Not PC: Wealth taxes

Monday, 17 August 2026

Wealth taxes

"Defenders of a billionaire tax need to show that government officials would better allocate the relevant resources than billionaire entrepreneurs themselves," says Chris Freiman, "but I’ve yet to see any of them make that case."

Discuss.

1 comment:

Rick said...: Absolutely! A succinct way of expressing it..; 17 Aug 2026, 09:52:00

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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 ...
PM of NZ

National is "United" ? - updated - 100% not! Spineless bastards continuing to prove totally unable to complete simple tasks. You only had a few small jobs like for a start removing maorif...
The Tracinski Letter

The Raging River - An abandoned church in North Dakota. Get prepared to see a lot more of this. Now that I’m back to providing regular commentary here, I’m eager to catch up...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

Anthony Fauci lied to the public about masks, and his emails prove it - Fauci once again was dishonest about his reasoning to recommend masks
HardmoneyJim

Gold Is Becoming Finance Again - MONETARY METALS & CO JUMPS TO No. 408 ON THE "INC. 5000" - WHAT THAT NUMBER TELLS YOU
Private Lands – PERC

PRESERVED, Documentary on Ted Turner’s Vermejo Conservation Legacy, Makes Bozeman Premiere August 28 - The event includes a film screening and panel discussion, with VIP reception available. The post PRESERVED, Documentary on Ted Turner’s Vermejo Conservat...
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...
The Trichordist

Selected Phonorecords V Comments - Music Attorney Kevin M. Casini and Kaila C. Coleman urge the Copyright Royalty Judges to look beyond continued inflation adjustments and reconsider whether...
Marcus on AI

The one issue unifying the American public - Brief but significant news about a new poll
Capitalism Magazine

Book Review of “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder” by Salman Rushdie - Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie recounts an unavenged American horror story—arguably another act of war on America here in t...
American Energy Alliance

The Middle East Is Now Dependent On U.S. Energy Exports - Qatar Energy, the state-owned national petroleum and natural gas company of Qatar, has purchased 33 U.S. liquefied natural gas cargoes worth about $1 bil...
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
The New York Review of Books

The Profiler - It seems as though Rachel Syme has interviewed all the grandes dames of New York and Los Angeles. She drank cosmopolitans with Carol Burnett, accompanied S...
The Rebuild

Deed Restrictions Are the Housing Barrier Hiding in the Title Records - California has made strides in the past few years to accelerate the development and build of Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs).
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

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

The Mastersons - Anyone going to see Steve Earle between 2010s will be aware of the Mastersons. The post The Mastersons appeared first on Toppermost.
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

Nobody Does Evil on Purpose. Really? - Stoicism says nobody does wrong on purpose: every bad act begins in a mistaken judgement about what is good.
The Roots of Progress

Meet the 2026 Blog-Building Intensive Fellows - 42 outstanding fellows joined our 4th cohort!
A Havenstein Moment.

The elephant in the room - Grifters are gonna’ grift
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 ...
The Weekly Sift

Interested Parties - Tyranny is the handmaiden of the moneyed interests. – Robert Reich “The real meaning of Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan“ This week’s featured post is ...
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #58: Ayn Rand on the Moral Meaning of America - The revolutionary principle behind the American experiment
Africa-Israel Weekly

Journalist who reported on slaves in Qatar jailed - Abdullah Ibhais abducted by Jordanian intelligence on behalf of Qatar
Perennial Meditations

St. Irenaeus on Being Fully Alive - Perennial Meditations (Vol. 16)
Stats Chat

NRL Predictions for Round 24 - Team Ratings for Round 24 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ...
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Two poems inspired by The Odyssey - Christopher Nolan is far from the first to do a riff on Homer. Here: Tennyson and Cavafy.
Real Clear Energy: Video

Data Center Backlash Has Republicans Panicking -
Uncharted Territories

Space Dispatch - Summer 2026
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

Anthony Fauci’s Diary Demonstrates the Immorality of Government Pandemic Involvement - Only true capitalism prepares for and fights pandemics without violating individual rights
O'Shannassy's Dispatches from Collapse

The Cause Of Asset Bubbles and How To Stop Them - If the causes are not controversial, then why don’t we stop Asset Bubbles?
Not On Your Team, But Always Fair

L’affaire Arday - A few reflections on an academic scandale du jour
Interintellect

Ada Palmer on Interintellect: October 27 - A friendly online salon anyone can join -- with the inimitable author of the Terra Ignota series and the new Inventing the Renaissance
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.
Eating Policy

Thinking the unthinkable - Can you imagine a state without a food stamps program? Should you?
JunkScience.com

Milloy discusses wildfires, Sesame Street and raising the voting age on FOX Business - From the August 6, 2026 episode of The Bottom Line.
Conflicted

New project: Real In Its Consequences - Who controls how we define mental illness?
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

I Stopped Being a Libertarian Because I Realized the Sky is Blue - When a thinker publicly changes his mind on major questions, neutral observers normally interpret it as a sign of courage and maturity. Almost no one enj...
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

