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The Footy Almanac

Almanac Cricket: Australia v Bangladesh: Second Test, Mackay, Day 2 – Test Cricket, Now With Even Less Cricket - Cat Jones expresses her disappointment in the Mackay Test, which did not even last two days!
A life just as ordinary

The Ace of Lace - Ace of Lace If you’ve spent any time sitting at a high table in a good local taproom over the last few years, staring down at an empty Nonic pint … Continu...
Free Range Kids

Of Helen Keller and Helicopter Parenting - The movie that best illustrates today’s parenting expectations is “The Miracle Worker,” about Helen Keller. When Annie Sullivan is hired as governess, sh...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Bryan Bruce – Don’t let the Right Wing Steal Your Vote ! - The National Coalition have changed the voting rules . 440,000 eligible people are not enrolled, including approximately 200,000 people aged...
Principled Perspectives

On Socialism and Democracy - This Post appeared on the Facebook page of The Federalist Papers: DSA [Democratic Socialists of America] Co-Chair Megan Romer did Americans a favor by sa...
No Minister

Retroactive Law: When the Past Becomes Illegal - One of the most valuable inheritances from Roman law is the prohibition on retroactive legislation; the principle that what is lawful today cannot be decla...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

College-educated women have maintained stable marriage rates by partnering with high-earning non-college men, shrinking the pool of economically viable partners available to non-college women - See Gender Disparities in College Enrollment and Marriage Patterns by Clara Chambers, Benjamin Goldman & Joseph Winkelmann.”Over the past half-century, the...
The Daily Economy

In Some States, Disparate-Impact Policies Are Hanging On -
The Double Standard

Open Mike 24/08/2026 - Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to th...
Breaking Views

Wendy Geus: Biased media deflects to US whilst ignoring NZ's divisive race issue - Misogynistic fixation on Trump Aide highlights NZ's biased media's agenda - deflection to US domestic politics whilst ignoring NZ's divisive race issueCNN'...
Slow Boring

Sunday Thread + Mailbag - Ask your questions below.
Watts Up With That?

Claim: Climate Driven Droughts Will Triple the Price of Wheat - Because people will forget how to build water infrastructure? The post Claim: Climate Driven Droughts Will Triple the Price of Wheat appeared first on Wa...
Marginal Revolution

Sunday assorted links - 1. “Underestimating something that has an AI “accent” by reflexively dismissing it as slop rhymes curiously with underestimating someone because they hav...
Not On Your Team, But Always Fair

Why left-progressives adopt appalling people as moral mascots - They make for stronger signals of shared moral heroism
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Noëlle Lenoir: "France is in danger. The future of democracy is at stake." - Former French Supreme Court justice fears Macron will use “foreign interference” as a pretext for censorship before next year’s elections
Point of Order

Back to the future - Looking at global politics, readers may sometimes feel a nostalgic yearning for predictability, order and a certain logic. Turmoil seems almost like a per...
Happy Future

The New Artillery Shell Factory is a Dud - “It was just a bunch of guys taking turns going at the machine with a sledgehammer every night.”
ROBERT FRIPP

Bring on the perfect world! - Words 100 · RF@80 Series.
Kunstler

KunstlerCast 450 — Jeffrey Tucker of Brownstone on the Unraveling Covid Story - Jeffrey Tucker is founder and president of Brownstone Institute and Senior Economics Columnist at Epoch Times.
Why Evolution Is True

A t.v. interview about the Jason Arday affair - I am supposed to be on the i24 English News today speaking briefly about Jason Arday. The invitation I got included this: I’m reaching out from i24NEWS Eng...
The Inquiring Mind

The Late, Late Movie: Death Drums Along The River (1963) – Richard Todd, Marianne Koch - In an unnamed small British colony on the west coast of Africa, somewhat resembling the Gambia, two policemen patrolling a wharf sight a sack of peanuts dr...
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Chartbook 469: The risk of unwind - The US Treasury market in the era of the hedge fund-profit dollar. - The interest rate set by bond markets around the world, are going up.
The Common Reader

Replacing Orwell with Anna Funder is part of a bigger problem on the OCR A-level syllabus - The philistine supremacy is still at large
Can't Get Much Higher

How to Survive as a Music Critic: A Conversation with Steven Hyden - Or, when you’re supposed to talk about The Strokes but end up philosophizing about the music business instead
AAS Economics (Frank Shostak)

WHICH COMMODITIES NOW? Money Supply & Macro #71 - Apply the same logic as with other markets
The Economic LongWave

☀️The Sun Is Not Scarce. Our Ability to Harness It Is. - 💹 A 99.99% collapse in the price of solar cells may be telling us something profound about the next Economic Spring.
DGMLive

Toyah & Robert's Weekend -
Everyday Price Index | AIER

When Paris Went Hungry Under Government Food Controls - How does Paris get fed? Frédéric Bastiat famously explained in *Economic Sophisms* (1845) how market exchange reliably provisioned the (then) million peo...
The Curmudgeon

Subversive Literature - In a refreshing change from the usual sex and sleaze, one of the Trumpster's legal feuds seems to have taken a bookish turn. While serving as director of t...
The New York Review of Books

‘The Voodoo Thing’ - One afternoon around 1990, as a teenager working my after-school job in an optometrist’s basement office, I was listening to a local college radio station ...
The Roots of Liberty

A Political Platform For Us All... - ... To Love and Hate
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Lindsay Clancy Has Admitted She Killed Her Children. Why Does She Have So Many Supporters? - Source Usually if you strangle a bunch of innocent children to death, it’s a big no-no. But if you’re the one person on earth who is supposed to love and ...
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

Saving Us from Government Intrusion Would Make the SAVE Act Redundant - In a truly free society, voting would be a minor administrative event, not a matter of life and death.
Futurism

Expert on Financial Crises Says the Signs Are Impossible to Miss - "We need to acknowledge that the bottom can fall beneath the US economy, practically, in any minute." The post Expert on Financial Crises Says the Signs ...
Living Resources Center

What Do Schools Really Teach? - What do most schools really teach? Only conformity and indoctrination? It depends on the school. However, most schools fit this description. 100 percent ...
Tim Worstall

Because we’ve already spent all the money - Infographic: Why do we need economic growth No, really, we have. We’ve promised ourselves £250k each of end of life healthcare. £250k each as a pension f...
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

Stoic Morning Practice: Start Before You Feel Ready - Some mornings, nothing has gone wrong and the day already feels like too much.
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Net zero grid upgrade costs spiralling out of control - By Paul Homewood h/t Doug Brodie Another nail in the coffin! From the Telegraph: The costs of upgrading Britain’s energy grid for net zero threat...
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

Why not, you know, just stop charging for landfill? - As so often the next stage of government activity is created by the last stage of it. The logical solution therefore being to reduce what government has ...
SkyscraperCity Forum

Hotelería | Eurobuilding Maracaibo | 24p | 86m | E/C - *Torre Empresarial Excelsior.* [image: Image] [image: Image] *Niveles de 700 Mts2 - Vista panorámica sobre el Lago de Maracaibo - 3 Ascensores de Al...
Kiwiblog

The crash will be massive when it comes - A trillion dollars of borrowing in 95 days. That is beyond scary. Hell that even exceeds the Greens’ ambitions! The post The crash will be massive when i...
New Zealand Arts Review

Simon O’Neill and Pietari Inkinen shine in NZSO’s Radiance - Radiance New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Pietari Inkinen Tenor: Simon O’Neill Auckland Town Hall August 21 Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Normally...
PM of NZ

Act's "One law for all" outlined today - +1000 ACT's David Seymour outlines his policy today in a straight talking video. A good watch. And right on cue, someone in the audience asks a questio...
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

The Best Way to Grieve Is to Give - More Personal Insights
The Whakataki Times

Old Boy At Pub Annoyed That He Has Nothing To Complain About - CHEER UP. The post Old Boy At Pub Annoyed That He Has Nothing To Complain About appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
A Havenstein Moment.

