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Breaking Views

NZCPR Newsletter: Voter Sentiment - New Zealand heads toward the 2026 election facing three interconnected difficulties that are shaping voter sentiment: a deepening cost‑of‑living crisis, a ...
FIRE

FIRE Reacts: Comey, Kimmel, ABC & the FCC - We break down the legal case against James Comey over an alleged "true threat" and how far the government can go in prosecuting speech...
No Right Turn

Terrible instincts - The *Herald* has a story today about emails released by Winston Peters under the OIA, showing that prime minister Christopher Luxon wanted to go all-in on ...
The Free Press

The Supreme Court Finally Ends the Racial Districting Game - A majority of the justices declared that dividing voters by race is ‘odious to a free people.’
The Double Standard

I didn’t vote for Jacinda but can I say sorry - Opinion - Jacinda Ardern was a great Prime Minister and her loss was actually ours.
Watts Up With That?

BOEM Offshore Wind Approvals: Radar Risks Identified, Not Resolved - “Congress now has an opportunity—and an obligation—to correct this flawed process by requiring rigorous, upfront, full-footprint review of radar impacts ...
The Organon Architecture Blog

"Architects matter not because they have mastered a specific instrument, but because they can bring the orchestra together, and in doing so make our cities better places to live." - Engineer Arthur Kay seeks to explain how architects have been losing their influence, but shouldn't be. In short, it's the problem of a world of specialis...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Political Bombshell: Luxon wanted to side with Trump over illegal Iranian War – snap election brewing with Winston - Congratulations to Thomas Coughlan, this is the political scoop and bombshell of the year… Luxon, Peters in crisis talks after...
Techdirt

Leading Cancer Charity Stops Funding Open Access Publishing Because It’s Just Not Working - As numerous posts on this blog have emphasised, the underlying idea of open access (OA) – allowing anyone to read and share published academic research for...
Curbed - All

King Charles in Coney Island? - New Yorkers on where they’d take his Royal Highness.
Slow Boring

A strong month in a fragile market - March data shows momentum, but a build-to-rent crackdown and tighter capital markets threaten to stall future supply.
Autonomia

This and That - Roundup of news, analysis and reports on April assassination attempt 3 on Trump, Earthset pictures, Lionsgate’s Michael Jackson movie, new song, Trump as J...
HardmoneyJim

My response to the AAS Economics argument that payment stablecoins are not 'money' - PAYMENT STABLECOINS ARE MANIFESTLY INFLATIONARY — A MATTER OF PARTICULAR CONCERN TO AAS ECONOMICS, WHICH RIGHTLY WARNS OF THE DESTRUCTION WROUGHT BY EXCESS...
Cato at Liberty

Who Should Govern Surgical AI? Not the FDA—and Not Surgeons Either - Who should control surgical AI—regulators or surgeons? The better answer is neither.
The Tracinski Letter

NATO Is Applying to Join Ukraine - A News Link Round-Up
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Soon Comes The Mother Of All Supply Shocks, Part 2 - As yet another day of Trumpian madness unfolds, we are not sure who wins the Doofus of the Day award—the Donald, again, or his unhinged Secy of the Treas...
Flying Out

Hot Thoughts (Vinyl LP) - *Vendor: *Matador Records *Type: *SPOON *Price: * 52.00 *Hot Thoughts*, *Spoon’s* ninth album, is the bravest, most sonically inventive work of their c...
Futurism

OpenAI Just Published an Absolutely Bizarre Blog Post - Mindboggling. The post OpenAI Just Published an Absolutely Bizarre Blog Post appeared first on Futurism.
Fictionosophy

Violence and Neglect in On Earth As It Is Beneath - The premise was intriguing, but unless one is deeply interested in depictions of prison systems, I would not recommend it.
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

Closing the US-China Military Balance of Power Gap in the Pacific - The 2027 budget request ends the false choice between capacity and capability or between sustainment and modernization. It funds both. America can mitiga...
Greater Auckland

CRL Services getting back on track - After our rising concern about the direction of the City Rail Link and how services would operate through it, it is good to see things are starting to ge...
Kiwiblog

General Debate 30 April 2026 - The post General Debate 30 April 2026 first appeared on Kiwiblog.
The New York Review of Books

Maya Lin Reads ‘Ghosts in the House’ - In the October 21, 1999, issue of The New York Review of Books, Martin Filler wrote “Ghosts in the House,” about Frank Gehry’s life and work at the turn of...
IPWatchdog Articles

Justices Voice Concern that Upholding CAFC’s Hikma ‘Skinny Label’ Ruling Will Harm Generics Industry - The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in Hikma v. Amarin, a closely-watched case that in part asks the Justices to weigh in on whether a drug...
The Inquiring Mind

Unreported for nearly a year: media misconduct in Parliament - Inside the Press Gallery: power, silence, and the accountability gap in New Zealand media On the evening of 13 May 2025, Finance Minister Nicola … Unreport...
No Minister

Intelligence, Ideology, and the Myth of the “Smart Marxist” - Part of the No Minister series on political narratives and their misuse of science For the last couple of years, a certain corner of the political Left has...
The Curmudgeon

Some Have Crassness Thrust Upon Them - The Farage Falange Gauleiter of Scotland, who is so aspiring a public servant that he took a week's holiday in the middle of an election campaign to sail o...
Middle East Uncovered

State of negotiations with Middle East Uncovered - A recording from Middle East Uncovered and Jacqueline Cole's live video
The UnPopulist

Hungary’s Opposition Used Social Media to Topple the Authoritarian-in-Chief - Politically neutral platforms are a better way than censorship to fight propaganda and disinformation
Conflicted

US LNG Exports Rely on South Korean Ships - Energy dominance is interdependence dressed up as independence
JoNova

What’s more scary than a boiling ocean to a climate activist? Answer: A right wing government. - Reality is so cruel to climate wish fairies. | Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay By Jo Nova Left climate mob admits they might need to be more friendly...
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

The media lawyers up: the chilling effect is coming from inside the house - In the days since I published my piece on Maiki Sherman and the “faggot” incident, the story has moved on.
Michael Newberry, Artist

Michael Newberry: Who He Is - Michael Newberry (b. 1956, La Jolla, California) is a figurative painter, theorist, and writer who has worked full-time as an artist for five and a half de...
Samizdata

Samizdata quotes of the day – hold people responsible for their actions - Already, the Golders Green terrorist is being explained away as “he suffered from mental health issues”. As a therapist, I’m sick of this. It is circul...
The Daily Sceptic

