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Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 600 Fiscal battles in the Trump camp. Could Hong Kong form the hub of an offshore dollar system? Writing the 18th. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
SkyscraperCity Forum

ZIELONA GÓRA - spacerniak miejski - 1. Ratusz - pierwsze zdjęcie wypada wrzucić ze Starego Rynku, boć to serce miasta. Niech zatem - hołdując tradycji - takoż się stanie.
The Roots of Liberty

The Left's Latest Villain - Half a century ago, community agitator Saul Alinsky penned his now infamous book Rules For Radicals, a primer on grass-roots organizing and protest.
Slow Boring

Eight nights of mailbag - YIMBYfornia, white collar crime, and the future of the post office
The Free Press

TGIF: Welcome to America, Greenland - The first MAGA schism, Gaetz exposed, Yahya Sinwar shirts for sale at Walmart, Asma’s healing journey, papal geopolitics, and much, much more.
The Daily Sceptic

Kemi or Nigel: Who is Right? - Kemi claims Nigel is making up his membership numbers. But is he? To definitively prove he isn't, he should make his software open source, so we can see ...
Law & Liberty

Speaking Humor to Power - Looking back on its 40-year long legacy, *Ghostbusters* remains a classic statement of the anti-authoritarian attitude.
The Inquiring Mind

Classic TV: Special Branch – #49 – George Sewell, Patrick Mower, – S04 E09 – Date of Birth - Special Branch is a British television series made by Thames Television for ITV and shown between 1969 and 1974. A police drama series, the action was ce...
Watts Up With That?

Government Disinformation on EVs - But the Government is not doing that. Instead it is deliberately claiming that drivers will benefit from the transition to EVs. But they know full well tha...
Tim Worstall

Nope, still not getting it - this really does mean we need to start again if we are to create a new economics You can – if you should so wish – start a new morals, a new ethics, can ...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

The curse of socialism - https://www.facebook.com/share/R5uDynkpwCMr3WNp/
Flashbak

Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922) - “There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads u...
Quotulatiousness

The First Triumvirate – The Conquered and the Proud 10 - Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist Published Jul 10, 2024 This time we take a look at the Fifties BC, the formation of the first triumvirate, Caesa...
Marginal Revolution

Shruti pays tribute to Zakir Hussein - An excellent appreciation, might this be the best thing written on him? Here is one excerpt: It is hard to explain the aura of Zakir to someone who has ...
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

It’s critical that we think about critical minerals critically - So we are told: The UK must become less dependent on China for critical minerals, an influential thinktank has concluded before a government strategy dec...
Wright Chat

Click Here for General Discussion Posts • Re: Video: "Prairie School Architecture in Mason City" - A name was omitted---William Drummond---though his Yelland house is the first one glimpsed in the section about the "other" Prairie-period architects in Ma...
Doug Casey's International Man

David Stockman on The Syrian Fiasco… A Case of The “Empire First” Folly In Spades - If there was ever a moment that laid bare the utter stupidity and futility of Washington’s Empire First policy it surely emerged last week in the smoking...
Manhattan Contrarian

End Of Year World Socialism Round-Up: Cuba, China, Venezuela - * For obvious reasons, our legacy media have very limited interest in reporting regularly on economic news from the various socialist/communist paradises a...
Kiwipolitico

A turn to the Big Stick. - This is from the 36th Parallel social media account (as brief food for thought). We know that Trump is ahistorical at best but he seems to think that he is...
ArchDaily

Z Ø / BETA Ø - The project focuses on a creating contemporary home where the living quarters face a garden, which becomes the green heart of the home.
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Frippet – a frivolous; flamboyant or showy young woman.
Kiwiblog

The slippery slope - Some great questions for those who cheered on the killing of a healthcare CEO: The post The slippery slope first appeared on Kiwiblog.
Real Clear Energy

Debunking the Myth of Oil Price Gouging in California - Robert Rapier, Oil Price In 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB-1322, the Oil Refiner Price Disclosure Act, into law. The legislation was hail...
Spiked Online

This year, Israel showed us what anti-fascism really means - The post This year, Israel showed us what anti-fascism really means appeared first on spiked.
Flying Out

Liquid Swords - *Vendor: *Geffen *Type: *GZA *Price: * 90.00 Double vinyl LP repressing of this hip hop classic. *Liquid Swords* is the second solo studio album from *...
UnHerd

Syria will never be unified - Western busybodies should be wary
The Library of Celaeno

Vivek Ramaswamy is Right - But not in the way he thinks
EconLog

Two Thalidomide Disasters - Most people have heard of the thalidomide tragedy. Few people have heard that that tragedy led lawmakers to cause an even bigger tragedy. In short, th...
The Daily Doom

Some Say Housing Bubble about to Implode, but this Time is Different - Yes, I boldly claimed the last housing crisis would hit half a year before it did, and I just as strongly claim a big crash of EVERYTHING is coming, but I ...
Croaking Cassandra

The Secretary to the Treasury defending govt fiscal policy - I wasn’t envisaging writing anything more for a while, but….Welllington’s weather certainly isn’t conducive to either the beach or the garden, and the Hera...
Quillette

Our Top Podcasts 2024 - Our most popular podcasts of 2024.
Autonomia

Movies: A Complete Unknown - The Bob Dylan biography dramatizes altruism versus egoism in politics, life and art
Reason Foundation

Harm reduction recommendations for the Trump administration - With a new administration set to take over the White House, now is a necessary time to rethink the nation’s drug policies. The post Harm reduction recomm...
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Redefining Genocide -
Ruxandra’s Substack

The city of civilizational greatness - Reflections on visiting San Francisco and the current political landscape
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

