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Zero Hanger

Collingwood talisman Nick Daicos breaks historic AFL record, with games in hand - In another feather for his black and white cap, the son of a gun has surpassed a benchmark set by Dustin Martin.
Quotulatiousness

Biosphere 2 - Sama Hoole on a now-obscure experiment in the early 1990s which didn’t produce the expected results at all: Eight people sealed themselves in a glass dome ...
Tim Worstall

Not really, no - Lord Horam, MP who represented Labour, the SDP and the Conservatives in the House of Commons He represented Gateshead West and Orpington – serially, not ...
Watts Up With That?

ECMWF Models Throwing Cold Water on Extreme Germany Heat Wave Forecast Next Week - Recent Germany forecasts of “never seen before heat” coming next week are already fizzling out. Of course there’s going to be some hot weather next week,...
The Tracinski Letter

Things That Will Go in a Museum Someday - A News Link Round-Up
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: A Simple Life, Fully Lived - Contentment doesn’t require much.
No Minister

Lindsay Mitchell On National Continuing To Be Labour Lite. - From The Brash and Mitchell Blog. What can I say but, agree with Lindsay that National’s Parental Leave announcement yesterday is nothing more than Nationa...
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Traduction – he act or an instance of traducing; specifically an act of defaming; defamation, slander; the repetition of a word or one of its derivatives o...
Kiwiblog

Two Good Indicators and Two VERY bad indicators for NZ Children and Young People - The Good 1. There has been a positive and statistically significant improvement in full school attendance for Term 2 2026 compared to the previous 10 yea...
The Integrity Institute

Democracy Briefing: Have the Greens turned a corner? - Chlöe Swarbrick had an unusual message for Green Party members at the weekend: stop talking only to people who already agree with you.
The Footy Almanac

Almanac Teams: Wooden spoon to Premiership - From boiled lollies to chocolates...Rodney Boyd shares his team of the players who have experienced the lowest of lows and gone on to achieve the highest o...
The Free Press

Here Comes ‘Death by AI’ - We are getting uncomfortably close to the moment when an AI agent will be capable of evading or eliminating the humans standing in the way of the job it se...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

A populist ACT - There is insufficient support for neoliberal economic policies so political parties of the hard right are adopting populist causes. To succeed the neoliber...
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...
UnHerd

Trump’s tariff addiction - Can Europe survive another hit?
The Daily Doom

THE DEEPER DIVE: Even after the Fed's New Rigging, Inflation is Going to Get Hotter and Hotter for Months to Come - The Fed's new boss has found a new way to cook the books to make prices LOOK a little nicer for you, but take a deeper look at the real forces from another...
Brash & Mitchell

LINDSAY MITCHELL: National are not promising you anything except other people's money - National are not promising you anything except other people's money. The latest example, having historically opposed Paid Parental Leave, they are now prom...
The Double Standard

The Greens in their own words - The co-leader speeches at the AGM, and the new policy of a 1 year moratorium on AI data centres.
Breaking Views

Damien Grant: New Zealand First is important, but it is not, yet, serious - Dear reader. Last weekend I went to the New Zealand First conference and election launch at the Due Drop Events Centre in Manukau. You know the one. It is ...
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day – chance and its consequences - Xerox PARC invented the graphical interface, the mouse, and networked computing, and gave the ideas away almost by accident to visitors from Apple and Mi...
Lindsay Mitchell

National are not promising you anything except other people's money - National are not promising you anything except other people's money. The latest example, having historically opposed Paid Parental Leave, they are no...
Point of Order

No to blasphemy laws: people have rights, religions do not - The long campaign to criminalise criticism of Islam continues to demand blasphemy laws. The Law Commission Hara ngākau kino | Review of hate crime law has ...
Principled Perspectives

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

Simply the Best? - Qualifying for Parliament
Offsetting Behaviour

Geloso on how to think like a good economist - I really like Vincent Geloso's slide deck on market processes, market failures, and government failures. Over the past couple of months, Claude read thro...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

At some stage you are going to have to acknowledge the Super El Niño peaking over NZ - There is such a crazy disconnect between this Government’s position on climate change and the reality that is about to...
The UnPopulist

Dismantling the Legacies of Illiberalism Haunting the US: Zooming In With Jamelle Bouie, David French, Danielle Allen - Watch now | 'Is a utopian liberalism possible'? A LibCon2026 podcast
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Automobile of peace attack on Berlin pride parade claims one life, injures dozens - The prime suspect, Abdul Ballout, was shot to death by police this evening
AAS Economics (Frank Shostak)

GOLD: Time to Review Positioning - Monetary dynamics point the way
Slow Boring

Sunday Thread + Mailbag - Ask your questions below.
JoNova

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IPWatchdog Articles

The Trophy-Sharing Cartel: How Europe’s Digital Markets Act Turns Google’s IP into a Public Utility - Alden Abbott recently captured Europe’s digital-policy contradiction with a memorable image: Brussels says it wants technology champions, but when a cham...
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

Anthony Fauci's Attention Ledger - Anthony Fauci kept a personal daily diary. In it he logged every award, every piece of Fauci-branded merch, and every celebrity moment that came his way.
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Christopher Nolan’s Ancient Greek Hero Is Suspiciously Modern - Review of "The Odyssey" (2026)
The Curmudgeon

The Likelier Culprit - Even as the mainland swelters, some seventy million subjects of a more upstart royalty are in for their third major heatwave of the month. As the elevated ...
Living Resources Center

The Tough Truth About Iran - Here’s the problem with bombing Iran bit by bit. The regime doesn’t care. Iran is not a free country. It’s already a totalitarian hellhole. Citizens of I...
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

Summertime - Mark tells the story of one of the most recorded songs of the last hundred years...
Why Evolution Is True

Readers’ wildlife photos - We are in dire need of wildlife photos, so if you have some good ones, please send them in. Today we have the sixth and last installment of Ephraim Heller’...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Britain’s battery boom ‘risks overwhelming the grid’ - By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby The plans of mice and men! From the Telegraph: The thousands of batteries being deployed to stabilise Britain’s ...
Futurism

Man Accused of Horrific Crimes Caught Hiding as Pharma Executive - "I have long been carefully planning a good, safe, secure and comfortable life." The post Man Accused of Horrific Crimes Caught Hiding as Pharma Executiv...
Why not reason?

