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Watts Up With That?

Another California refinery closure will threaten national and global economies - Jet fuel from refineries based in foreign countries face monumental logistical challenges to keep California airports open. The post Another California r...
AAS Economics (Frank Shostak)

Oh No! It's More Growth... - Which means one thing...
Journal of Free Black Thought

The Karmelo Anthony Verdict in Biblical Perspective - We must not tribalize tragedy
Journal of Free Black Thought

The Karmelo Anthony Verdict in Biblical Perspective - We must not tribalize tragedy
The Inquiring Mind

Beyond Our Ken: #16 – S1E16 – My Resistance Is Low - First broadcast in 1958
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

Learning the Declaration’s Ideas Again - Justice Gorsuch would be cheered by responses to several of the questions in AEI’s new America at 250 survey. A substantial majority (85 percent) said th...
Brownstone Institute

The Infectious Disease Frenzy - The Infectious Disease Frenzy by David Bell at Brownstone Institute [image: The Infectious Disease Frenzy] In our enlightened age the public seems tirele...
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

Ending world hunger - World hunger these days it seems to be just a product of one or more of three things: genocide, civil war and socialism. Could there be a solution that m...
The Daily Sceptic

BBC Children’s Show “Influenced by Pro-Migrant Campaigners” - Pro-migrant campaigners boasted that they had influenced a BBC children’s television show as part of an attempt to change attitudes to asylum seekers. Th...
EconLog

Fiscal Dominance and the Politicization of Money - *Fiscal Dominance and the Politicization of Money* Much of the contemporary debate about monetary policy focuses on technical questions: whether reserves...
Mises Wire

Why Justice Mattered to Rothbard - Economists like Harold Demsetz and Ronald Coase based their property rights views on utilitarianism. Murray Rothbard based his on justice.
Sinification

Huang Qifan on China’s Trade Surplus Problem - "From an economic perspective, there are several ways to reduce an excessively large export surplus, the first of which is to allow moderate appreciation o...
Zero Hanger

“Work ethic is noticeable”: Experienced recruit on young Eagles - The defender has an important role to play in the coming weeks with a teammate sidelined.
Tim Worstall

Erm, no. - Firstly, this is a subsidy for employing British workers funded by a tax on employing migrants. Reform is trying to change employer behaviour through the...
Samizdata

Samizdata second quote of the day – The Fixed Quantity of Biscuits fallacy - There is a never ending number of biscuits, not finite. Socialists think there is a biscuit tin under the bed, everyone has to share, 1 for you, 1 for me...
American Institute of Economic Research

Nearly All Monetary Rules Say the Fed Should Raise Rates - The Federal Open Market Committee is widely expected to leave its policy rate unchanged this week, with the CME Group FedWatch tool implying a 98 percent...
The Cobden Centre

The Artificial Intelligence Revolution Published - After two years of work, our book, The Artificial Intelligence Revolution, is now published by Springer Nature. It was a pleasure working with Lord...
Hoover institution Commentary

Key Point -
PM of NZ

Mentioned in dispatches - Aardvark has made Te News! In the long-standing arm's length Mayor vs. local Mr Bruce Simpson war on the right to independently film public meetings, the...
The Double Standard

Daily review 16/06/2026 - Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the P...
No Right Turn

The price of justice - Last year, the regime rammed through the Equal Pay Amendment Act under urgency, gutting pay equity laws, dumping all claims, and stealing $13 billion from ...
Real Clear Energy

Fueling the Coming Nuclear Renaissance - Duggan Flanakin, RCEnergy Saskatoon-based Cameco is a 21st-century global nuclear energy leader as North America's largest supplier of nuclear fuel for fis...
Quillette

The Last Canadian Politician I’d Trust to Police the Internet - Marc Miller spread misinformation about unmarked graves and supports the criminal prosecution of residential-school ‘denialists.’ Why would Mark Carney use...
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Vestigial – a body part, organ, or trait that has become small, underdeveloped, or functionless through evolution, having lost its original purpose found i...
Kiwiblog

Thank goodness Simeon is Health Minister - The Post reports: Health Minister Simeon Brown has removed the leadership of New Zealand’s medical regulator, accusing the Medical Council of pursuing an...
Point of Order

Simeon Brown applies his scalpel to the Medical Council – but Treaty ideology has spread through the health system - Bob Edlin writes – The Post reports: Health Minister Simeon Brown has removed the leadership of New Zealand’s medical regulator, accusing the Me...
The Free Press

The Art World Has a Theft Problem - Stolen art is hard to move, but a market does exist. Prosecuting the buyers is the only fix.
Brash & Mitchell

IVAN BARNETT: Why enforcement collapsed - the vacuum of leadership since 1990 - 1. Parliament Did Not Change the Constitution — It Stopped Defending It From 1990 onward, governments of all colours adopted the same pattern: Avoid legal ...
The Common Reader

Childhood days, lemonade, romance - St. John's College, Maryland, Catherinites, and the idea of America
The Footy Almanac

Round 14 – North Melbourne v West Coast: Kangaroos and Eagles powers of the 1990s and how the mighty have fallen - On his way to the circus, Dan Lonergan listened to the North Melbourne v West Coast game on the car radio after a day broadcasting at Hastings. In his matc...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

The CatGirl Cocktail Hour: How to Defeat A Main Battle Tank with New Garbage - How to Defeat a Tank now that Molotov Cocktails Don't Work
bad cattitude

"it's for the children" as trojan horse - tyranny wearing the mask of safety
Anti-Dismal

Coase versus Demsetz on the neoclassical model - In the modern, Coaseian-inspired view of the neoclassical model, there are no firms. Harold Demsetz sums up the Coasian view of the neoclassical model succ...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

Freedom of religion is under attack, thanks to years of compelled speech - Even a form of silent religious protest is no longer allowed under modern progressive dogma
UnHerd

Keir Starmer’s lethal legacy - No one voted for assisted dying
Slow Boring

Good news and bad news for Democrats’ Senate odds - The midterm landscape is becoming less predictable.
Cato at Liberty

The Washington Anti-DST Consensus: Tax Principles Worth Keeping - Congress should oppose bad taxes wherever they appear. The principles behind Washington’s consensus against DSTs are a good starting point.
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Hey, POTUS, The Point Of The War Was What Again? (Part 1) - Thanks heavens. The bombs, missiles, planes and guns of every size, shape and lethality have gone silent in the middle east. What could have imminently a...
No Minister