A World in Debt (1935) - The Pathology of Debt
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day – It’s not a mystery why so many hate the BBC - I can answer this simply. William Shakespeare doesn’t send me a monthly letter threatening to send the boys round if I don’t give him money for something...
Zero Hanger

Every AFL coach ranked: Who is safe and who is under pressure heading into 2027? - From premiership contenders to rebuilds, we assess where every AFL coach stands heading into 2027.
Homepaddock

Milne muses - “There is a joy of childhood which one can never recapture – the joy of getting wet in the sea. A doctor said that salt water couldn’t give you a cold. Whe...
Skeptic

Ufology: Withering on the Vine - Eighty years after Donald Keyhoe invented the government cover-up myth, ufology still hasn’t produced a single verified artifact. A sharp dissection of how...
The Integrity Institute

News Briefing: 23 August 2026 - ELECTION 2026 AND PARTY POLITICS
Brash & Mitchell

DON BRASH: EXPLAINING MY VOTE - About a year ago, when the Government had been in office about two years, I wrote a short assessment of how they were doing. At that point, I marked them o...
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Mortal Limits, Human Minds - Aristotle knew what the LLMs don’t.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

Mortal Limits, Human Minds - Aristotle knew what the LLMs don’t.
Techdirt

This Week In Techdirt History: August 16th – 22nd - This Week in 2016 This Week in 2011 This Week in 2006
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: It Ain’t Bragging If You Can Do It - Dizzy Dean? Muhammad Ali? Sonny Liston? Reggie Jackson? Babe Ruth? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Unfounded boasts are criticized, but an indi...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

The Best Gospel Music Happening Right Now - You don’t need to join the congregation to enjoy these spirited tracks
Cremieux Recueil

I Made a Website to Monitor Data Center Effects on Electricity Prices - They’re not having big effects
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Hey, POTUS, Hamburger Socialism Ain’t The Answer—-It’s The Free Market, Stupid! -
John D. Cook

Coming soon - There’s a pizza shop near my home with a sign out front that says “Coming Soon.” When I drove by it this morning I thought about how you would model the ...
JoNova

How to win the culture war — show them the future they think they want - By Jo Nova Independent Women’s Voice have the right idea. Spread it around. It’s a great little video about the long term consequences of “free stuff”. ...
Uncharted Territories

Uncharted Territories, the TV Series - Black Mirror, but White Mirror
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

My Dinner with André: Stuck at a Table with You - For most of the decades that I've known about My Dinner with André, the film has been a kind of in-joke. Released at the height of the art house and repert...
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Can Presidents Exempt People from US Law? - After the Supreme Court struck down his first order restricting birthright citizenship in Trump v.
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

Can Presidents Exempt People from US Law? - After the Supreme Court struck down his first order restricting birthright citizenship in Trump v.
Brownstone Institute

David Morens and the Problem of Obedience - David Morens and the Problem of Obedience by Rev. John F. Naugle at Brownstone Institute [image: David Morens and the Problem of Obedience] Recently the ...
Construction Physics

Reading List 08/22/26 - Los Angeles’ ADUs, electrical transformer manufacturing, gas turbine power plants, how water in the Colorado River is used, and more.
Energy Transition Absurdities

X Post: EPA Suspends Summer Blend Requirement - Great news for American drivers came on Friday as EPA Administrator - after consultation with Energy Secretary Chris Wright - acted to suspend the EPA’s su...
Eating Policy

Weekend short read: Fire is a metaphor, until its not - Prescribed burns and unprescribed ones, and what it means to me to be where I am
Mises Institute Blog

Austrian Economics, Gold, and the Fed’s Confidence Game - Mark Thornton explains why Austrian economics matters, and why gold, debt, the Fed, and the dollar all point back to the same problem: government money.
Persuasion

The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: Building Things - Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama discuss his lifelong hobbies—from building furniture to robotics—and why they might save us in the age of big tech.
Yascha Mounk

The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: Building Things - Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama discuss his lifelong hobbies—from building furniture to robotics—and why they might save us in the age of big tech.
Retraction Watch

Weekend reads: Senators ask FDA for more oversight following deaths in China clinical trials; image duplication in Alzheimer’s papers; ‘AI Is Ruining Scholarship’ - If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news...
Spiked Online

Islamism and the silence of the ‘progressives’ - The post Islamism and the silence of the ‘progressives’ appeared first on spiked.
Quillette

Claire's Weekly Letter: Punished for Truth-Seeking -
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

The Great Election Re-Gifting - How yesterday’s government commitments become tomorrow’s election promises
Kiwipolitico

Adobe Canyon Men - This is a bit of a departure from my usual blogging, but a long-time friend sent me something that made me reminisce. With some license taken, please allow...
Virginia Postrel

Gratitude Is Not Complacency: Paying Progress Forward - Recognizing past progress isn’t a prescription for contentment. It’s an argument against taking the status quo for granted.
UnHerd

The return of the loony Left - Jason Arday has triggered a collapse of reason
Marcus on AI

Data center madness - Two estimates of how crazy AI Capex has gotten, and four new signs that public opinion has totally soured
Cato at Liberty

Sixty Years of Steel Tariffs Haven't Worked. More Won't Either - For sixty years, Washington has shielded domestic steel from foreign competition—and for sixty years, the industry has declined anyway.
American Institute of Economic Research

When Paris Went Hungry Under Government Food Controls - How does Paris get fed? Frédéric Bastiat famously explained in *Economic Sophisms* (1845) how market exchange reliably provisioned the (then) million peo...
The Many Ways I Let You Down

Cheap objects slick with the oil of past hands... - Is there anywhere on earth more glorious than a (good) second hand bookshop?
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

A week is a long time: 22 August 2026 - A New Zealand Politics weekly wrap-up
The Library of Celaeno

Delete Human Capital - When your moral and intellectual betters attack
ArchDaily

Yaku – Sustainable Urban Runoff Management Module / El Sindicato Arquitectura - Isla Tortuga Park, located in northern Quito, Ecuador, was selected for the implementation of the Yaku (meaning "water" in Kichwa) prototype. This modula...
A Halfling's View

A Forthcoming Series - A Preview of the Deeps of Time
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Number Of The Day: $40 Trillion Of Public Debt And Counting Rapidly To WTF?! - Click on Title to Read
IPWatchdog Articles

Other Barks & Bites for Friday, August 21: US Inventor Lacks Standing for Patent Language Challenge; D.C. Circuit Upholds CMS’ Single-Source Drug Interpretation; and Ninth Circuit Deepens Split on Attorney’s Fees Under Lanham Act - This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Fourth Circuit affirms an injunction against a scheme to divert Turkish-label versions of Biktarvy into the U.S. fo...
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

