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The Inquiring Mind

Spooks – #56 – S06E10 – The School – Peter Firth, Rupert Penry-Jones, Raza Jaffrey, Miranda Raison, Hermione Norris -
Keiran Murphy (FLW Historian)

The Bedroom at Taliesin that Frank Lloyd Wright Used - Reading Time: 6 minutesPhotograph by Ken Hedrich looking (plan) southeast in Frank Lloyd Wright’s bedroom in 1937. Otherwise known as “Frank Lloyd Wright...
Zero Hanger

Carlton caretaker explains Weitering selection call - The Blues have been humming without their vice-captain, and will need to wait longer to see the No.23.
JunkScience.com

Milloy discusses wildfires, Sesame Street and raising the voting age on FOX Business - From the August 6, 2026 episode of The Bottom Line.
The Footy Almanac

The Dunkeld Writers Festival (Aug 28-30): The perfect weekend - If you enjoy writers' festivals, or even just a weekend away, you won't find a better opportunity than the Dunkeld Writers Festival Aug 28-30. And this yea...
UnHerd

How corruption could bring down Zelensky - A series of scandals threatens his authority
The Free Press

Douglas Murray: Tucker Carlson’s 10-Point Plan Is All About One Thing - He’s supposedly pitching a vision for America. But he can’t help but talk about Israel instead, writes Douglas Murray.
Techdirt

Trump’s AI Framework Is So Bad They Won’t Show You What’s In It - For a while now we’ve been mocking the Trump White House’s plans for an “AI framework” that would have the frontier AI labs hand over their top models for ...
Slow Boring

Thursday discussion post - Trump and Melania’s favorite thrifty recipes
Greater Auckland

Weekly Roundup 7-August-2026 - August, already? Astonishing! Here’s our weekly roundup of stories from the realms of cities and transport. This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Con...
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

New Moderna mRNA Flu Shot: This Is NOT Efficacy - FDA approved the first mRNA flu shot on Wednesday. The strongest case against the headline number isn't ours - it's in FDA's own briefing document, in FDA'...
IPWatchdog Articles

PTAB ARP Issues Precedential Decision on Obviousness-Type Double Patenting, Asks CAFC for More Clarity - An Appeals Review Panel (ARP) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s ) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) today issued a decision on sua sp...
Futurism

Jealously Watching OpenAI and Anthropic, Meta Suddenly Claims That Its AI Went on a Hacking Spree Too - A likely story. The post Jealously Watching OpenAI and Anthropic, Meta Suddenly Claims That Its AI Went on a Hacking Spree Too appeared first on Futurism.
JoNova

Climate change threatens world with too much food, grass and photosynthesis - Global distribution of NDVIGS anomalies in 2025 relative to the long-term 2000–2025 mean. By Jo Nova With growth like this people will have to mow lawns ...
Interintellect

Intelligent Conversation: Salon Host Training with Anna Gát - Online, September 1, 5pm PT
No Minister

Actually Winston - A Binding Referendum on the Maori Seats. Including a Referendum on The Maori Seats. Including a Referendum on moving from 3 year to 4 year Parliamentary Te...
Spiked Online

Why I’ll never get tired of talking about trans - The post Why I’ll never get tired of talking about trans appeared first on spiked.
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Hurrah! Michigan Votes For No More Wars…….Again! - Click on Title to Read
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Angry Teachers and Brown Shirt private militia – why is ACT so focused an letting other individuals touch you? - ACT want to empower Teachers to manhandle rowdy kids and security guards to be able to physically restrain people –...
The Integrity Institute

News Briefing: 7 August 2026 - MMP REFERENDUM AND THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM
Tim Worstall

A Worstallite – but sans Worstall – trip to Imber perhaps? - From Norman of this Ilk: Imberbus 2026 If you think the idea of a row of Routemasters running from Warminster to the abandoned Salisbury Plain village of...
SkyscraperCity Forum

#PROJECT: DUBAI SOUTH - WELCOME TO DUBAI SOUTH دبي الجنوب THE CITY OF YOU [image: Image] [image: Image] FOREWORD In 2014, when HH Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-...
Breaking Views

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: No-one was asking for an MMP referendum - Yeah, well, if Chris Luxon's week wasn't already bad, it's not much better.Not after he apparently announced off the cuff on ZB Mornings with Kerre that he...
Marcus on AI

Seven reasons I wouldn’t count Google out - Down but still in the mix
The Double Standard

Open Mike 07/08/2026 - Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to th...
Real Clear Energy

Oil Trapped in the Mid $70s - Barchart
The War on Prices

Wealth Taxes in America? - My Podcast with Adam Michel
Can't Get Much Higher

People Like AI-Generated Music - So, what should we do about it?
The Roots of Progress

Wanted: Development Coordinator - Also, still seeking a Head of Content and a Program Manager
Mises Institute Blog

The US Supports the Mass Migration of Moroccans into Spanish Territory - In spite of the GOP's feigned dismay over Morocco's weaponization of migrants against Spanish exclaves in North Africa, US policy supports Moroccan expansi...
Institute for Energy Research

Brent Oil Hovers around $80 on Hopes that the Strait of Hormuz Will Reopen - The price of Brent crude oil dropped to its lowest level in over three weeks amid optimism that an agreement… The post Brent Oil Hovers around $80 on Hop...
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Tommy Robinson’s Love-Hate Relationship with Islam -
Africa-Israel Weekly

Dr. King was to lead 5,000 Black Americans to Israel in 1967 - 'Unfinished Business' is the Holy Land pilgrimage of 500 Black American/African pastors
Marginal Revolution

