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Mises Institute Blog

How the Jacksonians Caused America’s Industrial Revolution - America’s industrial revolution didn’t just happen. It came about because of the free market initiatives that came from the Andrew Jackson presidency.
The Inquiring Mind

Lou Grant: #12 – S01E12 | Takeover | Ed Asner, Robert Walden, Linda Kelsey, Jack Bannon, Mason Adams, Nancy Marchand - Link below https://youtu.be/dxGpuJqpYfM?si=WojCWSfojFXYrAxH
Futurism

Wall Street Has a Major Problem With AI Data Centers - "The people who are trying to block or protest these things are much more well educated than they were before." The post Wall Street Has a Major Problem ...
Mises Wire

How the Jacksonians Caused America’s Industrial Revolution - America’s industrial revolution didn’t just happen. It came about because of the free market initiatives that came from the Andrew Jackson presidency.
The Footy Almanac

Round 3 – St Kilda v Brisbane: “Ahh Well.” …… till next time - Ian Wilson went to Marvel Stadium with a positive outlook for his Saints, but in the end it was the physical presence and connectivity of the Lions that bu...
Yascha Mounk

David Autor on the Scars That Money Can’t Heal - Yascha Mounk and David Autor explore why you can’t compensate workers for lost dignity with a check—and what that means for future economic shocks.
The Free Press

She Was Offered Euthanasia. She Said ‘No Thanks!’ - The woman who declined euthanasia. In defense of the spring breaker who’s never heard of the ayatollah. Two drinks with Emily Austin. Sascha Seinfeld on th...
Watts Up With That?

Record Rainfall In Worcestershire? - Is British weather really getting wetter as they claim. Or is it just a figment of their computer’s imagination?
The Daily Sceptic

The Government’s “Anti-Muslim Hostility” Definition is Bad News for Sikhs - The Government's definition of "anti-Muslim hostility" is bad news for free speech, but it's also bad news for Sikhs, who are left with little choice but...
Quotulatiousness

Noelia Castillo Ramos, RIP - Celina provides the background information you certainly won’t get from skimming the mainstream media’s coverage of the death of twenty-five year old Noeli...
Tim Worstall

What Would Spud Do? - Second, we need to rethink the role of markets in essential goods. Pricing mechanisms that ration access based on ability to pay are not appropriate for ...
Marginal Revolution

Republican Congressional deference to Trump is in fact democratic - That does not mean it is good! From Jeffrey M. Stonecash: Congress is portrayed as compliant with President Donald J. Trump’s agenda because he is intim...
Breaking Views

Victor Davis Hanson: Week 3 - What’s Next In Iran? - By all traditional methodology and criteria, Iran is now inert: naval and air forces eviscerated, missile defenses offline, and an army rendered largely us...
Brash & Mitchell

LINDSAY MITCHELL: Hipkins underperforming and underwhelming - Opposition leader Chris Hipkins does a regular slot with host Nick Mills on the Wellington NewstalkZB morning show. On Wednesday, much of the half hour wa...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

BlackRock CEO Abandons Climate Delusion for Investor Needs - After years of climate-driven experimentation – forced by deluded or dishonest politicians and business titans – the failures became too many and too conse...
The Integrity Institute

Democracy Briefing: A Country losing faith - New Zealand’s annual trust survey is out.
Techdirt

Hey, Game Devs: The ‘Placeholder Assets’ Excuse For Using AI Is Running Really Thin - We’ve been talking a lot of about the use of artificial intelligence lately, for obvious reasons. Many of those conversations have revolved around the vide...
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Aroint – begone; go away; leave me alone.
ArchDaily

SEOUL FRAME by HE:ARTS / RVMN - K-Beauty continues to grow, with increasing global and domestic interest. In particular, visitors to Korea now engage with everyday beauty experiences—su...
Kiwipolitico

Podcast Alert: “A View from Afar” returns on Monday March 30. - Selwyn Manning and I will be discussing the how’s and whys of the illegal Israeli/US war of aggression against Iran but with a different angle than most be...
SkyscraperCity Forum

TUZLA | Тузла - SPO TOWER-TCT; -2 + S + P + 21 - Tehnograd-Company d.o.o. , uskoro započinje realizaciju svog najnovijeg projekta ” Tehnograd-Company TOWER-TCT” na atraktivnoj lokaciji na Sjenjaku u Tuzli...
Skeptic

The Peptide Craze: Biohacking and Human Guinea Pigs - William Meller, MD, treats a man in anaphylaxis who was self-injecting peptides ordered online. With RFK Jr. opening regulatory floodgates, Dr. Meller expo...
UnHerd

War is being hypernormalized - America is resigned to conflict
Lindsay Mitchell

Hipkins under-performing and underwhelming - Opposition leader Chris Hipkins does a regular slot with host Nick Mills on the Wellington *NewstalkZB* morning show. On Wednesday, much of the half hour...
Point of Order

Another academic freedom case - Academic freedom has become a major concern at universities across the English-speaking world in recent years. Speakers have been disinvited, papers retrac...
The Logical Place

The Morality of Charging Interest - Few economic practices have attracted as much moral suspicion as charging interest on loans. The issue is ancient, persistent, and revealing. It forces us ...
Matua Kahurangi

Chris Hipkins caught lying again as past comments resurface - Chris Hipkins is once again facing questions over his credibility, after claiming this week that he never advised New Zealanders to get vaccinated.
Schiffradio.com

Gold & Silver Bottom, Bitcoin Cracks as War and Oil Spike Hit Markets - Peter Schiff argues gold and silver have bottomed as war-driven oil spikes rattle stocks, bonds, and Bitcoin. The post Gold & Silver Bottom, Bitcoin Crac...
Quillette

AI Is Not About To Become Sentient - Most of today’s “artificial intelligence” is better described as artificial autocomplete than artificial mind.
No Minister

Pouring Oil on Green Shoots - For the Net Zero people Trump’s war on Iran is a gift. My glimpses of the NZ MSM are enough to see that the phrase “green shoots” has become a talking poin...
Slow Boring

The case for the “Solid B” city - America’s future is boringly functional
Michael Newberry, Artist