My Appearance on Rita Panahi’s Show - Discussing my upcoming documentary “The Illegal Highways”
Real Clear Energy

Trump's Problem: Oil Prices Rising Again - Jenni Reid, CNBC
The Daily Sceptic

Britain’s Weight-Loss Pill Pushers Are Making Millions While Regulators Look the Other Way - Online weight-loss firms are flooding the market with illegal ads for prescription drugs, banking millions – then shrugging off toothless regulatory slap...
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

Climate Change is Making Us Stupid - How the scientific community is undermining detection and attribution
Astral Codex Ten

Your Book Review: A Residence Of 21 Years In The Sandwich Islands - Finalist #6 in the Book Review Contest
The Daily Doom

THE DEEPER DIVE: The Big Bond Bust is Here - It’s GLOBAL and out of control, and it’s tearing the national debt apart, spiking everyone’s interest rates on everything all over the world, boosting infl...
Conversable Economist

Even Sand Isn’t Infinite - The number of grains of sand on a beach is a classic example of an “infinite” number, in the sense that it would be impossible to count. But sand itself ...
Gale Winds

Chipotle Burrito Abundance - Money may be less valuable, but your time buys 21 percent more burrito compared to 2010.
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

*Modern Times*: The Ultimate Fact Check - Including a fact check of the fact check!
Middle East Uncovered

Iran’s Kurdish Opposition Has United. Can the Coalition Hold? - The parties agree on opposing the Islamic Republic. They are less clear on what acting together actually requires.
Truth on the Market

A Fee Too Far: Merchants, Surcharges, and the War on Plastic - Earlier this summer, my family took a vacation to Ocean City, Maryland, where the boardwalk offered ice cream, souvenirs, and an unexpected lesson in pay...
Energy in Depth

Treasury Extends 45Q Safe Harbor, Giving Carbon Capture Projects a Clearer Path Forward - The U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service recently extended and expanded its Section 45Q safe harbor guidance, giving carbon captu...
Institute for Energy Research

Trump Imposes Price Floors and Tariffs on Polysilicon and Its Product Derivatives - On August 6, President Trump imposed a series of price floors and a 15% tariff on products made from polysilicon,… The post Trump Imposes Price Floors a...
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

Moral Expertise and the Conflict at the Smithsonian - Over the past year, the Trump administration has pressured the Smithsonian to remove progressive ideology from museum exhibits and the various supplement...
The Intrinsic Perspective

Buying a house as a mid-century modern midwit - 2.8%—that’s the mortgage rate I just gave up.
The Free Press

Ro Khanna, Race Hustler - The attention-seeking lawmaker’s latest stunt touches on the most sensitive spot in our politics, and puts virality ahead of the truth.
Doug Casey's International Man

Why Comfortable People Don’t Revolt: Propaganda, Debt, and Control - Propaganda, easy credit, and manufactured prosperity have helped governments turn economic dependency into public compliance. The post Why Comfortable Pe...
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

New York Energy Policy BESS Disconnect - People send me things that are often topics for this blog. When Greg Harkenrider sent an email describing the disconnect between New York energy policy “r...
Journal of Free Black Thought

Blinded by Colour-blindness - An alternative way of being black
Journal of Free Black Thought

Blinded by Colour-blindness - An alternative way of being black
Asimov’s Addendum

When Smaller Models Win - Chess, LoRA, and the case for specialized AI
Mises Wire

The Gall of the Preservationist Crowd Knows No (Visual) Limits - Cronyism and protecting the scenic views of the wealthy.
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Why Thailand was never colonized - Diplomacy, reform, and a convenient stone
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

Trump Promised to Free Jimmy Lai. What Happened? - Two years ago, the president said it would be "easy" to free Hong Kong's freedom fighter from prison. Today he's singing a very different tune.
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Why Arday Splits Anglosphere Elites - MAGAs, British leftists, and the mainstream press
ChinaTalk

Overcaffeinated in Indonesia - ChinaTalk travel writing returns!
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

1810s poetry: Shelley’s “Ozymandias,” 1818 - Part of a quick review of the 19th century, before we launch into the 20th.
Sawahil

West Africa, Horn, MENA: Links for 8/21/2026 - News and analysis from Dakar to Riyadh.
Law & Liberty

Making American Tennis Great Again - Our best athletes tend to play other sports, and yet, greatness has its intangibles.
EconLog

The Cost of Conspiracy - People conspire all the time. Firms collude. Politicians bargain behind closed doors. Militaries deceive their enemies. But other conspiracies are detect...
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

Art Subsidies Are Unjust and a Violation of Free Speech - Art subsidies are unjust and a violation of free speech
Institute of Economic Affairs

The Great Stagnation Briefing 5: Tax - Summary Over the past quarter-century, as the tax burden has risen, so too has the structure of the tax system … Continue reading "The Great Stagnation B...
The Antiplanner

How Do You Define “Feasible”? - Rail advocates can rejoice: A new study by a consultant called HNTB concluded that a commuter train service between Austin and San Antonio is “viable.” Act...
The Antiplanner

How Do You Define “Feasible”? - Rail advocates can rejoice: A new study by a consultant called HNTB concluded that a commuter train service between Austin and San Antonio is “viable.” Act...
Hoover institution Commentary

Tiananmen Square Massacre: Le Monde Reveals unseen footage of the Chinese regime’s violent repression - Art historian Nathalie Trouveroy shared footage with Le Monde from her personal archives of the Tiananmen Square protests, shedding new light on how the Ch...
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Spain’s Ceuta Disaster Was Preventable -
Notes On Liberty

The Sovereign Sea, Part 1: Remembering the Great Bowhead Hunt of 1991 - By Barry Scott Zellen, PhD For over four decades, my work as an Arctic scholar has been animated by a single, foundational truth: the global arena is not m...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

Why Scandinavia Can Become the Next Epicenter of Global Data Centers - As artificial intelligence pushes global electricity demand to record levels, the industry's next great expansion should look north. Iceland, Finland, and ...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: A Tool, Not a Master - Flourishing takes time.
The Logical Place

When the Earth stood still - Between Ptolemy and Copernicus I have previously written essays about Ancient astronomy and astrology and The Astronomical Renaissance. I would now like to...
Schiffradio.com

The Treasury Just Admitted It… The Bond Market Is Broken - Peter Schiff breaks down the Treasury's panic move to rescue the bond market, the $40 trillion debt milestone, and gold's $185 reversal day. The post The...
Market Urbanism

What type of housing units are actually being built? - Every so often I read tweets complaining that the wrong kind of housing is being built. Some complain that there aren’t enough houses being built, because ...
No Right Turn

No way to run a country - Twenty years ago I joined a protest march over the Manawatū River. Fonterra and local farmers were using the river as a sewer, making it one of the most po...
Thinking Directions

The Thinker Identity (Part 2) - Last week, I introduced the idea of the “Thinker Identity,” and I offered that a thinker develops five characteristic ways of thinking: Decisive Essentia...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Judicial Power, Democratic Accountability, and the Smith Case - Supreme Court lacks democratic responsibility and accountability: its excesses demand clearer leadership from the legal profession.
History Reclaimed

