Not PC: No Kings

Monday, 20 October 2025

No Kings

"The chief evil is unlimited government…nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.”
~ F.A. Hayek from his book The Constitution of Liberty

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Progress on the Burnham Block - © Mark Hertzberg (2025) Bit by bit, parcel by parcel, the American System-Built homes in the 2700 block of W. Burnham Street in Milwaukee are coming togeth...
Market Urbanism

Home prices rose everywhere - Are rising prices in Kalamazoo a symptom of “climate refugees” moving to the cool, Rust Belt uplands? That’s a hypothesis put forward by a friend who works...
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

When Less Warming Means More Fear - As projected emissions fall, achievements once seen as climate progress are now being recast as signs of impending catastrophe
The Weekly Sift

Law and Order - Our residents have been attacked by a lawless entity, and we can’t just stand by and pretend this is acceptable. – Mayor Daniel Biss of Evanston,commenting...
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

Heretics in the Temple of Educational Orthodoxy - A Moral Reckoning, Not a Culture War
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

‘The Mamdani Effect’: Why New York’s Rich Are Already Heading for Exits - The Tiebout effect suggests citizens will move to communities where public goods and tax rates best match their preferences.
The Roots of Progress

Progress books for children - Building industrial literacy
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 488 - Modern Dry Masonry for Cleaner Sites - Masonry construction is commonly known as a wet construction method. The site-intensive process of laying masonry uses binders, with hydraulic lime be...
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Sweden Went All in on Screens in Childhood. Now It’s Pulling the Plug. - How Sweden is rolling back the phone-based childhood
Tim’s Substack

Tell it to the Marines - Free Ranging Afghanistan Chapter 17
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

We Let an Immigrant Live in Our Home - You should too, especially if you have young children
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

We Let an Immigrant Live in Our Home - You should too, especially if you have young children
Classical Compass Rose

Java and the Joyless Slumpers - The café, a once-vibrant stage for human encounter, has quietly transformed into an annex of the hunchback digital workplace. The murmur of voices has been...
Autonomia

Express and Progress - New stories, articles and essays in the pipeline
Toppermost

Hot Chocolate - The band first formed in 1968 as Hot Chocolate Band (shortened to Hot Chocolate by Mickie Most in 1970). Their first single was a reggae cover of Give Pe...
The Grumpy Economist

Causation Does not Imply Variation - Tyler Muir suggested this lovely catchphrase, which should stand next to “Correlation does not imply causation” in our menagerie of econometric sayings.
Too Clever By Half

My Blogger theme experiment - Notice anything different? ¶ [image: Title block of the "too clever" blog, split into two formats] *This isn't permanent, *but as of today, and for mayb...
JunkScience.com

Ford’s EV Pickup Never Made Sense - My latest at the Daily Caller.
The Logical Place

Western anti-Westernism - The “anti-Western” sentiment among many academics and students in Western universities can be explained by a convergence of historical, intellectual, and c...
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

Oh, to Be Spartan for a Day! - Inspired by My Sweetheart
Africa’s Bright Future

What If Everything You Knew About Climate Change Was Wrong? - Is climate alarmism finally dead?
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Andrew Fagan: Passage of Time 1991-2025 (CD, digital outlets) - In his recent survey of New Zealand's popular music Songs From the Shaky Isles, author Gareth Shute describes Andrew Fagan as “a ... Source: Andrew Fagan...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

Can Hollywood Be Saved? One Man Is Trying, And The Industry Hates Him For It - The Good News Is He Doesn’t Hate You,
Folarinism

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

What will it take for AI to change drug discovery? - Some thoughts on avoiding self delusion.
Glenn’s Substack

My Dinner with Dick - Cheney, that is. Now it can be told.
misfits' architecture

The Consortium - An investment manager, a property developer and an architect walk into a room full of people wanting to hear what the architects have to say about co-livin...
Let Grow

“I Was So Bored, I Started a Play Club” – Guthrie, Age 12 - [image: Guthrie Mailbox] “I’d love my kids to play outside but there’s no one there for them to play with!” – Many a mom. “I’d love to play outside, but th...
Equal to Reality

