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Zero Hanger

Injury intrigue surrounds Adelaide star - Another injury concern at West Lakes.
Spiked Online

Parliament must have the final say on Palestine Action - The post Parliament must have the final say on Palestine Action appeared first on spiked.
The Inquiring Mind

New Tricks: #45 – S06 E06 – Last Laugh - Good cast Amanda Redman, Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Dennis Waterman with excellent supporting cast
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: To Live Without Error is Impossible - These things happen.
Techdirt

SC State Senator Proposes Bill To Remove Religious Exemptions For Vaccines In Public School Children - The current measles shitstorm in South Carolina has been burning for several months now, dating all the way back to October of 2025. What started with a bu...
Point of Order

How the PM wriggles when asked to declare his position on the future of the Māori seats - Bob Edlin writes – Can the PM support something which he regards as senseless? The answer is yes, when it comes to supporting the Māori seats. An RNZ repo...
Paul Wells

Stephen Harper's piano - What would you say if he sang out of tune?
Kiwipolitico

Media Link: “A View from Afar” returns. - For those who may be interested, my buddy Selwyn Manning and I have decided to revive the “A View from Afar” podcast next week. There is so much going on i...
Schiffradio.com

Presidents’ Day Is a Lie (It’s Washington’s Birthday) - It’s not “Presidents’ Day.” Legally, it’s George Washington’s Birthday—and we’ve quietly erased the one American who actually deserves a national holiday...
SkyscraperCity Forum

VALDIVIA | Vialidad urbana - Construcción de primer puente móvil del país comenzará en 2011 en Región de Los Ríos con inversión de $14 mil millones [image: Image] VALDIVIA.- Agost...
The Integrity Institute

Democracy Briefing: The Infrastructure plan that exposes “Broken New Zealand” - Yesterday, as the Infrastructure Commission released New Zealand’s first-ever National Infrastructure Plan, the North Island was cleaning up from yet anoth...
Sustain What

Meet "Death of Science" author John Horgan and Steve Fuller, a philosopher of knowing (and much more) - Watch now | The post-show summary and podcast post following an epic discussion.
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Disinhibited – made less inhibited; lost inhibition as by the action of interfering stimuli or events. Hat tip: PM of NZ
Watts Up With That?

Australia’s Problem Child, The BOM. - BOM should at least attempt to face and answer the many criticisms in this article. The BOM silence is deafening. Why do they decline to answer even a sing...
Real Clear Energy

Liberals Reshaping Climate Messaging - Gary Abernathy, The Empowerment Alliance Did the far left ever really believe its own rhetoric when it came to climate change? True, when it comes to the ...
One Useful Thing

A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era - It's not just chatbots anymore
The Free Press

David Mamet: Robert Duvall Was the Best Actor of His Generation - David Mamet reflects on Robert Duvall, the late, legendary lead actor of his ‘American Buffalo.’
The Daily Sceptic

News Round-Up - A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘cris...
Matua Kahurangi

BREAKING: NZ First introduces bill for binding referendum on Māori seats at 2026 election - Just after I posted my article today saying the referendum has to be binding or it’s a waste of time, NZ First has moved fast.
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Solar and wind aren’t real power sources, they’re intermittent fuel-savers - As a recent week of winter weather illustrated, solar and wind don’t replace reliable power sources—they just save them fuel, usually at great expense.
Dramatic Pause

By The Numbers: Laura Vincent - *Laura Vincent (Ngāti Māhanga, Ngāpuhi) is an author whose work spans fiction, poetry, and food writing. She has written the food blog hungryandfrozen.co...
UnHerd

Farage is preparing for power - Reform is on a mission to professionalise
Cremieux Recueil

Why Do Olympic Hosts Win More Medals? - The answer is much simpler than you might think
ArchDaily

Ger Plug-In 3.0 / District Development Unit - Over 840,000 people live in the ger districts of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, sprawling districts of gers (traditional felt tents) and self-built houses. Most ...
The Curmudgeon

Who Could Possibly Have Foreseen It? - There is no pleasing some people, and various local authority malcontents who squealed with indignation at Team Starmer's proposed postponement of council ...
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Why The MAGA Hats Are Delusional About The “Trump Economy” (Part 1) - Click on Title to Read
The Daily Doom

BURIED TRUTHS: From Inflationary Lies Buried by the Government to All that Lies Buried beneath Epstein - What follows my brief report on hot inflation is a brilliant exposé (not by me, so not bragging) that bares the architecture beneath Epstein Island—the gov...
Slow Boring

Tuesday discussion post - Some midterm updates
The UnPopulist

How the Right and the Left Converged Against Capitalism: A Conversation With John Cassidy - More people sour on this system with every technological disruption and economic crisis even though no one sees socialism as a viable alternative
Cato at Liberty

Administrative Warrants, Immigration Arrests, and the Fourth Amendment - The Founders would likely be especially alarmed that administrative warrants—whether immigration warrants or regulatory inspection warrants—can authorize e...
No Right Turn

Member's Day - Today is a Member's Day - the first of the year. First up is a the Ōtautahi Community Housing Trust (Trust Variation) Bill, a private bill to expand the ar...
The Shrewd Artist

