Not PC: Work

Thursday 3 August 2023

Work

"Work is how we live.
"Work is reason made practical.
"Work creates mission and purpose.
Work saves souls. "
~ Don Watkins

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Hurricane Milton And A Big Problem With Anti-Price Gouging Laws - Whenever a hurricane or natural disaster hits, accusations of local businesses “price gouging” follow.
Sustain What

Existential Climate and Election Risk? Why Don't In-Your-Face Climate Pranksters Focus on Musk's Trump Push - In the final weeks of the 2024 general election campaign, I’m thinking about a more productive role for in-your-face climate activists like those who invad...
Science For Everyone

Academic Mixtape 23 - It’s been a month since the last mixtape?
Armas

The Hard Country: Fue el Estado. - Announcing my new book on the Mexican crisis and America's answers.
Conspicuous Cognition

For the love of God, stop talking about "post-truth" - There was never a golden age of objectivity, and today’s epistemological problems result from competing visions of reality, not a conflict over the value o...
The Tracinski Letter

Remember, Remember, This Fifth of November - The Case Against Donald Trump, Part 1
The New Era

Debt: The New Era - A deep dive interview with geopolitical and macro-economic commentator, Mark Astley
The Future of Freedom Foundation

I’m Also Speaking at CAPA’s JFK Conference in Dallas - Reminder: Our online Zoom conference on open borders continues with Bryan Caplan, the author of the excellent book Open Borders: The Science and Ethics o...
Asimov’s Addendum

Weekly Roundup - Things we've read that we think you might want to read as well
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

The Economic & Geopolitical History of Uganda Part II: Obote vs The Bugandan King and Amin vs Tanzania & Israel - Kingdoms, Crises, & Coups: Uganda’s Tumultuous Post-Independence Journey
Boom (UK)

How a policy change meant fewer French children - When France cut benefits, it cut births
The Antiplanner

Housing Data for 2023 - The median owner-occupied home was worth $340,000 in 2023, which was 3.5 times median family incomes, according to 2023 American Community Survey data rece...
The Logical Place

Socialism in the 21st Century: A Regressive Ideology in Modern Times - Socialism, once hailed as a visionary and revolutionary alternative to capitalism, has deep roots in the progressive movements of the 19th and early 20th c...
Croaking Cassandra

Central bank policy communications - For a long time I’ve been a strong supporter of central bank transparency about stuff a central bank actually knows something about, but a sceptic of the f...
Note to Noteworthy

How Reading Your Journal Entries Can Make You Happier - From someone who's journaled over 750,000 words
Conflicted

Rapid Intensification - An ode to the nation's hurricane hunters
Virginia Postrel

Joel Miller on how book publishing works, why Paul Revere deserves more attention, and how audiobooks took publishers by surprise. - Also, how Joel organizes his many books and why he writes in them (and with what).
Cranmer’s Substack

HMNZS MANAWANUI - Details are already starting to emerge of the frantic rescue efforts that saved the crew of the stricken vessel on Saturday evening and which continued unt...
What You Can Do For Liberty

Support J6 Prisoner Isaac Sturgeon - On January 6th, 2021, Isaac, age 34, did something that changed his life forever — he attended a protest of the 2020 US election.
Construction Physics

Port Automation Reading List - Port productivity probably isn’t something most folks will be interested in reading about just for fun, so these sources will all be of the “useful referen...
M.M.E.F. News

MMEF Events for 2025 and Your Voices Please - *Kia Ora Koutou MMEF Supporters,* What an eventful 2024! The AMI 3-6 Diploma tauira graduated in August, and their joy was palpable! Completing an ...
Offsetting Behaviour

Where are the food carts? - I still don't get why there aren't more food carts on Wellington's waterfront. On a good sunny day, you might find, along a stretch of gorgeous waterfron...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Trump’s Subsidized IVF Spells Disaster - "Trump's plan is a disaster from the perspective of cost, incentives, and value neutrality." ~Vanessa Brown Calder
Roy Spencer, PhD.