Miliband Bans Tumble Dryers in Net Zero Drive - The sale of traditional tumble dryers is to be stamped out in a Net Zero drive that will push consumers toward more expensive heat pump machines that tak...
CO2 Coalition

South Korea’s Net Zero Boast Crumbles - By Vijay Jayaraj Just a few months ago, South Korean officials were busy boasting about extreme net zero targets. Fast forward to April 2026, and the cou...
The Economic LongWave

Canada’s Housing Bubble in One Chart: Real Incomes Did Not Keep Up - Statistics Canada released its latest Canadian Income Survey data today, and the message is brutally clear:
Marcus on AI

Three thoughts on the Musk-OpenAI lawsuit - It’s hard to root for either side, but Musk has a point.
Marginal Revolution

Wednesday assorted links - 1. How to euthanise a whale. 2. Will MacAskill and Rob Wiblin podcast. 3. Citation cartels? 4. Nick Pope died too early (NYT). 5. Estimating the returns ...
Spiked Online

The Golders Green attack was sickeningly predictable - The post The Golders Green attack was sickeningly predictable appeared first on spiked.
The Grumpy Economist

Inside the Fed's Balance Sheet - A video and podcast interview with Darrell Duffie, based on his excellent recent article. Click here to watch/listen via Hoover’s Freedom Frequency series.
Official Blog

Minecraft Quest – Geocache of the week - Traditional GCBNEJH by LaJamieDiTimo Difficulty: 2 Terrain: 2 Location: Gelderland, Netherlands N 52° 01.105′ E 005° 38.835′ Some geocaches bring your favo...
Flashbak

Karl Alexander Wilke’s Wicked Women - “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of On...
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Starmer’s Britain: Open Season on the Jews -
Real Clear Energy

The Folly of Funding Direct Air Capture - Jonathan Lesser, RCEnergy When it comes to government subsidies, the worst ideas are often immune to logic, living on like Dracula regardless of political...
The Intrinsic Perspective

We Consciousness Researchers Have Failed You - In Which I Become Shackleton
Persuasion

Trump Is Finally Fading - This may, at long last, be the beginning of his political end.
Truth on the Market

The DMA’s AI Dilemma: Too Soon, Too Late, or Both? - The European Commission’s first review of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) lands at an awkward moment. Just as Brussels begins to test whether its flagship ...
Sawahil

Algeria and the Sahel Amid the Turmoil in Mali - I'm not convinced Algeria backed the recent attacks in Mali, but Algiers is a key player in whatever comes next.
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Endgame Timmy the Whale, Endgame Merz the Pigeon Chancellor - Timmy the Humpback Whaletard wandered into the Baltic two months ago, inspiring a massive media drama on the one hand by repeatedly beaching himself off th...
Retraction Watch

Researcher claims his case report was stolen by someone else at his hospital - A researcher claims a case report he coauthored was plagiarized by doctors at the same institution three years later — a paper he was alerted to when a jou...
Matua Kahurangi

Auckland's butter chicken tsunami - Returning home to a city I barely recognise
Yascha Mounk

Trump Is Finally Fading - This may, at long last, be the beginning of his political end.
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Economics is Counter-Emotional, Not Counter-Intuitive - A few months ago, a high school econ student asked me to zoom with his class. I’m working against a tight deadline for *Blockade*, so I was inclined to d...
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

Cavalier with Death: How Political Bloodlust Went Mainstream - It frightens me when I see smiling faces flip into demonic scowls because one man’s name dared to be mentioned
Institute for Energy Research

The UAE Leaves OPEC - The National News reports that the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the world’s seventh-largest oil producer, will withdraw from the Organization… The post Th...
SkyscraperCity Forum

[Szczecin] Stadion Świtu - Świt od kilku lat zabiegał w szczecińskim magistracie o pieniądze na inwestycję w stadion. W końcu się udało. Pod koniec ubiegłego roku rajcy miejscy zap...
Why Evolution Is True

Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ the loo - A message from the Jesus and Mo artist about this week’s cartoon, called “dump2”: A slightly scatological resurrection from 2006 today. Normal service will...
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 163 - Schools, Masks, and Power (Natalya Murakhver) - Listen now | An interview with activist Natalya Murakhver
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 163 - Schools, Masks, and Power (Natalya Murakhver) - Listen now | An interview with activist Natalya Murakhver
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

Live Around the Planet: Wednesday April 29th - Thank you for all your questions. If you missed today's edition of Clubland Q&A live around the planet, the replay will be available shortly. UPPERDATE! We...
ChinaTalk

The Quantum Industrial Base - The Supply Chain
Gus Van Horn

Great Depression Myths - John Stossel's latest column builds on an interview with economist Donald Boudreaux to challenge anticapitalist myths about the Great Depression and the Gr...
American Energy Alliance

AEA Calls Out Election-Year Betrayal to Reinstate Wind and Solar Subsidies - WASHINGTON DC (4/29/26) – Last Thursday, a small group of Republican Congressmen, led by Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), introduced legislation to remove...
The Works in Progress Newsletter

The smelly baby problem - Benjamin Spock told mothers in the mid-twentieth century to buy six dozen cloth diapers and a covered pail. Within a decade, both were obsolete.
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Soon Comes The Mother Of All Supply Shocks, Part 1 - Click on Title to Read
Energy Transition Absurdities

Farm Bill Amendment Pits Big Refiners Against Smaller Operations - Controversies abound related to the big farm bill making its way through congress this week.
Dead Language Society

The Canterbury Commute - Verses composed in Middle English while waiting for the 7:42 train
Perennial Meditations

What Are You Holding? - Marcus Aurelius on Anger and Attachment - Dying Every Day (Day 144)
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

🚨RCP8.5 is Officially Dead - The most significant development in climate research in decades
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Heroes in a Culture of Antiheroes - A Review of Scott Holleran's "Long Run: Short Stories, Volume One"
Brownstone Institute

Peer Review Is Broken—Here’s How to Fix It - Peer Review Is Broken—Here’s How to Fix It by Rob Jenkins at Brownstone Institute [image: Peer Review Is Broken—Here’s How to Fix It] *[This article was ...
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

Norway’s wealth tax - Norway is one of very few countries that still maintains an annual wealth tax, a levy on net assets rather than income. Currently set at 1% on net assets...
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

E.B. White’s Letter to a Man Who Had Lost All Hope in Humanity - White’s advice is good. In times of despair, cling to goodness and hope.
Living Resources Center

