Not PC: Governance...

Wednesday, 20 April 2022

Governance...

"[H]ow will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?"
~ Miguel de Cervantes, from his novel Don Quixote

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Breaking Views

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Mises Wire

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Slow Boring

Not-so-cold November mailbag - Lots of questions about the future of the Democratic party and the second Trump administration
The Free Press

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Law & Liberty

Axis of Deception - Anne Applebaum’s new book fails to understand the nature of America’s enemies.
Energy Transition Absurdities

Staffing the Vegan Buffet at COP29 is a Sad and Lonely Job - Climate scolds love to claim that food production accounts for something around 20% of global human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.
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Quotulatiousness

“OK, you’re here to accuse me of causing offence but I’m not allowed to know what it is. Nor can I be told whom I’m being accused by? How am I supposed to defend myself, then?” - At the current rate, future generations will have to be persuaded that Franz Kafka wasn’t actually and Englishman: Franz Kafka’s The Trial opens with the n...
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

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Blog - Adam Smith Institute

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Spiked Online

Oregon is no model for ‘assisted dying’ - The post Oregon is no model for ‘assisted dying’ appeared first on spiked.
Point of Order

Seymour’s bill split the House – but (as is shown by the 68-54 vote after an ill-tempered debate) not “down the middle” - Bob Edlin writes – Laura Walters, Newsroom’s Political Editor, reported on the first reading debate when the highly contentious Treaty Principles Bill was ...
ArchDaily

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Doug Casey's International Man

David Stockman Reveals How Gas and Grocery Prices Shaped the US Election Outcome - There is every reason to be thankful for the Harris no-go, but also absolutely no case to get giddy about the prospects for a second Trumpian term, eithe...
Zero Hanger

Recently departed Lion signs with VFL club - The delisted defender is making a move to Victoria.
The Footy Almanac

The Furphy Literary Award: Dips O’Donnell’s short-listed story ‘The Dam’ - Dips O'Donnell's Furphy Literary Award story made the short list and just missed out on a spot in The Furphy Anthology 2024.
The Double Standard

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No Right Turn

More lawlessness from National - On Tuesday, sick of government stonewalling, the Waitangi Tribunal issued a rare court order, ordering the Minister of Health to release unredacted documen...
The Daily Doom

Mainstream Media Committed Suicide - But they can't agree on whom to blame
Manhattan Contrarian

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The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

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Kiwiblog

Waste, waste, waste - The Herald reports: Figures obtained by RNZ under the Official Information Act showed Tātaki spent a total of $737,208.58 to address what it said was a d...
No Minister

Government only partially adheres to Waitangi Tribunal order, as tensions heat up - From Stuff who to my knowledge have stuffed up with their above headline. The Waitangi Tribunal is an investigative and advisory body only and CANNOT TELL ...
Flying Out

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News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

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Paul Wells

Ready for a referendum? - Another vote on Quebec's future wouldn't be like the last two
Journal of Free Black Moms

Ep. 12 - Let's Start a Black Wives Matter Movement - Listen now | An interview with husband and father of four Delano Squires
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Cato at Liberty

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David Stockman's Contra Corner

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Rational Ground by Justin Hart

Breaking: RFK jr to Head HHS! - Trump is rocking DC to the core!
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Where Does $9 Congestion Pricing Get Us? - Trying to make sense of Kathy Hochul’s mess.
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Conversable Economist

Interview with Laura Alfaro: Globalization and the Great Reallocation - David A. Price of the Richmond Fed serves as interlocutor in an interview with “Laura Alfaro: On global supply chains, sentiment about trade, and what to...
The Curmudgeon

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FIRE

Ayaan Hirsi Ali will not submit - Ayaan Hirsi Ali grew up in a culture of conformity. She was beaten and mutilated. She was told who she must marry. Eventually, she rebelled. "You don't spe...
In Due Course

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Greater Auckland

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Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

The CDC created vaccine hesitancy within the American public -Dr. Jay Richards - Clip from an upcoming episode of "Breaking Bread"
A Halfling's View

It's Simple, Simon - Simon Wilson Speculates on the Rise of Demagoguery in New Zealand
Wright Chat

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Anthony B. Bradley

Men's Retreat Idea (with Teens and College Students) on Suffering, Sacrifice and Self-Discipline - In a world that glorifies comfort, materialism, and self-centered ambition, it’s more important than ever for older men to guide the next generation toward...
Yascha Mounk

Dear Journalists: Stop Trying to Save Democracy - Journalists who turn themselves into political activists inadvertently undermine democratic institutions.
The Future of Freedom Foundation

What Does the Federal Government Have to Do With MAHA? - Reminder: I’ll be speaking at the JFK Lancer conference and also at the CAPA conference. The Lancer conference is being held on November 22-24 in Dallas...
Objective Standard Institute

LevelUp Europe and You - Excel in life. Fight for liberty. —If these are your goals, this conference is for you. The post LevelUp Europe and You appeared first on Objective Stand...
thesecondrenaissance

The White, the Gray, and the Black - In a previous short, I pointed out that there are people who are utterly devoid of any moral qualities whatsoever.
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

Surprise, Surprise, Anthony Fauci Lied Again - Stunning from such a paragon of honesty
Michael Newberry, Artist

