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Leaked Video Shows China Taking Apart Thousands of RTX 5090s and Turning Them Into Zombie AI Servers - Consumer prices have soared well past $10,000 in the US. The post Leaked Video Shows China Taking Apart Thousands of RTX 5090s and Turning Them Into Zomb...
The Shrewd Artist

Flipping Perspectives - Mirror images of WIP, Venus
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Flipping Perspectives - Mirror images of WIP, Venus
John D. Cook

Inversion in an ellipse - The previous three post have been part of a series on geometric duality. The traditional but somewhat mysterious terminology is the pole of a line and th...
Why Evolution Is True

The daily scam - There are a number of signs that the email below is a scam, including this one: . . . but the funniest one is the name. “Mira Beee” couldn’t be arsed to cu...
Houston Strategies

Trump's Jones Act waiver delivers huge benefits to Houston - A different kind of guest post from Oscar Slotboom highlighting the benefits of deregulation - specifically the very harmful, protectionist Jones Act.--- P...
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

The case for saving Chris Bishop - A Parliament without Chris Bishop would be a worse Parliament
Marcus on AI

What Anthropic left out of their draft S-1 - Buyer, beware of omissions
Real Clear Energy

Oil Sticking Above $100 - Trading Economics
Israel Institute of NZ

Ten Elections, One President, and the Democracy Nobody Wants to Discuss - Israel goes to the polls again. Mahmoud Abbas remains in office after nearly 22 years without facing voters. Yet it is Israel’s democratic credentials that...
Watts Up With That?

Storm Boelo - This is what happens when you give storms silly names; it was precisely why the Met Office started it in 2015. The post Storm Boelo appeared first on Wat...
The Double Standard

Open Mike 27/10/2026 - Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to th...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Open Mic TUESDAY 27th OCTOBER + Political Caption Competition - POLITICAL FACT OF THE DAY: The UN Secretary-General identified artificial intelligence as one of four defining tests of global power...
The UnPopulist

A Democratic Toolkit for Using a Midterm Win to Check Trump and Force a Reckoning - The next Congress will need to act like the first branch and unabashedly use all its constitutional powers
The Rebuild

The Affordability Report: Week of October 26th - The midterms are mere days away!
JoNova

Tuesday - 10 out of 10 based on 2 ratings
Breaking Views

Geoff Parker - TPM’s New Constitutional Policy: Who Should Hold the Political Power to Govern New Zealand? - Where should NZ’s political authority ultimately reside?That is the real issue behind Te Pāti Māori’s new constitutional policy.Constitutional Transformati...
Marginal Revolution

Monday assorted links - 1. Why slow fields may determine the pace of discovery. 2. Touch screens on your jacket? 3. Astras performance on Bach bench. 4. More on regional product...
The Curmudgeon

Defensive Decency - Whether inducing the poor towards greater thrift or empowering the disabled to earn their bare existence, British generosity is usually a prudent, penny-pi...
Truth on the Market

The Halloween Effect and the Premature Burial of Efficient Markets - Every October, financial journalism performs a small act of necromancy. Out comes the “Halloween effect,” the finding that stocks tend to earn higher ret...
The Daily Sceptic

The Left Forgets That Zionism is a Progressive Movement - As the Left unites with Islamists to march against Israel, what it forgets is that Zionism was always a progressive movement – and the Irish forget that ...
JunkScience.com

EPA’s 1992 passive smoking risk assessment is the root of all modern epidemiologic evil - This is not news but I wanted to capture this before the Trump EPA decommissions its online web archive. The EPA’s 1992 passive smoking/ environmental toba...
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

Stephen King's 'Creepiest' Short Story Still Holds Up - "The Raft," first published in November 1982, is a pretty terrifying yarn.
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Stormy Weather? - By Paul Homewood Apparently I missed the hurricane that hit London over the weekend! At least, that’s the impression we get from the media. The normall...
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

Most People Are Nicer than We Think - A friend of mine recently posted something on social media that made me smile. He had been reading my essays on the importance of young men having role m...
Middle East Uncovered

Twin Sisters Joined Iran’s Protests. One Now Faces Execution. - Taraneh and Romina Rahimi took to the streets hoping for a better future for their country. Months later, one faces the gallows and the other 25 years in p...
Armageddon Newsletter

News X World: on continuing military operations while peace talks are being prepared - Read more
Utopia - you are standing in it!

How to Profit From a Cartel Without Joining One - Adam Smith warned that people in the same trade rarely meet without the conversation turning to a scheme to raise prices. Antitrust enforcers on both sides...
Case Closed

The Return of Case Closed - Separating Sci-Fi from Sci-Fact When Investing in the Space Industry
IPWatchdog Articles

Understanding the Entire Market Value Rule: Legal Foundations and Evolution - In patent damages, apportionment reflects the fundamental principle that a patentee may recover only the value attributable to the patented invention, no...
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

Keys and Kazoos - Part Fifteen of Tal Bachman's series on the art of translation...
Conflicted

The Stern Review at 20, Part 2: Et voilà! Financial climate risk - Series: Did China Capture California? Post #2b
Gus Van Horn

'Shy Republicans' -- but the Other Way Around? - A *Daily Mail* piece about the Talarico-Paxton senatorial race in Texas speaks of "shy Republicans," a term I've heard more than once before, going way bac...
Energy Transition Absurdities

EQT, Range Merger Forms $50 Billion Marcellus Gas Powerhouse - Pittsburgh-based EQT Corporation announced Monday morning it would enter into a strategic, all stock merger with venerable Marcellus shale producer Range R...
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day – What’s gone wrong with Britain? - One is we’ve just let state spending drift up too high. It’s 10 percentage points higher as a share of GDP than it was in the early Blair era. That in it...
ArchDaily

Coqueira House / Tiago Sousa Arquitecto - Geometry, planes and a suspended volume. The site is organised into two distinct levels. The upper level comprises the majority of the site and is access...
SkyscraperCity Forum

Старые фото Петрозаводска - Сперва думал это в общую тему поместить, но потом решил, что, пожалуй, лучше организовать отдельный тред. Конец проспекта Ленина где-то в середине 1950-х. ...
The Daily Economy

Liberty Is the Common Good of a Free People - America's founders understood that liberty and the common good were not competing ideals. Today's postliberals are blaming the wrong tradition.
The Inquiring Mind

J.R. Ellis | #3 – The Murder at Redmire Hall read by Michael Page | DCI Jim Oldroyd – Yorkshire Mystery Series - Link below https://youtu.be/9oVfiZjS6cM?si=NHBPtljDWm7-z8Y0
Techdirt