The 25 Best Online Articles of 2024 - Here's my favorite longform writing of the year
The Footy Almanac

Almanac Cricket: The Top 10 Boxing Day Tests – Part 2 - Tony Dosen continues his nominations for his Top 10 Boxing Day Tests, and features Tests Number 1 - 5.
IPWatchdog Articles

Dear Elon and Vivek: An Open Letter on Patents in the Trump Administration - Regime change is upon on us! You two [Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy] have been identified among those who will have considerable influence on policy and pr...
No Minister

Halberg Sportsman Of The Year Awards 2024 – Updated. - Well they are not really Sportsman Of The Year Awards any more and have not been so for many years as there are now quite rightly Four Categories from whic...
Curbed - All

Curbed’s Most-Read Great Rooms Stories of 2024 - From an Amagansett retreat with a children’s cottage to the Nashville artist living in the National Arts Club.
Breaking Views

Professor Robert MacCulloch: End welfare transfers to high income families... - The Only Way Out for the Coalition (and NZ) in 2025 is to end welfare transfers to high income familiesBudget 2025 should be the austerity budget that Fina...
The Tracinski Letter

Best of 2024: The Good Old Days - Last week, I counted down the top stories of the year.
Cato at Liberty

Ezra Klein's Conversion to Libertarianism Proceeds Apace - I look forward to seeing Ezra Klein’s upcoming book address the “stupidity and procedural crust” that defends the inefficient US health sector.
JoNova

Teaching school children to be better leftist activists - … By Jo Nova In the ecosystem of civilization, the OECD is just another batch of multinational barnacles slowing the ship down. These invertebrate filte...
Can't Get Much Higher

The State of the Newsletter: 2024 - It's the end of the year as we know it ... and the newsletter feels fine.
Energy Transition Absurdities

LA Times: Hey, Didja Know the High-Speed Rail Project is Really Just a Union Jobs Program? - The high-speed rail bridge to nowhere in California’s Central Valley.
Let Grow

How Boring Playgrounds Stifle Play - [image: Asian child girl wearing glasses was bored at slider. Children in pajamas is sitting lonely at playground. Cute kid girl aged 6 years old.] I live ...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

The Magdeburg Christmas market attacker had a long history of erratic and threatening behaviour that police routinely minimised and prosecutors studiously ignored - Many new details about the biography and past criminal history of Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, the Magdeburg Christmas market attacker, have emerged in the past w...
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

Prediction is Very Difficult, Especially About the Future - Grades are in for the 2024 THB Home Office Pool
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Summer Contributions Drive - Comrades It’s been a hell of a year. Despite the hacks that knocked us off line this year, despite the threats from the Atlas Network against us, despite t...
Mises Institute Blog

Tariffs Won’t Save the US Dollar - President-Elect Trump has been threatening tariffs against BRICS countries unless they abandon their plans to abandon the US dollar. While Trump may come o...
Mises Wire

Tariffs Won’t Save the US Dollar - President-Elect Trump has been threatening tariffs against BRICS countries unless they abandon their plans to abandon the US dollar. While Trump may come o...
The Double Standard

Open mike 27/12/2024 - Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to th...
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Wilson’s Folly, The Washington Hegemon and Why There Is Still No Peace On Earth - Another Christmas has passed and there is still no peace on earth. And the proximate cause of that vexing reality is the $1.3 trillion Warfare State plante...
Why Evolution Is True

The intellectual vacuity of attributing “agency” and “purpose” to organisms - On December 23m I called attention to the huge amount of money that the John Templeton Foundation (JTF) was throwing at biology projects giving evidence of...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Rock band Boston’s music: on the integration of science, engineering, and art - A common trope is that art and science are opposed to each other. That, despite the long list of artistic innovators—from Leonardo, Michelangelo, Monet, an...
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Expanding India's Horizons - My podcast with Neil Joseph
Conversable Economist

Charles Dickens on Management and Labor - There’s a sort of parlor game that the economically-minded sometimes play around the Christmas holiday, related to A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens....
Retraction Watch

A look back at 2024 at Retraction Watch, and forward to 2025 - If 2024 felt like a whirlwind, you’re not alone. It was another busy one here at Retraction Watch, too. Some numbers to tell that story: A sampling of a fe...
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

Christmas/Chanukah/Boxing Day Links - Greetings and welcome to the Christmas/Chanukah/Boxing Day edition of Laura's Links! It is not very often that the two holidays happen at the exact same ti...
Living Resources Center

Why Fauci SHOULD Have a Taxpayer-Funded Security Detail - Days before President Trump’s FIRST inauguration in 2017, Anthony Fauci predicted (with confident certainty) a “pandemic” prior to the end of Trump’s ter...
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Deceitful Messages, Scarcity, American Abyss - Links and recommendations + Miami meetup
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

How To Party on Substack Live - Recordings from my first Substack Live stream on 12/19 (73 min audio/video)
The New York Review of Books

Rebels Without a Cause - In Sam Gold's Romeo + Juliet, the lovers' headlong rush into marriage is in tension throughout with the surprising regression to childhood that characteriz...
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…”...
Sawahil

The Politics of Street Names and Memory in Mali - Nationalism, anti-colonial politics, and a pointed reminder that the 2012 rebellion remains a source of serious contention.
Institute for Energy Research

Another Biden-Era Failure: Electric Postal Service Trucks - The Biden-Harris Inflation Reduction Act allocated $3 billion to help the U.S. Postal Service purchase electric trucks and build charging… The post Anoth...
The Curmudgeon

Entities Flitting in a Country Churchyard - The climate tolls the knell of parting life, The profiteer burps forth his happy fumes; Away from famine, wildfire, flood and strife The conservationists t...
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

