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No Right Turn

Climate Change: National wants to cheat on Paris II - Back in September, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts shocked us by suggesting that New Zealand could refuse to meet its international commitments under t...
The Free Press

Is World War III Already Here? - The ‘Axis of Upheaval’ is on the march—and the U.S. must figure out how to respond.
Wright Chat

Click Here for General Discussion Posts • Re: Robert C Twombly - Beware the idolaters: their hero's "competition" is worthless or worse in their eyes ! Speaking of writing, I finally figured out how to access the digita...
The Inquiring Mind

Upstairs Downstairs – #55 – S05E02 – A Place In The World – Classic British TV - watch soon as may disappear
SkyscraperCity Forum

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Breaking Views

Gary Moller: Bird Flu - Let the Great Culling Begin! - New Zealand is grappling with its first outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu, a development that threatens not only our poultry industry but our entire a...
Autonomia

The ‘24 Pitch - Apply the trader principle to media
Zero Hanger

All Blacks leadership guru debunks narrative surrounding Melbourne following review - "That wasn’t my experience at all. There was a couple of separate issues, but very solvable."
Astral Codex Ten

Hidden Open Thread 358.5 - ...
Spiked Online

How Jaguar became a vehicle for LGBT idiocy - The post How Jaguar became a vehicle for LGBT idiocy appeared first on spiked.
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...
UnHerd

Keir Starmer has no dream - The Prime Minister's reset is doomed to fail
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Memo To Musk & Ramaswamy: How To Downsize The Excess Defense Muscle And Save $500 Billion, Part 11 - If Donald Trump’s “America First” focused foreign policy means anything at all, it’s that the current $1 trillion national security budget is double the si...
Flying Out

Antisocialites (Cassette) - *Vendor: *Polyvinyl *Type: *ALVVAYS *Price: * 61.00 *Antisocialites *– the much-anticipated follow-up to *Alvvays’* 2014 self-titled debut – is set for...
Quillette

The Eerie Beauty of ‘Flow’ - Gints Zilbalodis’s beautiful dystopian story feels like the start of a new era in cinema, or at least the invitation to one.
Capitalism Magazine

Hunter Biden Pardon and The Evils of ‘Lawfare’ - Lawfare involves the targeting of defendants based primarily on who they are rather than what they have done.
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Conclave is an M. Night Shyamalan Movie for Viewers Who Want to Feel Sophisticated - A decent movie with an unearned (and stupid) twist ending
EconLog

What Cass Sunstein Omits in Discussing DOGE - Harvard Law professor Cass Sunstein has a short list of six factors that people in a Department of Government Efficiency need to consider. It’s worth pay...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

Mask Hypocrisy And Extremism Is Alive And Well - Overwhelming hypocrisy on masking is an endless phenomenon
Homepaddock

Sowell says - From 2016: “In one sense, Donald Trump’s victory was a unique American event. But, in a larger sense, it represents the biggest backlash among many elsewhe...
Point of Order

Orr on Q&A – Part II - Michael Reddell writes – My post this morning* was based on Adrian Orr’s Q&A interview as found on TVNZ+. However, it turns out that that wasn’t the full ...
Truth on the Market

It May Be Time to Consider Reforming Global Competition Policy - As the incoming Trump administration contemplates ways to promote U.S. economic growth and innovation, it may wish to consider two possible new global co...
Reason Foundation

Surface Transportation News: Will hydrogen fuel replace fossil fuel in vehicles? - Plus: New York to proceed with transit tax, a major change in environmental law, and more. The post Surface Transportation News: Will hydrogen fuel repla...
Slow Boring

Wednesday thread - To the Slow Borers who are especially interested in good urban policy (which I think is basically all of you) I wanted to flag this new organization called...
Ayn Rand Centre UK

The United Nations' Corruption -
Watts Up With That?

November’s Energy Earthquake: A World Reshaped by Politics, Power, and Pragmatism - While European countries double down on climate targets, much of the developing world is prioritizing economic growth through fossil fuels. These shifts re...
Kiwiblog

TEU thinks competition is the biggest threat to academic freedom - The TEU recently had a conference on academic freedom. I found this amusing as one of the biggest enemies of academic freedom is the TEU. There have been...
The Daily Doom

Jobs Wobble - Today will be short.
The Double Standard

Creative accounting - It has emerged that Health NZ attempted to include hundreds of millions of dollars in redundancies and holiday pay remediation chargeable this year in last...
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

COVID Committee FINAL Report - Part 2 - Finding: Lackluster Oversight Resulted in Transnational Criminal Organizations and Fraudsters Stealing U.S.
No Minister

Ben Stokes and Chris Woakes You Are Wrong. - Yesterday the ICC penalised both England and New Zealand for slow over rates during the first test at Hagley Oval in Christchurch last week. Each country l...
No Punches Pulled