Whoops: Meta’s Muse Share Links Disclosed All Sorts Of Super-Sensitive User Data - Earlier this month we noted how Meta’s launch of its cutesy agentic AI software Muse arrived with all sorts of major privacy and security screw ups, despit...
The Logical Place

Authoritarianism on the Left and Right - Authoritarianism is commonly associated with the political right, particularly with fascism, nationalism and conservative social attitudes. Yet some of the...
Institute for Energy Research

India May Need to Increase Its Coal Power Capacity Additions - India’s electricity demand is growing so fast that planned capacity additions may fall short, forcing the country to add more… The post India May Need to...
Journal of Free Black Thought

Pushing Drugs from the Pulpit - Black pastors sold the drug of government dependency to their communities
Journal of Free Black Thought

Pushing Drugs from the Pulpit - Black pastors sold the drug of government dependency to their communities
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

Redesigning the Sinclair C5 - I was a friend of Sir Clive Sinclair. He was Chairman of Mensa while I was Secretary, and we helped run it for 13 years. During that time he brought out ...
Curbed - All

A One-Bedroom in Park Slope With a Nice-Size Kitchen for $765,000 - And a very modern studio on Horatio Street with a wood-burning fireplace.
DGMLive

Stormy Monday Selection #82 - For his October selection Alex Stormy Mundy takes us back to 1982 for a close-up look at Tony Levin’s playing, over a backing track of Frippertronics, on R...
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

China and the Endless Frontier - Lessons of a new science policy report from China for US policy makers
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

RFK Jr.’s “Control Group” - In July 2021, while speaking to a large Mennonite crowd in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, RFK Jr. made two accurate predictions.
Brownstone Institute

How Washington Think Tanks Paved the Road to Serfdom - How Washington Think Tanks Paved the Road to Serfdom by James Bovard at Brownstone Institute [image: How Washington Think Tanks Paved the Road to Serfdom]...
Eating Policy

Do Not Remove This Tag - Why agency mythos around the Paperwork Reduction Act has ultimately doomed it
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 1266 Winter arrives in the market. No one owns protectionism. The DSA trickle & flying across America. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
EconLog

How Your Situation Shapes You (with Angela Duckworth) - Sure, you can use willpower or grit to break bad habits and build new ones. But maybe the key to success is simpler: change your situation. Psychologist ...
The Roots of Liberty

The Ultimate In Gatekeeping - “Free healthcare!”
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Choose Mediocrity and Stagnation. Vote Democrat in Texas. - Facing a depressing choice in the governor’s race
ChinaTalk

China's 10,000 Gaming Talents - Essay Contest Winner!
Slow Boring

Scammy fundraising is a big problem - It’s tough to say anything meaningful about the midterms at this point, but Democrats should think harder about their fundraising.
Law & Liberty

Honest Men Turned Knaves - The force of partisan strife in modern politics should make us appreciate the need for checks and balances.
Reason Foundation

The Jones Act is suppressing demand for American shipping - The current waiver has opened new routes and boosted fuel shipments to Puerto Rico. Congress should create a permanent waiver process for cargoes no U.S....
Mises Institute Blog

When Money Becomes Everything - Thanks to government elites, the only thing that matters is money, as the Federal Reserve has been creating it in ruinous amounts, pretending it is being r...
Living Resources Center

Affordability With Nothing to Buy - Socialism and Communism are all about control, conformity, uniformity, and the stifling of innovation. Socialism seeks to suppress independence, rational...
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Immigrants Aren’t Coming to Blow You Up in a Terrorist Attack - Part 5 of What People Really Care About When They’re Mad About Immigration
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

Immigrants Aren’t Coming to Blow You Up in a Terrorist Attack - Part 5 of What People Really Care About When They’re Mad About Immigration
Quotulatiousness

“Christofascism” seen as harmful - I must not hang out in the progressive cool kids’ areas of the internet, as I’d only occasionally heard the term “Christofascism” and I’d never encountered...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Liberty Is the Common Good of a Free People - These days, it is commonplace for conservatives to say that government must serve the common good. That assertion is usually couched as a criticism of tr...
American Institute of Economic Research

Liberty Is the Common Good of a Free People - These days, it is commonplace for conservatives to say that government must serve the common good. That assertion is usually couched as a criticism of tr...
Flashbak

Having A Square Halloween, in Color Photos - To celebrate Halloween, Robert E. Jackson has delved into his phenomenal photography collection and now shares this selection of square halloween photo...
Tim Worstall

Always happens, dunnit? - Britain’s biggest broker has launched a low-cost “workaround” to beat Labour’s 40pc cut to the cash Isa allowance. Hargreaves Lansdown’s new money market...
The Whakataki Times

Local Man Straps In For Four Day Week That Will Inevitably Still Feel Like Five - NEVER SATISFIED. The post Local Man Straps In For Four Day Week That Will Inevitably Still Feel Like Five appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
GeekPress

Duo Review - *"The iPhone Duo* is a messy, expensive good time"
Mises Wire

Economists Who Support Statism At the Expense of Freedom - If anyone should be able to understand that statism is no substitute for sound economics, it would be an economist. Many of them—and especially those at el...
Hoover institution Commentary

PROP 2: Increases State’s Rainy Day Fund - Official ballot title: “Increases State’s Rainy Day Fund.” (Assembly Constitutional Amendment 20, Resolution Chapter 130, Statutes of 2026). The measure’s ...
No Minister

Who Is A Maori? - Up until the whalers and sealers came ashore the population of New Zealand was Maori numbering around 100 000 as a likely number assessed by AI. Today afte...
Zero Hanger

Why the AFL was required to release the 2027 Gather Round fixture early - A contractual agreement has given SA a greater say in shaping Gather Round, with several key fixture requirements negotiated behind the scenes.
Let Grow

Always Imagining the Worst? A Primer on Parental Catastrophizing - [image: LG_BLOG_image_worst First Thinking] You may have read the story of Karyann Parkinson, the Williamsburg, Virginia, mom arrested for letting her son ...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: Certain Feelings Claim Their Own Rights - Let us allow them to.
The Integrity Institute

Democracy Briefing: Business leaders give lobbying reform a welcome boost - Business leaders are more open to rules on lobbying than many would expect, according to the Herald’s latest “Mood of the Boardroom” survey.
Quillette

Gemma Tognini on Australia’s Political Revolt - Gemma Tognini and Claire Lehmann discuss One Nation’s rise, Albanese’s leadership, government waste and the antisemitism that Bondi exposed in Australia.
Brash & Mitchell

GRAHAM ADAMS: Why does the left soft-soap Māori gangs? - The Coalition parties can barely believe their luck as the gang scandal continues to engulf their political rivals even as advance voting begins. Little wo...
Chris Trotter