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Free Range Kids

How Helicopter Parenting Morphed into “Intensive Parenting” - What social changes gave us “helicopter parenting” and, now, even more “intensive parenting”? This New York Times podcast from a few weeks ago, inspired ...
The Intrinsic Perspective

AI progress has plateaued below GPT-5 level - Or, "Search isn't the same thing as intelligence"
Reason for Living

When Should You “Follow Your Gut”? - Our subconscious ideas and feelings can be enormously helpful—or hugely destructive—depending on the conscious thinking that informs them.
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Soulscape: 2, The School of Athens - From My Upcoming Contemplation Book: Soulscape – The Role of Art in Our Lives
Institute for Energy Research

COP29 Is in Full Swing - The UN 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) started its two-week session on November 11, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan, with… The post COP29 Is in Full Swi...
Note to Noteworthy

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

Children as a Cybersecurity Threat[38 before 38] - All consumer tech seems to be designed by people without children.
Sawahil

Trump's Picks Are Grim News for the West Bank and Iran - "Selective annexation" is a serious possibility in 2025 for the West Bank; on Iran, "Maximum Pressure 2.0" could slide into full-blown war.
EconLog

You’re Probably Willing to Price Gouge (and That’s OK!) - Imagine that Walt is gently swaying in a hammock on a well-deserved vacation day when his phone rings. It’s his boss. She tells him that his co-worker ha...
Reason Foundation

Surface Transportation News: Fresh thinking about vehicle miles of travel - Plus: voters approved transportation funding across the country, asset concessions, mileage-based user fees, and more. The post Surface Transportation Ne...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

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Flashbak

‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull - “When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bulldozed and instant slums bei...
Living Resources Center

And, Just Like That: Political Dissension No Longer a “Threat to Democracy” - For 4 years, DemComs played with fire. Trump 2.0 is the result. You brought this on yourselves, leftists. “I just got frustrated. It’s my way of showing ...
JoNova

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The Works in Progress Newsletter

Where inflation comes from - How we calculate inflation has always been contested with small changes leading to large differences in how well-off we think we are.
Gus Van Horn

Missing -- or Hidden -- Productivity? - Over at *The Endeavour* is a thought-provoking post concerning a common question: *Why aren't we more productive than we are, given the vast array of produ...
Skeptic

Postmortem 2024 - A commentary on the Presidential election and what it may mean for our future
Astral Codex Ten

The Early Christian Strategy - ...
IPWatchdog Articles

Ninth Circuit Upholds Injunction for OpenAI Over Dissent’s Charge of Abuse of Discretion - OpenAI, Inc. has won a fight at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to preliminarily enjoin Open Artificial Intelligence, Inc. and its owner, G...
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 560 It's happening! Partisan economic sentiments are flipping. Transfer nation & Trump's golf course in Vietnam. - Great links, images and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

How To Win the Group Chat Revolution - The importance of digital locker room talk in testing ideas, protecting free speech, and shifting the Overton window
The New York Review of Books

Soundscapes of the Silenced - In late Renaissance Florence one in five women lived behind institutional walls whose rule was sensory mortification. Historians are struggling to recover ...
Statecraft

What President Trump Should Do - Statecraft meets the Free Press
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

67 Screen-Free Activities for Kids - What to do with kids when it's dark and cold this winter
Changing Lanes

A.I. Progress, Wind Turbine Deliveries, Online Sports Gambling, and Canadian Confusion about the USA - Off-Ramps for 14 November 2024
ChinaTalk

SB 1047 with Socialist Characteristics: China’s Algorithm Registration in the LLM Era - What do the regs really do?
John D. Cook

Ramanujan’s master theorem - A few weeks ago I wrote about the Mellin transform. Mitchell Wheat left comment saying the transform seems reminiscent of Ramanujan’s master theorem, whi...
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Wellesley College, Patriotism, Social Anxiety - Interview at Wellesley, new article in the Boston Globe, links and recommendations
The Cobden Centre

It’s the debt, stupid! - US equities are being driven by purely domestic investment flows — rejoicing over Trump’s MAGA policies is understandable. But it ignores an enormous, dang...
Hoover institution Commentary

Thomas Gale Moore: An Appreciation - Remembering the late Hoover economist and his clearsighted contributions.
PM of NZ

Well done! - In the House today, David Seymour was subjected to all manner of vitriol from various people, but firmly stood his ground delivering in as is his manner,...
Down to Earth Kiwi

How come the new Ministry of Regulation has been taken over by Career Regulators, Mr Seymour? - America is super excited about the new Department of Government Efficiency that is being set up, headed by Elon Musk and Vivak Ramaswamy....
No Punches Pulled

A NEW DEGREE COURSE FOR MASSEY - The NZ Herald reports the existence (I’m not making this up) of a Professional Dog Walkers Association. What a splendid opportunity for Massey University t...
UnHerd

Robert Kennedy Jr: America needs a revolution - The 2024 outsider on Biden, Ukraine and Covid misinformation
Capitalism Magazine

Trump Victory Promises Peace in the Middle East - The only sure path to peace in the Middle East is regime change in Iran and dismantling its terrorist proxies.
Quote Investigator

Adage Origin: All Things Are Difficult, Before They Are Easy - Thomas Fuller? Saadi Shīrāzī? Moncure Daniel Conway? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Developing knowledge and skills takes time and effort. The...
Retraction Watch

eLife won’t get an impact factor, says Clarivate - Clarivate, the data company for scholarly publications, has decided to continue indexing some content from eLife in Web of Science, after reevaluating the ...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