The Pinnacle of St Ives. - When Ambition Meets Reality
Houston Strategies

How Houston can silence those ear-blasting cars and trucks! - This week the Houston Chronicle published my op-ed calling for noise cameras in Houston (thank you shout out to Evan and Lisa!). I would also like to post ...
What You Can Do For Liberty

This Top-Tier Non-Woke College Is Now Free — If You're Smart Enough - Thanks to a $100 million donation from entrepreneur Jeffrey Yass, the University of Austin (TX) is now tuition free.
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

The importance of being Ernest Rutherford - Mention the name Ernest Rutherford and you might think about splitting atoms, something the straight-talking physicist from Nelson first did during his spa...
The War on Prices

Tyler Cowen is Correct on the Risks of "Affordability Politics" - All roads in that frame lead to a War on Prices
Sinification

October Digest | Part 2 — The World as Viewed From China - US-China Relations | Global Order and International Development | Taiwan | Japan | Europe | Nationalism
In Due Course

Are cooperatives more virtuous than corporations? - Growing up in Saskatoon during the 1970s, cooperatives were a major part of our daily lives.
The Tracinski Letter

Shattering the Trump Illusion - The crisis of our age is not so much political as epistemological.
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

When It’s Rational to Blame “Both Sides” - Podcast audio: [powerpress] In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Onkar Ghate discuss both invalid and valid attempts to blame...
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Speak Up Like a Moral Leader: Your Voice Shapes the Culture - “Begley is arguably America’s leading moral character speaking coach.”
Africa-Israel Weekly

Hamas Murdered Him, Filmed it and Kept His Body for 761 Days - Now His Body Returns
Objective Standard Institute

Learning for Life: A User’s Guide for the Active Mind - How do you decide what’s worth learning in a world overflowing with knowledge? In his LevelUp talk, Eric Daniels explores how to direct your own learning t...
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: October 2025 - Hope you had a fun Halloween!
StephenFranks.co.nz

Is free speech a right wing conspiracy? - When I was a left wing student, protesting against NZ’s Security Intelligence Service, the Vietnam War and other trending causes, it would have been inconc...
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

The Novel Life - The arrival of Mayor Mamdani
The Library of Celaeno

The Ocean Sunfish - And The Seas In Which We Swim
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Tactical Espionage Dollar-Store Hobo - The Anarchonomicon Kit List
Interintellect

Anne Applebaum on Interintellect: December 11 - An exciting online salon about the "autocratic moment"
Principled Perspectives

A Criminal Wins in NYC - A criminal won the mayoralty race in NYC. Why do I say “criminal?” A while back I read 2 books, The Communistic Societies of the United States by Charl...
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Three Big Ideas #47 - *Three Big Ideas* is our fortnightly roundup of ideas (and our takes on them) in entrepreneurship, innovation, science and technology, handpicked by the ...
Roberto’s Substack

The Brazilian Anarchy and the Moral Collapse of the War on Drugs - What we have seen in Rio de Janeiro is what one sees in any territory where anarchy takes root: the factual absence of a State capable of monopolizing the ...
Theatreview

The 2025 PAYPA Awards - The 2025 PAYPA Awards Performing Arts & Young People’s Sector celebrates Excellence Performing Arts & Young People Aotearoa (PAYPA) is delighted to announc...
PM of NZ

Exposing the real grifters for all to see - Events in the past weeks around the New Zealand's native party have exposed the ultimate grifters for all to see. *"avarice, greed and entitlement"* The...
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Bill Gates helps break the moral monopoly against fossil fuels - Bill Gates’s humanist challenge to the anti-fossil-fuel climate establishment was only possible because the “moral monopoly” against fossil fuels has been ...
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

See No Evil - Why did RFK Jr. limit the reporting of certain foodborne illnesses?
Spiked Online

Think Before You Post tickets - The post Think Before You Post tickets appeared first on spiked.
Overthinking Everything

Making connections - If two people seem like they should know each other and don't, maybe you should fix that.
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Trump Doesn’t Need a Third Term to Remain as President in 2028 - After ostensibly alluding to the possibility of running for a third term, President Trump recently seemingly put the idea to rest, stating “It’s pretty c...
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

