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Cato at Liberty

Building "Trump Class" Naval Ships "Is a Terrible Idea" - Policymakers should be more selective and scrutinize the sort of weapons the United States builds and the contracts it awards to defense companies
Futurism

New Law Would Prevent Trump Officials From Invading a Country and Profiting by Placing Bets on Polymarket - The founding fathers must have overlooked that one. The post New Law Would Prevent Trump Officials From Invading a Country and Profiting by Placing Bets ...
Kiwiblog

A good bill from Melissa Lee to reform the HDCA - Melissa Lee has put a bill into the ballot to make some good reforms to the Harmful Digital Communications Act. The ACT has provided relief to many peopl...
Watts Up With That?

Science Without Skepticism Is Just Politics in a Lab Coat - A society that values both knowledge and liberty must resist this convergence of expertise and power. Scientists play a vital role in informing public deba...
The Free Press

How a Cornell Professor Drove an Israeli Student out of His Class - “I don’t have to give both sides,” said longtime professor Eric Cheyfitz to PhD student Oren Renard. Their conversation after class one day unleashed a cla...
Skeptic

The Future Leaks Out: William S. Burroughs’s Cut-Ups and Cucumbers - William S. Burroughs was one of the most controversial literary figures of the early 1960s, an American postmodern author and visual artist who was cons...
Institute for Energy Research

Trump Wants to Rebuild Venezuela’s Broken Oil Industry - Venezuela holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves, but its petroleum industry, which was once very productive, has been reduced… The post Trump Wan...
Homepaddock

Woman of the day - Eva Schloss, a Holocaust survivor who was once Anne Frank’s playmate, passed away at the age of 96. She grew up in Amsterdam in the same apartment building...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Guardian gives Zohran Mamdani the Jeremy Corbyn-treatment - On New Year’s Day, Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as the new mayor of New York City. Within hours of assuming the duties of… The post Guardian gives Zohran Ma...
Doug Casey's International Man

Why 2026 Could Be Silver’s Breakout Year: The Asymmetric Bet on Monetary Chaos - Why silver could see explosive upside during a 2026 monetary crisis and how select under-the-radar silver stocks may offer the greatest profit potential....
The UnPopulist

MAGA May Have Finally Entered the Death Phase Five Years After the Insurrection - But that doesn’t mean that it can’t take down the country with it
Zero Hanger

Selecting every AFL team’s best 23 for 2026: Fremantle Dockers - With one of the best lists in the league, the year ahead could be a fruitful one for Fremantle.
Persuasion

Finally, A Taiwanese President Who Will Stand Up To China - Lai Ching-te’s fight against spy infiltration is a fight for democracy.
The Inquiring Mind

Why Britain scuttled surrendered U Boats? - Link below https://youtu.be/XMwE-Rxp–4?si=uD6JEP0VZICQlPef
Curbed - All

How Mamdani Gets His Rent Freeze - He’s got the numbers. What now?
The Daily Sceptic

Britain Signs Deal to Deploy Troops to Ukraine - Britain has signed a deal to deploy boots on the ground in Ukraine as part of a proposed ceasefire deal backed for the first time by the US – though the ...
The Shrewd Artist

8 Empathy and Care Towards Humanity - From my manuscript, Soulscape: The Paradigm of Art
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

8 Empathy and Care Towards Humanity - From my manuscript, Soulscape: The Paradigm of Art
FIRE

Morgan State says cut the cameras, stop the presses - Morgan State muzzles its own student press, banning interviews with faculty and filming in public spaces unless admins say otherwise. But that's placing a ...
Techdirt

Trump Successfully Murders U.S. Public Media - Donald Trump and his authoritarian friends have successfully destroyed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the closest this country has gotten t...
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day – Good news? Bad news? - The US Congress is to all intents and purposes dead. It cannot function with the filibuster rule and an evenly balanced country with the two sides highly...
IPWatchdog Articles

CAFC Upholds District Court Invalidation of Wireless Transmission Decoding Claims Under 101 - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Tuesday affirmed a district court decision finding that Technology in Ariscale, LLC’s patent ...
Capitalism Magazine

Medicare Spending is the Largest Driver of the US Debt Crisis - Why We Can’t Grow Our Way Out of the Medicare-Driven Debt Crisis.
Marginal Revolution

The Venezuelan stock market - Venezuela’s stock market is now up +73% since President Maduro was captured. Since December 23rd, as President Trump ramped up pressure on Maduro’s gover...
Real Clear Energy

Saudi Arabia Keeps Slashing Its Oil Prices - Tsvetana Paraskova, Oil Prices
SkyscraperCity Forum

MAZATLAN | STELARHE | 135m | 30p - *Ubicado en la Av. del Mar, esquina con calle Hamm, las dos torres de STELARHE contarán en sus 30 niveles con departamentos listos para habitar. Su altura ...
No Minister

The Motte and Bailey of Islam - The Apologetic Retreat When critics in the West challenge the teachings of Mohammad, particularly regarding the meaning of Jihad or the treatment of Jews a...
The Daily Economy

Price Discrimination and the Future of Movies -
The Curmudgeon

Watchdog Bares Yet More Empty Gums - Another moisture provision profiteer has been found wanting, if only in performing its admittedly secondary function of providing moisture to paying custom...
Ayn Rand Centre UK

The Megyn Kelly Guide to Success -
John D. Cook

Largest known compositorial prime - I ran across a blog post here that said a new record has been set for the largest compositorial prime. [1] OK, so what is a compositorial prime? It is a ...
David Stockmans Contra Corner

TMM (Trump’s Macho Madness) - Click on Title to Read
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 87) - Untimely Thoughts on a World in Transition
Reason Foundation

Surface Transportation News: Priced managed lanes come of age - Plus: Conflicting measures of U.S. traffic congestion, bipartisan NEPA reform passed in the House, and more. The post Surface Transportation News: Priced...
Matua Kahurangi