‘Trading Places,’ the Duke Brothers, and the True Roots of Racism - The disciples of Intersectionality, much like Randolph and Mortimer, don’t see people as individuals, but in terms of their group identity.
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Government Disinformation On EVs - By Paul Homewood What I really wanted to comment on regarding the EV consultation was the gross disinformation below: https://www.gov.uk/government...
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Democrats Learned that Voters Don’t Like Border Chaos - How Chaos Theory Explains the Public’s Turn Against Immigration and What to Do About It
Changing Lanes

Tolkien, the Prophet, Wikipedia as Horror, de Maupassant, and Space Exploration - Off-Ramps for 26 December 2024
Down to Earth Kiwi

The (Only) Way Out for the Coalition (and NZ) in 2025 is to end welfare transfers to high income families - Budget 2025 should be the austerity budget that Finance Minister Nicola Willis didn't have the guts to deliver in 2024. Instead, her lame...
Doomberg

Fit For Purpose - Thoughts on the latest fusion excitement.
The Antiplanner

St. Louis Gates Its Light-Rail Stations - Light rail suffers the highest crime rates of any mode of transit and this is largely due to the honor system of fare payment. St. Louis Metro is addressin...
The Whakataki Times

Local Dad Rolls Back The Years With Sensational BYC Hat Trick Against His Hapless Children - UNSTOPPABLE Mark Grover’s eyes lit up when he saw six year-old son Jackson walk up to the crease in today’s Boxing Day BYC match. The post Local Dad Rol...
Sustain What

Tell Me What You Want from Sustain What in 2025 - If you like what I’m doing, click the ♡ button.
Houston Strategies

HCTRA Part 2: spiraling debt and outrageous costs - Another excellent followup investigative guest post by Houston Freeways author Oscar Slotboom. Be warned: this will make you nauseous if you like good gove...
Paul Wells

Introducing Canadaland: Substack’s Founder on News, Money, and Musk - I'm trading podcast episodes with CANADALAND so you can catch up to this great discussion
bad cattitude

christmas memepool - "felix navidad," said the cat
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

Bah Humbug: No Matter How Hard They Try, Masks Still Don't Work - Another study on N95 masks making the rounds is still misleading
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Ask AlexAI Anything: World's Smartest Energy And Climate AI Just Got Even Smarter (and Free) - Go to alexepstein.ai to start using AlexAI for free.
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Revolutionary Constitutionalism - Part 3 in a series
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

Merry Christmas To All Bowalley Road Readers. - *Ríu Ríu Chíu* *Ríu Ríu Chíu* is a Spanish Christmas song from the 16th Century. The traditional carol would likely have passed unnoticed by the Eng...
Official Blog

Celebrate the Holidays with a Geocaching Ugly Sweater - The holidays are a magical time. There are lights twinkling, cheer all around, and, best of all, ugly holiday sweaters. The tradition of this festive fashi...
GeekPress

Holiday Hiatus - *Admin note*: GeekPress will be taking a short holiday break for the rest of the week. Merry Christmas, everybody!
John D. Cook

Most popular posts of 2024 - I looked at Hacker News to see which posts on this site were most popular. I didn’t look at my server logs, but generally the posts that get the most tra...
Truth on the Market

The FTC Takes Action to Raise Wine and Spirit Prices - In a 3-2 party-line vote, a divided Federal Trade Commission (FTC) moved Dec. 18 to seek a federal district court injunction against Southern Glazer’s Wi...
Stu-Topia

Good Fiction Is the Truth - or, How Thinking Non-Literally Is Not a Lie But Integral to Knowing RealityStuart K. Hayashi “People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy, ...
Anthony B. Bradley

A Christmas Eve Liturgy of the Greens - Explaining what all your decorations mean
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 85 - Free Thoughts with Bowen & Twyman, Ep. 14 - Listen now | Who represents?
The Logical Place

Is the political Left puritanical? - When I was the Mayor of Fitzroy in 1980/81 (an inner Melbourne suburb) I was criticised for serving more interesting food than party pies and sausage rolls...
Astral Codex Ten

Why Worry About Incorrigible Claude? - ...
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (2024 holiday special) - Expecting the unexpected
Austin Vernon's Substack

Integrating AI Agents into Companies - AI needs a different environment than humans to take advantage of its speed.
FIRE

California and other states are rushing to regulate AI. This is what they’re missing - The Constitution shouldn’t be rewritten for every new communications technology, and AI is no exception.
Outliving Iran

Of Gates and Toll-Takers (part 1) - The people I knew in Iran and the price we paid for our freedom
Glenn’s Substack

FLASHBACK: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - While we muddle through somehow
Stats Chat

United Rugby Championship Predictions for Week 9 - Team Ratings for Week 9 Note that there is one game left to be played in Round 8, after Christmas. I will issue an update to these predictions after that...
Point of Order

Mission creep at Diversity Works NZ leads to taxpayer-funded DEI activism - Centrist reports – In brief Mission creep at Diversity Works NZ, “the national body for workplace inclusion,” has shifted from equal opportunity to DEI a...
A Havenstein Moment.

