Not PC: The hostility to factual truth...

Tuesday, 6 October 2026

The hostility to factual truth...

“Factual truth, if it happens to oppose a given group’s profit or pleasure, is greeted today with greater hostility than ever before.”
~ Hannah Arendt from her essay 'Truth and Politics,' collected in her 1961 book Between Past and Future [hat tip Stephen Hicks]

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America’s diesel problem—and how to fix it - A ban on diesel exports would raise overall fuel prices and wreck America’s energy superpower status.
Houston Strategies

Metro's 1978 plan: promises made, promises kept, promises broken - Another excellent guest post from Oscar Slotboom with some of Houston METRO's lost history from the archives of Barry Klein, RIP.--- Civic activist Barry K...
Knowledge Problem

The Last Problem of Democracy: Tocqueville on Liberty, Centralization, and Self-Government - Essay 14 in Reading Tocqueville at 250
Knowledge Problem

The Last Problem of Democracy: Tocqueville on Liberty, Centralization, and Self-Government - Essay 14 in Reading Tocqueville at 250
McFaul's World

September Newsletter: Xi Came to Washington. I Went to Australia. - Plus more on Greenland’s “historic” deal and why I’m still optimistic about American foreign policy in the long run.
Stewart Margolis

No Atheists in Foxholes - We’ve all heard the saying, “There are no atheists in foxholes.” This is a catchy phrase with a kernel of truth (people are more likely to fall back on a b...
Israel Institute of NZ

Moral Clarity? Try Legal Accuracy. - Vanushi Walters has unveiled Labour’s foreign policy. Apparently, the new doctrine is “moral clarity”. However, it doesn’t seem to be legally accurate, whi...
Conspicuous Cognition

The Crooked Timber of Humanitarians of Tinder - How the pursuit of material, social, and sexual advantage shapes our values
The Future of Being Human

14 essential AI "I Can ..." skills every undergrad should have (Updated) - Employers are increasingly looking for students who show good judgment with AI, can demonstrate their AI skills in an interview, and are adept at directing...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Why is the CDU killing itself, and what does it mean? - Present-day German politics present a puzzle.
The Grumpy Economist

An Inflation-Protected Balance Sheet - A Substack lets me share fun new ideas.
Middle East Uncovered

“I Was Expected To Become a Wife Overnight.” - Reports of forced and child marriage in Gaza rose 123 percent in the first half of 2026. Behind that statistic are young, vulnerable girls being married of...
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

The Rideshare Revolution - The numbers will amaze you - and the future amazes me.
The Intrinsic Perspective

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

The Coding Arms Race in Healthcare - Hospitals, Insurance, and AI
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

“Sorry to the Cato Institute…” - Cato has become the stand-in for reasoned debate.
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

“Sorry to the Cato Institute…” - Cato has become the stand-in for reasoned debate.
One Useful Thing

The Dot and the Swarm - Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
The Whakataki Times

DINNERTIME DOMINANCE: Local Toddler Drops A Significant Amount Of Rice On The Floor - INSTANT IMPACT. The post DINNERTIME DOMINANCE: Local Toddler Drops A Significant Amount Of Rice On The Floor appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
The Cobden Centre

Ex Nihilo Documentary - A reminder that our documentary, Ex Nihilo: The Truth About Money, explains much of what is happening, and is about to happen, in the...
An Africanist Perspective

On the escalation of war in Ethiopia - The coming proxy wars will be devastating for civilians and do little to improve governance and human welfare in Ethiopia and the wider Horn
Theatreview

THE SHOW MUST GO ON. BUT WHO WILL PAY FOR IT? - THE SHOW MUST GO ON. BUT WHO WILL PAY FOR IT? Angela Green | The Post October 1, 2026 Angela Green is executive director at Tāwhiri Festivals and Experie...
Chris Trotter

Undue Influence. - The Kiwi Left has discovered there are more ways to skin the capitalist cat than with a revolutionary’s sharpened bayonet.
Wildlife – PERC

Improving Species Recovery Act, Explained - The bill would connect measurable recovery progress to regulatory flexibility The post Improving Species Recovery Act, Explained appeared first on PERC.
Gross Output

Business is Back – Big Time! - “By integrating the vital role of the supply chain into national income accounting, Mark Skousen’s development of gross output (GO) has created a more dy...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