Repeating a Lie, does not imbue truth, there “is” Political Bias in media - Andrew Dickens 0505 – 0559 on Newstalk ZB today, triggered I assume by the appointment of Hooton as Editor of the Post went on a tirade rejecting any idea ...
FIRE

Statement on shutdown of Anthropic's Fable and Mythos - Citing national security concerns, the federal government imposed export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 artificial intelligence models.
Futurism

Student Reading Ability Spikes After Removing Tech From Class - "Remove all the distractions and we can get our kids back." The post Student Reading Ability Spikes After Removing Tech From Class appeared first on Futu...
Truth on the Market

If at First Consumers Don’t Switch, Regulate Again - Under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), consumers are apparently sovereign—right up until they choose the wrong thing. When Mozilla reports that Firefox is...
Dr Oliver Hartwich

German leaders erase the big black zero they once worshipped - The European Central Bank's recent interest rate hike signals rising inflation and faltering growth in Germany, exposing severe structural budget issues an...
Persuasion

The Art of the Non-Deal - With this ceasefire, Trump has capitulated to Iran.
JoNova

The Sunrise Project funneled $343 million from overseas to push net zero - By Jo Nova A story by Greg Roberts in The Australian a couple of months ago seems to have been missed. It exposed a motherlode of funds is flowing into ...
Marginal Revolution

Germany fact of the day sentence to ponder - Champions of a European AI model should ask themselves if a European effort would be more effective than Meta, which this year will spend more on chips (...
Flashbak

How To Be Idle: Artist Turns A Spotlight on the Ordinary - “The ordinary is so close and so familiar to us that we overlook it. Looking at the ordinary from the perspective of the absurd and the paradox gives us ...
Middle East Uncovered

Iram Ramzan & Hollie McKay on Afghanistan and Women’s Rights - A recording from Middle East Uncovered's live video
Skeptic

Michael Shermer Named to White House UAP Science Advisory Council - Dr. Michael Shermer has been appointed to the newly formed UAP Science Advisory Council, at the request of the White House and in coordination with the All...
Techdirt

The VCs Who Screamed That Biden Would Kill Powerful AI Models Seem Quite Chill About Trump Actually Doing It - Late Friday, Anthropic shut down access to its just-released Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after the Trump administration slapped export controls on them — t...
Curbed - All

Rufus Wainwright Is Renting Out His Montauk Cottage This Summer - The singer is asking $20,000 a month for his two-bedroom Leisurama near Hither Hills Ocean Beach.
Reason Foundation

Getting to yes on ADS-B/In will exempt some aircraft - Plus: Terminate NASA's SLS rocket, TSA's remote terminal experiment, and more. The post Getting to yes on ADS-B/In will exempt some aircraft appeared fi...
Building the Builders

Agency IS a virtue, actually - The hardest part of “just doing things” is HAVING THINGS YOU WANT TO DO.
IPWatchdog Articles

High Court Denies Judge Newman’s Case Against CAFC Chief Judge - Less than two weeks after Judge Pauline Newman filed her reply brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in response to the May 12 opposition brief filed by U.S....
Spiked Online

Trump’s ‘peace deal’ leaves all the big questions unanswered - The post Trump’s ‘peace deal’ leaves all the big questions unanswered appeared first on spiked.
Energy Transition Absurdities

Why the Largest Supply Disruption in History Didn't Result in a Major Energy Crisis - Excellent Bloomberg writer/analyst Javier Blas made a great point in this X post Monday morning:
SkyscraperCity Forum

КРТ, комплексная застройка и реновация - Создаю эту ветку под проекты комплексного развития территории, часть списка данных территорий по ссылкам *Почти 5 млн квадратов будущего — как 26 проектов К...
JunkScience.com

Conservatives rattled by Trump DOJ’s Supreme Court climate brief -
The Weekly Sift

Pacts - guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one. – Amy (@lolennui.bsky.social) This week’s ...
Breaking Views

Pee Kay: Consultants or Extortionists? - Last week, one of my mailing group emailed me about claims that a Tauranga iwi is allegedly demanding $45 million to withdraw objections to the Port of Tau...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Watermelon Economics - Remember Thomas Piketty, the pro-class-warfare economist who is infamous for shoddy analysis and who also made a fool of himself by asserting back in 2023 ...
Living Resources Center

Unaccountable Government: What to Do? - The government has repeatedly lied about all kinds of health-related things, as the meme on this page suggests. My solution? Defund all health related go...
Why Evolution Is True

Luana Maroja encounters “Fat Studies” - “Fat Studies” is not a pejorative term, but rather an activist branch of academia with an agenda, including the claim that being fat is not unhealthy, and ...
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 517 - Three «Platform Oriented» Business Models - Ways of doing business in offsite construction are being reformed by digital practices and platform thinking percolating into the construction sector, b...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Car Thief vs. Philosophy Professor - Collected from various online wags: “He got Aristhrottled.” Thief gasps: “I’m dying.” Professor says: “All of us are dying. The question is: Did you ever l...
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

Main Character Syndrome - It's hardly news that women have been steadily moving ever further left politically at a pace – "radically" – that far outstrips men, whose views tend to b...
American Energy Alliance

Karen Bass Asks LA Voters To Give Copper Thieves A Raise With Solar Streetlights - Everyone is talking about the June 2 primary election in California, especially the results in LA. But there was another election on June 2 that you migh...
The Breakthrough Journal

A Defense of Utility Deregulation - In Response to BTI’s “Stealth Deregulation” Argument
Perennial Meditations

Plato on Conquering Oneself - Perennial Meditations
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

Are Stoics Emotionless? Erick Cloward, Author of Stoicism 101 - Are Stoics really emotionless?
Notes On Liberty

New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is OUT! - It’s the mag’s first-ever special issue, and it’s a doozy: Click here to read it. Notes On Liberty (and a special guest — a Notewriter) makes an appearance...
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 1133 America's Achilles' heel. What if Japan's bond market comes alive? The geography of science & how Pascal invented the bus. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Americans Should Celebrate China's Biotech Revolution - If Xi Jinping finds a cure for cancer, you will probably get access to it too
The Roots of Liberty

Eternal Servitude, Revisited - The War On Billionaires is in full swing.
Law & Liberty

The Limits of Democracy - More democracy will not solve America’s political woes. We must revitalize the counter-majoritarian elements of the Constitution.
Retraction Watch

