Not PC: Popular Not PC

... other blogs

American Enterprise Institute – AEI

Can a New Methodology Give Us “Headlights” on AI Work Disruption? - Forward-looking data on where AI is going is not a curiosity. It provides policymakers with the scope and depth to analyze the true nature of the problem...
Slow Boring

Thursday discussion post - All in a day’s work
Cato at Liberty

US Tariff Refunds: Mostly Good Developments but Still a Long Way to Go - Processing is not paying, and close attention should be paid to potential cuts to the bottom line. The onus will be on the government for anything less tha...
Watts Up With That?

New York Following Cuba’s Strategy For Powering The Electrical Grid - If we keep up our current energy policies for long enough, we can also get to the point where our thermal (fossil fuel) power plants are too old to be ma...
Institute for Energy Research

IER Applauds EPA’s Proposal to Pause Biden-Era Tier 4 Vehicle Emission Standards Built on Faulty EV Assumptions - WASHINGTON, DC (5/14/26) – The Institute for Energy Research (IER) today praised the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to pause the… The post IE...
The Inquiring Mind

Here’s how a dose of fentanyl can overcome writer’s block - Bob Edlin writes – Fancy becoming an author but are hampered by writer’s block? Defined as a psychological inability to start or continue writing, … Here’s...
The Curmudgeon

More Sunlight on Nigel's Uplands - Those who recall the shifting justifications for Brexit (It'll solve all our problems! Well, at least most of our problems! Well, at least some of our prob...
The Jolly Libertarian

Comparative AI: The Reality Behind the Masks - An intriguing article at *New Philosopher* magazine led me to explore the similarities and differences between four different AIs by posing the same 13 q...
The Integrity Institute

News Briefing: 15 May 2026 - PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Futurism

Microsoft AI Researchers Just Discovered Something That’s Going to Make Their Bosses Extremely Mad - Relying on AI in the workplace? You may be about to discover a drastic problem. The post Microsoft AI Researchers Just Discovered Something That’s Going ...
Techdirt

eBay To GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen: Um, No - It might be time to do a wellness check on GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen. We had just discussed Cohen’s announced bid to have GameStop buy eBay as part of an abs...
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

Parliament right to correct Supreme Court on climate change case - NZ Herald
FIRE

How McCarthy scared America silent - A paranoid senator, a terrified nation, and the birth of modern political censorship. This is the chilling story of how McCarthyism came to haunt America.
Mises Institute Blog

Socialists Are Reaping a Bountiful Political Harvest while They Create Havoc - As the economy faulters, socialists are getting elected, promising free goods and services and an end to the chaos. Even when they make things worse, howev...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

The New Counterculture - Ted Gioia on the next indie wave
IPWatchdog Articles

Evaluating the Business Case for AI in Patent Practice - Artificial intelligence has moved beyond the experimental phase in legal practice. The legal industry is no longer debating whether lawyers can or should...
Breaking Views

Mike Grimshaw: It’s the (social adhesion) economy, Stupid! - One of the on-going issues of modern life, identified from the rise of industrial and urban society in the early 19th century, is the sense of insecurity, ...
The Free Press

Tough Love: Am I Too Young to Have a Baby? - A 24-year-old wife who’s still in med school is itching to start a family. ‘Am I crazy for not wanting to wait?’ she asks. Abigail Shrier weighs in.
Why Evolution Is True

The Times ditched its public editor, but oy, does it need one now! - There have been a ton of articles criticizing Nicholas Kristof’s poorly sourced and dubious NYT column accusing Israel of widespread sexual torture of Pale...
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

The Frog Slog - Hi guys and gals, welcome to this week's edition of Laura's Links. A few weeks ago, I was mindlessly doomscrolling on one of the crack-like apps on social ...
The Daily Economy

How Much Has Shale Gas Saved US Consumers? -
Sawahil

Mauritania: On the Sufi Background of President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani - A recent book gives his father's biography, and indirectly highlights the president's religious ties to Shaykh Bin Bayyah.
SkyscraperCity Forum

[Wrocław] Drogi i torowiska w śródmieściu: Słowiańska, Wyszyńskiego, Nowowiejska, Szczytnicka - CodeLukas said: *Wrocław: Projekt budżetu 2011: rok pod znakiem inwestycji* *Przebudowa ul. Wyszyńskiego* od ul. Sienkiewicza do mostów Warszawskich. Cl...
Classical Compass Rose

The Problem of Beautiful Art About Terrible Things - On John Singer Sargent’s "Gassed", and its exploration of truth versus beauty in the aftermath of World War One.
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

A Career CIA Officer Just Said It Under Oath: The 'Proximal Origin' Story Was a Deliberate Cover-Up - Three and a half years after we mapped the anatomy of the cover-up, the Intelligence Community is finally putting it on the record. And Dr. Fauci is named.
bad cattitude

screwdriver identifies as hammer - nailing the source of the division
Flashbak

How To Kill: A 6-Part Guide For Urban Assassins 1973-1984 - “The mechanical act of killing is my chief concern, but the student is warned that it would be wrong to celebrate the death of the subject or to take ple...
The Rebuild

The TSA Line of Electricity - How to Fix Interconnection Queues
Brownstone Institute

Return of the Next Pandemic Script - Return of the Next Pandemic Script by Yaffa Shir-Raz at Brownstone Institute [image: Return of the Next Pandemic Script] "Essentially, 2–3 people may hav...
Living Resources Center

Weak Republicans, Not Democrats, Will Bring America Down - “The worst enemy of socialism is not capitalism. It is reality!” [Margaret Thatcher] This is why leftists scream, cry and shoot. They are at war with rea...
Marginal Revolution

How Much Has Shale Gas Saved U.S. Consumers? - Every US president since Nixon has called for freeing the US from ‘dependence on foreign oil’ (within ten years!). Every president has failed. Fracking, ...
Changing Lanes

CHANGING LANES Paying Subscriber Poll - A request for two minutes of your time
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 1102 AI circularity. Egypt's land monetization. Young people quitting Beijing & the BJP's triumphant march. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Anthony B. Bradley

