athos are the most rigorously tested models of integrated attention ever developed. What might we...
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
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...
Note to Noteworthy

What Spirituality Really Means - Is spirituality about “God” or something else?
Yes In Our Backyards

The “Great Upzoning” of New Zealand’s cities, in two charts - Taking stock of 15 years of remarkable progress
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?
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
Syncretica

Read 'Em and Weep: Australian Power Edition - batteries and renewables make prices go down in practice and theory
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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?!
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...
Happy Future

The Trouble with Transformers - And the long slouch towards cyberpunk
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 ...
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...
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...
Notes On Liberty

Rising Sun Over the Arctic: Japan’s Arctic Journey from North Pacific Hegemon to Democratic Polar Partner - by Barry Scott Zellen
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
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...
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.
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...
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 "...
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...
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 ...
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
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
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...
647 Reasons Why

DAYS 1-3 - 90 Mile Beach - Days 1-3 of my trek across the entire length of New Zealand
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...
a/symmetric

We're going on hiatus - But do stick around
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.
Progress Forum Digest

Why you, personally, should want a larger human population - Also: The City That Can't, how to raise a genius, FDA reform, and more
Publisher's Weekly: Shelf Talker

The Great Book ‘Nobody’ Will Remember - An interview with Drew Beckmeyer
The Fundy Post

Genesis -
Power + Market

In the Aftermath of the $355 Million Ruling Against Trump, Business Owners Are Even Less Safe than Before - By: Daniel Kowalski Willing buyer and willing seller. These five words form the very basis from which the system of capitalism is based on. You have someth...
The Grumpy Economist

Understanding Trumpers - WSJ oped and substack post.
The Popehat Report

The Popehat Report Is Moving To Beehiiv - As I mentioned before, the Popehat Report is moving to Beehiiv, a different platform for blogs and newsletters. You can find it at www.popehat.com. The nex...
Law of Markets

An economic philosopher of the highest rank - He explains how capitalism, and only capitalism, can and does make us prosperous. Alas, he also shows how rare this perspective is by being so rare himself...
Michelle Kamhi

Where I’m Coming From - In today’s toxically polarized climate, individuals willing to engage openly in civil discourse with people they may disagree with are all too rare and mer...
George Reisman's Blog

A 2024 Mid-Priced Automobile Sells for the Same $300 Price Paid for a Model T Ford in 1924 - It really does, if you can pay for it in *Gold* dollars. Based on the present price of gold bullion, of approximately $2,000 per ounce, a twenty-dollar U...
Democracy Action

Is the government staying true to its promises? - In November 2023, National released the coalition agreements made with ACT and NZ First. The Coalition Government agrees to defend the principle that Ne...
Oh look it's a blog - Lorin Clarke

Won't somebody think of the children - I’ve been working with children lately. I have been astonished and astounded by how creative they are. It must be physiological. It’s just a fact that th...
The Continental Telegraph

The BBC and terrorism - The language we use matters – it provides clarity to our own thoughts and enables us to be… The post The BBC and terrorism appeared first on Continental ...
Pirate Wires

Dean Preston: San Francisco's Millionaire Marxist - the card carrying dsa sf politician also happens to be a millionaire who refuses to allow more housing in the city
Uranium-238

Introduction to the Iran Nuclear Deal - Putting a price on nonproliferation
Comments on: Bert Kelly

By: Better to be popular than right « Economics.org.au - […] Bert Kelly […]
Cafe Hayek

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Highlighting "The Parenting Handbook" - This fall, Montessorium was lucky to bring education writer Samantha Blaisdell onto our content team. Samantha is a former teacher, trained mechanical engi...
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...
CapX Finance

14 Practical steps to improve Cash Flow - A positive cash flow keeps the heart of any business pumping, but a negative cash flow will eventually cause the business to fail. A growing business may...
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

Why a Free Society Cannot Transform Wishes into Rights - Only by defending voluntary arrangements, respecting one another’s self-ownership, can we achieve positive progress.
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: […]
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 ...
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