La France à Genoux. - France on its knees.
The Free Press

The Democratic Case Against Abdul El-Sayed - In the Michigan senate race, muddleheaded party leaders cannot see past the next election, writes Peter Savodnik. Will the voters?
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Scrithe – to go, move, glide, wander, or proceed.
Point of Order

Maori trust’s beach barrier was blessed with a karakia, but it didn’t have the blessing of the local council – or the law - Bob Edlin writes – Uh, oh. Tensions between beach-going motorists and beach-protecting vigilantes were reflected in a report headed Kāwhia landowners face...
UnHerd

How the next eurozone crisis happens - French collapse is contagious
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #69: Sebastian Maniscalco: Let Your Body Tell the Story - How authenticity, storytelling, and physical expression bring communication to life
Barrie Saunders

Voter suppression? - Some media and academics are claiming that the requirement for voters to enrol at least 13 days before the election is a form of voter suppression and will...
Kiwiblog

Yes Minister is a documentary - Matthew Hooton reports: They’re called the “bureaucratic priesthood” – powerful officials in Wellington who ministers must work with to deliver their pro...
The Footy Almanac

Almanac Poetry: Message to Self, upon Turning Fifty - This week's poem by Kevin Densley is an unpublished one from his archives, reflecting upon turning fifty. [Poem is more than ten years old now - KD]
The Grumpy Economist

Saving the Welfare State - I was invited to the “Festival Internazionale dell’ Economia” in Turin, to speak about inflation and debt.
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Ideology, Intolerance, and Emotional Reactivity Behind Unsupported Claims That Online Words and Images Cause Violence - A review of 140 years of research reveals no causal connection
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

42 Milestones in the History of Conversation - From the Burning Bush to ChatGPT
Spiked Online

Welcome to the era of champagne jihadism - The post Welcome to the era of champagne jihadism appeared first on spiked.
PM of NZ

You're misinformed #2345... - Nowhere to be seen in MSM dispatches today but: After some sleeplessness caused coffee-assisted doom-scrolling in the wee small hours, I observed overnig...
Peter Boghossian

Hang Out With Peter Boghossian | Oct 2026 - I’m excited to announce the next Zoom hangout for our amazing Paid Substack Subscribers!
Persuasion

The French Riots Are a Mirror Into the Country’s Future - Whoever the next president is, the chaos will continue.
The Contrarian Capitalist

When can I afford to retire? Webinar Tues 27th Oct 08:00 EST - This webinar is free to attend. If you are not able to make it then sign up to be sent a free recording.
ROBERT FRIPP

Understanding deals in wholes - Words 163 · RF@80 Series
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Poor People Lie Upward, Rich People Lie Downward - How wealth and social class are changing marriage and dating
Perennial Meditations

Why Does Life Go By So Fast? - Sundays with Seneca
The Future of Being Human

Will AI Take All Of Our Jobs (or is it just another AI myth)? - A guest post by Dr. Rizwan Virk
Can't Get Much Higher

Physical Media Lives: A Conversation with Jeff Walker - The CEO of Alliance Entertainment stopped by to talk about the surge in vinyl and CDs
Interintellect

Find Love in New York: We’re taking you to the Met to look at great art and meet great people - Join us on December 4.
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

“Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand” [Audio-book version, Part 2] - Part Two: On Egoism [MP3] [YouTube] [36 minutes] Rand’s egoismNietzsche’s rhetoric and systemThe Major Differences between Nietzsche and Rand Are individua...
MacleodFinance Substack

Global inflation badly underestimated - Analysts and commentators severely underestimate the inflationary consequences of the Iran war. The current energy stoppage is far worse than the 1973 oil ...
bad cattitude

sunday meanpool - on brotherhood
AAS Economics (Frank Shostak)

Global Trade & Economic Health - Money Supply & Macro #80 - Trade, growth, deficits and future trends
Tim’s Substack

What Afghanistan Taught Me - The afterword from my new book, which will be an international bestseller if I can find a publisher
O'Shannassy's Dispatches from Collapse

There’s Base Money In Them Thar Hills - Gold, Aliens and Newton’s Alchemy. You Can’t Make This Stuff Up.
Freedom and Flourishing

What does Hillbilly Elegy tell us about J.D. Vance’s daimon? - J.D. Vance, Vice President of the United States, identifies himself as a post-liberal conservative. Since he is only a heartbeat away from becoming pr...
Jensen's Economic, Precious Metals, & Markets Newsletter

Peter Carlin Focuses On The Wrong ‘Naked Short’ In The Gold Market - The Maneco64 YouTube channel has Peter Carlin as a frequent guest of host Mario Innecco’s podcast.
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: An Oxford Man Looks as If the World Belongs to Him; a Cambridge Man Looks as If He Does Not Care to Whom the World Belongs - Mandell Creighton? James Payn? Helen Ricker Beebe? William Ralph Inge? Jack Hulbert? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Oxford and Cambridge rank ...
The Daily Doom

THE DEEPER DIVE: The Everything Bubble Bust Will Keep on Busting - It’s a virtual war on bubbles, and there are bubbles all over the world.
Michael Newberry, Artist

Mourning in Aqua Light - When I was 14, I wondered if my art would ever hang in a museum. Museums held art as something sacred, a treasure to be protected and shown to the public. ...
In Due Course

Reproducing civilization - It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it
Too Clever By Half

Useless forbidden knowledge - * In which the author writes about something that bloggers should probably ignore, in the hopes that greater knowledge will *(please!) *convince them to ...
Energy in Depth

Why the Oil & Gas Industry Supports the License to Drill Act: More Efficient, More Predictable Permitting. - Congress has significantly changed its views on domestic drilling. For the first time in three years, a bill with the word “drill” in its title cleared b...
The New York Review of Books

Ripped Off - Among the bodybuilders Gavin Francis discusses in his essay from the October 22 issue of the Review, the most surprising is surely Leopold Bloom, the hero ...
Construction Physics

Reading List 10/24/26 - Minimum lot sizes, Boeing’s next 737 MAX, Fervo short sellers, Figure AI’s training data, and more.
Yascha Mounk

Malcolm Gaskill on Why Our Ancestors Weren't as Superstitious as We Think - Yascha Mounk and Malcolm Gaskill debate what the Enlightenment got wrong about the so-called age of credulity.
Retraction Watch

Weekend reads: Journals and the ‘Mathpocalypse’; autism paper earns EOC; Cell Press investigating bribery allegations - If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news...
Doomberg

Margin Call - Will Brazil replicate Guyana’s magic in the Equatorial Atlantic?
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Palestinians Murder Israelis Again: How Was It Reported? -
Manhattan Contrarian