STUFF “JOURNALISM” GRAMMAR - Under the ironic heading “Fast Facts” Stuff printed, “Alamir Bakery, who has produced…” No, no, no. “Which has produced…” Reading that brought to mind my 2...
FIRE

FLAGGED FOR REMOVAL: New Jersey resident ejected from town council meeting for displaying American flag and U.S. Constitution - Shutting down protected speech to preserve ‘decorum’ is still a First Amendment violation.
The Footy Almanac

Book Review: ‘The Immortals of Australian Football’ - RagingBull casts his eye over 'The Immortals of Australian Football', a recent addition to the 'Immortals' of Australian sport series from Gelding Street P...
Cato at Liberty

The Latest International Exam Scores Look Bad—Are They? - We would like to see test scores rise. But we should not panic: We need to investigate these scores more deeply to understand what produced them, and stand...
IPWatchdog Articles

CAFC Delivers Win for Meta in Precedential Decision - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision today affirming a district court’s grant of summary judgment of non...
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

Breaking Bread with Alexandra Sullivan in Connecticut - Speaking Wrong At The Right Time is a reader-supported publication.
The Curmudgeon

Even Fewness Can Be Taken Too Far - Britain did not become top nation by fighting against heavy odds, and a flunkey at the Ministry for Wog-Bombing has warned that the greatest army in the wo...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Heidegger’s anti-humanism and the Left - Tim Black, a senior writer at spiked, has a good review discussion of “Why they’re really scared of Heidegger.” The “they’re” refers to many contemporary a...
Marginal Revolution

China markets in everything - This is very interesting, and I think a world first: a local government in China has just sold its sky, literally. This is the government of Pingyin Coun...
Public Lands – PERC

Setting the Record Straight on PERC’s Support for Public Lands - Finding common ground to advance conservation The post Setting the Record Straight on PERC’s Support for Public Lands appeared first on PERC.
JoNova

Bankers plot ways to get paid carbon credits for emissions they might have emitted, but didn’t - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-03/bankers-to-start-including-counterfactuals-in-carbon-accounting By Jo Nova What other industry gets ...
The Daily Sceptic

What’s the Difference Between Scepticism and Cynicism? - What's the difference between scepticism and cynicism? Cynicism is especially necessary for assessing politics, says Prof James Alexander, as it sits bel...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

The 100 Best Recordings of 2024 (Part 2 of 2) - All genres, all styles, all geographies
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Biden’s son was a grifter douchebag but deserved his Dad’s pardon - Top House Democrat calls on Biden to pardon ‘working-class Americans’ The top Democrat in the US House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, has called on J...
Greater Auckland

Kirikiriroa Rising - This post is essentially an update on a very similar one I wrote seven years ago. Hamilton: City of the Future, the intervening years have confirmed thos...
Curbed - All

All of the Real-Estate Operators Trump Is Bringing to Washington - Trump’s appointees include in-law Charles Kushner, Steve Witkoff, and other execs who have potential conflicts of interest in their new roles.
Real Clear Energy

Oil Prices Edge Up Ahead of Imminent OPEC+ Decision - Arunima Kumar, Reuters
Sustain What

Seeking Clarity on the Methane Surge, Sources (Not Where You'd Think) and Solutions - Join a live Sustain What discussion Friday, December 6, at 1 pm Eastern
Energy Transition Absurdities

Talking Politics Podcast, 12.4.2024: Election Review - In this episode of the Talking Politics Podcast, David Blackmon and Stu Turley join America’s History Teacher, Larry Schweikart, to review the 2024 electio...
Freethink Media

🌎 Kessler time bomb - This expert gives it 50-100 years — then boom.
Why Evolution Is True

Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ blasphemy - Today’s Jesus and Mo strip, called “cursed,: came with the note, “It’s Tahir Ali MP.” The link goes to Mr. Ali calling for blasphemy laws protecting all re...
The Breakthrough Journal

These Organizations Oppose Nuclear for Unclear Reasons - A List to Help You Prioritize Your Year-End Charitable Giving
Official Blog

Toronto’s First Post Office — Geocache of the Week - Letterbox Hybrid GC7HT4Z by yellow.warbler Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 1 Location: Ontario, Canada N 43° 39.111′ W 079° 22.221′ 💌 We just got a letter! We ju...
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Three Big Ideas #12 - *Three Big Ideas* is our weekly roundup of ideas (and our takes on them) in entrepreneurship, innovation, science and technology, handpicked by the team....
Living Resources Center

Who Decides What’s an “Unfathomable Sum”? Low IQ Delaware Communists? - Newsmax reports: A Delaware judge moved Monday to confirm its confiscation of Elon Musk’s wealth that he created at Tesla — denying him a compensation pa...
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