Lefties at the trough - the left love burning your money - The latest figures from the Taxpayers’ Union show that over the last 21 months, MPs have racked up nearly $15 million in Parliamentary Service spending on ...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

For 14 years, a crazy eco-terrorist group has attacked Berlin's energy infrastructure with impunity. Authorities have done nothing despite enormous damages and wide-scale disruption. What is going on? - The latest attack by the "Volcano Group" has caused one of the largest sustained blackouts in the history of the Federal Republic.
ArchDaily

Casa Ohana / Vertebral - Casa Ohana is *a secluded jungle residence* in Puerto Escondido that balances openness and refuge through a series of independent volumes shaped by the s...
Why Evolution Is True

Readers’ wildlife photos - This is it, folks: the end of the photo line—unless some readers step up to send in good wildlife pictures. Today we have a diverse batch of photos from Ri...
American Energy Alliance

California Mandates Billion Dollar, Bird-Butchering, Boondoggle Stay Online - California is keeping the Ivanpah solar plant operating due to “reliability” and the state’s “green” energy mandates, despite concerns from the private s...
Breaking Views

Dr Will Jones: The US “Needs Greenland”, Says Trump - Donald Trump has set his sights on a US takeover of Greenland after capturing Nicolas Maduro and saying he would run Venezuela, telling reporters: “We do n...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

EV Sales End Year Way Below Target - By Paul Homewood https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/ EV sales have fallen even further below government targets, accounting for 23.4...
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

Doing Business - Programming note: With all twelve days of Christmastide now in the tinsel-bedecked rear-view mirror, our Clubland Q&A returns to its regularly scheduled da...
Living Resources Center

How to Deal With New York City - I want the celebrating New Yorkers to suffer the consequences of their choices. Blockade the city, give the opponents of Mamdani a chance to flee first, ...
Texas Institute for Property Rights

The End is Near - In two days, this website will be retired. You can continue reading my posts at jbrianphillips.com The post The End is Near appeared first on Texas Insti...
Spiked Online

Keir’s ‘Brexit reset’ is all pain, no gain - The post Keir’s ‘Brexit reset’ is all pain, no gain appeared first on spiked .
Gus Van Horn

Trump Claims Venezuela, Will Loot Americans - Over the holidays, Trump rounded up Nicolas Maduro, the dictator of Venezuela, and claimed that "we" would be "running" Venezuela now. Under any other Pres...
Energy Transition Absurdities

5 Big Energy Stories - 1.6.2026: Beware of Early Cost Estimates for Venezuela Revitalization - [Note: I’m going to divert from normal form this morning to focus on the obvious Elephant in the Living Room, i.e., Venezuela.
Harry’s Substack

The FDA vs. Medical Progress - The FDA is killing us
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

How To Assimilate into America - Profiling the 3 types of assimilation: traditional, woke, and non-assimilation
The New York Review of Books

Our Moments - The situation in which we find ourselves at the beginning of Amit Chaudhuri’s A New World is familiar, from life and in fiction: He had come back in April,...
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

The Righteous Mestizo - Review of Pluribus: Season 1
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

The Beauty of Rugged Individualism - An American philosophical tradition
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

RFK Jr.’s Tuskegee Experiment - RFK Jr. recently directed the CDC to fund a study in West Africa that lays bare his cruelty and dishonesty
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

Ancient Wisdom to Combat Modern Anxiety - Today’s anxiety feels unprecedented, but the old wisdom still works—if one is willing to practice it.
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 974 Silver v. oil. Price wars in China & Beijing's war games. Foucault on the villain's lair. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Slow Boring

Zohran Mamdani’s strong start - I feared disaster when he won the primary, but so far so good
Law & Liberty

Creed, Culture, and the Electric Cord of the Declaration - By ignoring the creedal principles animating the United States, progressives and members of the "new right" misunderstand what made us a great nation.
EconLog

Accounting vs. Economic Profit - In any principles of economics class, students learn the difference between accounting profit and economic profit. Accounting profit, which is what one t...
Anthony B. Bradley

Why Hamza Ahmed’s Message Worked and Why Sam Harborne’s Critique Landed - What their public fallout reveals about how young men are being formed today
Anthony B. Bradley

Why Hamza Ahmed’s Message Worked and Why Sam Harborne’s Critique Landed - What their public fallout reveals about how young men are being formed today
Tim Worstall

Since you present us with a choice - What is the US invasion / regime change / taking control of Venezuela all about? …. So, now we know. It is all about providing an opportunity for hedge f...
Quillette

Iran’s Forward-Operating Base in the West - With the survival of Nicolas Maduro’s regime now uncertain, Iran and Hezbollah have much to lose in Caracas.
The Cobden Centre

Cornered - “They’re not just getting rich.. They’re getting even.” “Silver has properties that wipe out fungus and bacteria and parasites. And that’s just in finance....
Doomberg

Lost in Space - Data centers in orbit? This is going to be fun.
Quotulatiousness

The “developing world” is not poor because the “rich countries” looted them - On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, Lauren Chen reacts to an emotive claim that the Third World is poor only because of the exploitation of...
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

Chinese cars are cheap — but the real costs are too high - My latest New York Post article
Toppermost

Bess Atwell - Bess Atwell was born in south London in 1994. She also has roots in Brighton, a part of the world which, to these ears, punches well above its weight in ...
GeekPress

Real Life Pascal's Wager - *"Dilbert Creator Scott Adams* Announces He Will Convert To Christianity Before He Dies". Unfortunately, Adams has terminal cancer and likely will not ...
Retraction Watch

Dogged by retractions, Iraqi researcher and publisher uses a different name - Researchers change the name they publish under for many reasons, most of which aren’t fodder for a Retraction Watch story. Trying to skirt a publishing ban...
Hoover institution Commentary

In Defense Of Intuition (With Gerd Gigerenzer) - Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer explains the power of intuition, how intuition became gendered, what he thinks Kahneman and Tversky's research agenda got wron...
The Whakataki Times

