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Utopia - you are standing in it!

A federal judge takes apart Nicholas Kristof’s controversial accusations against Israel - If you’re getting weary of the endless but necessary attacks on Nicholas Kristof for his misleading and almost antisemitic column about Israel’s “policy” o...
Truth on the Market

The AI Jobs Panic Comes to Sacramento - California has seen the future of work, and Sacramento’s first instinct is to convene 14 task forces about it. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Executive Order N...
Futurism

Scientists Detect Huge Structure Under Ocean Fueling the Deadly Upcoming El Niño - "By some measures we look at, it is rivaling the one we saw in 1997." The post Scientists Detect Huge Structure Under Ocean Fueling the Deadly Upcoming E...
IPWatchdog Articles

Federal Circuit Affirms PTAB Ruling That Samesurf’s Shared Browsing Patent Claims Are Unpatentable - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a decision today in Samesurf, Inc. v. Intuit Inc., affirming a Patent Trial and Appeal Bo...
JoNova

Voodoo Modeling says Climate Change makes interest rates rise - Image by Cortex Zone from Pixabay By Jo Nova Interest Rate Climate Porn attacks Australia Henceforth and verily, a witless economic model stacked on top...
SkyscraperCity Forum

Rotterdam | Hang 7-16 | planning - Nieuwbouw woontoren door Barcode Architects Hang 7-16, Centrum (1e bespreking) (naast rijksmonument) (10+10 min) (20 min) 12:10 Omschrijving: Nieuwbouw woon...
Israel Institute of NZ

Selective Outrage and Diplomatic Silence - By now, New Zealanders are familiar with the pattern. When Israel acts — or when an Israeli politician says something inflammatory — Wellington responds wi...
Can't Get Much Higher

Drake is the Past. Drake is the Future. - Welcome back to Can’t Get Much Higher, the internet’s favorite place for music and data.
John D. Cook

Couth and uncouth function pairs - “You can’t always get what you want. But sometimes you get what you need.” — The Rolling Stones Circular functions and hyperbolic functions aren’t invert...
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Anthropic's "Profitability" Swindle - Yesterday, *the Wall Street Journal ran a story* about how Anthropic is “about to have its first profitable quarter,” specifically an *operating* profit,...
Mises Institute Blog

Buc-ee’s: Free-Market Triumph or Simply Capitalist Oppression? - Buc-ee’s—the roadside travel phenomenon—seems to cater to the extremes in our society. Either customers love shopping at the place or it is yet another sym...
Watts Up With That?

The US AI Rebellion is Gaining Momentum - Data centers driving up energy costs and fear of job losses have become major public concerns. The post The US AI Rebellion is Gaining Momentum appeared ...
Techdirt

10,000 Court Decisions Can’t Be Wrong, Even If Trump Thinks Otherwise - It’s absolutely amazing how wrong this administration has been when it comes to immigration enforcement. That some people still think the Supreme Court is ...
Ayn Rand Centre UK

The Flotilla Incident: What Everyone Is Getting Wrong -
Market Urbanism

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

The reported benefits and dangers of chiropractic - “Chiropractic” (a name that in my mind should really be “chiropracty”) is a form of treatment for various disorders in which the cure supposedly comes from...
The Free Press

When Sluts Settle Down - Alex Cooper’s überpopular podcast instructs women to sleep around. When she announced this week that she’s expecting a baby with her husband, people got mad.
Breaking Views

Elliot Ikilei: Is this a power company or a cultural ministry? - Have you seen this?Meridian’s job advertisement [below] is seriously revealing, and not for the reasons the company probably intended.Click to viewNew Zeal...
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Intelligent Design - In our latest interview for our UK AI Fieldbook series, Mann Virdee speaks to Jarek Rzepecki about how AI can help design complex hardware as a single, u...
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

Not the Droids You are Looking For - A look at the first wave of English language media coverage of RCP8.5 RIP
Gus Van Horn

Evasive Relative Picks Wrong Target - *Due to major obligations affecting my schedule, I will take a beak from blogging until Friday, May 29. I will appear sporadically on X/Twitter in the mean...
The New York Review of Books

On the Road - Hu Anyan’s memoir about delivering packages in Beijing is disarmingly direct about the human cost of modern logistics.
pre[FABRICA]tions

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

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

Doing Big Things in Policy - A guide, of sorts
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 1108 The bank that outgrew a (small) country. Shades of Labour economics. What the DoD can see. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Conspicuous Cognition

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

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

The dumb policy making groceries more expensive - Stop making people turn corn into gasoline
Quotulatiousness