Florida Major Hurricanes, 1900-2024: What Do the Statistics Show? - Florida residents must feel like they have been taking a beating from major hurricanes in recent years, but what do the data show? The problem with human p...
FDR Liberated

Top Strategies for Enhancing Customer Satisfaction in Business Services - Customer satisfaction is the cornerstone of any successful business. In the realm of business services, where competition is fierce, ensuring that customer...
Barrie Saunders

Answer is no Brian - Is New Zealand’s retirement strategy sustainable?
Peter Winsley

ChatGPT fails the test – it doesn’t understand great poetry - Will artificial intelligence (AI) take over all intellectual tasks? Might this include deeply human ones such as musical composition and poetry? Will AI ...
Science+Story

Do I Still Have to Write a Book? - Introducing "Book Plus" and Why It Should Be Your Paradigm
Museum Street (Henry Cooke)

Could anyone but Luxon lose the CGT fight for National? - Politics should be about policies, not people. But it isn't.
The Jolly Libertarian

Wokeism: Pro and Con - Wokeism is a contentious issue in today's society. Even within the left and the right, you'll find proponents of wokeism as well as opponents. There are ...
One Useful Thing

AI in organizations: Some tactics - Meet the Lab and the Crowd
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: The Coal Conquest - There was no shortage of trees
Punishingly Haimona

Dunedin Hospital - A Mislabelled Failure - Why There's Enough Blame To Go Around For Everyone
Craig Biddle

Conceptual Fallacies and How to Avoid Them - Logical fallacies are not the only errors that retard thinking. Conceptual fallacies do, too, and often in subtler, more destructive ways. Just as logica...
Building the Builders

Discussion thread #1: what's your honest take on "psychological safety"? - Dear subscribers: for the past few weeks I’ve been agonizing over how to divide up my writing between my forthcoming book and this Substack, now…
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (2 October 2024) - Complex global shocks, tabletop exercises, and societal resilience
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Living in the Parent Ghetto - Despite my sincere efforts, I have become one of Those Moms Who Only Hang Out With Other Moms
Ruxandra’s Substack

I should have been braver - On the Letby case and its flaws. And why I should have spoken publicly more, earlier.
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

ephemeral plaintext - heartfelt posts lost in time like tears in rain
The China Space Monitor

China's Space Lasers (and other things) - Plus a high in launch activity 🛰️, CASC in Xiong'an 👨🏻‍🌾 , competing VTVLs 🚀, and GeeSpace Starting to Rev its Engines 🚗
Institute for Progress

Institute for Progress (IFP) — September 2024 Update - Some big announcements this month:
Let Grow

Kristen Bell & Dax Shepard Let Their Kids “Free-Range” for 7 Hours! - [image: Kristen Hands Up] Kristen Bell and hubby Dax Shepard went to Copenhagen and let their kids "Free-Range" -- yep, that's the term Kristen uses -- for...
The Scholar's Stage

Dionysus Against the Daoists - And Apollo Against Confucius
Rosie Campbell

AI’s dangerous capabilities: Are we measuring the wrong thing? - Dangerous capability evaluations are a crucial tool for AI governance. But without accurate threat models, they could give us a false sense of security.
The Roots of Progress

The Life Well-Lived, part 1 - Chapter 4 of The Techno-Humanist Manifesto
Gross Output

Slowing Gross Output Confirms Fed’s Need to Cut Rates - “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...
Wildlife – PERC

Rewarding Recovery Will Benefit the Wolf and All Imperiled Wildlife - PERC filed an amicus brief in Defenders of Wildlife v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The post Rewarding Recovery Will Benefit the Wolf and All Imperiled...
Public Lands – PERC

BLM’s Conservation and Landscape Health Rule: A Debate - The new rule has stirred both praise and criticism. PERC makes its case. The post BLM’s Conservation and Landscape Health Rule: A Debate appeared first ...
Johnny Grey Studios

FOOD FESTIVAL AFTERMATH. - Glamour on the Unfitted Kitchen Stage. Still coming down off the high of the first South Downs Food Festival… I can’t stop thinking about...
Overthinking Everything

Using what you're given - Sometimes the universe hands you fruit and you've got to use it somehow.
The Free Market Futurist

The AI Doomsday Cult - I recently posted the next chapter of my book in progress: The Prophet of Causation, a guide to Ayn Rand’s philosophy from the perspective of the central r...
Lindsay Mitchell