Publisher investigating two more papers on glyphosate safety over ghostwriting claims - Tayor & Francis is investigating two papers about the weed killer Roundup following claims the articles were ghostwritten by the company that developed the...
The New Era

When Truth Drifts - Modern societies often assume that more information automatically leads to better decisions. It doesn't. Guest article by the Canadian Sociologist, Luc Lel...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Sabotaging the Invisible Hand: Adam Smith Predicted Modern Policy Failures - In chapter 10 of *The Wealth of Nations*, Adam Smith dissected the symbiotic relationship between economic inequality and political intervention in the e...
ROBERT FRIPP

Reality begins when we are present... - Words 31 · RF@80 Series.
Quotulatiousness

The British by-election in Makerfield and the split on the right - Normally, single seat contests are not all that newsworthy in countries using the Westminster-style of Parliamentary democracy, but the Makerfield by-elect...
Mises Institute Blog

The Fear of the Signal: Why the State Urgently Wants to Bind Prediction Markets - Prediction markets, while obviously imperfect, still work well because people voluntarily put their money where their beliefs are. Naturally, the governmen...
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Timeline 1800-1899: Poems of the 1880s, part 1 - From Robert Louis Stevenson.
ArchDaily

Designing for Stray Cities: Architecture Beyond the Human - Architecture continues to draw cities as though humans occupy them alone. Plans trace circulation routes, zoning maps assign functions, and buildings are...
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

surf's up! - let's get to winning
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Labour’s $18b budget hole vs National’s $56b budget hole (a plague on all your holes) - It’s the battle of the Budget Holes! Finance Minister Nicola Willis claimed Labour has a $18billion budget hole (National used...
Kunstler

Monsters Far and Near - “We used to say that we don’t know what 2050 will look like. Now it’s more like we don’t know what 2030 will look like.” —Jesus Enrique Rosas
Wright in Racine

Progress on the Burnham Block, Chapter 4 – June 9, 2026 - © Mark Hertzberg (2026) I had an unexpected chance to again visit the site of the restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s American System-Built Model C3 house ...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

Fueling the Coming Nuclear Renaissance - Saskatoon-based Cameco is a 21st-century global nuclear energy leader as North America’s largest supplier of nuclear fuel for fission reactors. In its late...
Real Clear Energy: Video

How Home Batteries Could Transform the Power Grid and Lower Costs - In this episode of The Miller Report: Real Clear Journalism, Zach Dell, Co-Founder and CEO of Base Power, explains how distributed battery storage is creat...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: Breathe, Pause, and Respond - Taking time before reacting.
Manhattan Contrarian

There Are No Budget Constraints In New York City: "Coastal Resiliency" Edition - * I often make fun of the federal government as operating with what it thinks is an “infinite credit card,” outside and beyond any budget restraints. And t...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

I Get Duped into Buying an AI Slop Book - And updates on cancel culture, counterclockwise dances, millionaires who pay to conduct orchestras, etc.
Sustain What

♫♪ A Song Explores How Quiet Activism is Helping Foster Progress in Dire Situations - Nearly done. Nothing is quiet about knitting or cooking these days
The Whakataki Times

Attention-Starved Government Resorts To Forcing Loud Screeching Noise Through Everyone’s Phones - CAN YOU NOT? The post Attention-Starved Government Resorts To Forcing Loud Screeching Noise Through Everyone’s Phones appeared first on The Whakataki Tim...
DGMLive

Toyah & Robert's Weekend - Toyah & Robert's latest Upbeat Moments & a vintage Sunday Lunch!
Greater Auckland

Labour’s Fare Cap Election Policy - The Labour Party has finally delivered an election policy: it’s about transport and the cost of living, and we think it’s a good one – they propose cappi...
Cremieux Recueil

Anthropic, please don’t ruin bio for everyone - A guestpost from an anonymous biologist
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

CAT POWER: THE GREATEST. ON TOUR. - Twenty years on, Cat Power’s The Greatest is still one of the most astounding records ever to be heard, a late-night classic that still feels as intimate...
The Integrity Institute

News Briefing: 15 June 2026 - PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT AND ELECTION
Israel Institute of NZ

Should Taxpayers Fund the Dismantling of Israel? - New Zealand politics has acquired a new party. Calling itself Palestine Free From the River to the Sea, the party intends to contest the upcoming general e...
The UnPopulist

The Trump Administration's Anti-Foreigner Animus Is a Betrayal of the World Cup—the Most Cosmopolitan Sport on Earth - Its visa and deportation policies have cast a pall on the game, but fans are finding ways to watch and celebrate despite the fear
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Václav Havel's "Protest" - Bricolage Production Company's Production Expertly Dramatizes Playwright and Statesman's Words and Ideas
Marcus on AI

What Washington must do - ”The only way out is through”
The Grumpy Economist

Shock Accounting. - The lab-leak shock really caused inflation
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

The Paradox of Work - Most people don't have an inner Mozart just waiting to be unlocked
The Curmudgeon

Economic Warfare - Despite their desperate need for new toys and lots of them, Britain's plucky little servicepersons have somehow managed to foil the beastly Russians yet ag...
Can't Get Much Higher

Big in the UK, Not So Much in the US - When each side of the Atlantic disagrees
The Daily Economy

Do the Worst Get on Top in Academia, Too? -
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

New Welsh Temperature Record at Bute Park - By Paul Homewood The Met Office has claimed that a new Welsh temperature record for springtime was set in Cardiff last month. The place where it was reco...
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

Clarkson's Farm is a Revolutionary Love Letter - On the timeless parables of Clarkson's Farm, the British farmer protests, and the contrast between Jeremy Clarkson's pro-human localism and David Attenboro...
The New York Review of Books

Putting the Lake to Work - In November 2022, the Great Salt Lake dropped to a record-low water level. That winter, dust blew off newly exposed patches of the lakebed, clouding the Sa...
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

10 Lessons Marcus Aurelius Learned From His Father - Antoninus Pius offered this advice to his adopted son, who'd go on to become one of Rome's few great emperors.
ChinaTalk

Notes on Egypt - A dispatch from Egypt's new capital city in the desert. $58 billion, Chinese-financed, almost entirely empty.
The Logical Place

Stephen Hawking and the Death of Philosophy - Stephen Hawking was one of the great scientific minds of the modern age. His work on black holes, cosmology, singularities and the origin of the universe m...
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

America at 250: We Need the Amendment of All Amendments - Let's protect individual rights once and for all by subordinating the Constitution to the moral vision of the Declaration of Independence.
Uncharted Territories

