Not PC: Laughter

Friday, 7 November 2025

Laughter

"Laughter is proof of intelligence. It's the mind recognising absurdity and choosing joy over confusion, a small rebellion that makes us both wiser and kinder."
~ Stephen Fry

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How Thomas Sowell Thankfully Made Me A Contrarian Educator - A speech in honor of the great economist
Texas Institute for Property Rights

A Balancing Act - Legislators in Ohio are considering a bill that would require businesses to accept cash for payments up to $500. The The post A Balancing Act appeared fi...
Eat More Electrons

Another nuclear ban falls, this time at the Asian Development Bank - Eight quick thoughts on the trend and what it means
Splitting Headache

Somethings: Welcome Back - Welcome back. Today we discuss love, maintaining calendar, and cOnTeNt.
Forbidden Science

Why Modern Institutions Expand Forever - The internal logic of big, rich institutions that slowly takes over politics, science, and culture
Real Clear Energy: Video

Oil Prices Crashing Again - Crude price analysis for Year 2025.
JunkScience.com

Thankful For President Trump’s Climate Report Card - My latest in the Daily Caller.
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Various Artists: Hiva Folau Vaka/Vaka Carrying Music (digital outlets) - The title of this 22-song compilation of Pasifika artist (some familiar, most probably not outside of whanau/aiga circles) is the key: the purpose is not...
A Havenstein Moment.

The increasing economic fragility of middle-class families - Computers have no b.s. meter.
The Jolly Libertarian

Ruminating on Introversion and Introspection - I haven't been writing much lately, spending more time reading and ruminating. I love that word. It means to think over and is related to the concept of ...
The Tracinski Letter

The Quasi-Wars - Top Stories of the Year: #4
Croaking Cassandra

A few charts updated - Over the life of this blog there have been a few charts I’ve kept coming back to. There have been some of the obvious ones, for example around the persiste...
Let Grow

Why Kids Don’t “Just Do It” Anymore - [image: Two Children Walking With Umbrella In Snowy Neighborhood At Sunset] Most of us would agree that “Just do it” has served Nike pretty well. But this ...
Offsetting Behaviour

The state of the books - StatsNZ has put up its year-end accounts for the government, split out across functional areas. Their data goes back to 2009 in the main table; I'm sure...
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

Don’t Excuse Moral Shortcomings with “Nobody’s Perfect” and “We’re Only Human” - How ancient theology provides a cop out for avoiding moral judgment and not taking responsibility for our actions—and the rational alternative.
The Future of Being Human

Postscript: Letters from the Department of Intellectual Craft - Plausible AI trajectories and their potential implications to academia: a closing reflection on Letters from the Department of Intellectual Craft
Lindsay Mitchell

Boosting birth rates with benefit payments is a very bad idea - Last week the UK government gave in to the growing pressure from activists to scrap their two child cap on welfare benefits - this despite polling showin...
misfits' architecture

Architecture Misfits #43: NIKKEN SEKKEI - As far as large Japanese architectural design companies go, NIkken Sekkei [日建設計] doesn’t have the history of Shimizu/Shimz Corporation that completed the H...
Theatreview

Leaving a light on for Jennifer Lal - Leaving a light on for Jennifer Lal She was tough.One of thosehard-shell, soft-centre types. Laugh like gravel,heart like warm bread.Thick crust withbaked ...
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip 23: Give Thanks Out Loud - Why Gratitude Works in Speaking
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Review of "Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System" - M. Chris Fabricant's Narrative of Injustice and Resilience
Construction Physics

Reading List 11/29/25 - NIMBYism and aesthetics, defibrillator drones, railway track detonators, a proposed mach-23 space gun, and more.
Sinification

Briefing: Takaichi Sanae and China–Japan Relations - An analysis of reactions by China's establishment intellectuals to Takaichi Sanae's recent statement that an attack on Taiwan could trigger the deployment ...
Fictionosophy

Reason and Revolution in Zamyatin's We - We tries to argue for a society that is fully human, but in doing so, it mistakenly eschews reason by mischaracterizing it.
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