Is social investment the new panacea? - There are individuals born in NZ who will, over their lifetimes, cost the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of dollars in welfare, child protection, justice...
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

The Search for Markets to Help Manage California’s Groundwater - What role have groundwater market actually played in implementing the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act? The post The Search for Markets to Help Ma...
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...
Existential Crunch

How long until recovery after collapse? - Setting some bounds
Spiked Online

After the Pogrom Book Donation - The post After the Pogrom Book Donation appeared first on spiked.
Eating Policy

We have cancer - When procedures proliferate unchecked, they impair our bureaucratic functions. We should treat this as seriously as we treat cancer.
An Africanist Perspective

Can better urbanization policies unlock faster economic growth and development in Nigeria? - At the moment the Nigerian state can’t guarantee competent pro-growth government throughout the country. Competently run pro-growth cities are the next bes...
HardmoneyJim

Why is the gold price rising so fast? - Should you sell into the rally? Buy more? Will the government confiscate your gold?
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...
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...
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...
Stu-Topia

A Fallacy Called ‘Privilege, or It Didn’t Happen’ - Stuart K. Hayashi Ten years ago, if on social media you talked about a strange event that happened to you, often someone would quip, “Show pictures or it d...
Demystifying Science

Addressing Virus Skeptics - The Confusing misuse of the words isolate and cause
a/symmetric

We're going on hiatus - But do stick around
In Due Course

Key stages in the decline of academic Marxism - The fact that my previous post, on John Rawls and the death of Western Marxism, attracted several times more readers than anything I’ve previously publishe...
Outliving Iran

This Movie is Why I'm Alive - How Ratatouille showed me the beauty of the world that wished to kill me
Creative Deduction

Solving immigration is a question of economics - Across Europe and the USA, immigration is the hottest of political topics. How many immigrants is too many? Who should be allowed in and who should be turn...
Better things are possible

Managing on-street parking for local benefit; the case for Parking Benefit Districts - Parking is often the centre of debate in our cities, particularly on-street car parks, who gets to use them and how we manage them.
Syncretica

Offtakes and Stockpiles - The missing pieces for dealing with China and building capacity
The Prophet of Causation

A Causality Walk for Consciousness - Chapter 3
Wright in Racine

My Wright Eye – September 6, 2024 - © Mark Hertzberg (2024) I have just finished helping lead my 17th Road Scholar Frank Lloyd Wright tour. The number is important because it speaks to my cha...
PM of NZ

Upcoming turkey shoot in the Far North - *The 13 councillors voted unanimously, reaffirming a decision they made in May to continue with their Māori ward for the October 2025 local elections* .....
The Truth Fairy

Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and our Government Censors - What are the chances that a President Kamala Harris would resist pressuring social media companies into censorship? Based on her record: Not great.
thesecondrenaissance

The Austrian Business Cycle Theory and the Economic Decline of Ancient Rome: - Diocletian’s “Edictum de Pretiis Rerum Venalium”
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 ...
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

Project 2025 vs. The Public’s Health, Part III - Part III: The NIH
Michael Newberry, Artist

Memoir: Chapter 14, In Spite of New York - (Written Today) An Art Memoir: Depth, Light, and Love Size Matters Two years after the Pierre Hotel Conference, with its extraordinarily powerful intellect...
Texas Institute for Property Rights

A Matter of Choice - I am pleased to announce that the third book, A Matter of Choice, in The Intellectual Bodyguards series will be The post A Matter of Choice appeared firs...
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...
What's New Under the Sun

Time for More Living Literature Reviews - A Third Anniversary Post
Tribes – PERC

Economic Potential of Wind and Solar in American Indian Communities - This academic paper combines data on wind and solar endowments, reservation characteristics, and utility-scale renewable energy projects to offer three i...
Harry’s Substack

The Complexity-Worshippers - The new attack on reason
Private Lands – PERC

PERC and RMEF Team Up to Launch Innovative Wildlife Conservation Initiatives - Our expanded partnership marks the beginning of a multiyear effort focused on pioneering big game conservation efforts across the Rocky Mountain West and...
Hunters and Anglers – PERC