Ideologues Try Their Hand At Ordering Up An Electrical Grid Powered Only By "Renewables" - * In my post several days ago on October 18, I recounted the story of how ignorant Chinese Communist Party ideologues in the late 1950s convinced themselve...
Glenn’s Substack

The Coming Insurrection - And what to do about it.
Astral Codex Ten

Your Book Review: The Ghost In My Brain - Finalist #13 in the Book Review Contest
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

The Rationality of Losing: Why National Resists Split Voting - Why is National resisting Harry Mowbray's split-vote strategy? Political theorist Kaare Strøm reveals why losing an election may be preferable to governing...
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Back To The 1940 Future—Why France Is Toast And Not Alone - Click on Title to Read
HardmoneyJim

How Financial Repression Quietly Robs Savers, and How to Fight Back - MY CONVERSATION WITH BLAIR SCHOFIELD AND PRODUCER MARTIN LINDESKOG ON “THE SECULAR FOXHOLE”
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Back To The 1940 Future—Why France Is Toast And Not Alone - France is toast, but it’s not alone. Indeed, it is likely just the leading edge of an underlying current of decline that infests most of the Welfare Stat...
Fictionosophy

Love, Rejection, Good, and Evil in East of Eden - East of Eden is a thought-provoking novel rich in psychological perceptiveness, with a broad scope and a heavy philosophic bent.
Cato at Liberty

Trump Equity Portfolio Hits 40—Democrats Have Plans for It - As the Trump administration’s corporate body count has mounted, so have pitches from the other team for a formal federal equity apparatus. In January, Dale...
Conversable Economist

AI in Development: World Development Report 2026 - For many low-income countries, perhaps the greatest deficit they face is a lack of the human skills that build economic growth. The new artificial intell...
Sustain What

New Music for the Midterms and Beyond: “Sing This Song to Counter Hate with Love” - Here’s a new tune for the U.S.
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Premium: The Hater's Guide To Blackstone - For whatever reason, Blackstone founder and CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman has a thirty-chapter-long series called “*My Personal History*” that is, well, exac...
Macroscience

John Van Reenen on Innovation Policy - Economics of Ideas, Science, and Innovation Lecture 8
The Tracinski Letter

Norman Rockwell Lives - What I Learned Running for Office, Part 6
McFaul's World

Trump’s Capitulation to Putin Is Undermining U.S. National Security - The president’s admiration for the Russian dictator erodes American interests and values.
Gale Winds

Newly Discovered Knowledge Abundifies Diamonds - It’s better to make, rather than mine diamonds.
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

Here’s How to Integrate New York City Public Schools - The politically toxic solution
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

New German legislation will require that social media platforms massively boost “diversity-promoting” content - The regulatory war on the demon social media algorithms continues.
The Breakthrough Journal

Critical Mineral Policy Needs BAAJA - The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act is a running start to fixing what's wrong with mining
FIRE

New Mexico's $25 billion verdict against Meta is fundamentally about speech - New Mexico won $25 billion from Meta. But much of the case was about speech, not privacy, and it hands states a blueprint to police moderation.
American Energy Alliance

The Unregulated Podcast #282: We Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up - On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle, Mike McKenna, and Alex Stevens discuss permitting reform, baseball, midterms, ballrooms, and more. L...
Uncharted Territories

Why Is France in Chaos? - Over the last few weeks in France, tens of thousands of people have vandalized and burned schools, cars, official buildings, shops, markets, people…
Kunstler

Here’s One October Surprise, Anyway - “The Left has always preferred the ashes of its own making to the inheritance of better men.” —Celina101 on X
Doug Casey's International Man

Riots in the Streets, Repression in the Markets: Europe’s Collapse Enters Its Next Phase - Europe’s debt spiral, industrial decline, and demographic crisis threaten savers as governments turn to inflation and financial repression. The post Riot...
Anthony B. Bradley

Weekly Top Five: Who Trained Your Appetites? - Overpriced books, Andrew Tate’s teenage followers, and Christians who can’t feel forgiven
Anthony B. Bradley

Weekly Top Five: Who Trained Your Appetites? - Overpriced books, Andrew Tate’s teenage followers, and Christians who can’t feel forgiven
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Help Christine Smith - Versatile Keyboardist Has Suffered a Stroke
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

Oswego’s Big Machine - The New York Energy Alliance recently posted an article on Facebook about the Oswego Harbor Power Plant. There are a few issues with the article and some...
Sawahil

West Africa, Horn, MENA: Links for 10/23/2026 - News and analysis from Dakar to Riyadh.
New Zealand Arts Review

Jesus Christ Superstar - Reviewed by Malcolm Calder Jesus Christ Superstar Lyrics by Tim Rice, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber GMG Productions, Crossroads Live and Worklight Productio...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

Those Who Oppose Data Centers Will Someday Regret Their Short-Sighted Choices - This article was originally published at The Empowerment Alliance and is re-published here with permission. Not long after the dust settles from the curre...
Dr Oliver Hartwich

Judged by their peers - The 2026 'Mood of the Boardroom' survey shows New Zealand's business leaders giving mixed reviews to Prime Minister Luxon and Deputy Minister Willis, highl...
The Common Reader

AI consciousness and fictional characters - some speculations
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

If the polls are wrong, which way does the Senate tip? - A boat, 100 animals and every polling miss since 2016. Slide it yourself.
Kiwipolitico

The threshold of consent. - Long-time readers will recognise that consent (specifically, mass contingent consent) is something that I have written about regularly, here at KP as well ...
Syncretica

The Second Photonic Shock - Why photonics might save AI but end the capex boom
No Right Turn

An "opposition" that doesn't want to win - I was going to post today about how I was bored with the election: I know who I'm going to vote for, National's "don't change sheep midshag" campaign is th...
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

How Aristotle Inspired Ayn Rand - How Aristotle’s Embrace of Reason Shaped Ayn Rand’s Objectivism
Andrew Whiteside

Review: Jesus Christ Superstar - Jesus Christ Superstar is Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock opera about, well you know who it’s about. Based on the gospel stories about the guy who ...
Stewart Margolis

The Ordinary Man - There is nothing wrong with being an ordinary person.
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Video: Watch Stoicon 2026 - Ancient Philosophy and Modern Wellbeing
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

DINOSAUR JR. (USA) Returning to Australia & New Zealand For 6-Date Tour in January 2027 - Frontier Touring are thrilled to welcome back legendary US rock band Dinosaur Jr. as they make their return to Australia and New Zealand for a series of ...
A Havenstein Moment.

