Not PC: Affordable Auckland

... other blogs

Quotulatiousness

The Great Game for Asia 1894-1905 - Real Time History Published 15 May 2026 The 19th century is a time of violent global imperial competition. The Scramble for Africa and the Great Game betwe...
The Inquiring Mind

The Bill: #345 – S07 E054 – (1991) – Targets - Link below https://youtu.be/K8AjYMRhdaM?si=u_vdri1xYXs5nQw5
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

Government by lazy, ignorant, drunks works then - This works for us: The biggest empire the world has ever seen was run by a small elite who partied all night, drank liters of port, and stayed in bed unt...
Watts Up With That?

Germany’s Green Energy Debacle: High Energy Costs Force Kahla Porzellan to Close After 182 Years! - According to a report by Blackout News, the renowned porcelain manufacturer Kahla in Thuringia is shutting down its operations for good on December 31, 2...
The Double Standard

Daily review 12/10/2026 - Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the P...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Why Winston and Seymour have to sink TOP - First Winston, now Seymour doesn’t fancy Opportunity’s chances of getting into Parliament The leaders of two parties the Opportunity Party...
Marginal Revolution

Okie-dokie, Casey Handmer edition - I’ve been prototyping an automated peer review project. With current models you get human level peer review for about $0.10 of tokens. For $5 you can red...
Point of Order

Royal Society paper flaunts the Treaty (in call for more govt funding for science) and bats for mātauranga Māori - Bob Edlin writes – Only in the past few decades has the Royal Society of New Zealand included the social sciences as an official class of scientific disci...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: Wisdom Traditions Aren't Museum Pieces - Common conclusions from different disciplines.
The Footy Almanac

Almanac Footy Tipping: Results for 2026 - Here are the results of the AFL and NRL Footy Almanac Tipping comps
Real Clear Energy

Midterms: Voters Can Take Back Affordability - Gary Abernathy, RCEnergy This article was originally published at The Empowerment Alliance and is re-published here with permission. Thanks to Trump admin...
SkyscraperCity Forum

Descarrilamientos y accidentes ferroviarios - Buenas tardes, doy inicio a este hilo ya que me pareció buena idea tener uno sobre este tema, ya que los descarrilamientos y los accidentes en Argentina la...
No Minister

The Branch Davidians: David Koresh and the Apocalyptic Logic of Siege Psychology - How a self‑anointed messiah, a fractured religious lineage, and end‑times prophecy produced one of the most infamous cult standoffs in modern history For t...
Zero Hanger

Essendon secures coaching coup from Victorian rival - The Bombers have added plenty of experience to their coaching ranks this off-season.
Brash & Mitchell

ERIC NESS: THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY WAS DECLARED — NOW SHOW US THE BILL - In 2019, tens of thousands of New Zealand schoolchildren marched over climate change. Climate Change Minister James Shaw told Parliament that the Governmen...
Cremieux Recueil

Does African Writing Sound Like AI? - Spoiler: Only after LLMs arrive on the scene
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Pigloo – a dome-shaped or tunnel-like shelter used by or for pigs; farrowing pen for pigs, a shelter built in snow by a pig. an igloo-shaped shelter for a ...
Kiwiblog

Spending promises gone berserk - The latest update from the Taxpayers’ Union bribe-o-meter: Two of the seven parties are being fiscally responsible. Two are being irresponsible, and thre...
The Common Reader

Such as she was, such as she would become. - Richmond, Williamsburg, Yorktown, Jamestown
No Right Turn

TOP betrays its supporters - TOP - now the Opportunity Party - was founded for one purpose: to promote a radical shift in Aotearoa's tax system, from taxing income to taxing land. The ...
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Before Philosophy - The Primacy of Activity
The Daily Sceptic

News Round-Up - A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the 'climate emergency', public health 'cris...
IPWatchdog Articles

Apparel and Footwear Association Urges USTR to Add U.S. Platforms to 2026 Notorious Markets Report - The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) submitted comments to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on October 7, recomm...
The Free Press

Abdul El-Sayed’s Unanswered Questions - The Michigan Democrat refuses to clarify his most controversial positions with less than a month until Election Day, writes Audrey Fahlberg.
The Daily Doom

THE DEEPER DIVE: An Enormous Triple Bubble Bust Has Begun - The AI/Stock bubble and the housing bubble will both be blown apart by the already-bursting Big Bond Bubble.
UnHerd

Is France about to default? - It’s uncool to balance the books
Spiked Online

When did Italian-Americans become ‘white’? - The post When did Italian-Americans become ‘white’? appeared first on spiked .
Paul Wells

Carney, Trump, Zelensky: two releases and a tweet - “In direct opposition to... peace”; “thanked the President for his leadership”
Chris Trotter

Class Reps. - In 2026, the bosses and the workers have many representatives.
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

AI Won’t Kill the Artist - Writing endures
Kunstler

Eyesore | October 2026 - “There’s nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight.” — Lon Chaney
A Havenstein Moment.

Paid to be stupid - Marking to market
The Grumpy Economist

Affordability Part 1 - [This is based on a script for an upcoming “weekly rant”.
Greater Auckland

Sorting event transport at Kingsland - It feels like the media have been waiting for a ‘City Rail Link failure’ story – and this weekend they finally got one, kind of, as the weekend saw anoth...
Techdirt

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad replying to a comment about Mark Zuckerberg’s past projects: I’d say the first thing he di...
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: Life Without Love Is Like a Sunless Garden When the Flowers Are Dead - Oscar Wilde? Harold Mellor? Francis Douglas? Percy Colson? Beverley Baxter? Question for Quote Investigator: When you are filled with love you nurture othe...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Mein Kampf: A Very, Very Long Review - Part 2 of 2.
A Halfling's View

Disestablishing the Broadcasting Standards Authority - Considering the Advice
JoNova

Monday - 0 out of 10 based on 0 rating
The Integrity Institute

News Briefing: 12 October 2026 - Dear subscribers
Breaking Views

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Qiulae Wong fired a truth torpedo at National - Qiulae Wong fired a truth torpedo at the National Party didn't she? She says she doesn't believe Christopher Luxon when he tries to pretend he's not going ...
Israel Institute of NZ

