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A nne Salmond, who recently called for thinkers to engage with open rather than closed minds—arguing that "other cultures may have ins...

" T he most secure and prosperous societies did not hide from the world. They were confident enough to remain open to trade and ideas, ...

" H ow did we get to the point where having an old-fashioned see-saw on the playground is something almost no park ... would consider? ...

Anne Salmond, the patron saint of the  straw man   " E very so often, a critic of 'universal reason' appears who, in the course...

" A cross New Zealand, schools are declaring that they will 'give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.' "Many parents assume th...

  " Y ou may have heard a lot of stories about austerity. Consider that both the government and the opposition may want to convey the i...

"[ A ]dvanced economies are halving their populations every generation ... Naturally, everyone blames 'fertility.' As though bi...

" L et’s be clear: regional councils deserve to be sent off with a pat on the back and a firm shove. They’ve become expensive holding p...

  " T he beneficial effect of State intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and, so to speak, visibl...

Here's another topical post from the archives , this time from old friend Libertarian Sus who was once a regular  poster here at NOT PC...

Thanksgiving isn't a New Zealand holiday, but giving thanks should be a universal trait. Robert Green Ingersoll was the nineteenth-centu...

W ith all the talk this week of how the cheap credit of a a dirt-cheap OCR announcement filtering through to the economy, as if some wand ha...

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff's plan for peace in Ukraine has Kremlin fingerprints all across it. That's no surprise, says Їne Back Їver...

  Storm , Lucien Levy-Dhurmer ,  1896

" T he end is nigh – not for the world, but for the climate industrial complex. It has been a decline brought about mainly by the sheer...

  " A new first-of-its-kind study by Dutch researchers finds no evidence of a global acceleration in sea level rise because of climate...

  “' F or all the hype of a conflict, [reports Axios ] President Trump and New York City's next mayor, Zohran Mamdani, had a surpris...

Recently-retired MI6 head Richard Moore, Financial Times “' I fundamentally assess that Putin is not interested in negotiations. There ...

" I ndependence isn’t an absolute virtue. Our constitutional order doesn’t include completely independent officials who can print money...

A  friend who wrote a thesis several years ago on common law solutions to environmentalism asked me this question a few weeks ago, and I...

" B illionaire hedge funder Bill Ackman has been mocked on X for advising young men struggling to find a date to go up to a woman in pu...

" I n ancient Greek, 'ergon' means 'work' and 'nomos' means 'law' or 'practice.' Ergonomics, th...

" T he difference between a thief and a politician: when a thief steals your money, he doesn't expect you to thank him." ~ Wal...

" R eal liberalism has been tried. "First it [recognised rights and] created the Constitution. "Then it abolished slavery. ...