Cruising for Classical Music in LA - A section from Dana Gioia's new book
Public Lands – PERC

New Report Lays Out Healthy Path Forward for America’s National Parks - The new report offers 8 ideas to bolster confidence in the Park Service's ability to be an effective steward of public lands funding. The post New Report...
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

COP 29 is immoral - COPs are immoral because they deprive billions of the energy they need to prosper. They should be replaced by energy freedom conferences.
Glenn’s Substack

Who are You? Voter ID law and election integrity should be top priority in new Congress. - Voters want it, and with good reason.
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

Global Existential Risks - A first look at a new U.S. government assessment on the most significant risks facing humanity
Freethink Media

🌎 Becoming plastic - 450-million tonnes of new plastic per year, and no-one knows what it’s doing to us.
The Breakthrough Journal

Defending Economic Productivity and Capitalism for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation - Part 2 - Contrary to being a liability for adapting to and eventually solving climate change, economic productivity undergirded by private property, markets, and pr...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

German retiree facing criminal charges for retweeting a meme implying that the Minister of Economic Affairs is a moron - It’s been a while since I last wrote about the highly advanced democratic freedoms that we enjoy in Germany.
Official Blog

It’s a Pirate’s Life For Me II (Auckland) – Geocache of the Week - Traditional GC1NE2Y by KiwiGary Difficulty: 2 Terrain: 5 Location: North Island, New Zealand S 36° 31.632 E 174° 42.176 Ahoy mateys! Arrrrre ye ready for t...
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

EconTalking Housing Deregulation - I’ve done eight EconTalk podcasts over the years, but zero since 2018. Now I’m finally back on the show to talk about *Build, Baby, Build*. Enjoy! P.S. G...
The New Era

New Era or New World Order? - What's next for Trump 2.0?
Maximum Progress

A Theory of Equilibrium in the Offense-Defense Balance - Don't Make the Peak Oil Mistake When Thinking About the Offense-Defense Balance
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

Enter Hegseth - If you missed today's edition of Mark's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay. Steyn was back at the microphone, fielding questions...
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Three Big Ideas #9 - *Three Big Ideas* is our weekly roundup of ideas (and our takes on them) in entrepreneurship, innovation, science and technology, handpicked by the team....
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Special Briefing: A preliminary government assessment of global catastrophic risk - The latest policy, research and news on global catastrophic risk (GCR).
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 83 - Leave the Dogma Behind (Winkfield Twyman Jr.) - Listen now | A conversation with writer Winkfield Twyman Jr.
Doomberg

Their Democracy - Recent events in the State of Washington pit environmentalists against the voting public.
The Antiplanner

September Driving 2.25% More Than in 2019 - Americans drove 2.2 percent more miles in September 2024 than they did in the same month of 2019, according to data released by the Federal Highway Adminis...
The Whakataki Times

Local Woman Finishes Criminal Law Degree Only To Find Out It’s Not The Same As The Crime Podcasts She Listens To - QUITE DIFFERENT. Alice Hipkins, a 25 year old financial advisor from Christchurch, revealed today that she is actually qualified to practise criminal law...
RenewNZ

The day the Garbage spoke - One result in the US election last week spoke volumes. The final count in the State of Washington DC was Harris 93% – Trump 7%. It was a result which highl...
Case Closed

October 2024 Space Stock Review - Includes Commentary on: LLAP, BKSY, RDW, RKLB, MNTS, VSAT, and CMTL
Autonomia

Podcast: Election Night 2024 - Autonomia founder, editor and publisher Scott Holleran on watching 2024’s historic election returns with Southern California strangers
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

The Deeply Flawed Charter School Situation - I am a huge advocate for the Charter School policy and appreciate the intent of Associate Minister Seymour to bring it back.
The Future of Being Human

Waymo we go! - This week's episode of the Model Futura podcast explore the future of transportation, particularly focusing on driverless cars and the implications of auto...
Energy in Depth

Newsom Regulators Vote to Hike Gas Prices in California, Nevada, and Arizona - Late Friday evening the California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved new amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), likely sending gas prices i...
Truth on the Market

Bell Canada’s Proposed Acquisition of Ziply: Regulators May Be the Least of Their Worries - Bell Canada, Canada’s largest communications company, recently announced plans to acquire Ziply Fiber, a fiber-internet provider in the Pacific Northwest...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

The Economic Consequences of Populism - The Great Depression Reconsidered
Sustain What

Amid a Barrage of Climate Calamities, "Disasterologist" Samantha Montano Puts the Focus on Disaster [In]Justice - Paste this post link in your calendar for Nov. 13, 1:30 pm ET to wach!
HBL

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

The National Trust and Eugenics, or Physician, Heal Thyself - The National Trust has been assiduous in finding connections with slavery and empire in its properties and among their former owners and occupants. But it ...
The Prophet of Causation

How to Make One World Out of Three - Chapter 4
Toppermost

Denim - Given Lawrence Hayward's frequent disputes with his bandmates during the decade-long run of his first and best-known band Felt, it came as little surpris...
Creative Deduction