BRIEFLY NOTED: Further Arguments Against Jared Diamond - I was one-shotted in my teens by the way Guns, Germs, and Steel ✨explained everything✨ and I’ve been chasing that dragon ever since.
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Heaven Is Already Here, It's Just Not Very Evenly Distributed - I want you to enter my home, and find what you've been looking for in a church.
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for October, 2025: +0.53 deg. C - The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for October, 2025 was +0.53 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, unchanged ...
Michael Newberry, Artist

WIP, Muse, and Moon - Just stretched the Belgian raw linen on my home-made stretcher bars for my next space painting. Will gesso it tonight. And one of my favorite muses is trav...
Conspicuous Cognition

AI Sessions #3: The Truth About AI and the Environment - Watch now | Examining AI's true environmental impact, the 'stochastic parrot' debate, effective altruism, technological determinism, and all the ways we ne...
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

Peace Corps vs. Corporate America Revisited - Is Gen Z’s Ambivalence About Altruism an Opportunity for Corporate America?
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

The Ledger of Colonialism in Nigeria - How missionary schools, warrant chiefs, and forced taxation created modern Nigeria
A life just as ordinary

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

October - By Robert Frost
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

Conquering Climate Anxiety - A conversation with former climate activist Lucy Biggers
Pablo’s Translations

Propuesta para un nuevo tipo de día festivo - por Mark Conway Munro, 30 de octubre, 2025
Freedom and Flourishing

How can the study of human nature help us to reach normative conclusions in political philosophy? - When I read the sentence quoted in the epigraph above, the thought crossed my mind that Aristotle would have agreed with it. Aristotle based his philosop...
Public Lands – PERC

Shaping the Next Era of Conservation at the Historic Murie Ranch - PERC convenes America’s leading conservation thinkers to chart the future The post Shaping the Next Era of Conservation at the Historic Murie Ranch appea...
American Energy Alliance

A Firm Commitment to Energy Dominance Requires a Commitment to Offshore Production - WASHINGTON DC (10/30/2025) – A recent Politico report highlights that many elected officials who champion strong energy production oppose offshore drilli...
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

The 10 Stoic Handbook Episodes Listeners Keep Replaying (and Why) - 500,000 Downloads Milestone Post
The Kerrant

Stemming the tide of alarm over rising water levels - Letter to the Editor, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 February 2002 Dr Belinda Medlyn (Letters, February 21) audaciously accuses Dr Stone (Letters, February 20...
Existential Crunch

Auroras, space weather and the threat to critical infrastructure - How vulnerable are we to the next Carrington Event?
Asymmetric Information

Are capital gains taxes fair?🍋 - NZ lacks a specific capital gains tax. But introducing one may not increase fairness.
The Jolly Libertarian

Who are the True Believers? - Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky! In 1951 an extraordinary book was published. Its author was a relatively unknown man who worked on the waterfront of...
The Trumpland Diary

Trump Just Demolished the East Wing: Can He Actually Do That? - A 60-Year Old Exception Allows It
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

Critics of Ayn Rand bash her novels without reading them. A hockey player is giving her a fair shot. - While preaching diversity of identity, pseudo-intellectuals still can’t handle diversity of ideas
Cranmer’s Substack

Trump's Crypto World - The pardoning of Binance founder CZ last week has given a glimpse at the sensational personal deal-making at the heart of Trump's administration.
Fictionosophy

Violence as Spectacle in Chain-Gang All-Stars - Brutal and at times jarring, Chain-Gang All-Stars nevertheless reminds us to view every single person as a fellow human being.
On Substack

Demystifying the feed - Why Substack has a feed, how to use it, and what we have learned from those who are building it.
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

Free, fearless and robust media - October 27, 2025
Lindsay Mitchell

Same-old, same-old - The Social Investment Agency is a creation of the National government. It kicked off in July 2024 and is headed by the former police commissioner Andrew ...
Austin Vernon's Substack

A Nuclear Fission Regulatory Blank Slate - What if nuclear regulations were reset?
Tross Publishing