Toddler Decides Today Is A Good Day To Once Again Get His Fingers Jammed In The Door - SLOW LEARNER. The post Toddler Decides Today Is A Good Day To Once Again Get His Fingers Jammed In The Door appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
Mises Wire

Brady: The New Neoconservatives - Bari Weiss gate-keeps the right against antiwar conservatives. Sound familiar?
Mises Institute Blog

Brady: The New Neoconservatives - Bari Weiss gate-keeps the right against antiwar conservatives. Sound familiar? Published at The American Conservative
The Footy Almanac

The Ashes – Fifth Ashes Test, Sydney Day 3: Australia in control - With centuries to Travis Head and Steve Smith Australia is in a commanding position at the end of play on Day 3 of the Fifth Ashes Test in Sydney reports C...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Venezuelan Tragedy: Socialism, Entitlement, and Tyranny Are Connected - The shocking capture and extradition of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife over the weekend is the culmination of months of US press...
The Daily Doom

The Peace President Lays out his Many Goals for American Conquest - Venezuela is only the centerpiece of a much bigger scheme.
The Jolly Libertarian

Book Review: So Who Is John Galt, Anyway? by Robert Tracinski - Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky! Like many, and maybe even most, fans of Ayn Rand's *Atlas Shrugged*, I saw it as a political manifesto. It was a paean t...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Labour step up and show moral leadership on Venezuela – Prime Minister Luxon still missing in action - Labour are stepping up over Trump’s illegal kidnapping of President Maduro… …exactly. How the hell can the West demand authoritarian regimes abide by inter...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: I'm Glad You're Here - Welcome.
Manhattan Contrarian

Why Don't Global Lower Tropospheric Temperatures More Closely Track Atmospheric CO2 Levels? - * The big news in 2025 for the climate scare was that all of a sudden this scare wasn’t such big news any more. * We’re talking here about something that a...
Marcus on AI

The (possibly) coming AI backlash and information warfare - Excerpts from two recent essays.
Astral Codex Ten

Highlights From The Comments On Boomers - ...
Stu-Topia

Sensory Observation Does Prove the Existence of Atoms - Stuart K. Hayashi I have heard people say, “I’ve never seen an isolated atom, and yet I know atoms exist. Therefore, you can know something exists even if ...
The Integrity Institute

Democracy Briefing: How Politicians campaign with your money - How much taxpayer funding will politicians spend this year on election advertising?
Stats Chat

Vibe graphs - From Nicola Rennie on Bluesky, a bad graph found on LinkedIn: and a correct version of the same graph The bad version is probably from generative AI — as...
UnHerd

Has Mumsnet fallen for Farage? - Labour is losing Middle England
New Zealand Arts Review

Auckland Arts Festival Previews – Visitors, Sultans Kitchen and Duck Pond - John Daly-Peoples Visitors A Theatre Times review by Bronwyn Carlson. “It is 1788, and six senior lawmen (with one young man sent as a representative) witn...
Kiwipolitico

2025 Stats. - I am a little late to the year end summary due to the Venezuela crisis but here are some stats for last year. I wrote 45 posts, an average of 3.75/month. M...
Paul Wells

The Q&A: "I don't want to work less. That's not a talent I have." - Stéphane Dion is back home in Canada, wondering what to do next. Two national-unity crises and a rowdy neighbour loom. He's watching.
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

The Energy Freedom Fund is seeking “full stack” energy freedom lobbyists - We’re looking for someone who possesses (or can develop) a rare combination of skills. And we’re offering a $50,000 referral bonus to anyone who can connec...
The Double Standard

Simeon Brown sidesteps key issues in “catastrophic” Manage My Health breach - The company has been accused of using outdated encryption protocols, and has been slow to respond to community concerns. And importantly, has National put ...
Official Blog

Geocaching im Jahr 2025: Ein Rückblick - Wir feiern die Höhepunkte des Jahres 2025! Wir haben Statistiken zusammengestellt, die die bemerkenswerten Erfolge der Geocaching-Gemeinschaft im vergangen...
JoNova

Climate Terrorism: Militant left activists use grid arson to blackout 45,000 Berlin homes in midwinter - AI image by Sonja Ritter. By Jo Nova They wanted to “cut the juice to the ruling class” Saving the world now means committing arson, and cutting off gra...
Leport’s Substack

DAVID BALDACCI gave a blurb to DEFROSTED, my new medical-political thriller - I'm very proud to announce that I have received a great blurb from DAVID BALDACCI for my new thriller DEFROSTED.
Israel Institute of NZ

Book Review: While Israel Slept by Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot - In While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East, veteran Israeli journalists Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot deliver a...
The Weekly Sift

The Euphoria Period - We’re in the euphoria period of acknowledging across the board that Maduro was a bad guy and that our military is absolutely incredible. This is exactly th...
The Roots of Progress

How to tame a complex system - We can't predict or control them—but that doesn't matter
Conspicuous Cognition

2025: Review and Recommendations - My top ten essays, how I use AI to read, and my favourite books, articles, and more.
David Stockman's Contra Corner

TMM (Trump’s Macho Madness) - Until the Donald came along, Nixon’s feckless War on Drugs was surely among the stupidest projects of state ever conceived on the banks of the Potomac. A...
McFaul's World

The U.S. Priority in Venezuela Must Be Democracy, Not Oil - Long-term evaluations of the success or failure of the U.S. military intervention in Venezuela will be determined by what happens next.
Free Range Kids

It’s Safe to Look Back! The Worst Free-Range Kids Stories of 2025 - Free-Range Parents may recall 2025 as a year that brought them arrests, investigations, and solid proof that helicopters are still swarming over childhoo...
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

How a Rent Freeze Helped Destroy Public Housing - New York City democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made “affordability” his top selling point and a freeze on the rents of nearly 1 million city...
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

A Smitten Lesbian and a Stubborn Mestizo - Reviewing the Pluribus finale
Quote Investigator

