Not PC: Ant expert on socialism: "Good idea. Wrong species."

Monday, 9 June 2025

Ant expert on socialism: "Good idea. Wrong species."

Ant expert E.O. Wilson was once asked his view on socialism/communism. "Good idea," he quipped. "Wrong species."

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

Riot on Time - Who is responsible for the unrest in Los Angeles?
Tross Publishing

Book Review: The Pioneers – Makers of New Zealand - By Mike Butler on Breaking Views Don’t forget the old pioneers The Pioneers – Makers of New Zealand, a new book by writer-publisher John McLean, reminds ...
Note to Noteworthy

Religious Indoctrination Isn’t Funny - Indoctrination is psychologically abusive—even when unintentional. I've experienced its effects firsthand.
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Mickey Kaus: “Trump had to have a showdown — it has been good for him” - Self-described “Left MAGA” journalist says Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot
Dead Language Society

“Dog” is a weird word - Where animal names come from
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

“Being a progressive activist made me miserable” - My personal reflection on the left-right mental health gap is live at the Boston Globe
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

“His soul to him a kingdom was…” - This Louisa May Alcott poem honored her father; its legacy honors all who tend to a life of virtue
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 112 - Free Thoughts with Bowen & Twyman, Ep. 21 - Listen now | AI Speculations
Gus Van Horn

Flag Burning Must Remain Legal - *Editor's Note: Due to personal obligations, I am unlikely to blog until June 23, and will be present on X/Twitter irregularly.* *** I hear that Trump want...
Sinification

Prof. Lao Dongyan on Sex and Marriage in Chinese Law - "I had not expected that some of my peers—who have, supposedly, studied law—would actually hold views that by the standards of modern civilisation could be...
Museum Street (Henry Cooke)

A tale of two memoirs - Some notes on Ardernism, plus a little bit of professional news.
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 80) - Untimely Thoughts on a World in Transition
John D. Cook

Golden powers revisited - Years ago I wrote a post Golden powers are nearly integers. The post was picked up by Hacker News and got a lot of traffic. The post was commenting on a ...
Precise Thinking

What I Learned from My Dad - The Value of Complementary Thinking, Perseverance and Cooking
The China Space Monitor

Introducing Topical Deep-Dives - Combining research, analysis, and
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

My Interview on A.I. and the Impact on our World -
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 470 - Soft densification and pre-approvals - Industrialization has certainly sped up production of every commodity and reduced their cost per unit. In an era of urgency, housing promoters were in...
The Grumpy Economist

A new strategy to fight inflation - This is a WSJ op ed, written about the Fed’s strategy review.
Classical Compass Rose

In Defense of Educational Boredom - The mind that never experiences "boredom" cannot hear its own voice. The consciousness that never encounters emptiness has no space in which to expand.
Anti-Dismal

A history of the contemporary mainstream economic theory of the firm 1920 - 2020. A story of opportunities taken and missed. - We will examine the opportunities that were taken and those that were missed in the development of the mainstream economic theory of the firm over the pe...
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Join my Stoicism AMA on Waking Up - On Friday I'll be answering questions for Sam Harris' online community
The Trumpland Diary

Big Brother is Here: Palantir, Thiel & the End of Privacy - Thanks to Elon Musk and DOGE, Peter Thiel's Surveillance State Fever Dream is Finally Becoming a Reality
The Tracinski Letter

The TACO Revolution - The events of the past week indicate that the wheels are coming off the Trump administration—even as it becomes, in some respects, more dangerous.
Schiffradio.com

Elon Musk Blows the Whistle – Ep 1030 - Trump’s economic policies, explores the weak labor market, and warns of impending inflationary pressures. Download the free ebook “Navigating Global Trad...
Plain Sight

Silenced for exposing foreign interference in NZ? Surely not. - Courage comes in all shapes and sizes. I saw this for myself last Friday in the Manukau District Court when I went to supportPortia Mao on behalf of the Fr...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Interesting study out of the UK - Exact moment children ‘stop enjoying school’
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

The 5K Subscriber Special Q&A: US Politics: Brunch, Balkanization, & Bullet Trains - The Trump Bump Among Black Men, America vs. Europe, the Digital Civil War, and How Party ID Became a Religion
Stu-Topia

Importance of Rational Philosophy in Validating Private Property Rights Against Force - Mere Opposition to the ‘Initiation of Force,’ Such As From Libertarians, As Necessary But Not SufficientStuart K. Hayashi In the 1970s, many libertarians r...
What You Can Do For Liberty