THE SAD PASSING OF COMMON SENSE - To-day we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was since his bi...
Plain Sight

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

Western Values or “Unity”: Republicans Can’t Have Both - Why are many Republican leaders refusing to condemn racist and authoritarian rhetoric within the party?
Growing to Truth

Western Values or “Unity”: Republicans Can’t Have Both - Why are many Republican leaders refusing to condemn racist and authoritarian rhetoric within the party?
Eat More Electrons

Is Mission 300 about creating jobs or not?? - 5 big questions for the World Bank to help Ajay Banga succeed
Note to Noteworthy

Mr. Savior - Is God really a savior?
Offsetting Behaviour

Speech-gating and privacy tradeoffs - A friend asked about my zealotry on age-gating social media and why internet anonymity/pseudonymity should be protected. I sent this through by email, f...
First Stones NewsLetter

Why the 36% sales increase in Christian Holy Bibles over a recent 12-month period (as reported on Fox News) is good news for an a-theist such as my BiO Spiritualist Self. - This sounds tongue-in-cheek but maybe it's not.
Democracy Project

Geoffrey Miller: New Zealand’s strategy for the East Asia Summit and APEC - Christopher Luxon is heading to Asia for a diplomatic double-header. New Zealand’s Prime Minister is attending both the East Asia Summit (EAS) gathering in...
Stu-Topia

I Miss My Troubled, Unwell Norwegian Friend - Stuart K. Hayashi I still worry about my troubled, unwell Norwegian friend, the one I wrote about previously. I mean my troubled friend who was obsessed ...
Barrie Saunders

The BSA power grab: Post 2 - Media and Communications Minister, Paul Goldsmith’s handling of the BSA power grab follow 80 years of abysmal leadership by National Party governments re b...
Reason for Living

Bringing More Consciousness to Everyday Decisions, Part 1: Relationships - Any amount of unawareness of our motivations, however small, can grow into serial evasions and ultimately the destruction of our lives and values.
The China Space Monitor

Chinese Space Financing Goes Mainstream - Plus the return of Thousand Sails ⛵️ GeeSpace in Argentina 🇦🇷 and satellite-connected robot dogs (yes, you read that right) 🐶
High Capacity

China's emerging export control regime - China is trying to build a "unified export control system" that's about much more than just leverage in the latest negotiations with the US
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

A Letter - Thoughts Embodied
Catherine Mosse

The State as Organized Plunder vs. The Voluntaryist Alternative - A genuine voluntaryist order rests on peaceful cooperation, private property, and voluntary associations, while violent, competing gangs are better underst...
Conflicted

Angular Momentum - How NGOs and advocates spun a narrative of an insurability induced economic crisis
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Are we experiencing another watershed event? - The BSA may be an unwitting catalyst for rolling back the administrative state
Martini Mandate

Pooh, AI, and the Man with a Red Flag - How you feel about the impact of AI on society depends largely on your personality. In A.A. Milne-speak, if you’re a Tigger, you’re bouncing off the wall...
An Africanist Perspective

Raila Amolo Odinga - The man whose political career defined Kenya’s multiparty politics
HBL

“The Objectivist Ethics Part II” starts October 20 - In one week (on Oct. 20), I begin the live version of my new course on the second half of the phenomenal speech, “The Objectivist Ethics.” The first 60 par...
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (15 October 2025) - Futures, geoengineering, and three types of AI risk – and welcoming two new team members
Science+Story

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

The Courage to Speak Up - Do you speak up about issues in your sex life with your romantic partner? Or about political issues with close friends and family who disagree with you? ...
The Truth Fairy

When Your Child is Sick - (And: Come See Me This Thursday, October 16, in Beverly Hills!)
Virginia Postrel

From the Archives: Joel Mokyr on the Industrial Enlightenment - The great economic historian Joel Mokyr has won the Nobel Prize. Here I reprint a column on his book The Gifts of Athena.
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: Joel Mokyr's Nobel - A triumph for history and the importance of ideas
The Realization of Wholeness

It's Better Than Going Blind - Or how "Under Pressure" became my favorite song
The Enlightened Examiner