Memoir: Chapter 16, Santa Monica Splendor (Part 1) - An Art Memoir: Depth, Light, and Love
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Memoir: Chapter 16, Santa Monica Splendor (Part 1) - An Art Memoir: Depth, Light, and Love
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla Claims They ‘Saved The World’ From COVID Despite Past Blatant Inaccuracies - After banking billions in profits, Pfizer’s leader attempts to rewrite history
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Why The MAGA Hats Are Delusional About The “Trump Economy” (Part 1) - We recently saw an X post by a pro-Trump “libertarian” and PhD economist who should know better, offering the pro-Trump nonsense quoted below in response...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Any Hope for a European Economic Renaissance? - The good news is that Europe has a lot of economic freedom by world standards. Especially Western Europe. The bad news is that economic freedom has been de...
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

The Age of AI Depends Less on Voters than on Volts - The biggest thing that could slow AI isn’t politics or local protests, it’s whether there’s enough electricity available to power those warehouse-sized s...
FIRE

He refused to censor his syllabus — so Texas Tech cancelled his class - In another blow to academic freedom in the Lone Star state, Texas Tech canceled a psychology class after the professor refused to scrub race and gender fro...
Futurism

AI Data Centers Are Now Spiking Hard Drive Prices - First RAM, now storage? The post AI Data Centers Are Now Spiking Hard Drive Prices appeared first on Futurism.
Truth on the Market

The FCC Still Thinks You Have Rabbit Ears - Federal video regulation still treats broadcast, cable, and streaming as separate worlds. Consumers do not. The gap between how the law classifies video ...
Curbed - All

The Sidewalks Are Covered in Snow-Poop. Who’s Going to Clean It Up? - The ice is melting, but a secondary problem has emerged.
The Library of Celaeno

The Canada Question - America vs. The International Right
Dead Language Society

What happens when languages collide? - A conversation with Daniel W. Hieber
Theatreview

Comment on “Katy Borrows Is Cooked” - Comment on Katy Borrows Is Cooked – “Problems with production and narrative flow subvert entertainment potential” – A much kinder review than I was expecti...
Reason Foundation

Aviation Policy News: DHS shutdown highlights airport security system’s flaws - Plus: NTSB collision report cites FAA failures, NASA's obsolete Moon launch program, and more. The post Aviation Policy News: DHS shutdown highlights air...
No Minister

A Man Is Defined By The Company He Keeps. - These face book photos say it all. A leading question there: “is that a woman Chris?”
Energy in Depth

As Newsom Targets “Big Oil” in Munich, California Relies on Global Fuel Detours - California Gov. Gavin Newsom spent last week on the global stage in Munich repeating his familiar talking points to attack U.S. oil and gas companies, bu...
Marginal Revolution

The fertility asymptote? - From a recent paper by Sebastian Galiani and Raul A. Sosa: Fertility rates have fallen below replacement in most countries, fueling predictions of demogr...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

FOO FIGHTERS Announce Australia & New Zealand TAKE COVER Stadium Tour! - Frontier Touring is thrilled to announce that one of the biggest and most beloved rock bands of all time – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees Foo Fight...
Public: Michael Shellenberger

EXCLUSIVE: CIA Must Reveal What It Knows About Epstein, Says Congresswoman - Rep. Nancy Mace urges Director John Ratcliffe to open files to the public and points to the role of agency’s National Resources Division
McFaul's World

An Embarrassed American in Europe - Trip report from the 2026 Munich Security Conference
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

A week is a long time: 14 February 2026 - A NZ Politics weekly wrap-up
JoNova

Trump may help free Cuba from Communism and the weapon is Energy - By Jo Nova Is this the End of Communism in Cuba? We don’t hear much about Cuba in Australia, but it is suffering rolling 16 hour blackouts, the streets ...
Conspicuous Cognition

AI Sessions #9: The Case Against AI Consciousness (with Anil Seth) - Watch now | What is it like to be a ChatGPT?
The Future of Being Human

How do you "do" books in an age of AI? - We've just dropped the complete text of "AI and the Art of Being Human" (the Pocket Edition) as a free AI Companion, and want to know how you will use it!
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Live with Peter Saint-Andre and Adrian Lory - A recording from Peter Saint-Andre's live video
IPWatchdog Articles

Reexamination vs. IPR: Which is Better for Patent Owners? - This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we discuss whether patent owners are better off facing post-grant challenges at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB...
Kiwiblog

More taxpayer funded union corruption - The Taxpayers’ Union reports: The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union can reveal through an Official Information Act requestthat staff at the Ministry of Educat...
Samizdata

Labour isn’t working – again - Numbers don’t lie. In the 12 months to the end of January 2023, the UK lost more than 130,000 payrolled jobs – unlike the embattled Labour Force Survey m...
The Daily Economy

Iran Partially Closes the Strait of Hormuz -
Breaking Views

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: What do the birth statistics say about our society? - You want some fascinating data about how we’ve changed in the past 60 years? Have a look at the birth statistics out today - especially the age at which mu...
Middle East Uncovered

The American Artist Working to Restore Iraq's Garden of Eden - After Saddam Hussein drained the ancient marshes, one artist joined engineers and locals to bring water, health, and vitality back to the Ahwar—reviving we...
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Dumb and Dumber (Nos. 127-128) - Watching the Education Apocalypse in Slow Motion
The Double Standard