Before the Vote, It Wasn’t a Boycott. After the Vote, It Was BDS. - Invercargill councillors were told they were considering a narrow ethical-procurement measure, not sanctions against Israel. Once the vote was won, PSNA ca...
Slow Boring

Sunday Thread + Mailbag - Ask your questions below.
Futurism

The AI Data Center Boom Is Causing a Gigantic Spike in Smog-Spewing Gas Power Plants - "These facilities could lock America into decades of continued fossil fuel dependence." The post The AI Data Center Boom Is Causing a Gigantic Spike in ...
ArchDaily

Wise Consultation Office / RVMN - It is said that trees sway in order not to be shaken. Because they move with flexibility, they are able to remain rooted in their place and continue to g...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

War Provides Arbitrage Opportunities - Arbitrageurs profit by buying where prices are low and selling where prices are high. But what happens when transporting the product is dangerous? Accordin...
The UnPopulist

How to Hold Authoritarians Accountable Without Fueling a Backlash - Reconstruction, postwar Germany, and Poland’s recent democratic restoration offer lessons for a post-Trump America
ROBERT FRIPP

If we see it, everything changes. - Words 149 · RF@80 Series
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

Where the Senate Money Is Heading - Three charts on which races the parties are fighting for, which one they've given up on, and who's paying.
Why Evolution Is True

Bill Maher on the uselessness of the Greeks (sororities and fraternities) - Starting with the recent accusations of gang rape against 7 denizens of a fraternity at Cornell University, Bill Maher’s latest real-time episode takes out...
Can't Get Much Higher

Here’s How the Future of AI and Music Will Play Out: Link Drop - Creed breaks Instagram, Billy Joel shocks me, and Lucian Grainge’s lack of fear
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon, Garfunkel, and some troubled water that proved impossible to bridge...
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

You’re Not Who I Thought You Were - 2026 Rob Henderson Newsletter survey results
The Curmudgeon

Deny Yourself - Christian nationalists don't go to church much, which may possibly help to explain why the church named after the greatest country in the world has thus fa...
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 1251 The suffocating AI blob. China shock 2.0. Propping up the rupee and Chris Wickham RIP. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
bad cattitude

sunday meanpool - going double secret dark
Johnny Grey Studios

Smart Kitchen Summit 2026 - For those of you interested in all sorts of ideas about the future of food, cooking and kitchen design, thelatest Smart Kitchen Summit goes live online tom...
The New York Review of Books

Our 1989 - On October 7, 1989, East Germany celebrated its fortieth anniversary with a military parade down Karl-Marx-Allee—an old-fashioned display of state power as...
Brownstone Institute

The Covid Reckoning That Never Came - The Covid Reckoning That Never Came by Ed Dowd at Brownstone Institute [image: The Covid Reckoning That Never Came] Over the last several years I have be...
Energy Transition Absurdities

Trump’s Russian Diesel Deal Turns a Shortage Into a Rube Goldberg-Like Trade Route - President Trump’s announcement that Russia will send diesel into U.S.
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Thank You, Frances Haugen - To celebrate “The Social Reckoning” and the five-year anniversary of Frances Haugen’s testimony, we link to eight essays we ran on After Babel that draw on...
Tim Worstall

Happy Birthday! - Happy Birthday Tim Worstall Blog! 19 Years of Blogging, Debate and Discussion Tim Worstall Blog was founded on this day in 2007! Nineteen years of bloggi...
ChinaTalk

10 Takeaways from Q3 - AI, China, defense, national security, supply chains, the Protestant roots of Kim Il-sung’s Messiah complex, the lethality of hydrofluoric acid, and horseb...
Persuasion

Two Visions of Postwar Liberalism - Between Keynes and Fukuyama.
MacleodFinance Substack

Dieselgate —the implications - Trump’s agreement with Putin to supply diesel is America’s concession that it has lost its geopolitical battle against the Russian Chinese partnership.
Sinification

BRICS, Bolsonaro and Brazil’s Balancing Act - “If Flávio Bolsonaro wins, the right-wing forces he represents are more likely to call for the so-called “depoliticisation” and “de-ideologisation” of BRIC...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Hurricane Isaiah - By Paul Homewood https://www.foxweather.com/live-news/live-updates-hurricane-isaias-threatens-the-gulf-coast-with-dangerous-landfall-expected-tonight Hur...
The Daily Economy

Empathy Gone Wild -
Living Resources Center

Martin Mull: Not Who You Think He Was - What a surprising and pleasurable 90 minutes. I always enjoyed Martin Mull’s comedy, but his real achievements may have been his artwork and his 50 year ...
Doomberg

Jump Ball - Why Indonesia’s plan for strategic ambiguity just might work.
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

The Practice: I did not want a perfect holiday - Room for pizza, a smaller routine, and five things for your time off.
Hoover institution Commentary

2026 Issue 38 -
The Whakataki Times

Will Jordan Ruins Profitable Night For TAB With Last Minute Try - WILL POWER. The post Will Jordan Ruins Profitable Night For TAB With Last Minute Try appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
Armageddon Newsletter

Watch for the next installment of Travel Notes: the much maligned Russian health system from inside the beast - I write to you this morning from.a hospital bed in downtown St Petersburg where I checked in last night against my will under threat of facing an early dem...
O'Shannassy's Dispatches from Collapse

They’re Going To Default, You Know - They Have Done It Before. One Way Or Another, They Will Do It Again.
Manhattan Contrarian

ICE Arrest In Far Uptown Manhattan Ends In Shooting: Two Versions Of The Story - * On Thursday afternoon, October 8, a guy named Oscar Belgal was shot by ICE agents in the very most northern neighborhood of Manhattan known as Marble Hil...
The Beauty of Things

On the Silk Thread of Invention - Featuring E.B. White, Timothy Steele and Sarah Freligh. Republishing a favorite seasonal post in honor of NVR’s Halloween issue launching in a few days.
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Whatever Bad Thing The Censors Accuse Their Enemies Of Doing Is The Very Thing They Are Doing - An intelligence community deception tactic is being used by governments, including Australia’s, to mislead the public
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day – A lovely example of the costs of bureaucracy - Why are such “small” sites not viable for the large developers? More pertinently perhaps, why are there not small developers who choose to build on sites...
Schiffradio.com