Enough - Jack Bogle, rolling over in his grave...
Greater Auckland

Weekly Roundup 23-October-2026 - Kia ora and welcome to our regular roundup of stories that caught our eye this week. Today’s header image, by Jolisa, shows Sky Tower at sunset as seen f...
Libertarian Land

Drug Prohibition and the Waterbed Effect - Since September 2025, the US military has been targeting small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific oceans, claiming they carry drugs.
On Substack

Model Behavior: Rick Rubin - “I’m certainly not afraid of [AI]. With any new instrument, you can make bad sounds, and then someone figures out how to do it well.”
The Kerrant

It’s Time to Give New Zealanders the Freedom to Turn Left on Red - One of the small pleasures of driving in America is something most Americans probably take for granted: the ability to turn right at a red traffic light....
The War on Prices

COMING SOON: The Economics of It - A new podcast channel I’m hosting for Cato.
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Repairing Rothbardian Monopoly Theory - A teaser for *A Companion to Murray Rothbard*
Principled Perspectives

Native Americans and this Land - This post appeared on Quora. The poster, Hudson Flores, claims to have “Expertise in elections, policy, and diplomacy.” It came with the caption “This gu...
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Roman love - Samuel Hughes reviews From Shame to Sin by Kyle Harper
Cremieux Recueil

How Many Americans Live “Paycheck-to-Paycheck”? - Despite popular claims, the answer is probably not that many
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

Before Sunrise is a Romantic, Radicalizing Red Pill - A unique, wholesome, spontaneous love story set in mid-90s Europe shows what we lost in only 30 years
Sinification

Conversations: An Interview with Yao Yang - Listen now (65 mins) | "I said China is not going to become Japan in the 1990s. But today, when someone says that China is going to become another Japan, I...
Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi

Budapest October 1956 to Paris 2026 - On the 70th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution it appears that large chunks of Europe have become estranged from the values of patriotism and freedom
The Cobden Centre

GOP Spending Swells US Deficit to Nearly $2 Trillion for 2026 - By Ryan McMaken The Treasury Department released its monthly statement on Friday and has now confirmed what we all suspected: the US federal government,...
The Trichordist

Human Made, Human Paid: The Musicians Union’s Three Cs of AI - The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) has launched the "Human Made, Human Paid" campaign, urging record labels to ensure musicians have a say in the u...
Capitalism Magazine

Inflation Is the Plan - Every dollar of real value that inflation strips off the government’s obligations is a dollar stripped off the savings of whoever holds Treasury bonds, not...
CO2 Coalition

COP31’s Inconvenient Truth: The World Still Runs on Oil - by Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka Worldwide economies depend on transportation fuels and products manufactured from crude oil, in addition to electr...
What You Can Do For Liberty

The Stakes Just Got Higher For This Election - DataRepublican has uncovered what appears to be plans for a soft coup in the US. The stakes for this election just got higher.
Liberty Scott

New Zealand election - a dud on foreign policy - What would Luxon or Hipkins do if China invaded Taiwan? What would Luxon or Hipkins do if it was found that (as in Australia) Iran had been inciting terr...
Theatreview

Fortune — theatre could be back - Fortune — theatre could be back The stage is set for Dunedin’s Fortune Theatre to have a dramatic second act. The heritage building at 231 Stuart St in t...
Skeptic

The Mind-Weapon Panic: From CIA Psychics and UFOs to AI Apocalypse - A dubious 1959 story about telepathy aboard a US submarine ignited a Cold War psychic arms race. Now AI insiders warn of human extinction. Alex Kalinin tra...
Official Blog

Halloween im Finsterwald das magische Auge — Geocache of the Week - Traditional GCBEGT4 by golwischer Difficulty: 2 Terrain: 2 Location: Bavaria, Germany N 50° 00.838’ E 009° 15.210’ This Halloween, deep in the Bavarian for...
Dead Language Society

Languages don’t change due to laziness (except when they do) - Myth-busting the myth-busters
Paul Wells

Trouble man: A diplomat’s life in hot spots - Ben Rowswell’s career took him from Somalia to Iraq, Afghanistan and Venezuela. Some like it hot
Schiffradio.com

2008 and 2021 Are Hitting at the Same Time… The Inflation Bomb Is Lit - Producer prices just annualized to 17%. Banks sit on $2 trillion in mortgage losses. Peter Schiff explains why 2008 and 2021 are hitting at once. The po...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

A Story Is Not Enough - Witchcraft and all that
Wildlife – PERC

Grizzly recovery is working. A new rule would help keep it that way. - A new federal rule will change how grizzly bears are managed under the Endangered Species Act and create a smarter path for long-term recovery. The post ...
The Library of Celaeno

The Danny Go! Challenge - Can You Play Like A Kid?
A Halfling's View

Labour’s Online Policy - Told You So
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

The Stoic who taught Epictetus - Musonius Rufus on why knowing better isn’t enough. A new video from The Stoic Handbook.
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Dumb and Dumber (Nos. 139 & 140) - Watching the Education Apocalypse in Slow Motion
One Useful Thing

30 Months on the Exponential (in Charts) - My new book is out today... what happened since the last one
Market Urbanism

Hot takes & pensées #UEA2026 - My favorite conference of the year is always the Urban Economics Association annual meeting, which is small, collegial, and technical. In 2024 and 2025, I ...
HBL

“Effective Altruism” produced the doomers - It’s a rare and rewarding turn of events when the irrationality of our opponents is captured in a spot-on new term. So let’s savor the emergence of “doomer...
Changing Lanes

Waymo Is Coming to Toronto - And maybe Mississauga
The Biggar Picture

AI in War - AI will kill people on the battlefield. Can it do so ethically?
Stats Chat

Bunnings NPC 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...
Te Papa

Tensions flare as Labour seeks to win back Green votes by backing rival gang - Campaigns are usually something of a cold war, with parties vying for supremacy without direct confrontation. But this campaign could be poised to turn hot...
THE CIVILIAN

Tensions flare as Labour seeks to win back Green votes by backing rival gang - Campaigns are usually something of a cold war, with parties vying for supremacy without direct confrontation. But this campaign could be poised to turn hot...
Dramatic Pause

Critical Corner: Gloria of Greymouth by Sam Duckor-Jones - *In this edition of Critical Corner, a review of Gloria of Greymouth by Sam Duckor-Jones. * I always get a bit nervous reviewing autobiography. While I’m...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

France is the latest example of the great experiment being a monumental disaster - Turns out, most of the West is harming themselves for nothing
Andrew Bernstein

The Ascent of Western Man: The Rise From Poverty to Prosperity - In the past 16 months I have published these four books. “Aristotle Versus Religion”, published in June 2025, is a collection of my finest essays, mostly p...
The Many Ways I Let You Down

Paul Henry, private worlds, and the social good of creating offense. - Today on Free to Speak: storytelling, mischief, and what happens when people discover their political enemies are quite good company.
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Why Religious Difference MUSTN’T Be Toned Down - Follow me on Twitter: @FromKulak
Building the Builders