Rebuilding the Open Society - Liberalism in Question
Democracy Project

New website: www.democracyproject.org.nz - The Democracy Project is now hosted here: www.democracyproject.org.nz The main content of the Democracy Project is at this new site, where you can sign u...
Syncretica

AI Bubble or Not - Getting specific about what bubble
Autonomia

The Virtue of Productiveness: First Fiction - Thanksgiving post about first book and first book review of Ayn Rand’s first novel
Principled Perspectives

On the Trump/Mamdani 'Lovefest' - My FB Post: “For all the hype of a conflict, President Trump and New York City's next mayor, Zohran Mamdani, had a surprising bond when they met Friday ...
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

Thanksgiving as a political resilience tool - Gratitude inhibits the resentment and grievance political opportunists exploit for money and power.
Cremieux Recueil

Gypsies and Jews - Gypsy stereotypes might beget stereotypical gypsies. Is that why Jews are so successful?
Building the Builders

What to Do with Our Selves: Transcend or Build? A conversation with Sasha Chapin and Gena Gorlin - A recording from Dr. Gena Gorlin's live video
The Trumpland Diary

From Russia with Love (?) - Someone in the Trump Administration is Working for the Other Side
Wright in Racine

Kentuck Knob-The Wright House “near Fallingwater” - © Mark Hertzberg (2025) This essay begins with a confession. In 1999 Cindy and I went to Fallingwater. I was interested in Frank Lloyd Wright’s work, but I...
Dead Language Society

Why people feel entitled to correct your grammar online - A natural history of the language police
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Autumn Budget 2025 – Our snap reaction - This afternoon, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves gave the 2025 Autumn Budget. Read below for our team’s snap reaction to some of the main points...
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

Epic Games’ Victory Could Dismantle the Google Play Store - *Antitrust law threatens to hand the Play Store Google built into a global platform for millions to its rivals* The post Epic Games’ Victory Could Disman...
Existential Crunch

Does climate science focus on the right temperature range? - A question of optimism
Public Lands – PERC

A Big PERC Win For National Parks - Our big idea for America's Best Idea is becoming a reality. The post A Big PERC Win For National Parks appeared first on PERC.
Schiffradio.com

Raised Rate Cut Hopes Lift Markets – Ep 1052 - Peter Schiff critiques the Federal Reserve's policies, discusses the housing market crisis, and forecasts gold and cryptocurrency trends in this episode....
Capitalism Magazine

An American Holiday: The Moral Meaning Behind Thanksgiving - Ayn Rand described Thanksgiving as "a typically American holiday . . . its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a pr...
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

Did Zohran Kill Dimes Square? - An investigation
Conflicted

The politicization of youth mental health - What can we learn from climate anxiety and ADHD?
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 85) - Untimely Thoughts on a World in Transition
Libertarian Land

A Downside of National Security Concerns - New research reminds us that policies designed to improve national security have costs, even if the policies have good intentions:
Asimov’s Addendum

Are LLMs the Best That They Will Ever Be? - Without careful disclosure architectures, AI products may only get worse, even as the technology gets better.
Stu-Topia

It’s Good to Be ‘Tall’: ‘Tis Much Better to Be True - Stuart K. Hayashi I have written of this previously (1, 2). When we last spoke over the phone, you kept saying, “I . . . changed.” Every repetition of that...
The Library of Celaeno

The Nine Worthies, Part 2: The Jews - This is my God, and I'll praise Him, my father's God, and I'll hail Him
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Premium: The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA - This piece has a generous 3000+ word introduction, because I want as many people to understand NVIDIA as possible. The (thousands of) words after the pre...
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (24 November 2025) - Resilience in NATO, AI risk in Australia, and investment in AI
Tross Publishing

Maori population changes in the nineteenth century - By John Robinson Significance today of historic and pre-historic population estimates In the second decade of the twenty-first century, approaching 200 y...
The Grumpy Economist

Trump and monetary policy: Full Oped - This is a WSJ oped that I can now publish in its entirety.
The China Space Monitor

Sizing Up China's Commercial Launchers - Plus SpaceSail and China Satcom in Turkey 🇹🇷, Starwin opens a consumer store 🛍️, and Everlight sets up shop in Chengdu 🍲
The Beauty of Things