Design for Uncharted Territories - Full time or for the shop, including a $1000 Challenge
O'Shannassy's Dispatches from Collapse

The 3,000 Year Revolt Against Absolute State Power - For Three Thousand Years the East and the West Agreed on One Thing: The State Was Not God.
Autonomia

Trump 80, America Zero - Birthday Message for Iran’s U.S. Dealmaker
Capitalism Magazine

Life Under Communism - I am worried because too many people, especially our youth, don't even have a clue as to what living under a totalitarian regime is like.
Flying Out

Blue Lights Volume 1 (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) - *Vendor: *Blue Note *Type: *KENNY BURRELL *Price: * 73.00 In 1958, guitarist *Kenny Burrell* assembled an impressive line-up with *Louis Smith, Junior ...
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

The BSA’s parting gift: Showing why NZ needs the Definitions Bill - Reflecting on how entirely mad the situation is
John D. Cook

RSA munitions T-shirt - Back when the US government classified strong encryption as “munitions,” RSA public key cryptography was illegal to export. In 1995, Adam Back protested ...
Asymmetric Information

2B RED: On the matter of maps🍋 - Learning from your atlas
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: A Mathematician Is a Machine Which Turns Coffee into Theorems - Paul Erdős? Alfréd Rényi? Jane Philcox? Suzy Schultz? Scott Westerfeld? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Three outstanding mathematicians have b...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

The enshittified robot politics of Mario Voigt, or: How a plagiarist and AI fraud came to govern Thüringen and why nobody can do anything about it - In December 2024, Mario Voigt became Minister President of Thüringen, sworn in at the head of a political monstrosity known as the blackberry coalition.
The Daily Doom

THE DEEPER DIVE: Inflation Soars on Trump's Hot Air - Iran Big Deal #39 proved as fake as all the previous deal/no-deals today, but stocks loved it, and so did inflation!
The Economic LongWave

Weekly Credit-Stress Radar - Overall Signal: 🟡 YELLOW (Stable but Watching Rates)
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

Out of Control New York State Renewable Developers - Fred Stafford has put together a comprehensive look of the New York State (NYS) renewable development process administrated through the New York State Ener...
Why not reason?

Why Other People’s Achievements May Inspire Some, and Threaten Others - I find it curious that some people become deeply upset when an entrepreneur becomes a billionaire (or trillionaire), yet remain indifferent when a dictator...
Construction Physics

Reading List 06/13/2026 - Homes being built on top of libraries, Patriot missile manufacturing, an effort to construct new US coal plants, a tunnel between the US and Russia, and more.
Yascha Mounk

David Bau on How—and Whether—Artificial Intelligence Thinks - Yascha Mounk and David Bau examine the mysterious internal processes that drive AI behavior—and why they may be fundamentally alien.
The Beauty of Things

On Print and the Physicality of Poetry - Please join me at my Powow River reading TODAY 6/13 @ 2:30pm at Newburyport and Zoom. I have my poetry in print for the first time (in three forms!) this w...
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Trump's Art of the Deal: Surrender on Every Point -
Schiffradio.com

A Complete Meltdown Is Coming - Musk is worth $1 trillion with zero income. We're spending $1.6 trillion on interest. CPI is on pace for 6.2%. This is the peak of the bubble. The post A...
Glenn’s Substack

Elon Musk is a Genius, and a Litmus Test - People's reactions to him are diagnostic.
A Havenstein Moment.

It doesn’t matter what you pay! - If you've got kids, you think of the world differently.
In Due Course

Harari vs. Henrich - What science actually says about human evolution
The Library of Celaeno

System of A Down’s - When You're The Retard
Conversable Economist

Homo Experiens, the Biology of Decision-Making, and Behavioral Economics - The standard definition of “behavioral economics” is that it brought insights from psychology to bear on economic decision-making: that is, concepts like...
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #50: The Billion-Dollar Speech - Vision often moves people before data does
Energy in Depth

Wrong State, Wrong Industry: Sierra Club Uses North Carolina Turkey Farm Stock Photo to Attack Texas Produced Water Reuse - Once again, the Sierra Club has attacked the oil and gas industry, and this time, the group is using misleading stock imagery to prop up its false claims...
McFaul's World

Ukraine Is Winning - This spring, the stalemate on the battlefield has shifted in Ukraine's favor, complementing other Ukrainian victories in the war.
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

The Market for Doom: Why We Keep Predicting the End of Work - The Long Read
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Premium: The Silicon Valley Bubble (Part 1) - Friends, I believe we’re approaching the end of this era. Both *OpenAI* and *Anthropic* have filed the paperwork to go public, starting a race for exit l...
Anthony B. Bradley

You Are Not Equipped - Why the capacities you think you were born with are actually borrowed, formed, and easier to lose than you realize.
Anthony B. Bradley

You Are Not Equipped - Why the capacities you think you were born with are actually borrowed, formed, and easier to lose than you realize.
Gale Winds

Import More Israelis - The Innovation Nation leads the world.
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Bet On It Book Club Round-up: Ask Me Any Question About For a New Liberty - We’ve finished the chapter-by-chapter of Murray Rothbard’s *For a New Liberty*. Now I’d like to wrap things up by answering most or all of your question...
Institute for Energy Research

Middle East Tensions Result in Higher Oil Prices - Early Monday trading saw oil prices rise more than 4% as Iran and Israel exchanged strikes, raising concerns that renewed… The post Middle East Tensions ...
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Tulip Bulbs In Geostationary Orbit—The Insanity Of Space X’s $1.7 Trillion Valuation - Click on Title to Read
Gus Van Horn

Freedom Four - *A Friday Hodgepodge* *1*. "*The Foreign-Born Heroes Who Chose America*," by Agustina Vergara Cid (*The Orange County Register*): Lafayette chose to fight...
The Works in Progress Newsletter

What’s new in biology: June 2026 - The most effective weight-loss drug so far, cancer breakthroughs, gene editing for cholesterol, ancestral CRISPR systems, and more.
Statecraft

"The Strongman Presidency" - “Most of the employees of the federal government were mailmen.”
Doug Casey's International Man

Governments Are Coming for Your Retirement Savings - Governments around the world are increasingly treating private pension assets as policy tools, using taxes, mandates, and financial repression to redirec...
Sawahil

West Africa, Horn, MENA: 6/12/2026 - News and analysis from Dakar to Riyadh.
Liberty Scott