Palindrome Origin: Was It Eliot’s Toilet I Saw? - T. S. Eliot? W. H. Auden? Vladimir Nabokov? Gloria Goddard? Clement Wood? J. L. Thompson? Tom Congdon? Alan Bennett? Question for Quote Investigator: The n...
Tim’s Substack

Betrayal of Command II - The epic rant part
Libertarian Land

Maduro, Venezuela, and the Drug WAr - At the risk of repeating myself:
Kunstler

Badass - “Pretending that 'America First' means 'I only care about my house, not my neighborhood' is as retarded as it sounds.” —Jesus Enrique Rosas
The Works in Progress Newsletter

The book of discoveries - Long before modern science, Europeans learned to see their own time as an age of invention rather than decline.
High Capacity

NEW podcast: China's robotics and industrial automation with Georg Stieler - The first episode of the new High Capacity podcast
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

Making Sense of the Information Ecosystem - A new THB series for 2026 - Part 1, Democracy and Propaganda
bad cattitude

the low identity agitariat is the true enemy of liberty - and the path back to better
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

A big story of 2025 - Although 2025 was, in Edward Gibbon’s words, ‘a register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind,’ with the usual acts of terror and mass murder,...
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for December, 2025: +0.30 deg. C - 2025 was the 2nd warmest year (a distant 2nd behind 2024) in the 47-year satellite record The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT...
The Roots of Liberty

Process And Outcome - This past weekend, Trump sicced the military on Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro.
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Foucault: It’s never about liberation - I understand the temptation to read Michel Foucault as a kind of Libertarian, with all of his attacks on oppressive powers. Or as a kind of ultra-cynical P...
The Antiplanner

Failed Squared - I recently learned that St. Clair County, Illinois, is building an extension of the St. Louis Metro light-rail system to the Belleville-MidAmerica Airport,...
The Antiplanner

Failed Squared - I recently learned that St. Clair County, Illinois, is building an extension of the St. Louis Metro light-rail system to the Belleville-MidAmerica Airport,...
American Institute of Economic Research

Medicaid's Structure Actually Invites Waste and Fraud - Recently, Minnesota and Governor Tim Walz have come under scrutiny for Medicaid Fraud. The debacle received renewed focus on December 1 when Treasury Sec...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

The $20 Trillion Question: How to Spend It and How Not To - $20 trillion is a lot of money. One would expect a big bang to follow the spending of twenty-thousand billion dollars. It’s a lot of money! It’s pretty muc...
Real Clear Energy: Video

Crude Oil Prices Explained - WTI vs Brent - Trade with zero comissions, no transaction fees and a market-leading spread on crude oil.
JunkScience.com

President Trump And The Doomsday Glacier - My latest at the Daily Caller.
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

A Force and Assurance of the Soul - Montaigne on Moderation
Glenn’s Substack

Trump, Maduro, and What's Next - Five dimensional chess? Or is it six?
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Going to see the John Clarke/Fred Dagg Movie - It is a truism to stage that John Clarke was a brilliant man.
Public: Michael Shellenberger

The US Can’t Fix Venezuela And Shouldn’t Try To - The South American nation’s “resource curse” makes it ungovernable
Chris Trotter

The Gibbering Ghost of America’s Past. - What ought not to be happening is happening again.
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

An Introduction to Stan Getz in 10 Tracks - He is still famous today for his bossa nova hits—but Getz did so much more
First Stones NewsLetter

On What Planet ... are Dictatorships sovereign nations? - Right now, it is Sunday Morning, 1/4/26, and I just finished listening to Sunday Morning Political Programs talking about President Trump's actions against...
Stewart Margolis

A Government of Laws, Not Men - I’m far from the first to point this out, but so much of the support for Donald Trump (and MAGA) is reactive, coming out of fear and hatred for “the Left” ...
Can't Get Much Higher

Prince, Janet, and Streaming Delusions: 3 Hot Takes - Another newsletter that might make you made
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

"I Don't Have to Seek Anymore" - A conversation with Martijn Schirp on poker, bankruptcy, intergenerational trauma, and the path between Buddhism and psychedelics
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

“Yes, and” versus “But” - I like big “buts,” I cannot lie
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.
Sustain What

BREAKING - A Grand "Super Tusker" Elephant Dies ... of Old Age - It is wonderful that the 54-year-old “super tusker” bull elephant Craig died of old age on January 3 in Amboseli National Park in Kenya.
Flashbak

The Erotic Honeymoon Pictures, Paris 1952 - “I reacted with the title The Eye of Love. It puts into words what the photographic essay is all about: love. It is not about voyeuristic sex, it doesn’t...
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Timeline 1800-1899: the decade 1830-1839 - From Algeria to China to the Oregon Trail, plus railroads, telegraphs, reapers, and the Hudson River School.
misfits' architecture

Architecture Misfit #44: Shigenori Uoya (魚谷繁礼) - Last year’s 3rd Misfits Triennal featured many adaptive re-use projects, conversions and additions. The first week had the relaxed T-House Renovation by Fu...
The Logical Place

What is emergence? - Emergence is the idea that new properties, patterns, or behaviours arise at a higher level of organisation that are not present in, or straightforwardly pr...
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

What (the f***) just happened in Venezuela? - Love him or hate him, Trump is changing the world
The Tracinski Letter

Why the Robots Won't Eat Us - A Selection from The Tracinski Letter
Earthly Idealism

The Warmth of Collectivism - “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” So said New York’s new mayor, socialist Zohran Mamdani.
Equal to Reality

The Time is now. - Reflections for the New Year.
Dead Language Society

Why people fail at learning languages - And how you can do it better in 2026
Construction Physics

Reading List 01/03/2026 - Automated code checkers, meranti wood, shifting snowfall patterns, launching spacecraft with bullwhips, and more.
The Trichordist

2026 Music Predictions: The Legal and Policy Fault Lines Ahead - As 2026 approaches, pressure is building across AI copyright, streaming economics, and collective licensing. These predictions trace where the legal and po...
Thinking Directions