Election is Coming - Blue Avoider: Election is coming!
bad cattitude

sunday meanpool: aging with grace - getting old is not for the weak
Spiked Online

The horrifying inevitability of the Berlin Pride atrocity - The post The horrifying inevitability of the Berlin Pride atrocity appeared first on spiked.
The Inquiring Mind

Classic Aussie Crime Drama: Blue Heelers – #110 – S03E24 – Mind Games - From Wikipedia Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series that was produced by Southern Star Group and ran for 12 years on the Seven Network, from 1...
ChinaTalk

WarTalk: Ancient Greece Edition - Thucydides Trap, 300, and what the classics actually say about war
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Chartbook 461: Polycrisis & nostalgia for lost futures. - There are few things that generate nostalgia quite like a lost future.
The Roots of Liberty

Presumption - Every day, I see fresh attacks on free markets and capitalism peppering my social media feeds.
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

Why Compulsory National Service is Morally Indefensible - Calls for conscription are anti-American as they violate individual rights—your rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
O'Shannassy's Dispatches from Collapse

Were the Byzantines Given a Bad Rap? - Move Aside Warsh. They Created a Seven Hundred Year Stable Currency Regime.
Hoover institution Commentary

2026 Issue 28 -
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

The perils of these international law things - Apparently Saudi Arabia desires civilian nuclear reactors and a uranium enrichment plant. Under one reading - and it’s a valid one, even the correct one ...
Schiffradio.com

Japan Is About to Pop the Biggest Bubble in History… And It Takes Us With It - The yen just hit a 40-year low and Japan is trapped. Whether they hike or freeze, it ends the same way: the pin that pricks our bubble. The post Japan Is...
Notes On Liberty

My Arctic Journey, Part 7: Historical Manifestations and Structural Taxonomy of Constructive Realism. - To see how my subcomponents manifest across time, it helps to view human history as an ongoing cycle of these three forces. When a political system brings ...
Marginal Revolution

The common sense of Fareed Zakaria - This is one of the best Op-Eds you will read this year, though it deliberately deemphasizes the personal (no one is attacked) in a manner that will resul...
New Zealand Arts Review

Madama Butterfly: a triumph of singing, acting and design - Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini Producer & Stage Director Antony Ernst ConductorGiordano Bellincampi NZ Opera Freemasons ...
The Logical Place

Entryism: The Subversion of Political Parties from Within - Entryism is objectionable not because it advances left-wing or right-wing ideas, but because it seeks political power under a partially false identity. Ins...
SkyscraperCity Forum

ROCHA | Aeropuerto Internacional de Rocha | s/d - [image: Image] Ubicación: Padrones # 69.929 y 69.930 de Rocha, sobre Ruta 10 en intersección con Camino al Caracol Google Maps "La empresa Aeropuerto...
Andrew Whiteside

Opera Review: Madama Butterfly - Auckland Philharmonia’s most recent operatic performance was Madama Butterfly a three-act piece composed by Giacomo Puccini and set in the city of Nagasaki...
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

No to Blasphemy Laws: people have rights, religions do not - The long campaign to criminalise criticism of Islam continues to demand blasphemy laws
Brownstone Institute

The Diaries of Anthony Fauci: 2020-2022 - The Diaries of Anthony Fauci: 2020-2022 by Brownstone Institute at Brownstone Institute [image: The Diaries of Anthony Fauci: 2020-2021] On the afternoon...
The Trichordist

Fans Left Empty-Handed and Texas Attorney General Launches StubHub “Ghost Ticket” Investigation - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating StubHub due to numerous fan complaints about undelivered or canceled FIFA World Cup tickets, highlightin...
Chris Trotter

Defending New Zealand. - Do we still love our country enough to fight for it?
Techdirt

This Week In Techdirt History: July 19th – 25th - This Week in 2016 This Week in 2011 This Week in 2006
DGMLive

Toyah & Robert's Weekend -
The New York Review of Books

All of Life - In the Review’s June 25 issue, Joe Dunthorne writes about a recent oral history of the New York School poets and poses himself a challenge: “How to analyze...
Thinking Directions

The Vision of Essentialism - I recently reread Essentialism by Greg McKeown, a book I recommended in 2019. This bestseller encourages you to do “less but better.” I liked the book on...
The Beauty of Things

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

Reading List 07/25/26 - China’s EV subsidies, the future of aeroderivative gas turbines, a US-Saudi nuclear deal, defective roadway guardrails, and more.
John D. Cook

Excel column numbering - I was working with a wide spreadsheet from a client the other day and I had to convert between Excel column labels and column numbers. I had never paid a...
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

The Twin Crises of the Democratic Elites - How 2016 and 2024 explain where we are
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

“In any war, don’t let your enemies take your weapons away from you” - “That was Stephen Hicks’s warning to students at Galt’s Gulch 2026, our annual student conference held this summer in San Diego. A Senior Scholar at The At...
The Common Reader

Elizabeth Bowen: as good as Henry James - Tessa Hadley in the Times
Asimov’s Addendum

Differentiation and personality in AI models - Thoughts on model "culture" as a kind of lock-in
Energy Transition Absurdities

When OPEC+ Quotas Don’t Matter Anymore - Lost in much of the discussion about the current global deficit of crude oil is a new reality that had been brewing for some time even before the Iran Conf...
Mises Wire

How Much Inequality Is There? Depends on How It’s Measured - For many years, some economists and politicians have painted income equality as a major threat to our economy and well-being. As usual, they understand nei...
Mises Institute Blog

How Much Inequality Is There? Depends on How It’s Measured - For many years, some economists and politicians have painted income equality as a major threat to our economy and well-being. As usual, they understand nei...
Curbed - All