It's time to reform land transport funding and management - I'm not usually a supporter of new bureaucracies, but I'll give the Infrastructure Commission its due, it's done quite a good job at summarising the main...
Doomberg

Awkward Truths - The media can’t seem to explain the collapse in China’s domestic solar installations.
An Africanist Perspective

Book Review (2/26): How Africa Works by Joe Studwell - On the past and future of African growth and development
GeekPress

Wolfram On Rules And Games - *"Games between Programs*: The Ruliology of Competition"
Jackson Upmann

How Traveling Raised My Confidence (And Can Raise Yours Too) - Time to get uncomfortable
Freedom and Flourishing

Why Bother Considering Whether Government is Necessary? - Before my most recent trip to India I had to choose which of two recently purchased books I should take with me: Aeon Skoble’s *Deleting the State*, o...
New Zealand Arts Review

The Michael Hill International Violin Competition Grand Finale - Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples The Michael Hill International Violin Competition Grand Finale With the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Auckland Town Hall Ap...
Stewart Margolis

Do You Really Want to Live Forever? - Forever Young
History Reclaimed

Why would the Bank of England replace Churchill with a hedgehog on a fiver? - The Bank of England is proposing to replace the great figures who adorn British banknotes with pictures of British mammals, birds and insects. What does th...
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Why Psychotherapy Makes People Sick - Jonathan Alpert denounces the victimhood Left’s takeover of his profession
Astral Codex Ten

My AI Opinions - ...
Andrew Whiteside

Movie Review: Disclosure Day - Disclosure Day is Steven Spielberg’s latest foray into the filmic exploration of aliens coming to Earth. This one feels a hell of a lot more grown up and l...
Macroscience

The Six Camps of Metascience - A field guide for policymakers (and everyone who cares about American science).
Tross Publishing

The Greatest Scam in The History of NZ - By William Chambers There are hundreds of preferential “provisions” along with 96 Acts of Parliament favouring Maori over all other New Zealanders. So, ...
Offsetting Behaviour

Levies as end-runs around the Generic Tax Policy Process - A few years ago, Willie Jackson proposed levying tech platforms to fund news outlets. I'd warned that this kind of thing amounts to a dangerous end-run ...
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

Wired In: The Documents Show Fauci Worked the Spy Agencies From Both Ends - Rand Paul just released the files. They show a man embedded in the intelligence world for two decades, who read the classified COVID-origins intel in a vau...
Outliving Iran

What Is Really Going on in Iran? (Video Essay) - A Companion to my recently published article with on-the-ground updates from the Iran War
On Substack

Open Tab: Lachlan Cartwright - Hacks, flacks, becoming a whistleblower, and what it takes to save a media business from the brink
The War on Prices

World Cup Ticket Pricing, FIFA Governance and Globalization - On the Cato podcast this week, I spoke to the American Enterprise Institute’s Stan Veuger about the economics of the FIFA 2026 World Cup, which starts today.
Competitive Enterprise Institute

AICOA’s heavy-handed approach would harm consumers, stifle innovation, and degrade security and privacy - Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) re-introduced a modified version of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), w...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

AICOA’s heavy-handed approach would harm consumers, stifle innovation, and degrade security and privacy - Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) re-introduced a modified version of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), w...
The Rebuild

What Abundance Has to Say About Mississippi - Place Matters
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

The New Republic of Science - Trump is a symptom, not the disease
Changing Lanes

Eric Lombardi’s Abundance Agenda - A Changing Lanes interview on the candidate’s vision for mobility, housing, and energy
Toppermost

Beirut - A few days later I was playing Beirut’s 'Gulag Orkestar' on repeat ... The post Beirut appeared first on Toppermost.
Dramatic Pause

By The Numbers: Alisha Jacob - *Alisha Jacob is a Kiwi actor who’s been based in Melbourne. She recently returned to Aotearoa to work on a new touring Indian Ink Theatre show, **Balloon...
The Roots of Progress

Get your fine, handcrafted artisanal essays right here - I use AI a lot in the writing process—but not for drafting
Chris Trotter

The “Far-Right” Deception. - It’s a new term, deployed as an ideological prophylactic across the entire Western World: “Far Right”.
Virginia Postrel

Everyday Abundance: Our history podcast is live! - The hidden histories behind everyday activities and the technologies you didn't even know were technologies.
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Austerity? The Public Service Size Increased Again - In the March Quarter the Public Service workforce grew from 63,657 FTEs to 64,535.
Ruxandra’s Substack

Manufacturing requirements are killing cell and gene therapy - Some of the most promising drugs are bottlenecked by a "boring" but incredibly important problem
Official Blog

Area Feste — Geocache of the Week - Traditional GCBE31H by simosabry Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 1.5 Location: Lombardia, Italy N 45° 44.790’ E 008° 48.445’ What happens when a gigantic geocachi...
CO2 Coalition

Everyone Wants Affordable Energy. Nobody Wants to Cut the Ribbon. - By Gordon Tomb Northeastern states are scrambling to address rising energy costs. New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and others are even considering ...
Libertarian Land

The Impacts of Parole Supervision - California, New York, and other states have lessened parole for exiting prisoners, hoping it will improve their reentry outcomes.
Dead Language Society

When will Modern English end? - Or is it already over?
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

My testimony on DHS's constitutional violations - The hearing was on "amnesty." I pointed to the real amnesty: agent immunity.
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

My testimony on DHS's constitutional violations - The hearing was on "amnesty." I pointed to the real amnesty: agent immunity.
The Antiplanner

Transit Fatality Trends - A correspondent noted that there have been a few horrific murders associated with transit — mostly in New York City subways — and asked if transit crime is...
The Antiplanner

Transit Fatality Trends - A correspondent noted that there have been a few horrific murders associated with transit — mostly in New York City subways — and asked if transit crime is...
Paul Wells

How to save a country, approximately - Pierre Poilievre speaks for Canadian unity. Quite well, actually
A Halfling's View

A Tudor Trajectory - A Reader's Journey
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

The New York Power of the New York Knicks - How they've taken over the largest city in America
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Episode 2 - The Collapse of Literature - Liza Libes and the Truth about Publishing
One Useful Thing

What it feels like to work with Mythos - Claude Fable represents another big jump in AI
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

The Things He'll Never Say - Gordon S. Wood, R.I.P
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Patience on the Out-Breath - Learning to Relax Into Anxiety Instead of Relaxing It Away
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Talk Cheapens - On the Value of Silence
Kiwipolitico