Inside Edition: A Sneakpeak at The Fatherhood Effect National Initiative for Churches - Sixty churches. Six practices. Four years. One goal: forming the kind of fathers whose children keep the faith.
Anthony B. Bradley

Inside Edition: A Sneakpeak at The Fatherhood Effect National Initiative for Churches - Sixty churches. Six practices. Four years. One goal: forming the kind of fathers whose children keep the faith.
EconLog

The “Trade Deficit” is a Misnomer - The United States, like most other countries, use a method of double-entry accounting to track certain aggregate statistics known as National Income Acco...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Ed Miliband vows permanent shutdown of the North Sea - By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby I have long believed Miliband is determined to do as much irreversible damage to the country as he can before he gets ...
GeekPress

Logarithmic Representation Of Observable Universe - *"Logarithmic representation* of the observable universe. Notable astronomical objects are annotated. Distance from Earth increases exponentially from cent...
Hoover institution Commentary

The Unseen Costs of a Universal Basic Income - Basing economic policy on runaway fears of AI job displacement could gut future productivity.
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Can Socialists Support Commerce But Not Capitalism? - Socialists often criticize US trade restrictions on Cuba. A recent example is the flotilla organized by activists attempting to deliver aid to the island...
The Footy Almanac

Almanac Footy: Carlton 2026 – From Voss To Where? - John Butler believes the departure of Michael Voss had become inevitable. But Carlton's path forward is much less obvious.
Kiwiblog

A report was just released containing 10k photos, 1.8k hours of video and testimony from 430 eyewitnesses that Hamas engaged in mass rape on October 7 2023, but the NZ media won’t report on it - By Lucy Rogers It ought to be international news, and it isn’t: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgz9k7pzggo There was a press release about this put o...
Astral Codex Ten

Every Magazine Piece On The SF AI Scene - ...
The Double Standard

Daily review 14/05/2026 - Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the P...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Leadership - When I was 20yo (1987) - and weighed approx.
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

BB and the Bullets: Wrong Side of the River (digital outlets) - Late last year we wrote about High Tide, the debut album by Whanganui's BB and the Bullets (Brian Baker and band). We were impressed (“an album which ann...
Brash & Mitchell

LINDSAY MITCHELL: The deafening silence about welfarism and children - It took becoming a mother to awaken an interest in politics in me. Having then become increasingly aware of the detrimental role welfare was playing in wea...
Lindsay Mitchell

The deafening silence about welfarism and children - It took becoming a mother to awaken an interest in politics in me. Having then become increasingly aware of the detrimental role welfare was playing in w...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: Life is Nothing But This - It's as you take it to be.
ArchDaily

The Productive Clash: Heritage Interiors, Contemporary Projects, and the Value of Imperfection - Heritage, in interiors, is increasingly rarer to be only a matter of preservation alone. More often it arrives as friction: the encounter between what a ...
Flying Out

Mlah (Secondhand Vinyl LP) - *Vendor: *SECONDHAND *Type: *LES NEGRESSES VERTES *Price: * 22.00 Artist: Les Negresses Vertes Year: 1989 Genre: Rock, Latin Sub-Genre: Folk Rock, Flame...
Point of Order

Trump should brace for reprisals as Waititi calls for penalties over Wihongi detention - Bob Edlin writes – The PoO team was greatly cheered to hear Maori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi go out to bat for “all New Zealand citizens detained by IC...
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Cornpone – folksy, rustic, countrified; unleavened corn bread, baked or fried; a type of dense cornbread, traditionally popular in the Southern US, made wi...
No Minister

The Myth of the “Right Side of History” - Few phrases in modern political discourse are as smug, as hollow, and as revealing as the claim that one’s opponents are “on the wrong side of history.” It...
The Daily Doom

Trump's Tariff Troubles - “They’ve sunk the party.”
The Trichordist

The Growing Backlash Against AI Data Centers: Local Resistance and the Infrastructure Crunch - Communities in the U.S. are increasingly resisting the rise of AI-driven data centers due to concerns over electricity demand, water usage, noise pollution...
Quillette

Frampton Comes Alive! at Fifty - The improbable story of rock’s greatest live album.
The Beauty of Things

What He Really Wanted From Me - A personal story of literary mentorship gone very wrong
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Cheap racism + brutal economics – Luxon brings poppadoms for butter chicken tsunami while promising more austerity - So National feel so much pressure from NZFirst’s racism that they are going to jump on the dog whistle bandwagon...
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day – Copulating for virginity - A Regulating for Growth Bill – a slogan up there with copulating for virginity and drinking for sobriety… – Nick Timothy MP
Free Range Kids

Congress to Consider Letting Kids Be Kids - Bi-partisan bill would stop investigating Free-Range parents Son in Famous Meitivs of Maryland Case Weighs In — as Does His Mom How do you get more kids ...
The Daily Sceptic

News Round-Up - A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘cris...
The Trumpland Diary

Donald Trump's Rebranding of America - How Trump is reshaping the country in his own image
Public: Michael Shellenberger

CIA Whistleblower Alleges Agency Illegally Monitored Investigators And Is Hiding Covid, MKUltra, And JFK Files - Explosive Senate testimony claims ongoing cover-up of Intelligence Community scandals going back decades
UnHerd

Why plutocrats love Trump’s war - The base bleeds; the top feasts
Houston Strategies

HCTRA is wonderful! (according to HCTRA) while investigative reporters circle... - Part 2 guest post from Oscar Slotboom documenting the outrageous looting of HCTRA. You can find Part 1 here.---Before the main content of this post, I want...
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Inflation: 4% Yesterday, 6% Today, Higher Tomorrow - Click on Title to Read
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Inflation: 4% Yesterday, 6% Today, Higher Tomorrow - The evidence that things are coming unglued keeps pouring in. For instance, yesterday the grand-daddy of all US Treasury long bonds—-the 30-year UST—cros...
American Energy Alliance

New Report Highlights Dangers Of Government Auto Mandates - In 2024, the Biden administration finalized the tailpipe emissions rule that effectively forced electric vehicles (EVs) on the American public, as automa...
Real Clear Energy

Uprising Against Wind and Solar - Gary Abernathy, RCEnergy It is not unreasonable to ask how the alternatives movement, led by solar and wind, went from being the darling of the nation, th...
Persuasion

