Not PC: A prime example of TDS

Monday, January 26, 2026

A prime example of TDS

"National[ist] Conservatives have Trump Deification Syndrome (TDS).
"They feel that He works in mysterious ways.
"They are faith-based voters."
~ Keith Weiner

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Peter Cresswell said...: Just reading about Trump makes one dumber. Even Niall Ferguson is a victim. "I therefore offer the hypothesis that all the fuss about Greenland [at Davos] was a classic example of Trumpian maskirovka..."
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AMERICAN DIPLOMACY AT THE END OF A BARREL - In mid-January, presidential historian Richard Norton Smith, during his visit to the Rockefeller Center, offered a simple but profound conservative standar...
John D. Cook

Fortunes and Geometric Means - I saw a post on X recently that said Bill Gates is closer to you in wealth than he is to Elon Musk. Mind blown. For round numbers, let’s say Elon Musk’s ...
Construction Physics

Reading List 01/24/26 - Welcome to the reading list, a weekly list of news and links related to buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology.
SAVVY STREET

Iranians Want a Normal life and the Ayatollah Has No Answer - Iranian citizens refuse to be sacrificed for the regime's anti-modern vision. The post Iranians Want a Normal life and the Ayatollah Has No Answer appea...
Flying Out

Into Oblivion (Vinyl LP) - *Vendor: *Century Media *Type: *LAMB OF GOD *Price: * 77.00 *LAMB OF GOD*’s tenth album, *Into Oblivion*, sees them embracing their position as music ve...
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #31: Make a Big Promise - Set up the payoff so your audience leans in.
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

"Social justice" versus survival: The fatal risks of groupthink on the streets - A conversation about addiction, homelessness, and saving lives by transcending ideology with Kevin Dahlgren.
Conflicted

Pardon me, your intent is showing - How a National Academy of Science event created an organization that legitimizes severe constraint on open debate about climate and energy
The War on Prices

Profit-Led Inflation: Trivial or Wrong? - A good new overview from Christopher Conlon
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

GUITAR WOLF – More Jet Album Tour – Aotearoa February / March 2026 - CLEAN DiRT knows you couldn’t get enough – Guitar Wolf return to NZ this March for more Jet Powered Rock and roll with a new album!After blowing minds la...
Tim’s Substack

The Duranta Dam Turkey Shoot - Phase 2 of the Tanker Wars
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

on tedium - repeatedly doing a thing that's not working
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Premium: The AI Bubble Is A Time Bomb -
Conspicuous Cognition

AI Sessions #8: Misinformation, Social Media, and Deepfakes (with Sacha Altay) - Watch now | Henry and I chat with Dr Sacha Altay about:
Marcus on AI

AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy - When AI Can Fake Majorities, Democracy Slips Away
Sinification

Beware the Authoritarian Biopolitics of the AI Age by Tao Dongfeng - "So what can we do today to prevent the return of fascism and the rise of new dictatorships?"
The Antiplanner

Congestion in 2025 - When measured by the amount of hours each commuter wastes in traffic per year, Lima, Peru was the most congested city in the world in 2025, according to To...
The Antiplanner

Congestion in 2025 - When measured by the amount of hours each commuter wastes in traffic per year, Lima, Peru was the most congested city in the world in 2025, according to To...
Schiffradio.com

Trump Starts the Race to Get Out of the Dollar - Peter Schiff examines Trump's Greenland controversy, the surge in gold and silver, and the looming dollar crisis impacting global markets. The post Trump...
Greg Mankiw's Blog

History of Econ Summer Camp - Graduate students with an interest in the history of economic thought should consider this summer program.
Gross Output

The Divided Economy: Business Still Trying to Catch Up to the Consumer Boom - “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...
The Tracinski Letter

Divine Law, Congressional Law, and the Law of Identity - *The Mayflower Compact, 1620*, by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, painted circa 1932. Are these people using their rights to create a government, or are they usi...
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

New Report: Texas Water Policy Can Promote Conservation and Limit Waste - Voluntary water markets offer a path to protect farms, cities, and rivers without mandates The post New Report: Texas Water Policy Can Promote Conservati...
On Substack