Evaluating the Boomers’ complaints from the Zoomers’ point of view - As a dirt-poor boomer (or Generation Jones-er as some term us extra-late boomers), I don’t have a lot of sympathy for others in my age cohort who complain ...
Mises Wire

Post-Massie America - On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the results of the most expensive Congressional race in American history. What does the ...
ROBERT FRIPP

We may not be perfect, but we may know perfection... - Words 6 · RF@80 Series
The Cobden Centre

Price Inflation Accelerates as Wars and Deficits Expand - By Ryan McMaken Fears over price inflation returned in a big way this week as bond yields rose in the wake of recent government...
DGMLive

Exposure Listening Experience - Robert's 1979 solo debut will be played in full in 360° spatial audio at Polygon Portal in London on June 13.
Brash & Mitchell

RODNEY HIDE: China Rising, America Falling? The Delusion Persists in Wellington - In Wellington salons and certain Auckland boardrooms, the conventional wisdom is settled: China is the unstoppable rising power, the United States is in te...
Hoover institution Commentary

Kurt Campbell On China, Allies, And US Power - Elizabeth Economy talks with former Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell about the Indo-Pacific Strategy and the recent Trump-Xi Summit.
Marginal Revolution

The economics of unions - My best read of the evidence is that a union raises wages by around 7% for currently unionized employees. The wage gains from a redistribution of rents e...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Exit Taxes Won’t Save Failing States - When a state starts floating an exit tax, it is telling you something more important than any campaign slogan: the people running the place know their mo...
American Institute of Economic Research

Exit Taxes Won’t Save Failing States - When a state starts floating an exit tax, it is telling you something more important than any campaign slogan: the people running the place know their mo...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Myth, Memory and the BNZ - Winston should be ashamed
No Right Turn

A vicious, corrupt and insane policy from a vicious, corrupt and insane regime - Albert Einstein reportedly said that insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. And that's basically National's hous...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: How to Take Insults Lightly - You don't need to be a sage.
Flying Out

The Next Day (Reissue) (CD) - *Vendor: *Sony *Type: *DAVID BOWIE *Price: * 139.00 Reissue of 2013 album, featuring "*Where Are We Now?*", "*The Stars (Are Out Tonight)*", "*The Next ...
ArchDaily

Coffee or Tea: Third Places, Kiosks, and the Retail Architecture of Duration - "Coffee or tea?" is one of those phrases that follows you across contexts: asked on airplanes, after a meal, in hotel lounges, and in meeting rooms. It s...
Manhattan Contrarian

Driving Up The Cost Of Energy While Claiming To Promote "Affordability" - * A fair criticism of politicians is that they all lie, at least to the extent of engaging in extreme levels of spin and/or exaggeration to put the best fa...
Lindsay Mitchell

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

Word of the day - Gravid – pregnant; carrying developing young; distended with eggs; expectant.
Point of Order

Count the number of Finnish public servants to see what happens when you trim govt department numbers - Bob Edlin writes – Paul Goldsmith, Minister for the Public Service and Digitising Government, was raring to go when asked what action the Government was t...
Zero Hanger

Beveridge provides English concussion update, Bulldogs livewire close to return - The star big and star small are on a similar timeline.
Real Clear Energy

Trump Doctrine: "Affordable, Reliable, Clean" ES - David DesRosiers, RCEnergy The following remarks were made by Publisher David DesRosiers at RealClear's Third Annual Energy Future Forum held in Washington...
The Whakataki Times

SAFE AND SOUND: Chris Hipkins Says You Can’t Break Election Promises If You Don’t Make Any - GORDON LIGHTFOOT | Politics THINK ABOUT IT. Labour leader Chris Hipkins has revealed some of the thinking behind his party’s election strategy today, res...
The Logical Place

Equivocation about inequality - Equivocation is one of the most common sources of confusion in arguments about “inequality.” The word is used as though it names one single moral problem, ...
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

Open Letter to Minister for Women Nicola Grigg - Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill
Astral Codex Ten

Hidden Open Thread 434.5 - ...
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day – how about easing sanctions on British oil? - Before easing sanctions on Russian oil, how about easing sanctions on British oil? – Daniel Hannan
The Daily Sceptic

News Round-Up - A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the u2018climate emergencyu2019, public heal...
Quillette

From Babylon to Eurovision - My nephew's schoolmate sang at Eurovision last week. Here is what the people who booed him don't understand.
UnHerd

Can Andy Burnham save my town? - Money alone can’t fix our problems
David Stockmans Contra Corner

