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Watts Up With That?

Win the AI Race. Then Face What Comes Next. - In the long term, we should not let the fear of human obsolescence deter our pursuit of technological supremacy. By winning the AI race at full throttle,...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

NYC Turns Back to Gas Buses After Finding Out the Hard Way That the Electric Versions Have Big Problems - By Paul Homewood That low carbon bus crap stuff isn’t only failing in Aberdeen! From Western Journal: New York City is pretty much broke. Mayor Zohran Ma...
Marcus on AI

Top three ways Dario Amodei has blown his credibility in seven days - Actions speak louder than words
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 1229 Wood in the US economy. China investing in people. Deciphering Rivera & From Clive to Keynes. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
John D. Cook

Why fitting a logistic is nearly impossible from early data - Nothing grows exponentially forever. What appears to be an exponential curve often turns out to be some sort of S curve, such as a logistic curve. Suppos...
Astral Codex Ten

Your Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt - Finalist #9 in the Book Review Contest
One Useful Thing

The Overhang - Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency
EconLog

AI and the Luddites - Daron Acemoglu has been the target of an unusually harsh piece in The Economist, which prompted fellow economists to come to his aid. The magazine cast d...
ArchDaily

Shenzhen Futian Lvzhou Primary School / CCDI Dongxiying Studio - *Campus in a Village-Town* — Xinzhou, located on the south side of Futian Central Area in Shenzhen, is an important residential and living district. Over...
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...
A Halfling's View

Bending the Knee - The Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill Resurrected
The Cobden Centre

Geopolitics and the Ethics of Finance and Trade: Conference Papers - Following the Austrian Economics Centre’s recent conference. The conference papers from “Geopolitics and the Ethics of Finance and Trade” are now online. E...
Barrie Saunders

DPMC conflict of interest claim - Blogger Anna Fifield has published claims that Ben King, DPMC CEO, has a conflict of interest because his partner is standing for a seat with the National ...
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Bravo, Kevin! - Click on Title to Read
Virginia Postrel

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

Inside Britain’s failing Foreign Office - Why have ministers have lost control?
The UnPopulist

The Trump Administration Is Encouraging Illegal Acts by Government Employees and Agencies to Advance the President’s Agenda: An Executive Watch Roundup - Our mid-September selection of the president’s latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law
Kiwiblog

CGT isn’t bad, Labour’s CGT is bad - Oliver Hartwich writes: On Monday evening, I sat on a panel at Foxglove on Queens Wharf in Wellington, where I was expected to play the neoliberal villai...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

The most despised Chancellor in the history of German polling calls for wide-ranging social media regulations to protect citizens from “misinformation, personal attacks” and “discrimination” - Also open thread.
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

Invitation - WELCOME TO AN INTELLECTUAL ADVENTURE
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

How to Cope Wisely with Anxiety - Lesson 3 of The Stoic Mind Miniseries
The New York Review of Books

Devils in America - Toward the end of his biography of Roy Cohn, written with his wife, Susan Goldmark, Kai Bird quotes the editor and publisher Jason Epstein: “In a way, he’s...
Perennial Meditations

“Let us Postpone Nothing” - Dying Daily—Meditations for Mortals
Keiran Murphy (FLW Historian)

Recommended book: Reflections from the Shining Brow - Reading Time: 4 minutesThe cover of Amin’s book, and a photo of Wright, Kamal Amin and Wright’s daughter, Iovanna in Taliesin’s Work Court. The author, K...
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

AI Is Already In Dangerous Hands - If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter, and you can subscribe on the following links: *$70 a year*, *$18 a quarter*, or *$...
Zero Hanger

Hawthorn’s out-of-contract key forward meets with Victorian powerhouse: AFL trade news - The father-son is assessing his options.
IPWatchdog Articles

CAFC Affirms Noninfringement Rulings on Spinal Implant Patents - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision Friday in Moskowitz Family LLC v. Globus Medical, Inc., affirming...
The Whakataki Times

Local Bloke Still Paying Monthly Bills For Three Streaming Services He Doesn’t Use - THERE IF HE NEEDS THEM. The post Local Bloke Still Paying Monthly Bills For Three Streaming Services He Doesn’t Use appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

We’re what? Running out of mackerel you say? - We’d just like to congratulate the collective governments of Europe on this achievement: The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) warned last year that mack...
Middle East Uncovered

What We Left Behind After September 11th - An entire generation of Afghans grew up with a war triggered by an attack they had nothing to do with. I watched them live with its consequences long after...
The Free Press

The Founder Building an Actual Unicorn - Critics say Josie Zayner’s gene-editing start-up is messing with Mother Nature. She said, ‘Being a god is just being 100 years in the future.’
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

Anthony Fauci claims COVID lockdowns never happened, says he wouldn’t change our policies - A bewildering pronouncement dedicated to ignoring reality
GeekPress

Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving AI - *Given all the recent drama* about "AI will kill us all!", I thought I'd mention this 2025 paper by Critch and Tsimerman laying out a helpful conceptual ...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

The case for unilateral recognition - Bilateral, plurilateral, and multilateral are words that New Zealand’s civil service love. There is nothing that can’t be improved by doing it in concert w...
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (September 2026) - Food security at the Security Council, and global tipping point risk
Spiked Online