For the Psychopomps and Famous Letter Writers - Baby Poet’s First ALSCW Conference! Photos, event update, et cetera. PLUS: a *draft* list of publications that are friendly to metrical verse
Market Urbanism

Why “you don’t deserve to live in New York” is no excuse for the status quo - Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro has received some publicity for stating: “If you can’t afford to live here [in New York City] maybe you should not l...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

Why Did Nigerians Stop Tolerating British Rule? (1900-1946) - Depression, War, and Strike: The Forces That United Nigerians Against Britain
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

Why AI isn’t intelligent – and the AI theft of my work - I discover that a while back some of my published work was appropriated by Meta and fed into their AI system. I was never approached for licensing, never p...
Objective Standard Institute

Christian Theist vs Objectivist Atheist - Maddox (Objectivist, ex-baptist) and Jake (a Baptist pastor) confront their deepest disagreements about God, morality, and the foundations of truth. They e...
Seiler on Science

Thomas Kuhn’s Copernican Revolution - Reflections on a classic in the history of science
The Enlightened Examiner

Nick Fuentes’ ‘America First’ - Fuentes and the rest of the conspiracists charging Israel with global domination are simply laying the groundwork for what they truly are after.
The Enlightened Examiner

Nick Fuentes’ ‘America First’ - Fuentes and the rest of the conspiracists charging Israel with global domination are simply laying the groundwork for what they truly are after.
SAVVY STREET

Mike Rowe on Work and Human Flourishing - There is immense dignity in all honest work. The post Mike Rowe on Work and Human Flourishing appeared first on SAVVY STREET.
Reason for Living

The Right Kind of Power to Seek - When our emotional reactions motivate us to seek power over others, desire the impossible, and become addicted to fruitless anger and pain, it’s power over...
Virginia Postrel

From the Archives: Gothic Revival Architecture Is Like Dreadlocks - You can try embedding ideology into a style but if people like the look, the meaning will get diluted over time.
Dramatic Pause

How I Review: Samuel Te Kani - In the second edition of How I Review, an interview with writer and filmmaker Samuel Te Kani.
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

CDC 1946-2025: R.I.P. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has now weaponized the CDC website to promote his anti-vaccine views
Roots of Progress

Reflections on Progress Conference 2025 - Dates for next year: October 8th-11th 2026, at Lighthaven The post Reflections on Progress Conference 2025 appeared first on Roots of Progress Institute.
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

Pulling Wetlands Conservation Out of the Political Muck - Ideas for policy and market innovations that can improve wetland conservation The post Pulling Wetlands Conservation Out of the Political Muck appeared ...
Wildlife – PERC

Pulling Wetlands Conservation Out of the Political Muck - Ideas for policy and market innovations that can improve wetland conservation The post Pulling Wetlands Conservation Out of the Political Muck appeared ...
Hunters and Anglers – PERC

Pulling Wetlands Conservation Out of the Political Muck - Ideas for policy and market innovations that can improve wetland conservation The post Pulling Wetlands Conservation Out of the Political Muck appeared ...
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Why FFF’s Civil Liberties Series? - Today, with our sixth presenter — former Congressman Ron Paul, who now heads the Ron Paul Institute — we wrap up our special series of our weekly Interne...
Eating Policy

Outcomes Review: Realigning Legislative Incentives - How might a state legislature shift from outputs to outcomes?
Classical Compass Rose

Nostalgia Manufactured in Real Time - We live in a world where memory is no longer a private resource but a social currency, produced in real time and consumed asynchronously.
Freedom and Flourishing

Part VIII: Summary and Conclusions - *This is the final essay of a series exploring the topic: What impact does political entrepreneurship have on freedom and flourishing? The series commenc...
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

Permissive Parenting with Rodin - A museum trip reveals etiquette is a lost art
Interintellect

Celebrating BOOKS: NYC salon with Joel Miller - On Saturday, the author of The Idea Machine and Miller Book Review joins us for a conversation.
The War on Prices