Thursday assorted links - 1. “Next to rising oxygen levels and other contributing factors, the importance of feces in ancient ecosystems is often overlooked…” 2. New publication o...
The Trichordist

Your Music, AI, and the Machine Unlearning Research Hub: What Every Musician Should Know - If you’re a recording artists or musician, you have most likely heard some form of this pitch: “Don’t worry. If you don’t like how your music is… Read more...
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

I Stopped Being a Libertarian Because I Realized the Sky is Blue - When a thinker publicly changes his mind on major questions, neutral observers normally interpret it as a sign of courage and maturity. Almost no one enj...
The Works in Progress Newsletter

The upper limits of biology - The limits of breeding for speed
Cato at Liberty

New Docs Show Another Border Patrol Agent Under Investigation for Killing - Custom and Border Protection’s pronouncement accepting the officer’s self-defense claim should carry little weight given the extensive record of agents lyi...
Sustain What

No Country is "Developed" - a #Watchwords Update - A longtime World Bank economist offers a path around dividing the world into binary buckets.
John D. Cook

Calculating log(1000!) - The previous post pointed out that the following code such as the following unexpectedly works. >>> from math import log, factorial >>> log(factorial(100...
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

For a Grand Patriotic Bargain - Democrats endorse Rogers, Republicans endorse Talarico
The Logical Place

Disgust vs Comedy - Comedy depends upon surprise, incongruity and the violation of expectations. For some people, disgust provides all three. Bodily functions, sexual embarras...
Persuasion

Censorship Will Never Solve Antisemitism - Jews have always benefitted from strong protections for free speech.
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

New Docs Show Another Border Patrol Agent Under Investigation for Killing - We worked with The Texas Tribune to identify the agent who killed a man.
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

New Docs Show Another Border Patrol Agent Under Investigation for Killing - We worked with The Texas Tribune to identify the agent who killed a man.
bad cattitude

ceuta 2.0: armies march on their stomachs - and incentives matter
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

What I Was Born For - Birthday Thoughts
Energy Transition Absurdities

Extend the Jones Act Waiver - and Then Repeal the Damn Thing - And please, for the love of God, stop squealing about non-existent 'price gouging'
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Evaluating Fauci - On the Subject of Laymen Criticizing Experts
Brownstone Institute

A Public Health Epidemic to Restrict Digital Rights - A Public Health Epidemic to Restrict Digital Rights by Daniel Nuccio at Brownstone Institute [image: A Public Health Epidemic to Restrict Digital Rights] ...
Yascha Mounk

Censorship Will Never Solve Antisemitism - Jews have always benefitted from strong protections for free speech.
Knowledge Problem

Prices, Commands, and the Flexible Grid, Part 1 - What Boiteux, Schweppe, and two decades of experimentation add to the debate over real-time electricity pricing
Knowledge Problem

Prices, Commands, and the Flexible Grid, Part 1 - What Boiteux, Schweppe, and two decades of experimentation add to the debate over real-time electricity pricing
Perennial Meditations

Epicurus on the Greatest Good - Perennial Meditations (Vol. 15)
Changing Lanes

My SXSW 2027 Session is Up for a Vote - A request for your support
Johnny Grey Studios

The Unfitted Kitchen: a timely return to common sense - An unfitted kitchen isn't simply a collection of freestanding pieces. It's about designing a room in a holistic way and begins before designing the cabinets.
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 1185 Global equities. The Emirates in Africa. Authenticy as a political virtue & the German government wants you to know that cocaine consumption is bad for the jungle. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Met Office Heatwave Death Claim Was Fake News - By Paul Homewood https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/world/europe/heat-europe-excess-death-fire.html According to the New York Times: Europeans are b...
Anthony B. Bradley

Fathers and Daughters 1: When a Father Is Present but His Daughter Still Feels Fatherless - Why providing, attending activities, and living at home are not the same as giving a daughter your heart
Anthony B. Bradley

Fathers and Daughters 1: When a Father Is Present but His Daughter Still Feels Fatherless - Why providing, attending activities, and living at home are not the same as giving a daughter your heart
Sawahil

Some Concerns about U.S. Policy towards West Africa after Trump - What Trump normalizes today could become the next Democratic president's point of departure.
The Daily Sceptic

Cambridge Has Questions to Answer After Dismissing Arday Claims as “Vile Campaign” - Cambridge University has questions to answer after dismissing claims about Professor Jason Arday's apparent plagiarism and fabulist CV as a "vile campaig...
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

Is AI Moving Too Quickly for Cybersecurity? - Shane is joined by Evan Swarztrauber to discuss whether AI is moving too fast for the systems designed to contain its cyber risks. The post Is AI Moving ...
Law & Liberty

Jackson vs. Thomas - The dissent in *Trump v. Barbara* tries to undermine the colorblind Constitution.
Quotulatiousness

More threads unravelling from Professor Jason Arday’s backstory - As I mentioned the other day when I first noted this fascinating tale, I don’t think I’d heard of Professor Jason Arday before this week, so pretty much an...
ArchDaily

Val d'Oust Cultural Center / Atelier 56S - The Val d'Oust Cultural Center stands as a key public facility at the intersection of the church square, Jules Ferry Street, and the landscaped public ga...
Mises Wire

The Burritoflation Debate - On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the social debate this week focused on Gen Z economic anxiety.
Living Resources Center

“Democratic Socialism” in a Nutshell - Why should Elon Musk have it all? Let’s take the wealth and spread it all out. Let’s make it so everyone will immediately and permanently have an income ...
ROBERT FRIPP