Why You Need a (Human) Chief Energy Officer in the Age of AI - My Substack Live conversation with Whitney Otto
Africa-Israel Weekly

Black Christian Leadership Council on Israel Relations Opposes Former President Obama’s Belfast Remarks: “Israel’s land is not stolen land” - Council says the former president contradicted his own previous words, omitting 3,000 years of history; will lead 500 Black pastors to Israel to complete D...
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Fate, Freedom, and Beauty - Forging a Beautiful Life
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 531 - The Modern Long Building - At the end of the 19th century, industrialization, mass production, new materials and housing shortages converged to foster new building systems and typ...
Johnny Grey Studios

A Kitchen for the Brain - How wellbeing, human instinct and the chemistry of pleasure are reshaping the most important room in the house
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

Why Family Separation Is Destroying A Generation - My Speech At Abundant Life Church
Real Clear Energy: Video

Billionaire Insists There Is No Oil Shortage - United Refining Company Chairman and CEO John Catsimatidis joins 'Mornings with FOX Business' to discuss the energy markets amid geopolitical tensions and ...
Harry’s Substack

Machines have no purposes of their own - They don’t give a damn
Autonomia

Travelogue: Austin, Texas - A new review of a visit to the Lone Star state capital, center of Tesla headquarters
First Stones NewsLetter

Gary’s Politics: - How the mind of President Trump really works: he plays the long game of chess while everyone else is still learning how to play checkers.
Conspicuous Cognition

On Believing What We Want Others to Believe - How a powerful ‘social diffusion bias’ drives politics, media, and the madness of culture wars
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

Nixonmaxxing: The New Right’s Pathetic Retrofit of America’s Most Statist Republican President - Rewriting history to support your authoritarian urges is yet another indictment of post-liberal Republicans.
Lindsay Mitchell

If welfarism matters, the choice is clear - Benefit numbers are out for *September*. The last before the election. Up again. There are now 417,000 working age people on a main benefit. Christchurc...
Thinking Directions

How I Solved My Writing Problems - I started this newsletter in 2004, and it has come out erratically ever since. That’s because in the past, I have often come up with a “great topic” for ...
Equal to Reality

What about the “X”? - An answer to this “whataboutism” question, which I am fed up with repeating the answer to.
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

Trading blows – a way of looking at New Zealand history - New Zealand’s historiography underwent a revolution during the late twentieth century, in which historians rejected the frameworks of earlier historical wr...
Africa’s Bright Future

What It Takes to Build a Successful New City - Try running a business or investing in a country where the rules can change without warning and you cannot be sure your investment will be protected.
An Africanist Perspective

The perceived risk profiles of African economies are changing (and that’s a good thing) - Yes. The vibe shift is real.
Wright in Racine

Progress on the Burnham Block – Chapter 5, October 15, 2026 - © Mark Hertzberg (2026) It has been four months since our last visit to the restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Model C3 American System-Built house at 183...
History Reclaimed

History as McCarthyism in a ‘Persecuting Society’. The Register of British Slave Traders pt. iii. - In our third and final article on the new Register of British Slave Traders we compare it to McCarthyism and to ‘persecuting societies’ in medieval Europe.
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

Incentivizing Contractors to Be Wetlands Conservationists - How states can license contractors rather than regulate parcels after Sackett The post Incentivizing Contractors to Be Wetlands Conservationists appeared...
Toppermost

Radiohead - Radiohead's sound constantly evolves to create brilliantly different worlds. The post Radiohead appeared first on Toppermost.
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Hot of the Press on the SIZE of the NZ Public Service. - Labour/Greens will tell you that NACT has decimated the Public Service.
The Beauty of Things

Peregine Days - Mid-October news, milestones, and prayer requests. Also, NVR’s Halloween mini-issue is out now!
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

The Case for the Grunge and Millennial-era Rock Comeback - Emotionalism has replaced catharsis and we are paying for it
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (October 2026) - AI risk and new UN Global Risk Report
The Jolly Libertarian

Book Review: Dictators and Disinformation by Jay Friedenberg - Ever since Plato launched his devastating critique of unrestrained democracy in The Republic, there has been concern over democracy’s tendency to subvers...
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Margaret: Death of a Revolutionary (2013) - Margaret Thatcher rescues Britain from post-WWII socialist policies, liberating a generation from poverty and hopelessness, only to be betrayed by own party.
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

The Fault in Democracy That Elections Do Not Fix - The Long Read
Asymmetric Information

The AI files: Consumers are already benefiting from AI🍋 - Paul Krugman says that AI does nothing for Americans. I disagree
The New Era

The Pantomime Plays Again - But the audience is done with it.
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Ancient Wisdom Is Needed Today More Than Ever. Here Is My Book About It. - Hachette is re-issuing my first book, The Happiness Hypothesis. Here’s the new preface.
Risk & Progress

Defying Decline - Can a federated nation-state hack Cardwell's law?
Private Lands – PERC

Want to conserve land? Help keep farmers on it. - Finding more innovative ways to make conservation work for working lands will improve the odds that farms stay in the family. The post Want to conserve l...
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

After 46 years of failed attempts, America finally has the opportunity to fix permitting - Our government is on the verge of passing freedom-to-build legislation that will make everything more affordable. Help make it happen by demanding that you...
Yaron's Substack

Yaron Predicted October 7th in 2003. Nobody Listened. - A Palestinian state would be a beachhead for terror, Iraq's democracy would fail, and appeasement would get Americans killed. He said it on C-SPAN in May 2...
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

The Integrated Timeline: World in 1900, part 2 - The status of the Middle East, Africa, India, Asia, and the Americas.
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Don’t Forget Hasan’s Motive - Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has announced that the U.S. military’s planned execution by firing squad of Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army psychiatri...
Seiler on Science

Reflections on the History of Atomism - The ancient Greek philosophers Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus proposed that everything is made up of extremely small, impenetrable, indivisible, hard ...
Notes On Liberty

The Climate Bomb, Part 2: Collapsing Towers of Ice and Stone Echo 9/11 - As we reflect on the twenty-fifth anniversary of September 11, 2001, I find the comparison between the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers and the three geolo...
The Trumpland Diary

An Epstein Whistleblower Just Unalived Himself (Allegedly) - Simon Andriesz was a British banker who worked on Wall Street for years as Managing Director at the BGC Partners firm under CEO Howard Lutnick.
Keiran Murphy (FLW Historian)

The logo of the Taliesin Fellowship, and the Whirling Arrow - Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Whirling Arrow is in gold fabric draped over the stone railing in the Hillside Theater(opens in new tab).1 Today I’m writing a...
The Claude Megson blog