Tolerance, traditionalism and Trump - Donald Trump is the 47th President of the Unites States of America. In a vote that was less about left vs right than about establishment vs anti-elitism, T...
An Africanist Perspective

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

Souls Breathing Through Screens - How we managed to survive under a totalitarian state
Kiwipolitico

Media Link: “A View from Afar” on the US elections. - The latest “A View from Afar” with Selwyn Manning and I follows the lines drawn in my most recent post here at KP. Because the podcast is basically a dialo...
New Zealand Arts Review

Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery - Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery A Whanganui biography By Martin Edmond Massey University Press RRP $65.00 Reviewed by John ...
Virginia Postrel

Some Timely Thoughts from 1993 - One in a series looking back at The Future and Its Enemies and its precursors.
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

India’s Roadmap - And China's Shadow
Africa-Israel Weekly

The Iranian Regime's increased focus on Black Americans - Since shortly after the revolution of 1979, the Iranian regime has been the world’s No.
The Library of Celaeno

Gay Rappers of the Illuminati Redux - My response to a critic and an illustration of current trends.
Wright in Racine

“Photographing Wright” in Chicago - Text and photos © Mark Hertzberg (2024) A new exhibit related to Frank Lloyd Wright opened two weeks ago at the Driehaus Museum in Chicago. The museum is i...
Roy Spencer, PhD.

Death Valley Temperatures, Part 3: Twelve Years of July Daily Tmax Estimates and the 134 deg. F Record - In Part 1 I claimed that using stations surrounding Death Valley is a good way to “fact check” warm season high temperatures (Tmax) at the Death Valley sta...
Institute of Economic Affairs

How Trumpism vs progressivism leaves classical liberals isolated - Donald Trump’s remarkable and decisive second election victory shows that the realignment of US politics that he brought about eight … Continue reading "...
Kunstler

Mysteries Revealed - "People in the media are aware of how illegitimately they've done their jobs that they think they're on the verge of being locked up" —Scott Adams
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

"Brothers, You Asked for It" - It's Déja Vu All Over Again
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: Boom, by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber - Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation, Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber (Stripe Press, 2024).
Syncretica

Election Thoughts and Takeaways - A few thoughts if for no other reason than having something to reply to a lot of direct messages with:
A Havenstein Moment.

Contrary to widespread belief... - All-In
Don't Let It Go

It can’t happen here–not quite yet anyway. - 35 years ago yesterday the Berlin Wall fell. Here’s a picture of a piece I’ve kept nearby for decades, given to me by a friend at UCLA who had removed it h...
Public: Michael Shellenberger

We Are Only Now Starting To Recover From The Madness - Its political power has broken, but Wokeism is still ruining the culture
Can't Get Much Higher

Young Thug is Free, Timbaland Sells Out, and Steve Martin Dances: Link Drop - The news, podcasts, albums, and ephemera that I've enjoyed in the last month.
Principled Perspectives

On This Veterans Day, Remember the Productive Americans Who Support the Greatest Military in History - This is the time of year that America rightly salutes, and gives thanks to, our military veterans who have protected this nation from foreign enemies for...
Eating Policy

Curiosity and Conflict - I'm angry, and not at Trump voters.
Conspicuous Cognition

On becoming less left-wing (Part 1) - Evolution, economics, political psychology, social epistemology, and progress.
misfits' architecture

Architecture Misfit #42: Terunobu Fujimori (藤森照信) - Before everybody groans about another Pritzker Prize going to yet another Japanese architect, it might be worth wondering what factors might be responsible...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

Uganda’s Economic & Geopolitical History Part IV: Museveni’s Reign, Uganda-Congo-Rwanda Tensions, and High-Stakes Bets on Oil & EVs! - The Final Chapter in this Series: From Revolutionary Rebel to Status-Quo Ruler
Asimov’s Addendum

Weekly Roundup: U.S. Election edition - Unconventional readings on the impact of the U.S. election on AI governance
Interintellect

Anna Gát's: What to Read This Weekend #72 - Scruton, pogrom, isolation, academia, parenthood, HPV, gender wars, literacy, automation, media consolidation, genes, males, tales and machines -- and much...
Schiffradio.com

Powell Admits Fed Has No Plan For Stagflation – Ep 990 - Markets soar on Trump's return, skepticism persists. Budget deficits, trade issues, and economic challenges under scrutiny. The post Powell Admits Fed Ha...
High Capacity

Beijing braces for impact: What Trump 2.0 might mean for US-China relations - Both sides have learned lessons from the first US-China trade war. For Trump, it's that tariffs and sanctions are powerful tools. For Beijing, it's that a ...
Regan's Substack

How to never be single - On the (lack of) importance of spending time alone
Sinification

China Reacts to Trump's Election - Featuring commentary from leading pro- and anti-Trump IR experts: Yan Xuetong, Jia Qingguo, Wu Xinbo, Jin Canrong, Huang Jing and Hu Wei.
The War on Prices

Three Faulty Policy Lessons for Democrats on Inflation - Most economists and commentators now agree: a big reason for Vice President Kamala Harris’s defeat in Tuesday’s presidential election was high inflation de...
Ideas Beyond Borders

Behind the Veil - How Rasa Zan TV gives Afghan women a voice under Taliban pressure
Offsetting Behaviour