War Plan Red - A historic bull market in hubris.
Objective Standard Institute

What YOU Can Do to Save Music - In this video, I share the MTLV Framework that I think musicians and producers can use to help "save the music." The post What YOU Can Do to Save Music a...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

The Depth of Religious and Value Difference - No a Pagan Europe would not have been Liberal
Yascha Mounk

Yes, Elon, the Alternative for Germany Really Is Far-Right - Mainstream failures bear responsibility for the deadly attack in Magdeburg. That’s no excuse for ignoring the flaws of the extremists who seek to supplant ...
Eating Policy

Dear Mr. Kupor: Please fix federal hiring - A brief tour through a broken HR system that keeps great talent out of federal government
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

Stealing Success: How IP Theft Built Nations - How Industrial Espionage, IP Laws, and Development Strategies Shape Economic Power"
Ideas Beyond Borders

IBB Bulletin: Looking Back, Moving Forward - Celebrating remarkable milestones from 2024 as we prepare for the year ahead
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

If Given A Life Review, Would You Be Proud Of Your Conduct? - I don't believe you need to be a public figure to affect thousands of people; you probably have already.
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

2024: The Year in Review(s) - Jane: Well, it’s been another year chez Psmiths.
The Breakthrough Journal

Policy Built To Last - By Ted Nordhaus
Kunstler

A Christmas Prayer - "If it's time for you to go, leave willingly, as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor." — Marcus Aurelius
Dominic Frisby

🎄On the something day of Christmas 🎵🥂 - It's that time of the year again
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Summary Time - In 2024, The Entrepreneurs Network turned ten. Given that only around a third of businesses survive beyond a decade, perhaps we’re doing something right....
Zero Hanger

AFL Christmas Wishlist: What your club is asking from Santa? - What are you hoping Saint Nick delivers to your team?
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

How NEPA Stands in the Way of American Mineral Security - America has a mineral security problem. The materials and resources that power essential and next-generation technologies increasingly come from abroad. Ou...
Real Clear Energy: Video

Why Does the U.S. Import Oil When We Produce So Much? - The Economic Explained team uses Statista for conducting our research. Check out their YouTube channel:
Israel Institute of NZ

Fighting fire with fire - I’ve attended many Pro-Israel rallies over the years and have been a speaker at most of them – but my first experience of a ‘counter rally’, where pro-Pall...
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: The Arts Are Not a Way to Make a Living. They Are a Very Human Way of Making Life More Bearable - Kurt Vonnegut? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Engaging in art is not lucrative. The proportion of artists who become wealthy is minuscule. Ye...
No Punches Pulled

JUDITH COLLINS NAIVETY - The recent fracas at Auckland’s Northern Club, involving Judge Emma Aitken, her medical specialist partner, and in a separate incident, barrister Michael R...
A Halfling's View

Aux Barricades! - Taking up arms against changes to the Law School
Splitting Headache

Crashing Out[38 Before 38] - Failed experiments are often looked down upon. But they give you great insight.
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Mokotron: Waerea (digital outlets/vinyl) - Many decades ago the great Irish singer-songwriter Christy Moore – no stranger to the bottle – said something like this about the Pogues: “Great, just wh...
Asymmetric Information

KiwiRail myths and realities🍋 - KiwiRail is failing to meet even the goals it sets for itself
The Future of Being Human

Why Modem Futura is more than just another tech podcast - As we pass our tenth full episode of Modem Futura, I take a look at why we started, what we hope to achieve, and what makes this more than just another tec...
Johnny Grey Studios

Johnny's festive offerings - Christmas Newsletter 2024 - Unfitted Kitchen furniture, a recipe from Prue Leith, 2025 dates for South Downs food festival...
Hoover institution Commentary

‘Command and control’: Labor’s cuts to hawkish think tank raises hackles - A review of national security research in Australia has led to a proposal to cut funding for think tanks, notably the Australian Strategic Policy Institute...
Harry’s Substack

Not Left, Not Right . . . Try Up (Part II) - Fleshing out the argument
SAVVY STREET

Addressing the Gaps in Libertarian Theory - Libertarianism as a political philosophy needs to be subsumed by a complete philosophy of reason. The post Addressing the Gaps in Libertarian Theory appe...
misfits' architecture

Ch. 5, pp. 187–193 - We’re up to Chapter 5 now. I don’t think the book is going to suddenly turn steamy but the first subtitle is 5.1 Housing for “Sexual Phenomena” – or at lea...
Freethink Media

🚀 Future Explored: Freezing humans - Is sci-fi about to become reality?
Principled Perspectives

Christmas the Secular, Christmas the American - Is it appropriate for non-Christian Americans to celebrate Christmas? Many do, and why not? I’m an atheist—or, more precisely, a person of reason—and I h...
Skeptic

Wokeness Poisons Science - Part II of my series on why I am no longer woke
Construction Physics

Reading List 12/21/2024 - Commercial fusion, Boom’s new funding round, efficient industrial policy, AI fighter jets, and more.
Thinking Directions

Three Misconceptions Concerning Analyzing Negatives - In my previous article titled So You Hate Your Job, I said, When you feel forced into a decision to take a job, it means you need to seriously look...
Regan's Substack

A girl's gotta get status somehow - Clashing values and waxing floors
Conspicuous Cognition

Elite failures and populist backlash - The impact of elite failures on anti-establishment feelings is complex and indirect.
Note to Noteworthy

The Rollup Method: Turn Long Notes Into Simple Ideas - Defeat informational overwhelm so you can start creating more.
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

Nearing the end of 2024 - Here we are at the end of 2024 already. Blink, and the year’s gone, it seems. For me it’s been a very busy year – so busy, in fact, that I’ve had no time f...
Fictionosophy

Spiritual Values in Charles Dickens's Holiday Stories - The warmth of Dickens's happy endings and the joy he envisions as possible to everyone make his Christmas stories a cozy pick for reading beside a cracklin...
The Intrinsic Perspective

UFOs are a soft sci-fi genre - Real "first contact" will be technosignatures from far away
Statecraft

What Can the Brits Teach Us About State Capacity? - More than you might think.
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Review of The Gab Cinque Band's "The Wheel" - The Long-Awaited Full-Length Debut of One of Today's Most Exceptional Artists
Reason for Living