An FAFO For The Ages! - Click on Title to Read
Interintellect

The Long Now Foundation joins Interintellect in partnership for a new online series - A beautiful new miniseries will focus on Bayo Akomolafe, and will be hosted by Denise Hearn.
David Stockman's Contra Corner

An FAFO For The Ages! - The arrogant little pissants who run the White House coms operation couldn’t contain their glee last night when AP tolled the bell by calling the 4th of ...
Paul Wells

Meet the Roulettes - What kind of penny-ante country would replace jet aerobatics with turboprops? Australia.
The Double Standard

National Is Destroying Wellington - Wellington is being deliberately targeted by National and it is destroying the third largest region of New Zealand.
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

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

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

Nuckin' Futs - When researchers show you who they are, believe them
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

POST MALONE PRESENTS THE BIG ASS WORLD TOUR AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND 2026 WITH SPECIAL GUEST DON TOLIVER - Live Nation today announced the Australian and New Zealand leg of Post Malone’s The BIG ASS World Tour, marking the global superstar’s largest headline s...
Doug Casey's International Man

Doug Casey on Why Young People Are Gambling to Get Ahead - Young people are turning toward gambling, meme stocks, crypto, and lottery-style speculation is a rational symptom of currency debasement and a financial...
Greater Auckland

When transparency might stop a bad project - Six months ago I lodged a complaint with the Ombudsman, appealing a refusal by the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) and the Ministry of Transport (MoT...
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Teddy Thompson: Come Back (digital outlets) - Teddy has impeccable musical genes, the son of Richard and Linda Thompson he grew up in a musical environment, counts Rufus Wainwright among his many fri...
Spiked Online

What David Lammy gets right – and wrong – about parenting - The post What David Lammy gets right – and wrong – about parenting appeared first on spiked.
Flashbak

New York City Street Life in the Late 1940s and 50s - We’ve covered the history of New York many times, sharing rare and previously unseen pictures from all decades of the 20th Century. The city is a s...
Yes In Our Backyards

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

The Shuttering of Alligator Alcatraz Doesn't Mean That Trump's Terror Campaign Against Immigrants Is Ending - He relishes the performative cruelty because it keeps the salience of the issue alive
The Curmudgeon

St Michael's Anathema - As one would expect from the party of working people, Team Starmer has responded to the latest economic difficulties by asking corporations if they would v...
The Inquiring Mind

Labour to release key policy after the election!!! - The Herald reports: Labour has admitted key details about its Future Fund, including the cost to the Crown and which state assets will be rolled into… Labo...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Tamaki, Hutt South, Te Tai Tokerau, Tamaki Makaurau and Mt Albert – the 5 most important bellwether electorates this election - I think the 5 most important bellwether electorates this election will be Tamaki, Hutt South, Te Tai Tokerau, Tamaki Makaurau...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

65 of My Favorite Quotations - Ranging widely from Seneca to Ringo Starr
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: In Physics, Almost Everything Is Already Discovered, and All That Remains Is to Fill a Few Unimportant Holes - Philipp von Jolly? Max Planck? George Gamow? Neil de Grasse Tyson? Richard Feynman? Ian Stewart? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: According to ...
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

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

Fashion Photographer Roxanne Lowit’s Kips Bay Penthouse Is for Sale - The home of the late photographer, whose candids of Kate Moss and Christy Turlington defined an era, is all windows and light.
Reason Foundation

Farewell to Spirit Airlines - Plus: Isaacman revamps NASA lunar program, new group for remote/digital towers, and more. The post Farewell to Spirit Airlines appeared first on Reason F...
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Booing Of Jonathan Haidt Shows How Bad The Left’s Coddling-Induced Intolerance Has Become - Why NYU college graduates view their rude behavior as moral
The Breakthrough Journal

What Drives Innovation in Heavy Industry? - Two case studies of innovation in nickel processing
Marcus on AI

Could generative AI turn out to be the tech industry’s Vietnam? And could public backlash lead AI to a better place? - We live in interesting times
Official Blog

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

A Foretaste of Warsh as Chair of the Federal Reserve - Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump in January 2026 to replace Jerome Powell as Chair of the Federal Reserve. He was confirmed by the US Senate ...
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Hypocrites, Michael Jackson, Parkinson’s Law - Links and recommendations
Libertarian Land