Sir Dave Dobbyn to Celebrate his 70th Birthday with a one-off Coroglen Tavern Show in January 2027 - One of the biggest legends in New Zealand music history today announces a one-off summer show at the Coroglen Tavern on Sunday 3 January. Sir Dave Dobbyn...
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

The Politics of Adolescence - The modern New Zealand citizen complains about Mother Wellington, distrusts her, mocks her, and then asks her to fix everything.
Fictionosophy

The Iron Heel on Oligarchy and History - The Iron Heel is essentially a collection of mostly incorrect ideas about history and economics framed in a basic, ineffective story.
Official Blog

Rusty the Dragon — Geocache of the Week - Traditional GC5GG6V by mndragon.com Difficulty: 1 Terrain: 1 Location: Minnesota, United States N 45° 50.159′ W 093° 22.123′ Where has geocaching taken you...
Asymmetric Information

The AI files: Making sense of artificial intelligence🍋 - We don't know how AI will turn out. But that doesn't mean we know nothing
Public Lands – PERC

From Species Recovery to the Next Era of Conservation: A September of Big Ideas at PERC - Taken together, these gatherings illustrate the breadth of PERC’s work. The post From Species Recovery to the Next Era of Conservation: A September of Bi...
Toppermost

Franz Ferdinand - Their rise was stratospheric. The song that provided the rocket fuel was Take Me Out. The post Franz Ferdinand appeared first on Toppermost.
Dead Language Society

“Corn” is a weird word - Not all corn comes on cobs
Sinification

Gung-Ho Diplomacy: Chinese Commentary on the Trump-Xi Summit - Mistranslations, pomp and circumstance
Tross Publishing

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

El Niño State of Emergency in California - California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday morning that he is declaring a state of emergency ahead of what could be the strongest El Niño on record. KTL...
Te Papa

Government books looking better than expected thanks to cool holographic Duraseal - Today Finance Minister Nicola Willis is touting this year’s Pre-Election Fiscal Update (PREFU? Prefoo? Really?), after Treasury said government books were ...
THE CIVILIAN

Government books looking better than expected thanks to cool holographic Duraseal - Today Finance Minister Nicola Willis is touting this year’s Pre-Election Fiscal Update (PREFU? Prefoo? Really?), after Treasury said government books were ...
Dramatic Pause

By the Numbers: Matu Ngaropo - *Matu Ngaropo (Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Porou) is an actor, singer, performer, presenter, teacher, some time dancer, strong mover, witch (acting like...
Africa-Israel Weekly

Dumisani on CBN’s 700 Club - Unfinished Business Holy Land Pilgrimage - Pastor Dumisani Washington appears on the 700 Club to discuss the “Unfinished Business” Holy Land pilgrimage, reviving Dr.
A Halfling's View

The Trial of Sokrates - When Free Inquiry in the Deeps of Time Can Be a Problem That Only Hemlock Can Solve
HardmoneyJim

Five Reasons to Own Gold Right Now - IT’S NOT ABOUT FEAR BUT ABOUT RESTORING AN ESSENTIAL FINANCIAL ASSET
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

The House Price Story Almost Everyone Missed - The Post
Peter Boghossian

The Parasite That Announces Its Own Cure - Philip Morris Sells a “Smoke-Free Future” While Still Feeding on the Hosts It Kills
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Marriage Nihilism - The Sixth in a Series
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

How to Find Strength in Your Own Character - Lesson 4 of The Stoic Mind Miniseries
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Trump Deserves to Be Impeached - The Constitution is the law that the people of the United States have imposed on federal officials. That’s what makes it the highest law of the land. U.S...
Macroscience

Debate: National Labs vs. New Science Institutions - Teaching an old dog new tricks vs. getting a new dog.
Changing Lanes

Spirit Airlines and the Iron Law - Low prices win, but low-cost carriers may not
Statecraft

How to Build a Policy School - “We’re not reading the IKEA instructions.”
Interintellect

November 10: NYC | A Free “Mini Festival” to Discuss GenZ’s economics and culture - Is GenZ the generation that lost the future, or the one nobody’s bothered to understand?
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

We never planned to use masks to stop viruses, because we always knew they never worked - A look back at how research gets discarded when inconvenient
Glenn’s Substack

My Dinner With Freddy - Well, technically it was at Freddy’s.
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 529 - Underlaying modernism - Architectural modernity’s idioms sustained by industrialization envisioned a new formal language seemingly detached from any classical references. One c...
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