This will not end well - I still think Rod Carr had this stuff right two decades ago when he'd argued against having deposit insurance at all, and instead making very clear that ...
Democracy Project

Geoffrey Miller: Trump victory could spark New Zealand rethink at APEC in Peru - Donald Trump’s sweeping election victory has set the stage for this year’s APEC summit in Peru. At least 14 leaders have so far confirmed their attendance ...
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

The Best Political Argument for More Immigration Restrictions Just Failed - Donald Trump Proved It Wrong
The Kerrant

Trump’s Path Back: How Shifting Politics and Powerful Voices Reshaped the Election - As we reflect on the recent election, it’s hard to ignore the signals that former President Obama gave, albeit subtly, during the primaries. In his state...
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

This One's Just For You, Martyn. - *Hard Hat & A Hammer* *Alan Jackson* *Video courtesy of YouTube* *Posted on Bowalley Road on Thursday, 7 November 2024.*
Libertarian Land

The Lesson from Oregon: Drug Decriminalization is a Partial Solution, at Best - By Jeffrey Miron, Jonah Karafiol, and Jacob Winter
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

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

Being a Scholar in Trumpian times - Some thoughts about doing the right thing as an academic in an autocracy
The Tracinski Letter

Trump Without Guardrails - The American people have voted for Donald Trump again, this time by a decisive margin and with no excuses, after plenty of evidence about exactly who and w...
Israel Institute of NZ

IINZ reports MFAT to Police; MFAT complains about IINZ - You might remember an Auckland character named Penny Bright. She was infamous for refusing to pay Auckland rates for eleven years (11 YEARS!). Her steadfas...
The Free Market Futurist

The Birth of the “Progress Movement” - I have a long tradition on Election Day of writing about anything except the election.
Notes On Liberty

Taxes, Tariffs, Tardy Tallying, and Thanksgiving Truce - November’s Challenge to Bridge America’s Divide
Macroscience

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

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card - Speaker for the Dead uses some bizarre sci-fi concepts to explore important moral issues—hitting the nail on the head on some, but muddying the waters on o...
Premise Check (Billy Beck)

It’s Election Day, 2024 - 2:28 AM EDT —
Cremieux Recueil

American Elections Are Unfair - Unfortunately, unfairness is baked in
The Truth Fairy

The Kindergarten Intifada - The national effort to indoctrinate American children against Israel
Punishingly Haimona

When Writing About The 'Right Topic' Is Wrong - The booming market for US Election hot takes is a double edged sword for non-US experts and pundits.
Museum Street (Henry Cooke)

Six questions the US election is about to answer - And two more it won't right away.
Building the Builders

Fantastic Builders and Where to Find Them, 3rd installment - “Every day I touched 50 faces” (Estée Lauder)
Conflicted

Unhinged - The the self serving machine of climate change advocacy, climate anxiety, and climate litigation
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

15 Band Ideas for the Future - An Interruption from the Election Chaos
One Useful Thing

The Present Future: AI's Impact Long Before Superintelligence - You can start to see the outlines of an AI future, for better and worse
The Upheaval

Machine Antihumanism and the Inversion of Family Law - An essay by Jeff Shafer
Stats Chat

Top 14 Predictions for Round 10 - Team Ratings for Round 10 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ...
A life just as ordinary

Herevana – #203 – Wilderness Rolling Meadows - Here we have a Wilderness Brewing Wilderness Rolling Meadows. IT’s be rare for a Wilderness beer not to be really enjoyable, and so a BA peach apricot affa...
Thinking Directions

Further Thoughts on “Motivation by Love” - I was recently interviewed on the Yaron Brook Show on the topic of “Motivation by Love.” The main point of the interview is that it’s important to go dee...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Short Take: On The Anti-Oracles and Their Counterparts - The existence of Leftism is actually a shocking epistemic revelation.
Science+Story

The 'Opposite of Marketing' Isn't Research Communications - Why media-centric communications makes us all bad actors.
Forbidden Science

Why the public should not “believe in science” - Instead, we should publicly and freely discuss it
Eat More Electrons

[Weekend read] Clean Energy in Africa has a Dirty Image Problem - A lot of the energy and climate world seems stuck using images that are tired clichés, in poor taste, or even straight-up racist.
Plain Sight

Losing- but finding – my sporting religion - "I would still go to the pub of rugby, or more often the televised off-licence, but what was on offer was increasingly the sporting equivalent of Speights....
The Scholar's Stage

Republican Debates on China: A Political Compass for Potential Trump Appointees - A Preliminary Taxonomy
The China Space Monitor

China's International Space Efforts - Plus another Thousand Sails launch 🛰️ More satellite direct-to-device news 📱 and BYD getting involved in astronaut transit 🧑🏻‍🚀
Institute for Progress

Institute for Progress (IFP) — October 2024 Update - Hope you all have been enjoying the beginning of fall and the end of conference season (at least for the IFP team).
Texas Institute for Property Rights

All Men are Created Equal: Shattering Paradigms Book 1 - In 1857, Samuel Dawson, the son of a slaveholder, befriends Will, a slave boy. The parents of the two twelve-year The post All Men are Created Equal: Sha...
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 74) - Untimely Thoughts on a World in Transition
Market Urbanism

A Case for Urban Renewal - Is it even possible today to write a vigorous argument in favor of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s? I doubt it. Jeanne Lowe's 1967 "Cities in a R...
Asymmetric Information