American Fertility Still Runs in Families - And the pattern is getting stronger.
ArchDaily

Veil House / if studio - Feeling the Concept (Light and Form) - In this architectural creation, form and light converge in a dance, where materiality transforms into poetry etche...
Regan's Substack

Men don't need to prove they're Men - Why a women's category in sports requires discrimination
Institute for Energy Research

California to Extend EV Tax Credits if Trump Does Away with Them - California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the state plans to offer up to $7,500 in tax credits to eligible residents… The post California to Extend...
Gus Van Horn

A Catalog of (Recent) UN Atrocities - At *Jewish World Review* is a long-overdue call to dismantle the United Nations, by Melanie Phillips. The most outstanding point of this article behind thi...
Splitting Headache

Authenticity is for Hipsters[38 Before 38] - The search for an authentic experience makes inauthentic. Also bring back hipster as an insult.
Interintellect

New Anna Gát reading group: Tocqueville's Democracy in America, starts in January - Sign up for the waiting list.
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Why Ukrainian Soldiers Are Deserting - A November 29 article in the Los Angeles Times stated that the Ukrainian military is facing a big problem with desertions: Desertion is starving the Ukra...
SAVVY STREET

Transcript: 2024 Presidential Election Episode III—Donald Trump: The Next Four Years - A politically savvy panel looks at what's in store for Donald Trump's second term. The post Transcript: 2024 Presidential Election Episode III—Donald Tr...
Skeptic

Why I Am No Longer Woke - The woke vision of human nature as a blank slate is ultimately why it is a flawed ideological and failed political movement, Part I
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (4 December 2024) - Continental preparedness, global food security, and learning from crisis – and a new opportunity
Maximum Progress

Anti-car Urbanists Should Be More Pro-Market - Simply deferring to market incentives would improve urban infrastructure and design.
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

Live Around the Planet: Wednesday, December 4th - Steyn fields questions from listeners around the planet...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Why Are BBC Verify Spreading Disinformation About Methane? - By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Kolk Some UK social media users have been pouring milk down their sinks and toilets in protest at the trial of a new feed add...
Energy in Depth

Key Questions to Consider As the House Dives Deeper Into the LNG Pause - Wednesday’s House Oversight and Accountability hearing will take a closer look at the motivations behind the Biden administration’s LNG pause and will li...
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

Bonhoeffer, Debanking, and Deregulatory Lessons from Argentina - “We just can't live in this world," entrepreneur Marc Andreessen told Joe Rogan.
Statecraft

How Bureaucracy is Breaking Government - "These laws create constituencies that thrive on them."
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 579 How bad is Russia's inflation? The history of the slurpee & junk playgrounds. - Great links, images and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Social Media is Disproportionately Hurting Girls - Parents Need to Have These Conversations with Their Daughters
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Why Are UK Electricity Prices So High? - By Paul Homewood . As we are well aware, the UK has some of the highest electricity prices in the world. It is commonly claimed that the rapid price rise i...
Flashbak

New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story - For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I...
The Roots of Liberty

Outside and In - There's an old gag that notes there are two types of people in the world: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.
Paul Wells

A woke-up call for Democrats - Musa Al-Gharbi on his dynamite new(-ish) book, We Have Never Been Woke
Law & Liberty

Reagan Resurgent? - Commentary on America’s 40th president often misses how the Gipper blended principles and pragmatism for a truly conservative statesmanship.
Sinification

Why China's Great Firewall Should Be Dismantled According to Wang Wen - "The majority of Chinese citizens has developed basic immunity against the infiltration of Western ideologies."
Existential Crunch

December 2024 Updates - Making sure this living literature review is actually alive
Quotulatiousness

Facing the Sphinx - Andrew Doyle provides a bit of historical context for the question currently convulsing Britain’s supreme court: It was known as the sphinx: a terrifying h...
Tim Worstall

Err, yes - There can, however, be no believer in democratic government who can take any comfort from what happened. Support for democracy is hardly in a good place ...
Hoover institution Commentary

The Bitter Irony Of The Attack On US Steel - On December 2, President-elect Donald Trump wrote: I am totally against the once great and powerful U.S. Steel being bought by a foreign company, in this c...
Mises Institute Blog

Hartung: Can Trump Still Be a Peace President? -
Mises Wire

Hartung: Can Trump Still Be a Peace President? -
The Whakataki Times

TVNZ Certain That Cutting Popular Presenters Will Make People Want To Watch TV Again - ROAD TO RUIN. The brains trust at TVNZ have once again made the opposite of a good decision. The post TVNZ Certain That Cutting Popular Presenters Will ...
The Tracinski Letter

