Not PC: Appalling news.

Tuesday 27 August 2024

Appalling news.

KIWIBLOG: 'Alcohol consumption plummeting'

Since 1986, alcohol available for consumption per capita has dropped by a massive 29%
Since 2008, it has dropped 18%
In the last year it has dropped 12%

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The Total State and the Twilight of American Democracy - Reviewing Auron MacIntyre's new book, and why conservatives need the New Right
Croaking Cassandra

Remunerating exchange settlement accounts: what is MoF up to? - A few weeks ago I wrote a post about an article the Herald’s Jenee Tibshraeny had written based on an interview she’d done with the Minister of Finance. Wi...
Kiwipolitico

Media Link: “AVFA” on the politics of desperation. - In this podcast Selwyn Manning and I talk about what appears to be a particular type of end-game in the long transition to systemic realignment in internat...
Syncretica

Offtakes and Stockpiles - The missing pieces for dealing with China and building capacity
Too Clever By Half

NOT feeds: exclude - In brief - Use the NOT operator - (minus sign) in the feed url to *exclude* a search term. - For multiple search terms, use AND NOT (+-). ...
The Prophet of Causation

A Causality Walk for Consciousness - Chapter 3
Eating Policy

Don’t Fight Paper With Paper - How To Build a Great Digital Product With the Change in the Couch Cushions
Peter Winsley

Recovering from New Zealand’s worst ever economic decision: The cancellation of the Kirk Government’s superannuation scheme - ...
Houston Strategies

METRO+DART Ridership Update: summer slump and Beryl erase spring gains - This week we have another great analytical guest post from Oscar Slotboom. Dallas DART's extensive and expensive light rail strategy is looking more and mo...
Wright in Racine

My Wright Eye – September 6, 2024 - © Mark Hertzberg (2024) I have just finished helping lead my 17th Road Scholar Frank Lloyd Wright tour. The number is important because it speaks to my cha...
Paul Wells

The longest weekend - A quick update in case things get weird
Market Urbanism

Toward an Erdmann synthesis - Kevin Erdmann argues that mortgage credit standards are too tight. Others say the federal government is subsidizing homeownership. Can they both be right...
Fictionosophy

Self-Esteem in Ender's Game - Ender's Game deals with some interesting and important topics, including the development of self-esteem.
PM of NZ

Upcoming turkey shoot in the Far North - *The 13 councillors voted unanimously, reaffirming a decision they made in May to continue with their Māori ward for the October 2025 local elections* .....
The Truth Fairy

Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and our Government Censors - What are the chances that a President Kamala Harris would resist pressuring social media companies into censorship? Based on her record: Not great.
The Roots of Progress

Two mini-reviews: Seeing Like a State; the Unabomber manifesto - Also, the Cosmos Institute launches
thesecondrenaissance

The Austrian Business Cycle Theory and the Economic Decline of Ancient Rome: - Diocletian’s “Edictum de Pretiis Rerum Venalium”
Toppermost

Shirley Ellis - New York vocalist and composer Shirley Ellis was in the Metronomes before earning fame as co-composer and performer of some enjoyable soul novelty tunes ...
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

Breaking Bread with Clifton Duncan in Atlanta - Audio + 4K Video
The Cobden Centre

The war over so-called Price Gouging - Written By Maxwell Marlow Readers will excuse me for prompting them to delve into their pandemic memory hole, but isn’t it glad to be able...
Statecraft

How to Build the British ARPA - "There’s an undeveloped country that speaks English, and it's called England"
Armas

Devil’s renaissance. - On the return of antisemitism.
Museum Street (Henry Cooke)

On John Key still being prime minister - The deep truth behind a good meme.
Conflicted

Model me this - Making sense of debates about risk models
Roy Spencer, PhD.

David Appell, Awaiting the Death of Climate Skeptics - This blog received the following comment from our alarmist friend David Appell, freelance writer: “Roy, nobody who is serious about climate change takes yo...
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 ...
Building the Builders

Getting tight with future you - A builder's guide to the long-term (or: learning the right lesson from people like Kati Kariko)
Craig Biddle

Alex O’Connor’s Red-Herring Thought Experiment vs. Facts that Support Morality - In my LevelUp debate with Alex O’Connor about morality (video and Q&A below), I objected to his thought experiment in which he hypothesized human beings ...
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Issue 16: I dream of genes - Plus: how humans are outdoing nature's shiniest creations; the history of measuring price rises; and how America's favourite type of coffee got really, rea...
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