Long-Term Values Beat Short-Term Conflicts - All this talk about the Pope and Catholicism got me thinking about the subject from a psychological point-of-view. Then, lo and behold, I received this e...
The Daily Economy

Steakhouse to Supermarket, High Beef Prices Aren’t Going Away - Beef has jumped 65 percent since 2020, turning a staple into a splurge. From drought-stricken ranches to fast-food menu shifts, beef prices are reshaping h...
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 1087 Why 2026 is not 2022. That intel stake that keeps on growing. Thai petrol smuggling & Sartre's bizarre lifestyle. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Dachau Liberated - Dachau was the first concentration camp built by the Nazis. It opened on 22 March 1933. Twelve years, one month and one week later, the US Forces liberated...
Reason Foundation

Congress doesn’t need to abandon the “actual knowledge” standard to keep kids safe online - Broadening COPPA’s “actual knowledge” standard would create legal uncertainty that pushes companies to increase privacy risks for everyone. The post Cong...
The Roots of Liberty

The “Both Sides” Copout - Another attempt at assassinating Trump brought out the usual garbage on social media.
Law & Liberty

Religious Freedom Before Locke - Lactantius, a fourth-century apologist and advisor to Constantine, offers a firmer foundation for protecting religious liberty.
ArchDaily

A House in a Mountain Meadow / Atelier SAD - The house is situated in a unique mountain meadow enclave within a highly protected area of the Krkonoše National Park. It stands on the site of the orig...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

The World’s First Commercial Fusion Power Plant Nears Completion - By Paul Homewood h/t Doug Brodie Why are we wasting billions on windfarms that can’t provide reliable power, when we have new technologies coming throu...
Zero Hanger

AFL footy boss defends changes to draft, rejects tanking fears - Greg Swann also opened up on a range of umpiring and arc issues.
The Footy Almanac

Round 7 – Western Bulldogs v Sydney Swans: Curnow delight as Swans blitz burst the Bulldogs’ spirit - While the Sydney Swans enjoy the view from the 'AFL's Everest', the Western Bulldogs battle a horror run of injuries writes Kristian Cavallo.
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

compelling projects - to drive, to strike, to thrust
Quotulatiousness

Three views on the Iran conflict - In The Conservative Woman, Alex Story outlines the three distinct ways that western opinions differ on the ongoing struggle with Iran: TRUTH is the first c...
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

One Thousand Posts - I started posting on this blog on January 11, 2017 so it took a few months over nine years to produce 1,000 posts. This is a similar retrospective to my 5...
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Timeline 1800-1899: Major events of 1860-1869 - Summary of the decade from my Timeline project: the Civil War and more.
Tim Worstall

Compared to what? - Urban areas host 80% of England’s homes at high risk of flooding, study finds Umm, OK. but is this good or bad? Compared to what? From AI: Approximately ...
Mises Wire

The Fuel Protests in Ireland: Their Lights and Shadows - There are fuel protests in Ireland, which are not surprising given the havoc Trump’s Iran war has caused in oil markets. They also should be protesting aga...
Mises Institute Blog

The Fuel Protests in Ireland: Their Lights and Shadows - There are fuel protests in Ireland, which are not surprising given the havoc Trump’s Iran war has caused in oil markets. They also should be protesting aga...
Hoover institution Commentary

Democracy In Britain: Green Growth And Populism - A single election hints at larger shifts—perhaps for the US as well.
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Steakhouse to Supermarket, High Beef Prices Aren't Going Away - Fluctuations in food prices are so commonplace that the entire category is excluded from the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation. From war a...
American Institute of Economic Research

Steakhouse to Supermarket, High Beef Prices Aren't Going Away - Fluctuations in food prices are so commonplace that the entire category is excluded from the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation. From war a...
The Daily Doom

Farmers Frazzled to the Bone - The oil shock and its grip on food is going to be so much worse than most people think. I got an interesting little tip at my favorite local bistro in ou...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

CFS CEO Pooh-Poohs Claim Fusion Is Not Worth the Money - Just as Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a company spun off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018, was announcing that its mission to build a ...
Point of Order

Workplace deaths – the Aussies can boast better data than us, but Luxon and the CTU differ on how to lift our game - Nor did he disparage the apparent source, a press statement from the Council of Trade Unions to recognise Workers’ Memorial Day (featured above). Rather, h...
Dr Oliver Hartwich

Nasty, Brutish and Short-Sighted - The post-1945 global order faces decline as major powers disregard rules, risking international chaos reminiscent of Hobbes' "state of nature" without stro...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: Let Us Cherish Old Age - Youth is most charming at its close.
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Sycophantic – excessively fawning, obedient, or flattering behaviour usually toward people in positions of power or influence; of, relating to, or charact...
Manhattan Contrarian

Co-op City: What It Looks Like When Energy Reality Catches Up To You - * Co-op City, located (like the Yankees) in the New York City borough known as The Bronx, is the largest co-op apartment community in the City, and indeed ...
The Common Reader

Out of all the indifferences - Difficult writing in novels and poems
Brash & Mitchell

DON BRASH: Instead of fixing the RMA, Govt is perfecting the machinery of division - The following is written in Don's capacity as Hobson's Pledge Trustee. A few weeks ago, Hobson’s Pledge sent the Government an Official Information Act (OI...
Quillette

From Zionist to Hamas Apologist - The extraordinary career of Oxford historian Avi Shlaim.
UnHerd

Attack of the killer centrists - Deranged moderates are taking up arms
New Zealand Arts Review

The surreal settings of Jeffrey Harris - Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Jeffrey Harris Suite Gallery April 28 – May 30 Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Jeffrey Harris creates surreal environments and ...
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

Einstein-Inspired Poetry - From Cringe to Courage
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Reframing the energy conversation — my speech to a group of Attorneys General - My speech to a group of America's Attorneys General on how almost everyone has accepted anti-human ideas on energy and environmental issues—and how to reve...
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

OpenAI Projects ChatGPT Plus subscriptions to drop by 80% from 44 Million in 2025 to 9 Million In 2026, Made Up Using Cheaper Subscriptions (Somehow) - Executive Summary: - The Information reports that OpenAI projects that its $20-a-month ChatGPT Plus subscriptions will decrease from 44 Million su...
Chris Trotter

They Say They Want A Revolution. - The latest report on social cohesion in New Zealand reveals a nation chafing for change.
John D. Cook