Reason for Living Book Update and New Video Content - The test-reader draft of the book is now complete, and I have a new video out about the ideas behind Reason for Living and what's coming in 2025.
Gus Van Horn

Four Random Things - *A Friday Hodgepodge* *This will be my last post for 2024 due to my yearly blogging break. I plan to return on January 6, 2025.I hope you have a merry Ch...
Asimov’s Addendum

Born on the Fourth of July? The Bipartisan House AI Task Force Report - Standards, industrial policy, and the very visible shadow of China
ChinaTalk

Norway Notes - Vikings, Oslo Vibes, and WWII
Sinification

Countering US Tariffs: China's Economic Strategy (Part 2) - "If we focus only on self-reliance and import substitution, China risks becoming another Soviet Union." – Zhang Yansheng
PM of NZ

A small step in the right direction - *in the news...* *The PM will not attend the Waitangi shenanigans.* Baby steps. But I'd be ever watchful of his token native, one Mr. Potaka. In my op...
Capitalism Magazine

Corporate DEI: Doomed To Fail - Besides abandoning DEI programs, what should companies do then if they want to achieve long-term success?
No Right Turn

2024 OIA stats - Over on Kikorangi *Newsroom*'s Marc Daalder has published his annual OIA stats. So I thought I'd do mine: - *82* OIA requests sent in 2024 - *7*...
New Zealand Arts Review

Olafur Eliasson: The Leonardo da Vinci of our time - Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Olafur Eliasson, Your Curious Journey Auckland Art Gallery Until March 23, 2025 Reviewed by J...
Gross Output

Business Spending Rebounds, Recession Avoided - “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...
Journal of Free Black Moms

Thirty Years - Married like that.
Roots of Progress

Looking back on the 2024 Blog-Building Intensive Fellowship - This fall, our second class of 24 blog-building fellows completed our eight-week blog building intensive. The second interaction of our fellowship progra...
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Department Of Homeland Security Illegally Targeted Covid Dissent, New Documents Suggest - DHS’s cybersecurity agency went far beyond its congressional mandate in hunting wrongthink and monitoring emotions
Greater Auckland

Weekly Roundup 20-December-2024 - Twas the Friday before Christmas and all through the week we’ve been collecting stories for our final roundup of the year. As we start to wind down for th...
Eat More Electrons

[More!] Ridiculous decarbonization - The World Bank is still pushing for emissions reductions in the poorest & lowest emitters
Science For Everyone

Academic Mixtape 27 - ho, ho, ho
thesecondrenaissance

Champions of Free Will and Moral Values: The Romanticists -
The Roots of Progress

A progress policy agenda - My wishlist of policy goals to advance scientific, technological, and economic progress
The New Era

So Woke is dead. What’s next? - Just don’t expect Left/Right politics.
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

PERC Reports Winter 2024 - This special issue of PERC Reports explores creative ideas to address the conservation challenges of the Pacific Northwest. The post PERC Reports Winter ...
Tribes – PERC

PERC Reports Winter 2024 - This special issue of PERC Reports explores creative ideas to address the conservation challenges of the Pacific Northwest. The post PERC Reports Winter ...
Fisheries – PERC

PERC Reports Winter 2024 - This special issue of PERC Reports explores creative ideas to address the conservation challenges of the Pacific Northwest. The post PERC Reports Winter ...
Public Lands – PERC

Conservation Conflict - Managing wildlife and parks in the Pacific Northwest The post Conservation Conflict appeared first on PERC.
Wildlife – PERC

Conservation Conflict - Managing wildlife and parks in the Pacific Northwest The post Conservation Conflict appeared first on PERC.
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Smash The Technopoly! - Neil Postman, Marshall McLuhan, and The Anxious Generation
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Why Did Trump Buckle with CIA Appointment? - REMINDER: For 35 years, you all have kept us going with your generous (tax-deductible) donations. We need your generous end-of-year support for the comin...
Conflicted

The pearly gates of science - Peer review in context
One Useful Thing

What just happened - A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI
Existential Crunch

Resilient foods - How to feed everyone, even in the worst of times
The Cobden Centre

Bitcoiners’ Guide to Austrian Economics - By Per Bylund Austrian economics is a scholarly tradition that consists of a body of theory that explains how an economy works. Austrian economists develop...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

A Final Comment on some aspects of NZ's Education year. - Unfortunately, a deeply concerning year for education in NZ.
Schiffradio.com

The Great Rate Cut Rug Pull – Ep 1000 - Jerome Powell's rate cut, market drops, economic risks, inflation, and the future of the economy. The post The Great Rate Cut Rug Pull – Ep 1000 appeared...
Virginia Postrel

Answer Time: Can We Imagine Pluralistic Futures? - A feature for paying subscribers.
Butterpaper

Forum closure - The Butterpaper forum is closing tomorrow (20/12/24). It’s been quite for the past decade, with the advent of social media, and now the software that ran...
Lindsay Mitchell

What does society expect from fathers? - We live in a society utterly confused about parenthood and the role of fathers. The last Labour government made fathers increasingly irrelevant. In 20...
The Jolly Libertarian

Ethical Conundrums are the Heart and Soul of Louise Penny's Three Pines Novels - *Louise Penny*It comes as no surprise to her legions of fans that Louise Penny's latest novel, *The Grey Wolf*, immediately shot to the top of the best ...
Interintellect

Our New Platform Is Live 🎉 - Check out the new interintellect.com
Africa-Israel Weekly

Israel critics ignore racism, slavery in Arab Islamic world - Excerpt from this week's Forum on Israel, Africa, & Black America
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