The Importance of Civic Virtue - To win, the Democratic Party needs to appeal to our better nature.
Truth on the Market

The European Commission’s ‘Six-Seven’ Theory of Interoperability - If you have been near anyone under the age of 15 in the past year, you may have heard the phrase “six seven” shouted with great conviction and no discern...
Offsetting Behaviour

Legalise energy - If someone owns some land with minor brush on it and wants to clear that brush, and clearing isn't going to create erosion into streams that bother neigh...
JoNova

Eating Eggs five times a week associated with 27% lower risk of Alzheimers - Photo by Biswarup Ganguly By Jo Nova The Experts said eggs were high fat foods with too much cholesterol, and egg consumption halved for twenty years in...
The UnPopulist

Political Islam Is Rank Populism That Perverts a Fundamentally Liberal Faith - The Western right’s smearing of the entire religion and the left’s romanticization of it are both misguided
Conversable Economist

Snapshots of Global Defense Spending - The go-to source for comparing national levels of defense spending arount the world is SIPRI, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which...
Spiked Online

The Oxford Union should not cancel Tommy Robinson - The post The Oxford Union should not cancel Tommy Robinson appeared first on spiked.
Curbed - All

Is This the End for the Bubble House? - The oddball modernist row house on East 71st found a buyer. They’re just not sure they like the windows.
Reason for Living

Projects Update: Homing in on What I Love - I've learned that a key part of finding work you love is finding something that integrates your various passions and values.
Middle East Uncovered

Peace Is Not Coming to Lebanon Anytime Soon - As long as Hezbollah remains tied to the Islamic Republic’s regional agenda, Lebanon cannot negotiate as a fully sovereign state.
Official Blog

𖦹 L 𖦹 A 𖦹 B 𖦹 Y 𖦹 R 𖦹 I 𖦹 N 𖦹 T 𖦹 (>26 m) — Geocache of the Week - Traditional-Cache GCAKPKF by DeborahVanDerLinden Difficulty: 2.5 Terrain: 1.5 Location: Zuid-Holland, Netherlands N 51° 49.565′ E 004° 38.035′ How much pat...
Capitalism Magazine

President Trump Can Stop Racial Profiling Immediately - The Census Bureau is still moving full speed to promote racial profiling to support disparate impact and DEI objectives. Strong executive action is require...
Note to Noteworthy

Faith-based “Spirituality” Destroys Real Spiritual Values - What a religious schism in my church over the Christian and U.S. flags can tell us about faith-based spirituality.
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

Prayer Works: How God Answered My Prayer for My Wife’s Baptism - Since I was baptized in 2024, I would have candid discussions with my wife about her beliefs and if she had any interest in getting baptized.
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Conspiracy Theories, Big Brother, Scarcity - Links and recommendations
HBL

Immigration—some mostly new thoughts - Angry articles about immigration have flared up again among Objectivists, but both sides seem to have no difficulty ignoring the points I’ve made. Or, more...
The Works in Progress Newsletter

How ASML took over the world - The strange path to global monopoly
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 166 - Creating Through the Grief (JoDavi) - Listen now | An interview with recording artist JoDavi
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 166 - Creating Through the Grief (JoDavi) - Listen now | An interview with recording artist JoDavi
The War on Prices

President Trump’s Approval on Inflation is Now Worse Than President Biden’s Ever Was - President Trump’s approval on inflation is at a historic low.
Libertarian Land

Will AI Destroy the World? - Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate known as the “Godfather of AI,” estimates a 10–20% chance AI leads to human extinction within thirty years.
American Institute of Economic Research

Headline Inflation Cooled in April, but Core Pressures Picked Up - Headline inflation cooled in April, but not enough to give the Federal Reserve much comfort. The Consumer Price Index rose 0.6 percent last month, down f...
New Zealand Arts Review

Zines: a comic version of NZ subculture’s history - Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Zines NZ: From punk to present Bryce Galloway Massey University Press RRP $55.00 Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples One of the alm...
The Grumpy Economist

1979 update - From Jesper Rangvid Disclaimer, this is thought provoking fun, not serious analysis.
Dead Language Society

The ancient logic of “snuck” - Bad grammar or living fossil of Proto-Germanic?
Perennial Meditations

There Are Two Kinds of Joy—Most People Are Chasing the Wrong One - Dying Every Day (Day 146)
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

Spencer Pratt is the Hummingbird Dad Rising from the Ashes - Why a father breaking the fourth wall is the most compelling candidate in a generation
Retraction Watch

Elsevier journal removes two 42-year-old papers on cesium as a cancer treatment - An Elsevier journal has removed two papers on a discredited alternative treatment for cancer nearly half a century after they were published, after researc...
Energy Transition Absurdities

A Message For Datacenter Developers: Get Your Act Together, Pronto - Yesterday, this post appeared on X describing a situation in which public utility Georgia Power is preparing to exercise eminent domain to condemn at least...
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

How Anne Sullivan Achieved Her Miracle with Helen Keller - How did Sullivan pull off her “miracle”? Here are five things that helped her succeed.
Reason Foundation

Accessory dwelling units reveal housing constraints and the limits of legalization alone - The increasing prevalence of ADUs highlights the intersecting influences of land, regulation, and system design in determining housing outcomes. The post...
The Roots of Liberty

Peter’s Guide To Musical Harmony - Those who know me outside this blog, or who are social media friends, know that I’ve been on a live music frenzy ever since the pandemic lockdown ended.
Asimov’s Addendum

The Salesforce of agents won't be Salesforce, The Google of agents won't be Google - Building software architectures and mechanisms for the agentic economy
Law & Liberty

The Decline and Fall of Human Agency - As AI reshapes the world, it may feel less and less "empowering."
Quotulatiousness

A quick look at the race to be the next governor of California - Chris Bray somehow seems to find the election coverage by a multi-decade veteran Los Angeles Times political reporter to be, dare I say, lacking just a lit...
The Cobden Centre

Speech in Brussels on the Cost of Bureaucracy - I recently gave this talk at the Free Market Roadshow in Brussels, talking through the cost of bureaucracy in Europe and elsewhere. The whole...
Tim Worstall