Labour is Poised to Boost the Black Market at the Expense of True Fans - The UK will reportedly introduce tight price caps on ticket resale
Notes On Liberty

“Towards a Complete Libertarianism” - from Kevin Vallier, in the latest issue of Isonomia Quarterly. Don’t forget to check out the rest, which includes essays on Hayek, the geopolitics of Green...
Glenn’s Substack

Talking About the Ruling Class - Especially judges.
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

fragments - any given thing is a part of a greater whole beyond itself
One Useful Thing

Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3 - From chatbots to agents
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

Governing in polarized America - Narain Batra November 18, 2025
The Intrinsic Perspective

Pluribus and Our Age of Hive Minds - The tyranny of online life
HBL

Younging Given a Backhanded Compliment - “Younging” is my stab at a term that’s shorter and more descriptive than “rejuvenation” and more positive than “de-aging.” Once it becomes possible to shed...
Boom (UK)

Boom on the LFG podcast - Have a listen!
PM of NZ

How about you stay in your lane Mr Mayor? - A newspaper reports our local Mayor says: *a “detailed investigation” into the cause of the power cuts is needed* Leave such investigations alone, they'r...
Greg Mankiw's Blog

I talk with Michael Klein - On the EconoFact podcast.
Africa-Israel Weekly

Israel & Africa: Dumisani's Interview on i24News - IBSI Founder & CEO appeared on i24News with Laura Cellier in Tel Aviv on Sunday, November 9, 2025.
Private Lands – PERC

Conservation Innovation Lab Report - 2025 Annual Project Update The post Conservation Innovation Lab Report appeared first on PERC.
Maximum Progress

The Florida Japan-handle - Culture, Urbanism, History and Geology in Oahu, Hawaii
HardmoneyJim

The Real Risks of Owning Gold (and Why It’s Still Worth Owning) - CAN THE GOVERNMENT TAKE YOUR GOLD?
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

A Different World: Laurie & Les, Ageing Boomers, Talk Politics. - *“So, Les, let me get this straight. If I’m convinced that my true self is Mickey Mouse, then that is the identity everyone must acknowledge – even when i...
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

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

Strangers - America's "stranger culture" changes your personality.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

Strangers - America's "stranger culture" changes your personality.
Africa’s Bright Future

What If Everything You Knew About Climate Change Was Wrong? - Is climate alarmism finally dead?
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
Ruxandra’s Substack

What will it take for AI to change drug discovery? - Some thoughts on avoiding self delusion.
Equal to Reality

The Pinnacle of St Ives. - When Ambition Meets Reality
What You Can Do For Liberty

This Top-Tier Non-Woke College Is Now Free — If You're Smart Enough - Thanks to a $100 million donation from entrepreneur Jeffrey Yass, the University of Austin (TX) is now tuition free.
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: October 2025 - Hope you had a fun Halloween!
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...
Roberto’s Substack

The Brazilian Anarchy and the Moral Collapse of the War on Drugs - What we have seen in Rio de Janeiro is what one sees in any territory where anarchy takes root: the factual absence of a State capable of monopolizing the ...
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Bill Gates helps break the moral monopoly against fossil fuels - Bill Gates’s humanist challenge to the anti-fossil-fuel climate establishment was only possible because the “moral monopoly” against fossil fuels has been ...
Spiked Online

Think Before You Post tickets - The post Think Before You Post tickets appeared first on spiked.
Overthinking Everything

Making connections - If two people seem like they should know each other and don't, maybe you should fix that.
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Heaven Is Already Here, It's Just Not Very Evenly Distributed - I want you to enter my home, and find what you've been looking for in a church.
A life just as ordinary

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

Propuesta para un nuevo tipo de día festivo - por Mark Conway Munro, 30 de octubre, 2025
The Kerrant

Stemming the tide of alarm over rising water levels - Letter to the Editor, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 February 2002 Dr Belinda Medlyn (Letters, February 21) audaciously accuses Dr Stone (Letters, February 20...
Asymmetric Information

Are capital gains taxes fair?🍋 - NZ lacks a specific capital gains tax. But introducing one may not increase fairness.
Cranmer’s Substack