PERC and RMEF Team Up to Launch Innovative Wildlife Conservation Initiatives - Our expanded partnership marks the beginning of a multiyear effort focused on pioneering big game conservation efforts across the Rocky Mountain West and...
Roots of Progress

Introducing the 2024 Blog-Building Intensive Fellows - We’re thrilled to announce our second cohort of our Blog-Building Intensive Fellowship! This year’s fellows are a group 25 of impressive progress think...
A City for People

Making it easier to build granny flats - City for People submits in support of more homes in existing urban areas.
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...
Notes On Liberty

New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is out - You can read the whole thing here.
Notes On Liberty

New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is out - You can read the whole thing here.
Folarinism

White identity politics won’t save Britain - It fails to provide a vision for a good life and a realistic solution to the problems we face
Jackson Upmann

Coming soon - This is Jackson Upmann.
High Capacity

A warped hall of mirrors: US-China competition and industrial policy - China doubled down on industrial policy and advanced manufacturing in its latest Third Plenum. As US-China competition heats up, both countries are drawing...
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

When ideology meets industry - No, "wokeness" is not a cult. It’s the product of a subversive industry that uses well-meaning people as workers and customers.
CEE – Econlib

Occupational Licensing - [An update of Occupational Licensing, by David S. Young.] Occupational licensing today directly affects more than one in five workers in the United State...
Liberty Scott

Charles Moore on the prospects of Trump in Foreign Policy - From the Daily Telegraph: *One of Mr Trump’s clearest messages, amplified by his choice of J D Vance, is that he does not want to help Ukraine defeat Vl...
BloodhoundBlog

RIP Geno Petro, a hound at the head of the pack. - Geno Petro has passed away. He was one of the best writers to work with us here over the years – and I have the proof. Cura ut valeas, frater. Requiescat i...
Drinks and Drinking

Stirred Cucumber Drinks - This week’s Robb Report article was about a cocktail called the Archangel. You can read it here if you like, but briefly summarized: the Archangel is a neo...
Anti-Dismal

100 years of the theory of the firm. Or may be only 50. - Depending on how you pick your starting point there has been, roughly, 50 or 100 years of the mainstream economic theory of the firm. In support of the 1...
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Be a Filmmaker For Liberty: Training and Funding Are Available - Ever thought about becoming a filmmaker to promote libertarian ideas? It’s never been easier. Two organizations will help you learn the craft, find fundi...
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

The history of Hawke’s Bay – third edition - My long-standing history of Hawke’s Bay is out this month in new edition. It’s been in print and selling steadily since 2017. This new edition is in full c...
A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

Ned Fletcher's book: "unsatisfactory" and "badly flawed" - *N*ew Zealand/Australian historian Bain Attwood reviews Ned Fletcher's *English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi* in the *Australian Book Review. *His c...
Fizzifood

Lamb, courgette & triple cheese layered bake - JW – as requested, here’s the method behind the madness! This recipe is a cross between a moussaka and a (lower-carb) lasagne. I’ve used courgettes, grou...
Growing to Truth

Duh, Of Course Hamas Lied About Casualty Statistics - The UN revised their Gazan casualty statistics, claiming fewer women and children were killed than previously reported
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Excerpt 1 -- from a new essay series - Work in progress - (for interera.co)
Keith Weiner Economics

Commodities, Consumer Goods, Prices, and Time - Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley, at the Cato Institute, write about the Simon Abundance Index. SAI is named for Julian Simon, famous for his bet with the Malth...
Earthly Idealism

The Unhappy Millionaire - I’m excited to share the first two episodes of a podcast I’ve launched along with Ayn Rand Institute CEO Tal Tsfany: The Unhappy Millionaire. The premise i...
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...
Mises Wiki - Recent changes [en]

DRAGONVALE! CHEATS MOD ANDROID IOS NO SURVEY 2024 NEW - Created page with "Hey there, DragonVale fans! Are you ready to take your DragonVale gaming experience to the next level? Well, you're in luck because we...
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
Butterpaper

Vault 2014: Gaza - cities under siege and under attack - Originally published in 2014. All eyes should be on Gaza at the moment, but understandably many are focused on unfolding events in the damp fields of Eas...
from FEE

Why We're Not Supposed to Talk about Climate-Related Deaths - Disaster mortality seems to be a perfectly useful metric for understanding climate change—when the numbers tell the right story.
The Kerrant