Lovers Jumping Painting Reveal -
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Te Kaupapa Election 26 weekend political podcast: with Labour Party MP – Arena Williams + Green MP – Kahurangi Carter - Waatea’s weekend political podcast dives into the biggest issues shaping Election 2026 Host – Matthew Tukaki with panelists Labour Party...
DGMLive

Upbeat Moments & a brand new Sunday Lunch! -
Cato at Liberty

Additional Concerns Regarding President Trump’s “Golden Dome” - The weaknesses of Israel’s missile defense systems show that building the Golden Dome would be a waste of money, time, and resources for the United States.
Reason Foundation

Californians pay high taxes and fees for second worst highway system in the nation - Given the high gas taxes and vehicle fees they pay, Californians deserve higher-quality roads and bridges. The post Californians pay high taxes and fees ...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Draft legislation aims to criminalise "sexually suggestive" photographs of fully clothed people in public because AI is scary - The Federal Republic of Germany is becoming a very stupid country.
Tim’s Substack

The Mensa Brothers Weigh in on Regime Change - While batteling through serious Comm issues like old pros
IPWatchdog Articles

PTAB Upholds Priority Win for Broad Institute in CRISPR Patent Case - On remand from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) on Thursday reaffirmed its decision tha...
Conversable Economist

Bending the Curve of Health Care Costs (At Last?) - Health care spending had been a rising share of US GDP for decades, but since about 2010, the rate of increase seemed to level out. David M. Cutler and L...
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

A week is a long time: 28 March 2026 - A NZ Politics weekly wrap-up
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Day 28: Donald "Talks Are Going Very Well" Trump -
The UnPopulist

Trump’s Corruption Palooza Scales New Heights: An Executive Watch Roundup - Our late-March selection of the president's latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law
Kiwiblog

General Debate 28 March 2026 - The post General Debate 28 March 2026 first appeared on Kiwiblog.
McFaul's World

What the U.S. and the Free World Could Learn from Ukraine on Drone Warfare - This learning and cooperation should have started years ago, but is better late than never.
Persuasion

The Third Gulf War Follows Directly From the Last Two - On the escalating logic of American action in the Middle East.
The Economic LongWave

🌊Economic Winter ❄️ - Is 2026 The Turn of the Wave?
Brownstone Institute

The Right to Health Sovereignty - The Right to Health Sovereignty by International Health Reform Project at Brownstone Institute [image: The Right to Health Sovereignty] *[This report of ...
Real Clear Energy

Inside the White House Divide on Iran - Jake Traylor, MS Now
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

A Vulnerable US Economy - The country’s public finances are on an unsustainable path; reckless private sector and commercial real estate loans have piled up; the stock market trad...
Retraction Watch

Why don’t journalists circle back to cover retractions? A conversation with Malgorzata Iwaniec-Thompson - In a paper published last month in the Journal of Documentation, a team of researchers in journalism, social science and data explore how and why journalis...
The New York Review of Books

Syphoning Morale - Soon after the outbreak of war in Iran, as America was blitzing the country from a distance with a fusillade of bombs and missiles, Secretary of War Pete H...
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

to feel and to fail - that's the artist's vocation for ya
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Premium: How Much Of The AI Bubble Is Real? - I’m turning 40 in a month or so, and at 40 years young, I’m old enough to remember as far back as December 11 2025, *when Disney and OpenAI* “reached an ...
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

Taking Comfort from the 1970s - The Occasional Saturday Satire
The Double Standard

Open Mike 28/03/2026 - Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to th...
The Curmudgeon

Economic Paralysis - Team Starmer has continued the Conservatives' programme of cutbacks to global healthcare initiatives, because more money is needed for wog-bombing and beca...
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Coming Soon—The Mother Of All Debt Explosions, Part 3 - Click on Title to Read
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Record Rainfall In Worcestershire? - By Paul Homewood According to the Met Office, Worcestershire has just had its wettest February on record: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-...
The Realization of Wholeness

Book Update - It's mostly finished
John D. Cook

An AI Odyssey, Part 3: Lost Needle in the Haystack - While shopping on a major e-commerce site, I wanted to get an answer to an obscure question about a certain product. Not finding the answer immediately o...
Gale Winds

McDonald's Abundance - Get 32.6 percent more "I'm Lovin' It" today compared to 1958.
Why Evolution Is True

Indigenous “ways of knowing” invade Canadian science classes - I’ve spent a lot of time pushed many electrons going after the fallacy in New Zealand that indigenous “ways of knowing”—in this case from the Māori—are jus...
The Daily Economy

The Dark Legacy of Ehrlich’s ‘Population Bomb’ -
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Escaping the Ogallala trap - There is a closing window to stop Waymos from creating omnigridlock.
Astral Codex Ten

A Buddhist Sun Miracle? - ...
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Bet On It Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 7 - *Summary*In this chapter, Rothbard makes the case for the abolition of public schooling. While he somewhat surprisingly views Friedman’s voucher system...
JoNova

Japan, Korea, India, Europe, suddenly turn to coal to save them from the Iranian energy crisis - … by Jo Nova The Iranian oil and gas crisis is causing a sudden realignment of national energy policy with reality. Spare a thought for the poor Ecowor...
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Coming Soon—The Mother Of All Debt Explosions, Part 3 - In Part 2 we noted that owing to OBBBA and all the reckless fiscal policies which had gone before, the Federal budget has become a Fiscal Doomsday Machin...
Institute for Energy Research

The Terms for Ending the Iran Conflict - The United States, in its 15-point peace plan, demands an end to Iran’s nuclear program and the Strait of Hormuz… The post The Terms for Ending the Iran ...
Middle East Uncovered

The Damascus Alcohol Decree Was Never Just About Drinking - Framed as regulation, Decision No. 311 has instead drawn attention to a pattern of administrative pressure and ideological enforcement. The reaction highli...
Energy Transition Absurdities

David Blackmon Talks Iran Conflict on NTD News - I had a detailed, wide-ranging interview on NTD News with host Don Ma related to the energy and fertilizer impacts from the Iran conflict.
Gus Van Horn