Wake Up and Smell the Pine Trees - Loring McAlpin lost his view in Noho and gained a garden.
Flashbak

American Odyssey by Mary Ellen Mark, 1999 - “You can find everything in this country, anything goes, and anything can happen” – Mary Ellen Mark, American Odyssey For availability & more details...
Uncharted Territories

Energy & Environment Dispatch - Summer 2026
Yascha Mounk

The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: His Life and Ideas - Francis Fukuyama discusses the experiences and individuals that shaped him.
Persuasion

The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: His Life and Ideas - Francis Fukuyama discusses the experiences and individuals that shaped him.
Retraction Watch

Weekend reads: Young girl’s death after gene therapy never made public; FDA retracts lettuce test result; ADA delays editorial publication after controversy - If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news...
ROBERT FRIPP

The work speaks for itself... - Words 71 · RF@80 Series.
Quillette

Claire's Weekly Letter: Hormuz and Homer -
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

Are You Using Stoicism to Numb Out? | with Erick Cloward - Stoicism is meant to help you master your emotions.
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Trump Helps Saudi Arabia Go Nuclear -
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...
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Cool Your Jets, Secy Bessent—The Chicoms Are Mainly Conventional Competitors, Not IP Thieves - Click on Title to Read
Marcus on AI

An open letter to David Sacks - China is closing the gap, but it’s not because we have too much regulation on AI
Freedom and Flourishing

Is Ayn Rand’s Philosophy Consistent with Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics? - *This is a guest essay by Dr Edward W. Younkins, Professor of Accountancy and Business at WheelingUniversity, and Executive Director of its Institute ...
Cato at Liberty

The Bond Market Is Not Addicted to the Tariff Revenue Side Hustle - The bond market is not addicted to tariffs. It is worried about whether the United States can manage its fiscal position. And with or without tariffs, the ...
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

The world in a tomato – or what a Greek salad tells us about globalisation and culture - The Long Read
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

Comparing the House and Senate Price Transparency in Healthcare Bills - Among the priority bills the health committees are readying are those addressing healthcare price transparency requirements. Passage of the strongest pos...
Paul Wells

The summer reading club 2026 - A bookstore owner, a Delacourt, your host the music geek, and Shannon Proudfoot on this summer's books and some memorable books from all the summers gone by
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

My Gripe with LeBron James - Am I the only person who feels this way?
FIRE

Shiloh Hendrix’s conviction can’t be squared with the First Amendment - However much offense words cause, that does not justify the government imprisoning, fining, or otherwise punishing the speaker.
ArchDaily

Lomadas House / Grizzo Studio - Casa Lomadas is set on a double plot opening onto more than one hundred meters of lagoon shoreline. The project is defined by a precise morphological ope...
McFaul's World

The Drone Revolution: How Ukraine Is Changing Modern Warfare (video) - A conversation with Caterina Buchatskiy, Director of Analytics at the Snake Island Institute, one of Ukraine's leading defense and security think tanks.
Sustain What

For Those Who Work the Sea (and Those Who Don't Return) - Watch now | My new song, "For Those Who Put to Sea," honors men and women who harvest the ocean's bounty and is sung in memory of those who sometimes don't...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Judges Can Void a Tariff. They Can't Rebuild Our Reputation. - The Trump administration finalized new Section 301 tariffs on dozens of trading partners, ranging from 10 to 12.5 percent, perfectly timed to take effect...
American Institute of Economic Research

Judges Can Void a Tariff. They Can't Rebuild Our Reputation. - The Trump administration finalized new Section 301 tariffs on dozens of trading partners, ranging from 10 to 12.5 percent, perfectly timed to take effect...
David Stockman's Contra Corner

The Mighty Orange Casey Strikes Out - Trumpety’s prime-time address Thursday night presented newly declassified intelligence, claiming it was powerful evidence of deep vulnerabilities and for...
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Premium: The Hater’s Guide To Oracle (Part 2) - *Good morning premium subscribers! As ever, please ping me at ez@betteroffline.com if you have any questions.* ------------------------------ Oracle has ...
Real Clear Energy

Oil Pulls Back Below $90 - Trading Economics
Gale Winds

Abundance Capitalism vs. Scarcity Socialism - What's really making things less affordable?
On Substack

How writers are reacting to Substack’s AI transparency tools - Honest conversation, the first wave of “How I make this” statements, and an upcoming series on how publishers are using and feeling about AI
Institute for Energy Research

Houthis Attack Saudi Oil Tankers in the Red Sea - The price of Brent crude oil, the international benchmark, rose to almost $99 a barrel after Iran’s Houthi allies in… The post Houthis Attack Saudi Oil T...
The War on Prices

Ordinary Americans Aren’t Hipster Antitrusters - Evidence from a new working paper
Official Blog

A recap of our second 2026 hiding theme: hiking and nature - We continued the 2026 hiding themes by celebrating geocaches that make the most of the great outdoors. Hiking and nature highlighted geocaches hidden along...
Energy in Depth

Despite Activist “Coup”, NAS Admits Climate Attribution Has “Significant Challenges” - The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) has released a major report on climate attribution science that acknowledges that the...
Astral Codex Ten

Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan - Finalist #3 in the Book Review Contest
Conversable Economist

Occupational Licensing: US and International - The potential benefit of having the government require that certain jobs require an official license is quality control and protection. Personally, I rat...
The Intrinsic Perspective

Goodbye Slopstack! Also, a $50,000 essay/fiction contest, adversarial consciousness tech, & more - Desiderata #41
Gus Van Horn

Four Wins - *A Friday Hodgepodge* *Editor's Note: I'm taking a blogging break next week, although I plan to post on X/Twitter now and then in the meantime. I'll resume...
The Breakthrough Journal

U.S. Wildfire Mitigation Funding Hit New Highs in 2024, Now What? - We Need More Than Just Funding to Reduce Catastrophic Wildfires
American Energy Alliance

Europe’s Climate Hysteria Creating Financial Woes For Working Families - The European Union (EU) is planning to adopt guidelines to delay penalties on energy imports that do not comply with the bloc’s methane emissions regulat...
CO2 Coalition