Megson's middle Mrkusich townhouse on the market - The middle unit of what were known as the Mrkusich towhnhouses is for sale, and we have another chance to explore its interior. Just 68square metres -...
Public Lands – PERC

PERC Reports Magazine Survey - We'd love your feedback! The post PERC Reports Magazine Survey appeared first on PERC.
Knowledge Problem

Bargaining with the Data Center - Community Benefits Agreements are Coasean Bargaining Agreements
Knowledge Problem

Bargaining with the Data Center - Community Benefits Agreements are Coasean Bargaining Agreements
The New Atlantis

Are We Really on the Path to AGI? - Sometimes, a curious amateur’s eye can discern tensions in the work of professionals that the intensity of their focused labor keeps them from seeing cle...
Existential Crunch

October 2026 Updates - What’s new in societal collapse research?
RenewNZ

NZ leaders lack moral clarity on Israel - Today commemorates three years since the homicidal psychopaths in Hamas invaded Israel and delighted in killing men, women and children. They laughed as th...
Free Range Kids

A Free-Range, Empowering Way to Get Kids to LISTEN in Class? Yep! - Hi Folks! I love this lesson, brought to us a while back by teacher Jennifer Tobin of Whitby, Ontario. I welcome any more tales from teachers or princi...
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: September 2026 - Last month, the NSF opened an Office of Metascience, the Senate Bipartisan Science and Innovation Caucus launched, and Clinical Trial Abundance was on the ...
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Flo State - For a stretch in her twenties, Tara Chandra paid £450 a month for a room in Hackney, working shifts as a barista to cover her bills while building an or...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

Who Climbed the Income Ladder in 2026? Vietnam vs. the Philippines - Plus Togo's census shortcut, China's near miss, and why the World Bank held back Türkiye and Argentina.
Offsetting Behaviour

Sheep, speech, and the DMCA - Preston Byrne has been doing superb work trying to help protect US-based tech platforms from foreign regulators that want to kill off freedom of speech. ...
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

Truth isn’t the answer to ‘fake news’ - Institute of Arts and Ideas
Croaking Cassandra

What I’d do - A couple of weeks ago the Sunday Star-Times published a piece by me (that they’d requested) trying to explain productivity and why it mattered. The mandate...
Leport’s Substack

SALE SALE SALE - DEFROSTED Kindle version is only $1.99
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for September, 2026: +0.61 deg. C - The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for September, 2026 was +0.61 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, down fro...
Mike’s Substack

Where an Identity Comes From - A child abstracts himself from what he did, twice: once to learn that he is, once to learn who.
Mike’s Substack

Where an Identity Comes From - A child abstracts himself from what he did, twice: once to learn that he is, once to learn who.
The Intrinsic Perspective

How do I tell my kids about AI? - Or, Why education should recapitulate civilization
Gross Output

Business is Back – Big Time! - “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...
Tross Publishing

Should Our Country be Named Aotearoa - By Kerry Butler There has been a movement in recent times to push a name change for our country to “Aotearoa” by way of creeping normalcy. This subversiv...
Statecraft

How to Build a Policy School - “We’re not reading the IKEA instructions.”
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: Salt Syndicate, Part I - The story of one of the most important inventions of the sixteenth century that nobody has ever heard of, and the multi-national syndicate that promoted it
Austin Vernon's Substack

An Ode to Tesla's Cybercab - The bet to deliver autonomous vehicles to the masses.
The Realization of Wholeness

“A Day in the Life” - The GOAT song
Reason for Living

Conquering with Curiosity - When I was young, there were certain subjects I thought I would never like or find interesting—until I changed my mindset.
The Weekly Sift

Machiavellian Assessments - No Sift for the next five weeks. The next new articles will appear on November 2. Globally, then, Trump is in exactly the opposite position of where Machia...
The Economic LongWave

🏠⚠️ The Two Cycles Everyone Keeps Confusing — And Why It Matters Now - The Kuznets Cycle and the 18.6-Year Real Estate Cycle are different. One tracks the broader development wave; the other tracks land, credit and speculation.
The Organon Architecture Blog

Mid-Century features worth thinking about - Organic architecture has been called "the other modernism." Modernist architecture is not organic architecture, but organic architecture has more in comm...
A life just as ordinary

Beer – #1123 – Kererú – Paloma 2018 - Where I drink a 2018 bottle of beer that's been in the cool cupboard (you might say cellar) since I brought it. … Continue reading →
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Cognitive Autonomy Is a Collective Job - Reflections on Ruxandra.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

Cognitive Autonomy Is a Collective Job - Reflections on Ruxandra.
The Scholar's Stage

The Cure for Cancer Is Not a Math Benchmark - And Other Reasons Americans Hate Data Centers
Ruxandra’s Substack

Education as an AI safety area - If we count on human judgement to guide AI, we need to maintain institutions that cultivate it.
Maximum Progress

The Best Philosophy Article of 2025 is Bad Economics - Evan Behrle on Desert and Economic Interdependence
The Truth Fairy

** THE PLOT AGAINST LOVE ** (NEW BOOK) - AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW!
Virginia Postrel

Upcoming Events and Recommended Reading - Come see me in LA next week or NYC next month!
Science+Story

‘Public Expert’ is a Human Role, Regardless of How Much AI You Use - On writing with AI as an author and other current scandals.
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

How to Create Your Own Unique Aesthetic - Style is selection repeated until it becomes its own reality.
What's New Under the Sun

The non-material consequences of growth - When growth slows, people rate their system of government more poorly and become a bit more zero sum
Regan's Substack

Pregnancy Purity - Mom guilt begins at conception
Butterpaper

Vault 2001: Fall of the twin towers - A quarter century has passed since the towers fell. Too busy working on this site to be watching the late night news, I had no idea until I cycled to wor...
Cranmer’s Substack

THE AI FACTORY THAT NEEDS MORE POWER THAN NEW ZEALAND - From enriched uranium to artificial intelligence, one Ohio site captures the scale of the next industrial revolution.
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

Now live: “Revolution Lived vs. Revolution Chanted” - A must-watch short film about the bait-and-switch tactics extremists use to hijack nice-sounding political movements.
Greg Mankiw's Blog

Economics Teaching Conference - If you might be interested in attending, click here for more information.
Eat More Electrons

Death to the boring think tank event - YAMA: You aren’t missing anything
The Antiplanner

Transit Carried only 83% of 2019 Riders in July 2026 - Transit carried just 83.3 percent as many riders in July of 2026 as in the same month of 2019, according to data released Friday by the Federal Transit Adm...
The Antiplanner

Transit Carried only 83% of 2019 Riders in July 2026 - Transit carried just 83.3 percent as many riders in July of 2026 as in the same month of 2019, according to data released Friday by the Federal Transit Adm...
A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