Cometh….. - …well, you know the rest: Why does Britain keep ending up with weak Prime Ministers? In this video, I argue that the problem is no longer simply about pe...
Doomberg

Remedial Math - Correcting the record on US oil production and refining.
The Antiplanner

A Dumb Reason for a Dumb Project - Australia’s prime minister is proposing to build a 200-mph train between Sydney and Newscastle, a city located about a hundred miles north of Sydney. This ...
The Antiplanner

A Dumb Reason for a Dumb Project - Australia’s prime minister is proposing to build a 200-mph train between Sydney and Newscastle, a city located about a hundred miles north of Sydney. This ...
Ayn Rand Centre UK

New York Times’s Shameless Hamas Propaganda -
No Right Turn

The regime is out of time - The regime introduced its appalling Conservation Amendment Bill, which allows widescale privatisation of the conservation estate, last week, and rammed it ...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

After Solar and Wind Farms Suddenly Sprang Up, Citizens and Local Governments Sprang Into Action - It is not unreasonable to ask how the alternatives movement, led by solar and wind, went from being the darling of the nation, the face of our energy futur...
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: Do Not Confine Your Children to Your Own Learning, for They Were Born in Another Time - Rabindranath Tagore? Rabbinic Saying? Arabic Proverb? Talmud? A. Huebsch? Leo Rosten? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Knowledge accumulates, an...
Kiwipolitico

Will Israel nuke Iran? Some background. - Regular reader Barbara Matthews asked me in a comment on a previous post about Israeli nukes. I replied on the comment thread on that post but have decided...
Manhattan Contrarian

New York Following Cuba's Strategy For Powering The Electrical Grid - * Suppose that you are a large U.S. state with a dynamic modern economy. Here’s an idea for a strategy for powering your electrical grid: Intentionally dis...
The Whakataki Times

Mo’unga Not Fit For All Blacks Until He Proves Himself In Illustrious New Zealand NPC - SELECTION STANDOFF. The post Mo’unga Not Fit For All Blacks Until He Proves Himself In Illustrious New Zealand NPC appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
The Common Reader

You have no idea how many legends have walked these halls and what’s worse, you don’t care. - The Devil Wears Prada is The Godfather for Millennials
Let Grow

Congress Introduces a “Let Grow” Law! - [image: United States Capitol Building In Washington Dc] How do you get more kids out and about on their own – and assure parents this won’t be mistaken fo...
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

New York Grid Inertia Past and Present - I believe that it is necessary to reconsider the New York Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act (Climate Act) net zero transition because the reali...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

The Ruins of Hollywood - The "Decimation" Started Decades Ago
Greater Auckland

The higher cost of a “cheaper” CRL - Almost two years after leaving as chief executive of City Rail Link Ltd to deliver Dublin’s MetroLink, Dr Sean Sweeny is back. And back in the news, crit...
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Stop corn + oil lobbyists from permanently expanding the ethanol mandate - The “Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act" expands the ethanol mandate by 1) loosening air quality rules and 2) imposing the mandate on small r...
McFaul's World

Détente 2.0: Hoping for a Boring Summit in Beijing - Trump is weaker, and Xi is stronger, since their last summit in Beijing. But the U.S. does not have to remain in this state of weakness forever.
A Halfling's View

Reading Reflections - How A Book in the "Antilibrary" Started a Journey
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Bill Maher’s newest rule: young people and political violence - This week Bill Maher’s comedy-and-news bit is about the “Assassination Generation,” referring to all the young men who kill or commit arson for ideological...
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.
Israel Institute of NZ

The “271,000” Myth: How a misreading of Holocaust records is used to deny six million dead - The claim that only “271,000” Jews died in the Holocaust is based on a deliberate misreading of partial archival records. It collapses under basic demograp...
CO2 Coalition

The California Refinery Crisis is a National Security Risk for America - By Ron Stien California is the 4th largest economy in the world and an “ENERGY ISLAND that is isolated from the other 49 States by the Sierra Mountains. ...
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Where Are All The Data Centers? - If you liked this piece, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usua...
On Substack

Open Tab: Esther Perel - Watch now | The renowned psychotherapist on what gives her life meaning, the antidote to social atrophy, AI as therapeutic tool, and cultivating the public...
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Why Marriage? - The second in a series . . .
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

How I lost my mind and bought an old half-restored nineteenth-century Thuringian villa - So, as many of you know, I did a crazy thing two years ago.
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

An Ode to Low-Skilled Workers: Version 2 - Today, I fly to Austin with my son. Want to stay in the loop of all the social events I’m hosting at UATX? Subscribe to my other Substack! Moving on, her...
The New York Review of Books

The Work of Feeling - In Love, two women fight until they understand their fighting as a pretense to touch. The fighting is a kind of intimacy, an annual rite of slapping, bitin...
Skeptic

The New Normal for Antisemitism - Antisemitism has shed its stigma, and it’s spreading fast. From campus protests to right-wing podcasts, Gerald and Patricia Posner chart a disturbing new n...
Energy in Depth

Pipeline Buildout Back in Focus as Energy Demand Accelerates - With U.S. energy demand accelerating, pipelines are back in focus. Without the right infrastructure, energy cannot be moved from where it is produced to ...
Can't Get Much Higher

Actors Who Play: An Album a Day - Featuring Steve Martin, Jackie Chan, Zooey Deschanel, and others
Gus Van Horn

A Pro-Vaccine Resource - After recently learning that infectious disease expert Amesh Adalja has a podcast, I listened to a few episodes while out yesterday. They're all short, but...
Why not reason?