Scenes from the Imperial Court - In the past few weeks a variety of businessmen and media types have dutifully trooped to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate to court his influence.
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

The Polly Toynbee problem explained - Even, the Polly Toynbee problem explained in her own words: The mantra for a long time was that wealth taxes don’t work. But that can no longer be the an...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

We Can’t Mandate Our Way to a Just Energy Evolution - A sober appreciation for the tradeoffs implicit in far-flung net-zero goals is desperately needed. If a just energy evolution is to occur, it won’t be a re...
Croaking Cassandra

Orr on Q&A – Part II - My post this morning was based on Adrian Orr’s Q&A interview as found on TVNZ+. However, it turns out that that wasn’t the full interview which (thanks to ...
Down to Earth Kiwi

Holiday Reading Advice for Finance Minister Willis. Go buy a book on "Expansionary Fiscal Contractions". - This week at a Select Committee Hearing the Finance Minister was asked whether she knew of any evidence that fiscal consolidations could...
Theatreview

Comments posted to review of Invisible: - Comments posted to review of Invisible:Sarah Barham December 1st, 2024And in an ironic twist, this reviewer misrepresented and trivialised these women’s tr...
New Zealand Arts Review

Dorothy’s trip to the Wonderful land of Oz - John Daly-Peoples John Daly-Peoples Destination Sydney recently manged a unique promotion which has highlighted Sydney as a cultural destination and the a...
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Soulscape 20, Art Inspires Our Transformation - From My Upcoming Book: Soulscape – The Role of Art in Our Lives
Objective Standard Institute

Martin Hooss: Virtues as Spiritual Currencies - Is there a market for love? If yes, where do the supply and demand meet each other? The post Martin Hooss: Virtues as Spiritual Currencies appeared first...
Retraction Watch

Wiley medical journal retracts dozens of papers for manipulated peer review, with more to come - International Wound Journal, a Wiley title, has retracted 27 papers since June with notices mentioning “manipulated” or “compromised” peer review. “A comp...
A Halfling's View

The Doctrine of Discovery - Part 4 - The Doctrine of Discovery as a Manifestation of Critical Theory
Journal of Free Black Thought

EVENT: Censorship in the Sciences - Register for the conference at the University of Southern California, Jan. 10-12, 2025
A Havenstein Moment.

All roads lead to inflation - And nobody’s protected from inflation.
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Amazon blocks online reviews of Angela Merkel's memoir after readers submit a raft of harsh political critique and one-star ratings - As you might have heard, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has finally published her political memoire.
History Reclaimed

Part1: The Story of Vishnu Raghavan, and his review of Kwame Nkrumah: Visions of Liberation - We print below the critical review by Vishnu Raghavan of a recent biography of the Ghanaian leader, Kwame Nkrumah. It is introduced by Professor Bruce Gill...
John D. Cook

Efficiently transferring to a much higher orbit - The most efficient maneuver for transferring from one circular orbit to another circular orbit of roughly the same size is the Hohmann transfer orbit. It...
Conflicted

Climate Cartel? - Texas et al v BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard
Science For Everyone

Have lab meetings just for fun - and do other stuff, with the purpose of being together
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

How To Elect a Trans Congresswoman - Representatives Sarah/Tim McBride (she/her) and Seth Moulton are symbols of the insane and sane paths forward for the DNC - open letter to Seth at the end
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

"A Testament to the Human Spirit" - Jesse Malin's Triumphant Return to the Stage
ChinaTalk

Biden’s Final Export Control Salvo Misfires - Of scalpels and Swiss cheese. "The dumbest thing you could do is compromise and build your house in the middle of the street"
Changing Lanes

Progress and Public Transit, Part Four: Vehicle Automation - That which can be automated, should be
The New York Review of Books

A Cowboy in Winter - Among the most memorable interactions I’ve ever had with artists occurred during a trip I made to New Mexico in August 1992 to interview Susan Rothenberg f...
Anthony B. Bradley

Francis Schaeffer’s Warning: The Idols of Personal Peace, Affluence, and Expressive Individualism in Professional Class Christianity - Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.
Institute for Progress

IFP — Giving Tuesday and November 2024 Update - We hope you all had a restful Thanksgiving break.
Institute of Economic Affairs

The NHS remains a laggard despite record levels of funding - Chancellor Reeves tries to justify new taxes on farmers and others by insisting they will fund the NHS. So, once … Continue reading "The NHS remains a la...
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for November, 2024: +0.64 deg. C - Metop-C Satellite Added to Our Processing With this update, we have added Metop-C to our processing, so along with Metop-B we are back to having two satell...
Doomberg

Power Down Blunder - Australians are asked to forego their dishwashers for the sake of the grid.
The Cobden Centre