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

President Trump Approves Expansion Of Bridger Pipeline - The Bridger Pipeline Expansion would bring Canadian oil into the United States, carrying up to 550,000 barrels per day through Montana and Wyoming, where...
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 167 - Tramp Stamps and Dreadlocks (Connie Morgan) - Listen now | An interview with FBT podcast host Connie Morgan
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 167 - Tramp Stamps and Dreadlocks (Connie Morgan) - Listen now | An interview with FBT podcast host Connie Morgan
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

Live Around the Planet: Wednesday, May 20th - Mid-week greetings to all our readers and friends around the world. It's Wednesday, which means that we have another very exciting Mark Steyn Club Live Q&A...
Persuasion

Britain’s Far Right Want Power - What I saw at Saturday's “Unite the Kingdom” rally.
The Daily Economy

On ‘Repugnant’ Economics -
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

What the Stoics actually said about being a man - Hello fellow Stoics,
Living Resources Center

Don’t Celebrate Socialism Until You’ve Tried It - They shout that socialism is better than capitalism, while choosing to live in a capitalist country. And never having lived in a non-capitalist country. ...
Perennial Meditations

What Are You Running From?—Seneca and Socrates on Solitude - Dying Every Day (Day 147)
Uncharted Territories

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

English has no future - Will, shall, and other mysteries
Brownstone Institute

The News-to-Death Ratio Strikes Again - The News-to-Death Ratio Strikes Again by Carl Heneghan at Brownstone Institute [image: The News-to-Death Ratio Strikes Again] There is a peculiar arithme...
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

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

Doug Sheridan: Pritzker's Irrational Energy Policy in Illinois is Texas's Gain - [Note: Another excellent analysis by Doug Sheridan here.
Retraction Watch

How the media hypes “research that is absurd on its face” - Aaron Brown says his new book, Wrong Number: How to Extract Truth from a Blizzard of Quantitative Disinformation, “isn’t an exposé of fraud—Retraction Watc...
Africa-Israel Weekly

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

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

Pulling Weeds - I follow a number of libertarian and pro-free-market sites and pages on social media, and I sometimes amuse myself by reading the comments under posts prom...
Law & Liberty

Shaping the Humans Who Run the Machines - Judgment has become the scarce input.
Tim Worstall

Spud on inflation - But that said, the index has fallen. I cannot deny that this is the reported data. However, I should draw attention to three things. The first is that th...
Schiffradio.com

Every Bond Market on Earth Is Breaking at Once. This Is 2008 x10 - The 30-year yield hit a 19-year high on 4x the debt, Japan's bonds are imploding, and Trump just purged the one congressman trying to stop it. The post E...
Kiwiblog

Ryan Bridge say “Old School is the Best School” … plus please share your stories re caning, etc! - There is a lot going on in education. Significant reports that the changes in curriculum and method at a junior level are not having the desired effect. ...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

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

This Midterm, Trump’s Strategic Doctrine Is “Affordable, Reliable, Clean” Energy Security - The following remarks were made by Publisher David DesRosiers at RealClear’s Third Annual Energy Future Forum held in Washington, D.C. on May 1, 2026 in pa...
The Footy Almanac

Round 10 – Essendon v Fremantle: Ex-Bomber Voss stars for the Dockers - It was another tough day at the footy for Bomber supporters as former Bomber Patrick Voss kicked 5 goals to be best on ground in Fremantle's 43 point Round...
No Minister

Did RedState Notice This When They Published These Two Stories Together? - It looks like Rep. Thomas Massie is done for. This is a shame. Trump and Vance ragged on him for not following their agenda, but basically he only voted ag...
The Daily Doom

A Whirlwind of Dust and Dollars: The Bond Crisis Has Begun! - It is starting as war between stocks and bonds, driven by Trump's Iran War and the resulting Trumpflation.
Sustain What

Burgess, Hausfather, Pielke and Tol on the overdue end to the worst-case RCP8.5 climate scenario - The big question: Was "business as usual" changed by advances in renewable energy or was the worst-case scenario always wrong?
Skeptic

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

Questionable Treatment - A Rant on Heidegger and Byung-Chul Han
bad cattitude

the movie that needs to be made - tuesday night slop, come get yer slop!
The Grumpy Economist

Two books - The Hoover Press just released two books that I co-edited, that readers may find interesting
Cato at Liberty

Free Choice in Currency, or the Case for Dollarization in the Americas - The case for dollarization is not about imposing the dollar, but about respecting the choice that Latin Americans make on a daily basis when they use the d...
Middle East Uncovered

Israel’s Reputation Problem Cannot Be Solved With Better PR - The challenge is no longer simply how the conflict is perceived abroad, but whether both sides can confront the violence surrounding it honestly enough to ...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