Beyond comprehension... - Words 83 · RF@80.
The New Era

Morphing - When institutions rely on predefined indicators, dashboards, and standardized categories, they begin to treat these tools as reality itself.
The Whakataki Times

DUPES AT 12: Wellington Lions Confirm “Just Let The Angry Man Loose” Is The Game Plan - MIDFIELD MAYHEM. The post DUPES AT 12: Wellington Lions Confirm “Just Let The Angry Man Loose” Is The Game Plan appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
The Cobden Centre

Why the Fed should not accommodate increases in the demand for money? - By Dr Frank Shostak Through the ongoing process of selection, people have settled on gold as their preferred medium of exchange. Some commentators, cast...
GeekPress

Best Password Managers - *"The Best* Password Managers to Secure Your Digital Life"
Samizdata

Power is being able to sic the police onto the journalist investigating you - When I was a teacher, many years ago, the Times Higher Education Supplement was on every staffroom table and was considered the voice of the progressive ...
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

Palantir’s weird tax trick - paying the staff - Apparently: Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts That someone tries to measure how useful the ...
Notes On Liberty

Hansai, or the Cleansing Fire. - How the Center of Japan’s Christian Community Became the Unintended Target for America’s Second Atomic Strike. Eighty-one years ago this Sunday, on a muggy...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: The Wisdom of Not Knowing - Begin with humility.
Astral Codex Ten

Open Questions On Open Weights - ...
No Right Turn

Climate Change: The end of the ETS is in sight - How do you have an emissions trading scheme when there are no permits to emit? That's a question Aotearoa is eventually going to have to confront as we m...
American Energy Alliance

Can President Trump End U.S. Reliance On Chinese Rare Earth Minerals? - President Trump wants to end U.S. reliance on Chinese critical minerals by January 1, 2027, but it is unlikely American miners and processors will be rea...
Brash & Mitchell

Leighton Smith interviews Don Brash, July 29, 2026 - Listen here This 2026 election has much of the constituency concerned about a result that could lead to the end of the country as we know it. Don Brash, ar...
Glenn’s Substack

Travels of the Mind - Adventures in Dementia
Quillette

What Is the Point of Anthropology? - How a discipline lost interest in the people it was founded to understand.
Kiwiblog

MBIE finds another $6 million! - The Post reports: The cost of a bungled immigration IT project has blown out, and MBIE can’t guarantee the taxpayer-funded bill won’t climb even higher. ...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

The New McCarthys: Forty Percent of Professors Would Vote Against Hiring a Trump Voter - According to a new survey, roughly 40 percent of college faculty would “oppose hiring a Trump supporter.” The results of… The New McCarthys: Forty Percent ...
Point of Order

Wellington Community Fund - The Wellington Community Fund received $44 million in 1996 from the sale of Trust Bank. In the past it has funded many great initiatives such as Zealandia....
Market Urbanism

Confusing demand with inequality - Every so often I read a claim that the housing crisis is caused not by supply or demand, but by inequality. It occurred to me today that I should dig up in...
The Daily Doom

The Adults in the Room Stop Listening to Tiny Trump - Meanwhile, two major empires instate emergency financial actions. One of them is the US.
Energy in Depth

EI Statistical Review: U.S. LNG Supplied 93 percent of Global Export Growth in 2025 - Global LNG trade grew 33 billion cubic meters (bcm) in 2025, and American exporters supplied 31 bcm, according to the Energy Institute’s (EI) 2026 Stati...
Doug Casey's International Man

Doug Casey on the Coming Oil Shock—and Where Investors Could Profit - An escalating Middle East conflict, a depleted Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and disrupted shipping routes could trigger an oil shock—and where investors ...
McFaul's World

Register for Q+A with Michael McFaul - I’ll be taking your questions live on Zoom tomorrow, Thursday 6 August.
The Tracinski Letter

Back to Pamphleteering - [image: The Pamphlet: America's First Social Media | Rare Book and Manuscript Library | University Library | Illinois] The more I think of it, the real mira...
Libertarian Land

Birthright Citizenship and Youth Crime - Evidence from Germany
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

News: Microsoft Disclosures Suggest OpenAI Sales Account For Around 70% Of FY26 AI Revenue, more than 7% of FY26 Revenue - *Executive Summary:* - Microsoft disclosures and Bloomberg analyses show that OpenAI's compute spend and revenue share accounted for 70% or more of...
Stewart Margolis

Who's Worse on Free Speech? - I think most people understand that free speech is a seminal concept in a free society.
The Curmudgeon

Tincture of Wormwood - An extract Four on horseback rode along the beach by the light of the burning city. Their galloping hurled splinters of shell and bone, which glittered in ...
Flashbak

‘Why Do You Think They Call It Dope?’: Nixon’s War on Drug Abuse Leads to… War and Drug Abuse - “America’s public enemy number one in the United States is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new all out off...
A Havenstein Moment.

Kontrarian Korner - Listen now | 8/3/26
Official Blog

De bijen van PenH – Geocache of the week - Mystery GC8TEQH by Geomulma Difficulty: 3 Terrain: 1.5 Location: Gelderland, Netherlands N 52° 17.110′ E 005° 36.515′ There’s plenty of buzz surrounding th...
Truth on the Market

The FCC Is Right To Keep Every Band on the Table for Direct-to-Device - At its August 6 open meeting, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is scheduled to vote on a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) titled “Unleashi...
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

How Big is the Decarbonization Challenge? - A new dashboard has the answer for every country in the world
Retraction Watch

A composer published a paper on theoretical physics. His lack of credentials drew criticism. - Some people compose music or make YouTube videos for a hobby. That’s Brandon Yates’ job — so in his spare time, he tries his hand at theoretical physics. B...
FIRE