Steve Baker Book Review of “The Age of Debt Bubbles” - “This extraordinary book should be read and understood by every politician and economist, every financial sector participant and every concerned member of ...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

SLIPKNOT ANNOUNCE 2025 HEADLINE SHOWS. SET TO PERFORM EXCLUSIVELY IN ADELAIDE AND AUCKLAND NEXT MARCH - [image: Slipknot] After months of relentless chaos and sold-out arenas, SLIPKNOT has announced two exclusive headline sideshows next year on the heels o...
Israel Institute of NZ

The Jewish Nakba - November 30 marked the commemoration of the exodus of Jews from Arab countries, one of the larger humanitarian crises of the 20th century – all the more tr...
Real Clear Energy: Video

Scientists Have a Solution to Climate Catastrophe, But You Can't Have It - Humans have repeatedly ignored warnings about carbon pollution, so scientists have created a self-sustaining spaceship to give humanity a fresh start. Fill...
Cremieux Recueil

"You Couldn't Replicate Our Study Because You're Ugly" - Attractiveness rating studies shouldn't be taken too seriously
Doug Casey's International Man

The Looming Debt Crisis: Is America Following the Path of Collapsed Empires? - Discover how excessive debt has historically toppled great empires and why the US may be following the same dangerous path today. The post The Looming De...
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.
Stats Chat

United Rugby Championship Predictions for Week 8 - Team Ratings for Week 8 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ra...
Glenn’s Substack

Welcome to the Party, Pal (cont'd) - Nate Silver discovers a problem with our expert class.
The Library of Celaeno

The Ghosts of Autumn - A very short story
Building the Builders

Fantastic Builders and Where to Find Them, 5th Installment - A nugget of wisdom from my walk with Sahil Lavingia
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

Partisan Professors - Politicization of the American University, Part 2
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

WITH CHINA IN THE REARVIEW - India Charts a Strategic Roadmap for Global Diplomacy and Development
Sawahil

Syria's Abu Muhammad al-Julani - Some Background and Resources - The leader of the current offensive in Syria is dynamic and pragmatic, but has a bloody past.
Principled Perspectives

More on Harris’s Wealth Tax Scheme - QUORA: ‘Do Harris voters know she wants to tax unrealized capital meaning if you own your house and the value goes up you have to pay taxes on the increa...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

The Economic & Geopolitical History of Rwanda Part 1: How Colonialists turned a Caste System into a Race - A tale of a King who sold his sovereignty to avoid a coup
bad cattitude

above the law - big government will never be moral government
Kunstler

The Blob Has a Migraine - "It's a beautiful thing to watch the Biden family destroy the Democrat Party." — @Mazemoore on "X"
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
Eating Policy

The DOGE strategy is a cop-out - Elon and Vivek's workforce plans would backfire terribly. There's a welcome alternative.
GeekPress

Fano And Huffman - *A fun historical tidbit* on information theory. In 1951, Robert M. Fano, a professor at MIT, assigned his information theory students a deceptively simp...
The Antiplanner

Living the Dream in Someone’s Spare Bedroom - Urban journalist Henry Grabar thinks he has found “one solution to America’s housing crisis”: convincing boomers to rent out their spare bedrooms to Gen-Ze...
Manhattan Contrarian

Get Rid Of Wray Immediately - * When a new President comes into office, there is quite properly a changing of the guard. * The people have voted for new policies. The norm is that all t...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

No courage to remedy gross injustice - Yet a grandiloquent pronouncement is a hard and courageous act
Kiwipolitico

Media Link: “A View from Afar” on the lame duck window of opportunity. - In the last episode of this year Selwyn Manning and I discuss the rebel assault on Aleppo in Syria and tit-for-tat missile exchanges between Russia and Ukr...
Africa-Israel Weekly

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Louis Farrakhan, & Black Apologists for Islamic Slavery & Genocide in Africa - Ta-Nehisi Coates joins the Black4Palestine Deception, Part 2
Virginia Postrel

The Ideology Shuffle: Growth vs. Green - One in a series of posts on the evolution of The Future and Its Enemies, featuring the original Washington Post article on stasis vs. dynamism.
Schiffradio.com

Bye-Bye, What Americans Buy – Ep 995 - Peter Schiff discusses Black Friday's origin, American consumerism, the nation's heavy reliance on imports, and Trump's economic policies. The post Bye-B...
Thinking Directions

Thoughts on Keeping the Holidays Happy - It’s a bromide that the holiday season can be stressful. There are plenty of reasons for that. Likely you have more social engagements than usual, so you...
PM of NZ

Oh dear. Harden up! - *allegations made against him of sexually inappropriate conduct came from a “handful of middle-class women of a certain age” * The cancellation of Gregg ...
Conspicuous Cognition