Your average wombat is probably smarter🍋 - World Wombat Day gave me the excuse to review the new Apple Intelligence
Kibao

Who In Africa is Ready for EVs? - New data shows a continent divided into emulators, innovators, and stragglers
What You Can Do For Liberty

What If It Turns Out You Were Important? - Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could do only a little. — Edmund Burke
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

straight outta tartarus - in search of the inner sanctums
Peter Winsley

Therapeutic and generative benefits from poetry and music - In a 2016 paper I explored why Shakespeare is important for young people. Shakespeare’s works are immortal because successive generations have treasured hi...
Too Clever By Half

Spam in bulk? No problem! - Only you can prevent comment pollution. src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaz_BXQIxwDTRsTl-GKrX6-I8Bb1wpBwSxqf3Jpj6oKLLccQZ1Gm...
Armas

The Hard Country: The River and the Line. - Chapter 2 of the book is out!
Croaking Cassandra

Pretty (il)legal - The title of this post was, of course, a reference to the efforts of former Minister of Finance and National campaign manager Steven Joyce to defend the us...
The Roots of Progress

Big tech transitions are slow - With implications for AI
HardmoneyJim

"A Black Hole in Economics" is now available on Amazon.com - Thank you for your patience! This book project was nearly two years in the making, and I’m pleased with the result.
Lindsay Mitchell

Needless attack on government directive by public health academics - In September 2024 the government issued a directive to government agencies not to prioritise services on the basis of race. Shortly after, a group of pub...
Existential Crunch

The consequences of large-scale blackouts - What happens to a society when the lights go out?
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

A student should not be forced to learn about tikanga to be a lawyer - My oral submission to the Regulation Review Committee
Tross Publishing

AN INSPIRING STORY OF COURAGE - By John McLean On 10th September, 2024, the death occurred of Dale Collett, a hero of the Rhodesian Bush War and an inspiration for all those who suffer ...
Houston Strategies

A simple solution to help Houston traffic, our tax-debt-spend problem, HSR bankrupted Japan, Austin builds towards affordability, METRO comedy! - Just a few small items this week:Charles Blain in City Journal: Saddled With Taxes and Debt - Houston-area leadership is losing touch with the fiscal restr...
Theatreview

Commennt posted to There Used to Be Magic, Once - Jennifer O’Sullivan October 17th, 2024 Kia ora John, and thank you for coming along to the festival again! Context for the following: I’m on the board of t...
Happy Future

Failure Mode: Welchification - American Reindustrialization Must Learn from GE’s Mistakes
The 13th Floor

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

Human Driving Increases Transportation Cost 10x - Why ground transportation still has a lot of legs.
Martini Mandate

Marxists, Beards and Follies - Sri Lanka has elected a Marxist president. He is described as a neo Marxist, which is what you call a revolutionary who’s shaved his beard. The problem i...
647 Reasons Why

DAYS 1-3 - 90 Mile Beach - Days 1-3 of my trek across the entire length of New Zealand
The Logical Place

Socialism in the 21st Century: A Regressive Ideology in Modern Times - Socialism, once hailed as a visionary and revolutionary alternative to capitalism, has deep roots in the progressive movements of the 19th and early 20th c...
Cranmer’s Substack

HMNZS MANAWANUI - Details are already starting to emerge of the frantic rescue efforts that saved the crew of the stricken vessel on Saturday evening and which continued unt...
M.M.E.F. News

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

Answer is no Brian - Is New Zealand’s retirement strategy sustainable?
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: The Coal Conquest - There was no shortage of trees
Craig Biddle

Conceptual Fallacies and How to Avoid Them - Logical fallacies are not the only errors that retard thinking. Conceptual fallacies do, too, and often in subtler, more destructive ways. Just as logica...
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Living in the Parent Ghetto - Despite my sincere efforts, I have become one of Those Moms Who Only Hang Out With Other Moms
Ruxandra’s Substack

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

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

AI’s dangerous capabilities: Are we measuring the wrong thing? - Dangerous capability evaluations are a crucial tool for AI governance. But without accurate threat models, they could give us a false sense of security.
Gross Output

Slowing Gross Output Confirms Fed’s Need to Cut Rates - “By integrating the vital role of the supply chain into national income accounting, Mark Skousen’s development of gross output (GO) has created a more dy...
Wildlife – PERC

Rewarding Recovery Will Benefit the Wolf and All Imperiled Wildlife - PERC filed an amicus brief in Defenders of Wildlife v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The post Rewarding Recovery Will Benefit the Wolf and All Imperiled...
Johnny Grey Studios

FOOD FESTIVAL AFTERMATH. - Glamour on the Unfitted Kitchen Stage. Still coming down off the high of the first South Downs Food Festival… I can’t stop thinking about...
Overthinking Everything

Using what you're given - Sometimes the universe hands you fruit and you've got to use it somehow.
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

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

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

After the Pogrom Book Donation - The post After the Pogrom Book Donation appeared first on spiked.
THE CIVILIAN

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

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

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

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

Addressing Virus Skeptics - The Confusing misuse of the words isolate and cause
a/symmetric

We're going on hiatus - But do stick around
Better things are possible

Managing on-street parking for local benefit; the case for Parking Benefit Districts - Parking is often the centre of debate in our cities, particularly on-street car parks, who gets to use them and how we manage them.
Reviews - 13th Floor