Introducing the Substack TV app, now in beta - Taking subscriber video to the bigger screen
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Our Expanding Immigration-Control Tyranny - One can hope that the tyranny that is settling in on America will cause a critical mass of the American people to engage in some serious soul-searching a...
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 497 - Industrialization in the Building Industry - With a flattering foreword written by Moshe Safdie and an auspicious introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller, Barry James Sullivan's* Industrialization ...
Spiked Online

spiked summit 2026 – supporter tickets - The spiked summit takes place *Saturday 27 June 2026* in Westminster – a flagship live event featuring bold debate, live Q&As and 500+ engaged attendees....
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

"Life Loves a Tragedy": Reports of Poison Calling Off Tour Disappoint Fans - Widespread Innumeracy in Reporting Even More Disappointing
Eat More Electrons

What is Think Tank impact? (And what is it not?) - Why no one should care about your 18 reports
Liberty Scott

Loony leftwing teachers - In the UK... *"A Labour MP was prevented from visiting a school in his constituency because the teaching unions and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign do ...
The Cobden Centre

Defining Money - Many modern economists struggle to define money. Often beginning with an historical overview of the concept of moneyness, they generally end by describing ...
Freedom and Flourishing

Does Humanomics Need a Moral Anchor? - *This is a guest essay by Dr Edward W. Younkins, Professor of Accountancy and Business at Wheeling University, and Executive Director of its Institut...
The Prophet of Causation

Divine Law, Congressional Law, and the Law of Identity - Chapter 8
Public Lands – PERC

A Better Way To Fund National Parks—Paid For By Their Most Eager Visitors - When those tourists visit national parks, they’ll be supporting them more than ever. The post A Better Way To Fund National Parks—Paid For By Their Most ...
Dead Language Society

Scots, English, and the linguistic uncanny valley - English’s fascination with its closest cousin
Asimov’s Addendum

What does Anthropic's Latest Economic Index Data Really tell us? - "if you listen very hard, the tune will come to you at last"
Michael Newberry, Artist

The Payoff of Visual Perception: Exaltation - Seeing through an artist’s eyes Another work that recently came back into my possession is this life drawing on red paper (1987), I was 30, and it was the ...
Energy in Depth

Great Plains Institute: Texas Poised to Be a Leader in CCUS Development - Everything’s bigger in Texas: even carbon capture and underground storage (CCUS) build-out. Carbon management deployment could generate $62 billion in in...
Leport’s Substack

Looking for reviews - Dear friends and family,
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Meta's Legal Team Abandoned Its Ethical Duties - From Big Tobacco to Menlo Park — and the collapse of legal ethics
Institute of Economic Affairs

Never forgetting the absurdities of fascism - ‘Classics Revisited’ revisits a publication from a previous century from a present-day perspective, to show how much, or how little, … Continue reading "...
Notes On Liberty

New issue of Isonomia Quarterly coming out soon - In February. Perhaps it’ll even be on time. Until then, check out last quarter’s issue here. And don’t forget to subscribe. Paying subscribers get print co...
New Zealand Arts Review

Young writers, artists and curators get to this years Venice Biennale - Learning from Venice: A Workshop for Early-Career Artists, Curators and Writers, 25-29 May 2026, Venice Italy John Daly-Peoples The Office for Contemporary...
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

The Mouth of the Leviathan: On the Coming Feast of the Stadium and the Famine of Everyone Else - Christchurch’s new stadium shifts spending away from local venues. In a cost-of-living crisis, who survives: the ratepayer-funded giant or the unpaid small...
The New Era

Tech for Freedom Newschat Episode 2 - Claus and I focus on Digital ID, Technocratic businesses, low-cost airlines, CBDCs and more...
What You Can Do For Liberty

Top 25 Liberty Events and Conferences in 2026 - Want to make new friends, learn about liberty, and network with pro-liberty thinkers?
Precise Thinking

Mary’s Monumental Survival - The Secular Side of the Story
Equal to Reality

Beauty as Necessity: Cultivating a Rational Environment for the Soul. - Reflections on Urban Dullness and the Pursuit of Spiritual Sustenance in Modern Britain.
Autonomia

What Makes a Free Press - Today’s the fifth anniversary of Autonomia by Scott Holleran
The Beauty of Things

Saturday Stack LIVE and LOGOS unboxing video - A recording from Zina Gomez-Liss's live video
Too Clever By Half