Worse Than 2008. Worse Than COVID. And They Call It a Boom. - Consumers are more worried now than at 2022's 40-year inflation high. Peter Schiff shows why the 'greatest economy ever' is pure fiction. The post Worse ...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

People Are Rejecting Screens—and Returning to Communal Events - The inmates are breaking out of digital prison
McFaul's World

Trump Has Shamelessly Abandoned Ukrainians - Doing so does not advance American interests or values.
The Contrarian Capitalist

Market Wrap 10/10/2026 – S&P 500 Hits New High on Narrow Leadership as Bond Yields Stay Elevated and Market Breadth Cracks - 10-15% Correction Still Expected Through October-November Amid OpenAI Revenue Gap, Housing Slowdown, and Rising Risks Beneath the Surface
DGMLive

Toyah & Robert's Weekend -
David Stockman's Contra Corner

FYI: Yemen’s A Civil War & Sunni/Shiite Split—None Of Washington’s Goddamned Business! -
Perennial Meditations

Day 1: Leaving the Palace - Mortal: A Journal for Finite Living
Construction Physics

Reading List 10/10/26 - Propane in air conditioners, Anduril making submarine parts, nuclear reactors on the moon, the robotic hand landscape, and more.
AAS Economics (Frank Shostak)

RELATIVE MARKET RISK UPDATE - Money Supply & Macro #78 - Determining Equity Market Risk
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Canadian Wire interview on misreadings of postmodernism - I was on the Canadian Wire program with co-hosts Will Horton and Matt Daco, to discuss what the postmoderns got right, misreadings of postmodernism, and th...
Mises Wire

Violent Populism - Mark Thornton traces America’s rising political violence to big government, Fed inflation, and the collapse of the old limited-government consensus.
Mises Institute Blog

Violent Populism - Mark Thornton traces America’s rising political violence to big government, Fed inflation, and the collapse of the old limited-government consensus.
Flashbak

The Fearless Lee Miller: Fashion, Surrealism And The Horror - “It was a matter of getting out on a damn limb and sawing it off behind you.” – Lee Miller Lee Miller (April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977), the American so...
Yascha Mounk

Why America’s Real Wealth Isn’t in Silicon Valley - Yascha Mounk, Owen Zidar, and Eric Zwick examine how America's hidden fortunes are built on garage doors, car dealerships, and beverage distribution.
Retraction Watch

Weekend reads: OpenAI’s preprint dump; Taylor & Francis to leave Informa; arXiv’s preprint cap - 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...
Quillette

Claire's Weekly Letter: An Army of Yesterday’s Civilians -
Ayn Rand Centre UK

How the “Stop the Genocide” Crowd Celebrated October 7th -
Marcus on AI

We must recall open-ended AI agents with internet access from the market, now - Every minute we wait risks disaster
The Logical Place

Crime and Politics - One of the most persistent differences between the political left and right concerns their attitudes towards crime and punishment. Broadly speaking, the ri...
Astral Codex Ten

Your Book Review: We Present Television - Finalist #11 in the Book Review Contest
Wright in Racine

“Ask Keiran!” - Much of what is known about Taliesin resides not far from Frank Lloyd Wright’s fabled home, in a small white house in Spring Green, in the person of Keiran...
David Stockmans Contra Corner

This Isn’t Winning! The August Trade Deficit Plunged To $1.64 Trillion Annualized - Click on Title to Read
Te Papa

NZR agree to drop legal action if Papua New Guinea Chiefs’ mascot is a sufficiently sexy CGI animal - After a week of heated back and forth between New Zealand Rugby and Australia’s National Rugby League over a new Papua New Guinea expansion team, NZR has r...
THE CIVILIAN

NZR agree to drop legal action if Papua New Guinea Chiefs’ mascot is a sufficiently sexy CGI animal - After a week of heated back and forth between New Zealand Rugby and Australia’s National Rugby League over a new Papua New Guinea expansion team, NZR has r...
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

The Exceptional American Spirit - America’s semiquincentennial year provides occasion to reflect on the decisions, actions, and sacrifices that transformed a newbie country of three milli...
New Zealand Arts Review

The Surprise Party - Reveiwed by Malcolm Calder The Surprise {arty By Dave Armstrong Tadpole Productions Director Colin McColl Set John Parker Lighting/Sound Gareth Evans and G...
Jensen's Economic, Precious Metals, & Markets Newsletter

Crude Flows More Than Doubled Out Of the Strait of Hormuz Yesterday? Let’s Look - Today we were told that yesterday alone 28 million (M) barrels (bbl) moved out through the Strait of Hormuz even as more than a dozen ships have been attac...
Lindsay Mitchell

National's new welfare policies only raise more questions - National has announced a five point welfare plan that applies almost entirely to Jobseeker/Work Ready beneficiaries. The first is random testing for drug...
Cato at Liberty

The War in Ukraine Is Not Ending Anytime Soon - The Kremlin’s decision to bomb civilians will not bring this war any closer to ending.
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Mr Tracey Goes to Ithaca - Having heard that the mayor of the city was proposing suspending permits for Cornell events to protect locals from hordes of Ivy League rapists, Michael Tr...
Curbed - All

Gowanopolis Rising - You can’t walk an inch in the Brooklyn neighborhood without running into a new luxury tower—or a toxic brownfield.
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

Escaping the compartmentalisation of history - I am always intrigued by the way history is compartmentalised. Take economics, for example, which (yawn)…zzzz…. Oh, let me start again. Take social history...
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

A week is a long time: 10 October 2026 - A New Zealand Politics weekly wrap-up
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

NY Energy Infrastructure Development Plan: The Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost - On October 9, 2026 Doreen Harris announced that the New York State Energy Planning Board (Board) will convene on December 9, 2026 to kick off the new Energ...
Institute for Energy Research