Four Neat Things - *A Friday Hodgepodge* *1*. I haven't had a library card in years, but I might get one after learning about two apps that use them for identification: Libby...
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 156 - Free Thoughts with Bowen & Twyman, Ep. 34 - Listen now | WAR
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 156 - Free Thoughts with Bowen & Twyman, Ep. 34 - Listen now | WAR
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

Criminalising Christianity - Tomorrow, Saturday, Mark Steyn on the Town, Mark's weekend music show will air at 5pm Greenwich Mean Time - which is 6pm in Western Europe and, for one mor...
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

The Death of Redemption - Speaking about Dostoevsky's "Devils" - Part 2
Libertarian Land

Per-Task Minimum Pay for Gig Workers? - In 2024, Seattle tried to raise wages for app-based workers by requiring that they receive a per-task minimum pay.
Truth on the Market

100% Guaranteed (Not a Guarantee): Putting a Price on Truth - In a seventh-season episode of The Simpsons, Bart tunes in to the Impulse Buying Network and spends $350 on an animation cel from The Itchy & Scratchy Sh...
Spiked Online

Spain is euthanising rape victims now - The post Spain is euthanising rape victims now appeared first on spiked.
Precise Thinking

Selfhood Stories #1 - "Jerimiah Blue," Spring Studio, NYC 2010
Kunstler

Cult Classics - "The people we care about most, the undocumented migrants. . . . " — Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Episode 1 - The Edge of History - Spiritual Experience Design
Notes On Liberty

Reassessing European Contact: Insights from Spanish America - by Daniella F. Bassi
Sawahil

West Africa, Horn, MENA: Links for 3/27/2026 - News and analysis from Dakar to Riyadh.
Construction Physics

The Age of the Amplifier - As we’ve noted more than a few times before, for most of the 20th century AT&T’s Bell Labs was the premier industrial research lab in the US.
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Politics as Consolation for Losers - Review of Dostoevsky's Demons, Part 2
Living Resources Center

Government-Run Children - “Teen mobs swarm downtown [Chicago] in chaotic takeover—fights erupt, cars targeted before curfew crackdown hits,” says a Fox News headline. Well, let’s ...
Doug Casey's International Man

Mind the Real Money – Why Gold and Silver are Soaring - Gold and silver’s breakout signals rising distrust in debt-fueled money printing and a weaker dollar, with Washington’s next interventions likely to inte...
Curbed - All

Imagine Living in the Chrysler Building - The developer who’s just converted the Flatiron Building to apartments is reportedly in talks to buy it; we can’t help wondering.
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 1054 The frozen housing market. Wearing Cuba down. Dead fire rekindled & Trumpian power as a source of enchantment. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Anthony B. Bradley

The Week in Ideas - Five signals that pressure is rising while the foundations of culture are quietly weakening
Anthony B. Bradley

The Week in Ideas - Five signals that pressure is rising while the foundations of culture are quietly weakening
ChinaTalk

Jen Pahlka - State Capacity for the AI Era
The Roots of Liberty

Pournelle’s Iron Law - EDITOR’S NOTE - A shorter version of this piece was published in the original Pigs and Sheep blog September 2015.
Law & Liberty

Remembering the Man, Chuck Norris - The late actor was an example of principled, courageous manliness that our elites have forgotten how to celebrate.
EconLog

The Wealth of Nations: A Classic of English Literature - *The Wealth of Nations* is a true classic of English literature. It is just not one that has ever been widely loved or popularly read. When *The Wealth o...
Doomberg

Rearguard Action - Revisiting the Korean question.
History Reclaimed

Reparations for slavery and the abuse of international institutions. - The proposed slavery reparations ICJ case is explored through legal, historical and political perspectives, highlighting challenges and wider implications ...
The Antiplanner

Top-Down Transit Planning - Mikie Sherrill, the new governor of New Jersey, has ordered New Jersey Transit to change its priorities. From now own, the top priorities of the nation’s t...
The Antiplanner

Top-Down Transit Planning - Mikie Sherrill, the new governor of New Jersey, has ordered New Jersey Transit to change its priorities. From now own, the top priorities of the nation’s t...
Hoover institution Commentary

Articles On: US Leaders, Biden Administration, Karl Marx, Trump, Southeast Asia, US Ammo Shortage, and Britain - This section collects opinion pieces from across the world commenting on the harms caused by the activities of the Chinese Communist Party and provides ins...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Cloud Seeding: A Better Way to Address Water Shortages - In the United States, cloud seeding has long been a subject of controversy. The process involves releasing small quantities of compounds such as Silver I...
American Institute of Economic Research

Cloud Seeding: A Better Way to Address Water Shortages - In the United States, cloud seeding has long been a subject of controversy. The process involves releasing small quantities of compounds such as Silver I...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: A Well-Considered Way of Living - Are we really free?
The Beauty of Things

A Person of Interest, a Person with News! - On the 3rd anniversary of my first published poem, reading great fiction and poetry on Substack, and how some people can’t get enough Aristotle. PLUS: cont...
Capitalism Magazine

The Nationally Televised Speech President Donald J. Trump Needs To Make on Iran - Here’s the speech that President Donald Trump ought to deliver in a nationally televised address.
No Right Turn

Maybe the regime isn't united on tyranny? - When the regime introduced four tyrannical bills last week, I joked that the reason for the theme was that it was one of the few things the coalition could...
The Daily Doom

Expiration Date - A poem for these times of waning sense and fading glory.
Dr Oliver Hartwich

Just the opening act - The closure of the Strait of Hormuz and global tensions signal a serious crisis affecting New Zealand's economy, prompting urgent discussions about fuel pr...
Let Grow

A “Real World” Summer Camp? - [image: Going Up Chicago Camp Map] Chicago mom Kristin Howard wanted middle school kids, including her own, to learn how to do things in the real world, li...
Ruxandra’s Substack