Open Mike 18/02/2026 - 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 Rebuild

The Affordability Report: Week of February 17th - I hope everyone had a great long weekend!
The Grumpy Economist

A new Fed-Treasury Accord? - A reporter asked me about a new Fed-Treasury Accord, referencing articles in Bloomberg and Forbes about Kevin Warsh’s comments.
Wildlife – PERC

Keeping Working Lands—and Wildlife—Moving in Paradise Valley - An update on PERC’s Paradise Valley Fence Fund The post Keeping Working Lands—and Wildlife—Moving in Paradise Valley appeared first on PERC.
Private Lands – PERC

Keeping Working Lands—and Wildlife—Moving in Paradise Valley - An update on PERC’s Paradise Valley Fence Fund The post Keeping Working Lands—and Wildlife—Moving in Paradise Valley appeared first on PERC.
The Breakthrough Journal

Data Centers Won’t Be In Space Anytime Soon - We Don't Need to Leave the Earth Behind
American Energy Alliance

Cold Weather Shows Dangers Of EV-For-All Policies - Electric vehicle owners reported a loss of range of as much as 30 percent when the polar vortex swept through the Midwestern and Northeastern states in l...
Marcus on AI

Rumors of AGI’s arrival have been greatly exaggerated - Statistical approximation ≠ general intelligence
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Why Politicians Should Stay Inside the Overton Window (Even When the Cause Is Just) - An pseudonymous guest post by "Chris Andrews"
Why Evolution Is True

There isn’t a revival of religion in America - I was sent the article below I mentioned the ubiquitous claim that there’s a religious revival in America, supposedly because people are experiencing a los...
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Stoicism and the Tin-Can Monster - How to take your problems apart like you're disassembling a tin-can monster
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

The Water Vapor Problem - The weak point in EPA greenhouse gas regulation
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Mate Deprivation Hypothesis, Friendship, Crime - Links and recommendations
Energy Transition Absurdities

U.S. LNG: America’s Engine Of Growth And Security - Americans have witnessed a remarkable transformation of the U.S.
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

The Non-Far Left and its Friends - Programming note: Our Clubland Q&A returns tomorrow. Please join me on Wednesday for an hour of questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the plan...
Gus Van Horn

Can the Pardon Power Be Fixed Quickly? - According to reports, Representative Don Bacon (R-NE) has agreed to cosponsor a constitutional amendment that would give Congress oversight over presidenti...
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

The Problem with "White Culture" - Identities are meant to communicate something about the world
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander Stacked the Board with Socialists - Another patriotic American's fortune is being looted by DEI commissars to demoralize the humanities - the board is even worse than the president
The New York Review of Books

A Bitter Winter in Ukraine - Four years after their full-scale invasion, the Russians are trying to freeze Ukraine into submission by relentlessly attacking the country’s energy grid.
Persuasion

The Fallacy Fallacy - Why you shouldn't go looking for faulty reasoning everywhere.
Notes On Liberty

New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is out now! - Enjoy it here…
Institute for Energy Research

President Trump Announced a Strategic Stockpile of Critical Minerals, the U.S. Strategic Critical Minerals Reserve - President Trump is launching a $12 billion stockpile of critical and rare-earth minerals, called “Project Vault,” to reduce reliance on… The post Preside...
Perennial Meditations

The Courage to Care - Perennial Meditations (Vol. 12)
Changing Lanes

Waymo’s Remote Assistance Isn’t Scandalous - Normalize talking about the human–AV partnership
ChinaTalk

How the US Won Back Chip Manufacturing - State capacity from scratch
bad cattitude

the informational abyss gazes also - and the hunter becomes the hunted
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Why the World Is Drawing a Line on Social Media for Kids - What looked politically impossible just months ago has become a global movement to restrict kids’ access to social media. Here’s how it happened.
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

Weaponizing the FDA Against Vaccines - By rejecting Moderna’s application for an mRNA influenza vaccine, RFK Jr.’s FDA is advancing his anti-vaccine agenda.
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

The 1970s Movie That Revealed the True Terror of a Deep State - “Hey Turner? How do you know they’ll print it?”
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 1016 Dassault means trouble. LatAm's labour market. National security muffins & Gadamer's secrets to longevity. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Living Resources Center

Leftists Cannot Stand Dissension - It’s not really “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” It’s not even “Republican Derangement Syndrome.” The psychological malady might be called “Knowing-that- o...
Yascha Mounk

Jacob Savage on the Costs of the Great Awokening - Yascha Mounk and Jacob Savage discuss how diversity initiatives materially impacted young white men’s professional prospects in media, academia, and Hollyw...
Doomberg

More Cowbell - Thoughts on what’s missing from the 20th sanctions package against Russia.
Law & Liberty

A Forgotten Freedom? - Luke Sheahan discusses freedom of association with *Law & Liberty* editor, John Grove, on this episode of the *Law & Liberty Podcast*.
EconLog

Learning the Bitter Lesson in 2026 - To prepare for teaching, I am reading a famous article in AI research: *The Bitter Lesson*, written by Richard Sutton in 2019. I wondered what would seem...
Tim Worstall