Systemic Change, Institutional Lag and Societal Resilience. - The following is a draft of a talk that I am giving to a professional group. I thought that it would be good to trial it here. It is not quite stream-of-co...
Theatreview

THE DEVOLUTION OF CREATIVE NEW ZEALAND - THE DEVOLUTION OF CREATIVE NEW ZEALAND The Big Idea, 20 May 2026 Mark Amery reports. A bold plan to devolve the way our arts are funded through ‘regional...
Stats Chat

United Rugby Championship Predictions for the Final - Team Ratings for the Final The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

The Issue Raised by the Army Orders - Army Orders and the State’s Duty of Neutrality
The Trichordist

Yes, it really is a data center next to the Nashville Zoo - The proposed data center near Nashville Zoo threatens community values, wildlife, and open space, prioritizing speculative tech investments over longstandi...
The Shrewd Artist

Little Landscape Going to a New Home in New York - Sent today, arriving Thursday, happy to send this to a forever home in New York.
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Little Landscape Going to a New Home in New York - Sent today, arriving Thursday, happy to send this to a forever home in New York.
Market Urbanism

Review- Broken City - Often, opponents of the pro-housing YIMBY* movement either do not care about the negative results of high housing costs, or are simply careless with the fa...
Fictionosophy

Polyphony Feeds Disintegration in The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran - The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran lacks a climax or central conflict, but it does evoke empathy for those who end up in exile after having fought an authorita...
Africa-Israel Weekly

“Qatar wants to help ‘educate’ Black students, but won’t free its Black slaves.” - See Qatar (Muslim Brotherhood) Focuses on HBCUs
Kibao

Kenya Wants to Sell Your Data. But It’s Complicated. - The headline is scarier than the policy. The policy is still worth worrying about.
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Limbic Capitalism Has Been Driving Addiction for Hundreds of Years - Historian David Courtwright helps us understand how we got here and what’s likely to come in this chapter from The Age of Addiction.
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Will Trump Break JFK’s Agreement on Cuba? - In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union (i.e., Russia) came within an inch of all-out nuclear war with each other. To resolve the crisis,...
Reason for Living

Breaking the Loop at its Source - By getting the "loop" driving our self-destructive behaviors clearly visualized, we can get serious about breaking it. That’s the only way to make behavior...
Risk & Progress

Sovereign Solvency - How does America escape its fiscal trap?
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

President Trump’s Childhood Vaccine Schedule - Donald Trump recently issued two executive orders claiming that children in the United States are receiving too many vaccines.
Free Range Kids

“1500 Photos a Day Is Not Enough for Them” - On Twitter (forgive me!) I asked if anyone who’d been a camper back in the day wished their parents had had photos of them sent home daily, as so many ov...
The Tracinski Letter

Marx’s “Materialism” Con - Notes on “Main Currents of Marxism,” Part 4
Conflicted

Transparent to Whom? - The OMB's Proposed Rule and the Long War Over Accountability in American Science
misfits' architecture

Relationship Issues - We humans aren’t good at imagining things outside our experience so it’s only human that we’ve now gone and built this thing called AI that’s not good at i...
Interintellect

Dispatches from Grief: A Mother's Journey Through the Unthinkable, with Danielle Crittenden - Tomorrow, on Interintellect.
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

An Indian-American looks at America at 250 - June 6, 2026
Harry’s Substack

AI Disarmament?! - What a real moral leader would say about AI
Lindsay Mitchell

Colonisation blamed for Maori meth use - Here is yet another example of a taxpayer-funded health professional teaching that self-destructive behaviour by Maori is the fault of colonisation: land...
Equal to Reality

The beauty in the broken glass - How an Animated Musical helped me find my authentic self.
The Realization of Wholeness

Varieties of Dualism, Part Five - "I am my feelings"
The Intrinsic Perspective

Don't dethrone consciousness! - LLMs aren't conscious (and thinking they are is culturally dangerous)
Asimov’s Addendum

Agents Need a Public Square - Why better agent discovery is needed – and why broadcasting may be the answer
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Why America can’t build the natural gas pipelines it needs — my interview with Senator Alan Armstrong - Natural gas pipelines don’t emit anything that can contaminate water. Yet the Clean Water Act lets states that dislike interstate pipelines block them for ...
Africa’s Bright Future

Why Africa Stays Poor (It's Not Colonialism) - My conversation with John Papola on Dad Saves America
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

You Don't Need Permission to Change Your Life - I Interviewed the Secretary of Transportation. Six Years Ago I Was an IT Manager.
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

From Spectator Dissidence to Organised Power: Why Comfortable Elites Critique Government but Rarely Contest It - Part II: Elite Circulation, Institutional Reality, and the Discipline of Entering the Arena
Tim’s Substack

We Won’t Be Fooled Again - Oh wait . . . (checks news about on again off again US-Iran ceasefire) . . . Damnit!
Let Grow

These ROTC Students Are Learning More Than Leadership - [image: Blog Rotc Sewing (1)] The Junior ROTC students at Franklin High School in El Paso, Texas, are learning to lead. But their teacher, Major Joseph D....
Existential Crunch

How environmental politics lost the future - And why we only talk about looming catastrophe
Houston Strategies

Houston Metro vs. Dallas DART: Houston wins as costly light rail nearly destroys DART - Another fantastic and devastating (for DART) guest post from Oscar Slotboom.--- Updated 6/3/2026 to include the official announcement of the Dallas Stars m...
Leport’s Substack

DEFROSTED Release Date Update + New Event Date - New Date, Same Future
Robert Nasir’s Joyous Newsletter

Pride Month: Right On Target! - Life on Earth With Robert Nasir - Episode 95 - streamed live on Jun 1, 2023
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (June 2026) - The growing gap between risk and readiness
Conspicuous Cognition

Academics Must Wake Up on AI (with Alexander Kustov) - Is AI already better at many research tasks than humans? And if so, is this a reflection of how good AI is, or how bad much existing research is?
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for May, 2026: +0.53 deg. C - This month I’m adding Australia to the Global, USA48, and Canada time series plots. The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anom...
Keiran Murphy (FLW Historian)

The Guest Wing at Taliesin - Reading Time: 7 minutesPhoto looking at Taliesin taken in 2019 by Michael Pipher. My post today is going to be about the Guest Wing, or the ground floor ...
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: Anabasis, by Xenophon - Anabasis, Xenophon (trans.
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