The End of the Materialist Left? - Is the Left on a path to reclaiming moral language?
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Qualifications Change may be needed ... - ... but the fundamentals of a good education for all NZ children seems to be well down the priority list.
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Anti-Religious “Effective Altruism” Behind AI’s Persistent And Pervasive Left-Wing Bias - Wynton Hall, author of bestselling new book, Code Red, on why large language models continue to demonize conservatives
FIRE

The quiet death of academic tenure - Academic tenure is being slowly dismantled across America, raising questions about free speech, political pressure, and higher education’s future.
Greater Auckland

Weekly Roundup 27-March-2026 - We hope everyone is doing ok after the storm. Here is a roundup of stories that caught our eye to cap off your week. This week in Greater Auckland On Mo...
A Halfling's View

Justice Should Be Seen By All - Why New Zealand's Courts Were Wrong to Abandon X
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

Four Steps to Hell - Can this really be the aesthetic vision of the 21st century?
Can't Get Much Higher

Nostalgia Isn't New - On the Gay Ninetines and revivals
Paul Wells

West coasting: Here's how the Vancouver Road Show went - A Premier, a panel, a tree whisperer and some fancy tunes. Full audio from Vancouver, with thanks to our presenting sponsor, Netflix
Israel Institute of NZ

Countering Extremism — or Funding Advocacy? Questions New Zealand Needs to Answer - Official Information Act material indicates that $30,000 from the Ethnic Communities Development Fund was allocated to support a campaign advocating for a ...
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

How Indonesia is Protecting 80 Million Children from Online Harm - Their first-of-its-kind regulation cracks down on harmful design and incentivizes safer technology.
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

Ready For More? New COVID Variant Sets Off Yet Another Wave Of Panic - Bringing it back
Freedom and Flourishing

Who are you? - *The following essay is an edited transcript of a podcast episode I released a few years ago. I have decided to publish the transcript in essay form bec...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Beethoven on the metaphysics of music - A fascinating passage, reported by a young woman named Elizabeth Brentano,[1] who was a friend of Goethe and who met Beethoven in 1810. Here are Beethoven’...
Fictionosophy

Love and Meaning in Wild Dark Shore - Wild Dark Shore is a touching tale of overcoming and growing in which people deal with significant trauma and choose to not only carry on, but to love again.
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

d'Artagnan's Remains May Have Been Found - Charles de Batz de Castelmore, aka Count d'Artagnan, Died in the Siege of Maastricht in 1673
The Rebuild

Democrats’ Daycare Blinders - We Need ‘All of the Above’ Childcare Policy
Notes On Liberty

“Must Liberalism be Atomistic?” by Jacob Rodriguez - During his inauguration ceremony, the newly elected mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani pledged to run the city as he had run his campaign, as a committe...
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

America's Founding Fathers were Anons - A brief history of American anons and why anon culture fosters free speech, creativity, and trust
American Energy Alliance

The Unregulated Podcast #267: Not A Florida Man - On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the failed state of New York and the latest Democrat delusions from around t...
The War on Prices

The Flaws in Rent Ceilings - This week on Cato’s Podcast, I sat down with Jeff Miron to talk through the proposed Massachusetts rent control ballot initiative, as a hook to discussing ...
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Illegal Immigrant Incarceration Rates, 2010–2024: The Demographics of American Imprisonment - Immigrants have a low incarceration rate
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

Illegal Immigrant Incarceration Rates, 2010–2024: The Demographics of American Imprisonment - Immigrants have a low incarceration rate
Samizdata

MOPE dope hope? Nope. Cope. - The BBC reports, UN votes to recognise enslavement of Africans as ‘gravest crime against humanity’ The United Nations General Assembly has voted to rec...
Tross Publishing

With Respect, You Are Wrong, Your Majesty. - The post With Respect, You Are Wrong, Your Majesty. appeared first on .
Flashbak

Wall Street Bankers In The Office With Their Cars – 1980s - …you know Marty Wyndham? He netted $650,000 out of that merger… 26 years old. The guy’s Rambo. Got himself a Porsche Turbo Cabriolet about 75 thou, got a...
The Cobden Centre

Does neoliberalism exist? - Thus far, debates about the term “neoliberalism” have not been particularly constructive. I believe this rests on two separate (but related) questions: 1. ...
Flying Out

TNGHT (Secondhand Vinyl 12") - *Vendor: *SECONDHAND *Type: *TNGHT *Price: * 25.00 Artist: TNGHT Year: 2012 Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop Sub-Genre: Trap, Juke, Grime, Bass Music Trackli...
The Whakataki Times

Kids Convinced Jonah Lomu Was AI Generated After Being Shown His Rampaging Highlights - SO FAKE. The post Kids Convinced Jonah Lomu Was AI Generated After Being Shown His Rampaging Highlights appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

Despite the Liberal Media’s Insistence, Americans Must Judge ‘Experts’ With Caution - This article was orginally published at The Empowerment Alliance and is re-published here with permission. Pronouncements from President Trump describing ...
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: Genius Is Hard Work, Stick-To-It-Iveness, and Common Sense - Thomas Edison? Julia Marlowe? Samuel Smiles? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: A famous entrepreneur once spoke about the ingredients needed for ...
New Zealand Arts Review

Forever Tomorrow: Chinese Art Now - John Daly-Peoples Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Forever Tomorrow: Chinese Art Now Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Sat 2 May–Sun 23 Aug 2026 John Daly...
Syncretica

The Missing Model: Why Finance Has No Good Framework for Commodity Procurement Under Geopolitical Risk - And an open-source attempt to build one.
Manhattan Contrarian

Yet Another Reason Why Wind And Solar Electricity Generation Will Never Work To Run An Economy - * If you don’t like fossil fuels — and who does? — our betters in academia and environmental NGOs have the perfect answer: we can just get our energy in th...
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

They Knew About the Strokes. They Pushed the Shots Anyway - A bombshell Senate investigation reveals the CDC detected a statistically significant stroke signal in November 2022 — then spent months burying it while t...
Barrie Saunders

Dunedin national scandal ignored by most mainstream media - Thanks to the Otago Daily Times, Peter Williams and now Bryce Edwards, we know a lot about how health contracting in Dunedin has failed both Maori and Paci...
Chris Trotter