Project 2025 vs. The Public’s Health, Part III - Part III: The NIH
Michael Newberry, Artist

Memoir: Chapter 14, In Spite of New York - (Written Today) An Art Memoir: Depth, Light, and Love Size Matters Two years after the Pierre Hotel Conference, with its extraordinarily powerful intellect...
Texas Institute for Property Rights

A Matter of Choice - I am pleased to announce that the third book, A Matter of Choice, in The Intellectual Bodyguards series will be The post A Matter of Choice appeared firs...
Existential Crunch

How much food is there? - Making a rough estimate
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...
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Episode 3 - Hot Topic Republicans - The Club Kid to White Nationalist Pipeline
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

Imagining a Harris presidency - Published in Valley News
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...
The China Space Monitor

China's Commercial Starlink Competitor Sets Sail - Plus Pakistan accepts the PakSat-MM1 satellite 🇵🇰, CAS Space breaks ground on Jiuquan launch site 🚀, and HITSat announces some jobs in Harbin ❄️
A life just as ordinary

Herevana – #199 – Beer Baroness – Last Minute Stout - There are sometimes beers that you have to buy regardless, particularly if it’s something special like ‘Vintage Series’, or I’m an easy mark, hard to tell....
Institute for Progress

Institute for Progress (IFP) — August 2024 Update - Some big announcements this month:
What's New Under the Sun

Time for More Living Literature Reviews - A Third Anniversary Post
Sinification

Why Chinese Democracy is Superior to Western Democracy According to Zhang Shuhua - "Chinese-style democracy is a novel form of democracy, different from previous forms of democracy"
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Return of the Primitive – a world of ignorance and superstition - An expanded version of Return of the Primitive
Overthinking Everything

Losing yourself in an audiobook - I've been listening to a lot of audiobooks recently. This is both good and bad.
Johnny Grey Studios

Fitted and kitted - 100 years of British Kitchens. Archive on 4, BBC - While covering the evolution of the kitchen over time, I and team of interviewees take a particular look at the success and the limitation
Note to Noteworthy

Why Try Freewriting? - Can you imagine writing 10,000 articles?
An Africanist Perspective

On Nigeria’s bold but rudderless attempts at structural economic reforms - President Bola Tinubu’s lack of a focused agenda is blunting the impact of some of his bold reforms while also jeopardizing private sector growth
Tross Publishing

New Zealand Nonsense 4 – Weaponizing the Treaty of Waitangi - The author of this article is John Robinson, author of the recently published book, “Who Really Broke the Treaty?” published by Tross Publishing. New Zea...
Tribes – PERC

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

The Complexity-Worshippers - The new attack on reason
The Free Market Futurist

The Supply-Side Progressive Candidate - After Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz as her vice-presidential candidate, I noted that she was appealing to moderates only in style, but not in substance.
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

7 mini-essays in a trenchcoat - mostly about media. I think this is going to be a recurring thing
Private Lands – PERC

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

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

The Silicon Valley Canon - On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Things Will Never Settle Down a Bit - Raising a baby is so much easier the second time around.
Roots of Progress

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

Field Essentialism, Field Realism, Field Pragmatism - Scholarly fields – economics, physics, computer science – are the basic units for thinking about metascience.
Stu-Topia

My Mar. 4, 2024 Letter to the Newspaper Against Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and Their Apologists - Stuart K. Hayashi Reading the local newspaper, I have been troubled, but not surprised, to see letters to the editor trying to whitewash Vladimir Putin, Do...
A City for People

Making it easier to build granny flats - City for People submits in support of more homes in existing urban areas.
Case Closed

Starlink: Is This Time Different? - Despite similarities to past LEO satcom ventures, Starlink is on the verge of history by avoiding bankruptcy
One Sock: Heather Roy's Blog

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

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

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

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

Coming soon - This is Jackson Upmann.
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

PERC Reports Summer 2024 - This issue of PERC Reports demonstrates the importance of incentives across a wide range of issues. The post PERC Reports Summer 2024 appeared first on P...
Science+Story

Against (Just) Training - For research communications, it's a Band-Aid on a chainsaw wound.
High Capacity

A warped hall of mirrors: US-China competition and industrial policy - China doubled down on industrial policy and advanced manufacturing in its latest Third Plenum. As US-China competition heats up, both countries are drawing...
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

When ideology meets industry - No, "wokeness" is not a cult. It’s the product of a subversive industry that uses well-meaning people as workers and customers.
CEE – Econlib