SCOTUS Begins Hearing Arguments in Suncor v. Boulder County - This week, the Supreme Court began its new term by hearing arguments in Suncor v. Boulder County, a climate lawsuit.… The post SCOTUS Begins Hearing Argu...
The Library of Celaeno

A Truly Private Schooling - Democracy vs. Education
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

The Disappearance and Return of the Students - When fewer than one percent of university students turn up to discuss their political future, are we witnessing democratic decline or the silence before a ...
Gale Winds

GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs Keep Getting Cheaper: Thank Competition - Thirty years ago, a small startup team of scientists in Boston published findings that began with the venom of a Gila monster and ended in a weight-loss re...
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Premium: The Hater's Guide To Junk - Ladies and gentlemen, we are in a glorious, splendiferous, *outrageous* era of *crap! * Some call it “high-yield,” some call it “speculative-grade,” but ...
Middle East Uncovered

Sudan’s Army Is Accused of Chlorine Attacks. Why Won’t Its Closest Allies Back Inspectors? - New evidence raises questions about General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s military, while two of its most influential regional partners have yet to publicly dem...
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Victorian elites stayed in bed until the afternoon - There’s more than one way to rule the world
CO2 Coalition

Climate Lawsuits Fail Constitutional and Scientific Review - by Angela Wheeler The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether municipalities can set national energy policy by forcing oil and gas companies to pay for...
Gus Van Horn

Friday Funnies - *A Friday Hodgepodge* *I'm in the mood for some laughs this morning, how about you?* *1*. It can do many things, but *can AI create inspirational posters?...
Doug Casey's International Man

America Looks Richer Than Ever. What Happens When the Fed’s Asset Bubble Bursts? - The Fed’s asset bubble has pushed household wealth beyond income growth, widened the wealth gap, and put decades of paper gains at risk. The post America...
Anthony B. Bradley

Weekly Top Five Articles: A World Worth Tending - Envy, despair, and the collapse of rightly ordered love
Anthony B. Bradley

Weekly Top Five Articles: A World Worth Tending - Envy, despair, and the collapse of rightly ordered love
Sawahil

West Africa, Horn, MENA: Links for 10/9/2026 - News and analysis from Dakar to Riyadh.
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

President Trump Cut Legal Immigrant Entries 2.7 Times More Than Illegal Entries - The administration wants fewer immigrants, illegal but mostly legal.
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

President Trump Cut Legal Immigrant Entries 2.7 Times More Than Illegal Entries - The administration wants fewer immigrants, illegal but mostly legal.
Sustain What

Suno vs. Homo - Matt Richtel and Andy Revkin on AI and Music - On October 3, The New York Times published a provocation (more than a story) comparing songs generated by humans and generated by giving prompts to generat...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Manufacturing Surged When Tariffs Were Lifted - The New Right is taking a victory lap. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says that manufacturing is “roaring back at its fastest pace in years.” He follow...
American Institute of Economic Research

Manufacturing Surged When Tariffs Were Lifted - The New Right is taking a victory lap. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says that manufacturing is “roaring back at its fastest pace in years.” He follow...
The Roots of Liberty

Young And Dumb - YouTuber Amala Ekpunobi recently called out a tv/movie trope I had grown so used to that I didn’t even realize its pervasiveness:
Law & Liberty

The Most American Statue in Europe - A forgotten monument in Budapest reveals truths about immigration, assimilation, and civic gratitude.
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

Midterms: Voters Can Take Back Affordability - This article was originally published at The Empowerment Alliance and is re-published here with permission. Thanks to Trump administration directives, Ame...
Real Clear Energy: Video

Energy Future Now: Energy Affordability Is on the Ballot: Prices, Politics & AI - Energy affordability is about more than prices at the pump or your monthly electric bill—it could shape America's economic future. On Energy Future Now, Ma...
Seiler on Science

Reflections on the History of Atomism - The ancient Greek philosophers Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus proposed that everything is made up of extremely small, impenetrable, indivisible, hard ...
Kiwipolitico

Reframing the narrative. - It is said that those who frame the questions win the debate. Those who set the terms win the negotiation. If true, then the resolution to any matter of di...
Andrew Whiteside

Review: The Surprise Party - It’s just a few weeks until the 2026 General Election in New Zealand and what better way to get into the mood than seeing Tadpole Productions’ latest play ...
Truth on the Market

Antitrust at the Agencies: Pour One Out for Southern Glazer’s - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has settled a wine-and-spirits case, and its press release reads like a victory toast. The two commissioners who appro...
Energy in Depth

From the Big Apple to MAPLE: Bloomberg Climate Team Regroups in Vermont - The Bloomberg-backed climate law operation at New York University may have shut down, but its personnel and playbook didn’t go far. NYU’s State Energy an...
The Breakthrough Journal

Permitting Reform Unlocks More Clean Energy Than Trump Blocks - The Long View on BAAJA
Macroscience

Kevin Bryan on AI and Innovation - Economics of Ideas, Science, and Innovation Lecture 7
Conversable Economist

A Tax-Side Agenda for Addressing US Budget Deficits - Om 2026, the federal government is on track to spend $7.4 trillion, and $1.9 trillion–about one-quarter of the total–will be newly borrowed money. It’s o...
Stewart Margolis

Who Are You Voting For? - I was recently asked for whom I would vote in the 2028 presidential election.
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

Who Makes the Judges? (And why the process is not what Parliament laid out) - LawNews
American Energy Alliance

Trump’s Greenland Deal Improves America’s Critical Mineral Outlook - Days after President Trump announced a security agreement with Greenland and Denmark, Greenland Mines applied to double the size of its rare earth mine i...
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

Interview with Ben Bayer on Texas Talks Podcast - An expert on Ayn Rand discusses her unique approach to philosophy
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

A Sentiment Analysis of Cowen, Hanson, Caplan, and Krugman - A conversation with ChatGPT inspired by Fabio Rojas
Market Urbanism

Link: Atlas of Data Center Politics - Thanks to Infrastructure Lab at the National University of Singapore, there’s now a global atlas of every (??) data center built or proposed, as well as a ...
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Virtue is admired above all... - Donald's Commentary on The Handbook of Epictetus #40
John D. Cook