Choosing To Think. - When it comes to national security, small countries can either obey or think.
Uncharted Territories

Why Florence Started the Renaissance - A combination of geographic luck, network effects, and vagaries of history. Can we replicate them today?
Stats Chat

As and when it looks supportive - Via Russell Brown on Bluesky, the Herald has a report on the increases in people being charged with cannabis possession. Charges fell by about 1/3 from 2...
Sustain What

Simple Songs for Crazy Times - A question and a request for you as I prepare to release my first album of original songs since 2013
CO2 Coalition

Climate Science Is Creeping Into Courtrooms - by Charles Battig The inadequacies of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (Fourth Edition) extend far beyond the chapter on climate science you d...
Africa-Israel Weekly

The Ideological Reckoning Coming for Islam - Special note by IBSI Founder & CEO Dumisani Washington
Stewart Margolis

Can Men and Women Be Friends? - I am surprised how often I still see sentiments along the lines of “woman and men can’t be friends.” This seems patently absurd to me, and yet, surveys ind...
Energy in Depth

Maryland Supreme Court Stops Climate Litigation in its Tracks, SCOTUS is Next - The Maryland Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of three climate lawsuits Tuesday – filed by Baltimore, Anne Arundel County, and Annapolis – delivering...
Official Blog

Deputies, bring in those travel bugs — Geocache of the Week - Multi-Cache GC45CZX by LittlePegasus Difficulty: 2 Terrain: 1 Location: Arizona, United States N 33° 36.299′ W 111° 57.610′ This week’s Geocache of the Wee...
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

"Renewables" are not Renewable - The fossil fuel foundation of wind, solar, and batteries
Conflicted

Funding to organizations involved in climate litigation - Some Sankey charts
The Breakthrough Journal

Don’t Let Stealth Deregulation Sink Permitting Reform - Make Transmission Policy Technical, Not Ideological
Marcus on AI

War and AI, the death of Sora, and 3 ways you can catch me live today - With apologies for the short notice, a few quick announcements:
bad cattitude

the american rubicon - from TSA to rome, one cat's musings on the path to crossing the river
First Stones NewsLetter

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

Paul Ehrlich’s Blind Spot on Science - Famed physicist Richard Feynman understood that to be effective, a scientist must check their own biases at the door. Sadly, the author of 'The Population ...
Dead Language Society

The age when English could do anything - And why we wouldn't have Shakespeare without it
Autonomia

This and That - April’s preview, Iran, FDA’s and CDC’s new bosses, asking “How are you?” cargo theft of AI by foreign gangs, Ernest Hemingway and Cesar Chavez claims
Cremieux Recueil

Is Seed Oil Intake Correlated With Bad Health? - Correlation isn't causation, but when there aren't even correlations, who cares?
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

But this is the very point of tariffs - The point of tariffs is not to make those things made by evil Johnny Foreigner more expensive. It is to enable the domestic capitalists to raise the pric...
Keiran Murphy (FLW Historian)

Published in Wikipedia - Reading Time: 5 minutesI started this post to talk about my writing in Wikipedia, but while prepping this, I thought I’d show you things I’ve published t...
Glenn’s Substack

A Coda to the "Big Arch" Review - Introducing the "Big Glenn."
Offsetting Behaviour

The case for considering fuel surcharges - Last week over in Newsroom, I laid out the case against subsidising fuel use during a supply shortage. That case is sufficiently obvious that you wouldn...
Leport’s Substack

BARNES AND NOBLE 3 DAYS SALE - I’m happy to share that Barnes & Noble will be running a preorder promotion from 3/24-3/26 where B&N members get 25% off all pre-orders!
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: Why Scotland Succeeded - It was capital, not education
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Dumb and Dumber (Nos. 129-130) - Watching the Education Apocalypse in Slow Motion
Why not reason?

The Passover Door and the One I Opened - Yesterday, I wasn’t working.
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

What good is the right to know? - March 24, 2026
Liberty Scott

The climaxes of those who absolutely love expensive and scarce oil - There are people absolutely loving the price of fuel going up and eager for there to be fossil fuel shortages. It’s getting them terribly agitated, in a ...
Asimov’s Addendum

Don’t Blame the Model - How current LLM infrastructure artificially limits developer control and system reliability
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

A Great Day for Children - A ruling in a federal court in Boston has slowed RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine agenda.
Changing Lanes

What Ghost Kitchens Got Wrong - Two good ideas and one bad mistake
Theatreview

Dunedin Fringe Festival 2026 winners - DUNEDIN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2026 WINNERS Best in Fringe Award (sponsor: Dunedin Arts Festival): Motion Sickness Best in Fringe Runner Up: Temporal Aria (Other ...
JunkScience.com

Shareholders to confront Starbucks on covering gender transition – but not detransition - Here are the media release and audio presentation for the shareholder proposal filed with Starbucks by the Free Enterprise Project of the National Center f...
Dramatic Pause

Critical Corner: Auckland Arts Festival Week Three Round-Up - *In this edition of Critical Corner, reviews of Sincere Apologies, Ten Thousand Hours, Ihi. Wehi. Mana and The Visitors.* Sometimes you see a show that l...
The Jolly Libertarian

Artist's Reflections - Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky! *Prairie Sunset* *This essay was previously published on my Substack page, The Pendulum, on March 31, 2025. * My mo...
The Library of Celaeno

A Night's Dark Journey on the Road to Nowhere - The Paranoia Highway
The Tracinski Letter

A Liberalism That Builds - A News Link Round-Up
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 505 - Marrying Design and Affordability - The Modern Split-level - The frictions between quality housing design and affordability are often restrictive but can sometimes generate innovative types. Seriality versus sing...
The Weekly Sift

Not a Game - No sifts for two weeks. The next new articles will appear April 13. In the dramatic circumstances of war … the media must guard against the risk of becomin...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

The High-Wage Trap: Why Nigeria’s Oil Wealth Killed Its Factories in the late 1970s - Nigeria's 1st "Golden Age" had many underlying issues
Africa’s Bright Future