Investigated for saying 'word salad'!? - Hofstra is probing a professor for calling a course proposal “word salad.” Tell the university to drop this speech-chilling investigation now.
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

Should Writers Be Afraid of AI Writing Better Than Them? - A meditation on the coming world
Why Evolution Is True

My eponymous bufonid has been made part of a high-profile conservation campaign - The ponderous title above was from Greg Mayer when he emailed me the information below. To wit: there is a new project, called the Phoenix Species project,...
The Daily Economy

Free Trade: The Consensus Is Growing - What economists have argued for generations is now reflected in public opinion: Americans see free trade as the better alternative to protectionism.
The New York Review of Books

Libya: The Dangerous Gamble - On my last visit to Tripoli, this past June, the city often felt as if it had left the protracted conflicts of Libya’s post-Qaddafi era behind. At night, f...
Conversable Economist

The Not-so-Fluid, Low-Hire, Low-Fire Economy - The US unemployment rate was 4.2% in June, which is low by historical levels. Nonetheless, lot of workers, and perhaps expecially young workers right out...
The Common Reader

Literature as Part of Life - universals and particulars
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
Middle East Uncovered

Iran's Baháʼís Survived Because the World Was Watching - The Islamic Republic has spent decades trying to stamp out Iran's largest non-Muslim minority. Advocates say global scrutiny has kept that campaign from be...
The UnPopulist

Trump's Griftathon Rolls On as He Sells Traders Early Access to His Market-Moving Social Media Posts: An Executive Watch Roundup - Our early-August selection of the president’s latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

We Will Dance Again - If you missed today's edition of our Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay. In this week's show guest host Laura Rosen Cohen was be...
Dead Language Society

Medieval beach reads - How to read Middle English and Scots texts in the original
Public: Michael Shellenberger

It’s Embarrassing It Took This Chinese Grad Student To Ask Christopher Nolan Hard Questions About “The Odyssey” - Yiyang Zhuge’s interview forced the Hollywood director to admit he changed the meaning to satisfy politically correct audiences
Kunstler

KunstlerCast 449 — Dr. David Martin on The Covid Op and Matters of National Survival - Dr.
Journal of Free Black Thought

Academia Has Little Viewpoint Diversity - How this happened and why it must change
Journal of Free Black Thought

Academia Has Little Viewpoint Diversity - How this happened and why it must change
The Roots of Liberty

Tools Of The Oppressor - We all understand what overt totalitarianism looks like.
Reason Foundation

Connecticut’s pre-K endowment diverts pension dollars - In diverting surplus money away from reducing Connecticut’s pension debt, the funding mechanism for the pre-K endowment may create future financial chall...
Watts Up With That?

“Climate Change Kills”: Spain’s Rebuke to Climate Deniers - "... opposition parties have rejected Sánchez’s plans for a “state pact” to prepare Spain for the climate emergency. ..." The post “Climate Change Kills”...
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...
The Antiplanner

California Population Follows Single-Family Homes - Between 2019 and 2026, populations grew in 24 California counties and shrank in 34. What made the difference? According to Jonathan Lansner, who writes a b...
The Antiplanner

California Population Follows Single-Family Homes - Between 2019 and 2026, populations grew in 24 California counties and shrank in 34. What made the difference? According to Jonathan Lansner, who writes a b...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

Smart, Affordable Energy Built Iowa. Iowa’s Voters Must Protect It in November. - Iowa was first. In 1983, before climate anxiety became injected into the American bloodstream by Washington, D.C. consultants, Iowa passed the nation’s fir...
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Schmatte – a garment, especially an old ragged one; a tattered article of clothing; a rag.
Dramatic Pause

By The Numbers: Jessica Bennett - *Born and raised in Tāmaki Makaurau, Jessica is a multi-faceted performer and creative, working in both stage and screen. Jessica is one of the artistic...
Chris Trotter

Inconsistent With Our Values? - How asserting the common humanity of Māori and Pakeha became a political heresy to be suppressed.
Skeptic

We Can’t Just Lie About Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams addresses misconceptions about evolutionary psychology, refutes charges of pseudoscience, and discusses the political and ethical ri...
David Stockman's Contra Corner

The AI CapEx Boom, Scorching Cash Burns And Dotcom Circle Jerk 2.0 (Part 2) - In Part 1 we revisited the late-1990s telecom and technology equipment boom and showed how booming reported sales and earnings at the tech high flyers of...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

How to Lose $35 Billion with Philosophy - We've come a long way from Plato and Aristotle
A Halfling's View

The Limits Una Jagose KC Cannot Name - Why Parliament, Not the Courts, Must Prevail
Curbed - All

After All That, Ken Griffin Is Not Leaving New York - The hedge-fund CEO made a big to-do about Mamdani’s pied-à-terre message but in the end is sticking to his 350 Park headquarters.
Israel Institute of NZ

Part 7 — Moral Identity, Inversion, and the Resistance to Evidence - Introduction: When Belief Becomes Self Why do the frameworks examined in this series prove so resistant to challenge? The answer lies in a shift from belie...
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Raoul Wallenberg: Happy Angel Birthday! - Raoul Wallenberg, born on August 4th, 1912 in Sweden, a hero who saved thousand of Jews in WWII, has been nearly forgotten but you can remember him this da...
Capitalism Magazine

Is Bitcoin an Investment or a Speculation? - What a neighborhood cigar shop can teach you about the global financial system — and about whether you’re an investor or a speculator.
Schiffradio.com

The Fed Just Chose Inflation… And the Bond Market Called Its Bluff - The Fed talked tough and did nothing. The 30-year hit a 20-year high. The Dow fell 1,100 points. Gold was the only thing left standing. The post The Fed ...
The Economic LongWave