Turning a trick into a technique - Someone said a technique is a trick that works twice. I wanted to see if I could get anything interesting by turning the trick in the previous post into ...
The Jolly Libertarian

A Hero for the Generations: The Enduring Romanticism of the Tarzan Story - Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky! *Previously published at The Savvy Street on March 9, 2024.* *Book Review:* *Tarzan in the Heart of Darkness:* (Inspi...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

Fauci Receives Another Well-Deserved Humiliation As Top Ally Allegedly Misled The Public For Wine, Michelin-Starred Dining - Acting AG Todd Blanche says the allegations represent a 'profound abuse of trust' during a global pandemic
Cremieux Recueil

Think About Control Variables - If you don't, then who knows what you're controlling for?
Libertarian Land

The OBBBA and the Debt - The current national debt is almost $39 trillion—and rising.
Paul Wells

This is my prudent face - François-Philippe Champagne delivers a minimalist update whose star is... Canada
The Kerrant

Alienation and the Failure of MMP - More than a quarter of New Zealanders now feel alienated from the political system, and nearly half want it fundamentally changed. The usual explanation ...
Astral Codex Ten

Your Attempt To Solve Debate Will Not Work - ...
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

The trick that ended my fight with anxiety - It came from a single sentence in Nietzsche.
The Integrity Institute

News Briefing: 29 April 2026 - MEDIA AND POLITICIANS
A Halfling's View

The Art of Not Deciding - Why New Zealand — a small, connected, relatively wealthy democracy — consistently fails to move from idea to action, and what that paralysis is really prot...
Africa’s Bright Future

Nobody Is Stopping Africa From Getting Rich - Someone once said: “I want to live in a world where people migrate out of taste, not out of hunger.” That world is possible. But only if we stop making exc...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

The NY Times Asked Me to Pick the Greatest Living American Songwriters - Here's my ballot for the Times survey
Israel Institute of NZ

Antisemitism in New Zealand Has Crossed a Threshold - The newly released New Zealand Jewish Council Annual Report on Antisemitism in 2025 should be read carefully — not as an isolated community document, but a...
Sustain What

How the Hormuz Shutdown is Reshaping The Material World - A world-spanning tour of materials solutions emerging from supply-chain stresses
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

David Morens Was Just Indicted. We Told You This Was Never Just “Bad Email Hygiene.” - The former Fauci adviser’s FOIA games are now a criminal case. The question is whether Washington has the nerve to follow the evidence where it leads.
Stewart Margolis

DEI Redux - I knew last week’s essay on DEI would be controversial, but I think it was more controversial than I intended because I failed to fully explicate my positi...
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

Pub Day! - Colossus, in the world
What You Can Do For Liberty

You're Not Safe — Act Like It - An army of left-wing Orcs is on the march.
The Shrewd Artist

Introduction to Evolution Through Art - Art — Integrator of the Human Spirit
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Introduction to Evolution Through Art - Art — Integrator of the Human Spirit
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Marriage and its Discontents - The first in a series . . .
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

US-China AI Race IS ON - Small Yards, High Fences, and the Open-Source Challenge
The New Era

Modern Theft - And the art of war
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Success ‘secrets’ from Nobel-Prize winners — Pratt’s book - David Pratt’s summary article at Psychology Today has good advice for anyone, even if one does not plan on winning a Nobel Prize. 1. Find your passion. 2. ...
Doomberg

Durable Energy Dominance - Pro Tier: April 2026 Doom Zoom
Can't Get Much Higher

Switch-Ups: An Album a Day - Featuring Alanis Morissette, the Black Eyed Peas, the Goo Goo Dolls, and others
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #44: Moral Clarity Reduces Uncertainty - When people are uncertain, they hesitate. When they hesitate, opportunity is lost.
The Rebuild

Our Construction Workforce Needs Some Help - All the pro-housing bills in the nation won’t matter if we don’t have anyone to build it
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

Unemployed USAID Schadenfreude - USAID commissars fired by DOGE shed tears with The New York Times, hilarity ensues
Why not reason?

Why I choose values over outrage - I don’t lack reasons to be upset with politics.
Changing Lanes

California Forever’s mobility vision - Locking in the right things
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

Collateral Damage - A recent Instagram post by a pediatrician showed that the damage caused by the anti-vaccine movement isn’t limited to outbreaks of preventable infections
Anthony B. Bradley

Your Church Doesn’t Need a Youth Minister - The Bible, the research, and the math all point to a better model and most churches are still ignoring it.
Anthony B. Bradley

Your Church Doesn’t Need a Youth Minister - The Bible, the research, and the math all point to a better model and most churches are still ignoring it.
EconLog

Making Money…Less Useful? - One of my brothers recently joked that he would love to meet the person who first pitched gift cards. Who ever thought that consumers would agree to make...
The Cobden Centre

The true tax reduction is reduction in government outlays - By Dr Frank Shostak Projects that the government undertakes are likely to be of a questionable nature. The fact that the private sector did...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

The worth of young people reading and being read to. - Whenever I have interviewed children - and their parents - for a school place my key question has been: Do you read often?
The Logical Place

Against Instant Ceasefires - War is so terrible that the first moral impulse is often to demand that it stop immediately. That impulse is understandable. No decent person can look at d...
A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

No, native schools did not ban te reo - While considering Elizabeth Rata's recent Research Report into the History of New Zealand Education -- which I recommend, by the way -- I remembered a l...
The Whakataki Times

TVNZ Management Introduces Traffic Light System To Track Which Crisis Is Most Urgent - RED ALERT. The post TVNZ Management Introduces Traffic Light System To Track Which Crisis Is Most Urgent appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
Freedom and Flourishing

Why were merchants attracted to Buddhism in ancient India? - My recent visit to India was motivated in part by a desire to visit some ancient Buddhist caves that were excavated with the help of donations from me...
Stats Chat

AFL Predictions for Week 9 - Team Ratings for Week 9 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ra...
bad cattitude

part two: the praxis of stochastic terrorism - this is part two of THIS which you should read first.
Macroscience

What I’ve Been Reading: Vol. 1 - Other people's takes on how science is changing.
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

Exploding Rainbow Orchestra – The Jukebox of Joy! - A brilliant new chapter in the Exploding Rainbow Orchestra story is about to detonate, with the announcement of its most ambitious and extravagant produc...
Doug Casey's International Man