Like Liberty? Ten States You Should Flee - I previously posted on the 12 states that are most desirable in terms of liberty, affordability, quality of life, and weather.
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

Dartmouth, India, and post-China America - From: DIPLOMATIST
The Roots of Progress

We Want Your Stories About the AI Frontier - “Intelligence Age” series will focus on future applications of artificial intelligence
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for May, 2025: +0.50 deg. C - The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for May, 2025 was +0.50 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, down from the ...
Too Clever By Half

Blog backups get easier - [image: Two arrows in a circular pattern] - You can now use Google Takeout to back up every part of all your blogs at once. ¶ - Takeout lets y...
FDR Liberated

Streamline Workday With Durable And Spacious Landscape Trailers - In the demanding world of landscaping and outdoor maintenance, having the right equipment is essential to streamline your workday and maximize efficiency. ...
Cremieux Recueil

Early-Onset Cancer Fast Facts - Are more young people getting cancer? Are more young'uns dying of cancer?
Asymmetric Information

What is the value of cycling?🍋 - An avid cyclist explores the economics of cycling in New Zealand
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (4 June 2025) - The Defense Production Act, national preparedness, Screwworm and uncertainty.
Reason for Living

Judging People is Good For Them—and For You - A rational judgment of a relationship's value to you is based primarily on the person's character and moral values, not merely the material benefits of the...
Eating Policy

What DOGE didn't do - Sustainable change comes from changing rules and procedures, not just ignoring them
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

Master Your Emotions in Just 3 Minutes with Stoic Wisdom [VIDEO] - Ever wondered how to stay calm when life gets chaotic?
Institute for Progress

IFP Roundup: techno-industrial policy, AI action plans, and much more - Hope you’re enjoying the final weeks of spring!
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

Making Deserts. - *Berlin 1945/Gaza 2025“They make a desert, and they call it peace.” - **Tacitus 56-117CE* *UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER *doesn’t leave those demanding it very...
Lindsay Mitchell

Ardern: If she insists on being remembered, I will oblige - One thing children who get murdered never seem short of is names. The latest example is Catalya Remana Tangimetua Pepene, the four-year-old Kaikohe child...
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Leading Florida power provider blasts solar/wind subsidies - Jacob Williams, CEO of Florida Municipal Power, speaks the truth about solar and wind subsidies: they are a disaster the Senate needs to terminate
Public Lands – PERC

New International Visitor Surcharge to Enhance National Parks - An idea PERC has long championed is becoming a reality. The post New International Visitor Surcharge to Enhance National Parks appeared first on PERC.
Cranmer’s Substack

NZME Shareholder Meeting; RNZ Corrects the Record - After a two hour shareholder meeting, NZME has a refreshed Board which includes the newly elected Steven Joyce and Jim Grenon.
Toppermost

Young Knives - “Thinking about how crap that band The Young Knives were. They should have been amazing as it was a band of multiple Marks from Peep Show.” – Peaches Gel...
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

A Conversation with Zol Cendes, Electrical Design Entrepreneur - *Join us for an exclusive online event for ARI donors on June 7*. The post A Conversation with Zol Cendes, Electrical Design Entrepreneur appeared first ...
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: Cambridge Latin Course Unit 1, by the Cambridge School Classics Project - Cambridge Latin Course: Unit 1, 4th Ed., The Cambridge School Classics Project (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Houston Strategies

HCTRA Update: Legislative session is a bust for reform, but no action is better than bad action - This week we have another excellent guest post from Oscar Slotboom. In December I reported on HCTRA's massive diversions of toll revenue, financial mismana...
One Useful Thing

The recent history of AI in 32 otters - Three years of progress as shown by marine mammals
Greg Mankiw's Blog

Stanley Fischer - The world lost a great man today. Here is Stan's obituary in the *New York Times*.
Autonomia

Interview with Terry Savage - Exclusive conversation with Chicago’s foremost financial broadcaster
The Future of Being Human

Vibe coding moral panic - Not a panic about vibe coding, but an idle thought that led down a rabbit hole that turned into an online timeline on tech driven angst through the ages
Let Grow

My Untracked Life - [image: Ali Kazal 2mg 3crJFgk Unsplash] Natalie BeVier is a Freshman at The University of The South in Tennessee, who plans to study English and plays on t...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Summoning the Third Demoness - "Liberty in our Lifetime" and the Moral Cowardice of Libertarians
An Africanist Perspective

How should development practice (and institutions) approach the coming reforms in the aid sector? - The past is gone. And there are lots of reasons not to mourn for its reinstatement.
The Trichordist