What October 7th Means to Me - Is this world still worth fighting for?
The Enlightened Examiner

What October 7th Means to Me - Is this world still worth fighting for?
The Organon Architecture Blog

"Nature Near" - I was lucky enough to be invited to contribute to the local *Montessori Voices* magazine, on the vital importance of bringing nature near. It's as impor...
Liberty Scott

Jews are targets for being Jews in England - and it's not from the traditional far right - When Jews get targeted in what should be safe liberal democracies, it doesn't quite see the same response as when Muslims or targeted or even the general...
Kibao

Make Electrons Generic Again (MEGA) - Why the next leap in Africa’s energy story must be about agency, not just access
Freethink Media

Reversing the aging process is worth $38T. But is it possible? - Aging kills 100,000 people a day. Here’s why scientists believe that can change.
Journal of Free Black Moms

Ep. 17 - Change the World Be a Mom (Sheila Qualls) - Listen now | An interview with wife and mother of five Sheila Qualls
Harry’s Substack

This is what tyranny looks like - Trump is consolidating power
Splitting Headache

Hot Take: You Do Owe The World Something - You can’t go through life without the help of others. So it is on you to help them as well.
Outliving Iran

Ismail - The remarkable story of a friend, a fallen hero, whom I will never forget.
What's New Under the Sun

What if the NIH had been 40% smaller? - Plus: Send me job market papers
Gross Output

Trump Trade War Hits Business: Economy Slows to a Crawl - “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...
Notes On Liberty

What I’ve been working on - Hi all, Apologies for not blogging very much. Here’s what I’ve been working on. There is more to come!
Institute of Economic Affairs

Why the socialist Left and the populist Right are talking past each other - This blog post was first published on IEA Insider. Subscribe at insider.iea.org.uk This piece works as a follow up to The revival … Continue reading "Why...
Better things are possible

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

Guidance Systems and Grids for Greens - The arc of military technology bends to the left
RenewNZ

Recognising Palestine feeds jihadist ideology - The New Zealand Government must not recognise the so-called state of “Palestine” at the UN this week. Doing so at this point would be a reward for barbaric...
Greg Mankiw's Blog

The economy 50 years from now - Seven experts opine.
Peter Winsley

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

How to vote pro-housing in Wellington - The candidates who support more homes in this local election
round houses

a dome with portholes - Dome house in the California desert.
The Scholar's Stage

Bullets and Ballots: The Legacy of Charlie Kirk - What did Charlie Kirk mean to the Young Right?
Notes On Liberty

If you haven't already... - ...please subscribe to this new magazine
Musk Watch

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

High fertility on the Faroe Islands - Missing women & foreign brides
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

homecoming - back to where it all began
FDR Liberated

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

Hooked on ChatGPT - Essentials of the conversation: Timestamp, North Star moment, Hook for next time
Museum Street (Henry Cooke)

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

Surviving Involution - How long can China eat itself?
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Fiume Gallery: A Dark Theater Experiment - People can't get over the eclectic launch party I threw in May. Here’s what really happened.
Anton Zenith

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

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

We've moved! - Science for Everyone is still at scienceforeveryone.science, but no longer on Substack
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

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

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

#6 How to Optimize for Student Motivation - My last article was about helping students to adhere to reality by means of controlling error. This approach belongs to both of the high-structure models o...
Mike’s Substack

#6 How to Optimize for Student Motivation - My last article was about helping students to adhere to reality by means of controlling error. This approach belongs to both of the high-structure models o...
Wright Chat

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

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

New Course, Blended Format! - *Kia ora Koutou MMEF Supporters,* It was uplifting and heartwarming to see many of you in Rotorua recently at the annual Montessori Aotearoa New Zealan...
Roots of Progress

More great speakers join Progress Conference 2025 - Progress Conference 2025 is on track to once again be a main event for the progress community, now bringing together well over 300 attendees. Over the la...
Johnny Grey Studios

Midsummer Meet-ups - The making of the Kitchen of the future and the South Downs Food Festival
The Upheaval