The Warrigal Creek Massacre, Victoria, Australia, 1843 - A letter to the editor: Claims that the 1843 Warrigal Creek massacre was the worst in Australian history rest on surprisingly thin evidence. We explore the...
FIRE

If everything's a conspiracy, nothing's a conspiracy - From Klan prosecutions to Don Lemon and Ricky Vaughn, Section 241 shows how conspiracy law can stretch dangerously close to protected speech today.
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Ep34 “On The Leafs” W/Dimes from Blood Sattelite - Dimes of BloodSatellite.ca, @ LegallyIronic on Twitter, joins me to discuss organizing in the IRL and the Prospect of Creating a Canadian people.
Greater Auckland

Weekly Roundup 21-August-2026 - Kia ora and welcome to our weekly roundup of stories about what makes cities great, including our own. Today’s header image shows a busy Karangahape Road...
Sustain What

A Senator’s Push for Bath Mats Offers Lessons for All Disaster-Avoidance Efforts - From giving out bathtub mats to restoring FEMA disaster mitigation investments, there are so many ways to cut harm and cost before the worst happens.
Flashbak

Revisiting Collaborative Projects Inc. (COLAB): Ephemera 1978–1985 - “Young artists who arrived in New York in the 1970s confronted a depressing reality, says Marc Miller of Gallery 98. “The city teetered on bankruptcy; ho...
CO2 Coalition

Is The IPCC Reliable? - By Kees de Lange Does the IPCC represent a reliable scientific organization? In the meantime, many scientists have convincingly demonstrated that the IPC...
McFaul's World

When Russian Elections Were Actually Competitive (Video) - Revisiting the competitive 1996 presidential election—and what came next.
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

"I'm Sending This Via Text Messaging to Avoid Any FOIA Issues” - Michael Osterholm told Fauci, Murthy, Walensky and Jeff Zients that cloth masks barely work and that none of the CDC's supporting studies survive scrutiny....
Israel Institute of NZ

The Political Uses of the Antizionist Jew - Whenever accusations of antisemitism are directed at antizionist movements, one response appears with striking regularity. “But Jews are saying it too.” So...
Capitalism Magazine

Can’t Afford a House? Blame Government, Not Big Investors for Higher Housing Costs - Government, not investors, is the root problem of housing prices. Rather than take on barriers to construction, politicians find it easier to blame Wall St...
JunkScience.com

The SEC’s Situational Awareness Is Behind the Times - At RealClearMarkets.com: “The Trump administration has improved upon the famous adage that capitalists will sell communists the rope by which the latter wo...
The Grumpy Economist

Interest Rate Surge? - US long term interest rates are surging.
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

How to Live in Accord with your Values - Some common strategies for exercising and developing virtues
American Energy Alliance

Texas Joins With New York In Data Center Slowdown - Texas is poised to become one of the world’s largest AI data center hubs, with plenty of land, decent energy supplies, and a business-friendly atmosphere...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Life’s purpose after AI? - We see variations of this question: What happens when robots can do anything physical better than humans and AI can do anything cognitive better than any h...
The Rebuild

Who’s Hurt Worst by Trump’s Economic Policies? - The Goods-Services Distinction No One is Noticing
Libertarian Land

Let the Social Security Trust Fund Go to Zero - According to the 2026 Social Security Trustees Report, the Social Security Trust Fund is projected to hit zero by the end of 2032. Under current law, that ...
The UnPopulist

From Spectral Evidence to Self-Evident Truths - One man’s remarkable life and the invention of progress
Sinification

Sun Liping and Li Daokui Debate China’s Disconnected Growth - Two Takes on China’s Two-Speed Economy
bad cattitude

marxcusianism - post modern frankfurt meets marx: two rancid tastes that taste even worse together
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

Call Us Daddies #26: Drunk Wisconsin - Bantering with a midwestern dad about the state of modern fatherhood in the heartland (60 min)
Changing Lanes

Please Give Me 40 Seconds of Your Time - I am once again asking
Knowledge Problem

The Grid’s Expanding Feasible Set, Part 1 - Power electronics is changing what we can build, control, and connect, and may ultimately change the architecture of electricity itself.
Knowledge Problem

The Grid’s Expanding Feasible Set, Part 1 - Power electronics is changing what we can build, control, and connect, and may ultimately change the architecture of electricity itself.
Quotulatiousness

“It is not strength difference that leads schoolboy teams to regularly beat women’s national sporting teams” - It’s a common observation that teenage boys’ teams can compete — and beat — professional or national competitive womens’ teams in many sports. I’d always a...
The Cobden Centre

Speech at Cambridge University’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk - This speech came about following the book I just published with Lord Fairfax, The Artificial Intelligence Revolution. The book has chapters from many of...
Reason Foundation

Ross v. United States: Competing interpretations of the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 - The Second Circuit’s approach to the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 is flawed. The post Ross v. United States: Competing interpretations of t...
Manhattan Contrarian

Democratic Socialists Commemorate Fidel Castro's 100th Birthday - As you may have seen, August 13, 2026 would have been the 100th birthday of Fidel Castro. Fidel had retired as Dictator of Cuba all the way back in 2006 at...
Stewart Margolis

Hello Again, Manzanar - In 7th grade, my English teacher had us read Farewell to Manzanar, a 1973 memoir which tells the true story of a young girl growing up inside the Manzanar ...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

Dandy Warhols Announce ANZ Tour - Nearly three decades into a career built on doing things their own way, The Dandy Warhols continue to push into new territory. The tour will open with a ...
HardmoneyJim

The Quiet Beginning of Yield Curve Control - SCOTT BESSENT KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT HE IS DOING. DO YOU?
Wildlife – PERC

Bisonomics: The Story Behind America’s Comeback Species - Explore the private stories—historical and modern—that have always been at the heart of bison conservation in America The post Bisonomics: The Story Behi...
Africa-Israel Weekly

Qatar is Targeting the Black Community: Why? And why now? - Check out our articles to learn more:
Curbed - All

Fortress Columbia, Two Years Later - The university closed its gates in a crisis. But now it’s courting a new one.
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

Hiding in Plain Sight: Chief Justice Winkelmann’s revolutionary vision - LawNews
Conspicuous Cognition

Navigating the Intelligence Explosion (with Fin Moorhouse) - Watch now | Explosive technological progress, the "grand challenges" on the path to superintelligence, space expansion, and the ethics and politics of arti...
Paul Wells

“We want to help you achieve energy dominance” - Hodgson in Houston, Carney in Toronto: Tuesday night’s surprise has been a long time coming
Official Blog

B.R.T. — Geocache of the Week - Traditional GC7Q4F0 by goblindust Difficulty: 2 Terrain: 2 Location: Washington, United States N 47° 26.798′ W 122° 50.177’ Along the shores of Washington’...
Public Lands – PERC

When Bison Conservation Becomes Grounds for Losing Grazing Permits - The bison was saved by visionary ranchers. More than a century later, the federal government aims to prevent bison ranching from restoring the American p...
Private Lands – PERC

A Long Shadow - For a century, one disease has hung like a cloud over the West’s most iconic animal. A Colorado lab, a federal rule change, and a shift in science are be...
Tribes – PERC

Reclaiming Bison on Fort Peck - The reservation in northeastern Montana built one of the largest tribal bison herds in the country—and demonstrated what tribal stewardship can achieve ...
GeekPress