EU’s Pretense of ‘Transition’ Leadership Is an Economic Loser - By Samuel Furfari An Energy Institute report reveals a Europe clinging to the pretense of leading an “energy transition” as the continent declines under ...
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Are miracle drugs hiding in plain sight? - Watch now | GLP-1 drugs have transformed the treatment of obesity and diabetes, and also help with heart disease, kidney disease and sleep apnea. But they ...
Middle East Uncovered

Joseph Aoun Won Warm Words in Washington. Now Comes the Hard Part. - The Lebanese president understood that Trump responds less to moral appeals than to opportunities. He presented Lebanon's sovereignty as both a strategic i...
Kunstler

Struggle Session - “. . .there is no saving the Left. There is only saving America from them.” — Sasha Stone
Doug Casey's International Man

Erdogan’s Ottoman Gambit: Turkey Prepares for a New Regional Order - Turkey is shedding its Western alignment, deepening ties with Russia, courting global capital, and positioning itself for a new regional order. The post ...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Interview with Scott Holleran on TWA Flight 800: Part Three - Scott Remembers His and Others’ Writing and Thinking About the Disaster as Well as the Best Way to Honor Those Who Died
Sawahil

West Africa, Horn, MENA: Links for 7/24/2026 - News and analysis from Dakar to Riyadh.
Reason Foundation

The third-party doctrine is dying. Government surveillance is not - The strongest privacy protection, it turns out, isn't a warrant: It's when our data is never collected into a single vault. The post The third-party doc...
Law & Liberty

There’s No Place Like Home - Departing from his anti-liberal jeremiads, Patrick Deneen mines cultural insights from the *Odyssey*.
EconLog

What if Canada Did an IPO? - Can a private company be worth more than Canada’s entire economy? Some people seem to think so. Every so often, a superstar company, usually in the tech ...
GeekPress

Gold Is Not Inert - *"Gold isn't inert*, it just has bodyguards protecting it". (Via H.R.)
Kiwipolitico

The Liberal Internationalist Delusion. - Now that the football World Cup is over and I have sated my thirst for the beautiful game for the time being, albeit with a very bitter ending to the tourn...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

Renewables ‘Can’t Keep Up’ With Data Center Pace. As Usual, the Left Wants Government to Step In. - This article was originally published at The Empowerment Alliance and is re-published here with permission. The political left is worried that the rapid e...
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: (Multilayer Perceptrons) Our Intuitive Judgment That the Extension Is Sterile - Marvin Minsky? Seymour Papert? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: The remarkable breakthroughs in artificial intelligence in the twenty-first cen...
Manhattan Contrarian

Yet Another Embarrassment From The National Academy Of Pseudoscience - In my own professional life, I was not a scientist, and therefore I never much paid attention to the kinds of rewards and honors that practicing scientists...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Two Good Indicators and Two VERY bad indicators for NZ Children and Young People - The Good
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

My bet on American intellectual life: Joel Miller interviews me - On world-building, Interintellect, AI, taste, the humanities, canons, and Hungarian literature -- and why it is time to build culture.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

My bet on American intellectual life: Joel Miller interviews me - On world-building, Interintellect, AI, taste, the humanities, canons, and Hungarian literature -- and why it is time to build culture.
Greater Auckland

Weekly Roundup 24-July-2026 - It’s Friday again, and here we are with our roundup of the week’s most intriguing stories cities and transport. Enjoy! This Week in Greater Auckland On ...
Macroscience

Science Agencies Need Metascience Units - How federal science agencies can cultivate breakthroughs by experimenting on themselves.
The Library of Celaeno

The Working Class White Democrat of the Future - Graham Platner and Ashley J. Webb: Lessons Learned
Israel Institute of NZ

Part 2 — How Antizionism Became Global - Introduction: From Ideology to Infrastructure By the mid-20th century, antizionism had moved beyond theory. What had existed as strands of ideological oppo...
One Useful Thing

An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff - The Summer 2026 Edition
Truth on the Market

Open Models, Closed Minds: AI Policy Keeps Regulating the Wrong Thing - Artificial intelligence has found a new way to make policymakers nervous. The latest fight concerns less what AI can do than who may build it, copy it, d...
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Parts: The Clonus Horror (1979) - Themes: Corrupt government, Democide
Can't Get Much Higher

When Radio Died - I'm so sorry, Marconi
Africa’s Bright Future

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

Free Market Reforms Take Time to Pay Off - A recent analysis warns that evaluating the impact of free-market reforms too early can obscure their true effects.
The Daily Economy

Mayor Mamdani’s Relentless War on Landlords -
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Compete Overhaul - Britain’s competition policy framework is changing. Earlier this year, the Government made a series of proposals for altering how the Competition and Mar...
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

How Socialist Were the Nazis Really? - A conversation with Kristian Niemietz
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Kathleen Stock: "Twenty-somethings with OCD, ADHD, and eating disorders are getting euthanized" - It’s neither liberating nor compassionate for governments to end lives, says philosopher Kathleen Stock in her new book, "Do Not Go Gentle"
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 172 - Free Thoughts with Bowen & Twyman, Ep. 41 - Listen now | Christianity
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 172 - Free Thoughts with Bowen & Twyman, Ep. 41 - Listen now | Christianity
Perennial Meditations

The Invisible Walls: Zhuangzi on What We Cannot See - Perennial Meditations (Vol. 11)
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

Alle-Catt: A Climate Act Project Doing More Harm Than Good - During my career as an air pollution meteorologist, I have done many air quality assessments for new or existing permits. That process is rigidly quantita...
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

"We Just Need to Re-Convince Ourselves It's Coincidence" - Newly released Slack messages show the scientists who dismissed a COVID lab leak spent years privately doubting their own paper — Proximal Origin
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

The Traitorous Eight Tech CEOs - Naming and shaming the 8 most subversive Silicon Valley CEOs who have sold out American workers for H-1Bs and outsourcing
Anthony B. Bradley