Why Iran Can’t Be Bombed, Invaded, or Nuked Into Submission - Air power alone cannot defeat Iran or secure Hormuz, while a ground invasion or nuclear strike would offer no guarantee of success and could trigger cons...
Eating Policy

A (shorter) Three Horizons Framework for Government Reform - We keep propping up a system that’s run out of time to adapt
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: Every Writer Has a Lifetime Ration of Three Exclamation Points - William Maxwell? Annabel Davis-Goff? Elmore Leonard? Helen Dudar? Benjamin Dreyer? William Safire? F. Scott Fitzgerald? Sheilah Graham? Christopher Morley?...
The Weekly Sift

Don’t Start - The best way to achieve what is now the central war aim — opening the Strait — would have been simply not to start the war in the first place. – Josh Marsh...
JunkScience.com

Milloy to tell Coca-Cola management to focus on real sustainability threats vs. the climate hoax - This presentation (media release|audio presentation) will be made at the April 29, 2026 annual meeting of Coca-Cola shareholders.
The Breakthrough Journal

Five “Pro-Nuclear But” Myths - Why they are wrong and why it matters
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

When Reading about Stoicism isn’t Enough - How coaching can help you put your philosophy into practice
Tim’s Substack

Look Twice - Throw out your conceited opinions, for it is impossible for a person to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows. Epictetus
Classical Compass Rose

Used Bookshops and the Culture We Are Losing - On Cecil Court, Charing Cross Road, and the Wunderkammer principle applied to a hundred yards of Victorian shopfronts in the heart of London.
Tross Publishing

IS ANZAC DAY FOR HONOURING THE WAR DEAD OR ADVANCING AN “INDIGENOUS” AGENDA? - By John McLean My earliest memory of Anzac Day is as a child standing on Wellington's Lambton Quay watching the parade pass - first some army jeeps with ...
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

The New York Times Asked Two Prominent Members of the Cultural Elite If Stealing Is Okay - Yes, they said, but please call it "microlooting"
Kunstler

A Feral and Savage Party - "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action." —Ian Fleming
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: The Greatest Knight, by Thomas Asbridge - The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones, Thomas Asbridge (Ecco, 2015).
Risk & Progress

Rise of the Reflyable Rockets (Part 2) - The reusble rockets from China and Europe are coming
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Kash as the Poster Boy for Kakistocracy - This is what civilizational decline looks like
DGMLive

Stormy Monday Selection #76 - This month, Stormy goes back to the original In The Court Of The Crimson King album multitracks for an instrumental mix of Schizoid Man.
The Antiplanner

The Wrong Solutions for Housing - A median household in Hawaii would have to spend 50 percent of their income to get a mortgage on a median home, according to a report by Wallethub. Because...
The Antiplanner

The Wrong Solutions for Housing - A median household in Hawaii would have to spend 50 percent of their income to get a mortgage on a median home, according to a report by Wallethub. Because...
Real Clear Energy: Video

Paul Sankey: Oil to Be ‘Ongoing, Absolute Disaster’ - “The situation here gets worse, simply because it’s guaranteed,” says Paul Sankey, president at Sankey Research. He explains the tough times ahead for the ...
Kiwipolitico

Causality in context. - Media and MAGA spin aside and assuming that this was not (another) staged assassination attempt, besides all other contributing factors, the intense levels...
The Library of Celaeno

The Call Is Coming From Inside The House - Elite Human Crapital and The Teachers Who Aren't Them
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Peter Case: My Life to Live; Live at McCabe's (digital outlets) - Peter Case has been an impressive solo artist for so long that it seems a pity to mention he was formerly in the often excellent r'b'b power pop band the...
The Trichordist

Phonorecords V and the “39 Steps” Problem: Time for the CRB to Fix Streaming Mechanicals - The ongoing Phonorecords proceeding at the Copyright Royalty Board addresses the mechanical royalty rates for songwriters amidst complexities introduced by...
A Havenstein Moment.

Somewhat of a casino - Genuinely summoning aliens
The Future of Being Human

Why I'm falling out of love with Claude - I hope it's just a phase, but Anthropic, what have you done to my trusted AI writing companion?!
Sinification

A Chinese-Style Kill Line? | by Yang Haiyan - "Rapid urbanisation, economic structural transformation, and the adjustment and slowdown of economic growth mean that China now also faces the latent risk ...
Capitalism Magazine

The Fed’s Fatal Conceit - In my experience, the Federal Reserve is guilty of what F. A. Hayek (1989) called "'the fatal conceit"--that is, the belief that smart people can do the im...
misfits' architecture

Architecture Myths #33: Flexibile Space - The theory is that being able to reconfigure or otherwise allocate a space in different ways enables that space to be used for a greater variety of activit...
Glenn’s Substack

Our Self-Colonized Nation - When the parasites stop riding along and start driving.
Virginia Postrel

Time's Arrow and the Drive to Matter - Or, entropy and the meanings—yes, plural—of life. Plus, TV and disposable diapers in Works in Progress, good news, and nerdy fun.
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

ANZAC After the Applause: What Happens When No One Steps Forward - A reflection on how New Zealand is drifting from ANZAC values into comfort and inaction. A call for local leadership, courage, and community action beyond ...
Skeptic

The Mystery of Missing and Dead Scientists, Explained - As I write this the week of April 20, 2026, both mainstream media and social media are chockablock full of coverage of the disappearance or death of ele...
McFaul's World

Michael McFaul: Ask Me Anything - A recording of my recent Q&A with subscribers
Construction Physics

Reading List 04/25/26 - Transformer steel manufacturing, textile engineering, bringing power plants online quickly, infrasound, and more.
History Reclaimed

Mindless: How the Education System is Indoctrinating Children and Destroying our Civilisation - Dr. Bella d'Abrera, a founder of History Reclaimed, discusses her new book on the ideological indoctrination of children and young people in the school sys...
Schiffradio.com

Michael Saylor’s 11% Yield Is a Ponzi Scheme — Here’s the Proof - Newmont is earning $11/share at 10x PE with 132% growth — half the S&P's multiple. Wall Street is asleep at the wheel. The post Michael Saylor’s 11% Yiel...
The War on Prices

Note to Bessent and Congressional Republicans: Greedflation Is Still Bad Economics - Republicans spent the better part of four years mocking the political left’s greedflation narrative—and rightly so.
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

Utah’s HB410 makes it easier to save the Great Salt Lake - This year, the Utah Legislature continued its efforts to pioneer the state’s water policy, ensuring more water reaches the Great Salt Lake through the vo...
Gale Winds