Value Jars, an Emotional Resilience Tool - Emotional resilience is your ability to recover quickly after you get triggered, so that you can take a purposeful, value-oriented emotion. The more emot...
Precise Thinking

The Pietà - —and the Power of Art
The Trumpland Diary

2025: TRUMPLAND YEAR IN REVIEW (Part 1 of 4) - How much damage is it possible to do to America in a year?
Mike’s Substack

Seinfeld and the Science of Education - Jerry Seinfeld once remarked that, “No one really knows what’s funny.” That line struck me as deeply honest—and strangely scientific.
Mike’s Substack

Seinfeld and the Science of Education - Jerry Seinfeld once remarked that, “No one really knows what’s funny.” That line struck me as deeply honest—and strangely scientific.
The Realization of Wholeness

The Death of the Homunculus - Personal Holism and Perceptual Realism
Conversable Economist

Economic Inequality Does Not Cause Lower Subjective Ratings of Well-Being - It’s become a nearly standard claim that economics inequality makes people feel worse-off, or perhaps even leads to mental illness. However, Nicolas Somm...
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Pulling Rank - Let’s start the year on a positive note. Not grounded in hope, but in data. Despite the challenges, the UK remains one of the best places in the world to...
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #28: Use Reflection to Build Authority - Clarity Grows through Looking Back
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...
Classical Compass Rose

26 Educational Truths Schools Desperately Need but Studiously Avoid - A contrarian defense of unfashionable educational concepts that are quietly indispensable, routinely dismissed, and increasingly out of step with the trend...
Austrian Economics Newsletter

Money And Collateral - Roasted Barley Is No Substitute For Coffee!
Journal of Free Black Thought

The Return of Respectability Politics? - Reflections on the quarter-zip movement
Journal of Free Black Thought

The Return of Respectability Politics? - Reflections on the quarter-zip movement
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

The Zohran Age - Inauguration Day
Perennial Meditations

Stop Fixing Yourself. Try This Instead. - Perennial Wisdom (Ep. 258)
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Blockade: The Science and Ethics of Trade - New Boudreaux/Caplan/Weinersmith collaboration coming in Fall 2027
An Africanist Perspective

2025: Year in Review - Political and economic divergence on the Continent continues apace
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Miscellaneous Sayings 1 - Donald's Commentary on The Handbook of Epictetus #33a
Why not reason?

On 2026 and beyond, I Wish My Friends the Best Premises - I disagree with the popular idea that higher‑level abstractions have no relation to the real.
The Future of Being Human

Five voices worth reading in 2026 - As I did last year, I thought I'd highlight five writers I enjoy reading, along with a recent post from each that grabbed my attention.
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Every Book I Read in 2025 - And 13,000 words of analysis
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

Every Book I Read in 2025 - And 13,000 words of analysis
SAVVY STREET

Reaction and the Modern Right: From Burke to Trump - Part I of a three-part article on traditionalism, ideology, and political reaction. The post Reaction and the Modern Right: From Burke to Trump appeared ...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

It's Almost Impossible To Fathom The Level Of Stupidity This Harvard Medical School Study Manages To Sink To - A mind-blowing addition to the COVID canon
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 ...
Africa’s Bright Future

The 2025 Lesson - 2025 was the year everything finally started to make sense.
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

A Tumultuous Year - A Look Back at 2025 On and Off This Page
Schiffradio.com

Year-End Special: My 2026 Economic and Market Forecasts - Silver didn’t just rally in 2025 — it broke out. After blasting through the multi-decade $50 ceiling and printing a violent spike into the $80s, silver f...
The Beauty of Things

Written in Darkness - A far too personal end-of-the-year contemplation of Jane Austen’s Darkness by Julia Yost
Freedom and Flourishing

What questions should I focus on in 2026? - Happy New Year! If I had asked myself at the beginning of 2025 what questions I should focus over the next 12 months I would have mentioned the implicati...
Reason for Living

Try Declarations, Not Resolutions, for 2026 - I’m trying an alternative to New Year's resolutions this year: New Year’s declarations.
Building the Builders

A New Year’s dialogue with... my AI coaching app - A builder's twist on the 2025 Year in Review
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

2025, A Retrospective - Hey all, I'm not dropping this on the actual newsletter feed because it's a little self-indulgent and I'm not sure 88,000 or so people want an email abou...
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

A Year of Real Progress for Kids - Highlights from our movement, our research, and our substack
DGMLive

Happy 2026 from Toyah & Robert - Happy 2026 from Toyah & Robert and Fripp & Eno
Energy in Depth

2025 Year in Review: Climate Litigation Campaign Losing Momentum - As 2025 comes to a close, climate lawfare finds itself in a familiar position: facing another year of courtroom losses, growing skepticism from judges, a...
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

RECOMMENDED RECORD: Great Barrier: Repetition (digital outlets) - *From time to time Elsewhere will single out a recent release we recommend on vinyl, like this which comes with a download code (excellent!) and is in a ...
HardmoneyJim

Silver is re-pricing, and it ain't over yet - HOLD ON TO YOUR PRECIOUS METALS, AND HAVE A SHINY NEW YEAR
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Short Take: On "Universal Truth" - “You pagans reject universal truth, you only believe in particularist conditional morality and truth.”
Conflicted

Not just a hat rack - Ringing in the New Year at Conflicted
Regan's Substack

Skinny Shaming - Lily Collins and the commentariat
A Halfling's View

New York Rhapsody - An Audio-visual journey
Greater Auckland

2025 – A Year in Review - Here we are at the end of 2025, so it’s time for quick wrap-up of the most important things that happened this year for urbanism and transport in our cit...
Changing Lanes

The Dark Knight Rises Is a Broken Promise - Why we remember two films, not three
Houston Strategies

2025 Highlights - Happy New Year! Time for our annual round-up of the best posts of 2025, with this year featuring as many (or more!) great posts from Oscar as from me. If y...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