The Words Every Man Is Waiting to Hear - Why 'I'm Proud of You' Is a Man's Love Language
Anthony B. Bradley

The Words Every Man Is Waiting to Hear - Why 'I'm Proud of You' Is a Man's Love Language
The Rebuild

Democrats Face a Trap and an Opportunity on Health Care - Reviewing Three Proposals From the Kitchen Table Project, Senator Kim, and Searchlight
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

Why Did Benedict Arnold Betray His Country? - After nearly 250 years, Arnold’s name remains synonymous with treason. Yet what ultimately drove Benedict Arnold to betray his country remains a subject of...
Fictionosophy

She Who Remains and Twisted Cultural Norms - She Who Remains explores the vital issue of how ancient, patriarchal, repressive laws tear apart lives, but it does so through an incoherent style and is c...
Market Urbanism

Federal legislative history - Housing policy expert Madeleine Marr dug into previously-written legislative histories of federal housing bills. She was kind enough to share her bibliogra...
Toppermost

MJ Lenderman - Those opening lyrics, a big sing-along chorus, alt-country twang. I listened to it on repeat. The post MJ Lenderman appeared first on Toppermost.
The Whakataki Times

Chippy Hipkins Disappointed That Paul Henry Doesn’t Want To Shag Or Marry Him - LOVE LOST. The post Chippy Hipkins Disappointed That Paul Henry Doesn’t Want To Shag Or Marry Him appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
The Cobden Centre

Thomas Jefferson: First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801 - FRIENDS AND FELLOW-CITIZENS,Called upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country, I avail myself of the presence of that...
The Antiplanner

Northern Virginia Plans 700-Mile BRT Network - The Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA) is proposing 28 bus rapid transit routes that would total 700 miles in length. It says it can build t...
The Antiplanner

Northern Virginia Plans 700-Mile BRT Network - The Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA) is proposing 28 bus rapid transit routes that would total 700 miles in length. It says it can build t...
Interintellect

Anna Gát interviewed by Miller's Book Review - A big bet on American culture.
Dramatic Pause

By The Numbers: Tom Webster - *Tom Webster is a theatremaker born and raised in Tāmaki Makaurau. A graduate of the Unitec School of Creative Industries acting program, he joined Massi...
No Right Turn

Drawn - A ballot for three member's bills was held today, and the following bills were drawn: - Crimes (Offence of Failing to Report Child Harm) Amendment B...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

More Misconduct by Stuart Nash - Realpolitik in operation: Nash ceases to be NZF candidate
The Grumpy Economist

AI regulation - I prepared two “weekly rants” on AI which will come out in a few weeks.
Houston Strategies

High Speed Rail Update: the alignment in northwest Harris County is (unofficially) DEAD - Another excellent guest post from Oscar Slotboom, author of Houston Freeways. Honestly, I’m glad Texas HSR is dead because it was always going to end up a ...
The Economic LongWave

🍁Canada’s Likely Outcome: Japanization, but with a Sharper Housing Reckoning - AI-powered research testing economic history, debt cycles, monetary policy, demographics, real estate, and emerging technologies through the Economic Seaso...
Capitalism Magazine

Why Health Insurance in America Lacks Rationality and How To Fix It - How the government drove out the science of risk from the entire business of consumer pricing of health care insurance.
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

Instead of a Mid-Life Crisis, I have Mid-Life Clarity - On August 1st, I’ll be 42 years old but instead of having a mid-life crisis, I’m having mid-life clarity.
Dead Language Society

I’m writing a book! - The story of English before it was English
Sinification

Made "with" China? — Shi Zhan on RMB Appreciation and Building a "Shadow China" Abroad - "Once you have earned all the world’s money, you cannot keep doing so for long. If everyone else has no money left to earn, they will no longer be able to ...
Doomberg

Old Tapes - The US AI industry is about to suffer the China treatment.
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Timeline 1800-1899: Stevenson's "Skye Boat Song," 1896 - "Sing me a song of a lad that is gone ..."
Cremieux Recueil

Do Data Centers Cause... Indian Immigration? - Debunking a new right-wing anti-data center argument
Stewart Margolis

There Must Be a Reckoning - At the end of a piece I published in January on the killing of Renée Good, I wrote, “We can look forward to more tragedies unless we put our foot down and ...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

UK Legends SQUEEZE Announce New Zealand Tour - British legends Squeeze announce a return to New Zealand in April 2027 as they bring their Tried, Tested and Trixies Tour to Auckland and Wellington, cel...
PM of NZ

The tribal factor - *Government concedes it can’t deliver on coalition commitment to repeal controversial law* The headline of the day shows the government of the day does n...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

No, Mask Mandates Did Not Reduce COVID Hospitalizations - Researchers try again to make the pro-mask mandate case
Ruxandra’s Substack

Intelligence is not the main bottleneck - Confessions of a naive hamster: why the smartest people in the room keep missing that intelligence is often not the main bottleneck in the real world
Conspicuous Cognition

Who Will Control Europe’s AI Future? (with Judith Dada) - Watch now | 'Europe 2031', AI sovereignty, and the geopolitics of compute
Public Lands – 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...
Wildlife – PERC

In Roosevelt’s Arena - PERC joins America's conservation leaders at the grand opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library The post In Roosevelt’s Arena appeared firs...
Hunters and Anglers – PERC

In Roosevelt’s Arena - PERC joins America's conservation leaders at the grand opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library The post In Roosevelt’s Arena appeared firs...
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

On White Nationalism's Conquest of Conservatism - A review of Whitepill, by Scott Greer
Stats Chat

NRL Predictions for Round 21 - Team Ratings for Round 21 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ...
Changing Lanes

Data Centres in Ontario: a Citizen's Guide - The loudest fears are the weakest
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: A Talk and Book Signing in Montreal’s West Island - Sunday, October 11, at Indigo Pointe-Claire
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

Playing golf with Donald Trump - July 20, 2026
Reason for Living

The Happiness Triangle - Tai Lopez's formulation that the "good life" consists of "health, wealth, love, and happiness" forms, with a few tweaks, a valuable framework for prioritiz...
A Havenstein Moment.