Super Super Glue - *"Engineers* Create Superglue That Bonds in 10 Seconds, Holds For Years And Gets Stronger Underwater". (Via H.R.)
The Trumpland Diary

𝐈 𝐖atched 𝐓he 𝐏atriot Games So You Don’T Have To - America's best white home schoolers competed at field day activities to see who gets a higher education.
Cranmer’s Substack

COVID: OFF-LABEL - Medsafe approved Pfizer’s booster at six months. New Zealand moved to five, then to four, and finally, three. The more interesting story is how the law cha...
Andrew Whiteside

Event: Tempo Dance Festival – Oct 2026 - Celebrating 25 years, Tempo Dance Festival | Te Rerenga o Tere is Aotearoa New Zealand’s gathering ground for the fearless, the rebellious and the boundary...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

One of Anthony Fauci’s top allies pleads guilty for attempting to ‘defraud the United States’ - Yet another discrediting day for Fauci
Harry’s Substack

Claude is now smarter than me - An amazing conversation with my favorite AI agent
Dramatic Pause

By the Numbers: Lontalius - *Eddie Johnston, aka Lontalius, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and producer known for intimate, emotionally direct music that moves between indie roc...
Interintellect

Can religion save us from ennui? TS Eliot's The Cocktail Party: Online play-reading on November 1. - Sign up to choose a role.
Anthony B. Bradley

Bringing The Fatherhood Effect To Your Church, School, Non-Profit - Grant support means I can bring The Fatherhood Effect to your church at essentially no cost
Anthony B. Bradley

Bringing The Fatherhood Effect To Your Church, School, Non-Profit - Grant support means I can bring The Fatherhood Effect to your church at essentially no cost
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

What Happens If OpenAI Dies? - If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It's *$70 a year*, *$18 a quarter*, or *$7 a month*, and in return you get a wee...
Stats Chat

NRL Predictions for Round 25 - Team Ratings for Round 25 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ...
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

Three Years Later - On the approaching anniversary of my father's death
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #59: Aristotle's Timeless Formula for Persuasion - Why ethos, logos, and pathos still shape the world’s most powerful communication
Mike’s Substack

Two Experiments, One Law - Rome, 1907. Montreal, 1954. Neither laboratory knew about the other. They read the same law from opposite directions.
Mike’s Substack

Two Experiments, One Law - Rome, 1907. Montreal, 1954. Neither laboratory knew about the other. They read the same law from opposite directions.
Perennial Meditations

Thoreau on the Marrow of Life - Perennial Meditations (Vol. 17)
Toppermost

Therapy? - It’s a given that even someone who has never listened to Therapy? has heard Screamager... The post Therapy? appeared first on Toppermost.
Doomberg

Over Target - The raw geopolitics of energy foretell an ugly end to the war in Ukraine.
Real Clear Energy: Video

"The Data Centers Are Coming" - “Data centers are going to come. Where and when and how, we’ve got some influence there,” state Rep. Mandy Steele, who represents the area, told community ...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

A Privilege to be on The Platform with Michael Laws. -
The Trichordist

Selected Phonorecords V Comments: The Missing Record: Independent Songwriters Ask What the Phonorecords V Settlement Doesn’t Tell Us - Helienne Lindvall, David Lowery, and Blake Morgan ask a fundamental Phonorecords V question: when a private settlement becomes an industry-wide statutory r...
Glenn’s Substack

It takes two hands to handle a Whopper - Well, not anymore.
Chris Trotter

No More Experiments In the Social Laboratory. - If nobody moves, then nobody, or at least nobody in the top one percent of income earners, is going to get hurt.
The Weekly Sift

Far Out - There’s a maddening tendency among elected officials and the political press to equate “far left” and “far right” candidates as occupying equally extreme, ...
The Breakthrough Journal

Does Congress Even Have a Critical Minerals Strategy? - Prospects for the Remainder of the 119th Session
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 523 - Standards and In-factory Inspections - Buildings erected using factory-made subassemblies or large volumetric modular chunks must conform to the same codes and regulations that apply to con...
Risk & Progress

Lifeless to Living - When does matter become life?
Let Grow

“Arrest Moms Who Let Their Kids Play Outside?” Asks The New York Times - [image: Mallerie Scooter 1] The New York Times is sounding a lot like Let Grow. Here’s a headline from its front page on Thursday: Is Letting Children Out ...
The Jolly Libertarian

How a Self-help Book Resolved a Philosophical Conundrum Part 1 - A commentary on the underlying philosophy of Shane Parrish's *Clear Thinking* As my readers may know, I've long been a fan of the so-called self-help move...
The Tracinski Letter

Donald Trump’s Zombie Zombie Empire - Yeah, this is not the kind of promise you keep putting out—again and again and again—when you can actually win the war. In news links here and in commenta...
Tross Publishing

CHRISTOPHER LUXON – Enemy of New Zealand? - By John McLean Christopher Luxon might be a bit short on governing skills but when it comes to selfishness and lack of patriotism he seems to be right up...
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Libertarian Movies for Students: Top Ten - Of the nearly three hundred libertarian films and documentaries identified and reviewed on this site, we picked just 10 (and then got excited and added two...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Jason Arday and the Scourge of Professional Minority Academics - Jason Arday, the Cambridge professor at the centre of an explosive plagiarism and diversity hiring scandal, was found dead Friday at his home in Battersea.
Liberty Scott

The real tragedy of the Jason Arday story - It's a well worn cliche that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the tragic death of Jason Arday has highlighted the signposts to that he...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Dave Marsh: 1950-2026 - Pioneering and Prolific Rock Critic Was Perhaps Best Known as Bruce Springsteen's Biographer and Friend
O'Shannassy's Dispatches from Collapse

Our Descent Into Economic Fascism - The Churches, the WEF, the Globalists...and One Hell of a Conspiracy Theory
Freedom and Flourishing

What can Libertarians Learn from Foucault? - Before reading Mark Pennington’s recent book, *Foucault and Liberal Political Economy**: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom*, it would not have occurred to...
The Shrewd Artist

Power of Sovereignty - Don’t Play Inside the System
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Power of Sovereignty - Don’t Play Inside the System
Lindsay Mitchell

The Anxiety Epidemic - Over the last twenty years the number of people depending on a benefit due to psychological or psychiatric reasons has increased by 140 percent. Meanwhil...
The War on Prices

The DSA Can Abolish Bills—It Can’t Abolish Costs - The Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) new platform promises a world without bills.
Keiran Murphy (FLW Historian)

Links to my writing about the 1914 fire and murders at Taliesin - Reading Time: 2 minutesAlbert Rockwell took this on Taliesin’s Hill Crown looking (plan) northeast at its living quarters after the August 15, 1914 fire....
Macroscience

Ina Ganguli on the Supply of Innovators - Economics of Ideas, Science, and Innovation Lecture 3.
Gus Van Horn

Four Nifty Things - *A Friday Hodgepodge* *Editor's Note: I will be recovering from a minor medical procedure next week and will not be blogging, although I will probably post...
An Africanist Perspective

The end of “post-apartheid South Africa” and the birth of normal and better politics - So far the rainbow nation has been a sterling example of reconciliation and peaceful decolonization. Now the hard work of doing normal bare-knuckle pro-gro...
Dr Oliver Hartwich

The umlaut premium - Bürgen bread, often mistaken as German, was actually an Australian product created by Doug Leighton, symbolising authenticity through its umlaut rather tha...
Tim’s Substack

Village People - Does training that emphasizes mission, duty, and systemic analysis over personal grievance produce resilience?
Outliving Iran

Outliving Iran: A Memoir (Part 2) - The significance of a car, dial-up, and tear gas
Offsetting Behaviour

Reader mailbag - prediction markets - In today's inbox: Hello Eric, My name is [redacted]. I read your article about prediction market regulation with interest. As a student in 2013 I plac...
Reason for Living

Help Me Promote Reason and Curiosity - I am planning a wide range of new projects, including more Reason for Living content, but I can't do it without your support
Theatreview

Comment re Public Service Announcements: Election Meltdown - Message from Circa:Public Service Announcements: Election MeltdownMore shows added – on now until 5 September! Coup schmoo!The real news is that Public S...
Roy Spencer, PhD.