Justin on Dr. Drew - Hello all!
Maximum Progress

How Scientific Incentives Stalled the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance, and How We Can Fix It - My latest post at Tim Hwang's Macroscience
Toppermost

Richard Dawson - A Northumbrian singer/songwriter with a flair for shambolic psych-folk and exploratory rock, Richard Dawson became a fixture in the underground folk scen...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

No jurisdiction for Supreme Court MACA 'judgment' - Earlier today, The Capital Letter, New Zealand’s review of administration, legislation and law, published my article explaining why the Supreme Court had n...
Cremieux Recueil

Evaluating a Sitting Senator's Healthcare Claims - If you're a public official who wants to to use numbers, use correct numbers, and if you're going to speculate, try not so speculate wildly, lest you end u...
Energy in Depth

A Tale of Two Studies: DOE Study Rehashes Debunked Claims While New Analysis Highlights Critical Impacts of U.S. LNG - The U.S. Department of Energy released its long-awaited study on LNG exports Tuesday, and while the administration didn’t officially call for a ban on LN...
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Links in Progress: All the single people - And how China will lose 51 million people in 10 years
History Reclaimed

From Ararat to Albion: The Interwoven Histories of Britain and Armenia, 1918-20 - At the end of the First World War Britain was briefly and unsuccessfully engaged in the defence of an independent Armenia.
Building the Builders

Discussion thread #2: Your best examples of the "leaden mean"? - Hello, dear readers!
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Soulscape 28, Art Inspires Us to Reach for the Impossible - The World Is Not Enough
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

Aloe Blacc – Don’t Go Alone: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day - Grammy-nominated and multi-platinum artist Aloe Blacc has officially announced his new album Stand Together – due Friday, February 28, 2025. To celebrat...
Michael Newberry, Artist

Soulscape 27, Art Doesn’t Just Reflect Life—It Reveals Us - Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, c. 1665, Mauritshuis, The Hague. WC. Whether an artist intends it or not, simply by painting or drawing reali...
The China Space Monitor

Biweekly Brain Droppings - A "High-Speed Laser Diamond" Constellation, the First LM-8A departs for Wenchang, and some Yangtze River Delta Supply Chain Findings
Macroscience

How Scientific Incentives Stalled the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance, and How We Can Fix It - Peptide-DB: A Million-Peptide Database to Accelerate Science
Libertarian Land

Eliminate Government Holidays - The United States currently recognizes eleven federal holidays: Independence Day (1870), Washington’s Birthday (aka Presidents’ Day) (1879), Christmas (188...
Roy Spencer, PhD.

Hot Death Valley Days: Don’t Trust Those Temperatures - AP photo/ Ty O’Neil. Summary In our continuing examination of the world record hottest temperature of 134 deg. F recorded at Greenland Ranch (now Death Val...
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

DIPLOMACY IN EVERYDAY LIFE -
Private Lands – PERC

New Fund Offers Relief for Wyoming Ranchers Facing Wildlife Disease Risk - Ranchers and Conservationists behind East Yellowstone Brucellosis Compensation Fund aim to address challenges of elk migrations on private lands The pos...
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Episode 4 - Wrapped in the Dialectic - Stolen Valor
The Upheaval

The Counter-Revolution Begins - 7 principles for the Trump revolution if it wants to win bigly
Wright in Racine

Greek Church Roof Resplendent Again - © Mark Hertzberg (2024) The brilliant blue dome roof of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin shines again. First...
HBL

Cartels are fine - [image: Author photo] Thread: Bilateral Economics Re: Member’s post of 11/30/24 I think Rockefeller was on balance a hero, but not an Ayn Rand Hero. Of ...
Institute of Economic Affairs

Not Invented Here #5 – Food - This is the fifth in a series of articles about how ideological interest groups react when their institutional preferences are … Continue reading "Not In...
Happy Future

Technology Development and the Collapse of IDM 2.0 - Silicon Statesmanship #5: Explaining TD, TD culture, and how it hobbles IDMs
Free Range Kids

All of Me - Thanks to John Stossel, here is a half hour of me getting the chance to make all the points swirling around in my head and heart: How we got so afraid fo...
What's New Under the Sun

Innovation Job Market Papers 2024 (3/3) - Dozens of papers from new PhDs about innovation
Theatreview

Whakaari Aotearoa Drama New Zealand Research Opportunity - Whakaari Aotearoa Drama New ZealandResearch Opportunity Mahi Whakaari o Aotearoa – Drama New Zealand is committed to supporting kaiako in all sectors of dr...
An Africanist Perspective

What sorts of reforms under Trump could reshape Africa-U.S. relations for the better? - Most reasonable people agree that Africa-US relations need a proper reboot. The coming opening for reforms under Trump presents some interesting opportunit...
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

Escaping the Politics of Self-Deception - How and why I broke out of the perfect rhetorical fortress.
Boom (UK)

China to lose 51 million people in 10 years - How is China responding to population decline?
Peter Winsley

I too have been thinking about the future New Zealand economy - New Zealand was one of the wealthiest countries in the world in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1950, New Zealand ranked third in the OECD for GDP per capita. Howe...
Institute for Progress

IFP — Giving Tuesday and November 2024 Update - We hope you all had a restful Thanksgiving break.
Market Urbanism

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
Museum Street (Henry Cooke)

Labour's long win on defence policy - A declassified conversation with George Bush shows Jim Bolger "wanted" to remove the nuclear ban in 1991. But he couldn't.
Kibao

Solar Geoengineering: The Global South’s Stake in a High-Stakes Debate - The Global South needs neither a climate laboratory nor a knowledge vacuum
Rosie Campbell