Historical Losses from Statutory Rates–Are you ready for CRB 5 and the New Frozen Mechanicals? - How much did you lose to inflation on streaming mechanicals?
Syncretica

Weekly Readings 30.05.25 - Transmission and Distribution Cost Blowouts in Australia
Johnny Grey Studios

Countdown to the South Downs Food Festival - A cornucopia of food and drink ...
What's New Under the Sun

May 2025 Updates - Government funding for R&D and a big retraction
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Creating a Mythology with Skinless Frank - Interviewing one of Fiume's legendary artists
Kibao

When the same extractive model is strategic in Australia but exploitative in Africa - Rethinking how Africa captures value from its resources
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

The Platform - A source of news you don't get elsewhere
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

ROB THOMAS ANNOUNCES FIRST EVER SOLO TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND WITH ‘THE ALL NIGHT DAYS TOUR’ - Multi-platinum singer-songwriter Rob Thomas today announced three nationwide New Zealand dates on his global The All Night Days Tour, celebrating his for...
Wildlife – PERC

Grizzly Bear Recovery Deserves to Be Recognized—and Rewarded - It's time for policy to catch up with progress. The post Grizzly Bear Recovery Deserves to Be Recognized—and Rewarded appeared first on PERC.
Existential Crunch

Reform or ruin - How some societies manage to avoid crisis
Wright in Racine

Happy Birthday, Roland! (And more Wright news) - © Mark Hertzberg (2025) Today’s joy in the World of Wright is to wish Roland Reisley a happy 101st birthday! He and I were walking into Monona Terrace duri...
High Capacity

My New York Times piece on China and the US - My op-ed is an urgent wake-up call for the US. China is forging ahead on AI, robotics, high-tech manufacturing, etc. Meanwhile, Trump is destroying the pil...
Liberty Scott

Pay Equity is a fundamentally flawed concept - No rational person would argue that people should be paid differently because of characteristics that have no bearing on their capability and willingness...
Overthinking Everything

How I clean my kitchen at the end of the day - This is a guide on how to clean my kitchen.
Splitting Headache

The Internet Has Been Balkanized - One of my predictions came true and I hate it.
HBL

A sense of proportion - [image: Author photo] Re: the thread on the limits of open immigration It’s time for Ayn Rand’s Power Question: What facts of reality give rise to the n...
Private Lands – PERC

Advancing the Invisible Revolution - Conservation Fund Awards Over $400k in Virtual Fence Grants to Innovative Ranchers The post Advancing the Invisible Revolution appeared first on PERC.
Interintellect

How to Have Good Taste — Recognizing Beauty as the Human Superpower in the Age of AI - New online salon series by Anna Gát
Roots of Progress

We have two new tracks for our 2025 Blog-Building Intensive Fellowship - Write about agriculture or health, longevity and biotech Applications are now open for the third Blog-Building Intensive fellowship! This year we have t...
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...
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

On Not Writing - Essay 61.
Spiked Online

The End of Woke with Andrew Doyle - The post The End of Woke with Andrew Doyle appeared first on spiked.
PM of NZ

The screaming is about to start - 3, 2, 1. No it's not "Gentlemen, start your engines." It is ... *Labour, the Green Party and Te Pāti Māori have been approached for comment* Unfortun...
Building the Builders

A peek at how I'm building myself by writing a book on building ourselves by building - Hope that's "meta" enough for you
Offsetting Behaviour

Social media slippery slopes - Yesterday, I went through what I see as a trilemma for age-gating social media access. A system putting obligations and liability on social media provid...
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
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Is There a Version of Christianity That I Could Love With My Whole Heart? - I never thought I'd come to this, what's it all about?
Boom (UK)

The Baby Meme - How policy starts cultural chain reactions
M.M.E.F. News

- *Kia Ora Koutou MMEF Friends & Supporters,* Over the last six months, we have been thinking strategically about our goals as an organisation and how ...
Ruxandra’s Substack

A response to Kate Manne on pregnancy - On the importance of well-reported data
Austin Vernon's Substack

A Review of Massively Scalable Enhanced Rock Weathering - How cheap can it pull CO2 from the air?
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
Virginia Postrel

Wanted: Manly Jobs for Manly Men - Or at least for manly men who don't have their acts together.
Thinking Directions

Turn Off the Trigger with a 5-4-3-2-1 Switch - Every emotion needs to be introspected to identify the deep values at stake. Don’t misunderstand this advice. I am not recommending that whenever you get...
Principled Perspectives