The assisted-dying bill should never have been revived - The post The assisted-dying bill should never have been revived appeared first on spiked.
Persuasion

If Most Professors Have the Same Politics, That's Bad for Democracy - Why universities need ideological diversity.
JoNova

Surprise! Government battery bubble feeds crime, corruption, incompetence, safety breaches… - The day the inverter fell off the wall… By Jo Nova In the desperate days of watching a Net Zero target disappear over the event horizon, the Labor Gover...
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day – should this be called the “Fuck OfCom Act”? - The HOMEFRONT Act is a GRANITE-style foreign censorship shield bill, the seventh such GRANITE-architecture bill or model policy to be advanced by America...
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

Wanker vs Wheelchair - If you missed our Clubland Q&A live, here's the action replay...
Futurism

Bizarre Glitch Causes Delivery Robots to Swarm Busy City Sidewalk - "As a disabled person this is an actual nightmare." The post Bizarre Glitch Causes Delivery Robots to Swarm Busy City Sidewalk appeared first on Futurism.
SkyscraperCity Forum

BELFAST | Bankmore Square | Office (58m) and Student Accom (55m) | Under Const. - *APPROVED* *Developer:* Richland Group *Architect:* Todd Architects *Contractor:* Farrans Construction *Floor space:* 250,000 sqft *Height:* 57.25m *Cost: ...
Greg Mankiw's Blog

Economics Teaching Conference - If you might be interested in attending, click here for more information.
Real Clear Energy

Chart: Could WTI Crude Pass $95? - Trading Economics
Peter Boghossian

The Examples Too Crazy to Include - Too crazy to believe, too true to invent. The stories I cut from my Portland State resignation letter.
Cato at Liberty

Georgia National Guard Member Faces DC Felony Firearm Charges - Such behavior represents a breakdown of good order and discipline in this particular episode, and it only highlights the continuing dangers of these unnece...
The Inquiring Mind

Tahatu - For young people, contemplating career options can be bewildering. It can be hard even to know what opportunities are available. Tahatu
No Minister

Get Woke, Go Broke Comes for Nike - The decade‑long darling of activist capitalism finally meets reality. See Tom Hunter’s excellent article on this exact topic! In 2018, benched NFL quarterb...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Of course we are going to blow out 1.5degrees – global warming is here and it will only get worse - You can’t be surprised… Global warming will inevitably overshoot 1.5°C Paris Agreement target – UN report Global warming beyond 1.5°C...
Offsetting Behaviour

Migration or Stagnation - Michael Clemens shows that a rise in noncitizen worker prevalence in Korea from 3% to about 14% over four decades would offset the effect of Korea's demo...
Curbed - All

A Mountaintop Bungalow 5 Floors Up in the East Village - That little shingled cottage atop the Kiehl’s building on Third Avenue turns out to be the upper level of a duplex.
FIRE

Florida wildlife officials searched critics’ private records - Florida wildlife officials searched critics’ private records after they spoke out. The agency’s threat justification raises serious questions.
Paul Wells

Derek Fildebrandt: Bertasplaining independence to the Rest of Canada - In a guest column, the Western Standard publisher explains why he’s voting to Leave
Breaking Views

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Wellington Council's got another thing to worry about funding - Tell you what, if you think Wellington doesn't have enough problems already, let me tell you about a new one: Wellington Zoo.Wellington Zoo needs $14 milli...
Israel Institute of NZ

Let Them Come — Then Have the Courage to Condemn Them - New Zealand has decided to allow Kneecap to return despite controversy over Hamas and Hezbollah. Twenty-two years ago, Green MP Keith Locke defended the ri...
Techdirt

The DOJ’s AI Fair Use Brief Is Correct, But From A DOJ That Has No Credibility - I am never asking the monkey’s paw for a federal government that defends fair use again. For decades on Techdirt, I’ve talked about the absolute necessity ...
The Double Standard

Open Mike 09/09/2026 - Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to th...
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

What We Read to Our Children - I was recently digging through a box of books sent to me by my mom. After pulling out about a dozen items, I paused and smiled because there sat my almos...
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 93) - Untimely Thoughts on a World in Transition
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Media Labels Opponents Of Mass Migration “Far Right” As The Left Seeks To Silence, Censor, And Incarcerate Them - Reporters use the label three to 14 times more frequently than “far left” when describing socialist and communist parties
Official Blog

CITO Across the World: One day. Many communities. A world of difference. - They say everything’s bigger in Texas—and this year, that includes CITO! What began as CITO Across Texas is growing into a worldwide day of community actio...
Marginal Revolution

Tuesday assorted links - 1. The Carob Prize, for scholars who tell the truth (WSJ). 2. Observations from watching Iranian social media. 3. The Emma McAleavy feminist vision. 4. I...
The Breakthrough Journal

Climate Policy Is Getting Quieter, and That’s Good - Climate Hushing Through the Years
ROBERT FRIPP

Whenever touring away from home, or away from a country that counts as home, the player is vulnerable… - Words 116 · RF@80 Series.
Conflicted

My apocalypse is better than yours - The Financial Times gives a cover to "end times fascism," the climate apocalypse rebranded
Sinification

Who Pays for the New Economy? Economic Digest: August 2026 - Policy Support and H2 Assessments | Local Government and Property | Bonds and Financing | AI and Tech | Social Security and Consumption
Institute for Energy Research