Did Capitalism Invent Child Labor? - Every economic system in history had working children. Only one made it possible for them to stop.
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: Boyd, by Robert Coram - Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed The Art Of War, Robert Coram (Back Bay Books, 2002).
The Trichordist

Chris Cooke: SoundExchange boss says all EU countries must change copyright rules so European radio royalties flow to American performers #IRespectMusic - American performers still don’t get paid for European radio plays. SoundExchange says it’s time to enforce national treatment globally.
Eating Policy

Reforming like it's 1995 - Let's skate to where the puck is going to be this time
Real Clear Energy: Video

"Significant Risk" Remains in Crude Oil & Natural Gas Volatility - Reports hit the tape as soon as Kevin Green kicked off his coverage, with President Trump saying that the war in Iran will end soon. KG believes the headli...
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Tali: Empress Era (digital outlets) - Tali is among our most successful electronica artists and as we said four years ago on the release of her Future Dwellers album “we'll always stop for MC...
Perennial Meditations

Read to Become Better, Not Smarter - Sundays with Seneca (Vol. 13)
Pablo’s Translations

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

Book Recommendation: The Coaching Habit - When you believe you have more knowledge and/or experience than another person, it can be tempting to give him advice. Sometimes he even asks for it. But...
The Future of Being Human

Are you an AI Apocaloptimist? - The much-anticipated documentary "The AI Doc : Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist" hits US cinemas this week. I attended an early screening while in Copenha...
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #39: Singing in Public… in Publix - Growth doesn’t happen inside your comfort zone. It happens when you step beyond it.
Earthly Idealism

How the Bible Corrupted the Soul of Western Civilization - Part 2 - Did Christianity Discover Political Liberty?
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

The ROAD to Housing Act: Paving Over Property Rights, One Regulation at a Time - Thinking morally Right or Wrong about housing requires putting respect for and protection of individual rights, including property rights, front and center.
Sinification

Protracted War in the Middle East: Strategic Opportunity for China - "In an age of great contention, the opportunities that shape national fortunes are often concealed beneath turbulent waves."
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

Tiny Canvases - With big thoughts
misfits' architecture

Making Sense of It - It’s good to have a few things to believe in. Rather than some grand worldview, I’m thinking more of a set of observations that, over the years, help make ...
The Scholar's Stage

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

A little sneaky - You’re making it sound worse than it was.
Asymmetric Information

Pear shaped🍋 - How would designer Enzo Mari reimagine a pear packing factory?
Outliving Iran

Outliving MAGA (I) - A Conversation with a friend about the Soul of America (Part 1)
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Stoicism versus Jordan Peterson - On the Stoic Philosophy of Anger
PM of NZ

Job for citizen journalists? - An intrepid citizen journalist might track in real-time recent occurrences such as bulk oil tankers arriving at places such as Marsden Point. I see two...
The Shrewd Artist

The Exaltation of Intimacy - There’s a paradox in it.
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

The Exaltation of Intimacy - There’s a paradox in it.
Harry’s Substack

What do you mean "all the jobs"? - An issue left from "What if robots take all the jobs"?
Seiler on Science

Teaching Physics Inductively - James Ellias’s Inductive Summary of Physics
The Future of Freedom Foundation

How to Open the Strait of Hormuz - There is a surefire way to induce Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz. Here it is. President Trump publicly makes the following announcement: 1. Today I a...
Andrew Whiteside

Review: Shanghai Symphony Orchestra - It was an absolute treat to enter Auckland’s Town Hall and spend an evening with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Under guidance of the masterful conductor...
Free Range Kids

The Issue Newsom and Cox Agree On! - This is the second of my two-part “series” (does two essays = a series?) highlighting the bi-partisan nature of the Free-Range Kids movement. I spoke wit...
Macroscience

How Close Are We to Connecting Our Brains to the Matrix? - Some thoughts on biological intelligence
Interintellect

Living, Dying, and Fighting with Sebastian Junger - Join our salon.
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Making Waves - Wave after wave, our *Entrepreneurs Survey* makes headlines. Just yesterday, following the release of our latest instalment, journalists from *Sifted*, *...
Wildlife – PERC

It’s Time to Make the Endangered Species Act Work Better for Recovery - PERC testifies before the Senate on pragmatic solutions to boost species recovery under the ESA. The post It’s Time to Make the Endangered Species Act W...
The Intrinsic Perspective

Hubris - The Lore of the World
What You Can Do For Liberty

Ryan Long: A Comedian You Should Know - If there’s one word to describe comedian Ryan Long, it’s based.
The Grumpy Economist

How to turn a price shock into inflation - A friend in Greece sends this article on how to deal with high energy prices.
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

Jazz Joints - Leaning into the rhythm of life's swing
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

A Practice for Ataraxia - The Stoic goal isn’t just calm. It’s something quieter than that.
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

Come to My Book Launch - Ticket are going fast
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Human rights: are they real? - Or are they just a gift of the government?
Private Lands – PERC

New PERC Report: Transferable Tax Credits Expand Participation in Conservation Easements - Research shows market-based reforms make conservation easements more accessible for farmers and ranchers while protecting higher-value lands. The post Ne...
Anti-Dismal

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

Judge Smith - Judge Smith was a founder and former member of the enduring prog band Van der Graaf Generator with Peter Hammill, who he met at Manchester University in ...
The New Era

The Case Against the Epstein 'Elite' - Ground-breaking case in Amsterdam
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Connections for 1850-1859 - On the Suez Canal and world geography, Central Park, and antebellum literary rhetoric in the North and South.
An Africanist Perspective

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

Why I’m On A Forgiving Spree - Forgiving people I previously believed had wronged me has taken a huge weight off my mind and left me feeling much freer to love myself and my life.
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Politicians Who Cut Solar and Wind Subsidies Saved Our Grid - Politicians who cut solar/wind subsidies saved our grid by incentivizing reliable generation, which was having its operating revenue looted by subsidized, ...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

ROBBIE WILLIAMS BRITPOP WORLD TOUR LANDS IN AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND THIS NOVEMBER! - Global pop phenomenon Robbie Williams has announced his return to Australia and New Zealand, bringing his BRITPOP World Tour down under this November! In...
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Psy-Phi Dialogues - The Series Continues
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