New Docs Show Another Border Patrol Agent Under Investigation for Killing - We worked with The Texas Tribune to identify the agent who killed a man.
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

New Docs Show Another Border Patrol Agent Under Investigation for Killing - We worked with The Texas Tribune to identify the agent who killed a man.
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

What I Was Born For - Birthday Thoughts
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...
Conspicuous Cognition

The Social Roots of Delusions - Clinical delusions, collective irrationality, and the fragile achievement of human knowledge
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...
The Grumpy Economist

Raise rates? Warsh's conundrums - Inflation is stubbornly high, and the Fed mulls whether to raise rates.
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...
Free Range Kids

Kids Outside, Cops Called: FOUR SEPARATE TIMES - Over at Reason you’ll find my story of one Ms. Gordon (no first names — she’s been harassed enough). Ms. G lives in a leafy Philly suburb, has three sons...
Let Grow

The Great Middle School Microwave War (and Why the Adults Didn’t End It) - [image: Chatgpt Image Aug 3 2026 09_21_19 Am] At The Village School in Arlington, VA, it was war. The 80-student school had one microwave and about 15 midd...
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, by Sherri Duskey Rinker - Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, Sherri Duskey Rinker (illus.
Risk & Progress

Paying You to Live - A radical rethink of healthcare
Kiwipolitico

Reactionary bookends. - Now that election season is underway in NZ, I shall very briefly drift into a subject I usually tend to avoid: NZ domestic politics, and more specifically,...
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?
Public Lands – PERC

Public Comment: Grazing Rules Should Reward Stewardship, Not Second-Guess Who’s Allowed to Graze - What the Bureau of Land Management's new proposal gets right and one place it falls short The post Public Comment: Grazing Rules Should Reward Stewardshi...
The Jolly Libertarian

Book Review: Dreams of Orphans by Vinay Kolhatkar - I had the rare privilege of being an alpha reader for Vinay Kolhatkar’s new novel, Dreams of Orphans. Originally titled The Stuntman, the title and the ...
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
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Things I Wanted - Clarity in California.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

Things I Wanted - Clarity in California.
The Many Ways I Let You Down

Bill Oddie: An Unlikely New Zealand Punk - Remembering a childhood favorites trip to Dunedin
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...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

Home Brew Presents ‘Last Week’ – The Extensive New Zealand & Australia Tour! - Following a hugely successful sold-out performance at Auckland Town Hall in May, Live Nation has today announced Home Brew presents Last Week, an extensi...
Principled Perspectives

New Jersey’s Racist John R. Lewis Voter Empowerment Act - New Jersey has gone full collectivist—especially racist—on the Democratic process. On July 2, 2026, Governor Mikie Sherrill signed the John R. Lewis Vote...
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...
The Intrinsic Perspective

Goodbye Slopstack! Also, a $50,000 essay/fiction contest, adversarial consciousness tech, & more - Desiderata #41
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.
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

More Misconduct by Stuart Nash - Realpolitik in operation: Nash ceases to be NZF candidate
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
Wildlife – 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...
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...
Zero Hanger

LIVE: GWS vs West Coast – Round 23, 2026 - The GWS Giants face the West Coast Eagles in Round 23 of the 2026 AFL season. Follow the live scores, team lists, match statistics and key moments from the...
Virginia Postrel

Which Would You Rather Give Up: Electric Light or Electric Washing Machines? - Plus, what Donald Trump could learn from Jun’ichirō Tanizaki.
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 “...
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

The Dynamite Fishermen of Democracy - Party politics increasingly treats voters like fish to be stunned before election day. But when campaigns win by blasting the civic lake, communities are l...
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.
Harry’s Substack

Alan Greenspan--Not a Eulogy - The Maestro mastered the art of selling out
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

From Fireworks to Flying Flags - And Other Symbols of Liberty
Tross Publishing

SHOULD TAXPAYERS PAY FOR BUILDING A CHURCH? - By John McLean In the wake of the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, which ended once and for all the centuries old French threat to England, the British Governmen...
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 ...
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...
The Trumpland Diary

𝐔𝐅𝐂 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝟐𝟓𝟎: “𝐀 𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞” - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞 White House Cage Fighting 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭-𝐀-𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩
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.
Cranmer’s Substack

Sinead Boucher Buys an Event - Matthew Hooton’s appointment is not a conventional hire. That is precisely the point.
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?!
Happy Future

The Trouble with Transformers - And the long slouch towards cyberpunk
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...
Institute of Economic Affairs

Never forgetting the absurdities of fascism - ‘Classics Revisited’ revisits a publication from a previous century from a present-day perspective, to show how much, or how little, … Continue reading "...
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...
A life just as ordinary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Woden's Day Thing: 4/26/22 - All right already
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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1828 – Championing Freedom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Are Doctors Heroes? - The effervescent rays of sunshine spread their warmth across my back as I walk along Omaha Beach in Normandy. French children kick around a soccer ball, ...
Malthouse Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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...
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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 ...
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