California’s New Regulation Adds Hundreds to the Cost of a Set of New Tires - The California Energy Commission recently approved new rules to phase out the sale of replacement tires that do not meet the state’s… The post California...
Sawahil

“NGOs and Terrorists” - A throwaway phrase from Jared Kushner encapsulates a worldview and a shift.
DGMLive

A Circular History of the Loop - Robert Fripp and David Singleton will be on the radio at 7pm this coming Sunday (Sept. 13) as part of the BBC’s Between The Ears series on Radio 3 and iPla...
Why Evolution Is True

What about Lindsay Clancy? - By now most of you know about the Lindsay Clancy case, but I’ll briefly reiterate it. Clancy, then 32 years old, says she was afflicted with postpartum psy...
Principled Perspectives

What the Democrats’ Reactionary Views on Voting Actually Mean - The Democrats appear poised to win control of one or both houses of Congress. So it’s a good time to revisit the Democrats' reactionary designs on our el...
Can't Get Much Higher

Butt Rock: An Album a Day - Featuring Creed, Puddle of Mudd, Nickelback, and others
Gus Van Horn

Midterms: Peril for Trump, Senate in Play - Michael Tomasky of *The New Republic* predicts a "tidal wave" against Trump in this fall's midterms. I am skeptical of a tidal wave: Gerrymandering will mu...
American Energy Alliance

Trump Administration Moves To Protect America’s Grid From Chinese Sabotage - On August 26, President Trump signed an executive order declaring a national emergency to ban the acquisition, importation, and installation of certain f...
The Daily Economy

Canada’s Retaliatory Tariffs Worth $27.6 Billion Take Effect -
The Trichordist

The American Music Fairness Act: Will Justice Cross the Finish Line - The American Music Fairness Act aims to ensure artists and session musicians receive payment for sound recordings played on terrestrial radio, addressing e...
Energy Transition Absurdities

5 Big Energy Stories - 9.8.2026: Oil Traders Mysterious Re-Discover Volatility in the Middle East. Funny How That Works. - The trick to lowering gas prices is driving less, US energy secretary says - Yikes.
Armageddon Newsletter

News X World this morning: Russian strikes on Kiev resume - minutes 26 to 29.30
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 526 - Planning process - Along with fragmenting design and building teams, conventional construction takes place in a linear process. Planning (design, financing, and budgets) ...
Truth on the Market

Reserve Judgment: The FTC Takes on Amazon’s Ad Auctions - The price to beat in Amazon’s advertising auctions may not have come from another advertiser at all, according to a lawsuit filed Aug. 31 by the Federal ...
The Footy Almanac

Qualifying Final – Fremantle v Hawthorn: Fremantle has more to lose this week than last week - Dan Lonergan reports on Hawthorn's demolition of a disappointing Fremantle in the First Qualifying Final.
Brownstone Institute

FDA’s Botched Review of Moderna’s Flu mRNA Vaccine - FDA’s Botched Review of Moderna’s Flu mRNA Vaccine by Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute [image: FDA’s Botched Review of Moderna’s Flu mRNA Vaccine] ...
ChinaTalk

US-China Biorisk Cooperation: Yes, It’s Possible - The U.S. AI CEOs all want to screen dangerous biological orders. Coming to an agreement with China is the next step.
Changing Lanes

Solar Cars Don’t Make Sense - Put the panels on the roofs of buildings, not cars
Living Resources Center

The Problem With Leftism - The problem with Democrats — Communists — isn’t that they’re “extremists.” The problem is that they’re extremely WRONG. Extremely toxic. Extremely ignora...
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

What if We’re Already “Solving” Alignment? - It’s a process, not an endpoint
Yascha Mounk

Sarah Longwell on How Democrats Can Defeat Trump - Yascha Mounk and Sarah Longwell discuss why the pro-democracy coalition keeps losing the narrative war—and how it can fight back.
Slow Boring

There’s an awful lot we don’t know about data centers - An un-splainer about the issue of the moment
Law & Liberty

The Advantage of the Stronger - More is at stake in the US-Canada trade war than just tariffs and revenue.
AAS Economics (Frank Shostak)

The Ups and Downs of US Bank Lending - As students of money creation and destruction will know, not all bank lending inflates the money supply.
Retraction Watch

Editors of higher education journal coauthor editorial with fake references - Taylor & Francis is investigating an article in one of its journals after the editors published an editorial about academic freedom that contains multiple ...
Eat More Electrons

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

We should stop using the terms “capitalism” and “capitalist” - On his Substack, Lorenzo Warby returns to the issue of how we describe the (theoretical) predominant economic system by which the west has risen to wealth ...
Tim Worstall

Alt-history thrives - This is what neoliberalism chose to do. For those old enough to remember, the plan was clear from the start. When Thatcher reached office in 1979, her fi...
Mises Wire

The Real Elites vs. The Ruling Elites - Those who become "elites" through the initiation of violence, and through the looting of others, have always been frauds and imposters.
Everyday Price Index | AIER

The Right’s Long March Toward Illiberalism - Several years ago, at a Philadelphia Society meeting, a friend approached me. He identified as a national conservative and believed that the Right needed...
American Institute of Economic Research