🏘️Global Housing Radar — August 2026 - 🚨Radar verdict Global Collateral Conditions Stalling!
Mike’s Substack

Is That Normal? - We use the word two different ways. Only one of them opens a door.
Mike’s Substack

Is That Normal? - We use the word two different ways. Only one of them opens a door.
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Overreaction, Bullshitting, Death Penalty - Links and recommendations
Conspicuous Cognition

The Social Roots of Delusions - Clinical delusions, collective irrationality, and the fragile achievement of human knowledge
Leport’s Substack

Thank You for an Incredible Launch! - Your support means the world. Here's where you can find me next.
Gus Van Horn

SAVE Act a Logistical Nightmare - I oppose Trump's SAVE Act for reasons I have already elaborated upon. It is nevertheless interesting to see that even some of its supporters see its passag...
CO2 Coalition

America is Watching the World’s Movement to Nuclear Power Generation - By Ronald Stein and Dick Storm To meet the growing demand for continuous, uninterruptable, and emissions-free electricity, the world economies are pursui...
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

BREAKING: Brown University President Christina Paxson has Resigned - Did my open letter to the trustees about holding her accountable for the deaths of two students in December make a difference?
AAS Economics (Frank Shostak)

US PMI Shock - Well, not really...
Why not reason?

Learning to Meet People Where They Are - Lots of group chats I am part of consist of Brazilian people.
The Rebuild

How the MTA Learned to Build Again - Last week, the MTA announced something that American transit agencies almost never get to announce: it finished a major infrastructure project 60 months ah...
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

'My Dinner With Andre' and the Desire to Escape the Terror of Our Modern World - "...actually, for two or three years now, Chiquita and I have had this very unpleasant feeling that we really should get out."
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for July, 2026: +0.48 deg. C - The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for July, 2026 was +0.48 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, which is stat...
EconLog

Trade and Employment - How much is international trade costing Americans jobs? It turns out, not much. A major objection by protectionists is that international trade with oth...
Doomberg

Passing Gas - As the European Union careens towards a bust up, Brussels goes for broke.
Sinification

Advantage Does Not Equal Victory | Digest: July 2026 - US-China & Global Order | Europe | Chinese Economy & Going Out | Middle East | South China Sea | Neighbourhood Diplomacy | Regional Relations | AI & Tech |...
Muss Montessori School

Forget the Worksheets: This Is How Children Really Learn Math - Many parents believe that completing pages of math worksheets is the best way to improve a child’s math skills. The truth is that children learn mathemat...
Hoover institution Commentary

The Troika Shows How Cold War geopolitics challenged the bonds of lifelong friends - In this new book, edited by two Hoover fellows and made available in English for the first time, Markus Wolf tells the story of how three expatriate Commun...
Dr Oliver Hartwich

Like shoppers, voters buy the label, not the substance - Consumers often judge quality based on brand and packaging, similar to voters who prefer specific parties without deep political understanding, as evidence...
Manhattan Contrarian

The DSA Vision: Does Any Human Being Enjoy Living As A Zoo Animal? - Here is a fundamental proposition to which I subscribe: The only thing worth being in life is an adult. By the word “adult” I have something specific in mi...
New Zealand Arts Review

THE VENICE BIENNALE REVIEW OF et al 2005 - Review by John Daly-Peoples This week the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki will be exhibiting et al.’s 2005 Venice installation “the fundamental practice”...
The Library of Celaeno

RETVRN: The Movie - The Odyssey of Umberto Pasolini
Stats Chat

NRL Predictions for Round 23 - Team Ratings for Round 23 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ...
The Grumpy Economist

Raise rates? Warsh's conundrums - Inflation is stubbornly high, and the Fed mulls whether to raise rates.
Croaking Cassandra

Yet more “pretty (il)legal” stuff from the Reserve Bank - A month or so ago the Reserve Bank announced the appointment of a new Assistant Governor (a deputy chief executive) responsible for its financial stability...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

RFK Jr humiliates CNN's Dana Bash for her role in protecting Anthony Fauci - Friends helping friends
Uncharted Territories

Where Will AI Stocks Go from Here? - Summer 2026 Dispatch
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Warsh Wants the Federal Reserve to Rethink the Rules - At its most recent meeting, the Federal Reserve held rates constant, as most investors were expecting. Prior to the meeting, which resulted in a split 9–...
American Institute of Economic Research

Warsh Wants the Federal Reserve to Rethink the Rules - At its most recent meeting, the Federal Reserve held rates constant, as most investors were expecting. Prior to the meeting, which resulted in a split 9–...
ChinaTalk

$50k ChinaTalk Submission + Hiring Contest! - Proposals Due August 23rd
The Weekly Sift

Going Long - So, how did we get here? Not because one party discovered a winning campaign slogan, a charismatic leader, or because of one presidential election. We arri...
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 521 - A Third Emerging Business Model - Project Specific Prefab - Industrialized construction is and has always been linked to standardization and repetition. This was undoubtedly the case for post-war, low-cost cons...
Free Range Kids

Kids Outside, Cops Called: FOUR SEPARATE TIMES - Over at Reason you’ll find my story of one Ms. Gordon (no first names — she’s been harassed enough). Ms. G lives in a leafy Philly suburb, has three sons...
Let Grow

The Great Middle School Microwave War (and Why the Adults Didn’t End It) - [image: Chatgpt Image Aug 3 2026 09_21_19 Am] At The Village School in Arlington, VA, it was war. The 80-student school had one microwave and about 15 midd...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