This Is Why The Education System Is Such A Disaster And Why It Failed The Country During COVID - Teachers unions have become a key funding wing of the political left
The Integrity Institute

News Briefing: 20 May 2026 - PUBLIC SERVICE AND BUDGET 2026
A Halfling's View

The Culture of Complaint - An Institutional Problem
The Many Ways I Let You Down

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

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 91) - Untimely Thoughts on a World in Transition
CO2 Coalition

ASEAN Nations Return to Fossil Fuels, Back Away From Net Zero Plans - By Vijay Jayaraj For years, ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) governments faced pressure from international lenders and climate forums to an...
Yascha Mounk

Marc Lipsitch on Playing Pandemic Roulette in the Lab - Yascha Mounk and Marc Lipsitch also discuss how worried we should be about Hantavirus and Ebola.
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

Irrational Exuberance Again - In 1996, Alan Greenspan coined the term irrational exuberance to describe what he considered to be a grossly overvalued stock market driven by the promis...
FIRE

FIRE sues DHS for information about alleged database of ICE protesters - Americans deserve to know whether their government is maintaining a secret database of people who have criticized the Trump administration’s immigration po...
Sinification

Trump-Xi Summit: Chinese Analysts on the New Strategic Stalemate - An analysis of reactions by China's establishment intellectuals to Trump’s 13–15 May state visit to Beijing.
On Substack

Scott Galloway had the audience. Here’s what he came for. - After two months on Substack, the Prof G Media founder talks subscription revenue, exit multiples, platform economics, and what he's still figuring out.
Don't Let It Go

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

Oil Market Winners and Losers Due to the Iran Conflict - The Wall Street Journal reports that the Iran conflict has caused about 15% of global oil supply to be removed… The post Oil Market Winners and Losers Du...
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

The Superpower of Coping with Government Stupidity - Whenever I’m in Europe, my friends tell me about the insane economic policies they endure. In Spain, for example, I heard multiple tales of new businesse...
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

NYISO Resource Outlook Concerns - At the May 6, 2026, Transmission Planning Advisory Subcommittee meeting, the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) described an update to the 2025–2...
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

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

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

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

Lessons for Pennsylvania from the Blue-State Affordability Crisis - Governor Josh Shapiro’s recent letter to utility companies comes as policymakers across the country are changing course after seeing the energy bills hit...
Anthony B. Bradley

Special Report: American Higher Education Is Going Broke - American Colleges Are A Dumpster Fire
Anthony B. Bradley

Special Report: American Higher Education Is Going Broke - American Colleges Are A Dumpster Fire
Maximum Progress

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

The Third Artificial Intelligence - Will the state discipline AI, or will AI discipline the state?
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

Yesteryear: A Subversive Stew of Misogyny, Anti-Natalism, Socialism, Resentment, and Cope - Caro Claire Burke's hyped book mocking tradwives is proof that you should judge a book not by its cover, but by its author's Substack
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

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

Robotaxis Are the New Data Centres - Andy Masley’s account of populism, applied to AVs
EconLog

Asymmetric Accountability - People respond to incentives. With some generous interpretation, this simple sentence summarizes the bulk of what you’ll learn in any good undergraduate ...
GeekPress

More Coffee Benefits - *"Science* Has Found Even More Ways Coffee Is Good for You"
The Antiplanner

TIF for HSR? - The California High-Speed Rail Authority wants to use tax-increment financing to help pay for its rail dreams. Central Valley city officials are outraged; ...
The Antiplanner

TIF for HSR? - The California High-Speed Rail Authority wants to use tax-increment financing to help pay for its rail dreams. Central Valley city officials are outraged; ...
Tross Publishing

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

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

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

New purge to give totalitarian control of police, schools, prison, bureaucracy of German state - The Alternative for Germany (AfD) aims to fundamentally reshape German governance by purging civil servants deemed misaligned, threatening democratic norms...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

CCN’s Hurricane Indoctrination Briefing - By Paul Homewood The crooks are getting ready for the Atlantic hurricane season! On Thursday, May 21, NOAA will issue its first prediction for the 20...
The Tracinski Letter

Conservative Class Warfare - The Resurgence of a Forgotten Strain of Conservatism
McFaul's World

Happy Talk in Beijing, but Few Gains for America (Yet) - Despite the pomp and ceremony, the summit made little progress in advancing American national interests—at least for now
The Weekly Sift

Narrow Ideology - We are deeply concerned that what is really being rededicated is a nation to a very narrow and ideological part of the Christian faith that betrays our nat...
Macroscience