Wartime heroine was treasured - Helene (Mimi) Hotte Marple: B Amsterdam, February 3, 1912; m (1) 1937 Wim Hotte : (dec 1945) 1s, (2) 1966 Rex Marple; d Nelson, May 12, 2001. [Originally...
Thoughts from 40° South

Reflections on October 7th - I have been intending to write down my thoughts on the massacre of Israelis by Hamas terrorists and Gaza civilians on October 7th, 2023, ever since it ha...
Jack’s Substack

Electricity Cheapest in a Decade - NZ residential electricity most affordable in recent history
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...
round houses

island home - Sweet little cylindrical house on Koh Tao, an island in the Gulf of Thailand –
Samizdata

Let’s just defund the UN and leave it immediately - Hidden deep below the headquarters of the United Nations’ aid agency for Palestinians here is a Hamas complex with rows of computer servers that Israel’s...
The Grumpy Economist

Understanding Trumpers - WSJ oped and substack post.
Open Borders: The Case

High-skilled hacks: the business of extraordinary ability - This post is part of my “high-skilled hacks” series, focused on immigration to the United States. The series explores various workarounds and caveats to im...
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...
The Organon Architecture Blog

How to begin creating Organic Architecture ... - *'House for Betta,' 1988, by architect James Schildroth* *Organic architecture is not about assembling boxes and coating them with candy floss. For tha...
Patrick T. Brown, PhD

The Social Feedback Loop that Puts Blinders on Climate Science -
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 m...
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...
Precise Thinking

Finding the Benevolent Universe when the World is in a Pickle - by
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...
Fisheries – PERC

Free Markets and the Environment - A podcast exploring PERC's unique approach to conservation. The post Free Markets and the Environment appeared first on PERC.
positive check

New location - The EHES blog Positive Check has moved and can be found on the EHES website: *https://ehes.org/category/blog/*
Dominic Frisby

Exclusive Gold-Infused Comedy Show: Don't Miss Out - Laugh and learn about gold with Dominic Frisby! Extra London dates on Feb 14th and 15th. Get your tickets now. #ComedyGold
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 ...
Splitting Headache

Meta Dreams—Somethings - Also, the recency bias of the internet, the death of search, and the most dangerous BigTech firm in the world.
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
Professor Werner

Washington’s “development economics” is actually designed to prevent development - Published in China by Guancha.cn newspaper on 7 September 2023 at: https://www.guancha.cn/Werner/2023_09_07_707650_3.shtml
Uranium-238

Introduction to the Iran Nuclear Deal - Putting a price on nonproliferation
Premise Check (Billy Beck)

"A Completely Different Conquest" - Watch now (2 mins) | Amsoc Will Be Different
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

Agustina Vergara Cid on the Immorality of the U.S. Immigration System - [image: Agustina Vergara Cid on the Immorality of the U.S. Immigration System] *Immigrants who “get in line” are punished for wanting to work.* The post A...
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 ...
Stories by Rudi Edsall on Medium

Round 12 v Bulldogs — who needs a midfield anyway? - Round 12 v Bulldogs — who needs a midfield anyway? I honestly did not see a way we could do this one. I was expecting an absolute massacre in the midfield ...
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
The Market Urbanism Report Blog

Can Prospera Become A Startup City Blueprint? - The emergence of startup cities is a story we’ll cover extensively these next few years. Prospera of Honduras is a leading example.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Kathleen and Charles Moore Prepare to take their Fight Against Taxing Unrealized Gains to Supreme Court - In 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The new law was a reform of the federal tax code, but also included a provision called the Mandatory ...
StephenFranks.co.nz

Who’s calling the shots on co-governance? Lawyers or MPs? Will the Court of Appeal order disclosure? - On Wednesday 15 February the Court of Appeal will hear the arguments of two King’s Counsel, that the government should come clean on whether its lawyers ar...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Mencken's Ghost

Announcement: New Substack Publication - I have started a new Substack Publication. Details:
Cities Matter

Auckland at a Turning Point 2: Marking Down the Labour Market - *Reality Bites* For some years I have been calling out the over-exuberant growth expectations behind Auckland’s planning. I have also argued that creat...
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