Defending controversial ideas requires more than being right - For a very long time, I discussed with friends just to prove to them that I was right.
Uncharted Territories

What Do Muslims Believe ? - Around the world, about the Values Westerners Are Worried About
John D. Cook

Initialize and print 128-bit integers in C - If you look very closely at my previous post, you’ll notice that I initialize a 128-bit integer with a 64-bit value. The 128-bit unsigned integer represe...
ChinaTalk

Macartney to Mar-a-Lago - Julian Gewirtz on Trump-Xi
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

AUT’s Little Manifesto of Hatred - My literary and moral review of the worst poetry I have ever read
Yascha Mounk

Al Roth on Why People Should Be Free to Sell Their Kidneys - Yascha Mounk and Al Roth discuss what we miss when we separate economics from human emotion.
Stats Chat

Rugby Premiership Predictions for Round 16 - Team Ratings for Round 16 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ...
DGMLive

Discipline Tour now available on Nugs - 6 shows from the 80s lineup's very first tour are available to download on DGMLive or buy on CD through our partnership with Nugs.
Mises Wire

Enhancing Economic Analysis Through Corporate Finance - Corporate finance can help introduce classifications such as the distinction between the assets of a natural person and a legal person, but also by incorpo...
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

So all those who remember Smoot Hawley are dead then? - A standard - and we do so dislike the accusation of cynicism, we prefer realist - timetabling of the next banking crisis is a few years after the retirem...
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

wallflowers - musing on art again
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

The Sting in the India Trade Deal - A Constitutional Trojan Horse: advancing change through political stealth
Risk & Progress

Dethroned by Discovery - Rediscovering human purpose in a Copernican universe
Paul Wells

Dignified, efficient, and whatever this is - Have we reached Peak Carney? Probably not, but I wanted to be the first to ask
Andrew Whiteside

Interview: Pink Shirt Day 2026 - This Friday, 15 May, Aotearoa New Zealand will be a sea of pink for Pink Shirt Day – a day where New Zealanders stand together to spread kindness, celebrat...
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Brief Translation Update - More on the Eudemian Ethics
The Kerrant

“Te Reo Māori Only” Sounds Noble — But Is It Sustainable? - A new “te reo Māori only” cafe in Rotorua has generated enormous media attention and praise from activists and cultural commentators. But from a business...
Chris Trotter

Reaping the Whirlwind. - The only surprising thing about the abolition of the Broadcasting Standards Authority is that it caught so many people by surprise.
Doug Casey's International Man

Truth Is the First Casualty of War. The Currency Is the Second. - As war spending grows, the real cost will be paid through the destruction of the dollar’s purchasing power. The post Truth Is the First Casualty of War. ...
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

Restoring Rivers Requires Cooperation, not Litigation Shortcuts - An amicus brief in a case before the California Supreme Court case on restoring flows to California’s rivers The post Restoring Rivers Requires Cooperati...
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

One Council to Rule Them All - Council amalgamation isn’t about efficiency. It’s about control - and fewer voices pushing back.
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

Let Me Hear Your Heart Beat - "Pet Sounds" at 60
The Tracinski Letter

Farmageddon - A News Link Round-Up
The Weekly Sift

Profoundly Wrong Things - Good people, people who go to church, people who love their families, people who believe they’re good have, throughout the history of this country, done de...
The Future of Freedom Foundation

The Viciousness of the Twin Evils on Iran - The common assumption is because the Iranian regime is engaged in evil, that makes the U.S. government’s war on Iran something good. Nothing could be fur...
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Announcing: How to do Stoic Therapy - Forthcoming Substack Live event for Conversations with Modern Stoicism
The Logical Place

Anti-Zionism vs Anti-Semitism - Anti-Zionism becomes antisemitism when opposition to Zionism or Israel is used as a vehicle for hostility to Jews as Jews. A useful distinction is this: No...
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: 50 Years of Text Games, by Aaron Reed - 50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon, Aaron A.
Kunstler

The Earth Moves Just a Bit - “Operation Epic Fury was the loud one. Operation Economic Fury is the quiet one. . . . While the carriers were on television, Treasury was doing the actual...
Sinification

Yan Xuetong on the World to 2035: Hegemony and Its Challengers - A Review of Yan Xuetong's book of forecasts, Inflection of History (2026)
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Response to Kent Osband's “Rethinking Immigration” - There's little evidence that immigrants undermine economies
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

Response to Kent Osband's “Rethinking Immigration” - There's little evidence that immigrants undermine economies
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Why Is Latin America So Violent? - Rights for criminals and limited state capacity are a bad combination
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Timeline 1800-1899: Music of 1870-1879 - Aida, Carmen, Pictures at an Exhibition, Die Fledermaus, the Ring Cycle, Gilbert & Sullivan, and more.
Real Clear Energy: Video

We're Going Towards a Cliff on Oil - Former Middle East Senior Advisor to President Biden Amos Hochstein joins Bloomberg at the Milken Institute Global Conference to discuss the war in Iran. H...
Dramatic Pause

By The Numbers: Jonjon Tolovae - Jonjon Tolovae is a Fa’afafine writer and artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau whose work interrogates the intersections of gender, cultural identity and dias...
Tross Publishing

It’s Called Setting Yourself Up - By William Chambers The Conservation Minister, Tama Potaka, has said he is removing certain DoC land from the stewardship category to allow for future sa...
Marcus on AI

Misplaced panic over AI progress - Breaking down what METR’s latest “time horizon” graph does and does not show
What You Can Do For Liberty

Summer Plans? The World's Largest Pro-Liberty Festival Is In July - Don't fight for liberty alone: come meet like-minded friends!
Cranmer’s Substack

Work, Meaning and the Long Road Home - 'What did you get done this week?'
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Max Planck on individual originality in science - Max Planck, 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics: “New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organised, but rather from the head of an individ...
Earthly Idealism

Review: *Love Thy Stranger* by Bart D. Ehrman - How Christianity Polluted the Moral Conscience of the West
Liberty Scott

Is New Zealand a capitalist command economy? - Head of Lifestyle Economics at the UK's Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), a free-market thinktank, has written an excellent piece at The Critic called...
misfits' architecture

Misfits’ Guide to Hangzhou (杭州） - A few bits of information. These past six years I’ve been embarrassed more than once for never having visited Hangzhou, so this May Day long weekend I want...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

Why Canada Fell Behind America, Plus labor productivity, my research process, and what I do for a living. (And a thank-you to 6,000 of you!) - A mailbag Q&A on the productivity gap, plus how I write the African series and what I do for work
Glenn’s Substack

The Gathering Storm - After the first year, things are happening fast.
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

The Manosphere Is the Wrong Cure for the Right Pain - Andrew Tate’s worldview rests on four things Epictetus called slavery 2,000 years ago. The cruel part is that the wound it speaks to is real.
Building the Builders

