Not PC: Summer reading

Friday, 20 December 2024

Summer reading

It's that time again.

Time to gather up the hard-copy reading for the holidays, to read in the sun when Kindles and iPads just won't do it.

What's on your list to read over this summer?

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About Syria. - I have been thinking about Syria and coverage of the fall of the Assad regime, and to be honest I believe that there is something missing from the picture ...
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Cato's Report to the DOGE - DOGE shouldn't dodge the real dilemma
Fictionosophy

Emma by Jane Austen - As Emma discovers that the way to love people is to encourage their independence, she builds a life that’s not only delightful on the surface, but deeply f...
Wright in Racine

Greek Church Roof Resplendent Again - © Mark Hertzberg (2024) The brilliant blue dome roof of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin shines again. First...
HBL

Cartels are fine - [image: Author photo] Thread: Bilateral Economics Re: Member’s post of 11/30/24 I think Rockefeller was on balance a hero, but not an Ayn Rand Hero. Of ...
Institute of Economic Affairs

Not Invented Here #5 – Food - This is the fifth in a series of articles about how ideological interest groups react when their institutional preferences are … Continue reading "Not In...
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: Reentry, by Eric Berger - Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age, Eric Berger (BenBella Books, 2024).
Reason for Living

The Good, The Bad, and Moana - Moana 2, although not an especially bad film, is symptomatic a range of serious problems in our culture.
Happy Future

Technology Development and the Collapse of IDM 2.0 - Silicon Statesmanship #5: Explaining TD, TD culture, and how it hobbles IDMs
New Zealand Arts Review

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Triumph Returns - Reviewed by Malcolm Calder A Midsummer Night’s Dream Royal New Zealand Ballet Choreography – Liam Scarlett Music – Felix Mendelssohn Music Arranger – Nigel...
Free Range Kids

All of Me - Thanks to John Stossel, here is a half hour of me getting the chance to make all the points swirling around in my head and heart: How we got so afraid fo...
What's New Under the Sun

Innovation Job Market Papers 2024 (3/3) - Dozens of papers from new PhDs about innovation
Theatreview

Whakaari Aotearoa Drama New Zealand Research Opportunity - Whakaari Aotearoa Drama New ZealandResearch Opportunity Mahi Whakaari o Aotearoa – Drama New Zealand is committed to supporting kaiako in all sectors of dr...
An Africanist Perspective

What sorts of reforms under Trump could reshape Africa-U.S. relations for the better? - Most reasonable people agree that Africa-US relations need a proper reboot. The coming opening for reforms under Trump presents some interesting opportunit...
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

Escaping the Politics of Self-Deception - How and why I broke out of the perfect rhetorical fortress.
Boom (UK)

China to lose 51 million people in 10 years - How is China responding to population decline?
Peter Winsley

I too have been thinking about the future New Zealand economy - New Zealand was one of the wealthiest countries in the world in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1950, New Zealand ranked third in the OECD for GDP per capita. Howe...
Capitalism Magazine

Hunter Biden Pardon and The Evils of ‘Lawfare’ - Lawfare involves the targeting of defendants based primarily on who they are rather than what they have done.
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (4 December 2024) - Continental preparedness, global food security, and learning from crisis – and a new opportunity
Croaking Cassandra

Orr on Q&A – Part II - My post this morning was based on Adrian Orr’s Q&A interview as found on TVNZ+. However, it turns out that that wasn’t the full interview which (thanks to ...
Institute for Progress

IFP — Giving Tuesday and November 2024 Update - We hope you all had a restful Thanksgiving break.
Israel Institute of NZ

The Jewish Nakba - November 30 marked the commemoration of the exodus of Jews from Arab countries, one of the larger humanitarian crises of the 20th century – all the more tr...
Market Urbanism

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
Museum Street (Henry Cooke)

Labour's long win on defence policy - A declassified conversation with George Bush shows Jim Bolger "wanted" to remove the nuclear ban in 1991. But he couldn't.
Stats Chat

United Rugby Championship Predictions for Week 8 - Team Ratings for Week 8 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ra...
Kibao

Solar Geoengineering: The Global South’s Stake in a High-Stakes Debate - The Global South needs neither a climate laboratory nor a knowledge vacuum
PM of NZ

Oh dear. Harden up! - *allegations made against him of sexually inappropriate conduct came from a “handful of middle-class women of a certain age” * The cancellation of Gregg ...
Rosie Campbell