Schkeuditzer Kreuz – Swan Grinding Aotearoa 2026 - Industrial Synth Crust artist Schkeuditzer Kreuz (Kieren Hills) wraps up exhaustive international tour, returning for Auckland and Wellington shows, Janu...
Autonomia

Movies: “Song Sung Blue” - Hugh Jackman as Neil Diamond tribute singer with Kate Hudson
ChinaTalk

Does Manufacturing Matter? - Chris Miller with a guest post on goal-setting for industrial policy
Africa-Israel Weekly

Israel is Unhitching its Military from the US. Africa Should Do the Same. - PM Netanyahu's Declaration of Independence Should be a Wake Up Call for Africa
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

2025: The Year in Review(s) - Jane: Well, we’ve done it again: despite the many forces militating against us (our children, your job, an exciting variety of upper respiratory infections...
Yascha Mounk

How'm I doin'? - Please give me feedback on how to make this Substack (even) better!
The Library of Celaeno

The Latest Story Ever Told - On the Jesus (Refugee) Myth
Anti-Dismal

Coase versus Becker on utility maximisation - Ronald Coase and Gary Becker explain and discuss the theory of rational maximizing utility. They describe how consumers rank preferences and then attempt t...
Flying Out

Choke Enough: Expansion Pack (Vinyl LP, Green) - *Vendor: *Because Music *Type: *OKLOU *Price: * 78.00 After the release earlier this year and the critical success of her debut album *Choke Enough*, O...
A Havenstein Moment.

Choosing Long-Term Pain over Crisis - The largest accounting fraud in history?
Splitting Headache

Somethings: Goodbye 2025 - A birthday, a tool, and an anti-heroic adventure
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

The Good and the Bad News: We’re Making Progress—But It Could Be So Much Faster - Absent massive regulatory individual rights violations, the future would already be here.
Sinification

Sinification's Best of 2025 - A collection of our favourite newsletters from 2025
Too Clever By Half

Blogger highlights of 2025 - Google introduced three new features to Blogger this year. [image: The numeral 2025] - In July, Google introduced a new system for backing up our blog...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

The $124 Billion Disaster No American Remembers: The Savings & Loans Crisis Part I - How a “boring” mortgage machine became a ticking time bomb
Cremieux Recueil

Brief Notes on Scientific Critique - You actually have to think to do it well
Market Urbanism

Are any cities becoming less car-oriented? - The CityNerd Youtube channel has a video on the ten U.S. cities “that are becoming most city-like.” One of Citynerd’s criteria grabbed my attention: he giv...
CO2 Coalition

Energy Transition Meltdown Could Mean Global Bifurcation - By Vijay Jayaraj History will likely remember 2025 as the year energy corporatists finally stopped pretending there is a climate crisis. For a decade, a ...
The Enlightened Examiner

Economics Should Study Value, Not Choice - Modern economics pretends to study value, when in fact it obliterates it via choice.
The Enlightened Examiner

Economics Should Study Value, Not Choice - Modern economics pretends to study value, when in fact it obliterates it via choice.
Sawahil

On Break Until Early January - Wishing everyone some rest and peace.
The Many Ways I Let You Down

The Messianism of Jewish Anti-Zionism - An essay against the moralisation of Jewish defeat
Wright in Racine

Wright’s Unrealized YWCA For Racine - © Mark Hertzberg (2025) Frank Lloyd Wright had a commission from H.F. Johnson Jr. to design a new YWCA building in Racine, Wisconsin in 1949. I first wrote...
What's New Under the Sun

Innovation Job Market Papers 2025 (2/2) - Dozens of papers from new PhDs about Innovation
The Future of Freedom Foundation

The U.S. Government Is Not the Daddy of U.S. Oil Companies - Among the many rationalizations that the Trump administration is using to initiate massive force and violence against the Venezuelan people is that the V...
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (24 December 2025) - Resolving the governance gap and institutionalizing global risk reduction
Point of Order

Season’s greetings - The Point of Order team extends season’s greetings to all our readers. We are taking a break for the Christmas holidays and will be back in the New Year.
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 ...
Objective Standard Institute

Zachary Porcu and Craig Biddle on the Foundations of Knowledge - Craig had a thoughtful discussion with Zachary Porcu on the source and nature of knowledge.
Truth on the Market

Google Is Not a Pipe - Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, with support from populists on both the political left and right, contends that Google Search is a common-carrier servic...
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

Faith Misunderstood, Conscience Misused: A Catholic Reflection on the NZDF Scenario and the Secular Misinterpretation of Religious Identity - A Catholic legal and moral analysis of NZDF’s scenario linking Christian communities to extremism. Calls for clarification, consultation, and religious dig...
Statecraft

How to Track Santa - "Rudolph's nose does show up on the infrared spectrum"
Asimov’s Addendum

How to Prevent Open Standards from Getting Captured Again - The bundling problem and the thin line between product and protocol.
The Rebuild

2026 New Year's Resolutions for Democrats! - 2025 was a wake-up call. The first year of Donald Trump’s comeback term brought back a familiar problem: rising costs and broken promises on affordability.
Let Grow

Why Letting Kids Do More Is the Ultimate Gift - [image: Birthday Present Father Giving Gift To Daughter] Esther Wojcicki shares why trust and independence matter more than fear, mistakes, or overprotecti...
Wildlife – PERC

It’s Time to Stop Treating Threatened and Endangered Species the Same - A public comment on the proposed rescission of the “blanket rule” that regulates threatened species as if they were endangered The post It’s Time to Stop...
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 2025-26 - Joyeuses Fêtes | Happy Holidays -
Macroscience

How Bad Is It When the Government Cancels Active Research Grants? - Are we headed for a chaotic new normal?
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

4 years ago the Biden White House issued this demeaning and nasty Xmas message - Never forget what they tried to do to you.
One Useful Thing

The Shape of AI: Jaggedness, Bottlenecks and Salients - And why Nano Banana Pro is such a big deal
Fictionosophy

Choosing Oneself: Lessons from Alchemised - Alchemised presents a dark world with strong characters who must reject the idea that suffering is noble along with unearned guilt to have a chance at happ...
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!)
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