The Right’s Long March Toward Illiberalism - Several years ago, at a Philadelphia Society meeting, a friend approached me. He identified as a national conservative and believed that the Right needed...
The Curmudgeon

Regrettable But Necessary - In history's tomb are not laid Old England's traditions of trade; And thus when we force The wog from our shores, There's yet some exchange to be made. Our...
Existential Crunch

Learning about collapse from novels - Reviews, rankings and recommendations
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...
Mises Institute Blog

A Comment on Profligacy and the Rationing of Utilities - When government regulates or produces electricity, it claims to act in the name of conservation, or preventing “profligacy” by customers. Yet, only free ma...
Hoover institution Commentary

The Fiscal Effect Of Expropriating Billionaire Wealth - A thought experiment finds that vast government spending would overwhelm even a complete confiscation.
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Why El-Sayed Won't Disavow Hasan Piker -
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

The Marcus Aurelius Quote He Never Wrote - One of Marcus Aurelius's most famous online quotes does not appear in the Meditations.
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

Preparing the Next Generation of Pennsylvania’s Workforce to Power Our Future - Every summer, I volunteer at a business camp for high school students in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. For nearly two decades, the parking lot outside our ho...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: How to Waste Your Morning - A slower way to start.
The Beauty of Things

Love’s Labor is Lost on Some - A positive reflection on negative comments about my poem in Nimrod. Why do we disagree on what is beautiful?
Brash & Mitchell

RODNEY HIDE: KiwiMart — The Great Leap Forward - The Greens have a plan for cheaper groceries. It’s called KiwiMart. Force Foodstuffs and Woolworths to sell 120 stores and a couple of warehouses into stat...
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Chelidonize -the chirping of swallows as they fly overhead; to sing or cry like a swallow.
The Logical Place

The Basis of the Duty of Care - The legal concept of a duty of care lies at the heart of the law of negligence. It is sometimes said that people have a duty to avoid being negligent, but ...
No Right Turn

Luxon is gaslighting us on climate change - Our CEO Prime Minister is very big on self-written KPIs, and has produced his usual quarterly bullshit report before the election. Given the state of thing...
Point of Order

Our hogwash test: yes, The Post can get things wrong, but it’s a stretch to say everything but the advertising is poppycock - Bob Edlin writes – Readers who respond to PoO posts may be disappointed sometimes to find their comments have been abridged or removed, usually because th...
The Daily Doom

Iran Picks up the Pace toward Armageddon - As the average price of Diesel in the US hit an all-time record high over the weekend and gasoline hit an historic high for any *Labor Day* weekend, Iran...
The Tracinski Letter

The Laws of Ideological Inertia - What I Learned Running for Office, Part 2
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #62: One Year Down. The Conversation Continues - A book begins with the author, but its impact depends on where the ideas travel
Stats Chat

Top 14 Predictions for Round 2 - Team Ratings for Round 2 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the r...
Flashbak

Friends and Lovers on the last Tube Home in the 1990s - “We’ve all been there. We can straight away relate to that space.” – Mark McEoy, riding the last Tube in the 1990s Before 2016, when the London Under...
Cremieux Recueil

America’s Bad Cities Are Costing You - Crime is making Americans much poorer
Greater Auckland

Let’s build resilience, reform government and reimagine our cities - The Post has been running a series of think-pieces on how to fix the country, and invited Greater Auckland director Matt Lowrie, among others, for an ide...
Dr Oliver Hartwich

Moscow wins east German elections - The recent Saxony-Anhalt election in Germany dramatically showcased political upheaval, with the far-right AfD nearing a majority, while traditional partie...
Dramatic Pause

Sneak Preview and an Ask: All You Had Was Fun - Kia ora y’all! If you’re getting this email, it’s because you’re a subscriber of this newsletter and one of the following: friend, supporter of me and my...
Quillette

Last Man Standing - Francis Fukuyama’s new memoir assesses an intellectual life devoted to the health of the liberal-democratic idea.
The Integrity Institute

News Briefing: 8 September 2026 - LABOUR’S POLLING
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Write Less, Live More - Easy vs. Hard
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

NYSERDA Admits Build-Ready Program Failure in Five-Year Review - I want to thank Alexandra Fasulo (@alex_fasulo on X) and Amy Lavine for finding NYSERDA’s just-released “Build-Ready Program Five-Year Review, October 2020...
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

When Activist Judges Were Conservatives (and outlawed the minimum wage) - LawNews
The Weekly Sift

Freakish Events - My worry is that this gets filed away as a freak event, when the same small river flooded 14 months earlier and nobody moved a gauge onto it. “Freak” is th...
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Perfect Film For Labor Day - Celebrate Labor Day by watching On the Waterfront, about a heroic few who stand alone against the corrupt bosses of a powerful union.
Jensen's Economic, Precious Metals, & Markets Newsletter

Risk Of Sudden Price Inflation Video Discussion, Price Inflation Tools, & A Distinct Example - Following are several items regarding today’s price inflation and the consequences of decades of currency inflation by central banks.
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

Is the New HIGH Climate Scenario Plausible? - Good news and bad news from a close look at the new CMIP7 scenarios
The Contrarian Capitalist

50% off for life. Last call Labor Day special! - Lock in 50% off for life on ANNUAL subscriptions.
Conversable Economist