You know, like….. - The term the politics of hate describes the deliberate use of fear, resentment, and division to win and hold power. It works by persuading people that th...
The Logical Place

The Moral Failure of Pacifism - Pacifism presents itself as the highest moral ground: a principled refusal to engage in violence, an insistence that killing is always wrong, and a hope th...
Retraction Watch

Gynecologists in Italy collect more retractions and an expression of concern - A group of gynecologists in Italy has tallied yet another retraction, this time for an article with “significant overlap” with the methods, data and text o...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

The Cult | A Net Zero Watch Short Film - By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby The brilliant Colin Brazier returns for our second short film on the cult of Net Zero and how it protects ‘green’ poli...
Mises Wire

Why Mises's The Theory of Money and Credit Is Still Important Today - Ludwig von Mises’s first major work was The Theory of Money and Credit in which he explained the role of money in the economy and also pointed out what cau...
Mises Institute Blog

Why Mises's The Theory of Money and Credit Is Still Important Today - Ludwig von Mises’s first major work was The Theory of Money and Credit in which he explained the role of money in the economy and also pointed out what cau...
Quotulatiousness

The three core false claims of wokeness - Lorenzo Warby analyzes the three claims that underpin the intellectual structure of all the sub-categories derived from Critical Theory: Universities acros...
The Cobden Centre

Weird scenes inside the gold mine - “Perhaps in his choice for Fed chairman, President Trump should have nominated David Copperfield instead.” “The stock market is the only market where thing...
Hoover institution Commentary

US-China Economic And Security Review Commission Holds A Hearing On "India, China, And The Balance Of Power In The Indo-Pacific" - Hoover Institution fellow Tarun Chhabra will be participating in a hearing on February 17, 2026 at 9:30 AM to discuss "Economic and Technology Stakes in Ch...
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

To remind of a Paul Krugman point - Something the Good Krugman* once wrote was that economies do have to add up. The specific example was about wages not tracking productivity changes. If t...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Mission Accomplished? A Reality Check on Trump’s Tariffs - At the end of January, President Trump penned a triumphant op-ed declaring “Mission Accomplished” for the signature economic policy of his second term: t...
American Institute of Economic Research

Mission Accomplished? A Reality Check on Trump’s Tariffs - At the end of January, President Trump penned a triumphant op-ed declaring “Mission Accomplished” for the signature economic policy of his second term: t...
An Africanist Perspective

How African policymakers should prepare for the coming commodity boom - Projections point to elevated commodity prices in important sectors. Here's how African policymakers can avoid mistakes of the past.
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Current Policy on Hamas Disarmament: If You Wish Hard Enough, It Will Happen #1661 -
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

Yes, Republicans Support Solar and the Environment. My City Is Living Proof. - Last week, a poll from Trump-aligned pollster Fabrizio, Lee & Associates shocked the chattering class by finding 70% of Republican voters support American-...
Quillette

Populism’s Self-Defeating Trap - Populist rhetoric is exceptionally effective for pursuing and gaining power, but it provides no program for the complexities of actual governance.
Capitalism Magazine

The Delusions and Dangers of the New Mercantilism - Trump has assumed the powers of a near absolute monarch to decide when, why, and against whom he will arbitrarily raise and lower and raise again tariffs o...
Stats Chat

Super Rugby Predictions for Week 2 - Team Ratings for Week 2 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ra...
Chris Trotter

On the Right Side. - By announcing an inquiry into the Reserve Banks’ handling of monetary policy in the time of Covid, has Nicola Willis come up with a highly-effective soluti...
The Whakataki Times

“We Should Go For A Coffee Sometime” Still The Best Exit Strategy From Small Talk Entrapment - POLITE ESCAPE. The post “We Should Go For A Coffee Sometime” Still The Best Exit Strategy From Small Talk Entrapment appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
Flying Out

MELT - *Vendor: *Scenic Route *Type: *MS RAY *Price: * 76.00 Following her contribution to Scenic Route’s Road Less Travelled 2, MS RAY returns with MELT — a ...
JunkScience.com

Milloy talks endangerment finding, California energy prices and more on FOX Business - From the February 16, 2026 edition of The Bottom Line.
A Havenstein Moment.

Absolutely insane and devoid of common sense - Totally insane cognitive dissonance
Interintellect

New book clubs on Interintellect: JS Mill, Musil, Dickens, Nietzsche. The Peregrine. And more. - My abundance agenda for ideas.
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

Sparks for You #14 - How is teaching like gardening?
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Education processes and outcomes continue to get worse under the current coalition. - A lot has been made of “significant” changes to the NZ education system under Erica Stanford.
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

AI Agonistes - Time for the industry to put up or shut up
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

8PM LIVE TONIGHT – The Bradbury Group with Salvation Army State of the Nation + Phil Goff + Matthew Hooton - 1-on-1 in 10 Interview – Salvation Army State of the Nation Report Salvation Army Social Policy & Parliamentary Unit Director...
Andrew Whiteside

Movie Review: Wuthering Heights is disappointing - The novel Wuthering Heights is a morality tale full of intense passion that explores the complex psychology of love and betrayal. Tackling this depth on fi...
Conversable Economist