Problems - Chained trimmed mean supercore sticky PCE
The Weekly Sift

Coming for Us - You may think the camps are for someone else. DHS has already floated “100 million deportations” as a real number. Only 47 million people living in America...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Short Take: Was “The Odyssey” about Embezzlement? - I’ve Discussed a few films here at Anarchonomicon… We Did a Podcast on the insane psychedelic Canadian History Film “The Twentieth Century”, I went almost ...
Africa-Israel Weekly

"There is a prophetic call on Africa to usher the nations to Zion." - Sermon by Pastor Dumisani Washington
Risk & Progress

Negentropic Beings - The first principles of progress
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #55: Build a Voice Worth Following - Frederick Douglass Turned Independence into Influence
Eating Policy

North Carolina’s bold move on civil service - The state’s new civil service statute, enacted by a Republican legislature and signed into law by a Democratic governor, is a big deal
Real Clear Energy: Video

New York Becomes First to Put Moratorium on New AI Data Centers - But as CBS News New York's Ali Bauman reports, some contractors argue the AI boom will leave the Empire State behind.
Glenn’s Substack

What I Did This Summer - Though my summer vacation is already over.
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

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

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

Just Published: An Art Memoir: Depth and Light, Volume One, 1965-2002 - Here, I am Including the First Chapter.
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Just Published: An Art Memoir: Depth and Light, Volume One, 1965-2002 - Here, I am Including the First Chapter.
Autonomia

An Appraisal of My Aviation Journalism - Covering the 30th anniversary of the crash of TWA Flight 800 in New York City
Virginia Postrel

Which Would You Rather Give Up: Electric Light or Electric Washing Machines? - Plus, what Donald Trump could learn from Jun’ichirō Tanizaki.
The Jolly Libertarian

Book Review: The Second Machine Age - My recent interest in artificial intelligence and the prospect of an age of unprecedented abundance, a post-scarcity world if you will, led to a discussi...
The New Era

Rigid Institutions - In this second article by Luc Lelièvre, Luc discusses how rigidity makes institutions unable to solve problems.
Croaking Cassandra

Real wages haven’t fallen 6.4 per cent (or at all) - Various media last weekend (I think this was the first) latched onto a chart in the OECD’s latest Employment Outlook publication which appeared to show tha...
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Trump’s New Anti-Legal Immigration Rules Target Students, Spouses of US Citizens - Trump solidifying his reputation as the most anti-legal immigration admin ever.
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

Trump’s New Anti-Legal Immigration Rules Target Students, Spouses of US Citizens - Trump solidifying his reputation as the most anti-legal immigration admin ever.
HardmoneyJim

From Cigars to Bitcoin: The Simple Truth About Why Prices Rise - What a neighborhood cigar shop can teach you about the global financial system — and about whether you’re an investor or a speculator.
Building the Builders

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

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

Spy vs. Spy - What inspires people to betray their country? Dive into the secret world of espionage with Michelle Ainsworth’s review of two gripping new books. Explore t...
The Enlightened Examiner

Stop Attacking Socialists - On how to move forward in championing capitalism.
The Enlightened Examiner

Stop Attacking Socialists - On how to move forward in championing capitalism.
Greg Mankiw's Blog

Thank you, British Academy - I am deeply honored to be named an International Fellow of the British Academy.
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

American Homer? - Some Literary Speculations
Conflicted

The Geopolitics of Climate Continues - My post up at Civitas Outlook
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Episode 3 - A Visceral Reaction - Megha Lillywhite Breaks the Spell of Children’s Illustration
An Africanist Perspective

Why is it so difficult (and crazy expensive) to fly within Africa? - Thinking through the economics and politics of connectivity over a vast continent
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...
Outliving Iran

Outliving Iran: A Memoir (Part 1) - Up from poverty, violence, and darkness
JunkScience.com

Milloy comments on potential shareholder lawsuit against New York Times re Nick Kristof Gaza column -
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...
Free Range Kids

Mom vs. The Monster Under the Bed: A Surprising Poem - Just re-discovered this oh-so-wonderful poem by Carrie Shipers of Wisconsin, author of Family Resemblances: Poems (University of New Mexico Press). It wa...
Leport’s Substack

DEFROSTED is Out Today! - Grab your copy wherever books are sold!
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Why Did We Let Big Tech Take Over Education? - Sophie Winkleman lays out the damage from the screen-based school day and shows how to roll it back.
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...
History Reclaimed

he Fate of the Dancing Girl: Partition, Restitution, and the Afterlife of an Indus Valley Icon - The bronze figurine of the Dancing Girl of Mohenjo Daro was made 4500 years ago by the Indus Valley Civilisation. She resides in a museum in India but she ...
Austin Vernon's Substack

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

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

Obamalisk - "Tower of Power"
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 “...
HBL

Alan Greenspan–Not a Eulogy - Alan Greenspan, a friend and associate of Ayn Rand, just died, at the age of 100. He is known to the public as Chairman of the Federal Reserve for almost t...
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Who Will Love Me Now? - John Adams once said that the key to the human condition was summed up in the question: “who will love me?” It’s a deep and profound question.
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 520 - Digitally integrated business model - The introduction of CAD and eventually highly detailed modelling in architecture and construction has favoured the virtual planning of buildings ensurin...
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

The Dynamite Fishermen of Democracy - Party politics increasingly treats voters like fish to be stunned before election day. But when campaigns win by blasting the civic lake, communities are l...
Keiran Murphy (FLW Historian)

Why I Love Wisconsin - Reading Time: 5 minutesAt the midpoint under the sky, you can just see the edge of Taliesin in this photo I took in August 2005 from Highway County C. I...
Michael Newberry, Artist

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

We're hiring a Head of Communications and a Program Manager - Help us build a culture of progress and restore an ambitious vision for the future
Let Grow