The Latent Benefits of Work - Each year, the White House Council of Economic Advisers publishes the Economic Report of the President. The CEA is led by politically appointed academics...
Kunstler

Good Faith v. Bad Faith - “In conditions of mass democracy, the soft and the infantilising will be preferred over the hard and the necessary again and again.” —Eugyppius on X
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

I Accidentally Found My Real Father - Every child wants and deserves to know where they come from; including me
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

A Tale of Two Accused - Double Standards Help No One
Anthony B. Bradley

How to Raise a Son Who Is Boring and Unattractive to Women - Ten ways middle-class parents produce successful young men no one wants to talk to
Anthony B. Bradley

How to Raise a Son Who Is Boring and Unattractive to Women - Ten ways middle-class parents produce successful young men no one wants to talk to
The Roots of Liberty

Who Watches The Watchmen? - Firearm and 2A advocate Colion Noir recently shared a reel that questions the placement of ALPR (Automated License Plate Reader) cameras outside a gun range.
Knowledge Problem

Milder Mores: Tocqueville on Life Among Equals - Essay 12 in Reading Tocqueville at 250
Knowledge Problem

Milder Mores: Tocqueville on Life Among Equals - Essay 12 in Reading Tocqueville at 250
Real Clear Energy: Video

Why Natural Gas Will Be AI’s Next Great Shortage - Matt Smith joins us to explain why the United States may be approaching a historic natural gas shortage—and why the market is not yet pricing it in. After ...
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...
Liberty Scott

Who needs a Kiwimart, now here's the tricky part... - It's always quite something to see two politicians who have never risked any significant capital on a business in their lives, in this case Chloe Swarbri...
Thinking Directions

The Thinker Identity (Part 4) - I opened this series by asserting that the Thinker needs to develop certain characteristic ways of thinking: Decisive Essentialized Principled Creative V...
New Zealand Arts Review

The Art of Terry Stringer - Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples The Art of Terry Stringer Edited by Linda Tyler Massey University Press RRP $90.00 Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Terry String...
Outliving Iran

Outliving Iran: A Memoir (Part 3) - A fork in the road
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

Amazon is Polluted - And I'm not talking about a river in South America
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

1850s poems: Bayard Taylor, "Bedouin Song” - Part of a quick review of the 19th century, before we launch into the 20th.
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: The Most Common Way People Give Up Their Power Is by Thinking They Don’t Have Any - Alice Walker? Rhona Raskins? William Martin? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: People have more power than they believe, but they must be willin...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Men: How to cure yourself of women - St. Benedict (500s), according to St. Gregory: “Benedict fought valiantly to forget the woman ‘the memory of whom the wicked spirit put into his mind, and ...
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Some Status Games Are Worth Playing - The parable of the poor man’s son
bad cattitude

sunday meanpool - dark humor as the antidote for dark days
Conspicuous Cognition

GPT-6 Astra Reviews ‘The Social Roots of Delusions’ - There is currently much debate about how impressive frontier AI models really are and what role they can play in research, including in academic philosophy...
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

The Unfulfilled Promise of the Enlightenment - Why Colonialism and Nationalism Are Deviations From, Not Products Of, Enlightenment Ideals
MacleodFinance Substack

Carry trade carry-on - Since 2022, increasing amounts of US government debt have been funded by the yen carry trade. That is now ending, leading to a growing funding crisis.
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

New Zealand’s Polite Road to Stagnation - When communities care more about who is allowed to solve a problem than whether the problem gets solved, parochialism becomes a brake on the country.
O'Shannassy's Dispatches from Collapse

The Most Mismanaged State or Region In The West. And the Award Goes To… - 366 governments. Seven measures of failure. Who tops the Hall of Shame league table?
Manhattan Contrarian

The "Standing" Doctrine And The White House Ballroom Case - * Non-lawyer commenters at this site often express befuddlement at the doctrine in the federal courts known as “standing.” Where did that come from? * In p...
Michael Newberry, Artist

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Schiffradio.com

Bond Yields Just Hit a 2007 High… Every Buyer Became a Seller - Peter Schiff on the fake jobs beat, Trump's trade ultimatum, yields at 2007 highs, a 162% tariff bill, and why the Fed is the last buyer. The post Bond Y...
Andrew Whiteside

Opinion: Does life need a purpose? - I recently had a conversation with a friend who is about to be a grandmother for the first time. She confessed to me that now her son was married and abou...
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...
Skeptic

The Appeal of the Irrational: Pseudoscience, UFOs, Cults - It appears the more absurd the claim, or the more outrageous the demand, the more effective it is as a winnowing tool. One such absurd claim recently caugh...
The Economic LongWave

THE CURRENT ALLOCATION Asset Class Weight Function in the Model - Podcast
Sustain What

Experts Lay Out Paths to a Safer Future in the Unstable, Warming, Crowding Himalayas - Watch now | My Sustain What conversation with a scientist using satellites that sense ground motion and another just back from an on-scene assessment of th...
Glenn’s Substack

Another Burger Review - In which Wendy’s doesn’t live up to the hype.
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Re-Watching ‘Phantom Thread’ - Brutal people, gentle tools.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

Re-Watching ‘Phantom Thread’ - Brutal people, gentle tools.
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