What's wrong with Blogger's responsive themes? - *A CATALOG OF DISCONTENTS ¶ * [image: A man wearing horn-rimmed glasses holding his hand in front of him with his thumb pointing down] So why do the Re...
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

"Bleeding but Unbowed" - As the women of Iran unveil themselves, they sing in the name of freedom
Private Lands – PERC

Clear Rules Are Key to Effective Wetlands Conservation - Conserving wetlands is a worthwhile investment, but more regulation does not automatically mean better conservation. The post Clear Rules Are Key to Effe...
First Stones NewsLetter

I feel so sorry for Renee Good ... - Because ...
Harry’s Substack

ICE vs. the rule of law, not of men - ICE agents are not owed obedience
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Fee Movement - Year after year after year — report after report after report — we have made the case that Britain’s exorbitant visa fees are a false economy: raising li...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

The Nigerian Republic in a Ditch: The Rise and Tragic Fall of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa - How Nigeria’s First Republic Collapsed Under the Weight of Tribalism
Maximum Progress

The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander on the design of cities and homes
The Many Ways I Let You Down

כָּל הַמְאַבֵּד נֶפֶשׁ אַחַת… כְּאִלּוּ אִבֵּד עוֹלָם מָלֵא - Saying Goodbye to Playwright Stanley Makuwe
Market Urbanism

Getting tax policy backwards - In the WSJ, Jeff Yass & Steve Moore play the world’s smallest violin for the poor homeowners who are sitting on more than half a million dollars of nominal...
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

How to quickly deter China from invading Taiwan — my interview with Ethan Thornton of Mach Industries - The US government can help deter China and other threats by radically improving the way it procures weapons
Theatreview

Aroha Awarau - Playmarket New Zealand Playmarket is deeply saddened by the passing of playwright Aroha Awarau. A champion for Māori story sovereignty, Aroha built a caree...
Libertarian Land

Federalism and Transgender Care for Minors - As of late 2025, more than two dozen U.S.
Competitive Enterprise Institute

The Attention Wars: Why Netflix Is Buying the Past to Own the Future - The old “streaming wars” are over; the “attention wars” have begun. In the new battle, Netflix’s strategic acquisition of Warner Bros’ Discovery makes pe...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

The Attention Wars: Why Netflix Is Buying the Past to Own the Future - The old “streaming wars” are over; the “attention wars” have begun. In the new battle, Netflix’s strategic acquisition of Warner Bros’ Discovery makes pe...
Fictionosophy

Persuasion: Or, When to Trust Your Own Judgment - Persuasion’s moral is subtler than many of Austen’s other novels but it is nevertheless timeless and important if we want to make good decisions.
Existential Crunch

End time economics - Supply and demand after global catastrophes
In Due Course

What colourblindness hath wrought - One of the more questionable trends in social justice thinking over the past decade has been the suggestion that there is something wrong with “colourblind...
HBL

Trump’s Gestapo is now murdering protestors - ICE is Trump’s Gestapo or SS. They have no proper function, no constitutional authorization, and are loyal to Trump personally. In Minneapolis on Wednesday...
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: New Science Funding Edition - It's time to seed new institutions of science and technology for the 21st century
Roberto’s Substack

The Axis of Oppression: Iran, Islam, and the Postmodern Left’s Betrayal of Freedom - Introduction: A Regime on the Brink, a World in Denial
Splitting Headache

Somethings: Mightier than the sword - My favorite pen, electric dreams and a really (un)lucky woman
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: Tudor Trade War - The true effects of Henry VII's "industrial policy"
The Scholar's Stage

35 Theses on the WASPs - On the Rise and Fall of a Past Establishment
The Kerrant

Thinking Small Is How You Stay Small - Brian Easton is right about one thing: New Zealand is small. Where he go...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Short Take: A Case Study in Demoralization Bots - Follow me on Twitter: @FromKulak
Dramatic Pause

How I Review: Madeleine Chapman - In the third edition of how I review, an interview with journalist and author Madeleine Chapman.
Regan's Substack

Socialism is for losers - And Capitalism doesn't need a PR team
Africa’s Bright Future

Why I Sued Próspera Africa for Defamation - Update on my efforts to advance startup cities in Africa
The Realization of Wholeness