'The Myth of the Cession of Māori Sovereignty' [sic] - A piece from a Dr Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown is doing the rounds again. It's called 'The Myth of the Cession of Māori Sovereignty' -- and argues (unsurpris...
Outliving Iran

Outliving Iran: A Memoir (Part 3) - A fork in the road
Schreibmaschiner (David McLoughlin)

Peter Bromhead on how to ruin a stroganoff dinner party - Peter Bromhead, who has died aged 93, was as great a teller of hilarious tales as he was a creator of incisive cartoons. This is a story he liked to tell o...
Richard Werner’s Substack

Financial Controls to Tighten as our “Leader”-Puppets Steer towards World War Three - The first steps towards capital controls indicate that the EU is serious about wartime mobilisation and the digital Gulag.
The Roots of Progress

We’re hiring: Event Manager & Education Program Operations Manager - Help us inspire young people to build an ambitious future, or create events that bring together the progress community
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: Aztecs, by Inga Clendinnen - Aztecs: An Interpretation, Inga Clendinnen (Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Robert Nasir’s Joyous Newsletter

Evict Your Enemies - In which Robert shares thoughts and strategies on how to clear the road ahead ... personally and politically. Ten Steps for getting your adversaries the He...
Muss Montessori School

Can Montessori Education Reduce Mobile Addiction in Kids? - Yes, Montessori education can help reduce mobile addiction in kids by giving them hands-on activities, independence, movement, creativity, and meaningful...
Institute of Economic Affairs

Britain spends more on planning applications than Japan spends on extending high-speed railways through earthquake-prone mountains. - Britain builds high-speed rail at almost six times the cost of Japan, new IEA analysis finds Every French city with … Continue reading "Britain spends mo...
Not On Your Team, But Always Fair

Why left-progressives adopt appalling people as moral mascots - They make for stronger signals of shared moral heroism
Happy Future

The New Artillery Shell Factory is a Dud - “It was just a bunch of guys taking turns going at the machine with a sledgehammer every night.”
Asimov’s Addendum

When Smaller Models Win - Chess, LoRA, and the case for specialized AI
Tribes – PERC

Reclaiming Bison on Fort Peck - The reservation in northeastern Montana built one of the largest tribal bison herds in the country—and demonstrated what tribal stewardship can achieve ...
Precise Thinking

The Jews and Antisemitism - In May of 1953, two first-grade girls were waiting for a school bus at the corner of a quiet suburban street.
Science of Doom

The Last 0.2%: Solar, Batteries and the Cost of Eliminating Gas - A ten-year thought experiment across South Australia, Victoria and NSW
Stu-Topia

Willingly - Stuart K. Hayashi I keep hearing from Sam Harris fans that neuroscience proves that humans don’t have free will. They want me to mull over their case and c...
Why not reason?

Learning to Meet People Where They Are - Lots of group chats I am part of consist of Brazilian people.
Don't Let It Go

The Sunshine Redistribution Act - On July 14, the House of Representatives passed the Sunshine Protection Act (“SPA”) by a vote of 308 to 117. The bill would abolish the twice-yearly clock ...
News - Democracy Action

SUBMISSION ON THE INDIA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL - *To:* Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee *Submitted by:* Democracy Action Inc. PO Box 87141 Meadowbank 1742
The Enlightened Examiner

No. 1 - Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
The Enlightened Examiner

No. 1 - Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
Hunters and Anglers – PERC

In Roosevelt’s Arena - PERC joins America's conservation leaders at the grand opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library The post In Roosevelt’s Arena appeared firs...
Roberto’s Substack

Religion, Power, and Liberty: When Faith Seeks to Rule - The steadfast gaze of one who refuses to be silenced before the whip: the beauty and pride of Parastoo Ahmadi are the very translation of resistance agains...
Keith Weiner Economics

The Declared Principle of America - With the recent 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence, I thought it was appropriate to write about the key idea, the Declared Princ...
Freethink Media

Stories of American exit in the nation's 250th year - Special Issue Release: The Opt-Out Nation
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Twisted Teens: Florida Water Blues - Way back in 1963 in his liner notes to the Beatles' debut album Please Please Me, the PR man/reviewer Tony Barrow opened his extensive liner essay with “...
Matua Kahurangi

Winston Peters announces citizens-only voting policy - New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, today in Warkworth, has unveiled a strong new policy to restore integrity to the country’s electoral system.
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

From Fireworks to Flying Flags - And Other Symbols of Liberty
Splitting Headache

How skills, agents, and other AI features work - It’s prompts all the way down
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

mudslide - on getting swept up in other people's concerns
Roots of Progress

Progress in Medicine, the Roots of Progress Institute’s new summer career exploration program, has started - 30 high school students are learning about the history and future of medicine, biotech, health Starting June 15th, the Roots of Progress team brought tog...
Flying Out

Hotter Than July (Secondhand Vinyl LP) - *Vendor: *SECONDHAND *Type: *STEVIE WONDER *Price: * 20.00 Artist: Stevie Wonder Year: 1980 Genre: Funk / Soul Sub-Genre: Soul, Disco Tracklist: A1. Di...
Earthly Idealism

The Effective Egoist Case for Freedom - It is striking, sad, and not at all surprising how little interest there is in celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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...
Jackson Upmann

How Traveling Raised My Confidence (And Can Raise Yours Too) - Time to get uncomfortable
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
Spiked Online

Summer Appeal Donation – Pint Glass Offer - The post Summer Appeal Donation – Pint Glass Offer appeared first on spiked.
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...
Note to Noteworthy

What Spirituality Really Means - Is spirituality about “God” or something else?
Yes In Our Backyards

The “Great Upzoning” of New Zealand’s cities, in two charts - Taking stock of 15 years of remarkable progress
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.
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...
Notes On Liberty

Rising Sun Over the Arctic: Japan’s Arctic Journey from North Pacific Hegemon to Democratic Polar Partner - by Barry Scott Zellen
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!
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
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...
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...
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...
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!
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...
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...
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
A Force for Good | How economics, morality, and markets combine

Tải App 33win – Lợi Ích Tuyệt Vời Khi Tải App - Tải app 33win chính là lựa chọn tối ưu dành cho những ai muốn tham gia giải trí mọi lúc, mọi nơi. Trong bài viết này, chúng tôi sẽ hướng dẫn chi tiết cách ...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Receipts for BMS Ep 254: Kark Marx Was Kind of a Big Deal - Here is the link to my podcast critique of Phil Magness’ promotion of his paper, co-authored with Michael Makovi, on Karl Marx. In this episode I allude to...
Asian Invasion 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1828 – Championing Freedom

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

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

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

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

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

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