Freedom’s Song: The Connection Between Artists and Birds - From medieval culture to modern times, the avian world has been a source of inspiration for great works
Construction Physics

Reading List - 09/05/2026 - SpaceX’s turbine blade factory, Fervo’s deal with Google, Delhi’s cheap metro, why recycling is overrated, and more.
Doomberg

Necessary Inventions - Energy pessimism as leading indicator of imminent breakthroughs.
PM of NZ

And they're off... - Gentlemen, start your engines! And maybe those other assorted genders, including those who do not know what a woman is, along with those who do not know...
JunkScience.com

Milloy talks nuclear power, biofuel and California waivers with Dagen McDowell on Fox Business - From the September 4, 2026 edition of The Bottom Line.
History Reclaimed

The National Trust’s distortion of history at Dyrham Park - The National Trust's depiction of British domestic and colonial history are both found wanting in permanent and temporary exhibitions at Dyrham Park, Glouc...
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

A week is a long time: 5 September 2026 - A New Zealand Politics weekly wrap-up
Chris Trotter

Everybody wants to go to heaven (but nobody wants to die). - The New Zealand state’s meagre fiscal diet is killing it.
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Top Top 70 Schools in NZ by University Entrance for Leavers - The school leavers data in NZ covers all of the students who begin the school year and leave the school during, or at the end of, the year.
Energy in Depth

NAS President Admits “Controversial” Climate Chapter Was Written by Authors Tied to Plaintiffs - For the first time since the National Academies of Sciences temporarily removed a controversial climate science chapter, its new president is publicly ad...
Free Range Kids

“Baking Helicopter Parenting into the Law” - My story about the mom found GUILTY of “contributing to the delinquency of a minor” because she let her 5-year-old walk around collecting feathers went v...
The Grumpy Economist

More on lower rates - This follows up my last post on lowering rates to lower inflation.
David Stockman's Contra Corner

America’s Trade Disaster: Bad Seed Of The Eccles Building Money-Printers - We won’t ask how those big, beautiful Trumpian tariffs are faring. Not after the July goods deficit posted at nearly $4 billion per DAY, which sums to a ...
Reason Foundation

Automated license plate readers require scrutiny—and due process - A response to Charles Fain Lehman’s “In Defense of Flock” article. The post Automated license plate readers require scrutiny—and due process appeared fi...
Gale Winds

Soap Abundance - Washing your hands has never been more affordable.
CO2 Coalition

Green Movement’s Selective Outrage Over ESA Reforms - By Vijay Jayaraj President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that his administration had returned the Endangered Species Act (ESA) “to how it was in...
Interintellect

Interintellect Hosts Wrote: Bruce Springsteen, AI, Ambition, Tragedy, Memory, Architecture, Desire, Innovation -- and Limericks - It is officially back-to-school weather, and I want to kick off this Interintellect season with a recap of the freshest pieces written by our hosts, guests...
Libertarian Land

High-Skilled Immigration Improves Economic Performance - Pro-natalists believe that falling birthrates are priming countries for economic collapse.
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.
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

PERC Interns: In Their Own Words - This summer, PERC hosted six remarkable interns at our headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. The post PERC Interns: In Their Own Words appeared first on PERC.
Public Lands – PERC

PERC Interns: In Their Own Words - This summer, PERC hosted six remarkable interns at our headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. The post PERC Interns: In Their Own Words appeared first on PERC.
Wildlife – PERC

PERC Interns: In Their Own Words - This summer, PERC hosted six remarkable interns at our headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. The post PERC Interns: In Their Own Words appeared first on PERC.
Private Lands – PERC

Conservation Takes the Main Stage at Wildlands - Inside PERC's weekend as lead conservation beneficiary at the Sixth Annual Wildlands The post Conservation Takes the Main Stage at Wildlands appeared fir...
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

9/11—25 Years Later: Objectivism, Islamic Totalitarianism, and America’s Crisis of Ideas - 25 Years Since 9/11, ARI Reflects on the Legacy of the Attacks
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

AMA: Start of the 2026 Academic Year - Here’s the video for last week’s AMA. I cut out the first seven minutes where the orientation was wrong. Sorry, it won’t happen again.
Doug Casey's International Man

The Bond Market Is Repricing America’s Debt—Here’s How Investors Should Prepare - Rising Treasury yields are forcing investors to confront the accelerating cost of America’s debt—and the growing case for gold as the system comes under ...
Journal of Free Black Thought

“Race Communism” or Racial Uplift? - Reflections on Helen Andrews’ essay, the “racial crossroads”
Journal of Free Black Thought

“Race Communism” or Racial Uplift? - Reflections on Helen Andrews’ essay, the “racial crossroads”
Macroscience

What We’ve Been Reading, Vol. 2 - Your back to school reading list from the IFP metascience team.
Notes On Liberty

The Rebel Realist: My Arctic and Realist Journeys Converge - For decades, the high priests of the Arctic establishment—the tenured mandarins, the deep-state bureaucrats, and the military-industrial gatekeepers—have p...
The Future of Being Human

Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 as an original scholar, and more insights into AI as a primary author - My latest deep dive into using frontier AI models to research and write scholarly papers — this time with the just-released Fable 5.1 model from Anthropic
Cranmer’s Substack