Leaving OpenAI - After almost three and half years working on AI safety, policy, and governance, this was my last week at OpenAI. There are so many exciting things happenin...
FDR Liberated

Simplify Success with Proven Small Business Service Solutions - Running a small business comes with its fair share of challenges, from managing daily operations to meeting customer expectations. However, success does no...
Overthinking Everything

Setting up my new blogging engine - I have a typewriter! Hear me typewrite. It goes click clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickBING. KACHUNK! SHUNK click click click click click click...
Offsetting Behaviour

Misuse of land use planning - If you thought McDonald's was some kind of public health hazard, using processes under the Resource Management Act to try to block one from opening in Wa...
Creative Deduction

Why a tolerant society is not a free society - Individual freedom is the libertarian ideal, the abstract value which guides moral action. As a political idea, libertarianism emerged in the latter part o...
Don't Let It Go

Motivation by Love vs. Motivation by Fear - The first half of my current trip around the sun–my birthday is at the beginning of June–has featured too much of the latter. The main event was choosing #...
Spiked Online

Spiked Mug Donation - The post Spiked Mug Donation appeared first on spiked.
Ayn Rand Society

Ayn Rand Society news: two new books, an upcoming meeting, and a new platform - I’m writing (after a long silence) with some news about the Ayn Rand Society.
Punishingly Haimona

Can An Apology Also Be An Insult? - A Stuff column trades in, well-intentioned, bigotry.
Democracy Project

Malcolm McKinnon: Māori and other nationalisms - Māori sovereignty, tino rangatiratanga, mana motuhake, a declaration of independence, partnership under Te Tiriti: these are all staples of Māori political...
Plain Sight

An Abundance Agenda manifesto for Aotearoa - "I would much rather that we live in a society of mutual abundance and optimism than our current experience of pessimism and scarcity" - Mike Grimshaw
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Financialization and Missed Boats - When Mythology Papers over Reality
The War on Prices

Wage and Rent Controls On The Ballot In 2024 - Much of the 2024 presidential election campaign was dominated by the fallout from high inflation, with both candidates eventually advocating forms of price...
StephenFranks.co.nz

Allow easy firing of dud bosses - Think about the impossibility of creating here a Google or an Amazon, or Microsoft, or an Apple or a Tesla or a Space X. A Steve Jobs or Elon Musk has to ...
HardmoneyJim

Post-election Market Update - Trump Trade or Trump Bump?
Science+Story

Be the Right Kind of Wrong - Why Learning from Your Mistakes Publicly Enhances Your Expert Status
The Prophet of Causation

The Self-Writing Slate - Chapter 5
Tross Publishing

IS PAUL GOLDSMITH THE BIGGEST LIAR IN PARLIAMENT? - By Toby Whittaker Although unlikely to be passed into law the ACT Party’s Treaty Principles Bill has certainly exposed some ugly facets of New Zealand po...
What You Can Do For Liberty

Ten Great Pro-Liberty Films You Can Watch For Free Right Now - Keep up your freedom-loving spirits with this selection of ten films, chosen to inspire and entertain you.
In Due Course

How Steve Bannon baited the American left into overplaying its hand - Although he’s not quite finished with us yet, I think it fair to say that Steve Bannon will be remembered for two things: first, his media management strat...
RenewNZ

The day the Garbage spoke - One result in the US election last week spoke volumes. The final count in the State of Washington DC was Harris 93% – Trump 7%. It was a result which highl...
Case Closed

October 2024 Space Stock Review - Includes Commentary on: LLAP, BKSY, RDW, RKLB, MNTS, VSAT, and CMTL
Syncretica

Election Thoughts and Takeaways - A few thoughts if for no other reason than having something to reply to a lot of direct messages with:
High Capacity

Beijing braces for impact: What Trump 2.0 might mean for US-China relations - Both sides have learned lessons from the first US-China trade war. For Trump, it's that tariffs and sanctions are powerful tools. For Beijing, it's that a ...
The Kerrant

Trump’s Path Back: How Shifting Politics and Powerful Voices Reshaped the Election - As we reflect on the recent election, it’s hard to ignore the signals that former President Obama gave, albeit subtly, during the primaries. In his state...
The Free Market Futurist

The Birth of the “Progress Movement” - I have a long tradition on Election Day of writing about anything except the election.
Notes On Liberty

Taxes, Tariffs, Tardy Tallying, and Thanksgiving Truce - November’s Challenge to Bridge America’s Divide
Premise Check (Billy Beck)

It’s Election Day, 2024 - 2:28 AM EDT —
The Truth Fairy

The Kindergarten Intifada - The national effort to indoctrinate American children against Israel
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Daylight Saving: Libertarian Video Shorts - Daylight saving creates chaos among the populace. [2 min] Comedian Michael McIntyre jokes about daylight saving time. [1 min] A short segment from the Jo...
A life just as ordinary

Herevana – #203 – Wilderness Rolling Meadows - Here we have a Wilderness Brewing Wilderness Rolling Meadows. IT’s be rare for a Wilderness beer not to be really enjoyable, and so a BA peach apricot affa...
Forbidden Science

Why the public should not “believe in science” - Instead, we should publicly and freely discuss it
The Scholar's Stage

Republican Debates on China: A Political Compass for Potential Trump Appointees - A Preliminary Taxonomy
Texas Institute for Property Rights

All Men are Created Equal: Shattering Paradigms Book 1 - In 1857, Samuel Dawson, the son of a slaveholder, befriends Will, a slave boy. The parents of the two twelve-year The post All Men are Created Equal: Sha...
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

straight outta tartarus - in search of the inner sanctums
Armas

The Hard Country: The River and the Line. - Chapter 2 of the book is out!
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