Privacy policies and modal logic - If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you may know that I do a lot of work with data privacy and that I have an interest in modal logic. Recently the...
On Substack

A new vision for sponsorships - On clubbing, Boston Market, and more ways to earn on Substack
The Rebuild

BAAJA Shows the Need for a Case-by-Case Approach to Environmental Activists - Cheaper Energy and Protecting Nature Are Not Opposites
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

Call Us Daddies #27: What Are Fathers Telling Their Sons About Cornell? - The dad crew gets spicy about fraternities, hoaxes, and adults cutting off their parents due to therapy (60 min)
Uncharted Territories

Why Did Japan Rise So Much, but Then Stagnated? - The same reasons that made it grow fast then caused it to stagnate
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Three Big Ideas #71 - *⚗️ Mann Virdee, Head of Science and Technology* In 1662, the newly chartered Royal Society of London appointed the natural philosopher Robert Hooke its ...
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

“We are HUNTING Pielke” - A look back at how climate enthusiasts tried to sabotage the careers of inconvenient scientists
An Africanist Perspective

Two recent podcast appearances - On growth, development policy research, urbanization, and more
The Cobden Centre

Richard Cobden Speech on Free Trade - LONDON, JULY 3, 1844. After the narrative which our friend Mr. Villiers has given of the past proceedings of himself and others in the...
Notes On Liberty

The Climate Bomb, Part 2: Collapsing Towers of Ice and Stone Echo 9/11 - As we reflect on the twenty-fifth anniversary of September 11, 2001, I find the comparison between the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers and the three geolo...
The Trumpland Diary

An Epstein Whistleblower Just Unalived Himself (Allegedly) - Simon Andriesz was a British banker who worked on Wall Street for years as Managing Director at the BGC Partners firm under CEO Howard Lutnick.
Theatreview

Comment of Class of ’86 review - John Smythe October 8th, 2026 Re your issue with the “odd choice in the final scene where the jock gives the queer theatre kid a big kiss on the lips.” I...
Glenn’s Substack

Marco Goes Hard - About what really matters
Keiran Murphy (FLW Historian)

The logo of the Taliesin Fellowship, and the Whirling Arrow - Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Whirling Arrow is in gold fabric draped over the stone railing in the Hillside Theater(opens in new tab).1 Today I’m writing a...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

THE MARY WALLOPERS Announce Their Biggest Tour of AU/NZ yet! PADDYWHACKERY LIVE – May 2027 - Ireland’s celebrated punk rebel rousers return to Australia + make their New Zealand debut! Fresh from the release of their blistering new album Paddywha...
The Claude Megson blog

Megson's middle Mrkusich townhouse on the market - The middle unit of what were known as the Mrkusich towhnhouses is for sale, and we have another chance to explore its interior. Just 68square metres -...
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

‘I’m Raining Too’ - This original song about grief came to me late last night, and I’d like to share it with you
Autonomia

Movies: “The Social Reckoning” - Aaron Sorkin’s movie about Facebook wrestles and pins the point of being social
HardmoneyJim

The President Just Said It Out Loud: Inflation Is the Plan - FINANCIAL REPRESSION IS NO LONGER A FORECAST. IT’S OFFICIAL POLICY, ANNOUNCED IN A MAGAZINE INTERVIEW
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

Water Leasing Can Rescue Montana’s Coldwater Fisheries - SB178 allows water rights holders to lease their rights temporarily to new beneficial uses, including instream flows. The post Water Leasing Can Rescue M...
Official Blog

Gevangen ( IN ) 2019 – Geocache of the week - Traditional GC7ZNA1 by jackie vandenberk Difficulty: 2 Terrain: 1.5 Location: Limburg, Belgium N 51° 15.275′ E 005° 18.564′ Someone needs your help, and th...
Public Lands – PERC

PERC Reports Magazine Survey - We'd love your feedback! The post PERC Reports Magazine Survey appeared first on PERC.
Wildlife – PERC

PERC Reports Magazine Survey - We'd love your feedback! The post PERC Reports Magazine Survey appeared first on PERC.
Private Lands – PERC

PERC Reports Magazine Survey - We'd love your feedback! The post PERC Reports Magazine Survey appeared first on PERC.
Knowledge Problem

Bargaining with the Data Center - Community Benefits Agreements are Coasean Bargaining Agreements
Knowledge Problem

Bargaining with the Data Center - Community Benefits Agreements are Coasean Bargaining Agreements
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

They Hid This From You! - The ‘Hidden Knowledge’ Pitch Given On Podcasts
The New Atlantis

Are We Really on the Path to AGI? - Sometimes, a curious amateur’s eye can discern tensions in the work of professionals that the intensity of their focused labor keeps them from seeing cle...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Eva Marie Saint: 1924-2026 - Iconic Star of Stage and Screen was 102
Dead Language Society

How to teach yourself linguistics - The complete DIY reading list + curriculum
Reason Foundation

Clearer federal wetlands rules would reduce uncertainty for homebuilders - Clear definitions allow builders to more accurately anticipate the costs, timelines, and regulatory requirements associated with a project. The post Clea...
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 530 - PSSSHAK « Primary Supports Structure Housing Action Kits » - Separating common structural and infrastructure elements from interior non-permanent spatial systems has been posited by many as a way of providing a fl...
FIRE

Venezuela is a cautionary tale w/ Jim Epstein and Germania Rodriguez Poleo - For more than half a century, Radio Caracas Television, or RCTV, broadcast news, sports, comedies, and telenovelas in Venezuela...
Conspicuous Cognition

Steven Pinker on AI Doom and Consciousness - Why Pinker thinks intelligence isn’t a superpower, the doom scenarios don’t hold up, and AI systems (probably) aren’t conscious – and what he got wrong abo...
EconLog

Debt and Profit - An ordinary person can earn a paycheque, pay her taxes, cover living costs and mortgage payments, and perhaps even add to her savings — and at the end of...
Existential Crunch

October 2026 Updates - What’s new in societal collapse research?
Liberty Scott

Remembering 7th October - It felt like the end of a rather golden period. A period when mainstream discourse across the Western world was to treat Jew hatred as the morally debase...
RenewNZ