Trump's Crypto World - The pardoning of Binance founder CZ last week has given a glimpse at the sensational personal deal-making at the heart of Trump's administration.
Austin Vernon's Substack

A Nuclear Fission Regulatory Blank Slate - What if nuclear regulations were reset?
Plain Sight

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

Western Values or “Unity”: Republicans Can’t Have Both - Why are many Republican leaders refusing to condemn racist and authoritarian rhetoric within the party?
Growing to Truth

Western Values or “Unity”: Republicans Can’t Have Both - Why are many Republican leaders refusing to condemn racist and authoritarian rhetoric within the party?
Note to Noteworthy

Mr. Savior - Is God really a savior?
First Stones NewsLetter

Why the 36% sales increase in Christian Holy Bibles over a recent 12-month period (as reported on Fox News) is good news for an a-theist such as my BiO Spiritualist Self. - This sounds tongue-in-cheek but maybe it's not.
Barrie Saunders

The BSA power grab: Post 2 - Media and Communications Minister, Paul Goldsmith’s handling of the BSA power grab follow 80 years of abysmal leadership by National Party governments re b...
High Capacity

China's emerging export control regime - China is trying to build a "unified export control system" that's about much more than just leverage in the latest negotiations with the US
Catherine Mosse

The State as Organized Plunder vs. The Voluntaryist Alternative - A genuine voluntaryist order rests on peaceful cooperation, private property, and voluntary associations, while violent, competing gangs are better underst...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Are we experiencing another watershed event? - The BSA may be an unwitting catalyst for rolling back the administrative state
Martini Mandate

Pooh, AI, and the Man with a Red Flag - How you feel about the impact of AI on society depends largely on your personality. In A.A. Milne-speak, if you’re a Tigger, you’re bouncing off the wall...
An Africanist Perspective

Raila Amolo Odinga - The man whose political career defined Kenya’s multiparty politics
Science+Story

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

The Courage to Speak Up - Do you speak up about issues in your sex life with your romantic partner? Or about political issues with close friends and family who disagree with you? ...
The Truth Fairy

When Your Child is Sick - (And: Come See Me This Thursday, October 16, in Beverly Hills!)
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: Joel Mokyr's Nobel - A triumph for history and the importance of ideas
The Realization of Wholeness

It's Better Than Going Blind - Or how "Under Pressure" became my favorite song
The Organon Architecture Blog

"Nature Near" - I was lucky enough to be invited to contribute to the local *Montessori Voices* magazine, on the vital importance of bringing nature near. It's as impor...
Liberty Scott

Jews are targets for being Jews in England - and it's not from the traditional far right - When Jews get targeted in what should be safe liberal democracies, it doesn't quite see the same response as when Muslims or targeted or even the general...
Kibao

Make Electrons Generic Again (MEGA) - Why the next leap in Africa’s energy story must be about agency, not just access
Freethink Media

Reversing the aging process is worth $38T. But is it possible? - Aging kills 100,000 people a day. Here’s why scientists believe that can change.
Journal of Free Black Moms

Ep. 17 - Change the World Be a Mom (Sheila Qualls) - Listen now | An interview with wife and mother of five Sheila Qualls
Harry’s Substack

This is what tyranny looks like - Trump is consolidating power
Outliving Iran

Ismail - The remarkable story of a friend, a fallen hero, whom I will never forget.
What's New Under the Sun

What if the NIH had been 40% smaller? - Plus: Send me job market papers
Gross Output

Trump Trade War Hits Business: Economy Slows to a Crawl - “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...
Institute of Economic Affairs

Why the socialist Left and the populist Right are talking past each other - This blog post was first published on IEA Insider. Subscribe at insider.iea.org.uk This piece works as a follow up to The revival … Continue reading "Why...
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.
RenewNZ

Recognising Palestine feeds jihadist ideology - The New Zealand Government must not recognise the so-called state of “Palestine” at the UN this week. Doing so at this point would be a reward for barbaric...
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 ...
round houses

a dome with portholes - Dome house in the California desert.
The Scholar's Stage

Bullets and Ballots: The Legacy of Charlie Kirk - What did Charlie Kirk mean to the Young Right?
Notes On Liberty