Metascience Is Ignoring the National Labs - The original focused research organizations.
Sawahil

"Abu-Bilal al-Minuki" and the Structural Ambiguities of Killing Top Jihadists - From a stray hyphen to messy PR to strategic futility.
Classical Compass Rose

Ten Novels on the Gravity of War and its Aftermath - The novel is the art form most capable of containing the full human cost of war. It encompasses the survivors who carry what they have seen and the societi...
Kunstler

The Too-Long Goodbye - “. . . we are witnessing mass formation in real time, where the group delusion becomes the only permissible reality.” LH Grey on X
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

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

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

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

Layaway Plan - For Carney’s Pacific Coast pipeline, it’s buy now and pay later on climate.
Real Clear Energy: Video

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

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

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

Read 'Em and Weep: Australian Power Edition - batteries and renewables make prices go down in practice and theory
Andrew Whiteside

Review: Best Comedy Show on Earth - I’ve been going to the Best Comedy Show on Earth for a few years now. It’s a smorgasbord of comedy with each of the 10 comedians given about 10 minutes or ...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Ike Willis: 1955-2026 - Vocalist, Best Known for Collaborations with Frank Zappa, was Seventy
Capitalism Magazine

Black Innovators and Entrepreneurs Under Capitalism - That innovative black Americans flourished in late 19th- and early 20th-century America is a little-known part of our Capitalist heritage.
Cranmer’s Substack

CENSORED - How the establishment tried to kill a story and why it didn't work
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Can AI Replace Me Already? - Results of an AI Turing test survey: Women are ready for our new reality, old people aren't
New Zealand Arts Review

The Queen’s Nanny: Broken confidences - Reviewed by Malcolm Calder Reviewed by Malcolm Calder The Queen’s NannyBy Melanie TaitTadpole Theatre ProductionsDirector Simon PrastSet John ParkerLightin...
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

Yes, We Can Get Along Despite Our Philosophical Differences - If we can agree on protecting individual rights, abundant opportunities exist for making common cause with those who otherwise don’t share our philosophy.
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

Selling Butter to India, Hiring Officials in Wellington - The India FTA promises exporters freer access to markets, but behind the sales pitch sits a familiar Wellington miracle: fewer tariffs, more officials.
History Reclaimed

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

Full Circle (Part IV) - This post follows on from Thinking It Through (Part 1), Second Thoughts (a.k.a. Part II) and Good To Go (Part III) that follow the design of a small house ...
The Jolly Libertarian

Comparative AI: The AIs Analyze Each Other - This is Part 3 of my three part series on how the major AIs are similar and how they are different. For this installment I posed exactly the same questio...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

Printing Naira, Burning Dollars: The 1980s Nigerian Debt Crisis - Understanding Nigeria's Finances, Debunking Myths, and Understanding Debt Monetization
HardmoneyJim

Why your money keeps losing value - AND WHY IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

Have we Been Breaking Local Government by Trying to Fix it? - The Post
The Common Reader

What should be on a list of almost Great Books? - Give your suggestions in the comments
Construction Physics

Reading List 05/16/26 - Tokyo’s cheap housing and expensive land, the House response to the Senate housing bill, an IED near an Alabama dam, Fervo’s IPO, and more.
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

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

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

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

Multibipolarity - Sex, IQ, and The Politics of Idiocy
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Live: "How to do Stoic Therapy" - Conversations with Modern Stoicism - A recording from Donald J. Robertson's live video
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

In which the Green Party commits an accidental fascism by passing a law with AfD support - To save all that is Right and Good about Our Democracy, the cartel parties of the Federal Republic have erected a massive firewall round the Evil Fascist N...
Cremieux Recueil

Why Are Testosterone Levels Rising? - Unraveling the mystery of why American men keep getting manlier
Stewart Margolis

"National Service" Rears Its Ugly Head - Fox News just published an editorial by Gen.
Gale Winds

Sorry AOC, We're All Billionaires Now (And Billions Are Trillionaires) - Envy is the enemy of wealth creation.
Why not reason?