NZ leaders lack moral clarity on Israel - Today commemorates three years since the homicidal psychopaths in Hamas invaded Israel and delighted in killing men, women and children. They laughed as th...
Dramatic Pause

By the Numbers: - *Jesse Woolston is an artist whose practice spans bespoke computational physics, sculpture, painting, and large-scale public installation. Working across...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

COVID revisionism: ‘Guided by the science and data’ has clearly morphed into ‘insane’ - A half-hearted mention of ‘hindsight’ doesn’t cut it
JunkScience.com

Milloy talks SCOTUS climate case on FOX Business - From the October 5, 2026 edition of The Bottom Line.
Skeptic

Islam and Pseudoscience: Close Encounters in the Classroom (and How to Deal with Them) - A philosophy professor at a Moroccan university spends a decade inside classrooms where students invoke Hume, Popper, and Qur’anic verses to defend creatio...
Free Range Kids

A Free-Range, Empowering Way to Get Kids to LISTEN in Class? Yep! - Hi Folks! I love this lesson, brought to us a while back by teacher Jennifer Tobin of Whitby, Ontario. I welcome any more tales from teachers or princi...
The Many Ways I Let You Down

Why I would wipe my ass on a Palestinian flag - Parading the safest political causes as acts of rebellion is killing rock ’n’ roll.
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

On Conviction - The point of believing anything is to become a psychopathic fanatic for it.
First Stones NewsLetter

Gary’s Cosmology: Existence is a cube. - *Gary’s Cosmology* *An Exploration of Existence, Time, the Big Bang, and Our Universe* *Article #2 — Existence is a Cube*(PLUS: One thing I discovered firs...
Peter Boghossian

We Are All Eugenicists Now - Women’s rights, Embryo Screening, and Fascism
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 94) - Untimely Thoughts on a World in Transition
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

The Integrated Timeline: World in 1900, part 1 - Major powers in Europe ca. 1900. This PDF is free.
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: September 2026 - Last month, the NSF opened an Office of Metascience, the Senate Bipartisan Science and Innovation Caucus launched, and Clinical Trial Abundance was on the ...
Stats Chat

NFL Predictions for Week 5 - Team Ratings for Week 5 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ra...
Changing Lanes

Who Drives Ridehail? - Good robotaxi policy depends on the answer
Capitalism Magazine

Statism On the Rise as Capitalism and Freedom are in Decline - As Ayn Rand observed, “In order to justify it, the statists have to rouse people to a hysterical fear of some malevolent enemy who threatens them with cons...
Dr Oliver Hartwich

Should the government spend less? A debate between a neoliberal and a progressive - Max Rashbrooke and Oliver Hartwich debate whether the New Zealand government should increase or decrease spending, discussing economic principles, taxation...
The Trichordist

@ArtistRights Symposium 5 Panel: In Our Own Backyard: Data Centers, AI Infrastructure, and the Creative Communities That Pay the Price - When AI comes for your dreams: Artist Rights Symposium V connects the fight over data centers, eminent domain and community resources with artists’ fight t...
Journal of Free Black Thought

Held at Gunpoint - A black former cop reflects on his own encounters with police
Journal of Free Black Thought

Held at Gunpoint - A black former cop reflects on his own encounters with police
Tim’s Substack

Shots Fired! - The Army deploys infantry into the Rio Grande Valley.
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

Irreligious Acts - Are religious exemptions to vaccination religious?
GeekPress

Siri AI Privacy Tips - *"How to Limit* What Apple's New Siri AI Can Access in iOS 27"
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Another, very significant, example of why Māori privilege is a myth - My ears pricked up a week back when ZB reported on recently released 2025/2026 suicide stats.
The Tracinski Letter

The Freak Show - What I Learned Running for Office, Part 4
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

Who Climbed the Income Ladder in 2026? Vietnam vs. the Philippines - Plus Togo's census shortcut, China's near miss, and why the World Bank held back Türkiye and Argentina.
Offsetting Behaviour

Sheep, speech, and the DMCA - Preston Byrne has been doing superb work trying to help protect US-based tech platforms from foreign regulators that want to kill off freedom of speech. ...
Let Grow

Books to Get Young Kids Outside - [image: Blog Books Kids Outside] This little list comes to us from research scientist-turned-award-winning children’s author Heather C. Morris. Her picture...
Barrie Saunders

Supermarkets – what about the provinces? - Anyone who drives to Gisborne, as I have done from the north and south, will discover the roads are winding and often tedious. This means getting in produc...
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

Truth isn’t the answer to ‘fake news’ - Institute of Arts and Ideas
Croaking Cassandra

What I’d do - A couple of weeks ago the Sunday Star-Times published a piece by me (that they’d requested) trying to explain productivity and why it mattered. The mandate...
The New Era

Russia and Mogg - Jacob Rees-Mogg was forced to unravel his investment positions in Russia. Now he wants to go to war with them - with others fighting that war for him.
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #66: “What We’ve Got Here Is Failure to Communicate” - Understanding a message is not the same as accepting it
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

Why Gerry Rafferty’s Lyrics in ‘Baker Street’ Are Worth Paying Attention to - The point of the song gets at what I believe is an important truth: our lives often turn into sad patterns that are difficult to escape.
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

The Immoral "Effective Altruism" Power Grab: How Utilitarianism Is Driving AI Regulation - By firmly championing individual rights, free competition, and objective law, we can harness the immense promise of artificial intelligence without sacrifi...
Freedom and Flourishing

Behavioral Economics and Human Flourishing: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective - *This is a guest essay by Dr Edward W. Younkins, Professor of Accountancy and Business at Wheeling University, and Executive Director of its Institute f...
The Kerrant

Living Better Than Kings - For most of human history, many of life’s greatest conveniences were available only to kings, aristocrats and the extraordinarily wealthy. They had chauf...
The War on Prices

Wall Street Journal Polling Highlights How Inflation Encourages Bad Policy - The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that Americans are transcending traditional political labels in favor of populism. The newspaper’s polli...
Leport’s Substack