I've been substacking all wrong - too small, too hard, too slow
Andrew Whiteside

Review: The Greatest Christmas Show - Less than a week before the big day an Australian show came to the Bruce Mason Centre in Auckland promising festive cheer, music and fun. It had a lot of c...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Bondi, Tarrant, victimhood, faith, the primitive, relativism, cultural boundaries of knowledge - Can humanity be rescued from irrationality
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

Season’s greetings – and here’s to 2026 - It’s been a funny old year, this 2025. For a start there’s been the ease with which it’s possible to make sentences that include the words ‘dumpster fire’ ...
The Breakthrough Journal

Could the U.S. Unlock a Shale Revolution for Critical Minerals? - Tapping new critical mineral resources with technology and innovation
The Intrinsic Perspective

How Kids Actually Get Good at Math in America - Teaching (Very) Early Math: Part 1 of.... yikes
Kibao

Why one of the year’s biggest AI-for-development stories isn’t actually about AI - What India’s monsoon breakthrough reveals about how technology really works in development
No Right Turn

Climate Change: Losing the battle but winning the war - Aotearoa declared a climate emergency in 2020. Despite this, the government granted petroleum exploration permits to two companies in 2021, letting htem ex...
History Reclaimed

History Reclaimed: December 2025 Newsletter - This Christmas 2025 newsletter examines British history disinformation, from BBC bias and imperial history to war cemeteries, slavery, eugenics, restitutio...
Spiked Online

Vibe Shift book launch and Q&A with Brendan O’Neill - Brendan O’Neill launches his new book Vibe Shift with a live conversation and Q&A. In a central London setting, Brendan will discuss the arguments at the...
The War on Prices

The American Public's Affordability Demands - They favor deflation and prefer deregulation to subsidies
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Staying True and Pure - I didn’t need validation from people who couldn’t understand the depth of my essence.
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

Rethinking economics (and everything else) - A conversation with Amanda Claypool
On Substack

Live video on Substack, one year in - How creators made live video their own, and where it’s going next
Existential Crunch

December 2025 Updates - Old posts, new papers
Liberty Scott

What the Gaza protestors could have done to not stir up Jew Hatred - I’m not going to pretend that I would protest for any movement that has the support of Hamas or Fatah, but of course anyone in a liberal democracy has th...
Dramatic Pause

Ghostfield: A Response - A response to Foster Group’s new work Ghostfield, a dance piece that blends the physical and projected.
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
The Kerrant

Bondi Beach, Antisemitism, and Moral Clarity - The events at Bondi Beach this week are horrifying — an act of antisemitic terror in a place synonymous with ...
The Grumpy Economist

Video - I’ve been traveling a bit lately and catching up on some writing deadlines, hence less posting than usual.
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...
Offsetting Behaviour

Surely a case for outcome-based contracting - Outcome-based contracting would have solved this: A stop smoking provider says the decision to cut its contract on the basis it has refused to hand out v...
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...
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

Technology to fashion, the paradox of originality - FILE - In this Nov.
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

A plan that isn’t really a plan - The Occasional Saturday Satire
HBL

Climate craziness takes a new twist - In retrospect, it was predictable—what climate hysterics would do as the years rolled on with more and more of their predictions being refuted by direct ob...
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...
Greg Mankiw's Blog

Principles of Economics, 11e - The new edition of my favorite textbook will be available on January 9, ready for spring semester classes.
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...
Public Lands – PERC

State Trust Land Revenue Diversification Through Conservation - Examining practical considerations for integrating conservation uses into existing trust land management frameworks. The post State Trust Land Revenue Di...
Interintellect

Grant Mulligan: Don’t die without reading the Odyssey - STARTS TONIGHT: "Why I’m hosting an Interintellect salon on a nearly 3,000-year old poem"
Michael Newberry, Artist

Unlocking the Passionate Artist Within - I saw a post on FB on the end-of-year exhibition of students at the Florence Academy of Art, and I really wanted to love it, but didn’t. The works are clea...
Ruxandra’s Substack

A manifesto for reviving biopharma productivity - When it comes to Eroom's Law, some of the most important problems are the boring ones
Croaking Cassandra

And that is that - About 15 years ago (partly thanks to a couple of years at Treasury, partly to the financial crises in the US and Europe) I started to get much more systema...
The Scholar's Stage

Book Notes: The Technological Republic (2025) - How Not to Make a Techno-Nationalist Elite
Lindsay Mitchell

Hollow Gesture Replaces Real Action - Do you ever wonder what the Office of the Children's Commissioner - with an annual budget of $11.5 million and 36 full time staff (83 percent female with...
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

PERC Reports, Winter 2025/26 - This special issue contemplates big ideas for the next era of conservation. The post PERC Reports, Winter 2025/26 appeared first on PERC.
Private Lands – PERC

PERC Reports, Winter 2025/26 - This special issue contemplates big ideas for the next era of conservation. The post PERC Reports, Winter 2025/26 appeared first on PERC.
Theatreview

WELLINGTON THEATRE AWARDS 2025 - WELLINGTON THEATRE AWARDS 2025[Links to reviews inserted by Theatreview] Most Promising Newcomer Awards (any gender or skill): Most Promising Newcomer Awar...
Roots of Progress

Announcing Progress in Medicine, a high school summer career exploration program - Starting today, high school students can apply to Progress in Medicine, a new program by the Roots of Progress Institute. What the Progress in Medicine p...
Pablo’s Translations

EL SEXO Y LOS VALORES - —por Jim Ashley, 9 de diciembre, 2023
A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

New Zealand: A Nation of the Enlightenment - “It is sometimes forgotten that New Zealand, as a neo-European society, is a securely post-Enlightenment society…. a very particular example of post- ...
Outliving Iran

The Girl Who Saved My Life - Our forbidden friendship, my impossible escape, and the hero left behind in Iran
What You Can Do For Liberty