Israel Is Not Primarily What Protects Jews from Antisemites - Nazis did not care what Jews thought.
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #46: Leaders Translate Complexity - Leadership involves the ability to simplify complexity
Theatreview

THEATREMAKERS PROGRAMME 2026 - THEATREMAKERS PROGRAMME 2026 Mic Drop by Adyush Aditya and Marcus Savelio was the inaugural recipient of the Theatremakers Programme support. They worked...
Tim’s Substack

When you set out to take Vienna, Take Vienna - You cannot negotiate your way to victory
Offsetting Behaviour

A bit less shit - Hayden over at The Spinoff asked me what the government can do to make the economy 'a bit less shit'. I sent an overlong reply; he excerpted some choice ...
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

the min-max mystery - I'm still dissatisfied with the pleasure principle
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Leadership - When I was 20yo (1987) - and weighed approx.
The Trichordist

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

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

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

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

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

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

Faith-based “Spirituality” Destroys Real Spiritual Values - What a religious schism in my church over the Christian and U.S. flags can tell us about faith-based spirituality.
HBL

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

President Trump’s Approval on Inflation is Now Worse Than President Biden’s Ever Was - President Trump’s approval on inflation is at a historic low.
Let Grow

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

Stop corn + oil lobbyists from permanently expanding the ethanol mandate - The “Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act" expands the ethanol mandate by 1) loosening air quality rules and 2) imposing the mandate on small r...
Craig Biddle

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

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

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

Dethroned by Discovery - Rediscovering human purpose in a Copernican universe
The Kerrant

“Te Reo Māori Only” Sounds Noble — But Is It Sustainable? - A new “te reo Māori only” cafe in Rotorua has generated enormous media attention and praise from activists and cultural commentators. But from a business...
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

Restoring Rivers Requires Cooperation, not Litigation Shortcuts - An amicus brief in a case before the California Supreme Court case on restoring flows to California’s rivers The post Restoring Rivers Requires Cooperati...
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

Let Me Hear Your Heart Beat - "Pet Sounds" at 60
The Future of Freedom Foundation

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

REVIEW: 50 Years of Text Games, by Aaron Reed - 50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon, Aaron A.
Dramatic Pause

By The Numbers: Jonjon Tolovae - Jonjon Tolovae is a Fa’afafine writer and artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau whose work interrogates the intersections of gender, cultural identity and dias...
What You Can Do For Liberty

Summer Plans? The World's Largest Pro-Liberty Festival Is In July - Don't fight for liberty alone: come meet like-minded friends!
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Max Planck on individual originality in science - Max Planck, 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics: “New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organised, but rather from the head of an individ...
Earthly Idealism

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

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

The Gathering Storm - After the first year, things are happening fast.
Building the Builders

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

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

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

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

What is the most important contribution of Walter Donway's recent book about his serious chats with AI? - As I was reading Walter Donway’s recently published book, *A Serious Chat With Artificial Intelligence*, I was looking for an aspect to focus on in wr...
A Havenstein Moment.

Circumventing the Will of the People - Don't think and drive.
Autonomia

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

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

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

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

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

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

The end of the fallout bunker - In Germany, at least
Harry’s Substack

What is 'The rule of law, not of men'? Part I - A Randian theory of objective law
Science of Doom

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

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

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

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

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

What is happening in the world - AI, stagnation, populism, my theory of wokeism, and more
The Shrewd Artist

ETA, Part 2, Chapter 2, THE NUDE - Private and Universal
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

ETA, Part 2, Chapter 2, THE NUDE - Private and Universal
Stu-Topia

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

WIP, Madonna and Child, 17th in the Space Series - Progress on the Space Series 17th painting, Madonna and Child, 64×48”, oil on linen. Blocked out the background first stage of painting. Yikes, there are a...
The Enlightened Examiner

Objective Value in Economics – Part II - The barter fallacy: why personal preferences do not dictate market values.
The Enlightened Examiner

Objective Value in Economics – Part II - The barter fallacy: why personal preferences do not dictate market values.
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

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

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

What Trump Can Learn From Nixon - "The Plot That Failed: Nixon and the Administrative Presidency," by Richard P. Nathan
The Organon Architecture Blog

"Architects matter not because they have mastered a specific instrument, but because they can bring the orchestra together, and in doing so make our cities better places to live." - Engineer Arthur Kay seeks to explain how architects have been losing their influence, but shouldn't be. In short, it's the problem of a world of specialis...
The Intrinsic Perspective

We Consciousness Researchers Have Failed You - In Which I Become Shackleton
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sign of the future: GPT-5.5 - One impressive step on the curve
Wildlife – PERC

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

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

Monthly Issue Release: The Energy Transition - The next Strait of Hormuz, AI's energy demand, and the "self-healing" grid of the future.
Too Clever By Half

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

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

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

The no-to-apartheid message maybe is getting through - At last the National MPs are paying attention. They've probably noticed that they are haemorrhaging potential voters with inaction over endless Maorific...
Keiran Murphy (FLW Historian)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tyrant of Your Heart - My favorite song
Gross Output