Will We Run Out Of Words? - 26 letters give us infinite possibilities.
Conversable Economist

World War Trade - The world economy is now about a year into President Trump’s assault on the global trading system. Richard Baldwin reviews what has happened and suggests...
Africa-Israel Weekly

Arab/Islamic Regimes are Fueling the Genocides in Africa - Dumisani Washington's speech at the Capitol Hill Forum on Terrorism & Religious Violence hosted by EMET and ICON, April 22, 2026
The Enlightened Examiner

Objective Value in Economics – Part I - Beyond subjective value: reclaiming the law of identity in economic theory with abundance as the missing link.
The Enlightened Examiner

Objective Value in Economics – Part I - Beyond subjective value: reclaiming the law of identity in economic theory with abundance as the missing link.
Uncharted Territories

Why Did Islam Spread So Fast in North Africa & Spain? - Opponent weakness, incentives, taxes, ecology, nomads, land
Conspicuous Cognition

How Brexit Created Britain’s New Political Tribes - This is a guest post by James Tilley, a Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford, about his excellent new book with Sara Hobolt, Tribal Politics: ...
RenewNZ

The ANZACs who freed Palestine - It was 9th December 1917. The Jewish celebration of Hanukkah had just begun. It commemorated the liberation of Jerusalem from foreign occupiers in 165 BC. ...
GeekPress

Ping Pong Robot - *"Ping-pong robot Ace* makes history by beating top-level human players". (Click through to see video.)
Theatreview

2026 ADAM NZ PLAY AWARDS - Playmarket New Zealand 2026 ADAM NZ PLAY AWARDS Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Adam NZ Play Awards, recognising the best in new unproduced wr...
Public: Michael Shellenberger

“Deconstruction” Of Western Values Behind Corruption of American Universities - New Yale report critical of campus censorship whitewashes its role in ruining universities
One Useful Thing

Sign of the future: GPT-5.5 - One impressive step on the curve
Offsetting Behaviour

Australian defence - It's weird that NATO and others benchmark defence adequacy by spending as a fraction of GDP. Surely treating inputs as targets rather than outcomes has b...
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

The hidden reason houses cost too much - NZ Herald
On Substack

Inside Lena Dunham’s Substack press tour - Lena Dunham and her social strategist on coming back online, her new memoir Famesick, and embarking on a Substack book tour
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Psy-Phi Dialogues #4 - A recording from Peter Saint-Andre's live video
Wildlife – PERC

Wildlife Management Must Be Driven by Science, Not Politics - PERC’s amicus brief in Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The post Wildlife Management Must Be Driven by Science, Not Poli...
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 509 - Loft-Liner, the split-level mobile home - The mobile home has come up regularly in this blog, and while it’s certainly not a model of building industrialization most pursue today, we have trie...
Roy Spencer, PhD.

The Urban Heat Island and Urban Cool Island: A Few Examples for U.S. Major Metropolitan Areas - I’ve been spending recent months applying our novel methodology of quantifying the urban heat island (UHI) effect on surface air temperature, now using Lan...
Johnny Grey Studios

From tiny tots to Piedmont, via Grand Designs Live - Grand Designs Live [Sunday 3 May] Castello di Montalero cooking experience. Unfitted update. Maximalism! Food Festival in the South Downs. Grandchildren al...
Toppermost

These New Puritans - The brooding swell of sound that simultaneously unnerves and enlivens the listener... The post These New Puritans appeared first on Toppermost.
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Radical Common Sense - I know you know.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

Radical Common Sense - I know you know.
Free Range Kids

Lenore, Do You Not CARE About Kids and Phones? - “Lenore, did you say you don’t CARE about kids and phones?” That’s what a child psychologist just emailed me. MY RESPONSE: It’s NOT that I don’t care abo...
Freethink Media

Monthly Issue Release: The Energy Transition - The next Strait of Hormuz, AI's energy demand, and the "self-healing" grid of the future.
Private Lands – PERC

Advancing Conservation Through Virtual Livestock Fencing - An academic paper exploring virtual fencing technology's potential to facilitate conservation. The post Advancing Conservation Through Virtual Livestock...
Building the Builders

Sift, don't swallow - A builder's guide to therapy fads, starting with IFS
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

USCIS Cut Green Card Approvals in Half to Help ICE Arrest Legal Immigrants - A deliberate effort to thwart people's efforts to stay on the right side of the law.
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

USCIS Cut Green Card Approvals in Half to Help ICE Arrest Legal Immigrants - A deliberate effort to thwart people's efforts to stay on the right side of the law.
Andrew Whiteside

Movie Review: Michael - Michael is a biopic that covers the formative years of Michael Jackson’s life from 1966 to 1988. Beginning with the creation of the Jackson 5 by his obsess...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Dare to be a Daniel - Be not corrupt, corrupted or craven
Energy in Depth

Earth Day to Mayday: New York’s Climate Crusade Meets Its Utility Bill - Five years ago, New York City celebrated Earth Day in the Empire State by filing a climate lawsuit against major oil and gas companies, a Hail Mary attem...
Lindsay Mitchell

Luxon isn't talking to me - Speaking after his cabinet meeting yesterday, affirming his continuing leadership of the National Party, Prime Minister Chris Luxon said: "Everyday Kiwis...
Leport’s Substack

DEFROSTED book launch and signing event - Dear Friends and Family,
Too Clever By Half

Pesky floating links thing settles down - [image: A circular button with a star and a pencil icon and the text "Automatically insert Google Search links into your post."]Still in Beta ¶ [image: Th...
The Roots of Progress

Announcing Progress Conference 2026 - Oct 8–11 in Berkeley, CA: A four-day event to connect people in the progress movement
Greg Mankiw's Blog

What I've been reading - I just finished the new book by my ertswhile colleague Al Roth. Highly recommended! The subtitle is a good summary.
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

Nigeria's Corruption Machine: How the Second Republic Built a System That Could Only Run in One Direction - Can Democracy Work in Nigeria? Let's See Nigeria's Second Attempt
Roots of Progress

Announcing Progress Conference 2026 - Oct 8–11 in Berkeley, CA: A four-day event to connect people in the progress movement The post Announcing Progress Conference 2026 appeared first on Root...
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

Government (Public) Education Is The Root Cause of The Rise of Conspiracy Theories - Social media act as amplifiers but making conspiracy theories lose their appeal requires restoring freedom and individual rights in education.
PM of NZ