The Ceuta Clownshow - Also open thread.
The Breakthrough Journal

Decoupling Syndrome - A Review of "The Earth Said Remember Me" by Jason Mark
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

NYISO’s New Resource Outlook – Affordability Implications - The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) released its 2025-2044 System & Resource Outlook (Outlook on July 22, 2026. The report is framed as a rel...
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, by Sherri Duskey Rinker - Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, Sherri Duskey Rinker (illus.
Risk & Progress

Paying You to Live - A radical rethink of healthcare
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

I asked Bas Rutten about violence - Bas Rutten retired without losing any of his last 22 fights.
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #57: MLK, Jr.’s Dream Was the American Dream - Why Great Leaders Build on Shared Values Instead of Dividing Them
Autonomia

Book Review: Santorini by Alistair MacLean - This 1987 naval novel puts ticking atom bombs on a plane crashing in the Mediterranean
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Timeline 1800-1899: signed pre-publication copies - Deadline for orders: 9/1/2026.
PM of NZ

Yip, that's it - In the news of the day: *The Nats award the South Island tribe of grifters a massive back-country station free of charge. * On the ever level playing fi...
Real Clear Energy: Video

Why I'm Loading Up on Canadian Natural Gas Right Now - Canadian Natural Gas is changing in 2026, with massive new growth opportunities and the potential for significantly more upside going forwards. In this vid...
Kiwipolitico

Reactionary bookends. - Now that election season is underway in NZ, I shall very briefly drift into a subject I usually tend to avoid: NZ domestic politics, and more specifically,...
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: No Individual Raindrop Ever Considers Itself Responsible for the Flood - John Ruskin? Douglas Adams? Sydney J. Harris? Paul Harvey? Stanisław Jerzy Lec? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: A group that acts in unison can...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Ep31 "Which Way Western Man?" Part 4 (Jesus II) w/ Brynhildr - Chapter 3a Jesus: Tribute and Re-Appraisal, part 2
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

The Activists Behind Winston Peters' Mock Execution - Left wing political violence gets a free pass, again
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 ...
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

Letter from an American attorney - ABOUT GOLFING WITH DONALD TRUMP
Lindsay Mitchell

Outgoing Children's Commissioner calls for bigger benefits as swansong - Outgoing Children's Commissioner calls for bigger benefits as swansong. Today on Q&A outgoing Children's Commissioner Claire Achmad told Jack Tame the i...
O'Shannassy's Dispatches from Collapse

What Really Causes Inflation? - Maybe Central Bankers Should Take the 5th. Their Illogical Utterances Are Incriminating.
Andrew Whiteside

Review: Defending the Caveman - Defending the Caveman has become quite the international phenomenon. Created by Rob Becker, it’s a one-man show that takes a comedic look at the age-old ba...
Maximum Progress

The End of the Endangered Species Act? - and the Costs of Environmental Land Use Regulation
Thinking Directions

Which Comes First — The How or the Commitment? - I’m reading an interesting book by Peter Block, which opens with this quote from him: There is depth in the question “How do I do this?” that is wort...
Construction Physics

Reading List 08/01/26 - Pepper-spray drones, China’s chip Manhattan Project, Commonwealth Fusion’s fundraise, and a proposed Dulles Airport renovation.
Theatreview

Request for an Arts and Culture Sector Restructuring and Funding Investigation - Request for an Arts and Culture Sector Restructuring and Funding Investigation By Jan Bolwell ONZM and Dr Tania Kopytko Disclaimer: the views expressed ...
What You Can Do For Liberty

UPDATE: Top 25 Liberty Events and Conferences in 2026-2027 - Want to make new friends, learn about liberty, and network with pro-liberty thinkers?
Freedom and Flourishing

Is AI Leading Us Inexorably Towards Dystopian Collectivism? - “*You are connected to the entire accumulated knowledge of humanity and to the colossal computing power of the custodian system directly through biolo...
Public Lands – PERC

Public Comment: Grazing Rules Should Reward Stewardship, Not Second-Guess Who’s Allowed to Graze - What the Bureau of Land Management's new proposal gets right and one place it falls short The post Public Comment: Grazing Rules Should Reward Stewardshi...
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Hard Wiring - While Andy Burnham’s call for Fifa President Gianni Infantino to lose his job (not content with one deposition in July) will grab the headlines, the more...
Gale Winds

Healthy Foods Have Never Been More Abundant: Fruits, Vegetables, and Nuts. - On the average we are consuming 359 percent more of these items. Adjusting for population we are enjoying 1,123 percent more, while CO₂ increased 32 percent.
The Jolly Libertarian

Book Review: Dreams of Orphans by Vinay Kolhatkar - I had the rare privilege of being an alpha reader for Vinay Kolhatkar’s new novel, Dreams of Orphans. Originally titled The Stuntman, the title and the ...
The Future of Freedom Foundation

The Military’s Fraudulent JFK Autopsy Converted a Conspiracy Theory to a Conspiracy - The Future of Freedom Foundation is posting my new video commentary entitled Housewives Underground: A Video Commentary, which is an amplification of my ...
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: July 2026 - We saw a major housing policy milestone in July: the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act became law.
Toppermost

Spacemen 3 - John Peel had played Spacemen 3’s Hypnotized where waves of sound washed up beneath gloriously otherworldly vocals. The post Spacemen 3 appeared first on...
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
Statecraft

The James C. Scott Memorial Episode - “Scott, by God, that man has earned it.”
Macroscience

Chad Jones on Idea-Based Models of Economic Growth - Economics of Ideas, Science, and Innovation Lecture 2.
Too Clever By Half