All for Alice - Two origin stories in one 2020 blog post
Construction Physics

Reading List 05/09/2026 - Trapped buildings, in-home data centers, cardboard military drones, Brightline’s potential bankruptcy, and more.
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

Media Coverage (or not) of RCP8.5 RIP - The biggest story in climate science in decades has been mostly ignored
History Reclaimed

The Gravest Crime: Ghana and Slavery - The state of Ghana took the lead in March 2026 in the passing of a United Nations' resolution calling for reparations from western nations for the Atlantic...
The New Era

Reform's 'Thai Billionaire' - Christopher Harborne's links to Reform are coming out.
Precise Thinking

A New Look at Immortality - The Redemption of a Tortured Self: Selfhood Story #4
Schiffradio.com

Trump Wants to Buy an Airline With Your Money — This Is Not Capitalism - Trump wants to buy Spirit Airlines at bankruptcy with taxpayer money to "save jobs." That's not capitalism — that's Bernie Sanders with a red tie. The po...
Cremieux Recueil

Do Teachers Need Advanced Degrees? - It really doesn't seem to matter
Matua Kahurangi

Maiki Sherman resigns: when did words become career-ending? - Now, let me start by saying this.
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Cloud Nein - As the local election results come in, it’s worth remembering what councils actually do once the campaigning stops: they spend money — a lot of it on tec...
Gale Winds

Become a Superabundance Accelerator: Your First Challenge - The antidote to irrational pessimism isn’t just reading about abundance—it’s measuring it and then sharing your new knowledge.
The Breakthrough Journal

Public Agricultural Research Is Drifting Away From Farm Productivity - Washington’s Fix Would Make It Worse
The Economic LongWave

🚨The Stock Market Is Priced for Perfection. History Says Be Careful. - A major valuation measure from Hussman Strategic Advisors shows U.S. equities trading near the most extreme levels in modern history. This is not a timing ...
Sustain What

Sustaining Long-Term Science in a Short-Term World - Trump's assault on science budgets is just part of the problem. We under-invest in tracking planetary vital signs
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 511 - Design for Disassembly Before its Time - Jean Prouvé's Maisons démontables - The confluence of military rigour applied to construction management, design methodologies and generational investments in housing encouraged inventivi...
Freedom and Flourishing

What is the most important contribution of Walter Donway's recent book about his serious chats with AI? - As I was reading Walter Donway’s recently published book, *A Serious Chat With Artificial Intelligence*, I was looking for an aspect to focus on in wr...
A Havenstein Moment.

Circumventing the Will of the People - Don't think and drive.
Dr Oliver Hartwich

They came in peace. We came with clipboards. - The Martian Audit portrays two Martians touring New Zealand, baffled by absurd legalities, ultimately deciding invading Australia would be simpler. [...]
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

After all these years Anthony Fauci still has no idea what he's talking about - Fauci blames Americans for not reaching his COVID vaccination targets
Autonomia

Obituary: Ted Turner - Flawed founder of Turner Classic Movies and CNN was a visionary genius
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for April, 2026: +0.39 deg. C - This month I’m adding plots for USA48 and Canada, too. The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for April, 2026 was +0.39...
Fictionosophy

Guilt, Authoritarianism, and Art: Timeless Truths in The Director - The Director is a disturbing but masterful presentation of how totalitarianism creeps into every aspect of life and corrupts it.
Stewart Margolis

Am I a Zionist? - Until recently, I had never really stopped to consider whether or not I consider myself a Zionist.
Private Lands – PERC

Reflecting on Ted Turner’s Crowded Life - A great lasting memory and a true southern gentleman, lion of conservation, and source of inspiration until the very end. The post Reflecting on Ted Turn...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

Mel Parsons Announces 7-Date Tour - Singer-songwriting luminary, Mel Parsons, has announced a seven-date national theatre tour with her band in August and September 2026, celebrating her mu...
In Due Course

Naomi Klein’s husband doubles down on public grocery stores - The road to neoliberalism is paved with good intentions
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (May 2026) - Preparedness in an age of polycrisis
Toppermost

Living Colour - Living Colour pushed boundaries fusing hard rock, funk, jazz, punk with a social conscience that hit like a thunderbolt. The post Living Colour appeared...
Existential Crunch

The end of the fallout bunker - In Germany, at least
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

Institutions incentivise silence and the powerful benefit - Conspiracy or censorship isn't the problem
Harry’s Substack

What is 'The rule of law, not of men'? Part I - A Randian theory of objective law
Science of Doom

Tropical Cyclones: Cat 4+ Counts and the Annoying 1990 Boundary - In Recent Trends in Tropical Cyclones last year we looked at the data for 1990-2024 from IBTrACS and compared this to a paper, Trends in Global Tropical Cy...
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #45: Persistence Builds Credibility - The message is powerful, but persistence proves you mean it.
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

The Subtle Horror of Package Inserts - If you want to scare yourself about vaccine safety, just read the package insert.
Croaking Cassandra

A central banker’s fiction - No, this is nothing to do with (say) Neil Quigley’s months-long spin and obfuscation from last year (eg here or here). Decades ago, when the Commonwealth c...
Tim’s Substack

Anthropogenic Climate Change - The Scam that will Never Die
The Library of Celaeno

The Man Who Hated India - The rancorous career of John Nicholson
JunkScience.com

Milloy: Whack Back the Hijack at American Express - This presentation (media release|audio presentation) will be made at the May 5, 2026 annual meeting of American Express shareholders.
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

We Took Away the Phones — Now What? - How rebuilding youth community groups can restore a play-based childhood.
Conspicuous Cognition

Aliens, Superintelligence, and the Future of Science (with David Kipping) - What the search for alien life can teach us about AI — and vice versa
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: April 2026 - We're excited to once again be co-hosting the Progress Conference with the Roots of Progress Institute, October 8–11 in Berkeley, CA.
Wright in Racine

Progress on the Burnham Block, Chapter 2 - © Mark Hertzberg (2026) The gift wrap at Frank Lloyd Wright’s American System-Built (ASB) Model C3 house at 1835 N. Layton Boulevard in Milwaukee takes the...
The Roots of Progress