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

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

ARTS ON TOUR NZ Menu 2025 - From: Steve Thomas Kia ora friends and supporters Just a follow up to advise that to date 54 bookings have been received from 22 communi...
HardmoneyJim

Buy some physical gold, then do nothing with it - Remember where it is, but forget you have it. Live without it. Most people will not do this, but I believe many will someday wish they had.
Gross Output

Low Business (B2B) Spending Confirms Stagflation in 2024 - “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...
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: The Dutch Salten Age - Part III of the Salt Series
BloodhoundBlog

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

A well reasoned article you won’t see in legacy media which has abdicated its responsibility - TVNZ hīkoi documentary needs a sequel
Drinks and Drinking

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

How to End the War in Gaza - Amid all the recriminations tossed back and forth in the current Gaza imbroglio, the obvious solution for a lasting peace has been overlooked. It's a sol...
Anti-Dismal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why We're Not Supposed to Talk about Climate-Related Deaths - Disaster mortality seems to be a perfectly useful metric for understanding climate change—when the numbers tell the right story.
Don't Let It Go

Will the SAFE Act Protect You From Warrantless Surveillance? - This week, Senators Mike Lee, Dick Durbin and others proposed the SAFE Act, which the Senate Committee on the Judiciary describes as “Bipartisan legislatio...
The Kerrant

Wartime heroine was treasured - Helene (Mimi) Hotte Marple: B Amsterdam, February 3, 1912; m (1) 1937 Wim Hotte : (dec 1945) 1s, (2) 1966 Rex Marple; d Nelson, May 12, 2001. [Originally...
Thoughts from 40° South

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

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

Genesis -
Power + Market

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Finding the Benevolent Universe when the World is in a Pickle - by
Martini Mandate

Algorithms and traditions – a Christmas story - I met a Thai woman called Sugarplum on the rooftop bar of the Kingsbury Hotel in Colombo. It was a completely random occurrence. We drank arrack cocktail...
Demystifying Science

Part 2 of "The Princess Scientist" - Where have all the women gone?
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...
M.M.E.F. News

MMEF Highlights to Close the Year & Opportunities for You in 2024 - *Kia Ora Koutou MMEF Supporters,* As the year draws gradually to a close, we'd love to update you on some of the recent MMEF highlights and a look ah...
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...
Cranmer’s Substack

Team of Rivals: A CEO Approach to Government Leadership - Today the work begins.
Fisheries – PERC

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

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

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

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

Meta Dreams—Somethings - Also, the recency bias of the internet, the death of search, and the most dangerous BigTech firm in the world.
Pirate Wires

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

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

Introduction to the Iran Nuclear Deal - Putting a price on nonproliferation
Premise Check (Billy Beck)

"A Completely Different Conquest" - Watch now (2 mins) | Amsoc Will Be Different
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...
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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The Rational Capitalist

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

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

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

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

Senator Marco Rubio says business-as-usual with Beijing is “not an option” - In an exclusive interview with Kapil Komireddi, the US senator condemns the Communist Party of China as a "genocidal regime" which poses "the greatest thre...
Travel Secrets by Shar Lemond

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

Remember the Alamo - I first learned about the Alamo in earnest from the late John David Lewis. This Objectivist thinker and teacher demonstrated the central facts about the ba...
Comments on: Wind Turbine Noise: Real Impacts on Neighbors

By: Joshua - My home is about 4000 feet from a proposed 650 foot 5mw turbine and 7000 feet from another. Can you respond to what your recommended setbacks may be for th...
The Long Run

The launch of the new Economic History Society website – and the new home of the The Long Run blog - The Economic History Society is very happy to launch its new website as of November 2020. This site streamlines everything that the Society has to offer, i...
Urban – PERC

Fire Insurance Regs Hurt California Homeowners - The unintended consequences of California’s price restrictions on insurance rates leave insurers unable to cover losses after catastrophic wildfire damag...
Kiwi Gun Blog

More Evidence of Buyback Failure - The Kiwi Gun Blog has been gathering as much hard data as possible to prove what a disaster the gun buy back was. Here is a classic example – The wonderful...
Stories by MIT Legatum Center on Medium

Making the UN Global Goals A Reality: Why Trade, Enterprise & Weather Intelligence Matters - The UN General Assembly is this month marking 75 years since it came into being — 75 years of international cooperation, dialogue and work for developmen...
The Devil's Kitchen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Staff Profiles in Courage: Ryan Mann - Staff Profiles in Courage: Ryan Mann There’s a new crew on deck at the mighty Malthouse. Old faces have left for new adventures, replaced by a new inter...
Coffee House