What is misinformation, anyway? - Misinformation research aims to transcend politics in favour of objective scientific analysis. The broader its definition of the term “misinformation”, the...
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Beth Hart: You Still Got Me (digital outlets) - When the big voiced blues-rock belter Beth Hart came to this country in 2000 on a promotional tour, we pushed her LA Song to the top of our charts, her f...
The Future of Being Human

Geoengineering, early warnings, and a dash of Victorian science - A recent article on geoengineering in the New York Times sent me back to my aerosol roots – and research that dates back to Victorian times
Can't Get Much Higher

More Than Santa Baby: A Conversation with Philip Springer - For most people, writing a Christmas classic would define their career. For Philip Springer, it's just a small piece to the puzzle
Yascha Mounk

Help Me Understand… Whether Wokeness Is the Fault of Moderates or Radicals - The third installment of the occasional feature in which I pose to all of you a question to which I genuinely want to learn the answer.
misfits' architecture

Revisionist History - For most of 1985-1995 I was not in love with architecture. That love had been mostly cerebral and unrequited anyway, so it was more of a switching-off than...
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...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

David Seymour's Challenge Accepted - Please tell him - he is ignoriing me! - After my insightful opinion piece in the NZH on Wednesday
The China Space Monitor

Scenes from Zhuhai - Plus an Omani satellite launch 🇴🇲, a Sino-Russian cubesat 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 and free BeiDou SMS until end of the year 🛰️
Construction Physics

Reading List for 11/30/24 - This week on the reading list: high-rise construction, mild-hybrids, wind power difficulties, offshore drilling, and more.
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...
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

Sabre-Rattling. - *Putin’s Thunderbolts: What message was the devastating arrival of the Russian Federation’s nuclear-defanged MIRVs supposed to send? And how should the go...
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...
Conversable Economist

Designing an Industry Subsidy: Repayable Advances? - If government is considering an industrial policy to subsidize a certain industry (for example, as the US is subsidizing domestic semiconductor manufactu...
The Works in Progress Newsletter

History is in the making - It's technology and ideas, not politics, that change our lives the most. History should reflect that.
Ideas Beyond Borders

The Citizenry’s Black Friday Fund Supports Education for Afghan Women and Girls - Today only, all profits from purchases made at The Citizenry go to IBB's underground schools program. Every $120 you spend funds a girl's year of school.
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.
Harry’s Substack

Not Left, Not Right . . . Try Up - The individualist alternative
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.
Reason for Living

Deeper Dive: Arbitrary Dreams and Fantasies - In this deeper dive, I explore the ways in which arbitrary dreams and fantasies can impair our ability to enjoy life and pursue rational goals.
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...
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 75) - Untimely Thoughts on a World in Transition
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
The Intrinsic Perspective

I said no to $20,000 because writers must take a moral stand on AI - And yet so many others said yes
Fictionosophy

The Student Conductor by Robert Ford - The Student Conductor is a touching, bittersweet story of a man learning how to pursue the things he loves—and what could stop him from doing so.
Toppermost

Good Morning - Keeping the spirit of lo-fi experimental bedroom pop of the 1990s alive, Australian duo Good Morning show the influence of pioneers like Smog and Sebadoh...
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...
The Roots of Progress

Progress Conference reflections and 2025 plans (we’re hiring!) - We're recruiting an in-house Event Manager to host more great events
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

The National Futurist Manifesto - We need a National Futurism
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: Surprised by Joy, by C.S. Lewis - Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, C. S. Lewis (1955; HarperOne, 2017).
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

The Warlord's Reading List, by Anarchonomicon - The Guide to Warfare in the 21st Century for Ghetto Operators, Regime Transition Teams, and Cartel General Staff
Eat More Electrons

Who’s against transparent clean energy? - The Adani solar bribery scandal unwittingly makes the case for contract disclosure
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Simple Steps to Reform the Employment-Based Green Card and Boost Merit-Based Immigration - Only 48 Percent of Employment-Based Green Cards Went to Workers in 2023
What's New Under the Sun

Training Scientists in Low and Middle Income Countries - The evidence is thing but it probably works
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: Life Is Too Short To Learn German - Mark Twain? Oscar Wilde? Thomas Love Peacock? Algernon Falconer? Richard Porson? Question for Quote Investigator: The complexities of the German language i...
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Big Pharma Millions Behind Attacks On Trump’s FDA Nominee - The Senate should confirm Marty Makary, a highly qualified doctor and powerful advocate of oversight
Houston Strategies

HCTRA: from model agency to delay, divert and do nearly nothing - This week we have one of Oscar Slotboom's best guest posts to date, although sadly with bad news about the state of HCTRA, which used to be one of the crow...
Happy Future