RECOMMENDED RECORD: Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts: As Time Explodes (digital outlets) - *From time to time Elsewhere will single out a recent release we recommend on vinyl, like this double album which comes in a gatefold sleeve with and lyr...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

Can an Anti-Corrupt Military Strongman Fix Nigeria? Buhari's Military Rule in the 1980s - Nigeria got its anti-corruption crusader in 1984. The economy was collapsing anyway.
Martini Mandate

Teetotallers and the Decline of Human Civilisation. - Alcohol is having its tobacco moment. Young people are going off it, and a growing chorus of busybodies would like the rest of us to give it up completel...
Cranmer’s Substack

Musk Filed a Prospectus. The Pope Already Had His Response Prepared - One promised to save humanity from the fate of the dinosaurs. The other warned of the risks of the new Tower of Babel.
Greg Mankiw's Blog

What I've been reading - I am in the middle of *How to Win a Trade War* by Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown. It is always smart, sometimes irreverant, and timely. I plan to use it a...
round houses

utopian usonia - Beautiful tour of the Bertha & Sol Friedman Residence in the Usonia community of Pleasantville, NY, narrated by the owner of the house, Brian Renz. The hou...
Eating Policy

The Digital Service Was Never the Point - Colorado becomes first state to commit to the product model at scale
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Can AI Be The Thing That Finally Aligns Humanity? - Getting AI to do what we want is the easy part. The real challenge is figuring out what we actually want in the first place.
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: May 2026 - It was a packed month at IFP!
Spiked Online

Summer Appeal Donation – Pint Glass Offer - The post Summer Appeal Donation – Pint Glass Offer appeared first on spiked.
Freethink Media

Why you seriously need to play more - Monthly Issue: The neuroscience and philosophy of play.
Classical Compass Rose

The Practice of Integrated Human Attention - The Benedictine Rule and the hesychast tradition of Mount Athos are the most rigorously tested models of integrated attention ever developed. What might we...
The Jolly Libertarian

The Age of Abundance: Rethinking Wealth in the Age of AI - Recently I read Ray Kurzweil's book *The Singularity is Nearer*, a look at artificial intelligence and what it holds for the future. Kurzweil is very opt...
The Trumpland Diary

Trump's "Garden of American Heroes" is Another Disaster in the Making - Way back in his first term, amid ongoing national debates over monuments and historical statues and their potential removal, Trump delivered a speech at Mo...
Public Lands – PERC

PERC Convenes Park Leaders and Researchers to Contemplate National Park Stewardship - PERC hosted some of the country’s leading national park officials, researchers, partners, and policy experts to discuss the future of America’s “best ide...
The Organon Architecture Blog

"To act within the marketplace, but not to be governed by the values of the market-place, is a considerable personal discipline." - What Robert Fripp describes below between audient and musician is the same --or should be -- between client and architect ... *"A customer acts within ...
The Enlightened Examiner

Netanyahu’s Legacy - Regardless of whether an agreement with Iran is reached, I stand by this piece.
The Enlightened Examiner

Netanyahu’s Legacy - Regardless of whether an agreement with Iran is reached, I stand by this piece.
Mike’s Substack

Personality Versus Academic Egalitarianism - How Today’s Schools Oppose Greatness
Mike’s Substack

Personality Versus Academic Egalitarianism - How Today’s Schools Oppose Greatness
The Kerrant

Still Performing: Jim Henson, Kyle Busch, and the Danger of Powering Through - Jim Henson and Kyle Busch lived in different worlds, but their deaths share a haunting pattern: two elite performers, still creating and competing, appar...
Note to Noteworthy

What Spirituality Really Means - Is spirituality about “God” or something else?
Michael Newberry, Artist

Updates on the Madonna and Child, and 2nd Edition of Evolution Through Art, ETA. - Breakdown of Some of the Processes Update on the 17th of my space series the Madonna and Child. Today I’m blocking in the figures with transparent shadows ...
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

If Machines Could Talk - What LLMs still get wrong about human language -- and people.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

If Machines Could Talk - What LLMs still get wrong about human language -- and people.
Yes In Our Backyards

The “Great Upzoning” of New Zealand’s cities, in two charts - Taking stock of 15 years of remarkable progress
Eat More Electrons

The Empty Quadrant contains no countries. But it does hold big lessons for the scale of energy needed in poor countries - (Please use our stuff but don’t plagiarize it)
The Many Ways I Let You Down

Democracies Are Not Monasteries - Research suggests less speech means more violence. So why do those in power still want us to shut up?
Don't Let It Go

My latest at the PLF Blog: The Supreme Court’s last best chance to stop the surveillance state - When you text your doctor, share your location with a rideshare app, or use your credit card at checkout, you aren’t broadcasting your private life to the ...
Maximum Progress

The Causal Effect of Income is (Often) Zero - Evidence on the effect of income on health, education, crime, and child outcomes from lotteries and RCTs
Syncretica

Read 'Em and Weep: Australian Power Edition - batteries and renewables make prices go down in practice and theory
HardmoneyJim

Why your money keeps losing value - AND WHY IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT
News - Democracy Action

Submission on India Free Trade Agreement - Submission to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee on the New Zealand–India Free Trade Agreement Opposing the inclusion of UNDRIP in the Agre...
HBL

Immigration—some mostly new thoughts - Angry articles about immigration have flared up again among Objectivists, but both sides seem to have no difficulty ignoring the points I’ve made. Or, more...
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

The King’s Speech 2026 - What the Government’s legislative agenda means for Britain’s entrepreneurs. Read in full here Permalink
Craig Biddle

Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles - The post Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles appeared first on Craig Biddle.
Craig Biddle

Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles - The post Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles appeared first on Craig Biddle.
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

Restoring Rivers Requires Cooperation, not Litigation Shortcuts - An amicus brief in a case before the California Supreme Court case on restoring flows to California’s rivers The post Restoring Rivers Requires Cooperati...
What You Can Do For Liberty

Summer Plans? The World's Largest Pro-Liberty Festival Is In July - Don't fight for liberty alone: come meet like-minded friends!
Earthly Idealism

Review: *Love Thy Stranger* by Bart D. Ehrman - How Christianity Polluted the Moral Conscience of the West
Precise Thinking

A New Look at Immortality - The Redemption of a Tortured Self: Selfhood Story #4
Matua Kahurangi

Maiki Sherman resigns: when did words become career-ending? - Now, let me start by saying this.
Private Lands – PERC

Reflecting on Ted Turner’s Crowded Life - A great lasting memory and a true southern gentleman, lion of conservation, and source of inspiration until the very end. The post Reflecting on Ted Turn...
Science of Doom