Smile! (and account security) - Google is unrolling a new way to make your Google account recoverable if you forget your password, are hacked, or otherwise lose access. ¶ [image: Three...
Private Lands – PERC

Landscapes, not Lecterns: A Senate Tour of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem - PERC and the Boone and Crockett Club host U.S. senators for a firsthand look at collaborative conservation The post Landscapes, not Lecterns: A Senate To...
Paul Wells

The baby-bear fallacy - Sometimes "just right" is a trap
On Substack

Model Behavior: Taylor Lorenz - Kicking off an honest series about writers, thinkers, creators, and AI—how a tech journalist works with AI
DGMLive

New music available: Breathless With Flute Solo - At the 26th July online meeting of the 1000 Club, I was asked about a version of Breathless which had Ian McDonald’s solo with the backing for context, so ...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Thinking tools versus thinking? From television and calculators to A.I. - Before A.I., pretty much every new information tool was feared and opposed as an enemy of human cognitive advance. Television (1985): “People will come to ...
Liberty Scott

What to do about Roads of National Significance? - Perhaps the most significant news in transport policy out of the Government in the past few weeks has been the rescheduling of the Roads of National Sign...
Cremieux Recueil

Botswana Did Everything Right - Botswana invested its diamond wealth in its citizens. Has it all been for naught?
Existential Crunch

The success and failure of the Montreal Protocol - And why its lessons aren’t easily transferable
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Things I Wanted - Clarity in California.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

Things I Wanted - Clarity in California.
The Many Ways I Let You Down

Bill Oddie: An Unlikely New Zealand Punk - Remembering a childhood favorites trip to Dunedin
The Enlightened Examiner

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

No. 1 - Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Introducing The Stoic Mind - Five Stoic techniques for managing anxiety, taught one at a time, starting in two weeks. Here's what to expect.
An Africanist Perspective

Book Review (3/26): The Political Economy of Rwanda's Rise (by Pritish Behuria) - On developmentalist state-building and its impacts on business-state relations.
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Australia’s Social Media Policy Is Succeeding - Here’s what the critics are missing.
Wright in Racine

Racine’s Secret is Revealed - © Mark Hertzberg (2026) Racine, Wisconsin has a long-hidden architectural secret. I have known this secret for several decades. Now, thanks to the latest O...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

Home Brew Presents ‘Last Week’ – The Extensive New Zealand & Australia Tour! - Following a hugely successful sold-out performance at Auckland Town Hall in May, Live Nation has today announced Home Brew presents Last Week, an extensi...
Principled Perspectives

New Jersey’s Racist John R. Lewis Voter Empowerment Act - New Jersey has gone full collectivist—especially racist—on the Democratic process. On July 2, 2026, Governor Mikie Sherrill signed the John R. Lewis Vote...
Offsetting Behaviour

Geloso on how to think like a good economist - I really like Vincent Geloso's slide deck on market processes, market failures, and government failures. Over the past couple of months, Claude read thro...
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

Why Compulsory National Service is Morally Indefensible - Calls for conscription are anti-American as they violate individual rights—your rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The Beauty of Things

Readings, Retreats and a Reckoning with Substack - A Georgic reset was required for keeping a difficult balance online. Photos from our farm vacation. Links to reading recordings.
Asimov’s Addendum

Differentiation and personality in AI models - Thoughts on model "culture" as a kind of lock-in
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...
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

The world in a tomato – or what a Greek salad tells us about globalisation and culture - The Long Read
The Intrinsic Perspective

Goodbye Slopstack! Also, a $50,000 essay/fiction contest, adversarial consciousness tech, & more - Desiderata #41
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Two Good Indicators and Two VERY bad indicators for NZ Children and Young People - The Good
One Useful Thing

An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff - The Summer 2026 Edition
Africa’s Bright Future

Your Favorite Regulation Is Probably Hurting You - Most people think regulations protect the poor. The data says the opposite.
Fictionosophy

She Who Remains and Twisted Cultural Norms - She Who Remains explores the vital issue of how ancient, patriarchal, repressive laws tear apart lives, but it does so through an incoherent style and is c...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

More Misconduct by Stuart Nash - Realpolitik in operation: Nash ceases to be NZF candidate
Houston Strategies

High Speed Rail Update: the alignment in northwest Harris County is (unofficially) DEAD - Another excellent guest post from Oscar Slotboom, author of Houston Freeways. Honestly, I’m glad Texas HSR is dead because it was always going to end up a ...
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

Instead of a Mid-Life Crisis, I have Mid-Life Clarity - On August 1st, I’ll be 42 years old but instead of having a mid-life crisis, I’m having mid-life clarity.
Ruxandra’s Substack

Intelligence is not the main bottleneck - Confessions of a naive hamster: why the smartest people in the room keep missing that intelligence is often not the main bottleneck in the real world
Wildlife – 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...
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...
Reason for Living

The Happiness Triangle - Tai Lopez's formulation that the "good life" consists of "health, wealth, love, and happiness" forms, with a few tweaks, a valuable framework for prioritiz...
Eating Policy

North Carolina’s bold move on civil service - The state’s new civil service statute, enacted by a Republican legislature and signed into law by a Democratic governor, is a big deal
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

How Nigeria did IMF Reforms Without the IMF - How Babangida "rejected the IMF" but did most of the IMF reforms in an interesting way
Schreibmaschiner (David McLoughlin)

Bill Birch saved my life, and other reminiscences of an important NZ politician’s career - Bill Birch, who died on Friday, probably saved my life. It was 1983. He was Minister of Energy in Rob Muldoon’s National Party government and as such had o...
The Shrewd Artist