COVID: OFF-LABEL - The Ministry Responds - The Ministry has now confirmed the central point of my article: section 34A enabled off-label COVID vaccination without an individual prescription.
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
The Rebuild

Why Back-to-School Shopping Got Pricey - JD Vance’s Toaster Boy Economics in Action
Eating Policy

The Crisis We've Been Waiting For - It's time for government to move fast and build things
Uncharted Territories

Weapons of Mosquito Destruction - We Can Already Eradicate Mosquitoes If We Want. Why Don’t We?
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

Why You Still Can't Pump Your Own Gas in New Jersey - It’s a sad state of affairs that in the Land of the Free, Americans are still fighting for the freedom to pump gas.
An Africanist Perspective

Book Review 4/26: A Man of the World: Tom Mboya, the Cold War and Decolonization in Kenya (by Daniel Branch) - The political life of one of Kenya’s most brilliant politicians & policymakers; and lessons on leadership in Africa
The Common Reader

Finding Emily - Oh my god I loved this film.
Tross Publishing

THE FRAUD OF FEMINISM - By Ron Asher Modern New Zealand is based on certain truths but also on an increasing number of lies, e.g. the Treaty of Waitangi was a "partnership" (no,...
Stewart Margolis

What Constitutes Support? - I was hosting a podcast recently when the question arose of what constitutes support.
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Just bury your trash - What if everything we know about recycling is wrong?
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

Travel Guide #15: The New South and Smoky Mountains - Listen now | A road trip through TN, NC, and GA via Great Smoky Mountains National Park (20 min, 20 photos)
The War on Prices

The Scottish Government’s Accidental Tribute to Market Prices - The Scottish Government has just published a consultation on a proposal to introduce legal price caps for “essential” food items, such as bread, milk and e...
The Library of Celaeno

War Plan Reddish-Orange Man - Is The Liberation of Canada at Hand?
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for August, 2026: +0.68 deg. C - The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for August, 2026 was +0.68 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, up from the...
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: August 2026 - August is normally a quiet month in DC, since Congress is away on recess.
Autonomia

This and That - September’s calendar, DSA alert, movies, books, romantic realism in action, new courses, thoughts on Tim Curry, Dolly Parton, Tim Cook
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

RENOWNED IRISH RAP GROUP KNEECAP RETURN TO AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND FEBRUARY - Irish rap renegades KNEECAP today announce their return to New Zealand for two dates in February 2027, as part of a worldwide tour revealed to fans yeste...
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

If our politicians care about affordability, they will pass permitting reform - The #1 election issue in America this year is affordability. The #1 thing this Congress can do for affordability is pass permitting reform.
McFaul's World

August 2026: Trump’s Trade Wars, Venezuela, and an Unforgettable Vacation - Reflections from a month spent at home and abroad
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

The Internet Killed the Scene - A movement that cannot decide what it is will eventually be defined by whoever packages it best.
Ruxandra’s Substack

Curing cancer won’t redeem AI - Fears around AI are about loss of human agency and purpose. Curing cancer won’t fix that.
Risk & Progress

A Job-Free Future - Reframing the technological unemployment debate
A Havenstein Moment.

War Plan Red - It’s all one trade
Tim’s Substack

Semper Fi - Why do men revere an institution that failed them?
Fictionosophy

Children of Time on the Future of the Human Race - Children of Time is a fascinating work of sci-fi examining a variety of issues, including powerlust versus leadership, progress versus conflict, dogma vers...
Johnny Grey Studios

Late Summer Newsletter 2026 - FT Weekend festival 5 September 2026 Dear friends If you’re in or near London this weekend how about visiting the UK’s cleverest festival, in Hampstead (of...
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: Aztecs, by Inga Clendinnen - Aztecs: An Interpretation, Inga Clendinnen (Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Market Urbanism

The 5% problem: Can human and automated drivers coexist? - Andrew Miller at Changing Lanes recently re-posted his 2025 article, “The 50% problem.” He’s positively inclined toward self-driving cars, but recognizes t...
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...
The Shrewd Artist

Art History as a Sandbox - Only a Handful of Monumental Art Cycles
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Art History as a Sandbox - Only a Handful of Monumental Art Cycles
HardmoneyJim

Where does the money in your bank account come from? We used to know the answer. - BUT THEN WE LOST THIS KNOWLEDGE, LEAVING A “BLACK HOLE” IN THE SCIENCE OF ECONOMICS
Equal to Reality

Their Phantom Liberty - If a King cannot leave, he is never free, however gilded the cage that holds him is.
Lindsay Mitchell

Hipkins' play for the Maori seats - Yesterday Labour promised to reinstate the Maori Trades and Training Fund (MTTF) at a cost of $21 million annually. The fund was initially set up as part...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

The 7K Q&A: Kete Diplomacy, Wedding Bells, and the Mechanics of Sovereign Debt - Post Wedding & Honeymoon Recap + I answer why Countries borrow in Foreign Currency
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

Politicizing everything, accomplishing nothing - There are consequences for letting the personal get too political.
Freedom and Flourishing

Henry B. Veatch’s Neo-Aristotelian Defense of Reality, Reason, and Rights - *This is a guest essay by Dr Edward W. Younkins, Professor of Accountancy and Business at Wheeling* *University, and Executive Director of its Institu...
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