If you haven't already... - ...please subscribe to this new magazine
Musk Watch

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

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

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

Surviving Involution - How long can China eat itself?
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Fiume Gallery: A Dark Theater Experiment - People can't get over the eclectic launch party I threw in May. Here’s what really happened.
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 ...
Mike’s Substack

#6 How to Optimize for Student Motivation - My last article was about helping students to adhere to reality by means of controlling error. This approach belongs to both of the high-structure models o...
Mike’s Substack

#6 How to Optimize for Student Motivation - My last article was about helping students to adhere to reality by means of controlling error. This approach belongs to both of the high-structure models o...
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
M.M.E.F. News

New Course, Blended Format! - *Kia ora Koutou MMEF Supporters,* It was uplifting and heartwarming to see many of you in Rotorua recently at the annual Montessori Aotearoa New Zealan...
Johnny Grey Studios

Midsummer Meet-ups - The making of the Kitchen of the future and the South Downs Food Festival
The Upheaval

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

A history of the contemporary mainstream economic theory of the firm 1920 - 2020. A story of opportunities taken and missed. - We will examine the opportunities that were taken and those that were missed in the development of the mainstream economic theory of the firm over the pe...
Down to Earth Kiwi

DownToEarth.Kiwi Closing Due to Threats from National & Labour Parties & Big Business NZ Incorporated - It'd be nice to think we've added something these past years to improve the prosperity of NZ. We were the only economic commentary source...
Ideas Beyond Borders

Gamal Abdel Nasser's Last Gamble - Inside the private conversation where Egypt’s president confronted the lies, the losses, and an Arab world that wouldn’t fight the war it claimed to want
Butterpaper

Happy 100 Art Deco, or maybe not - The Art deco style turns 100 this month. Sort of. But what was it then, what is it now, and how did it become associated with architecture? Architecture ...
The Free Market Futurist

Farmville - The Autonomous Future of Agriculture
No Punches Pulled

THE WORKING FROM HOME RACKET BY PUBLIC SERVANTS - Last year the government announced the working from home racket by public servants was to cease from January, 2025. The public service protested and since ...
AYN RAND CENTRE (UK)

Password Reset - Reset Password Reset Your Password The post Password Reset appeared first on AYN RAND CENTRE.
Austrian Economics Newsletter

Mass Formations For The Masses - Crowd Psychology and the Canadian Electorate
Skeptic

We’re moving to skeptic.com! - As of April 2, 2025, this Substack will serve as an archive and will no longer be active.
Demystifying Science

Introduction to “The Princess Scientist” - As a female and mother who navigated the world of academia in the biomedical sciences, I have been working on a book that talks about the real “sex discrim...
John Paquette

LLMs and the Nature of Honest Authorship - Editing is not authoring.
Tribes – PERC

10 Ideas for the Interior Department - How to accelerate conservation and cut green tape The post 10 Ideas for the Interior Department appeared first on PERC.
Stories by Rudi Edsall on Medium

Round 1 2025 — The Smithening - I posted my last blog on the Cats on June 6 2023 — a marvel at how we’d beaten the Western Bulldogs with no midfield to speak of — and it’s fair to say a...
Rosie Campbell

I'm going to work on AI welfare at Eleos AI Research! - We need to start taking seriously the implications of digital minds—both for their potential welfare and our own.
CEE – Econlib

Tariffs - A tariff is a fancy word for a tax. The term usually refers to import duties, which are fees levied on goods entering one country from another. Import ta...
Case Closed

February 2025 Space Stock Review - Includes Commentary on ASTS, RKLB, RDW, LUNR, PL, SPIR, SESG, and ETL
Yes In Our Backyards

Supermarkets: More stories of how councils accidentally on purpose banned competition - My previous post, Supermarket YIMBYism, got a bit of traction.
thesecondrenaissance

Finding Meaning and Purpose in a Godless Universe - In the 1880s, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was at his intellectual peak.
Don't Let It Go

Apple Shrugs - a haiku “Nice encryption there… except we’ll need a back door.” “What encryption? Where?” (Inspired by Apple’s decision to pull its iCloud end-to-end encry...
Ayn Rand Society