Sing, Little Bird - Stefano Landi's "Augellin"
The Enlightened Examiner

The Law of Complementary Utility - Declining marginal utility is applicable only as a theory of rationing when production is suppressed.
The Enlightened Examiner

The Law of Complementary Utility - Declining marginal utility is applicable only as a theory of rationing when production is suppressed.
Virginia Postrel

Recent Work and an Exciting New Project - Plus recommended reading
Note to Noteworthy

Christianity Inverts Morality - Christian morality distorts the true purpose of morality, turning a tool for flourishing into a destroyer of life.
Texas Institute for Property Rights

The End is Near - I am no longer posting on this website. You can continue reading my posts at jbrianphillips.com The post The End is Near appeared first on Texas Institut...
The Jolly Libertarian

Book Review: So Who Is John Galt, Anyway? by Robert Tracinski - Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky! Like many, and maybe even most, fans of Ayn Rand's *Atlas Shrugged*, I saw it as a political manifesto. It was a paean t...
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

"I Don't Have to Seek Anymore" - A conversation with Martijn Schirp on poker, bankruptcy, intergenerational trauma, and the path between Buddhism and psychedelics
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Are You the Queen of Your House or Just a Lowly Servant? - Maybe I don’t have to serve my house all the time, maybe it is my house that exists to serve me.
Earthly Idealism

The Warmth of Collectivism - “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” So said New York’s new mayor, socialist Zohran Mamdani.
Thinking Directions

Value Jars, an Emotional Resilience Tool - Emotional resilience is your ability to recover quickly after you get triggered, so that you can take a purposeful, value-oriented emotion. The more emot...
Mike’s Substack

Seinfeld and the Science of Education - Jerry Seinfeld once remarked that, “No one really knows what’s funny.” That line struck me as deeply honest—and strangely scientific.
Mike’s Substack

Seinfeld and the Science of Education - Jerry Seinfeld once remarked that, “No one really knows what’s funny.” That line struck me as deeply honest—and strangely scientific.
Keith Weiner Economics

Reflections Over 2025 - I know I was busy this year. But now I see that the last piece I wrote for the blog was Reflections Over 2024! And I did almost no writing for Monetary Met...
Austrian Economics Newsletter

Money And Collateral - Roasted Barley Is No Substitute For Coffee!
round houses

restoring the house of tomorrow - In the early 1930s, the house of the future, as conceived of by architect George Fred Keck, was round (or, technically, 12-sided) and had floor-to-ceiling ...
Reason for Living

Try Declarations, Not Resolutions, for 2026 - I’m trying an alternative to New Year's resolutions this year: New Year’s declarations.
Houston Strategies

2025 Highlights - Happy New Year! Time for our annual round-up of the best posts of 2025, with this year featuring as many (or more!) great posts from Oscar as from me. If y...
Anti-Dismal

Coase versus Becker on utility maximisation - Ronald Coase and Gary Becker explain and discuss the theory of rational maximizing utility. They describe how consumers rank preferences and then attempt t...
Wright in Racine

Wright’s Unrealized YWCA For Racine - © Mark Hertzberg (2025) Frank Lloyd Wright had a commission from H.F. Johnson Jr. to design a new YWCA building in Racine, Wisconsin in 1949. I first wrote...
What's New Under the Sun

Innovation Job Market Papers 2025 (2/2) - Dozens of papers from new PhDs about Innovation
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (24 December 2025) - Resolving the governance gap and institutionalizing global risk reduction
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

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

Zachary Porcu and Craig Biddle on the Foundations of Knowledge - Craig had a thoughtful discussion with Zachary Porcu on the source and nature of knowledge.
Let Grow

Why Letting Kids Do More Is the Ultimate Gift - [image: Birthday Present Father Giving Gift To Daughter] Esther Wojcicki shares why trust and independence matter more than fear, mistakes, or overprotecti...
Wildlife – PERC

It’s Time to Stop Treating Threatened and Endangered Species the Same - A public comment on the proposed rescission of the “blanket rule” that regulates threatened species as if they were endangered The post It’s Time to Stop...
The China Space Monitor

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

Bondi, Tarrant, victimhood, faith, the primitive, relativism, cultural boundaries of knowledge - Can humanity be rescued from irrationality
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