Pope Francis, the Anti-Capitalist Marxist, is Dead—Good Riddance - Pope Francis, the Anti-Capitalist Marxist, is Dead—Good Riddance Pope Francis, the arch enemy of property rights and individualism*, and thus Capitalis...
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: Just Kiln Time - The Quest for Pale Ale, Part I
A City for People

Court dismisses challenge to reduced character areas in Wellington - A big win in the historic 2024 District Plan was defended
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.
In Due Course

Why philosophers hate that ‘equity’ meme - If you want to annoy your favorite philosopher, one of the best ways to do it these days is to mention the “kids standing on boxes equity meme.” To call it...
Better things are possible

How land prices shape development patterns - Land values are an underdiscussed (outside of a small corner of economists and nerds) but important topic we should want more planners, policy analysts, po...
round houses

geodesica + 1 - Coincidentally, another Gilbert Spindel-designed mid-century round house — a Geodesica — is also for sale, this one in Lake Charles, Louisiana – Built in 1...
Earthly Idealism

A Revolution in Government - How the Enlightenment Created Freedom
Austrian Economics Newsletter

Mass Formations For The Masses - Crowd Psychology and the Canadian Electorate
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

Optimism For The Great Salt Lake Starts With Water Leasing - Utah can restore the Great Salt Lake and show that even the most daunting environmental challenges can be overcome. The post Optimism For The Great Salt...
The Enlightened Examiner

Studying Economics: Episode 1 - Guest Dennis Rice from Austrian Economics Newsletter is here to discuss monetary theory.
RenewNZ

Treaty Principles Bill Submission - The Treaty Principles Bill is expected to fall at its second reading in Parliament today. I confess to having struggled with how to respond to the Bill. Th...
Texas Institute for Property Rights

Dawson Town (Shattering Paradigms Book 2) - Following the emancipation of slaves in Texas, twenty-year-old plantation owner Samuel Dawson faces new challenges. The state government is reticent The ...
Barrie Saunders

Seymour unbowed by hostile Treaty bill submissions - The public debate shows the 1840 agreement to be a tangled mess Graham Adams writes – Anyone who watched David Seymour doggedly champion the End … Seymo...
Barrie Saunders

Seymour unbowed by hostile Treaty bill submissions - The public debate shows the 1840 agreement to be a tangled mess Graham Adams writes – Anyone who watched David Seymour doggedly champion the End … Seymo...
Happy Future

Ignorance and Confidence - Questions of the Times
The Truth Fairy

My New Book - On the Dating and Mating Struggles of Gen Z - I've conducted well over a hundred interviews. I'm looking for more.
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.
The Scholar's Stage

The Eight Tribes of Trump and China - In Which I Interview GOP High Officialdom
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...
Gross Output

Business Spending Flat to Close 2024, Economic Outlook Uncertain for 2025 - “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...
Forbidden Science

Reflections of a former leftist on the current mass derangement of the left - On the demonization of conservatives
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.
Journal of Free Black Moms

Ep. 15 - Embracing a Classical Education - Listen now | An interview with wife and mother of two Angel Adams Parham
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.
Don't Let It Go

Apple Shrugs - a haiku “Nice encryption there… except we’ll need a back door.” “What encryption? Where?” (Inspired by Apple’s decision to pull its iCloud end-to-end encry...
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:
A life just as ordinary

Beer – #1,120 – Russian River Brewing – Blind Pig - Beer #1,120 - Russian River - Blind Pig IPA An extraordinarily good beer!
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 at Breakthrough - https://thebreakthrough.org/people/patrick-brown
Regan's Substack

A girl's gotta have a backup - You expose yourself to significant risks if you choose to forgo building a career
Keith Weiner Economics

Reflections Over 2024 - How to start an essay on my year… Well, I traveled a lot. First, I went to New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, and then Dubai. I had to come home for our an...
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
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

Nearing the end of 2024 - Here we are at the end of 2024 already. Blink, and the year’s gone, it seems. For me it’s been a very busy year – so busy, in fact, that I’ve had no time f...
Fisheries – PERC

PERC Reports Winter 2024 - This special issue of PERC Reports explores creative ideas to address the conservation challenges of the Pacific Northwest. The post PERC Reports Winter ...
Macroscience

How Scientific Incentives Stalled the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance, and How We Can Fix It - Peptide-DB: A Million-Peptide Database to Accelerate Science
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
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

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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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
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...
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
Publisher's Weekly: Shelf Talker

The Great Book ‘Nobody’ Will Remember - An interview with Drew Beckmeyer
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...
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
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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
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 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...
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 →
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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...
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...
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