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

Project 2025 vs. The Public’s Health, Part III - Part III: The NIH
TheMoneyIllusion

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

A Journey of Death - "When he was released ahead of schedule from his prison sentence of nearly 20 years, Jiao Zhimin was in his early forties. On his way to his father’s hou...
What's New Under the Sun

Time for More Living Literature Reviews - A Third Anniversary Post
Tribes – PERC

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

The Complexity-Worshippers - The new attack on reason
Private Lands – PERC

PERC and RMEF Team Up to Launch Innovative Wildlife Conservation Initiatives - Our expanded partnership marks the beginning of a multiyear effort focused on pioneering big game conservation efforts across the Rocky Mountain West and...
Hunters and Anglers – PERC

PERC and RMEF Team Up to Launch Innovative Wildlife Conservation Initiatives - Our expanded partnership marks the beginning of a multiyear effort focused on pioneering big game conservation efforts across the Rocky Mountain West and...
Roots of Progress

Introducing the 2024 Blog-Building Intensive Fellows - We’re thrilled to announce our second cohort of our Blog-Building Intensive Fellowship! This year’s fellows are a group 25 of impressive progress think...
A City for People

Making it easier to build granny flats - City for People submits in support of more homes in existing urban areas.
One Sock: Heather Roy's Blog

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

New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is out - You can read the whole thing here.
Folarinism

White identity politics won’t save Britain - It fails to provide a vision for a good life and a realistic solution to the problems we face
Jackson Upmann

Coming soon - This is Jackson Upmann.
CEE – Econlib

Occupational Licensing - [An update of Occupational Licensing, by David S. Young.] Occupational licensing today directly affects more than one in five workers in the United State...
Liberty Scott

Charles Moore on the prospects of Trump in Foreign Policy - From the Daily Telegraph: *One of Mr Trump’s clearest messages, amplified by his choice of J D Vance, is that he does not want to help Ukraine defeat Vl...
Yes In Our Backyards

Mixed-use development is coming to NZ cities, here’s One Small Trick to take it further - Allowing neighbours to sell their planning rights to incoming developments will make a good policy even better
FDR Liberated

Top Strategies for Enhancing Customer Satisfaction in Business Services - Customer satisfaction is the cornerstone of any successful business. In […]
BloodhoundBlog

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

Stirred Cucumber Drinks - This week’s Robb Report article was about a cocktail called the Archangel. You can read it here if you like, but briefly summarized: the Archangel is a neo...
Anti-Dismal

100 years of the theory of the firm. Or may be only 50. - Depending on how you pick your starting point there has been, roughly, 50 or 100 years of the mainstream economic theory of the firm. In support of the 1...
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

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

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

Ned Fletcher's book: "unsatisfactory" and "badly flawed" - *N*ew Zealand/Australian historian Bain Attwood reviews Ned Fletcher's *English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi* in the *Australian Book Review. *His c...
Fizzifood

Lamb, courgette & triple cheese layered bake - JW – as requested, here’s the method behind the madness! This recipe is a cross between a moussaka and a (lower-carb) lasagne. I’ve used courgettes, grou...
Growing to Truth

Duh, Of Course Hamas Lied About Casualty Statistics - The UN revised their Gazan casualty statistics, claiming fewer women and children were killed than previously reported
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Excerpt 1 -- from a new essay series - Work in progress - (for interera.co)
Keith Weiner Economics

Commodities, Consumer Goods, Prices, and Time - Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley, at the Cato Institute, write about the Simon Abundance Index. SAI is named for Julian Simon, famous for his bet with the Malth...
Earthly Idealism

The Unhappy Millionaire - I’m excited to share the first two episodes of a podcast I’ve launched along with Ayn Rand Institute CEO Tal Tsfany: The Unhappy Millionaire. The premise i...
The Visible Hand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Electricity Cheapest in a Decade - NZ residential electricity most affordable in recent history
The Fundy Post

Genesis -
Power + Market

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

island home - Sweet little cylindrical house on Koh Tao, an island in the Gulf of Thailand –
Samizdata

Let’s just defund the UN and leave it immediately - Hidden deep below the headquarters of the United Nations’ aid agency for Palestinians here is a Hamas complex with rows of computer servers that Israel’s...
The Grumpy Economist

Understanding Trumpers - WSJ oped and substack post.
Open Borders: The Case

High-skilled hacks: the business of extraordinary ability - This post is part of my “high-skilled hacks” series, focused on immigration to the United States. The series explores various workarounds and caveats to im...
The Popehat Report

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

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

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

The Social Feedback Loop that Puts Blinders on Climate Science -
Michelle Kamhi

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

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

Finding the Benevolent Universe when the World is in a Pickle - by
Democracy Action

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Washington’s “development economics” is actually designed to prevent development - Published in China by Guancha.cn newspaper on 7 September 2023 at: https://www.guancha.cn/Werner/2023_09_07_707650_3.shtml
Uranium-238

Introduction to the Iran Nuclear Deal - Putting a price on nonproliferation
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

Agustina Vergara Cid on the Immorality of the U.S. Immigration System - [image: Agustina Vergara Cid on the Immorality of the U.S. Immigration System] *Immigrants who “get in line” are punished for wanting to work.* The post A...
Comments on: Bert Kelly