Leaving OpenAI - After almost three and half years working on AI safety, policy, and governance, this was my last week at OpenAI. There are so many exciting things happenin...
FDR Liberated

Simplify Success with Proven Small Business Service Solutions - Running a small business comes with its fair share of challenges, from managing daily operations to meeting customer expectations. However, success does no...
Overthinking Everything

Setting up my new blogging engine - I have a typewriter! Hear me typewrite. It goes click clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickBING. KACHUNK! SHUNK click click click click click click...
Offsetting Behaviour

Misuse of land use planning - If you thought McDonald's was some kind of public health hazard, using processes under the Resource Management Act to try to block one from opening in Wa...
Creative Deduction

Why a tolerant society is not a free society - Individual freedom is the libertarian ideal, the abstract value which guides moral action. As a political idea, libertarianism emerged in the latter part o...
Don't Let It Go

Motivation by Love vs. Motivation by Fear - The first half of my current trip around the sun–my birthday is at the beginning of June–has featured too much of the latter. The main event was choosing #...
Spiked Online

Spiked Mug Donation - The post Spiked Mug Donation appeared first on spiked.
Harry’s Substack

Not Left, Not Right . . . Try Up - The individualist alternative
Ayn Rand Society

Ayn Rand Society news: two new books, an upcoming meeting, and a new platform - I’m writing (after a long silence) with some news about the Ayn Rand Society.
Punishingly Haimona

Can An Apology Also Be An Insult? - A Stuff column trades in, well-intentioned, bigotry.
Democracy Project

Malcolm McKinnon: Māori and other nationalisms - Māori sovereignty, tino rangatiratanga, mana motuhake, a declaration of independence, partnership under Te Tiriti: these are all staples of Māori political...
Plain Sight

An Abundance Agenda manifesto for Aotearoa - "I would much rather that we live in a society of mutual abundance and optimism than our current experience of pessimism and scarcity" - Mike Grimshaw
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Financialization and Missed Boats - When Mythology Papers over Reality
The War on Prices

Wage and Rent Controls On The Ballot In 2024 - Much of the 2024 presidential election campaign was dominated by the fallout from high inflation, with both candidates eventually advocating forms of price...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

The Warlord's Reading List, by Anarchonomicon - The Guide to Warfare in the 21st Century for Ghetto Operators, Regime Transition Teams, and Cartel General Staff
Houston Strategies

HCTRA: from model agency to delay, divert and do nearly nothing - This week we have one of Oscar Slotboom's best guest posts to date, although sadly with bad news about the state of HCTRA, which used to be one of the crow...
Asymmetric Information

Previewing the next issue of NZEP, the research journal of the NZAE🍋 - Volume 58 Issue 3 covers monetary policy, fiscal and labour policies, and the electricity sector
StephenFranks.co.nz

Allow easy firing of dud bosses - Think about the impossibility of creating here a Google or an Amazon, or Microsoft, or an Apple or a Tesla or a Space X. A Steve Jobs or Elon Musk has to ...
Roots of Progress

Progress Conference Reflections – and 2025 Plans (We’re Hiring!) - Tl;dr: It’s been a month since the first annual Progress Conference brought together well over 200 thinkers, builders, policy makers, storytellers, and s...
HardmoneyJim

Post-election Market Update - Trump Trade or Trump Bump?
Science+Story

Be the Right Kind of Wrong - Why Learning from Your Mistakes Publicly Enhances Your Expert Status
The Prophet of Causation

The Self-Writing Slate - Chapter 5
Tross Publishing

IS PAUL GOLDSMITH THE BIGGEST LIAR IN PARLIAMENT? - By Toby Whittaker Although unlikely to be passed into law the ACT Party’s Treaty Principles Bill has certainly exposed some ugly facets of New Zealand po...
What You Can Do For Liberty

Ten Great Pro-Liberty Films You Can Watch For Free Right Now - Keep up your freedom-loving spirits with this selection of ten films, chosen to inspire and entertain you.
In Due Course

How Steve Bannon baited the American left into overplaying its hand - Although he’s not quite finished with us yet, I think it fair to say that Steve Bannon will be remembered for two things: first, his media management strat...
Note to Noteworthy

How Slow Thinking Leads to Fast Results - My sales experience taught me that slowing down and thinking is the path to fast results.
RenewNZ

The day the Garbage spoke - One result in the US election last week spoke volumes. The final count in the State of Washington DC was Harris 93% – Trump 7%. It was a result which highl...
Case Closed