Season’s greetings – and here’s to 2026 - It’s been a funny old year, this 2025. For a start there’s been the ease with which it’s possible to make sentences that include the words ‘dumpster fire’ ...
Kibao

Why one of the year’s biggest AI-for-development stories isn’t actually about AI - What India’s monsoon breakthrough reveals about how technology really works in development
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Staying True and Pure - I didn’t need validation from people who couldn’t understand the depth of my essence.
Cranmer’s Substack

The Architecture of a Capable State: Why Cuts, Cosmetic Fixes and Good Intentions are not enough - Keynote address to the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union AGM – 15 December 2025
Boom (UK)

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

Video - I’ve been traveling a bit lately and catching up on some writing deadlines, hence less posting than usual.
Johnny Grey Studios

Christmas Newsletter 2025 - As we just about manage to cope with the darkness and the news, the coming time of hibernation will be welcome – if of course you are lucky enough to be ta...
Offsetting Behaviour

Surely a case for outcome-based contracting - Outcome-based contracting would have solved this: A stop smoking provider says the decision to cut its contract on the basis it has refused to hand out v...
Catherine Mosse

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

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

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

A manifesto for reviving biopharma productivity - When it comes to Eroom's Law, some of the most important problems are the boring ones
Croaking Cassandra

And that is that - About 15 years ago (partly thanks to a couple of years at Treasury, partly to the financial crises in the US and Europe) I started to get much more systema...
Lindsay Mitchell

Hollow Gesture Replaces Real Action - Do you ever wonder what the Office of the Children's Commissioner - with an annual budget of $11.5 million and 36 full time staff (83 percent female with...
Roots of Progress

Announcing Progress in Medicine, a high school summer career exploration program - Starting today, high school students can apply to Progress in Medicine, a new program by the Roots of Progress Institute. What the Progress in Medicine p...
Pablo’s Translations

EL SEXO Y LOS VALORES - —por Jim Ashley, 9 de diciembre, 2023
A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

New Zealand: A Nation of the Enlightenment - “It is sometimes forgotten that New Zealand, as a neo-European society, is a securely post-Enlightenment society…. a very particular example of post- ...
Forbidden Science

Notes on whether Ivermectin works for COVID-19 - Forbidden Science is a reader-supported publication.
Jackson Upmann

Altruism Is Not the Same Thing as Being Kind - The moral confusion that turns generosity into self-destruction.
A City for People

Cities need infrastructure to grow, but Roads of National Significance ain’t it - Tell the government that Wellington deserves better in the next two weeks!
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
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 ...
Seiler on Science

Thomas Kuhn’s Copernican Revolution - Reflections on a classic in the history of science
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 ...
Eating Policy

Outcomes Review: Realigning Legislative Incentives - How might a state legislature shift from outputs to outcomes?
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.
Folarinism

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

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

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

Are capital gains taxes fair?🍋 - NZ lacks a specific capital gains tax. But introducing one may not increase fairness.
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?
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...
Science+Story

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

When Your Child is Sick - (And: Come See Me This Thursday, October 16, in Beverly Hills!)
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...
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
Better things are possible

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Farmville - The Autonomous Future of Agriculture
No Punches Pulled

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

Password Reset - Reset Password Reset Your Password The post Password Reset appeared first on AYN RAND CENTRE.
Skeptic

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

February 2025 Space Stock Review - Includes Commentary on ASTS, RKLB, RDW, LUNR, PL, SPIR, SESG, and ETL
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
BloodhoundBlog

Attn. National Association of Realtors: You cannot go to hell fast enough for me. - “Baby, now that I’ve found you, I can’t let you go. I’ll build my world around you. I need you so, baby, even though you don’t need me. You don’t need me…”...
Dominic Frisby

🎄On the something day of Christmas 🎵🥂 - It's that time of the year again
Premise Check (Billy Beck)

It’s Election Day, 2024 - 2:28 AM EDT —
The 13th Floor

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

Sri Lanka – in the news for the wrong reason - First Published in May 2022. I’ve just returned from an unsettling trip to Sri Lanka. The country has run of of fuel, electricity and dollars. Some pla...
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 ...
a/symmetric

We're going on hiatus - But do stick around
Reviews - 13th Floor

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

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

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

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

Genesis -
Power + Market

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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