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

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

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

It’s Crunch Time for The Daily Doom and Doom Time for The Great Recession Blog - The Great Recession Blog is officially done for good, and my writing continues on TheDailyDoom.com. This site will eventually be completely terminated. If ...
Stories by Rudi Edsall on Medium

Round 12 v Bulldogs — who needs a midfield anyway? - Round 12 v Bulldogs — who needs a midfield anyway? I honestly did not see a way we could do this one. I was expecting an absolute massacre in the midfield ...
Alastair Cavendish: British Freedom

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

Woden's Day Thing: 4/26/22 - All right already
The Market Urbanism Report Blog

Can Prospera Become A Startup City Blueprint? - The emergence of startup cities is a story we’ll cover extensively these next few years. Prospera of Honduras is a leading example.
Energy – PERC

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

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

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

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

Highlighting "The Parenting Handbook" - This fall, Montessorium was lucky to bring education writer Samantha Blaisdell onto our content team. Samantha is a former teacher, trained mechanical engi...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

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

Who’s calling the shots on co-governance? Lawyers or MPs? Will the Court of Appeal order disclosure? - On Wednesday 15 February the Court of Appeal will hear the arguments of two King’s Counsel, that the government should come clean on whether its lawyers ar...
A gay man on gender and sexuality

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Crab Nebula: the Real 4th of July Fireworks - On around the 4th of July 1054 a supernova exploded, creating the spectacular Crab Nebula. It was recorded by Chinese astronomers but was it also recorded ...
Mencken's Ghost

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

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

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

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

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

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...
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

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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 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...
Travel Secrets by Shar Lemond

No Highway by Nevil Shute – Book Review - *“Therefore, go forth, companion: when you find* *No Highway more, no track, all being blind,The way to go shall glimmer in the mind.* *Though you h...
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...
The Devil's Kitchen

NHS Fail Wail - I think that we can all agree that the UK's response to coronavirus has been somewhat lacking. In fact, many people asserted that our death rate was unique...
News - Democracy Action

Revealed: Auckland Council spends $129 million in six years on duplicated iwi consultation, targeted Māori spending - *A new briefing paper co-published by the Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance and Democracy Action reveals that in just six years, Auckland Council spent at le...
John P. McCaskey

History of ‘Temperature’: Maturation of a Measurement Concept - This is the accepted manuscript for an article to be published by Taylor & Francis in Annals of Science. Accounts The post History of ‘Temperature’: Matu...
Quote Unquote

Waikato Times letter of the week #92 - From the edition of Saturday 22 August. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the *Waikato Times.* *Driver licen...
Joakim Book | Life of an Econ Student

Publications, June - Summer is here, and here's this month's breakdown. For more news about my publications, follow my work on Authory and on Twitter. *HumanProgress.org* -...
Center for the Legalization of Privacy

Barr and Wray are Coming For Your Apple Encryption - An extra I did earlier this week, after Tom Hall sent me the video of a press conference by Attorney … Continue reading →
Legalize Privacy

Barr and Wray are Coming For Your Apple Encryption - An extra I did earlier this week, after Tom Hall sent me the video of a press conference by Attorney … Continue reading →
Kuo's Gulch | Justice, Independence, Productivity, Honesty, Integrity, Pride, Rationality

Man and His Inherent Productivity - If there’s anything we have learnt from the Coronavirus pandemic, is that people are willing to submit themselves to authoritarianism for the sake of a fal...
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…
Inductive Quest

William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 6/Final Part) - Previous posts: William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 1) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 2) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Ind...
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,
sportreview.net.nz

Cricket world cup final FAQ - This content was lovingly emailed to general sporting masochists in EMERGENCY Sport Review newsletter #70 – join them and get this carry on every week at s...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
AYN RAND CENTRE (UK)

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! The post Hello world! appeared first on AYN RAND CENTRE.
Oswald Bastable's Ranting

Are you mad?- oh wait... - Of course. You would have to be be barking mad to want to bring this rabble to NZ. But then socialists are mad by definition. It's not as if we don't have...
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...
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

Signing off - My Last Blog Post | Nicky Hager; Heather Du Plessis-Allan; Deborah Hill-Cone; Giovanni Tiso - Individualism & the Tyranny of Each Other. - The secret of being a bore is to tell everything – Voltaire. When the last human who understands individualism passes, so will pass the entirety of h...
Tibor's space

Reflections on Modern Democracy - Democracy – but only when it goes your way! Tibor R. Machan Over the years of watching the democratic process I’ve noticed something important. People ten...
Politics without God

Should You Try to Be Morally Perfect? - Off-topic but perhaps of interest... Back in March 2012, I gave a lecture titled "Should You Try to Be Morally Perfect?" as part of the CU Boulder Philosop...
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....
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

Flexible Tactics, Integrated Strategy, Inflexible Purpose - While reading Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History by John David Lewis the other day, I came across something that I knew im...
Bushfire Front – Bushfire management in Western Australia

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Turning Point UK

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The Common Room

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THE ALL RIGHT

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The Hot Club of New York

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Strong Towns

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Ayn Rand Society

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Energy Talking Points - Alex Epstein

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The Telegraph (UK)

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Environmental Progress

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Cato at Liberty

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SovereignLife Freedom Blog

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