Some Evidence on AI, Productivity, and Labor Markets - On question about how artificial intelligence will affect jobs and productivity, the honest answer is that the actual empirical evidence is pretty thin. ...
Risk & Progress

The Gravity Telescope - From Galileo’s glass to gravity’s grand lens
John D. Cook

Visualizing orbital velocity - The shape of a planet’s orbit around a star is an ellipse. To put it another way, a plot of the position of a planet’s orbit over time forms an ellipse. ...
Anthony B. Bradley

The Crisis Is Not the Boys. It Is the Fathers. - The City of Birmingham has launched an initiative that warrants national attention: a targeted intervention for Black boys ages 8 to 14.
Anthony B. Bradley

The Crisis Is Not the Boys. It Is the Fathers. - The City of Birmingham has launched an initiative that warrants national attention: a targeted intervention for Black boys ages 8 to 14.
The Footy Almanac

‘Schnozzer’ McKay Retires - Poet Damian Balassone examines a footy injury coming at the wrong time for a star footballer.
HBL

False: All claims, positive or negative, require evidence - A member wrote: The burden of proof is on him who claims to know. Yes, I cover this in How We Know. I think the articles published under Ayn Rand’s editors...
The Roots of Progress

Policy: From ideas to real-world change - Talks and writing from Progress Conference 2025
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

The Live Music Event That Changed My Life - I met my destiny, and nothing would be the same afterwards
Libertarian Land

Tariffs as Fiscal Policy - President Trump has claimed his tariffs will raise enough revenue to allow for income tax cuts.
Virginia Postrel

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

De maart-equinox staat voor de deur! - Op welk halfrond je ook woont, de equinox staat voor seizoensveranderingen en balans. Verwelkom deze veranderingen met een uniek souvenir! Je krijgt van 19...
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

Help Fund "The Illegal Highways": Donate to Amplify Victims' Voices and Expose a Deadly Industry - Give Send Go Campaign Link - https://www.givesendgo.com/theillegalhighways
Why not reason?

When silence is the wise thing to do - Better late than never to learn this:
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Ep24 "Which Way Western Man?" Part 1 w/ Brynhildr - The Start of a long series discussing and close reading “Which Way Western Man?” by William Gayley Simpson (1892-1990) The work that introduced Nietzsche t...
GeekPress

Light Posting Notice - *Admin note*: Due to external circumstance, posting may be very light/irregular for the next few weeks.
Toppermost

Peter Case - Peter Case first came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s with the power pop bands, the Nerves and the Plimsouls. The post Peter Case appeared first on...
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #34: The Callback - You said it. They loved it. Say it again.
Kunstler

Epstein-itis - "If you tolerate the intolerable, you’re communicating that it’s okay to mistreat you." —Aimee Terese on X
The Roots of Liberty

Craving Peace - I recently saw two posts on my social media feed.
Astral Codex Ten

Open Thread 421 - ...
Flashbak

Scenes From Barcelona in 1976 - To Barcelona in 1976 in the company of Manel Armengol. This was a year after the death of leader General Francisco Franco (4 December 1892 – 20 Novembe...
The Antiplanner

Why Are Transit Buses So Expensive? - One argument against rail transit is that rail vehicles cost a lot more than buses, even when adjusting for numbers of seats and vehicle lifespans. The tra...
The Antiplanner

Why Are Transit Buses So Expensive? - One argument against rail transit is that rail vehicles cost a lot more than buses, even when adjusting for numbers of seats and vehicle lifespans. The tra...
Real Clear Energy: Video

President Trump Makes Huge Announcement With Administrator of EPA -
Manhattan Contrarian

EPA's Greenhouse Gas "Endangerment Finding": Finally Gone - * On Thursday (February 12) President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin held a press briefing at the White House where they announced the issuance of ...
The Trichordist

Is it still windowing if we never stream? Or is it a strike? - Streaming platforms may claim neutrality toward AI-generated music, but the economics tell a different story. If AI tracks enter the royalty pool without c...
Market Urbanism

Supply skepticism lite - A recent “supply skeptic” paper by various academics has gotten a lot of attention in housing-related social media. The somewhat sensationalistic title is:...
PM of NZ

Mot du jour numero 12345 - Noticed in despatches today. "*Disinhibited*" The usage: The afore-mentioned esteemed member of the judiciary was disinhibited after having possibly q...
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Ragger: Euphonic Sounds (digital outlets) - As regular visitors to Elsewhere will attest, they don't come here for the usual kinds of music. We, of course, do some of that, but we also do this: int...
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: When I Want Your Opinion, I’ll Give It To You - Samuel Goldwyn? Bill Keisler? Bobby Wayne? Vladimir Semyonov? Sam Levenson? Laurence J. Peter? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: The following as...
Greater Auckland

Midtown Trial: How AT are making a mess of Queen St & Wellesley St - Just before Christmas, Auckland Transport (AT) let slip a plan for a two-year “trial” of bringing back overnight traffic along Queen Street. Specifically,...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

In which Marco Rubio receives a standing ovation from the Eurotards for his speech attacking mass migration, "the climate cult" and liberal universalism - Almost exactly a year ago, the newly minted U.S.
CO2 Coalition