In Congo, the Church is doing the government’s business - Once I am sure there’s nothing going on I step inside letting the door thud shut The opening lines of…
1828 – Championing Freedom

How to improve the UK’s election debates - Gordon Brown expressed regret over enabling television debates in the UK. In their recent form, it is easy to see why: they are rarely insightful, overly r...
Inductive Quest

William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 6/Final Part) - Previous posts: William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 1) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 2) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Ind...
Comments on: (Expensive) markets in everything

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sportreview.net.nz

Cricket world cup final FAQ - This content was lovingly emailed to general sporting masochists in EMERGENCY Sport Review newsletter #70 – join them and get this carry on every week at s...
A Force for Good | How economics, morality, and markets combine

New Blog Location; This Page is Now Defunct - Hello. A Force for Good as permanently relocated to my personal website: www.jonmmurphy.com. Please update your bookmarks accordingly. This website will...
Montessori Rocks

Encouraging Problem Solving - “Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.” –Maria Montessori This quote speaks volumes to what the end goal is in a Montessori ed...
Carl Menger Center for the Study of Money and Banking

Internationalization of the Yuan Continues Apace - To the unobservant, which includes most politicians, the United States remains a strong and resolute empire. Just witness the statements from Democratic ...
FDR Liberated

Stefan Molyneux and “My Sweet Bomb in the Brain” - I used to think that the worst thing about Stefan Molyneux (well, except for the racist/misogynist part) is that he doesn't seem to know a lot about scienc...
The Sand Pit

The value of value-added in schools - We’re developing New Zealand’s first contextualised value-added model to help evaluate New Zealand secondary schools on a variety of outcome measures. Joel...
EconTalk

Moises Velasquez-Manoff on Cows, Carbon Farming, and Climate Change - Journalist and author Moises Velasquez-Manoff talks about the role of dirt in fighting climate change with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Velasquez-Manoff exp...
AYN RAND CENTRE (UK)

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

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

A New Green Thumb Tool for Planners - A New Green Thumb Tool for Planners James Brasuell Wed, 07/12/2017 - 09:00 Primary Image [image: Philadelphia Park] "A joint venture between The Nature Con...
For The New Intellectual

Surrealist Writers Union Goes on Strike -
makingnewzealand

The Argument for Stopping Urban Sprawl - It's true that only about 1 part in 125 of New Zealand's land area is covered over in sprawl, with much less than that being actually built on (much of the...
The Dim-Post

Half-formed thoughts of the day - I was thinking about the Women’s March on Washington, and the global nature of it, and also the global nature of the White Nationalist movement: Trump, Put...
The Frank Lloyd Wright Newsblog

Sherman Booth House For Sale - The Sherman Booth House in Glencoe, Illinois is for sale. The asking price is $1.9 million. The house is a late Prairie Style design, dating from 1915. T...
PrairieMod

Richard Neutra Pillow - *Vendor: *Printful *Type: *Pillow *Price: * 34.00 A simple way to dress up any sofa, chair, bed, or room with a pop of color and a bold double-sided gr...
Blog - Minkz

Ichigo Ichie, Moment Hunters, new work by Mina - [image: NewlyDrawnGirl.jpg] *Ichigo Ichie, Moment Hunters - new work by Mina opening 12 March, 5 - 8 pm* On a recent trip to Japan, Mina fell in love wit...
Affordable Auckland

Prices Only Going Up in Auckland - New figures showing Auckland’s median house price have reached a record high of $820,000 comes as no surprise to Affordable Auckland spokesman Stephen Berr...
Life Behind the IRon Drape

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

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

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

Liz Cheney: Obama is uniquely dangerous president - Above video is set to start at 9 min 46 sec. Transcript Megyn Kelly: Do you think that President Obama is dangerous? Liz Cheney: Yes … I think there’s no q...
THE WEEKLY WRIGHT-UP

Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home. - *Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home.* *--*Matsuo Bashō, (Japanese poet, 1644-1694) from *Oku no Hosomichi* Jack Quinan and Sandra Q....
TheBubbleBubble.com - Warning About Post-2009 Economic Bubbles

Jesse Colombo’s Interview On The Doug McIntyre Show On 790 KABC - I had an interview with Doug McIntyre on 790 KABC today, and here is the audio file. I will also upload this to Youtube shortly. Jesse Colombo’s Interview ...
Titanic Deck Chairs

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

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