Tropical Cyclones: Cat 4+ Counts and the Annoying 1990 Boundary - In Recent Trends in Tropical Cyclones last year we looked at the data for 1990-2024 from IBTrACS and compared this to a paper, Trends in Global Tropical Cy...
Croaking Cassandra

A central banker’s fiction - No, this is nothing to do with (say) Neil Quigley’s months-long spin and obfuscation from last year (eg here or here). Decades ago, when the Commonwealth c...
Stu-Topia

Humans Are a GMO and Have Been One Since the Stone Age - Genetically Modified As an Effect of the Technology of Our Apelike Ancestors Stuart K. Hayashi Photo by Wolfgang Sauber; courtesy Wikimedia CommonsIn the n...
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

'Perspectives': An Interview with 'The Chambermaid' author, Dorothy Fletcher - The Florida author chats about her latest novel, what inspires her writing, and how creatives can stay organized
Principled Perspectives

Re: Supreme Court Updates: Justices Further Weaken Voting Rights Act, Igniting Political Scramble by The New York Times - My FaceBook Post ANOTHER DEFEAT FOR RACISM!!! Don’t believe the NYT wording. Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 “prohibits voting practices o...
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

Einstein-Inspired Poetry - From Cringe to Courage
A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

No, native schools did not ban te reo - While considering Elizabeth Rata's recent Research Report into the History of New Zealand Education -- which I recommend, by the way -- I remembered a l...
The Future of Being Human

Why I'm falling out of love with Claude - I hope it's just a phase, but Anthropic, what have you done to my trusted AI writing companion?!
RenewNZ

The ANZACs who freed Palestine - It was 9th December 1917. The Jewish celebration of Hanukkah had just begun. It commemorated the liberation of Jerusalem from foreign occupiers in 165 BC. ...
Wildlife – PERC

Wildlife Management Must Be Driven by Science, Not Politics - PERC’s amicus brief in Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The post Wildlife Management Must Be Driven by Science, Not Poli...
Johnny Grey Studios

From tiny tots to Piedmont, via Grand Designs Live - Grand Designs Live [Sunday 3 May] Castello di Montalero cooking experience. Unfitted update. Maximalism! Food Festival in the South Downs. Grandchildren al...
Too Clever By Half

Pesky floating links thing settles down - [image: A circular button with a star and a pencil icon and the text "Automatically insert Google Search links into your post."]Still in Beta ¶ [image: Th...
Roots of Progress

Announcing Progress Conference 2026 - Oct 8–11 in Berkeley, CA: A four-day event to connect people in the progress movement The post Announcing Progress Conference 2026 appeared first on Root...
Roberto’s Substack

One does not negotiate with evil. One defeats it. - The Ceasefire That Saved the Ayatollahs: How Trump, Hegseth, and the Pentagon Turned a Civilizational Victory Into a 21-Mile Strait War
Happy Future

The Trouble with Transformers - And the long slouch towards cyberpunk
Thinking Directions

How Do You Validate Aspirational Thoughts? - Aspirational thoughts can be very motivating — if you believe them. By an aspirational thought, I mean any statement about your ability to achieve someth...
The Claude Megson blog

INTERVIEW: "Celebrating the work of New Zealand architect, Claude Megson" - Great to see so many at the launch last week of Giles Reid's and Jackie Meiring's book on Claude Megson -- it was literally standing room only! (I could ...
Schreibmaschiner (David McLoughlin)

Fly me to the Moon…and Mars. And save us from the maudlin media doomsters - Enough of all the media doomstering. The successful 10-day Artemis II Moon fly-around was a profound event that brought back the bright optimism of my chil...
Gross Output

Fourth Quarter GO Confirms Deepening Stagflation into 2026 - “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...
What's New Under the Sun

A little progress is worth a trillion dollars - Estimating the value of progress with a rough calculation and a new web tool
Barrie Saunders

TVNZ – a reassessment - Apart from 7 years abroad I have grown up with TVNZ’s channel one and was privileged to serve six years on its board – 2011 to 2017 Up until recently I ret...
Fizzifood

Fragrant Lamb & Coconut Curry - Jonny – this one’s for you! I love a good butter chicken (not that sickeningly sweet version – I’m talking about the deeply aromatic and creamy type). Some...
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

Could this be the solution to America's political divide? - How rural Oregonians are organizing for freedom of association and equal representation.
Splitting Headache

Somethings: ATMs and iPhone - Also luddism, puzzle games, and the whimsy of LinkedIn.
Notes On Liberty

Rising Sun Over the Arctic: Japan’s Arctic Journey from North Pacific Hegemon to Democratic Polar Partner - by Barry Scott Zellen
Austin Vernon's Substack

Solving the Strait of Hormuz Blockage - Markets ensure the disruption can't last more than 1-2 years.
First Stones NewsLetter

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

Age of Invention: Why Scotland Succeeded - It was capital, not education
Pablo’s Translations

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

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

Teaching Physics Inductively - James Ellias’s Inductive Summary of Physics
Democracy Project

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

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

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

Help has arrived. - After almost 50 years of chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”…
Objective Standard Institute

MAGA Isn’t Making America Great - Kiyah breaks down her views on Trump and the MAGA movement.
Overthinking Everything

On Mediocrity - One of the harshest words in my vocabulary is "mediocre". Let me tell you what I mean by it.
Mises Wiki - Recent changes [en]

W - Kanopi deleted page W Removing all content created by Kapitalizt
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.
Forbidden Science

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

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

Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin - A philosophical discussion on ethics and mathematics. The post Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin appeared first on SAVVY S...
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 "...
Regan's Substack

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

The End is Near - I am no longer posting on this website. You can continue reading my posts at jbrianphillips.com The post The End is Near appeared first on Texas Institut...
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!
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Finding Meaning and Purpose in a Godless Universe - In the 1880s, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was at his intellectual peak.
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...
647 Reasons Why

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

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

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

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

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

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

Genesis -
Power + Market

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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Julian Burnside

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

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

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

14 Practical steps to improve Cash Flow - A positive cash flow keeps the heart of any business pumping, but a negative cash flow will eventually cause the business to fail. A growing business may...
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

Why a Free Society Cannot Transform Wishes into Rights - Only by defending voluntary arrangements, respecting one another’s self-ownership, can we achieve positive progress.
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: […]
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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Thursday, 10 May 2018

Happy Hayek's Birthday

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