Judge Rejects Climate Dogma, Begins to Restore Integrity - by Vijay Jayaraj In a bold stroke against the pseudoscience of climate alarmism, U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg has removed a deeply flawed discussi...
Israel Institute of NZ

The “109 Countries” Lie: How Antisemitic Myths Masquerade as History - Scroll through almost any heated discussion about Jews, Israel, or antisemitism — on social media, comment sections, or activist forums — and a familiar li...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Lot’s Mob and Drunk Incestous Sex—and How to Interpret Scripture - I posted a link to the shocking Biblical story of Lot’s offering his virgin daughters to a mob for sex and later having incestuous sex with them. (Link and...
Equal to Reality

The Hidden Engine of Value - Why true capitalism is more than profit: the principles that distinguish lasting value from mere financial gain.
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

"The Great Feminization" - What Are the Causes and Effects of the Unprecedented Influence of Women
Can't Get Much Higher

What are the Best Beatles Covers? Link Drop - A round-up of the most important stories in music right now
History Reclaimed

Colonial Employment Legislation in India and Ceylon - It is often claimed that British imperial history is a story of exploitation. If that's the case, why did the British legislate to protect workers' condit...
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.
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

Legality Is Not Legitimacy: How Lawful Appointments Can Erode Public Trust in New Zealand - A lawful process is not always a legitimate one. Exploring how political appointments, revolving doors, and institutional trust shape New Zealand’s standin...
misfits' architecture

Misfits’ Guide to TOKYO #2 - If Misfits’ Guide to TOKYO #1 was about my recommendations to see buildings that are probably going to be around for a long time to come, then this post is...
Skeptic

It’s About Respect, Stupid - In 2020 Joe Biden became the first Democratic nominee in 36 years without a degree from the Ivy League. Obama, before him, filled no less than two-third...
Too Clever By Half

When a blogging account is deleted - Have you seen this blog? ¶ Deleting an account *might* delete the blog or blogs it owns—but it might not. ¶ And deleting the account might have other...
The Economic LongWave

50% Cash. +25% Return. In a Late-Cycle Market. 🌊💰 - While others chased pure equity gains, TELTAAM generated yield, rode the hard-asset surge, and preserved dry powder for the coming Economic Winter ❄️🔥
Construction Physics

Reading list 02/14/26 - Welcome to the reading list, a weekly list of news and links related to buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology.
DGMLive

Toyah & Robert's Weekend - Toyah & Robert's latest Upbeat Moments and a vintage Sunday Lunch!
The Jolly Libertarian

A Chat With CoPilot on Artificial General Intelligence and Sentience Part 2 - Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky! *Earlier in this two part series I chatted with CoPilot about what AGI is, contrasting it with AI as it now exists. We d...
Tim’s Substack

The Border Appears Closed, but it Still Leaks - The only way to seal our Southern Border is to bring back the Army
Glenn’s Substack

The Coming Revolution Down South - Will Cuba be Libre soon, and if so what happens next? And after that?
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...
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Premium: The AI Data Center Financial Crisis - Since the beginning of 2023, big tech has spent over $814 billion in capital expenditures, with a large portion of that going towards meeting the demands...
The Tracinski Letter

The Big Immigration Lie - A News Link Round-Up
Stewart Margolis

What to Make of the Epstein Files - Remember when MAGA demanded to see the Epstein files because they thought it would be damaging for the Democrats?
The Realization of Wholeness

Hamnet - The Genius and Agnes and Will
Statecraft

How to Rewire City Hall - “Mayors have a lot of FOMO”
Gale Winds

Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking: Love, Like Resources, Does Not Run Out - New study shows us that the idea of “inexhaustibility” applies just as well to intangible assets as to physical ones.
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

In defence of educational caution - The Occasional Saturday Satire
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

My debate with a former-DHS Secretary - Is mass deportation "necessary"?
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

My debate with a former-DHS Secretary - Is mass deportation "necessary"?
Classical Compass Rose

Historical Amnesia Isn't an Accident. It's the Plan! - Teaching Western Civilization is not conservative. It is subversive. Every timeline is an act of defiance. Every primary source is a check on manipulation....
The Enlightened Examiner

The Two Palestines - Does ‘Palestine’ represent the oppressed, or a tiger justly confined to a cage?
The Enlightened Examiner

The Two Palestines - Does ‘Palestine’ represent the oppressed, or a tiger justly confined to a cage?
Journal of Free Black Thought

Identity, from Kafka to Ellison to AI - My conversation with an LLM
Journal of Free Black Thought

Identity, from Kafka to Ellison to AI - My conversation with an LLM
Doug Casey's International Man

The Affordability Crisis and the UniParty’s Inflation Shell Game - Why electric bills, groceries, and everyday essentials explain the affordability crisis better than rigged government statistics. The post The Affordabil...
Sawahil

West Africa, Horn, MENA: Links for 2/13/2026 - News and analysis from Dakar to Riyadh.
Overthinking Everything

The hard problem with hard problems - For reasons that are neither here nor there, I’ve been getting Claude Code to write a solar system simulation for me recently.
The Trumpland Diary

I Watched the Entire Turning Point USA Halftime Show So You Don't Have To - However bad you're thinking it was, it was much, MUCH worse
Jackson Upmann