Toy Story 5: The Truth About Kids, Screens, and Loneliness - [image: Cali, Colombia May 12 2026: Smartphone Displaying Disney Pixar Toy Story 5 Movie Logo] Toy Story 5 is billed as a battle of Toys vs. Tech, but that...
Dr Oliver Hartwich

Memory is a terrible statistician - Nostalgic views of New Zealand's past often overlook harsh realities. While some measures of well-being have improved since the 1970s, significant challeng...
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Freedom Versus the Income Tax - Leftist critics of President Trump’s war on Iran often couch their criticism in terms of other things that could be done with the billions of dollars tha...
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (July 2026) - Lowering food system insecurity, and governing for peace and safety
Tim’s Substack

Happy American No Kings Day - We've kept the Republic for 250 years
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: June 2026 - We hope everyone had a lovely Independence Day weekend!
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.
What You Can Do For Liberty

Five Great Films for Your Independence Day - It’s time to get ready for your July 4th celebrations. And what better way to remember what it’s all about than with a good film?
Harry’s Substack

Alan Greenspan--Not a Eulogy - The Maestro mastered the art of selling out
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

Poems for America: A Short Collection - Celebrate Independence Day with Emerson, Whitman, and more
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for June, 2026: +0.46 deg. C - The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for June, 2026 was +0.46 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, which is down...
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

From Fireworks to Flying Flags - And Other Symbols of Liberty
Existential Crunch

How much do we actually know about AMOC collapse? - Exploring uncertain timelines and consequences
Tross Publishing

SHOULD TAXPAYERS PAY FOR BUILDING A CHURCH? - By John McLean In the wake of the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, which ended once and for all the centuries old French threat to England, the British Governmen...
Don't Let It Go

At MS NOW: “The Supreme Court stood up for privacy — but only to a point” - Why the majority in Chatrie v. United States (Fourth Amendment geofence warrant case) reached the right result for the wrong reason — and why it matters Th...
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
Stu-Topia

Stop Saying There’s No Such Thing As Originality - Stuart K. Hayashi There are many philosophic YouTube videos (including at least four TEDx Talks), putting on a pretense of profundity, saying that because ...
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

BRIEFLY NOTED: Reader Recommendations - We’ve already established that I usually don’t read the comments on these posts, because I am a weak and fallible human and thus seek to avoid “engagement”...
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...
Too Clever By Half

The jump-break feed is best for engagement - [image: Children jumping] You've got five *feed options* in Settings: [image: A dialog box titled "Allow blog feed." "Use Jump Break" is selected.] ...
The Organon Architecture Blog

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

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

8 Fun Montessori Summer Camp Activities Children Love - Summer is the perfect time for children to explore new interests, build confidence, and develop important life skills through hands-on experiences. Monte...
Liberty Scott

Has Brexit been a disaster? - It's not surprising that a decade since the UK's vote on leaving the European Union that the pro-EU media is crowing. RNZ has republished a CNN piece calle...
The Trumpland Diary

𝐔𝐅𝐂 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝟐𝟓𝟎: “𝐀 𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞” - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞 White House Cage Fighting 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭-𝐀-𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩
Flying Out

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

A Change of Landscape at SC Johnson - Photos and text © Mark Hertzberg (2026) SC Johnson is almost finished demolishing the former St. Mary’s Hospital building (1933) on their campus in Racine....
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

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

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

Theatre Leader Strengthens Celebration of Wellington Arts Scene - Theatre Leader Strengthens Celebration of Wellington Arts Scene Wellington Theatre Awards Trust Ngā Whakarākei O Whātaitai Appoints New Administrator WEL...
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.
Statecraft

Merit vs. Tenure: Reforming Federal Firing - ”The current rules are just so incredibly unadministerable”
Cranmer’s Substack

Sinead Boucher Buys an Event - Matthew Hooton’s appointment is not a conventional hire. That is precisely the point.
Anti-Dismal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Personality Versus Academic Egalitarianism - How Today’s Schools Oppose Greatness
Mike’s Substack

Personality Versus Academic Egalitarianism - How Today’s Schools Oppose Greatness
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
The Many Ways I Let You Down

Democracies Are Not Monasteries - Research suggests less speech means more violence. So why do those in power still want us to shut up?
Maximum Progress

The Causal Effect of Income is (Often) Zero - Evidence on the effect of income on health, education, crime, and child outcomes from lotteries and RCTs
Syncretica

Read 'Em and Weep: Australian Power Edition - batteries and renewables make prices go down in practice and theory
News - Democracy Action

Submission on India Free Trade Agreement - Submission to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee on the New Zealand–India Free Trade Agreement Opposing the inclusion of UNDRIP in the Agre...
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.
Private Lands – PERC

Reflecting on Ted Turner’s Crowded Life - A great lasting memory and a true southern gentleman, lion of conservation, and source of inspiration until the very end. The post Reflecting on Ted Turn...
Science of Doom

Tropical Cyclones: Cat 4+ Counts and the Annoying 1990 Boundary - In Recent Trends in Tropical Cyclones last year we looked at the data for 1990-2024 from IBTrACS and compared this to a paper, Trends in Global Tropical Cy...
A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

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

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

From tiny tots to Piedmont, via Grand Designs Live - Grand Designs Live [Sunday 3 May] Castello di Montalero cooking experience. Unfitted update. Maximalism! Food Festival in the South Downs. Grandchildren al...
Happy Future

The Trouble with Transformers - And the long slouch towards cyberpunk
The Claude Megson blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin - A philosophical discussion on ethics and mathematics. The post Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin appeared first on SAVVY S...
Institute of Economic Affairs

Never forgetting the absurdities of fascism - ‘Classics Revisited’ revisits a publication from a previous century from a present-day perspective, to show how much, or how little, … Continue reading "...
Regan's Substack

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How Drug Boats Could Be Used to Rationalize an Unjust War with Venezuela - Podcast audio: [powerpress] In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Elan Journo discuss the recent American attacks on alleged d...
A City for People

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Farmville - The Autonomous Future of Agriculture
No Punches Pulled