Making Sense of Lancaster County’s Controversial Coroner - Did a newborn infant in Lancaster County die from measles? The PA Department of Health said yes. The coroner said no. Who was right?
The Future of Freedom Foundation

FFF’s Fantastic New Book - I am pleased to announce the publication of The Future of Freedom Foundation’s newest book, which is undoubtedly the finest book we have published in our...
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
The Many Ways I Let You Down

Goodnight, Sweet Transvestite, and Flights of Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest - What makes Frank-N-Furter one of the most masculine characters in cinema?
Capitalism Magazine

Jeff Bezos Earned His Amazon Fortune - The Amazon founder’s innovations save customers 22 hours a year on average, giving them the gift of time.
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Immigrants Are 24% Less Likely to Be Disabled Than US-Born Citizens - Immigrants, legal and illegal, are less likely to be disabled at nearly every age — and even when they are, they lean on disability benefits less than US-b...
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

Immigrants Are 24% Less Likely to Be Disabled Than US-Born Citizens - Immigrants, legal and illegal, are less likely to be disabled at nearly every age — and even when they are, they lean on disability benefits less than US-b...
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...
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

Vinay Interview! Telling the Truth from His Time INSIDE the FDA >> “They changed the report.” - Vinay Prasad ran the FDA center that regulates vaccines until April. In a new Reason interview he says children died of myocarditis from the COVID vaccine,...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

The AI Illusion: America's Magic Bubble - In a lot of ways it was inevitable America and its Capital region of Israel would become the powers obsessed with Artificial Intelligence…
Kiwipolitico

Some recent social media snippets (mine). - A few years ago former KP colleague Lew decamped for more fertile writing territory and to attend to more important priorities. To my surprise he began pos...
Let Grow

A “Hot Mess”of a Middle School And the Principal Who Pulled Off an Attendance Miracle - [image: LG_BLOG_image_middle School Mess] Nine years ago, Liberty Middle School in Pickens County, South Carolina, had so many kids held back year after ye...
On Substack

New on Substack: Creator match, audience-specific content blocks, global reply rules, advanced podcast transcript editing, and more - Reach new subscribers, deepen relationships with the ones you have, and build a more sustainable business around your work
Maximum Progress

Contra Weisenthal on Highways - Does it matter whether building more houses lowers prices not?
Science+Story

The Missing Ingredient in Expert Trust - Your public value as an expert increasingly lies in helping people make good decisions. Especially when nobody knows the answer.
Reason for Living

The Object of Our Emotions Is Not Necessarily Their Cause - To be objective about our emotions and overcome bouts of depression, anger, or indulgence, it can help to focus on the state we’re in and not assume the ob...
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...
A life just as ordinary

The Ace of Lace - Ace of Lace If you’ve spent any time sitting at a high table in a good local taproom over the last few years, staring down at an empty Nonic pint glass, yo...
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.”
Wright in Racine

Chasing a Racine Wright Rainbow - © Mark Hertzberg (2026) The sun was shining when we went to dinner with our grandchildren. It was sunny when we left the restaurant but the pavement and th...
The Intrinsic Perspective

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

When Smaller Models Win - Chess, LoRA, and the case for specialized AI
Africa-Israel Weekly

Qatar is Targeting the Black Community: Why? And why now? - Check out our articles to learn more:
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 ...
The Trumpland Diary

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

Claude is now smarter than me - An amazing conversation with my favorite AI agent
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

Three Years Later - On the approaching anniversary of my father's death
Mike’s Substack

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

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

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

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

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

Does Early Access to Social Media Harm Later Learning? New Evidence from Italy - Students who got social media accounts by age 12 progressed less than those who waited until age 14
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 ...
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learning to Meet People Where They Are - Lots of group chats I am part of consist of Brazilian people.
Croaking Cassandra

Yet more “pretty (il)legal” stuff from the Reserve Bank - A month or so ago the Reserve Bank announced the appointment of a new Assistant Governor (a deputy chief executive) responsible for its financial stability...
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 ...
What You Can Do For Liberty

UPDATE: Top 25 Liberty Events and Conferences in 2026-2027 - Want to make new friends, learn about liberty, and network with pro-liberty thinkers?
News - Democracy Action

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

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

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

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

How Ukraine Built a War Fighting State - The engine is revving after years of war.
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 -
Butterpaper

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kenya Wants to Sell Your Data. But It’s Complicated. - The headline is scarier than the policy. The policy is still worth worrying about.
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...
The Realization of Wholeness

Varieties of Dualism, Part Five - "I am my feelings"
Martini Mandate

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Farmville - The Autonomous Future of Agriculture
No Punches Pulled

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

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

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

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

LLMs and the Nature of Honest Authorship - Editing is not authoring.
Stories by Rudi Edsall on Medium

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writings hosted elsewhere - The Breakthrough Institute Interactive Brokers Campus
BloodhoundBlog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Genesis -
Power + Market

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1828 – Championing Freedom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Making the UN Global Goals A Reality: Why Trade, Enterprise & Weather Intelligence Matters - The UN General Assembly is this month marking 75 years since it came into being — 75 years of international cooperation, dialogue and work for developmen...
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...
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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...
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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 ...
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Willing and Eager Subjects in Training - Obama recently cautioned a group of graduating college kids that some of the arguments flowing to them via their "iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStatio...
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