The Unthinkable: Is It Time to Work for the Feds? - For the first time in decades, patriots have a chance to retake the bureaucracy.
The New Era

Digital ID Protest London - Jeff Peel interviews Fiona Rose Diamond ahead of the mass protest in London on Saturday against Digital ID
Forbidden Science

Notes on whether Ivermectin works for COVID-19 - Forbidden Science is a reader-supported publication.
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: November 2025 - 📣 Announcements
Jackson Upmann

Altruism Is Not the Same Thing as Being Kind - The moral confusion that turns generosity into self-destruction.
In Due Course

Anatomy of a kvetch - It appears to be an unspoken conviction, among academics, that there is no field of study so uncool that it cannot be made at least somewhat cooler by appe...
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!
Eat More Electrons

Another nuclear ban falls, this time at the Asian Development Bank - Eight quick thoughts on the trend and what it means
Democracy Project

New website: www.democracyproject.org.nz - The Democracy Project is now hosted here: www.democracyproject.org.nz The main content of the Democracy Project is at this new site, where you can sign u...
Syncretica

AI Bubble or Not - Getting specific about what bubble
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 ...
Tross Publishing

Maori population changes in the nineteenth century - By John Robinson Significance today of historic and pre-historic population estimates In the second decade of the twenty-first century, approaching 200 y...
Seiler on Science

Thomas Kuhn’s Copernican Revolution - Reflections on a classic in the history of science
Virginia Postrel

From the Archives: Gothic Revival Architecture Is Like Dreadlocks - You can try embedding ideology into a style but if people like the look, the meaning will get diluted over time.
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 ...
Eating Policy

Outcomes Review: Realigning Legislative Incentives - How might a state legislature shift from outputs to outcomes?
Notes On Liberty

“Towards a Complete Libertarianism” - from Kevin Vallier, in the latest issue of Isonomia Quarterly. Don’t forget to check out the rest, which includes essays on Hayek, the geopolitics of Green...
PM of NZ

How about you stay in your lane Mr Mayor? - A newspaper reports our local Mayor says: *a “detailed investigation” into the cause of the power cuts is needed* Leave such investigations alone, they'r...
Maximum Progress

The Florida Japan-handle - Culture, Urbanism, History and Geology in Oahu, Hawaii
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...
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Strangers - America's "stranger culture" changes your personality.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

Strangers - America's "stranger culture" changes your personality.
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...
Roberto’s Substack

The Brazilian Anarchy and the Moral Collapse of the War on Drugs - What we have seen in Rio de Janeiro is what one sees in any territory where anarchy takes root: the factual absence of a State capable of monopolizing the ...
Overthinking Everything

Making connections - If two people seem like they should know each other and don't, maybe you should fix that.
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 ...
Asymmetric Information

Are capital gains taxes fair?🍋 - NZ lacks a specific capital gains tax. But introducing one may not increase fairness.
Austin Vernon's Substack

A Nuclear Fission Regulatory Blank Slate - What if nuclear regulations were reset?
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...
Growing to Truth

Western Values or “Unity”: Republicans Can’t Have Both - Why are many Republican leaders refusing to condemn racist and authoritarian rhetoric within the party?
Growing to Truth

Western Values or “Unity”: Republicans Can’t Have Both - Why are many Republican leaders refusing to condemn racist and authoritarian rhetoric within the party?
Note to Noteworthy

Mr. Savior - Is God really a savior?
Barrie Saunders

The BSA power grab: Post 2 - Media and Communications Minister, Paul Goldsmith’s handling of the BSA power grab follow 80 years of abysmal leadership by National Party governments re b...
Martini Mandate

Pooh, AI, and the Man with a Red Flag - How you feel about the impact of AI on society depends largely on your personality. In A.A. Milne-speak, if you’re a Tigger, you’re bouncing off the wall...
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!)
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: Joel Mokyr's Nobel - A triumph for history and the importance of ideas
The Organon Architecture Blog

"Nature Near" - I was lucky enough to be invited to contribute to the local *Montessori Voices* magazine, on the vital importance of bringing nature near. It's as impor...
Freethink Media

Reversing the aging process is worth $38T. But is it possible? - Aging kills 100,000 people a day. Here’s why scientists believe that can change.
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
Gross Output

Trump Trade War Hits Business: Economy Slows to a Crawl - “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

Why the socialist Left and the populist Right are talking past each other - This blog post was first published on IEA Insider. Subscribe at insider.iea.org.uk This piece works as a follow up to The revival … Continue reading "Why...
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.
RenewNZ

Recognising Palestine feeds jihadist ideology - The New Zealand Government must not recognise the so-called state of “Palestine” at the UN this week. Doing so at this point would be a reward for barbaric...
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 ...
Notes On Liberty

If you haven't already... - ...please subscribe to this new magazine
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.
Happy Future

Surviving Involution - How long can China eat itself?
Anton Zenith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Farmville - The Autonomous Future of Agriculture
No Punches Pulled

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

February 2025 Space Stock Review - Includes Commentary on ASTS, RKLB, RDW, LUNR, PL, SPIR, SESG, and ETL
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
The Prophet of Causation

The Self-Writing Slate - Chapter 5
Premise Check (Billy Beck)

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

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

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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Technological Optimism with Thomas Walker-Werth

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Why you, personally, should want a larger human population - Also: The City That Can't, how to raise a genius, FDA reform, and more
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Understanding Trumpers - WSJ oped and substack post.
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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

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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

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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
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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
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Alastair Cavendish: British Freedom

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Rational Optimist

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

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

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Asian Invasion 2019

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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
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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...
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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...
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Armed and Dangerous

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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

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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

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The Long Run

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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...
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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...
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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

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Joakim Book | Life of an Econ Student

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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 →
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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 →
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By: Zaphod Dentbrox III PHD - You guys are a bunch of suckers for hipster creatives at an ad agency,
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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

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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

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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: […]
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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

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Oswald Bastable's Ranting

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For The New Intellectual

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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

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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...
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Tuesday, 14 April 2015

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