Marxists, Beards and Follies - Sri Lanka has elected a Marxist president. He is described as a neo Marxist, which is what you call a revolutionary who’s shaved his beard. The problem i...
647 Reasons Why

DAYS 1-3 - 90 Mile Beach - Days 1-3 of my trek across the entire length of New Zealand
Cranmer’s Substack

HMNZS MANAWANUI - Details are already starting to emerge of the frantic rescue efforts that saved the crew of the stricken vessel on Saturday evening and which continued unt...
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: The Coal Conquest - There was no shortage of trees
Craig Biddle

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

Living in the Parent Ghetto - Despite my sincere efforts, I have become one of Those Moms Who Only Hang Out With Other Moms
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...
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...
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...
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...
Demystifying Science

Addressing Virus Skeptics - The Confusing misuse of the words isolate and cause
a/symmetric

We're going on hiatus - But do stick around
Better things are possible

Managing on-street parking for local benefit; the case for Parking Benefit Districts - Parking is often the centre of debate in our cities, particularly on-street car parks, who gets to use them and how we manage them.
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 ...
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

Project 2025 vs. The Public’s Health, Part III - Part III: The NIH
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...
Hunters and Anglers – PERC

PERC and RMEF Team Up to Launch Innovative Wildlife Conservation Initiatives - Our expanded partnership marks the beginning of a multiyear effort focused on pioneering big game conservation efforts across the Rocky Mountain West and...
A City for People

Making it easier to build granny flats - City for People submits in support of more homes in existing urban areas.
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...
Notes On Liberty

New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is out - You can read the whole thing here.
Folarinism

White identity politics won’t save Britain - It fails to provide a vision for a good life and a realistic solution to the problems we face
Jackson Upmann

Coming soon - This is Jackson Upmann.
CEE – Econlib

Occupational Licensing - [An update of Occupational Licensing, by David S. Young.] Occupational licensing today directly affects more than one in five workers in the United State...
Liberty Scott

Charles Moore on the prospects of Trump in Foreign Policy - From the Daily Telegraph: *One of Mr Trump’s clearest messages, amplified by his choice of J D Vance, is that he does not want to help Ukraine defeat Vl...
Yes In Our Backyards

Mixed-use development is coming to NZ cities, here’s One Small Trick to take it further - Allowing neighbours to sell their planning rights to incoming developments will make a good policy even better
Anti-Dismal

100 years of the theory of the firm. Or may be only 50. - Depending on how you pick your starting point there has been, roughly, 50 or 100 years of the mainstream economic theory of the firm. In support of the 1...
A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

Ned Fletcher's book: "unsatisfactory" and "badly flawed" - *N*ew Zealand/Australian historian Bain Attwood reviews Ned Fletcher's *English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi* in the *Australian Book Review. *His c...
Fizzifood

Lamb, courgette & triple cheese layered bake - JW – as requested, here’s the method behind the madness! This recipe is a cross between a moussaka and a (lower-carb) lasagne. I’ve used courgettes, grou...
Growing to Truth

Duh, Of Course Hamas Lied About Casualty Statistics - The UN revised their Gazan casualty statistics, claiming fewer women and children were killed than previously reported
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Excerpt 1 -- from a new essay series - Work in progress - (for interera.co)
Keith Weiner Economics

Commodities, Consumer Goods, Prices, and Time - Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley, at the Cato Institute, write about the Simon Abundance Index. SAI is named for Julian Simon, famous for his bet with the Malth...
Earthly Idealism

The Unhappy Millionaire - I’m excited to share the first two episodes of a podcast I’ve launched along with Ayn Rand Institute CEO Tal Tsfany: The Unhappy Millionaire. The premise i...
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...
Mises Wiki - Recent changes [en]

DRAGONVALE! CHEATS MOD ANDROID IOS NO SURVEY 2024 NEW - Created page with "Hey there, DragonVale fans! Are you ready to take your DragonVale gaming experience to the next level? Well, you're in luck because we...
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
Jack’s Substack

Electricity Cheapest in a Decade - NZ residential electricity most affordable in recent history
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...
Samizdata

Let’s just defund the UN and leave it immediately - Hidden deep below the headquarters of the United Nations’ aid agency for Palestinians here is a Hamas complex with rows of computer servers that Israel’s...
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...
Precise Thinking

Finding the Benevolent Universe when the World is in a Pickle - by
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
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

Agustina Vergara Cid on the Immorality of the U.S. Immigration System - [image: Agustina Vergara Cid on the Immorality of the U.S. Immigration System] *Immigrants who “get in line” are punished for wanting to work.* The post A...
Comments on: Bert Kelly

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

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

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

It’s Crunch Time for The Daily Doom and Doom Time for The Great Recession Blog - The Great Recession Blog is officially done for good, and my writing continues on TheDailyDoom.com. This site will eventually be completely terminated. If ...
Stories by Rudi Edsall on Medium

Round 12 v Bulldogs — who needs a midfield anyway? - Round 12 v Bulldogs — who needs a midfield anyway? I honestly did not see a way we could do this one. I was expecting an absolute massacre in the midfield ...
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
The Market Urbanism Report Blog

Can Prospera Become A Startup City Blueprint? - The emergence of startup cities is a story we’ll cover extensively these next few years. Prospera of Honduras is a leading example.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Kathleen and Charles Moore Prepare to take their Fight Against Taxing Unrealized Gains to Supreme Court - In 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The new law was a reform of the federal tax code, but also included a provision called the Mandatory ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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

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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...
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 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

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Monday, 2 December 2013

How to tell when things are stuffed…

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