Did Fauci’s NIAID Work with Spy Agencies to Aerosolize Ebola?! - Rand Paul released Fauci's diary on the 2015 live-Ebola aerosol experiment.
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Why the Bronze Age collapsed - Historians like to blame drought, famine and invaders. But this can’t explain why the empires never came back.
Risk & Progress

(Almost) Everything is Getting Better - 22 charts illustrating our ascent to abundance
Autonomia

Book Review: “The Secret Garden” (1911) - Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic novel glows
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

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

An Ode to Tesla's Cybercab - The bet to deliver autonomous vehicles to the masses.
What You Can Do For Liberty

Ignore the Doomers: We’re Going To Win - Social media is being flooded right now with messages that say Republicans can’t possibly win the 2026 midterms. Ignore it.
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Artificial Individuals - A Pack of Lies
Thinking Directions

Money, Safety, and Ease — Oh My! - As many of you know, I have reconceptualized Marshall Rosenberg’s idea of “universal needs” as “deep rational values.” If you are unfamiliar with either ...
The Realization of Wholeness

“A Day in the Life” - The GOAT song
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

New Report Outlines Market-Based Reforms for Montana’s Water Future - As drought, growth, and competing demands strain Montana’s water supplies, PERC offers practical reforms to strengthen water rights, expand voluntary wat...
Reason for Living

Conquering with Curiosity - When I was young, there were certain subjects I thought I would never like or find interesting—until I changed my mindset.
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Timeline 1700-1900: Music of the 1890s - Opera, orchestral, popular, piano
The Shrewd Artist

Just Signed, The 19th in the Space Series - Space Series Self-Portrait, The Painter.
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Just Signed, The 19th in the Space Series - Space Series Self-Portrait, The Painter.
Michael Newberry, Artist

Art History as a Sandbox - Only a Handful of Monumental Art Cycles For a few years in the early 1980s, I lived in Staten Island, walking distance from the Staten Island Ferry. Whenev...
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

The Many Lines of Evidence That Social Media is Not Safe For Teens - How to address those who still claim that this is all just a moral panic.
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Three Big Ideas #70 - *📈 Philip Salter, Founder* We all know that slow growth means lower material living standards than would otherwise be the case, but what are the other c...
The Weekly Sift

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

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

How to Peel a Banana - Riding the cascade of rigidity to the third horizon
The Organon Architecture Blog

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

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

The Man in The Megadeth Shirt - A Dad’s Job
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Cameron Hawley: Libertarian Film Hero - Cameron Hawley — born September 19, 1905 — was an American fiction writer. Two films based on his books are unusual for their Randian tone and strongly pro...
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

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

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

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

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

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

** THE PLOT AGAINST LOVE ** (NEW BOOK) - AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW!
First Stones NewsLetter

I like Israel better than Palestine and here’s why. Reason versus Faith: the battle continues - I like Israel better than Palestine and here’s why.
Conflicted

Why did Mark Carney establish the TCFD? - New Series: Did China Capture California? Post #1
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

My Wife Is A Blessing - Today is our fifth wedding anniversary
Virginia Postrel

Upcoming Events and Recommended Reading - Come see me in LA next week or NYC next month!
Wright in Racine

Eighty Five Years of Hardy House Friendship - © Mark Hertzberg (2026) I have posted many stories about Anne Sporer Ruetz and her passion for the house she grew up in between 1938 – 1947, Frank Lloyd Wr...
Keiran Murphy (FLW Historian)

Recommended book: Reflections from the Shining Brow - Reading Time: 4 minutesThe cover of Amin’s book, and a photo of Wright, Kamal Amin and Wright’s daughter, Iovanna in Taliesin’s Work Court. The author, K...
Science+Story

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

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

The non-material consequences of growth - When growth slows, people rate their system of government more poorly and become a bit more zero sum
Lindsay Mitchell

Why RNZ can't be trusted - This reporting is amongst the worst I have seen. And it's funded by the tax-payer. *How much beneficiaries are left with after paying the rent* "Benefic...
Kiwipolitico

Cartoon Villains. - The 25th anniversary of September 11 got me to thinking. Marx wrote that history tended to repeat itself, first as tragedy and then as farce. It seems that...
Regan's Substack