You Are Not Worried Enough About Nuclear Proliferation - This topic is a far cry from my typical interests and experiences.
One Useful Thing

Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting - Don't make this hard
The Logical Place

’You Can’t Stop Progress’ - The notion of inevitable progress assumes that human society will continuously advance in a linear, upward trajectory toward better conditions, greater kno...
Wright in Racine

Remembering Ann MacGregor - Photos and text © Mark Hertzberg (2024) Ann MacGregor one of Mason City, Iowa’s heroes in helping save Frank Lloyd Wright’s last surviving hotel, the Park ...
Asymmetric Information

Previewing the next issue of NZEP, the research journal of the NZAE🍋 - Volume 58 Issue 3 covers monetary policy, fiscal and labour policies, and the electricity sector
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 ...
Roots of Progress

Progress Conference Reflections – and 2025 Plans (We’re Hiring!) - Tl;dr: It’s been a month since the first annual Progress Conference brought together well over 200 thinkers, builders, policy makers, storytellers, and s...
HardmoneyJim

Post-election Market Update - Trump Trade or Trump Bump?
Free Range Kids

Free-Range Kids, Brittany Patterson, and Arresting Moms Whose Kids Take a Walk - My thoughts on the Brittany Patterson case, which I was the first to report. (I’ve been having trouble with my FRK blog distribution lately. Sorry for th...
Science+Story

Be the Right Kind of Wrong - Why Learning from Your Mistakes Publicly Enhances Your Expert Status
Libertarian Land

Should States Run Lotteries? - For most goods and services, governments leave the production, distribution, sale, and consumption decisions to private individuals or groups.
Journal of Free Black Moms

Christmas Picture Book Guide for Diverse Selections Without Ideology - I've done the research so you don't have to
round houses

Off-beat and off grid - Speaking of Airform-like houses — this off-grid concrete dome in Rainier, Washington, also took the same basic approach to building a circular dwelling, sp...
thesecondrenaissance

The Road to Moral Grayness - In last week’s short, I pointed out that, tragically, myriad people do not actualize their highest potential.
The Prophet of Causation

The Self-Writing Slate - Chapter 5
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Why I strongly support Chris Wright for Secretary of Energy - An in-depth interview I did about Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright, who was recently nominated for Secretary of Energy.
Lindsay Mitchell

Sharp departure in child poverty approach - Released today, the government's new *Child and Youth Strategy* might, at first glance, look like a rehash of Jacinda Ardern's child poverty reduction pl...
Open Borders: The Case

Open Borders Manifesto, Reloaded - When I first started advocating for open borders back in 2005 or 2006, and then in my 2010 book Principles of a Free Society, I was a bit starry-eyed. I wa...
Asimov’s Addendum

What Auto Safety Teaches Us About AI Safety - “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.” - John Gall, Systemantics
The New Era

President Elect Ponzi - Whatever the political hue, the asset managers are pulling the strings
Too Clever By Half

Super Tech Fun Pak Too - *MORE CODE-BASED HACKS* [image: A cartoon light grey computer with a widescreen and opened browsers with green backgrounds with multiple streaming and so...
Private Lands – PERC

America’s First Virtual Fence Conservation Fund - Accepting applicants for innovative conservation projects The post America’s First Virtual Fence Conservation Fund appeared first on PERC.
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.
Boom (UK)

Scotland is the South Korea of the UK - Farewell to the Highlands
The Jolly Libertarian

Isaiah Berlin's Value-Pluralism - *Isaiah Berlin*The opening essay of The Isaiah Berlin collection, *The Crooked Timber of Humanity*, is an autobiographical sketch called "The Pursuit of ...
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...
Note to Noteworthy

How Slow Thinking Leads to Fast Results - My sales experience taught me that slowing down and thinking is the path to fast results.
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
HBL

The meaning of the Trump victory – Some positives - [image: Author photo] Unfortunately, my prediction of a Trump victory was correct. I can’t predict what a Trump administration will do. Neither can Dona...
An Africanist Perspective

The World Bank and other IFIs should get serious about climate adaptation in low-income countries - Instead of merely externalizing high-income countries’ policy priorities (especially mitigation), focus should be on promoting energy access for rapid grow...
Outliving Iran

Souls Breathing Through Screens - How we managed to survive under a totalitarian state
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...
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

Us Against ‘Those People’ - How shady political operatives use unwanted identities to manipulate and control their supporters.
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
Macroscience

Metascience 101 - EP9: "How to Get Involved" - IN THIS EPISODE: Professor Heidi Williams, Professor Paul Niehaus, and Matt Clancy walk through academic, non-profit and private sector paths to research, ...
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
The Upheaval

Machine Antihumanism and the Inversion of Family Law - An essay by Jeff Shafer
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...
Wildlife – PERC