SALE SALE SALE - DEFROSTED Kindle version is only $1.99
Principled Perspectives

Socialism vs. Welfare Statism: Why These Terms Matter - I originally posted a version of this essay about 8 years ago. But after reposting my updated version of Criminal Socialism vs. a Free Society, and given...
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for September, 2026: +0.61 deg. C - The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for September, 2026 was +0.61 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, down fro...
Libertarian Land

How the Endangered Species Act Inhibits Housing Development - The Trump Administration recently weakened the Endangered Species Act.
Mike’s Substack

Where an Identity Comes From - A child abstracts himself from what he did, twice: once to learn that he is, once to learn who.
Mike’s Substack

Where an Identity Comes From - A child abstracts himself from what he did, twice: once to learn that he is, once to learn who.
History Reclaimed

Misogyny and Inaccuracy in the new Register of British Slave Traders - The new Register of British Slave Traders claims to include 13,000 people but only gives details on just over 6000 of them. It lumps together slave traders...
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

America’s diesel problem—and how to fix it - A ban on diesel exports would raise overall fuel prices and wreck America’s energy superpower status.
Houston Strategies

Metro's 1978 plan: promises made, promises kept, promises broken - Another excellent guest post from Oscar Slotboom with some of Houston METRO's lost history from the archives of Barry Klein, RIP.--- Civic activist Barry K...
The Future of Being Human

14 essential AI "I Can ..." skills every undergrad should have (Updated) - Employers are increasingly looking for students who show good judgment with AI, can demonstrate their AI skills in an interview, and are adept at directing...
The Intrinsic Perspective

How do I tell my kids about AI? - Or, Why education should recapitulate civilization
One Useful Thing

The Dot and the Swarm - Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
Gross Output

Business is Back – Big Time! - “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...
Fictionosophy

The Iron Heel on Oligarchy and History - The Iron Heel is essentially a collection of mostly incorrect ideas about history and economics framed in a basic, ineffective story.
Asymmetric Information

The AI files: Making sense of artificial intelligence🍋 - We don't know how AI will turn out. But that doesn't mean we know nothing
Toppermost

Franz Ferdinand - Their rise was stratospheric. The song that provided the rocket fuel was Take Me Out. The post Franz Ferdinand appeared first on Toppermost.
Tross Publishing

Should Our Country be Named Aotearoa - By Kerry Butler There has been a movement in recent times to push a name change for our country to “Aotearoa” by way of creeping normalcy. This subversiv...
Africa-Israel Weekly

Dumisani on CBN’s 700 Club - Unfinished Business Holy Land Pilgrimage - Pastor Dumisani Washington appears on the 700 Club to discuss the “Unfinished Business” Holy Land pilgrimage, reviving Dr.
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Trump Deserves to Be Impeached - The Constitution is the law that the people of the United States have imposed on federal officials. That’s what makes it the highest law of the land. U.S...
Statecraft

How to Build a Policy School - “We’re not reading the IKEA instructions.”
Interintellect

November 10: NYC | A Free “Mini Festival” to Discuss GenZ’s economics and culture - Is GenZ the generation that lost the future, or the one nobody’s bothered to understand?
Risk & Progress

(Almost) Everything is Getting Better - 22 charts illustrating our ascent to abundance
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: Salt Syndicate, Part I - The story of one of the most important inventions of the sixteenth century that nobody has ever heard of, and the multi-national syndicate that promoted it
Austin Vernon's Substack

An Ode to Tesla's Cybercab - The bet to deliver autonomous vehicles to the masses.
What You Can Do For Liberty

Ignore the Doomers: We’re Going To Win - Social media is being flooded right now with messages that say Republicans can’t possibly win the 2026 midterms. Ignore it.
Thinking Directions

Money, Safety, and Ease — Oh My! - As many of you know, I have reconceptualized Marshall Rosenberg’s idea of “universal needs” as “deep rational values.” If you are unfamiliar with either ...
The Realization of Wholeness

“A Day in the Life” - The GOAT song
Reason for Living

Conquering with Curiosity - When I was young, there were certain subjects I thought I would never like or find interesting—until I changed my mindset.
The Shrewd Artist

Just Signed, The 19th in the Space Series - Space Series Self-Portrait, The Painter.
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Just Signed, The 19th in the Space Series - Space Series Self-Portrait, The Painter.
Michael Newberry, Artist

Art History as a Sandbox - Only a Handful of Monumental Art Cycles For a few years in the early 1980s, I lived in Staten Island, walking distance from the Staten Island Ferry. Whenev...
The Weekly Sift

Machiavellian Assessments - No Sift for the next five weeks. The next new articles will appear on November 2. Globally, then, Trump is in exactly the opposite position of where Machia...
The Economic LongWave

🏠⚠️ The Two Cycles Everyone Keeps Confusing — And Why It Matters Now - The Kuznets Cycle and the 18.6-Year Real Estate Cycle are different. One tracks the broader development wave; the other tracks land, credit and speculation.
Eating Policy

How to Peel a Banana - Riding the cascade of rigidity to the third horizon
The Organon Architecture Blog

Mid-Century features worth thinking about - Organic architecture has been called "the other modernism." Modernist architecture is not organic architecture, but organic architecture has more in comm...
A life just as ordinary

Beer – #1123 – Kererú – Paloma 2018 - Where I drink a 2018 bottle of beer that's been in the cool cupboard (you might say cellar) since I brought it. … Continue reading →
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Cameron Hawley: Libertarian Film Hero - Cameron Hawley — born September 19, 1905 — was an American fiction writer. Two films based on his books are unusual for their Randian tone and strongly pro...
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Cognitive Autonomy Is a Collective Job - Reflections on Ruxandra.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

Cognitive Autonomy Is a Collective Job - Reflections on Ruxandra.
The Scholar's Stage

The Cure for Cancer Is Not a Math Benchmark - And Other Reasons Americans Hate Data Centers
Ruxandra’s Substack

Education as an AI safety area - If we count on human judgement to guide AI, we need to maintain institutions that cultivate it.
Maximum Progress