The no-to-apartheid message maybe is getting through - At last the National MPs are paying attention. They've probably noticed that they are haemorrhaging potential voters with inaction over endless Maorific...
Keiran Murphy (FLW Historian)

The Kitchen at Taliesin West - Reading Time: 6 minutesThe photo above looks through the kitchen there. Cooking takes place beyond what you see on the right; the door to the studio is i...
Roberto’s Substack

One does not negotiate with evil. One defeats it. - The Ceasefire That Saved the Ayatollahs: How Trump, Hegseth, and the Pentagon Turned a Civilizational Victory Into a 21-Mile Strait War
Earthly Idealism

How the Bible Corrupted the Soul of Western Civilization - Part 5 - Did Christianity Create Science?
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Can you "OrGaNiZe" Your Way Out of Tyranny? - Every Right Wing conversation, every debate, every Twitter thread, every “what must be done”… Eventually comes to a round of people saying “We need to get ...
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Don’t Let Big Tech Hide Behind a Rainbow Flag - Lennon Torres on why social media regulation is a prerequisite for LGBTQ safety.
Market Urbanism

Mayors matter - Via Kevin Lewis, a new paper in an influential econ journal demonstrates that mayoral elections have a large influence on housing supply outcomes. It also ...
Precise Thinking

Girl Facing Dragons - Nature, Nurture & Culture
Eat More Electrons

Transparency is the Swiss Army Knife of development - Advocacy is hard when you have too many arguments in your favor
Happy Future

The Trouble with Transformers - And the long slouch towards cyberpunk
Houston Strategies

Freeway Deck Parks: time for a reality check - Another excellent, deeply analytical guest post from Oscar Slotboom, author of Houston Freeways. Yes, it is long, but it should tell you anything you want ...
Asymmetric Information

Position vacant: Editor-in-chief, NZ Economic Papers🍋 - Applications now open, closing 18 May 2026
Dramatic Pause

Some scattered thoughts on & Juliet - *The hit Max Martin jukebox musical is playing across New Zealand this year. Here are a few scattered thoughts.* Jukebox musicals are, frankly, nobody’s ...
Reason for Living

A Life Without Anxiety: Impossible and Undesirable - A life without anxiety is impossible and would be meaningless even if it were possible.
Interintellect

Anna Gát: The Sovereign Reader - How to build your "personal culture"?
Thinking Directions

How Do You Validate Aspirational Thoughts? - Aspirational thoughts can be very motivating — if you believe them. By an aspirational thought, I mean any statement about your ability to achieve someth...
The Claude Megson blog

INTERVIEW: "Celebrating the work of New Zealand architect, Claude Megson" - Great to see so many at the launch last week of Giles Reid's and Jackie Meiring's book on Claude Megson -- it was literally standing room only! (I could ...
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Annihilating Iranian Civilization with a Blockade - After threatening to annihilate Iran with bombs, President Trump and the U.S. national-security establishment have decided to do so with their tried and ...
Outliving Iran

'Life, Made Possible:' An Exciting New Direction for Outliving Iran - Expanding the vision of my Substack —and career
Ruxandra’s Substack

Considerations for egg freezing: a practical guide - Some additional notes on practical steps towards egg freezing
round houses

frank lloyd wright in AZ - I took advantage of a brief trip to Arizona to see a couple of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most interesting round houses. First off, though, was a visit to Talies...
The Trumpland Diary

Melania's Bizarre Press Conference Yesterday EXPLAINED - This is the most plausible explanation I've heard yet.
Syncretica

What Did We Learn? - Apart from never doing that again of course
Note to Noteworthy

Sound Money and Reason vs. Fiat and Force - Freely chosen hard money enables a full use of reason whereas forced, easy money nullifies it.
HBL

What If Robots Take All the Jobs? - Hint: They can’t People have it all wrong. And it’s not the first time. Robots are going to take your job? No doubt. But your next job will pay so much mor...
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Stacks Up - We produce a lot more than *Perennial Gale* — and if you don’t already follow our other Substacks, this is a good week to see what you’re missing. Over o...
The Realization of Wholeness

Tyrant of Your Heart - My favorite song
Croaking Cassandra

Oil and monetary policy - I didn’t have too much problem with either the Reserve Bank Governor’s speech a couple of weeks ago on a framework for how monetary policy might deal with ...
Gross Output

Fourth Quarter GO Confirms Deepening Stagflation into 2026 - “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 Many Ways I Let You Down

A Gaye Excursion - Marvin Gaye meets The Beatles and teaches us of the courage screenwriters require when adapting works.
What's New Under the Sun

A little progress is worth a trillion dollars - Estimating the value of progress with a rough calculation and a new web tool
Liberty Scott

It's a victory! - In July 1953, then Premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Kim Il Sung, declared victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War (the "Korea...
Barrie Saunders

TVNZ – a reassessment - Apart from 7 years abroad I have grown up with TVNZ’s channel one and was privileged to serve six years on its board – 2011 to 2017 Up until recently I ret...
Existential Crunch

April 2026 Updates - Once more unto the breach
Let Grow

I Played Dodgeball at My Son’s School. The Way They Played Shocked Me - [image: Groupe De Ballons Colorés En Caoutchouc Sur Le Sol En Bois D'un Gymnase Intérieur] Forgive the clickbait title – that actually sums up what this mo...
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

The Artemis II Rocket Launch with Emerson’s ‘The Poet’ - The Transcendentalism founder once wrote, 'Beauty is the creator of the universe.'
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (April 2026) - Policy trade-offs, and governance systems for the 21st century
Harry’s Substack

AI is a power tool for the mind - You'll love what's coming
Science of Doom

Cheap power, expensive bills: what Australia’s electricity prices really show - Over the past few articles, we’ve looked closely at South Australia, which has become one of the clearest real-world examples of what a high-renewables pow...
Don't Let It Go

ATLAS SHRUGGED Signed And Inscribed Tenth Anniversary Edition #1/2000 - Just a quick post to let you know about an auction I’m currently running on eBay for a special copy of the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Atlas Shrugged. Thi...
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Goths Against Cancel Culture - A Talk with Danielle Astraea of Crucifera - "Veteran goths fought to escape cancel culture, and we can’t let ourselves get pushed back."
Stu-Topia

More Info for My Troubled Friend - Stuart K. Hayashi I have written much-more-interesting blog posts exposing some falsehoods that my troubled friend and I were both told on topics of politi...
Fizzifood