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writings hosted elsewhere - The Breakthrough Institute Interactive Brokers Campus
BloodhoundBlog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- * Israel’s message to terrorists is simple: ‘Just stop attacking us’* Israel’s attacks on Hezbollah via exploding pagers and now walkie talkies are one of...
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Reviews - 13th Floor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Genesis -
Power + Market

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Cafe Hayek

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Knowledge Problem archive 2002-2020 - This is the archive of the Knowledge Problem blog, all 4,690 posts. The search function will help you locate posts on the various topics Mike and I wrote a...
Knowledge Problem

Knowledge Problem archive 2002-2020 - This is the archive of the Knowledge Problem blog, all 4,690 posts. The search function will help you locate posts on the various topics Mike and I wrote a...
Asian Invasion 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1828 – Championing Freedom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Encouraging Problem Solving - “Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.” –Maria Montessori This quote speaks volumes to what the end goal is in a Montessori ed...
Carl Menger Center for the Study of Money and Banking

Internationalization of the Yuan Continues Apace - To the unobservant, which includes most politicians, the United States remains a strong and resolute empire. Just witness the statements from Democratic ...
Cities Matter

Amalgamation and Streamlining City Governance: the Auckland Experiment So Far - *The performance of the Super City – so far, so so* Previous posts indicate that amalgamating local government in Auckland has not yielded efficiencies. Ca...
The Sand Pit

The value of value-added in schools - We’re developing New Zealand’s first contextualised value-added model to help evaluate New Zealand secondary schools on a variety of outcome measures. Joel...
Professor Werner

Shifting from Central Planning to a Decentralised Economy - by Professor Richard A. Werner, D.Phil. (Oxon) Paper presented at the 14th Rhodes Forum: Dialogue of Civilisations Research Institute, Panel 2: […]
EconTalk

Moises Velasquez-Manoff on Cows, Carbon Farming, and Climate Change - Journalist and author Moises Velasquez-Manoff talks about the role of dirt in fighting climate change with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Velasquez-Manoff exp...
sportreview.net.nz

Chipping in for Kane on The Spinoff - sportreview.net.nz was lucky enough to contribute to top website The Spinoff, plumping for Kane Williamson as our greatest ever batsman, despite him only b...
Oswald Bastable's Ranting

Hang them High! - Car thieves. Preferable drag-hang the scum! Our car has had a window broken, ignition switch mangled and the dash trim torn apart by an inept, useless shi...
John P. McCaskey

Ockham on Induction - Summa Logicae, part 3-3, chapters 31–36, trans. John P. McCaskey, September 18, 2017 The text here is from Opera Philosophica, The post Ockham on Inducti...
Planetizen

A New Green Thumb Tool for Planners - A New Green Thumb Tool for Planners James Brasuell Wed, 07/12/2017 - 09:00 Primary Image [image: Philadelphia Park] "A joint venture between The Nature Con...
For The New Intellectual

Surrealist Writers Union Goes on Strike -
makingnewzealand

The Argument for Stopping Urban Sprawl - It's true that only about 1 part in 125 of New Zealand's land area is covered over in sprawl, with much less than that being actually built on (much of the...
The Dim-Post

Half-formed thoughts of the day - I was thinking about the Women’s March on Washington, and the global nature of it, and also the global nature of the White Nationalist movement: Trump, Put...
The Frank Lloyd Wright Newsblog

Sherman Booth House For Sale - The Sherman Booth House in Glencoe, Illinois is for sale. The asking price is $1.9 million. The house is a late Prairie Style design, dating from 1915. T...
PrairieMod

Richard Neutra Pillow - *Vendor: *Printful *Type: *Pillow *Price: * 34.00 A simple way to dress up any sofa, chair, bed, or room with a pop of color and a bold double-sided gr...
Blog - Minkz

Ichigo Ichie, Moment Hunters, new work by Mina - [image: NewlyDrawnGirl.jpg] *Ichigo Ichie, Moment Hunters - new work by Mina opening 12 March, 5 - 8 pm* On a recent trip to Japan, Mina fell in love wit...
Drinks and Drinking

What’s the Best Sparkling Water for Cocktails? - We’re here to talk about sparkling water in cocktails. But first: My Obsessive Nature, a.k.a. A Briefish, Seemingly Unrelated Disclaimer on Why Its Hard to...
Affordable Auckland

Prices Only Going Up in Auckland - New figures showing Auckland’s median house price have reached a record high of $820,000 comes as no surprise to Affordable Auckland spokesman Stephen Berr...
Life Behind the IRon Drape

National’s Anti-Money Laundering & Countering Financing of Terrorism Monster - iPredict the State Gulag - This piece of Soviet legislation took down the brilliant iPredict today: *Prediction website iPredict is to be closed down, with the Government deciding ...
Politics without God

The Right to Die: Philosophy in Action Podcast - On Sunday's episode of Philosophy in Action Radio, I answered a question on the right to die. The question was: Should a person who does not wish to live b...
The PRODOS blog

Liz Cheney: Obama is uniquely dangerous president - Above video is set to start at 9 min 46 sec. Transcript Megyn Kelly: Do you think that President Obama is dangerous? Liz Cheney: Yes … I think there’s no q...
THE WEEKLY WRIGHT-UP

Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home. - *Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home.* *--*Matsuo Bashō, (Japanese poet, 1644-1694) from *Oku no Hosomichi* Jack Quinan and Sandra Q....
Tibor's space

IP Anyone? - Intellectual Property Anyone? Tibor R. Machan There is a debate afoot now about whether one ever owns the likes of a novel, poem, computer game, song, arra...
TheBubbleBubble.com - Warning About Post-2009 Economic Bubbles

Jesse Colombo’s Interview On The Doug McIntyre Show On 790 KABC - I had an interview with Doug McIntyre on 790 KABC today, and here is the audio file. I will also upload this to Youtube shortly. Jesse Colombo’s Interview ...
Titanic Deck Chairs

Willing and Eager Subjects in Training - Obama recently cautioned a group of graduating college kids that some of the arguments flowing to them via their "iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStatio...
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