Pregnancy Purity - Mom guilt begins at conception
HBL

Transgenderism - TG wrote (in a much longer post) on my Forum: Yes, and these feelings are bodily sensations, such as what you feel in your arm when you raise it, what you ...
Butterpaper

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

Global Shield Briefing (September 2026) - Food security at the Security Council, and global tipping point risk
Cranmer’s Substack

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

Glide Time bludgers have an outing in the sun - A few under-worked unionised in Wellingrad had an outing in the sun today. Good to see them getting some vitamin D. As is the norm, screaming into the ...
Harry’s Substack

Settling the Is-Ought Issue, using AI - A dialogue with Gemini on Hume, Ayn Rand, and Deductivism
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

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

Economics Teaching Conference - If you might be interested in attending, click here for more information.
The New Atlantis

‘A winning strategy for shifting the culture and quality’ of infertility treatment - Ari Schulman: Emma, you are a policy leader on the subject of restorative reproductive medicine, which, as I understand it, argues that something has gon...
Eat More Electrons

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

Learning about collapse from novels - Reviews, rankings and recommendations
The Antiplanner

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

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

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

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

Peter Bromhead on how to ruin a stroganoff dinner party - Peter Bromhead, who has died aged 93, was as great a teller of hilarious tales as he was a creator of incisive cartoons. This is a story he liked to tell o...
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

Freedom’s Song: The Connection Between Artists and Birds - From medieval culture to modern times, the avian world has been a source of inspiration for great works
Free Range Kids

“Baking Helicopter Parenting into the Law” - My story about the mom found GUILTY of “contributing to the delinquency of a minor” because she let her 5-year-old walk around collecting feathers went v...
Richard Werner’s Substack

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

We’re hiring: Event Manager & Education Program Operations Manager - Help us inspire young people to build an ambitious future, or create events that bring together the progress community
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: August 2026 - August is normally a quiet month in DC, since Congress is away on recess.
Johnny Grey Studios

Late Summer Newsletter 2026 - FT Weekend festival 5 September 2026 Dear friends If you’re in or near London this weekend how about visiting the UK’s cleverest festival, in Hampstead (of...
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: Aztecs, by Inga Clendinnen - Aztecs: An Interpretation, Inga Clendinnen (Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Market Urbanism

The 5% problem: Can human and automated drivers coexist? - Andrew Miller at Changing Lanes recently re-posted his 2025 article, “The 50% problem.” He’s positively inclined toward self-driving cars, but recognizes t...
The Jolly Libertarian

This is Not Real Life - Truth, the old saying goes, is stranger than fiction. Which may be why I like biographies. They're the stories of real people. They tell us about real he...
Equal to Reality

Their Phantom Liberty - If a King cannot leave, he is never free, however gilded the cage that holds him is.
Robert Nasir’s Joyous Newsletter

Evict Your Enemies - In which Robert shares thoughts and strategies on how to clear the road ahead ... personally and politically. Ten Steps for getting your adversaries the He...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Mumbo-jumbo and all that - The Mullahs of Mumbo-jumbo advance the cause of racist superiority
Muss Montessori School

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

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

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

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

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

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

𝐈 𝐖atched 𝐓he Patriot Games So You Don’t Have To - America's best white home schoolers competed at field day activities to see who gets a higher education.
Too Clever By Half

Google's unprecedented lapse - On August 3, a bug in Google's automated security system disabled hundreds, and probably thousands, of Blogger blogs. ¶ [image: A classical portrait of ...
Precise Thinking

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No. 1 - Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
In Due Course

On becoming less full of shit - This post is inspired by a series of articles that Dan Williams wrote on the subject of “becoming less left-wing.” While I found that series interesting in...
Africa’s Bright Future

Your Favorite Regulation Is Probably Hurting You - Most people think regulations protect the poor. The data says the opposite.
Hunters and Anglers – PERC

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

Gena Gorlin and Linda Mann on building a life of art - A recording from Dr. Gena Gorlin's live video
Roberto’s Substack

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

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

Definition of Woman and Man Bill – a return to Truth - It should never have come to this. Our MPs debating the definition of a man or a woman. But the fact that it has, means we have arrived at a critical infle...
Freethink Media

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

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

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

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

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

mudslide - on getting swept up in other people's concerns
Andrew Bernstein

Video: A Case Against Determinism-with Professor Andrew Bernstein and James Valliant -
Roots of Progress