The Best Philosophy Article of 2025 is Bad Economics - Evan Behrle on Desert and Economic Interdependence
The Truth Fairy

** THE PLOT AGAINST LOVE ** (NEW BOOK) - AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW!
Conflicted

Why did Mark Carney establish the TCFD? - New Series: Did China Capture California? Post #1
Virginia Postrel

Upcoming Events and Recommended Reading - Come see me in LA next week or NYC next month!
Science+Story

‘Public Expert’ is a Human Role, Regardless of How Much AI You Use - On writing with AI as an author and other current scandals.
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

How to Create Your Own Unique Aesthetic - Style is selection repeated until it becomes its own reality.
What's New Under the Sun

The non-material consequences of growth - When growth slows, people rate their system of government more poorly and become a bit more zero sum
Regan's Substack

Pregnancy Purity - Mom guilt begins at conception
HBL

Transgenderism - TG wrote (in a much longer post) on my Forum: Yes, and these feelings are bodily sensations, such as what you feel in your arm when you raise it, what you ...
Butterpaper

Vault 2001: Fall of the twin towers - A quarter century has passed since the towers fell. Too busy working on this site to be watching the late night news, I had no idea until I cycled to wor...
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (September 2026) - Food security at the Security Council, and global tipping point risk
Cranmer’s Substack

THE AI FACTORY THAT NEEDS MORE POWER THAN NEW ZEALAND - From enriched uranium to artificial intelligence, one Ohio site captures the scale of the next industrial revolution.
PM of NZ

Glide Time bludgers have an outing in the sun - A few under-worked unionised in Wellingrad had an outing in the sun today. Good to see them getting some vitamin D. As is the norm, screaming into the ...
Harry’s Substack

Settling the Is-Ought Issue, using AI - A dialogue with Gemini on Hume, Ayn Rand, and Deductivism
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

Now live: “Revolution Lived vs. Revolution Chanted” - A must-watch short film about the bait-and-switch tactics extremists use to hijack nice-sounding political movements.
Greg Mankiw's Blog

Economics Teaching Conference - If you might be interested in attending, click here for more information.
Eat More Electrons

Death to the boring think tank event - YAMA: You aren’t missing anything
The Antiplanner

Transit Carried only 83% of 2019 Riders in July 2026 - Transit carried just 83.3 percent as many riders in July of 2026 as in the same month of 2019, according to data released Friday by the Federal Transit Adm...
The Antiplanner

Transit Carried only 83% of 2019 Riders in July 2026 - Transit carried just 83.3 percent as many riders in July of 2026 as in the same month of 2019, according to data released Friday by the Federal Transit Adm...
A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

'The Myth of the Cession of Māori Sovereignty' [sic] - A piece from a Dr Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown is doing the rounds again. It's called 'The Myth of the Cession of Māori Sovereignty' -- and argues (unsurpris...
Outliving Iran

Outliving Iran: A Memoir (Part 3) - A fork in the road
Schreibmaschiner (David McLoughlin)

Peter Bromhead on how to ruin a stroganoff dinner party - Peter Bromhead, who has died aged 93, was as great a teller of hilarious tales as he was a creator of incisive cartoons. This is a story he liked to tell o...
Richard Werner’s Substack

Financial Controls to Tighten as our “Leader”-Puppets Steer towards World War Three - The first steps towards capital controls indicate that the EU is serious about wartime mobilisation and the digital Gulag.
The Roots of Progress

We’re hiring: Event Manager & Education Program Operations Manager - Help us inspire young people to build an ambitious future, or create events that bring together the progress community
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: Aztecs, by Inga Clendinnen - Aztecs: An Interpretation, Inga Clendinnen (Cambridge University Press, 1991).
The Jolly Libertarian

This is Not Real Life - Truth, the old saying goes, is stranger than fiction. Which may be why I like biographies. They're the stories of real people. They tell us about real he...
Equal to Reality

Their Phantom Liberty - If a King cannot leave, he is never free, however gilded the cage that holds him is.
Robert Nasir’s Joyous Newsletter

Evict Your Enemies - In which Robert shares thoughts and strategies on how to clear the road ahead ... personally and politically. Ten Steps for getting your adversaries the He...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Mumbo-jumbo and all that - The Mullahs of Mumbo-jumbo advance the cause of racist superiority
Muss Montessori School

Can Montessori Education Reduce Mobile Addiction in Kids? - Yes, Montessori education can help reduce mobile addiction in kids by giving them hands-on activities, independence, movement, creativity, and meaningful...
Institute of Economic Affairs

Britain spends more on planning applications than Japan spends on extending high-speed railways through earthquake-prone mountains. - Britain builds high-speed rail at almost six times the cost of Japan, new IEA analysis finds Every French city with … Continue reading "Britain spends mo...
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
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.”
Asimov’s Addendum

When Smaller Models Win - Chess, LoRA, and the case for specialized AI
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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
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...
Why not reason?

Learning to Meet People Where They Are - Lots of group chats I am part of consist of Brazilian people.
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 ...
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
The Enlightened Examiner

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

No. 1 - Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
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...
Africa’s Bright Future

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

Gena Gorlin and Linda Mann on building a life of art - A recording from Dr. Gena Gorlin's live video
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...
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 “...
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 -
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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
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!
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
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...
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...
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...
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

-
1828 – Championing Freedom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...
Comments on: About

-
Turning Point UK

-
Frank Lloyd Wright

-
Comments on: Categories

-
THE ALL RIGHT

-
Bushfire Front – Bushfire management in Western Australia

-
Commentary | Bassett, Brash and Hide

-
SovereignLife Freedom Blog

-
bachtrack.com/en/22/296/rss

-
oliviapierson.org Free Thought Advocate - Blog

-
Energy Talking Points - Alex Epstein

-
Cato at Liberty

-
Master Resource

-
The Telegraph (UK)

-
The Common Room

-
The Common Room

-
The Hot Club of New York

-
Strong Towns

-
Environmental Progress

-
Master Resource

-
Gerald Zaski

-
Jesse M.

-
Russell W. Shurts

-
Russell Shurts

-
Applied Philosophy Online

-

Show All