Just Published: An Art Memoir: Depth and Light, Volume One, 1965-2002 - Here, I am Including the First Chapter.
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Just Published: An Art Memoir: Depth and Light, Volume One, 1965-2002 - Here, I am Including the First Chapter.
Virginia Postrel

Which Would You Rather Give Up: Electric Light or Electric Washing Machines? - Plus, what Donald Trump could learn from Jun’ichirō Tanizaki.
HardmoneyJim

From Cigars to Bitcoin: The Simple Truth About Why Prices Rise - What a neighborhood cigar shop can teach you about the global financial system — and about whether you’re an investor or a speculator.
Building the Builders

Gena Gorlin and Linda Mann on building a life of art - A recording from Dr. Gena Gorlin's live video
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Why both Republicans and Democrats should support aggressive permitting reform - Bipartisan deals are often impossible, but on permitting it’s totally possible—because permitting delays kill projects that members of both parties deeply ...
Greg Mankiw's Blog

Thank you, British Academy - I am deeply honored to be named an International Fellow of the British Academy.
Conflicted

The Geopolitics of Climate Continues - My post up at Civitas Outlook
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Episode 3 - A Visceral Reaction - Megha Lillywhite Breaks the Spell of Children’s Illustration
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...
Outliving Iran

Outliving Iran: A Memoir (Part 1) - Up from poverty, violence, and darkness
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...
History Reclaimed

he Fate of the Dancing Girl: Partition, Restitution, and the Afterlife of an Indus Valley Icon - The bronze figurine of the Dancing Girl of Mohenjo Daro was made 4500 years ago by the Indus Valley Civilisation. She resides in a museum in India but she ...
Austin Vernon's Substack

How Ukraine Built a War Fighting State - The engine is revving after years of war.
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

The personal cost of political tribalism - People suffer when partisans sacrifice personal decency for The Cause™.
Precise Thinking

Obamalisk - "Tower of Power"
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 “...
HBL

Alan Greenspan–Not a Eulogy - Alan Greenspan, a friend and associate of Ayn Rand, just died, at the age of 100. He is known to the public as Chairman of the Federal Reserve for almost t...
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Who Will Love Me Now? - John Adams once said that the key to the human condition was summed up in the question: “who will love me?” It’s a deep and profound question.
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

The Dynamite Fishermen of Democracy - Party politics increasingly treats voters like fish to be stunned before election day. But when campaigns win by blasting the civic lake, communities are l...
Michael Newberry, Artist

Newberry Books - For over five decades, Michael Newberry has painted, taught, and written about art with a single conviction: that art is the technology of the soul. These ...
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (July 2026) - Lowering food system insecurity, and governing for peace and safety
Tim’s Substack

Happy American No Kings Day - We've kept the Republic for 250 years
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.
Harry’s Substack

Alan Greenspan--Not a Eulogy - The Maestro mastered the art of selling out
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

Poems for America: A Short Collection - Celebrate Independence Day with Emerson, Whitman, and more
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

From Fireworks to Flying Flags - And Other Symbols of Liberty
Tross Publishing

SHOULD TAXPAYERS PAY FOR BUILDING A CHURCH? - By John McLean In the wake of the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, which ended once and for all the centuries old French threat to England, the British Governmen...
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 -
Butterpaper

The cars that ate Vivian Street - part 1 - Wellington City boasts an enviable location, nestled tightly around a sheltered port on a harbour that curls in from the ocean. It’s a dense and lively c...
Gross Output

Good Sign: Business Spending is Finally Making a Comeback! - “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 Organon Architecture Blog

Project: 'Rural' Renovation, 2012 - I've been asked again about old projects. About which I really should talk more. Here's one that was slightly unusual, renovation of a large old colonial ...
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...
The Trumpland Diary

𝐔𝐅𝐂 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝟐𝟓𝟎: “𝐀 𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞” - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞 White House Cage Fighting 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭-𝐀-𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩
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...
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

Five Ideas to Survive a Hot, Dry Summer - The West is dry, overdue for fire, and running low on water. The institutions meant to help are struggling to keep up. Here's where to start. The post Fi...
Eat More Electrons

More evidence won’t save development - We don’t need more studies. We need a new coalition rebuilt on political priorities
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.
Cranmer’s Substack

Sinead Boucher Buys an Event - Matthew Hooton’s appointment is not a conventional hire. That is precisely the point.
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...
Asymmetric Information

2B RED: On the matter of maps🍋 - Learning from your atlas
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.
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

President Trump’s Childhood Vaccine Schedule - Donald Trump recently issued two executive orders claiming that children in the United States are receiving too many vaccines.
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...
Equal to Reality

The beauty in the broken glass - How an Animated Musical helped me find my authentic self.
The Realization of Wholeness

Varieties of Dualism, Part Five - "I am my feelings"
Robert Nasir’s Joyous Newsletter

Pride Month: Right On Target! - Life on Earth With Robert Nasir - Episode 95 - streamed live on Jun 1, 2023
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...
The Kerrant

Still Performing: Jim Henson, Kyle Busch, and the Danger of Powering Through - Jim Henson and Kyle Busch lived in different worlds, but their deaths share a haunting pattern: two elite performers, still creating and competing, appar...
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.
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 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?!
Happy Future

The Trouble with Transformers - And the long slouch towards cyberpunk
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 ...
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
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...
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
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
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]

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.
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...
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 "...
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...
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...
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!
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
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.
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
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...
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...
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...
The New Atlantis

Are Doctors Heroes? - The effervescent rays of sunshine spread their warmth across my back as I walk along Omaha Beach in Normandy. French children kick around a soccer ball, ...
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 ...
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