Why I'm Going To CPAC Hungary - I was invited by the organization hosting this event to fly to Hungary, stay a few nights, and attend their CPAC conference.
Conspicuous Cognition

Wishful Thinking Is A Myth - How social games, not comforting falsehoods, distort what we believe.
GeekPress

Why Basketball Sneakers Squeak - *Nature article* on why basketball sneakers squeak. Summary of the *Nature* article from Beyond Euclid: "High-speed cameras showed the rubber sole rapi...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

The Nightmare of a Sickly Crown: Yes, Netanyahu Probably Got Got - He’s dead or hospitalized. The only alternative is this is a purposeful distraction from something else.
Mike’s Substack

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

Educational Junk Food - Over the past few decades, something interesting has happened in the world of food.
HardmoneyJim

Stablecoins: New money, old trick - TO BEAT KEYNES'S "ONE IN A MILLION" CHALLENGE, WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND STABLECOINS
Too Clever By Half

Pasting into Blogger - *It sounds like a cool hack:* draft your post in your favorite app, photos and all, then paste that into the Blogger editor. ¶ [image: A man is pasting ...
Risk & Progress

Scales Skewed - How America's legal system strangles progress
On Substack

Introducing the Substack Recording Studio - Pre-record your show, plus new tools for going live
Happy Future

Space Lasers - Power at night. From space.
One Useful Thing

The Shape of the Thing - Where we are right now, and what likely happens next
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (March 2026) - Middle powers and regional groupings
Statecraft

How the National Security Strategy Gets Made - “Leverage is the favorite verb of the Washington policy community.”
Greg Mankiw's Blog

I talk with Larry Kotlikoff - Click here to get to his podcast.
HBL

“Affordability” revisited - (My Substack (and HBL post) on affordability as an anti-concept had so many points that this one seems to have gotten lost. But it’s important enough to si...
Existential Crunch

Who shapes global risk? - An overview of actors
Public Lands – PERC

Don’t Let Federal Agencies Revoke Permits Without Consequence - For American Prairie and other western ranchers, permit certainty would mean that decades-old grazing privileges on federal land would be honored as vali...
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

The Symbolic Life of a Speed Camera - Why would people vandalise a machine designed to catch criminals? Because it isn’t just a machine. It’s a symbol.
Democracy Project

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

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

Somethings: Quick Lies - Hot takes, pocket knives, and high-camp
Note to Noteworthy

Why Christianity Can Skew Emotions—and How to Set Them Straight - Moralizing emotions is a destructive habit that results from accepting the Christian view of emotions, but a rational approach to emotions enables greater ...
Spiked Online

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

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

The Outliers - Torn between two unattractive models of human civilization
A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

State of the Nation address on behalf of the Honesty Party - *"My fellow New Zealanders, whether citizens, residents or those just passing through en route to Australian pastures, it gives me little pleasure ...
Eat More Electrons

Africa has a Nuclear Bros problem - Hoopla is not helping anyone, except maybe Putin and his lackeys
The Roots of Progress

As we may vibe - Reflections on six weeks of coding with Claude
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for February, 2026: +0.39 deg. C - The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for February, 2026 was +0.39 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, up a litt...
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: February 2026 - 📣 Announcements
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

A peek behind the screen - BTS with Leaving Groupthink, Inc.
Growing to Truth

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

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

FULL TIME: Essendon vs North Melbourne – Round 3, 2026 - The Essendon Bombers face the North Melbourne Kangaroos in Round 3 of the 2026 AFL season. Follow the live scores, team lists, match statistics and key mom...
Market Urbanism

Can young Americans reinvent the starter home? - Learn the answer in the Miami Herald and 30 other papers that syndicated my op-ed this week.
The Enlightened Examiner

The Subjectivist Trap of Personal-Contextual Values - Why personal contexts are only part of the market story.
The Enlightened Examiner

The Subjectivist Trap of Personal-Contextual Values - Why personal contexts are only part of the market story.
Objective Standard Institute

MAGA Isn’t Making America Great - Kiyah breaks down her views on Trump and the MAGA movement.
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

The Next Era of American Conservation - As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States, it’s time to add a new chapter to America’s conservation legacy, with private lands, market-b...
Building the Builders

The first principle behind "first principles" - Unearthing the builder's greatest superpower
Overthinking Everything

On Mediocrity - One of the harshest words in my vocabulary is "mediocre". Let me tell you what I mean by it.
Roberto’s Substack

Judicial Insecurity in America: Trump’s Deranged Tariff Crusade Shatters the Rule of Law, Screws Consumers, and Turns the Supreme Court Into His Personal Punching Bag - Listen up, because this clown show is exactly why the United States is drowning in judicial insecurity right now.
Austin Vernon's Substack

2026 Geothermal Update - Progress grinds forward as the great filter looms.
The Trumpland Diary

Truth Predict: Trump Launches Crypto Gambling Platform - The Trump Crime Family Just Took Corruption to a Whole New Level
Freethink Media

Biology’s New Era - The historic shift from studying life to engineering it.
Roots of Progress

Save the date: Progress Conference 2026 - Last year we hosted the second annual Progress Conference. The 2025 conference was bigger than 2024: more days and more people, bringing together over 35...
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

America, A Love Story - Ragtime, and the romance of the work in progress. A revisitation.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

America, A Love Story - Ragtime, and the romance of the work in progress. A revisitation.
Houston Strategies

Silver: a precious metal that's a scrap metal in transit lines - After a bit of a break here at Houston Strategies, another excellent guest post from Oscar Slotboom.--- The price of silver metal is up substantially in th...
Classical Compass Rose

Is the Head of a Classical School a CEO? - The comparison is common. It is also mistaken. A school is not a business.
Mises Wiki - Recent changes [en]

W - Kanopi deleted page W Removing all content created by Kapitalizt
Virginia Postrel

A Plague of Mysterious, AI-Written Emails from "Fellow Authors" - Early AI adopters are using it to scam authors.
High Capacity