Fragrant Lamb & Coconut Curry - Jonny – this one’s for you! I love a good butter chicken (not that sickeningly sweet version – I’m talking about the deeply aromatic and creamy type). Some...
Asimov’s Addendum

Missing Mechanisms for the Agentic Economy - From disclosures to protocols to markets
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: March 2026 - 📰 Media
In Due Course

Actually, Democrats do need a Project 2029 - ...although maybe different from what they're doing
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

Could this be the solution to America's political divide? - How rural Oregonians are organizing for freedom of association and equal representation.
Splitting Headache

Somethings: ATMs and iPhone - Also luddism, puzzle games, and the whimsy of LinkedIn.
Notes On Liberty

Rising Sun Over the Arctic: Japan’s Arctic Journey from North Pacific Hegemon to Democratic Polar Partner - by Barry Scott Zellen
Austin Vernon's Substack

Solving the Strait of Hormuz Blockage - Markets ensure the disruption can't last more than 1-2 years.
The Beauty of Things

A Person of Interest, a Person with News! - On the 3rd anniversary of my first published poem, reading great fiction and poetry on Substack, and how some people can’t get enough Aristotle. PLUS: cont...
Notes On Liberty

“Must Liberalism be Atomistic?” by Jacob Rodriguez - During his inauguration ceremony, the newly elected mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani pledged to run the city as he had run his campaign, as a committe...
First Stones NewsLetter

PsycHHology Engineering: What is Narcissism? Narcissism—as used in modern day cultural wars--is two things: - (1) replacement mental-illness du jour for Contemporary (1 'h) psychology's most recent mental-illness-bipolar-disorder-soup and (2) a euphemism for Selfis...
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: Why Scotland Succeeded - It was capital, not education
Pablo’s Translations

Los científicos analizan la estabilidad del universo tras la desaparición de Chuck Norris - Expertos analizan si las leyes de la física y la estabilidad del universo cambiarán tras la muerte de Chuck Norris y el fin de sus "Condiciones". ¡Descúbrelo!
The Scholar's Stage

China and the Future of Science - [The following post is a polished transcript of a speech I recently gave to a private gathering of American technologists.
Seiler on Science

Teaching Physics Inductively - James Ellias’s Inductive Summary of Physics
Anti-Dismal

The Real History of Communism - From the Adam Smith Institute comes *The Real History of Communism*. It delves into the complex history of communism and explores its resurgent popularity ...
An Africanist Perspective

African policymakers should be clear-eyed about the short and medium term impacts of the U.S./Israel-Iran war - Policymakers should prepare for the fact that the coming shocks to have long lags; and that the cadence of global crises will likely pick up.
Mike’s Substack

Educational Junk Food - Over the past few decades, something interesting has happened in the world of food.
Mike’s Substack

Educational Junk Food - Over the past few decades, something interesting has happened in the world of food.
Statecraft

How the National Security Strategy Gets Made - “Leverage is the favorite verb of the Washington policy community.”
Public Lands – PERC

Don’t Let Federal Agencies Revoke Permits Without Consequence - For American Prairie and other western ranchers, permit certainty would mean that decades-old grazing privileges on federal land would be honored as vali...
Democracy Project

Geoffrey Miller: New Zealand’s next steps as Middle East war escalates - New Zealand is once again feeling the fallout of a geopolitical crisis. With a de facto blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in place, oil prices soared past t...
Equal to Reality

The Future Is Going to Be Golden. - KPop Demon Hunters and the Cultural Realisation That Cynicism Is Starting to Feel a Little Exhausting
Spiked Online

spiked summit 2026 tickets (AFAF Students) - 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 Prophet of Causation

A Morality of Choice - There is a great deal of work left to do to turn the completed draft of The Prophet of Causation into a published book, including sorting through all the t...
Growing to Truth

Help has arrived. - After almost 50 years of chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”…
Growing to Truth

Help has arrived. - After almost 50 years of chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”…
Objective Standard Institute

MAGA Isn’t Making America Great - Kiyah breaks down her views on Trump and the MAGA movement.
Overthinking Everything

On Mediocrity - One of the harshest words in my vocabulary is "mediocre". Let me tell you what I mean by it.
Mises Wiki - Recent changes [en]

W - Kanopi deleted page W Removing all content created by Kapitalizt
High Capacity

Does China care about AGI? - Chinese tech leaders and researchers talk openly about AGI. But Chinese policymakers don't seem focused on the "race to AGI" like in the US.
Jackson Upmann

3 Months, 1 Habit, Stronger Self-Esteem - How Tracking Wins Is Transforming My Confidence
Kibao

AI in Africa: Less Leapfrogging, More Sequencing - My four-point response to the question: “Can AI Take Off in Africa?”
Wright in Racine

Sitting Down with Frank Lloyd Wright - © Mark Hertzberg (2026) A quick test: think “Frank Lloyd Wright.” Chances are that images of Fallingwater, the Robie House, the SC Johnson Administration...
Forbidden Science

Why I am suing Texas Tech - And how you can help
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

All about the latest writing scams - There’s a new writing scam doing the rounds just now. Authors are being stalked online by strangers purporting to represent a ‘book club’, or who are ‘affi...
SAVVY STREET

Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin - A philosophical discussion on ethics and mathematics. The post Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin appeared first on SAVVY S...
Robert Nasir’s Joyous Newsletter

What Can You Do, When You Have To Deal With People? - Yes, there is an answer ... quite a few, in fact! Here are five of them, each & all of which can make your life better!
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 "...
Maximum Progress

The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander on the design of cities and homes
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...
Regan's Substack

Socialism is for losers - And Capitalism doesn't need a PR team
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...
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.
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!
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

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

The Chinese Academy of Sciences' Space Program - Plus overseas announcements from Star.Vision, GeeSpace, and SpaceIoT, lots more SatNet Satellites, and a Zhuque-3 partial success (plus me on TV!)
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
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...
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!
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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!)
Journal of Free Black Moms

Ep. 17 - Change the World Be a Mom (Sheila Qualls) - Listen now | An interview with wife and mother of five Sheila Qualls
Better things are possible

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gamal Abdel Nasser's Last Gamble - Inside the private conversation where Egypt’s president confronted the lies, the losses, and an Arab world that wouldn’t fight the war it claimed to want
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.
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 ...
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Reviews - 13th Floor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Genesis -
Power + Market

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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...
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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Thursday, 30 April 2026

She makes a good point

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