The Creation and Extent of America’s First Environmental Agencies - An academic paper exploring why administrative agencies expand and shrink. The post The Creation and Extent of America’s First Environmental Agencies ap...
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...
Austin Vernon's Substack

Human Driving Increases Transportation Cost 10x - Why ground transportation still has a lot of legs.
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...
M.M.E.F. News

MMEF Events for 2025 and Your Voices Please - *Kia Ora Koutou MMEF Supporters,* What an eventful 2024! The AMI 3-6 Diploma tauira graduated in August, and their joy was palpable! Completing an ...
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
Ruxandra’s Substack

I should have been braver - On the Letby case and its flaws. And why I should have spoken publicly more, earlier.
Let Grow

Kristen Bell & Dax Shepard Let Their Kids “Free-Range” for 7 Hours! - [image: Kristen Hands Up] Kristen Bell and hubby Dax Shepard went to Copenhagen and let their kids "Free-Range" -- yep, that's the term Kristen uses -- for...
Gross Output

Slowing Gross Output Confirms Fed’s Need to Cut Rates - “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...
Johnny Grey Studios

FOOD FESTIVAL AFTERMATH. - Glamour on the Unfitted Kitchen Stage. Still coming down off the high of the first South Downs Food Festival… I can’t stop thinking about...
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

The Search for Markets to Help Manage California’s Groundwater - What role have groundwater market actually played in implementing the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act? The post The Search for Markets to Help Ma...
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...
Stu-Topia

A Fallacy Called ‘Privilege, or It Didn’t Happen’ - Stuart K. Hayashi Ten years ago, if on social media you talked about a strange event that happened to you, often someone would quip, “Show pictures or it d...
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...
Tribes – PERC

Economic Potential of Wind and Solar in American Indian Communities - This academic paper combines data on wind and solar endowments, reservation characteristics, and utility-scale renewable energy projects to offer three i...
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
BloodhoundBlog

RIP Geno Petro, a hound at the head of the pack. - Geno Petro has passed away. He was one of the best writers to work with us here over the years – and I have the proof. Cura ut valeas, frater. Requiescat i...
Drinks and Drinking

Stirred Cucumber Drinks - This week’s Robb Report article was about a cocktail called the Archangel. You can read it here if you like, but briefly summarized: the Archangel is a neo...
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...
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Be a Filmmaker For Liberty: Training and Funding Are Available - Ever thought about becoming a filmmaker to promote libertarian ideas? It’s never been easier. Two organizations will help you learn the craft, find fundi...
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

The history of Hawke’s Bay – third edition - My long-standing history of Hawke’s Bay is out this month in new edition. It’s been in print and selling steadily since 2017. This new edition is in full c...
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
Butterpaper

Vault 2014: Gaza - cities under siege and under attack - Originally published in 2014. All eyes should be on Gaza at the moment, but understandably many are focused on unfolding events in the damp fields of Eas...
from FEE

Why We're Not Supposed to Talk about Climate-Related Deaths - Disaster mortality seems to be a perfectly useful metric for understanding climate change—when the numbers tell the right story.
Thoughts from 40° South

Reflections on October 7th - I have been intending to write down my thoughts on the massacre of Israelis by Hamas terrorists and Gaza civilians on October 7th, 2023, ever since it ha...
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...
The Organon Architecture Blog

How to begin creating Organic Architecture ... - *'House for Betta,' 1988, by architect James Schildroth* *Organic architecture is not about assembling boxes and coating them with candy floss. For tha...
Patrick T. Brown, PhD

The Social Feedback Loop that Puts Blinders on Climate Science -
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...
Fisheries – PERC

Free Markets and the Environment - A podcast exploring PERC's unique approach to conservation. The post Free Markets and the Environment appeared first on PERC.
positive check

New location - The EHES blog Positive Check has moved and can be found on the EHES website: *https://ehes.org/category/blog/*
Dominic Frisby

Exclusive Gold-Infused Comedy Show: Don't Miss Out - Laugh and learn about gold with Dominic Frisby! Extra London dates on Feb 14th and 15th. Get your tickets now. #ComedyGold
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
Professor Werner

Washington’s “development economics” is actually designed to prevent development - Published in China by Guancha.cn newspaper on 7 September 2023 at: https://www.guancha.cn/Werner/2023_09_07_707650_3.shtml
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 ...
Mencken's Ghost

Announcement: New Substack Publication - I have started a new Substack Publication. Details:
Cities Matter

Auckland at a Turning Point 2: Marking Down the Labour Market - *Reality Bites* For some years I have been calling out the over-exuberant growth expectations behind Auckland’s planning. I have also argued that creat...
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

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Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Abbot and Costello were right

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