What is happening in the world - AI, stagnation, populism, my theory of wokeism, and more
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

The Assault on Individual Rights at The Ballot Box - Only a positive moral groundswell confidently arguing that our money and property are ours to keep and dispose of will reverse the tidal wave of statist ta...
The Shrewd Artist

ETA, Part 2, Chapter 2, THE NUDE - Private and Universal
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

ETA, Part 2, Chapter 2, THE NUDE - Private and Universal
Stu-Topia

Humans Are a GMO and Have Been One Since the Stone Age - Genetically Modified As an Effect of the Technology of Our Apelike Ancestors Stuart K. Hayashi Photo by Wolfgang Sauber; courtesy Wikimedia CommonsIn the n...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

5th Generation Nightmares, or Getting to Kojima: Metal Gear Solid and the Future of Warfare - The Great 21st Century Story of Life Imitating Art
Theatreview

20 years of Theatreview and why reviews still matter - Sharron Pardoe, The Post, May 2, 2026 As Theatreview marks its 20th anniversary, its founder and managing editor John Smythe reflects on the site’s origi...
Michael Newberry, Artist

WIP, Madonna and Child, 17th in the Space Series - Progress on the Space Series 17th painting, Madonna and Child, 64×48”, oil on linen. Blocked out the background first stage of painting. Yikes, there are a...
The Enlightened Examiner

Objective Value in Economics – Part II - The barter fallacy: why personal preferences do not dictate market values.
The Enlightened Examiner

Objective Value in Economics – Part II - The barter fallacy: why personal preferences do not dictate market values.
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

'Perspectives': An Interview with 'The Chambermaid' author, Dorothy Fletcher - The Florida author chats about her latest novel, what inspires her writing, and how creatives can stay organized
Principled Perspectives

Re: Supreme Court Updates: Justices Further Weaken Voting Rights Act, Igniting Political Scramble by The New York Times - My FaceBook Post ANOTHER DEFEAT FOR RACISM!!! Don’t believe the NYT wording. Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 “prohibits voting practices o...
Statecraft

What Trump Can Learn From Nixon - "The Plot That Failed: Nixon and the Administrative Presidency," by Richard P. Nathan
The Organon Architecture Blog

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

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

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

We Consciousness Researchers Have Failed You - In Which I Become Shackleton
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

Einstein-Inspired Poetry - From Cringe to Courage
Africa’s Bright Future

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

What I’ve Been Reading: Vol. 1 - Other people's takes on how science is changing.
Eating Policy

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

Time's Arrow and the Drive to Matter - Or, entropy and the meanings—yes, plural—of life. Plus, TV and disposable diapers in Works in Progress, good news, and nerdy fun.
Africa-Israel Weekly

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

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

Sign of the future: GPT-5.5 - One impressive step on the curve
Wildlife – PERC

Wildlife Management Must Be Driven by Science, Not Politics - PERC’s amicus brief in Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The post Wildlife Management Must Be Driven by Science, Not Poli...
Johnny Grey Studios

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

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

Radical Common Sense - I know you know.
Freethink Media

Monthly Issue Release: The Energy Transition - The next Strait of Hormuz, AI's energy demand, and the "self-healing" grid of the future.
Leport’s Substack

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

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

What I've been reading - I just finished the new book by my ertswhile colleague Al Roth. Highly recommended! The subtitle is a good summary.
Roots of Progress

Announcing Progress Conference 2026 - Oct 8–11 in Berkeley, CA: A four-day event to connect people in the progress movement The post Announcing Progress Conference 2026 appeared first on Root...
PM of NZ

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

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

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

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

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

The Trouble with Transformers - And the long slouch towards cyberpunk
Zero Hanger

FULL TIME: Brisbane vs Geelong – Round 10, 2026 - The Brisbane Lions face the Geelong Cats in Round 10 of the 2026 AFL season. Follow the live scores, team lists, match statistics and key moments from the ...
Asymmetric Information

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

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

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

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

Fly me to the Moon…and Mars. And save us from the maudlin media doomsters - Enough of all the media doomstering. The successful 10-day Artemis II Moon fly-around was a profound event that brought back the bright optimism of my chil...
Outliving Iran

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

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

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

What Did We Learn? - Apart from never doing that again of course
The Realization of Wholeness

Tyrant of Your Heart - My favorite song
Gross Output

Fourth Quarter GO Confirms Deepening Stagflation into 2026 - “By integrating the vital role of the supply chain into national income accounting, Mark Skousen’s development of gross output (GO) has created a more dy...
The Many Ways I Let You Down

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

A little progress is worth a trillion dollars - Estimating the value of progress with a rough calculation and a new web tool
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...
Don't Let It Go

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

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

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

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

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

Solving the Strait of Hormuz Blockage - Markets ensure the disruption can't last more than 1-2 years.
Notes On Liberty

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Educational Junk Food - Over the past few decades, something interesting has happened in the world of food.
Public Lands – PERC

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

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

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

spiked summit 2026 tickets (AFAF Students) - The spiked summit takes place *Saturday 27 June 2026* in Westminster – a flagship live event featuring bold debate, live Q&As and 500+ engaged attendees....
The Prophet of Causation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Never forgetting the absurdities of fascism - ‘Classics Revisited’ revisits a publication from a previous century from a present-day perspective, to show how much, or how little, … Continue reading "...
Maximum Progress

The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander on the design of cities and homes
Competitive Enterprise Institute

The Attention Wars: Why Netflix Is Buying the Past to Own the Future - The old “streaming wars” are over; the “attention wars” have begun. In the new battle, Netflix’s strategic acquisition of Warner Bros’ Discovery makes pe...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

The Attention Wars: Why Netflix Is Buying the Past to Own the Future - The old “streaming wars” are over; the “attention wars” have begun. In the new battle, Netflix’s strategic acquisition of Warner Bros’ Discovery makes pe...
Regan's Substack

Socialism is for losers - And Capitalism doesn't need a PR team
Texas Institute for Property Rights

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

Are You the Queen of Your House or Just a Lowly Servant? - Maybe I don’t have to serve my house all the time, maybe it is my house that exists to serve me.
Keith Weiner Economics