3 Months, 1 Habit, Stronger Self-Esteem - How Tracking Wins Is Transforming My Confidence
Austin Vernon's Substack

Speed Can Reindustrialize America - Reviving manufacturing doesn't require a planned economy, just a better business model.
What You Can Do For Liberty

Advice From Milton Friedman: Find Allies - In politics, it takes a critical mass to get anything done.
On Substack

New on Substack: Publication design settings, recipe embeds, and live video scheduling on Android and desktop - Design your space, publish richer posts, and boost turnout for your live video
Macroscience

Do Not Surrender to the Tech Tree - A defense of human agency in a techno-deterministic world
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 500 - An Ongoing Tale of Two Fields: The Nakagin Capsule Tower (1972-2022) - For this significant milestone - *blog post 500* - we close a series on how events, exhibits, publications, and comparisons to other industries have ins...
Uncharted Territories

SpaceX + xAI Merger, IPO, Data Centers and Moon Base - Datacenters in space, merger, IPO, pivot to the Moon... All are happening at the same time. Why? They're connected in unexpected ways.
The New Era

Technocracy Rising - Watch now | Patrick Wood and Hrvoje Morić discuss the Epstein file release, Tether, Mark Carney's speech at Davos...and the galloping pace of technocracy.
Sinification

Why China Is Falling Behind in AI | by PKU Scholar Hou Hong - "[Chinese] entrepreneurs are left with a stark choice: bow down to platform dominance or flee overseas." – Hou Hong
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, ...
Lindsay Mitchell

A litany of excuses - The latest Salvation Army *State of the Nation Report 2026* presents a litany of excuses for the sorry state of New Zealand's social statistics, in parti...
HardmoneyJim

Breaking: Texas launches new gold coins - is this a step toward monetization? - THESE COINS ARE NOT "LEGAL TENDER," BUT THIS MOVE SEEMS TO BE A STEP IN THAT DIRECTION
The Prophet of Causation

The Uncaused Life - Chapter 10
The Future of Freedom Foundation

A Grand Jury Nullification of Malicious Tyranny - In what can be called an act of grand-jury nullification, a federal grand jury has rebuffed an effort by the U.S. Justice Department to seek criminal ind...
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Inflation in Rome, Weimar Germany and Soviet Russia with Mark Koyama - Episode 12 of of the Works in Progress podcast is about how inflation undermines state capacity.
Ruxandra’s Substack

The FDA should not change its mind last minute - In which I discuss the implications of the FDA's latest decision on Moderna's influenza vaccine
First Stones NewsLetter

PsycHHology Engineering + Age Of Selfishness: How to (maybe) cure yourself of your bipolar problems. - How to cure yourself of your bipolar problems—the ones that are psych(h)ological in nature.
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Three Big Ideas #54 - *Three Big Ideas* is our fortnightly roundup of ideas (and our takes on them) in entrepreneurship, innovation, science and technology, handpicked by the ...
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Timeline 1800-1899: Music of 1840-1849 - Verdi, Liszt, Gottschalk.
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

Former CDC Director Drops Bombshells: Lab Leak, Vaccine Warnings, and the Cover-Up - Robert Redfield on the lab leak, masks, mRNA vaccines, and why the Proximal Origin paper is "close to fraud."
A Halfling's View

Publication and Interpretation - Part 1 - What Burrows v Police Tells Us About Publication
Liberty Scott

Herzog deserves to be welcomed - If Isaac Herzog were not Jewish and certainly were not Israeli, an objective assessment of him would see him ticking most mainstream liberal boxes on pol...
Let Grow

Mom vs. Dad: Let Son, 6, Ride Bike Alone? - [image: Boy On Bike] A 6-year-old rode off on his bike and stayed out for two hours, without his parents knowing where he was. That would have had me, yep,...
The Weekly Sift

Uncooperative Responses - No Sift next week. The next new posts will appear on February 23. Our response should not be “This response to Bad Bunny’s inclusion shows how divided we a...
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (February 2026) - What the Doomsday Clock and annual global risk reports are telling us
Freedom and Flourishing

Can the rise of populism be explained as a reaction to the rule of experts? - In an essay written over 15 years ago I observed that we were beginning to see a populist reaction to the rule of experts in the United States and (to ...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

The U.S. Savings & Loans Crisis Part II: Band-Aids on a Dying Industry: The 1970s Presidents Who Kicked the S&L Can Down the Road - A government engineered crisis, where there was no good solution
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

What changed this week - The Stoic Vault has been open for six days.
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

Why Birthrates Are Irrelevant Under Capitalism - Thinking morally Right or Wrong, not politically left or right, about birthrates requires opposing collectivist intrusion in family life.
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

When consensus cracks - What we can learn from the disintegrating consensus upholding the pediatric gender industry.
Fictionosophy

Self-Discovery in John Varley's Gaean Trilogy - John Varley's Gaean trilogy is full of romance, friendship, culture shocks, tough moral questions, and reflections on leadership and community.
The Beauty of Things

Is Social Media Bad for Your Poetry? - I've been asked a bunch of questions related to social media and poetry. I'll try to answer them. But first... A SESTINA!
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...
The Intrinsic Perspective