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

Amorous Anguirus - Stuart K. Hayashi This is a practice drawing I did on Feb. 10, 2024, of Anguirus, the first monster ever to co-star in a movie with Godzilla. Anguirus is b...
Jackson Upmann

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

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

A very poor start by the Governor - When I stopped regular blogging in December I wrote This is one of those issues that has really got my goat. (There won’t be any other return to blogging, ...
Wright in Racine

Sitting Down with Frank Lloyd Wright - © Mark Hertzberg (2026) A quick test: think “Frank Lloyd Wright.” Chances are that images of Fallingwater, the Robie House, the SC Johnson Administration...
Forbidden Science

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

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

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

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

Zero Day comes for the Iranian regime - Last year reports emerged that Tehran, the capital city of Iran, was running out of water. One expert predicted that “zero day” was not far off. As the Isl...
Gross Output

The Divided Economy: Business Still Trying to Catch Up to the Consumer Boom - “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...
Institute of Economic Affairs

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

The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander on the design of cities and homes
The Many Ways I Let You Down

כָּל הַמְאַבֵּד נֶפֶשׁ אַחַת… כְּאִלּוּ אִבֵּד עוֹלָם מָלֵא - Saying Goodbye to Playwright Stanley Makuwe
Competitive Enterprise Institute

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

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

Thinking Small Is How You Stay Small - Brian Easton is right about one thing: New Zealand is small. Where he go...
Regan's Substack

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

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

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

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

Money And Collateral - Roasted Barley Is No Substitute For Coffee!
round houses

restoring the house of tomorrow - In the early 1930s, the house of the future, as conceived of by architect George Fred Keck, was round (or, technically, 12-sided) and had floor-to-ceiling ...
What's New Under the Sun

Innovation Job Market Papers 2025 (2/2) - Dozens of papers from new PhDs about Innovation
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

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

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

The Architecture of a Capable State: Why Cuts, Cosmetic Fixes and Good Intentions are not enough - Keynote address to the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union AGM – 15 December 2025
Boom (UK)

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

Christmas Newsletter 2025 - As we just about manage to cope with the darkness and the news, the coming time of hibernation will be welcome – if of course you are lucky enough to be ta...
Catherine Mosse

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

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

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

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

On the Trump/Mamdani 'Lovefest' - My FB Post: “For all the hype of a conflict, President Trump and New York City's next mayor, Zohran Mamdani, had a surprising bond when they met Friday ...
Hunters and Anglers – PERC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Important Announcements - I’m going in, this Substack's going on ice, and a book is coming
The Organon Architecture Blog

ARCHITECTURE MINI-TUTORIALS: "But how much can you *do* with a 70 square-metre house?!" - THIS IS ONE OF THOSE rare things, a government announcement I can get behind: *“Last year the Government consulted on allowing\granny flats of up to 60 ...
Down to Earth Kiwi

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

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

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

Farmville - The Autonomous Future of Agriculture
No Punches Pulled

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

February 2025 Space Stock Review - Includes Commentary on ASTS, RKLB, RDW, LUNR, PL, SPIR, SESG, and ETL
Yes In Our Backyards

Supermarkets: More stories of how councils accidentally on purpose banned competition - My previous post, Supermarket YIMBYism, got a bit of traction.
thesecondrenaissance

Finding Meaning and Purpose in a Godless Universe - In the 1880s, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was at his intellectual peak.
Don't Let It Go

Apple Shrugs - a haiku “Nice encryption there… except we’ll need a back door.” “What encryption? Where?” (Inspired by Apple’s decision to pull its iCloud end-to-end encry...
Ayn Rand Society

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

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

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

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

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

Writings hosted elsewhere - The Breakthrough Institute Interactive Brokers Campus
BloodhoundBlog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Full Interview With Andrew Bernstein On Decline Of US Education - Here is my interview with Dennis Prager from last Thursday. The topic is my 2022 book “Why Johnny Still Can’t Read or Write or Understand Math—And What We ...
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Reviews - 13th Floor

WORD CHCH Literature Festival 2024: 13th Floor Report - [image: WORD] The 13th Floor’s Shamin Yazdani headed south to Christchurch to take in the WORD CHCH Literature Festival. Here is her report: I spent the ...
TheMoneyIllusion

A long strange trip - For readers who don’t already know this, my new blog is over at Substack: scottsumner.substack.com This will be my final Money Illusion post. The blog bega...
Magazine Articles – Quadrant Online

A Journey of Death - "When he was released ahead of schedule from his prison sentence of nearly 20 years, Jiao Zhimin was in his early forties. On his way to his father’s hou...
One Sock: Heather Roy's Blog

Not One of Us - Recent attacks by opposition MPs on ACT party MPs Karen Chhour and David Seymour about not being "Māori enough" and the like reveal more about the attacker...
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...
TVHE

What is an ATAR and what does this have to do with income? - Cross-post from Substack. Look I’m from New Zealand – so when everyone around me started talking about ATARs I just smiled and nodded. In fact I probably c...
The Visible Hand

What is an ATAR and what does this have to do with income? - Cross-post from Substack. Look I’m from New Zealand – so when everyone around me started talking about ATARs I just smiled and nodded. In fact I probably c...
Technological Optimism with Thomas Walker-Werth

What Happened to Technological Optimism? - I haven't given up the good fight. I'm just taking it to a more fundamental level.
Progress Forum Digest

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

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

Genesis -
Power + Market

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1828 – Championing Freedom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

William Whewell’s “Discoverer’s Induction” (Part 4) - Previous posts: William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 1) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 2) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Ind...
A Force for Good | How economics, morality, and markets combine

New Blog Location; This Page is Now Defunct - Hello. A Force for Good as permanently relocated to my personal website: www.jonmmurphy.com. Please update your bookmarks accordingly. This website will...
from FEE

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

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

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

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

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

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

Free Speech - Bruce Moon speaks out in Nelson - Bruce Moon, a retired physicist and avid historian, was invited by the Nelson Institute to give a talk at Nelson’s Elma Turner Library, on 8th April. He ...
EconTalk

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

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

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

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

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

Surrealist Writers Union Goes on Strike -
makingnewzealand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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