Record Low Lake Mead: “Millennium Drought” or Inevitable Result of Demand Exceeding Supply? - Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam is now within several feet of the lowest level at which turbine power generation must be greatly curtailed. Recent news article...
Autonomia

Books: “Knife” by Salman Rushdie - On its fourth anniversary, Scott Holleran reviews an American author in America’s memoir of the marginalized August 12, 2022 Islamic assassination attempt ...
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

The Worst Academic Scandal in 817 Years! - The Jason Arday Story
HBL

One contradiction in the fear of laissez-faire - Here’s one contradiction—of countless such—in the fear of unregulated markets. The contradiction is implicit in the oft-heard claim that the financial cris...
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Does Early Access to Social Media Harm Later Learning? New Evidence from Italy - Students who got social media accounts by age 12 progressed less than those who waited until age 14
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (August 2026) - The UK's resilience action plan and national risk register, and new polling on public perceptions of global threats
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

Is China a geopolitical titan or a financial house of cards? - August 8, 2026
The Roots of Progress

Meet the 2026 Blog-Building Intensive Fellows - 42 outstanding fellows joined our 4th cohort!
Too Clever By Half

Google's unprecedented lapse - On August 3, a bug in Google's automated security system disabled hundreds, and probably thousands, of Blogger blogs. ¶ [image: A classical portrait of ...
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

"Pruning Season" - A poem contemplating impermanence, and a book announcement
On Substack

A career journalist covering spies and national security was hit with a $1 million defamation lawsuit. He turned to Substack Defender for help—and won - We spoke to SpyTalk's Jeff Stein in the days after his lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice in federal court
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Britannia’s Rules - We’re often asked what entrepreneurs in our network think about the country. The truth is, it’s been hard to give a precise answer. Until now. This week ...
Fictionosophy

The Witch on the Pitfalls of Altruistic Motherhood - The Witch shows the importance of gaining the courage to pursue your own values through dreary contrast.
Precise Thinking

The Jews and Antisemitism - In May of 1953, two first-grade girls were waiting for a school bus at the corner of a quiet suburban street.
Conflicted

New project: Real In Its Consequences - Who controls how we define mental illness?
Johnny Grey Studios

The Unfitted Kitchen: a timely return to common sense - An unfitted kitchen isn't simply a collection of freestanding pieces. It's about designing a room in a holistic way and begins before designing the cabinets.
The New Era

Morphing - When institutions rely on predefined indicators, dashboards, and standardized categories, they begin to treat these tools as reality itself.
Science of Doom

The Last 0.2%: Solar, Batteries and the Cost of Eliminating Gas - A ten-year thought experiment across South Australia, Victoria and NSW
Dead Language Society

Medieval beach reads - How to read Middle English and Scots texts in the original
Stu-Topia

Willingly - Stuart K. Hayashi I keep hearing from Sam Harris fans that neuroscience proves that humans don’t have free will. They want me to mull over their case and c...
Leport’s Substack

Thank You for an Incredible Launch! - Your support means the world. Here's where you can find me next.
Why not reason?

Learning to Meet People Where They Are - Lots of group chats I am part of consist of Brazilian people.
Muss Montessori School

Forget the Worksheets: This Is How Children Really Learn Math - Many parents believe that completing pages of math worksheets is the best way to improve a child’s math skills. The truth is that children learn mathemat...
Croaking Cassandra

Yet more “pretty (il)legal” stuff from the Reserve Bank - A month or so ago the Reserve Bank announced the appointment of a new Assistant Governor (a deputy chief executive) responsible for its financial stability...
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, by Sherri Duskey Rinker - Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, Sherri Duskey Rinker (illus.
Don't Let It Go

The Sunshine Redistribution Act - On July 14, the House of Representatives passed the Sunshine Protection Act (“SPA”) by a vote of 308 to 117. The bill would abolish the twice-yearly clock ...
Maximum Progress

The End of the Endangered Species Act? - and the Costs of Environmental Land Use Regulation
What You Can Do For Liberty

UPDATE: Top 25 Liberty Events and Conferences in 2026-2027 - Want to make new friends, learn about liberty, and network with pro-liberty thinkers?
The Future of Freedom Foundation

The Military’s Fraudulent JFK Autopsy Converted a Conspiracy Theory to a Conspiracy - The Future of Freedom Foundation is posting my new video commentary entitled Housewives Underground: A Video Commentary, which is an amplification of my ...
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: July 2026 - We saw a major housing policy milestone in July: the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act became law.
News - Democracy Action

SUBMISSION ON THE INDIA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL - *To:* Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee *Submitted by:* Democracy Action Inc. PO Box 87141 Meadowbank 1742
Statecraft

The James C. Scott Memorial Episode - “Scott, by God, that man has earned it.”
Existential Crunch

The success and failure of the Montreal Protocol - And why its lessons aren’t easily transferable
The Enlightened Examiner

No. 1 - Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
The Enlightened Examiner

No. 1 - Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
Wright in Racine

Racine’s Secret is Revealed - © Mark Hertzberg (2026) Racine, Wisconsin has a long-hidden architectural secret. I have known this secret for several decades. Now, thanks to the latest O...
The Beauty of Things

Readings, Retreats and a Reckoning with Substack - A Georgic reset was required for keeping a difficult balance online. Photos from our farm vacation. Links to reading recordings.
In Due Course

On becoming less full of shit - This post is inspired by a series of articles that Dan Williams wrote on the subject of “becoming less left-wing.” While I found that series interesting in...
One Useful Thing

An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff - The Summer 2026 Edition
Africa’s Bright Future

Your Favorite Regulation Is Probably Hurting You - Most people think regulations protect the poor. The data says the opposite.
Houston Strategies

High Speed Rail Update: the alignment in northwest Harris County is (unofficially) DEAD, but could Terafab make a Robotaxi project possible? - Updated August 6 with new information about Terafab, and some speculation about another possible outcome for the corridor (see Terafab section) Another exc...
Ruxandra’s Substack

Intelligence is not the main bottleneck - Confessions of a naive hamster: why the smartest people in the room keep missing that intelligence is often not the main bottleneck in the real world
Hunters and Anglers – PERC

In Roosevelt’s Arena - PERC joins America's conservation leaders at the grand opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library The post In Roosevelt’s Arena appeared firs...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

How Nigeria did IMF Reforms Without the IMF - How Babangida "rejected the IMF" but did most of the IMF reforms in an interesting way
Schreibmaschiner (David McLoughlin)