October 2024 Space Stock Review - Includes Commentary on: LLAP, BKSY, RDW, RKLB, MNTS, VSAT, and CMTL
Outliving Iran

Souls Breathing Through Screens - How we managed to survive under a totalitarian state
Syncretica

Election Thoughts and Takeaways - A few thoughts if for no other reason than having something to reply to a lot of direct messages with:
High Capacity

Beijing braces for impact: What Trump 2.0 might mean for US-China relations - Both sides have learned lessons from the first US-China trade war. For Trump, it's that tariffs and sanctions are powerful tools. For Beijing, it's that a ...
The Kerrant

Trump’s Path Back: How Shifting Politics and Powerful Voices Reshaped the Election - As we reflect on the recent election, it’s hard to ignore the signals that former President Obama gave, albeit subtly, during the primaries. In his state...
The Free Market Futurist

The Birth of the “Progress Movement” - I have a long tradition on Election Day of writing about anything except the election.
Notes On Liberty

Taxes, Tariffs, Tardy Tallying, and Thanksgiving Truce - November’s Challenge to Bridge America’s Divide
Premise Check (Billy Beck)

It’s Election Day, 2024 - 2:28 AM EDT —
The Truth Fairy

The Kindergarten Intifada - The national effort to indoctrinate American children against Israel
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Daylight Saving: Libertarian Video Shorts - Daylight saving creates chaos among the populace. [2 min] Comedian Michael McIntyre jokes about daylight saving time. [1 min] A short segment from the Jo...
A life just as ordinary

Herevana – #203 – Wilderness Rolling Meadows - Here we have a Wilderness Brewing Wilderness Rolling Meadows. IT’s be rare for a Wilderness beer not to be really enjoyable, and so a BA peach apricot affa...
Forbidden Science

Why the public should not “believe in science” - Instead, we should publicly and freely discuss it
The Scholar's Stage

Republican Debates on China: A Political Compass for Potential Trump Appointees - A Preliminary Taxonomy
Texas Institute for Property Rights

All Men are Created Equal: Shattering Paradigms Book 1 - In 1857, Samuel Dawson, the son of a slaveholder, befriends Will, a slave boy. The parents of the two twelve-year The post All Men are Created Equal: Sha...
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

straight outta tartarus - in search of the inner sanctums
Armas

The Hard Country: The River and the Line. - Chapter 2 of the book is out!
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...
Austin Vernon's Substack

Human Driving Increases Transportation Cost 10x - Why ground transportation still has a lot of legs.
Martini Mandate

Marxists, Beards and Follies - Sri Lanka has elected a Marxist president. He is described as a neo Marxist, which is what you call a revolutionary who’s shaved his beard. The problem i...
647 Reasons Why

DAYS 1-3 - 90 Mile Beach - Days 1-3 of my trek across the entire length of New Zealand
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...
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: The Coal Conquest - There was no shortage of trees
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...
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
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...
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...
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
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.
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
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
Yes In Our Backyards

Mixed-use development is coming to NZ cities, here’s One Small Trick to take it further - Allowing neighbours to sell their planning rights to incoming developments will make a good policy even better
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...
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...
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
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...
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.
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...
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...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Popehat

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

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

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

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1828 – Championing Freedom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Congratulations to all our students on the 2018-2020 3-6 Diploma Programme - [image: MMEF_Logo] *Kia Ora Koutou to all our MMEF supporters* What a great start to the year, with AMI 3-6 Diploma students completing their course, pass...
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...
Patrick T. Brown, PhD

Seasonal Prediction of Particularly-Impactful Hot Days - My talk on this research at the American Meteorological Society’s Annual Meeting. PTBrown_AGU_2019_Poster AGU E-Poster
Too Clever By Half

Crowdsourcing the "New Blogger" - Our chance to influence what Blogger is like [image: Reproduction of the invitation from Google to "try the new blogger."] Did you get what you wanted thi...
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...
The Organon Architecture Blog

"The building as architecture is born out of the heart of man, permanent consort to the ground, comrade to the trees, true reflection of man in the realm of his own spirit." #QotD - *Pic: Wright's home Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin, from the Spring Green General Store site. * *"The building as architecture is born out of the ...
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...
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,
round houses

crumbling communist icon - A striking circular structure, Bulgaria’s communist-era Buzludzha Monument has been allowed to fall apart.
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...
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 ...
Barrie Saunders

Opening gambit - I am starting this blog site because after more than 40 years writing about or contributing to public policy, I think maybe I have something to say which w...
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...
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

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...
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