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" I must hold it for the greatest calamity of our time, which lets nothing come to maturity, that one moment is consumed by the next, ...

W ho's to blame for heavy metal? We have a new data point. Robert Fripp -- guitarist extraordinaire and King Crimson leader now for ne...

  "[ T he world] today says ... 'Net Zero by 2050. ...  "Banks sign net-zero pledges and quietly stop funding energy projects ...

T he newly minted Dr Matthew Hooton slithered into print on Friday last to make the case for state control of international trade. Did I sa...

" W ars are the second greatest evil that human societies can perpetrate. (The first is dictatorship, the enslavement of their own citi...

" G lobalisation encourages the capitalist engine of growth. If people understood how generous that engine has been they would have les...

A year ago, Donald Trump stood in the Rose Garden, surrounded by charts nobody understood, and declared war on mathematics. One year later, ...

"[ I ]it frustrates me that our politicians have become victims of short-termism and tribalism. ... But those with the biggest chequebo...

L egal battles can be very personal, but arguments about  the law less so. Yet when barrister Gary Judd criticised  the impetus from AUT...

Chloe Swarbrick's Green Party are promising a 2 percent annual cap on rent increases. At first glance that might sound compassionate, bu...

" N ew Zealand does not possess the people, the capital, or the institutional settings to maintain our first world status. We are movin...

W astewater analysis suggests increasing recreational drug use among New Zealanders. (Although there are some problems with the data.) But...

“ I n order to make people equal, you have to treat them differently. If you treat people alike, so far as government is concerned, the resu...

"[ L et's look at] the example of the greengrocer, living in an authoritarian state [who] habitually puts a sign 'Workers of th...

" R oy, a commenter on my ' Lessons from Iran ,' says there is no such thing as human rights: 'Human rights [he says] are g...

" I srael is not just targeting Iranian Revolutionary Guard commanders. They are specifically going after the officers who killed prote...

E VER SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL  REVOLUTION in the nineteenth century and ever-increasing global freedom in this one, human progress has been on ...

UPDATED 8:53am : We said last week the risk, once started, is Trump chickening out . As of this morning our time, Trump chickened out . Trum...

S adly, it seems the NZ Treasury's Chief Strategist Struan Little doesn't understand inflation. Speaking to the NZ Capital Markets ...

 " C ountries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free." ~ Montesquieu from his 1748 book The Spirit of ...

I f you want to go green, you should do so without the state’s coercion, says  Timothy Terrell at the Mises Institute conference in Oklahoma...

"[ U tilitarians], in the fashion of [Jeremy] Bentham, pronounce the greatest happiness of the greatest number to be the social end, al...