Bill Birch saved my life, and other reminiscences of an important NZ politician’s career - Bill Birch, who died on Friday, probably saved my life. It was 1983. He was Minister of Energy in Rob Muldoon’s National Party government and as such had o...
Building the Builders

Gena Gorlin and Linda Mann on building a life of art - A recording from Dr. Gena Gorlin's live video
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Why both Republicans and Democrats should support aggressive permitting reform - Bipartisan deals are often impossible, but on permitting it’s totally possible—because permitting delays kill projects that members of both parties deeply ...
Greg Mankiw's Blog

Thank you, British Academy - I am deeply honored to be named an International Fellow of the British Academy.
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Episode 3 - A Visceral Reaction - Megha Lillywhite Breaks the Spell of Children’s Illustration
Roberto’s Substack

Religion, Power, and Liberty: When Faith Seeks to Rule - The steadfast gaze of one who refuses to be silenced before the whip: the beauty and pride of Parastoo Ahmadi are the very translation of resistance agains...
Keith Weiner Economics

The Declared Principle of America - With the recent 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence, I thought it was appropriate to write about the key idea, the Declared Princ...
RenewNZ

Definition of Woman and Man Bill – a return to Truth - It should never have come to this. Our MPs debating the definition of a man or a woman. But the fact that it has, means we have arrived at a critical infle...
Austin Vernon's Substack

How Ukraine Built a War Fighting State - The engine is revving after years of war.
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

The personal cost of political tribalism - People suffer when partisans sacrifice personal decency for The Cause™.
Freethink Media

Stories of American exit in the nation's 250th year - Special Issue Release: The Opt-Out Nation
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Twisted Teens: Florida Water Blues - Way back in 1963 in his liner notes to the Beatles' debut album Please Please Me, the PR man/reviewer Tony Barrow opened his extensive liner essay with “...
Michael Newberry, Artist

Newberry Books - For over five decades, Michael Newberry has painted, taught, and written about art with a single conviction: that art is the technology of the soul. These ...
Matua Kahurangi

Winston Peters announces citizens-only voting policy - New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, today in Warkworth, has unveiled a strong new policy to restore integrity to the country’s electoral system.
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

From Fireworks to Flying Flags - And Other Symbols of Liberty
Splitting Headache

How skills, agents, and other AI features work - It’s prompts all the way down
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

mudslide - on getting swept up in other people's concerns
Andrew Bernstein

Video: A Case Against Determinism-with Professor Andrew Bernstein and James Valliant -
Butterpaper

The cars that ate Vivian Street - part 1 - Wellington City boasts an enviable location, nestled tightly around a sheltered port on a harbour that curls in from the ocean. It’s a dense and lively c...
Gross Output

Good Sign: Business Spending is Finally Making a Comeback! - “By integrating the vital role of the supply chain into national income accounting, Mark Skousen’s development of gross output (GO) has created a more dy...
The Organon Architecture Blog

Project: 'Rural' Renovation, 2012 - I've been asked again about old projects. About which I really should talk more. Here's one that was slightly unusual, renovation of a large old colonial ...
The New Atlantis

AI’s Builders Are Both Arrogant and Afraid - The builders of the terrible, doomed tower of Babel sought to reach the sky to make a name for themselves. Was their sin one of overweening ambition? In ...
Roots of Progress

Progress in Medicine, the Roots of Progress Institute’s new summer career exploration program, has started - 30 high school students are learning about the history and future of medicine, biotech, health Starting June 15th, the Roots of Progress team brought tog...
Flying Out

Hotter Than July (Secondhand Vinyl LP) - *Vendor: *SECONDHAND *Type: *STEVIE WONDER *Price: * 20.00 Artist: Stevie Wonder Year: 1980 Genre: Funk / Soul Sub-Genre: Soul, Disco Tracklist: A1. Di...
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

Five Ideas to Survive a Hot, Dry Summer - The West is dry, overdue for fire, and running low on water. The institutions meant to help are struggling to keep up. Here's where to start. The post Fi...
Eat More Electrons

More evidence won’t save development - We don’t need more studies. We need a new coalition rebuilt on political priorities
Earthly Idealism

The Effective Egoist Case for Freedom - It is striking, sad, and not at all surprising how little interest there is in celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Anti-Dismal

Coase versus Demsetz on the neoclassical model - In the modern, Coaseian-inspired view of the neoclassical model, there are no firms. Harold Demsetz sums up the Coasian view of the neoclassical model succ...
Asymmetric Information

2B RED: On the matter of maps🍋 - Learning from your atlas
Jackson Upmann

How Traveling Raised My Confidence (And Can Raise Yours Too) - Time to get uncomfortable
Competitive Enterprise Institute

AICOA’s heavy-handed approach would harm consumers, stifle innovation, and degrade security and privacy - Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) re-introduced a modified version of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), w...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

AICOA’s heavy-handed approach would harm consumers, stifle innovation, and degrade security and privacy - Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) re-introduced a modified version of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), w...
Kibao

Kenya Wants to Sell Your Data. But It’s Complicated. - The headline is scarier than the policy. The policy is still worth worrying about.
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

President Trump’s Childhood Vaccine Schedule - Donald Trump recently issued two executive orders claiming that children in the United States are receiving too many vaccines.
misfits' architecture

Relationship Issues - We humans aren’t good at imagining things outside our experience so it’s only human that we’ve now gone and built this thing called AI that’s not good at i...
Equal to Reality

The beauty in the broken glass - How an Animated Musical helped me find my authentic self.
The Realization of Wholeness

Varieties of Dualism, Part Five - "I am my feelings"
Robert Nasir’s Joyous Newsletter

Pride Month: Right On Target! - Life on Earth With Robert Nasir - Episode 95 - streamed live on Jun 1, 2023
Martini Mandate

Teetotallers and the Decline of Human Civilisation. - Alcohol is having its tobacco moment. Young people are going off it, and a growing chorus of busybodies would like the rest of us to give it up completel...
round houses

utopian usonia - Beautiful tour of the Bertha & Sol Friedman Residence in the Usonia community of Pleasantville, NY, narrated by the owner of the house, Brian Renz. The hou...
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Can AI Be The Thing That Finally Aligns Humanity? - Getting AI to do what we want is the easy part. The real challenge is figuring out what we actually want in the first place.
Spiked Online

Summer Appeal Donation – Pint Glass Offer - The post Summer Appeal Donation – Pint Glass Offer appeared first on spiked.
Classical Compass Rose

The Practice of Integrated Human Attention - The Benedictine Rule and the hesychast tradition of Mount Athos are the most rigorously tested models of integrated attention ever developed. What might we...
The Kerrant

Still Performing: Jim Henson, Kyle Busch, and the Danger of Powering Through - Jim Henson and Kyle Busch lived in different worlds, but their deaths share a haunting pattern: two elite performers, still creating and competing, appar...
Note to Noteworthy

What Spirituality Really Means - Is spirituality about “God” or something else?
Yes In Our Backyards

The “Great Upzoning” of New Zealand’s cities, in two charts - Taking stock of 15 years of remarkable progress
Syncretica

Read 'Em and Weep: Australian Power Edition - batteries and renewables make prices go down in practice and theory
Craig Biddle

Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles - The post Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles appeared first on Craig Biddle.
Craig Biddle

Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles - The post Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles appeared first on Craig Biddle.
A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

No, native schools did not ban te reo - While considering Elizabeth Rata's recent Research Report into the History of New Zealand Education -- which I recommend, by the way -- I remembered a l...
The Future of Being Human

Why I'm falling out of love with Claude - I hope it's just a phase, but Anthropic, what have you done to my trusted AI writing companion?!
The Claude Megson blog

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

A little progress is worth a trillion dollars - Estimating the value of progress with a rough calculation and a new web tool
Barrie Saunders

TVNZ – a reassessment - Apart from 7 years abroad I have grown up with TVNZ’s channel one and was privileged to serve six years on its board – 2011 to 2017 Up until recently I ret...
Fizzifood

Fragrant Lamb & Coconut Curry - Jonny – this one’s for you! I love a good butter chicken (not that sickeningly sweet version – I’m talking about the deeply aromatic and creamy type). Some...
Notes On Liberty

Rising Sun Over the Arctic: Japan’s Arctic Journey from North Pacific Hegemon to Democratic Polar Partner - by Barry Scott Zellen
First Stones NewsLetter

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

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

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

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

Teaching Physics Inductively - James Ellias’s Inductive Summary of Physics
Democracy Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin - A philosophical discussion on ethics and mathematics. The post Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin appeared first on SAVVY S...
Regan's Substack

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

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

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

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

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

How South Korea's job market motivates intensive parenting - A new article in Works in Progress & some extra context
Catherine Mosse

Inflation: an economic problem or a source of political polarization? - In his book Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt explains how inflation polarizes society by creating a sense of injustice.As inflation accelerates, peop...
M.M.E.F. News

Great news!! MMEF have secured a permanent home for the AMI 3-6 Diploma, starting in April 2026 - Kia ora Koutou MMEF Supporters, Yes, we used two exclamation marks in our headline above--that's because we are so excited! Our latest news, whi...
A City for People

Cities need infrastructure to grow, but Roads of National Significance ain’t it - Tell the government that Wellington deserves better in the next two weeks!
Folarinism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gamal Abdel Nasser's Last Gamble - Inside the private conversation where Egypt’s president confronted the lies, the losses, and an Arab world that wouldn’t fight the war it claimed to want
A Force for Good | How economics, morality, and markets combine

Tải App 33win – Lợi Ích Tuyệt Vời Khi Tải App - Tải app 33win chính là lựa chọn tối ưu dành cho những ai muốn tham gia giải trí mọi lúc, mọi nơi. Trong bài viết này, chúng tôi sẽ hướng dẫn chi tiết cách ...
The Free Market Futurist

Farmville - The Autonomous Future of Agriculture
No Punches Pulled

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

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

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

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

LLMs and the Nature of Honest Authorship - Editing is not authoring.
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
thesecondrenaissance

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writings hosted elsewhere - The Breakthrough Institute Interactive Brokers Campus
BloodhoundBlog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We're going on hiatus - But do stick around
Reviews - 13th Floor

WORD CHCH Literature Festival 2024: 13th Floor Report - [image: WORD] The 13th Floor’s Shamin Yazdani headed south to Christchurch to take in the WORD CHCH Literature Festival. Here is her report: I spent the ...
TheMoneyIllusion

A long strange trip - For readers who don’t already know this, my new blog is over at Substack: scottsumner.substack.com This will be my final Money Illusion post. The blog bega...
Magazine Articles – Quadrant Online

A Journey of Death - "When he was released ahead of schedule from his prison sentence of nearly 20 years, Jiao Zhimin was in his early forties. On his way to his father’s hou...
One Sock: Heather Roy's Blog

Not One of Us - Recent attacks by opposition MPs on ACT party MPs Karen Chhour and David Seymour about not being "Māori enough" and the like reveal more about the attacker...
TVHE

What is an ATAR and what does this have to do with income? - Cross-post from Substack. Look I’m from New Zealand – so when everyone around me started talking about ATARs I just smiled and nodded. In fact I probably c...
The Visible Hand

What is an ATAR and what does this have to do with income? - Cross-post from Substack. Look I’m from New Zealand – so when everyone around me started talking about ATARs I just smiled and nodded. In fact I probably c...
Technological Optimism with Thomas Walker-Werth

What Happened to Technological Optimism? - I haven't given up the good fight. I'm just taking it to a more fundamental level.
Progress Forum Digest

Why you, personally, should want a larger human population - Also: The City That Can't, how to raise a genius, FDA reform, and more
Publisher's Weekly: Shelf Talker

The Great Book ‘Nobody’ Will Remember - An interview with Drew Beckmeyer
The Fundy Post

Genesis -
Power + Market

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Cafe Hayek

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

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

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

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

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

Conservatives Can Lead on Conservation and Climate Solutions - Supporting policies that leverage incentives and partnerships to protect our natural heritage should be a big part of our strategy to address environment...
Matt Ridley - Blog RSS

Who really discovered DNA's structure? Five people. - Tuesday 28th February marks the 70th anniversary of – in my view – the most important day in the entire history of science. On a fine Saturda...
Rational Optimist

Who really discovered DNA's structure? Five people. - Tuesday 28th February marks the 70th anniversary of – in my view – the most important day in the entire history of science. On a fine Saturda...
Search Results for “willey house stories” – Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

Willey House Stories Part 22: Calling the Kettle Back—Chapter 7: Repatriation - In this seven-chapter subseries of the Willey House Stories, Steve Sikora reflects on Frank Lloyd Wright’s fireplaces, their purpose, and meaning—and the...
Points of Interest

Highlighting "The Parenting Handbook" - This fall, Montessorium was lucky to bring education writer Samantha Blaisdell onto our content team. Samantha is a former teacher, trained mechanical engi...
Adam Smith’s Enlightened World

Activity: The Virtue of Beneficence - Use this quotation from Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments to discuss whether we can be forced to be generous and kind.
A gay man on gender and sexuality

What you still can't say on Twitter - Suspended for 12 hours
Anarchist History of New Zealand

1988: The Meade Report - In 1987 Labour 4.0 Prime Minister David Lange gave himself the education portfolio shortly after winning re-election that year. One of the education groups...
Master Resource

‘Greenhushing’ Joins Greenwashing (woke firms in legal peril?) - “Fear among corporate firms of being called out on misleading and or exaggerated environmental and sustainability claims is growing as regulators clamp ...
Master Resource

‘Greenhushing’ Joins Greenwashing (woke firms in legal peril?) - “Fear among corporate firms of being called out on misleading and or exaggerated environmental and sustainability claims is growing as regulators clamp ...
Consulting by RPM || Free Advice Blog

Receipts for BMS Ep 254: Kark Marx Was Kind of a Big Deal - Here is the link to my podcast critique of Phil Magness’ promotion of his paper, co-authored with Michael Makovi, on Karl Marx. In this episode I allude to...
Asian Invasion 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Travel Secrets by Shar Lemond

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

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

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

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

14 Practical steps to improve Cash Flow - A positive cash flow keeps the heart of any business pumping, but a negative cash flow will eventually cause the business to fail. A growing business may...
from FEE

Why a Free Society Cannot Transform Wishes into Rights - Only by defending voluntary arrangements, respecting one another’s self-ownership, can we achieve positive progress.
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: […]
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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