My New Org to Solve Consciousness (or Die Trying); A Rogue AI Community That Wasn't; David Foster Wallace Is Still Right; Cow Tools Are Real, & More - Desiderata #38: links and commentary
New Zealand Arts Review

The Europa Film Festival - John Daly-Peoples Europa Film Festival Bridgeway Cinemas, AucklandThu 19 Feb – Wed 4 March John Daly-Peoples The Europa Film Festival opens with Testament ...
Roberto’s Substack

Severity, Law, and the Collapse of Proportion - Why Not All Wrongdoing Is Equal—and Why That Matters
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

India's freedom from global blocs is the future - The case for autonomy in a fractured wor
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

Sneak Peek: 'Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth' - The celebrated 20th century American painter's works are currently on display at North Florida's Cummer Museum
Existential Crunch

Strong democracies are a necessity for crisis management - Why crisis governance depends on democratic capacity
Asimov’s Addendum

Can Open Source Survive AI? - The stories of Stack Overflow, Tailwind, FFmpeg, and curl
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for January, 2026: +0.35 deg. C - The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for January, 2026 was +0.35 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, up a littl...
Forbidden Science

Why I am suing Texas Tech - And how you can help
Free Range Kids

The Real Reason You’re Sitting in the Drop-Off Line - OMG is this a distressing — and well-documented — piece by Charles Marohn at Strong Towns on one reason kids are walking and biking to school less and le...
Harry’s Substack

One quick question - -- that puts ICE in perspective
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: January 2026 - 📣 Announcements
Autonomia

Movies: Melania - Amazon’s new film about the First Lady tantalizes
Barrie Saunders

Cutting losses – governments too slow to learn - Updated 3.20pm Business generally works out when to cut losses because the risks of failure are too high for shareholders and workers. Government on the ot...
Tross Publishing

NEW BOOK FROM TROSS PUBLISHING - It is with both pleasure and pride that Tross Publishing presents a new, ground-breaking book, "Who was behind the Bolshevik Revolution?" by Ron Asher. R...
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...
Greg Mankiw's Blog

Congrats to President Trump and Kevin Warsh - As readers of this blog know, I am not a fan of most of President Trump's economic policy, especially regarding international trade. But today the presid...
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...
Outliving Iran

How to Be a Hero - Nothing is too terrifying if you understand it
Building the Builders

The psychology of evil - How to think about the worst in your friends, your enemies, and yourself
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...
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

JOINT REVIEW: Philosophy Between the Lines, by Arthur M. Melzer - Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing, Arthur M.
Africa-Israel Weekly

'iShowSpeed' Shows Arab Racism, (Slavery) of Black Africans - Like Black Eldridge Cleaver in 1969. popular Black American Influencer given rude awakening in Algeria
Conflicted

Pardon me, your intent is showing - How a National Academy of Science event created an organization that legitimizes severe constraint on open debate about climate and energy
The War on Prices

Profit-Led Inflation: Trivial or Wrong? - A good new overview from Christopher Conlon
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

on tedium - repeatedly doing a thing that's not working
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...
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

New Report: Texas Water Policy Can Promote Conservation and Limit Waste - Voluntary water markets offer a path to protect farms, cities, and rivers without mandates The post New Report: Texas Water Policy Can Promote Conservati...
Spiked Online

spiked summit 2026 – supporter tickets - 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....
Eat More Electrons

What is Think Tank impact? (And what is it not?) - Why no one should care about your 18 reports
Public Lands – PERC

A Better Way To Fund National Parks—Paid For By Their Most Eager Visitors - When those tourists visit national parks, they’ll be supporting them more than ever. The post A Better Way To Fund National Parks—Paid For By Their Most ...
Michael Newberry, Artist

The Payoff of Visual Perception: Exaltation - Seeing through an artist’s eyes Another work that recently came back into my possession is this life drawing on red paper (1987), I was 30, and it was the ...
Leport’s Substack

Looking for reviews - Dear friends and family,
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 "...
Precise Thinking

Mary’s Monumental Survival - The Secular Side of the Story
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...
In Due Course

What colourblindness hath wrought - One of the more questionable trends in social justice thinking over the past decade has been the suggestion that there is something wrong with “colourblind...
Splitting Headache

Somethings: Mightier than the sword - My favorite pen, electric dreams and a really (un)lucky woman
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: Tudor Trade War - The true effects of Henry VII's "industrial policy"
The Scholar's Stage

35 Theses on the WASPs - On the Rise and Fall of a Past Establishment
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
Africa’s Bright Future

Why I Sued Próspera Africa for Defamation - Update on my efforts to advance startup cities in Africa
Note to Noteworthy

Christianity Inverts Morality - Christian morality distorts the true purpose of morality, turning a tool for flourishing into a destroyer of life.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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 ...
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.
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...
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...
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 ...
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.
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!)
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 Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Staying True and Pure - I didn’t need validation from people who couldn’t understand the depth of my essence.
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...
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...
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...
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- ...
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!
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 ...
Seiler on Science

Thomas Kuhn’s Copernican Revolution - Reflections on a classic in the history of science
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?
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...
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.
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?
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!)
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
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 ...
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
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 ...
a/symmetric

We're going on hiatus - But do stick around
Reviews - 13th Floor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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