Fourth Quarter GO Confirms Deepening Stagflation into 2026 - “By integrating the vital role of the supply chain into national income accounting, Mark Skousen’s development of gross output (GO) has created a more dy...
What's New Under the Sun

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

TVNZ – a reassessment - Apart from 7 years abroad I have grown up with TVNZ’s channel one and was privileged to serve six years on its board – 2011 to 2017 Up until recently I ret...
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

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

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

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

Somethings: ATMs and iPhone - Also luddism, puzzle games, and the whimsy of LinkedIn.
Notes On Liberty

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

Solving the Strait of Hormuz Blockage - Markets ensure the disruption can't last more than 1-2 years.
Notes On Liberty

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

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

Age of Invention: Why Scotland Succeeded - It was capital, not education
Pablo’s Translations

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

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

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

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

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

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

Educational Junk Food - Over the past few decades, something interesting has happened in the world of food.
Public Lands – PERC

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

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

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

spiked summit 2026 tickets (AFAF Students) - The spiked summit takes place *Saturday 27 June 2026* in Westminster – a flagship live event featuring bold debate, live Q&As and 500+ engaged attendees....
The Prophet of Causation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin - A philosophical discussion on ethics and mathematics. The post Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin appeared first on SAVVY S...
Robert Nasir’s Joyous Newsletter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happy 100 Art Deco, or maybe not - The Art deco style turns 100 this month. Sort of. But what was it then, what is it now, and how did it become associated with architecture? Architecture ...
The Free Market Futurist

Farmville - The Autonomous Future of Agriculture
No Punches Pulled

THE WORKING FROM HOME RACKET BY PUBLIC SERVANTS - Last year the government announced the working from home racket by public servants was to cease from January, 2025. The public service protested and since ...
AYN RAND CENTRE (UK)

Password Reset - Reset Password Reset Your Password The post Password Reset appeared first on AYN RAND CENTRE.
Skeptic

We’re moving to skeptic.com! - As of April 2, 2025, this Substack will serve as an archive and will no longer be active.
Demystifying Science

Introduction to “The Princess Scientist” - As a female and mother who navigated the world of academia in the biomedical sciences, I have been working on a book that talks about the real “sex discrim...
John Paquette

LLMs and the Nature of Honest Authorship - Editing is not authoring.
Tribes – PERC

10 Ideas for the Interior Department - How to accelerate conservation and cut green tape The post 10 Ideas for the Interior Department appeared first on PERC.
Stories by Rudi Edsall on Medium

Round 1 2025 — The Smithening - I posted my last blog on the Cats on June 6 2023 — a marvel at how we’d beaten the Western Bulldogs with no midfield to speak of — and it’s fair to say a...
Rosie Campbell

I'm going to work on AI welfare at Eleos AI Research! - We need to start taking seriously the implications of digital minds—both for their potential welfare and our own.
CEE – Econlib

Tariffs - A tariff is a fancy word for a tax. The term usually refers to import duties, which are fees levied on goods entering one country from another. Import ta...
Case Closed

February 2025 Space Stock Review - Includes Commentary on ASTS, RKLB, RDW, LUNR, PL, SPIR, SESG, and ETL
thesecondrenaissance

Finding Meaning and Purpose in a Godless Universe - In the 1880s, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was at his intellectual peak.
Ayn Rand Society

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

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

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

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

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

Writings hosted elsewhere - The Breakthrough Institute Interactive Brokers Campus
BloodhoundBlog

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

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

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

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

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

DAYS 1-3 - 90 Mile Beach - Days 1-3 of my trek across the entire length of New Zealand
Bawerk.net

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

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

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

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

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

We're going on hiatus - But do stick around
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

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Cafe Hayek

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1828 – Championing Freedom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Surrealist Writers Union Goes on Strike -
makingnewzealand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home. - *Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home.* *--*Matsuo Bashō, (Japanese poet, 1644-1694) from *Oku no Hosomichi* Jack Quinan and Sandra Q....
Tibor's space

IP Anyone? - Intellectual Property Anyone? Tibor R. Machan There is a debate afoot now about whether one ever owns the likes of a novel, poem, computer game, song, arra...
TheBubbleBubble.com - Warning About Post-2009 Economic Bubbles

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

Willing and Eager Subjects in Training - Obama recently cautioned a group of graduating college kids that some of the arguments flowing to them via their "iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStatio...
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Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Afternoon logic

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