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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...
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

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Catallaxy Files

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The Rational Capitalist

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

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

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

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

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

No Highway by Nevil Shute – Book Review - *“Therefore, go forth, companion: when you find* *No Highway more, no track, all being blind,The way to go shall glimmer in the mind.* *Though you h...
Scott Holleran

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

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

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

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

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

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

NHS Fail Wail - I think that we can all agree that the UK's response to coronavirus has been somewhat lacking. In fact, many people asserted that our death rate was unique...
News - Democracy Action

Revealed: Auckland Council spends $129 million in six years on duplicated iwi consultation, targeted Māori spending - *A new briefing paper co-published by the Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance and Democracy Action reveals that in just six years, Auckland Council spent at le...
John P. McCaskey

History of ‘Temperature’: Maturation of a Measurement Concept - This is the accepted manuscript for an article to be published by Taylor & Francis in Annals of Science. Accounts The post History of ‘Temperature’: Matu...
Quote Unquote

Waikato Times letter of the week #92 - From the edition of Saturday 22 August. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the *Waikato Times.* *Driver licen...
Joakim Book | Life of an Econ Student

Publications, June - Summer is here, and here's this month's breakdown. For more news about my publications, follow my work on Authory and on Twitter. *HumanProgress.org* -...
Center for the Legalization of Privacy

Barr and Wray are Coming For Your Apple Encryption - An extra I did earlier this week, after Tom Hall sent me the video of a press conference by Attorney … Continue reading →
Legalize Privacy

Barr and Wray are Coming For Your Apple Encryption - An extra I did earlier this week, after Tom Hall sent me the video of a press conference by Attorney … Continue reading →
Kuo's Gulch | Justice, Independence, Productivity, Honesty, Integrity, Pride, Rationality

Man and His Inherent Productivity - If there’s anything we have learnt from the Coronavirus pandemic, is that people are willing to submit themselves to authoritarianism for the sake of a fal...
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…
1828 – Championing Freedom

How to improve the UK’s election debates - Gordon Brown expressed regret over enabling television debates in the UK. In their recent form, it is easy to see why: they are rarely insightful, overly r...
Inductive Quest

William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 6/Final Part) - Previous posts: William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 1) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 2) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Ind...
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,
sportreview.net.nz

Cricket world cup final FAQ - This content was lovingly emailed to general sporting masochists in EMERGENCY Sport Review newsletter #70 – join them and get this carry on every week at s...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
AYN RAND CENTRE (UK)

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! The post Hello world! appeared first on AYN RAND CENTRE.
Oswald Bastable's Ranting

Are you mad?- oh wait... - Of course. You would have to be be barking mad to want to bring this rabble to NZ. But then socialists are mad by definition. It's not as if we don't have...
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...
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

Signing off - My Last Blog Post | Nicky Hager; Heather Du Plessis-Allan; Deborah Hill-Cone; Giovanni Tiso - Individualism & the Tyranny of Each Other. - The secret of being a bore is to tell everything – Voltaire. When the last human who understands individualism passes, so will pass the entirety of h...
Tibor's space

Reflections on Modern Democracy - Democracy – but only when it goes your way! Tibor R. Machan Over the years of watching the democratic process I’ve noticed something important. People ten...
Politics without God

Should You Try to Be Morally Perfect? - Off-topic but perhaps of interest... Back in March 2012, I gave a lecture titled "Should You Try to Be Morally Perfect?" as part of the CU Boulder Philosop...
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....
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

Flexible Tactics, Integrated Strategy, Inflexible Purpose - While reading Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History by John David Lewis the other day, I came across something that I knew im...
Bushfire Front – Bushfire management in Western Australia

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Commentary | Bassett, Brash and Hide

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Master Resource

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Turning Point UK

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The Common Room

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THE ALL RIGHT

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The Hot Club of New York

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Strong Towns

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Ayn Rand Society

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Energy Talking Points - Alex Epstein

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The Telegraph (UK)

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Environmental Progress

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Cato at Liberty

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Comments on: Categories

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SovereignLife Freedom Blog

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bachtrack.com/en/22/296/rss

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oliviapierson.org Free Thought Advocate - Blog

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