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

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

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

Coase versus Demsetz on the neoclassical model - In the modern, Coaseian-inspired view of the neoclassical model, there are no firms. Harold Demsetz sums up the Coasian view of the neoclassical model succ...
Jackson Upmann

How Traveling Raised My Confidence (And Can Raise Yours Too) - Time to get uncomfortable
Competitive Enterprise Institute

AICOA’s heavy-handed approach would harm consumers, stifle innovation, and degrade security and privacy - Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) re-introduced a modified version of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), w...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

AICOA’s heavy-handed approach would harm consumers, stifle innovation, and degrade security and privacy - Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) re-introduced a modified version of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), w...
Kibao

Kenya Wants to Sell Your Data. But It’s Complicated. - The headline is scarier than the policy. The policy is still worth worrying about.
misfits' architecture

Relationship Issues - We humans aren’t good at imagining things outside our experience so it’s only human that we’ve now gone and built this thing called AI that’s not good at i...
Martini Mandate

Teetotallers and the Decline of Human Civilisation. - Alcohol is having its tobacco moment. Young people are going off it, and a growing chorus of busybodies would like the rest of us to give it up completel...
round houses

utopian usonia - Beautiful tour of the Bertha & Sol Friedman Residence in the Usonia community of Pleasantville, NY, narrated by the owner of the house, Brian Renz. The hou...
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Can AI Be The Thing That Finally Aligns Humanity? - Getting AI to do what we want is the easy part. The real challenge is figuring out what we actually want in the first place.
Spiked Online

Summer Appeal Donation – Pint Glass Offer - The post Summer Appeal Donation – Pint Glass Offer appeared first on spiked.
Classical Compass Rose

The Practice of Integrated Human Attention - The Benedictine Rule and the hesychast tradition of Mount Athos are the most rigorously tested models of integrated attention ever developed. What might we...
Note to Noteworthy

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

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

Read 'Em and Weep: Australian Power Edition - batteries and renewables make prices go down in practice and theory
Craig Biddle

Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles - The post Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles appeared first on Craig Biddle.
Craig Biddle

Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles - The post Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles appeared first on Craig Biddle.
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 ...
Fizzifood

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

Rising Sun Over the Arctic: Japan’s Arctic Journey from North Pacific Hegemon to Democratic Polar Partner - by Barry Scott Zellen
Pablo’s Translations

Los científicos analizan la estabilidad del universo tras la desaparición de Chuck Norris - Expertos analizan si las leyes de la física y la estabilidad del universo cambiarán tras la muerte de Chuck Norris y el fin de sus "Condiciones". ¡Descúbrelo!
Seiler on Science

Teaching Physics Inductively - James Ellias’s Inductive Summary of Physics
Democracy Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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High Capacity

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

Why I am suing Texas Tech - And how you can help
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...
Texas Institute for Property Rights

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

Money And Collateral - Roasted Barley Is No Substitute For Coffee!
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gamal Abdel Nasser's Last Gamble - Inside the private conversation where Egypt’s president confronted the lies, the losses, and an Arab world that wouldn’t fight the war it claimed to want
A Force for Good | How economics, morality, and markets combine

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

Farmville - The Autonomous Future of Agriculture
No Punches Pulled

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

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

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

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

LLMs and the Nature of Honest Authorship - Editing is not authoring.
Stories by Rudi Edsall on Medium

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

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

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

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

Finding Meaning and Purpose in a Godless Universe - In the 1880s, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was at his intellectual peak.
Ayn Rand Society

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

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

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

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

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

Writings hosted elsewhere - The Breakthrough Institute Interactive Brokers Campus
BloodhoundBlog

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

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

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

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

DAYS 1-3 - 90 Mile Beach - Days 1-3 of my trek across the entire length of New Zealand
Bawerk.net

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Genesis -
Power + Market

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1828 – Championing Freedom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

William Whewell’s “Discoverer’s Induction” (Part 4) - Previous posts: William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 1) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 2) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Ind...
CapX Finance

14 Practical steps to improve Cash Flow - A positive cash flow keeps the heart of any business pumping, but a negative cash flow will eventually cause the business to fail. A growing business may...
from FEE

Why a Free Society Cannot Transform Wishes into Rights - Only by defending voluntary arrangements, respecting one another’s self-ownership, can we achieve positive progress.
Montessori Rocks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Surrealist Writers Union Goes on Strike -
makingnewzealand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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