Papers on Valuing and Desires from our January 2025 session - Please find the following papers attached:
The Ayn Rand Society

Papers on Valuing and Desires from our January 2025 session - Please find the following papers attached:
Creative Deduction

Libertarian Rescue Mission: Can Milei save the Peso? - Javier Milei shocked the political establishment when he romped to victory in the Argentine Presidential election in 2023. A proud anarcho-capitalist, he t...
Punishingly Haimona

Farewell (for now), and thank you. - Many lines from The Simpsons are imprinted in my brain, but there is one that I think about often.
Armas

The intolerable alliance. - Mexico's state and Mexico's cartels, a singular threat.
Patrick T. Brown, PhD

Writings hosted elsewhere - The Breakthrough Institute Interactive Brokers Campus
Regan's Substack

A girl's gotta have a backup - You expose yourself to significant risks if you choose to forgo building a career
Keith Weiner Economics

Reflections Over 2024 - How to start an essay on my year… Well, I traveled a lot. First, I went to New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, and then Dubai. I had to come home for our an...
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
The Prophet of Causation

The Self-Writing Slate - Chapter 5
Premise Check (Billy Beck)

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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
Craig Biddle

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

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

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

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

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

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

Full Interview With Andrew Bernstein On Decline Of US Education - Here is my interview with Dennis Prager from last Thursday. The topic is my 2022 book “Why Johnny Still Can’t Read or Write or Understand Math—And What We ...
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We're going on hiatus - But do stick around
Robert Nasir’s Joyous Newsletter

I Don't Know. - The power, the leverage, the epistemological clarity, the strategic value, the style & dignity, the surprising truths, and the simple peace of mind that fl...
Reviews - 13th Floor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Power + Market

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Cafe Hayek

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Knowledge Problem archive 2002-2020 - This is the archive of the Knowledge Problem blog, all 4,690 posts. The search function will help you locate posts on the various topics Mike and I wrote a...
Asian Invasion 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1828 – Championing Freedom

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

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

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

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

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

How Finitude Makes Us Happy — My Final Post - She looked her age — 27, startlingly close to my own age. Did we share acquaintances or friends of friends? She fixed her hair in a ponytail and wore jea...
'The Critic' Magazine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Neil Peart: Enlightenment in Verse (and Romanticism in Rock) - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13145 Neil Peart was a polymath: a rock drummer, jazz drumm...
Joakim Book | Life of an Econ Student

Publications, January - Welcome to the next decade! Exciting, isn't it? There are some minor changes here too. From now on, I'll post some of my work on Medium –particularly work ...
Center for the Legalization of Privacy

Facebook & Government Responses to CLP Amicus Brief Reveal Conflicting Views of Your Privacy Under Imminent Settlement - Those of you who have been following CLP’s involvement in United States v. Facebook know that, in our amicus brief … Continue reading →
positive check

From West to East: Bolivian regional GDPs since the 1950s - *José Peres-Cajías* *Universitat de Barcelona* The political disruption that is taking place worldwide during the last years has prompted the proliferati...
Open Borders: The Case

Immigration Reform or Revolution? - The idea of unconditionally open international borders, and entirely free migration across them, faces a great deal of resistance. Resistance comes, not on...
Quote Unquote

Holding pattern - I am to attend the next meeting of the Hamilton Press Club on Friday the 13th – speaker: Patrick Gower – so should have a report to post next week. Also th...
The Devil's Kitchen

Own Jones telling... - Via Timmy, I see that Owen Jones *keeps* writing articles... Why I am campaigning for Labour in this seismic election Presumably it's because you're an evi...
Irshad Manji

01/20/2020 – Atlanta, GA - MLK Day 2020: Irshad speaks at the official service to commemorate the 91st birthday and timeless legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. From the sanctuar...
Legalize Privacy

CLP Amicus Brief Gets Coverage in Law360! - Law360, a legal news site for professionals, published an article about three amicus briefs filed in United States v. Facebook. … Continue reading →
Comments on: (Expensive) markets in everything