Important Announcements - I’m going in, this Substack's going on ice, and a book is coming
Seiler on Science

Is Compartmentalization the Key to Modern Science? - A review of The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science, by Michael Strevens (New York: Liveright, 2020)
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...
Down to Earth Kiwi

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

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

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

Farmville - The Autonomous Future of Agriculture
No Punches Pulled

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

Password Reset - Reset Password Reset Your Password The post Password Reset appeared first on AYN RAND CENTRE.
Austrian Economics Newsletter

Mass Formations For The Masses - Crowd Psychology and the Canadian Electorate
Skeptic

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writings hosted elsewhere - The Breakthrough Institute Interactive Brokers Campus
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
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
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...
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 ...
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We're going on hiatus - But do stick around
Robert Nasir’s Joyous Newsletter

I Don't Know. - The power, the leverage, the epistemological clarity, the strategic value, the style & dignity, the surprising truths, and the simple peace of mind that fl...
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...
Jackson Upmann

Coming soon - This is Jackson Upmann.
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...
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
The Fundy Post

Genesis -
Power + Market

In the Aftermath of the $355 Million Ruling Against Trump, Business Owners Are Even Less Safe than Before - By: Daniel Kowalski Willing buyer and willing seller. These five words form the very basis from which the system of capitalism is based on. You have someth...
The Grumpy Economist

Understanding Trumpers - WSJ oped and substack post.
The Popehat Report

The Popehat Report Is Moving To Beehiiv - As I mentioned before, the Popehat Report is moving to Beehiiv, a different platform for blogs and newsletters. You can find it at www.popehat.com. The nex...
Law of Markets

An economic philosopher of the highest rank - He explains how capitalism, and only capitalism, can and does make us prosperous. Alas, he also shows how rare this perspective is by being so rare himself...
Michelle Kamhi

Where I’m Coming From - In today’s toxically polarized climate, individuals willing to engage openly in civil discourse with people they may disagree with are all too rare and mer...
George Reisman's Blog

A 2024 Mid-Priced Automobile Sells for the Same $300 Price Paid for a Model T Ford in 1924 - It really does, if you can pay for it in *Gold* dollars. Based on the present price of gold bullion, of approximately $2,000 per ounce, a twenty-dollar U...
Democracy Action

Is the government staying true to its promises? - In November 2023, National released the coalition agreements made with ACT and NZ First. The Coalition Government agrees to defend the principle that Ne...
Oh look it's a blog - Lorin Clarke

Won't somebody think of the children - I’ve been working with children lately. I have been astonished and astounded by how creative they are. It must be physiological. It’s just a fact that th...
The Continental Telegraph

The BBC and terrorism - The language we use matters – it provides clarity to our own thoughts and enables us to be… The post The BBC and terrorism appeared first on Continental ...
Pirate Wires

Dean Preston: San Francisco's Millionaire Marxist - the card carrying dsa sf politician also happens to be a millionaire who refuses to allow more housing in the city
Uranium-238

Introduction to the Iran Nuclear Deal - Putting a price on nonproliferation
Comments on: Bert Kelly

By: Better to be popular than right « Economics.org.au - […] Bert Kelly […]
Cafe Hayek

Some Links - (Don Boudreaux) TweetWriting in the Wall Street Journal, NYU physicist Steven Koonin reports on how the Biden White House inadvertently told the truth abou...
Origin Stories

Breaking Performance Addiction... - ... and wrapping up my first season of Origin Stories
The Great Recession Blog

It’s Crunch Time for The Daily Doom and Doom Time for The Great Recession Blog - The Great Recession Blog is officially done for good, and my writing continues on TheDailyDoom.com. This site will eventually be completely terminated. If ...
Alastair Cavendish: British Freedom

So They Smashed that Old Man of Whitehaven - Hot on the heels of the Theatre Royal in Stratford promoting a Black Out evening, a performance of the play Tambo and Bones which they...
The Gutter

Woden's Day Thing: 4/26/22 - All right already
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1828 – Championing Freedom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

William Whewell’s “Discoverer’s Induction” (Part 4) - Previous posts: William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 1) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 2) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Ind...
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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