Reflections Over 2025 - I know I was busy this year. But now I see that the last piece I wrote for the blog was Reflections Over 2024! And I did almost no writing for Monetary Met...
Austrian Economics Newsletter

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

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

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

Pulling Wetlands Conservation Out of the Political Muck - Ideas for policy and market innovations that can improve wetland conservation The post Pulling Wetlands Conservation Out of the Political Muck appeared ...
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Happy Veterans Day! - Freedom isn’t free. Here’s a sweet short film as thanks to the armed forces, who have held at bay those who would take our freedom from us. Happy Veteran...
Folarinism

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

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

Herevana – #206 – Garage Project – Mountain Call - Mountain Call, a 7.2% Farmhouse Ale from Garage Project’s Wild Workshop, combines sour elements with smoky Lapsang Souchong tea. While initially sweet and ...
Plain Sight

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

Researchers: Start With 'What Would Be Missing?' - Because research stories are stories, not buckets for everything you do.
The Truth Fairy

When Your Child is Sick - (And: Come See Me This Thursday, October 16, in Beverly Hills!)
Journal of Free Black Moms

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happy 100 Art Deco, or maybe not - The Art deco style turns 100 this month. Sort of. But what was it then, what is it now, and how did it become associated with architecture? Architecture ...
The Free Market Futurist

Farmville - The Autonomous Future of Agriculture
No Punches Pulled

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

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

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

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

LLMs and the Nature of Honest Authorship - Editing is not authoring.
Tribes – PERC

10 Ideas for the Interior Department - How to accelerate conservation and cut green tape The post 10 Ideas for the Interior Department appeared first on PERC.
Stories by Rudi Edsall on Medium

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

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

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

February 2025 Space Stock Review - Includes Commentary on ASTS, RKLB, RDW, LUNR, PL, SPIR, SESG, and ETL
Yes In Our Backyards

Supermarkets: More stories of how councils accidentally on purpose banned competition - My previous post, Supermarket YIMBYism, got a bit of traction.
thesecondrenaissance

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writings hosted elsewhere - The Breakthrough Institute Interactive Brokers Campus
BloodhoundBlog

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

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

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

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

Sri Lanka – in the news for the wrong reason - First Published in May 2022. I’ve just returned from an unsettling trip to Sri Lanka. The country has run of of fuel, electricity and dollars. Some pla...
647 Reasons Why

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

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

Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet - Tory Whanau has revealed that she’s struggling so much financially that she may have to part with her beloved mayoralty, that of New Zealand’s capital city...
THE CIVILIAN

Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet - Tory Whanau has revealed that she’s struggling so much financially that she may have to part with her beloved mayoralty, that of New Zealand’s capital city...
Political Correctness Watch

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

Full Interview With Andrew Bernstein On Decline Of US Education - Here is my interview with Dennis Prager from last Thursday. The topic is my 2022 book “Why Johnny Still Can’t Read or Write or Understand Math—And What We ...
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...
Knowledge Problem

Knowledge Problem archive 2002-2020 - This is the archive of the Knowledge Problem blog, all 4,690 posts. The search function will help you locate posts on the various topics Mike and I wrote a...
Knowledge Problem

Knowledge Problem archive 2002-2020 - This is the archive of the Knowledge Problem blog, all 4,690 posts. The search function will help you locate posts on the various topics Mike and I wrote a...
Asian Invasion 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

-
1828 – Championing Freedom

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

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

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

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

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

How Finitude Makes Us Happy — My Final Post - She looked her age — 27, startlingly close to my own age. Did we share acquaintances or friends of friends? She fixed her hair in a ponytail and wore jea...
'The Critic' Magazine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

William Whewell’s “Discoverer’s Induction” (Part 4) - Previous posts: William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 1) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 2) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Ind...
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...
A Force for Good | How economics, morality, and markets combine

New Blog Location; This Page is Now Defunct - Hello. A Force for Good as permanently relocated to my personal website: www.jonmmurphy.com. Please update your bookmarks accordingly. This website will...
from FEE

The Loophole in a Famous Adage on Limited Government - Ritual obeisance to principles can easily be combined with inflating government’s role to metastasize far beyond general welfare.
Montessori Rocks

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

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

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

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

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

Free Speech - Bruce Moon speaks out in Nelson - Bruce Moon, a retired physicist and avid historian, was invited by the Nelson Institute to give a talk at Nelson’s Elma Turner Library, on 8th April. He ...
EconTalk

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

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

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

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

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

Surrealist Writers Union Goes on Strike -
makingnewzealand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home. - *Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home.* *--*Matsuo Bashō, (Japanese poet, 1644-1694) from *Oku no Hosomichi* Jack Quinan and Sandra Q....
Tibor's space

IP Anyone? - Intellectual Property Anyone? Tibor R. Machan There is a debate afoot now about whether one ever owns the likes of a novel, poem, computer game, song, arra...
TheBubbleBubble.com - Warning About Post-2009 Economic Bubbles

Jesse Colombo’s Interview On The Doug McIntyre Show On 790 KABC - I had an interview with Doug McIntyre on 790 KABC today, and here is the audio file. I will also upload this to Youtube shortly. Jesse Colombo’s Interview ...
Titanic Deck Chairs

Willing and Eager Subjects in Training - Obama recently cautioned a group of graduating college kids that some of the arguments flowing to them via their "iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStatio...
Comments on: About

-
Turning Point UK

-
Frank Lloyd Wright

-
Comments on: Categories

-
THE ALL RIGHT

-
Bushfire Front – Bushfire management in Western Australia

-
Commentary | Bassett, Brash and Hide

-
SovereignLife Freedom Blog

-
bachtrack.com/en/22/296/rss

-
oliviapierson.org Free Thought Advocate - Blog

-
Energy Talking Points - Alex Epstein

-
Cato at Liberty

-
Master Resource

-
The Telegraph (UK)

-
The Common Room

-
The Common Room

-
The Hot Club of New York

-
Strong Towns

-
Environmental Progress

-
Master Resource

-
Gerald Zaski

-
Jesse M.

-
Russell W. Shurts

-
Russell Shurts

-
Applied Philosophy Online

-

Show All

Not PC

Thursday, 14 December 2006

Popular Not PC

1 comment:

Cue Card Libertarianism