By: Zaphod Dentbrox III PHD - You guys are a bunch of suckers for hipster creatives at an ad agency,
Travel Secrets by Shar Lemond

Travel Secrets: In Defense of Men’s Rights - The theme of the Travel Secrets trilogy is femininity. In book one, our heroine, Rachel, was battling her own demons as she conquered her misconception of ...
Thoughts from 40° South

The Evil of Equity - The New Zealand Government has caught the equity bug. Everywhere you look they are trying to achieve it. I asked a senior public servant recently what he ...
Kuo's Gulch | Justice, Independence, Productivity, Honesty, Integrity, Pride, Rationality

The Land of the Rising Sun: My Trip to Japan - Dr. Thomas Sowell has mentioned Japan and Scotland as miracles numerous times in his works, so I thought I will visit it. And was he correct, Japan really ...
Inductive Quest

William Whewell’s “Discoverer’s Induction” (Part 4) - Previous posts: William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 1) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 2) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Ind...
A Force for Good | How economics, morality, and markets combine

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

The Loophole in a Famous Adage on Limited Government - Ritual obeisance to principles can easily be combined with inflating government’s role to metastasize far beyond general welfare.
Montessori Rocks

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

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

Amalgamation and Streamlining City Governance: the Auckland Experiment So Far - *The performance of the Super City – so far, so so* Previous posts indicate that amalgamating local government in Auckland has not yielded efficiencies. Ca...
The Sand Pit

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

Shifting from Central Planning to a Decentralised Economy - by Professor Richard A. Werner, D.Phil. (Oxon) Paper presented at the 14th Rhodes Forum: Dialogue of Civilisations Research Institute, Panel 2: […]
News - Democracy Action

Free Speech - Bruce Moon speaks out in Nelson - Bruce Moon, a retired physicist and avid historian, was invited by the Nelson Institute to give a talk at Nelson’s Elma Turner Library, on 8th April. He ...
EconTalk

Moises Velasquez-Manoff on Cows, Carbon Farming, and Climate Change - Journalist and author Moises Velasquez-Manoff talks about the role of dirt in fighting climate change with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Velasquez-Manoff exp...
sportreview.net.nz

Chipping in for Kane on The Spinoff - sportreview.net.nz was lucky enough to contribute to top website The Spinoff, plumping for Kane Williamson as our greatest ever batsman, despite him only b...
Oswald Bastable's Ranting

Hang them High! - Car thieves. Preferable drag-hang the scum! Our car has had a window broken, ignition switch mangled and the dash trim torn apart by an inept, useless shi...
John P. McCaskey

Ockham on Induction - Summa Logicae, part 3-3, chapters 31–36, trans. John P. McCaskey, September 18, 2017 The text here is from Opera Philosophica, The post Ockham on Inducti...
Planetizen

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

Surrealist Writers Union Goes on Strike -
makingnewzealand

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

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

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

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

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

What’s the Best Sparkling Water for Cocktails? - We’re here to talk about sparkling water in cocktails. But first: My Obsessive Nature, a.k.a. A Briefish, Seemingly Unrelated Disclaimer on Why Its Hard to...
Affordable Auckland

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

National’s Anti-Money Laundering & Countering Financing of Terrorism Monster - iPredict the State Gulag - This piece of Soviet legislation took down the brilliant iPredict today: *Prediction website iPredict is to be closed down, with the Government deciding ...
Politics without God

The Right to Die: Philosophy in Action Podcast - On Sunday's episode of Philosophy in Action Radio, I answered a question on the right to die. The question was: Should a person who does not wish to live b...
The PRODOS blog

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

Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home. - *Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home.* *--*Matsuo Bashō, (Japanese poet, 1644-1694) from *Oku no Hosomichi* Jack Quinan and Sandra Q....
Tibor's space

IP Anyone? - Intellectual Property Anyone? Tibor R. Machan There is a debate afoot now about whether one ever owns the likes of a novel, poem, computer game, song, arra...
TheBubbleBubble.com - Warning About Post-2009 Economic Bubbles

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

Willing and Eager Subjects in Training - Obama recently cautioned a group of graduating college kids that some of the arguments flowing to them via their "iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStatio...
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