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SkyscraperCity Forum

LYON - Universités & Grandes Ecoles - Je n'ai trouvé aucun sujet consacré particulièrement à l'actualité universitaire, pourtant dense, de notre métropole lyonnaise. Je me permets donc d'ouvrir...
Quotulatiousness

Amnesty International - Frederick Alexander wonders “what the hell happened to Amnesty International”? I’m firmly in middle age, and the signs are all there. I can’t have a lie-in...
The Inquiring Mind

Portillo’s Trouble With The Tories – #2/2 - Uploaded August 28, 2026
Zero Hanger

Adelaide coaching candidate speaks on future - “Got some great feedback.”
No Minister

Communism Always Ends Up Like This - The economic stuff. The political stuff. Back in the 1980’s one of the communist enemies of the USA that President Reagan took on was one Daniel Ortega and...
History Reclaimed

Late-Summer 2026 History Reclaimed newsletter - Our late-summer 2026 issue takes on British empire revisionism wherever it appears: the Scots who built the empire, the myths of the Boer War, Churchill an...
FIRE

BREAKING: Federal court rules the statutes the Trump admin used in its speech-based deportation scheme are unconstitutional - A federal court ruled that the provisions Secretary of State Marco Rubio used in an attempt to deport legal immigrants for their speech are unconstitutional.
The Daily Doom

A DEEPER DIVE into the Nepal Avalanche Catastrophe - A surprising conclusion about how it all happened that neatly covers ALL the known facts and timelines.
UnHerd

Britain’s common-sense crisis - Progressives inhabit a different reality
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Waatea’s Weekend Political Podcast Te Kaupapa with Huhana Lyndon, Toni Boynton, Merepeka Raukawa-Tait + Bomber - Join Matthew Tukaki for Te Kaupapa on Radio Waatea, with a powerhouse panel today: Hūhana Lyndon, Toni Boynton, Martyn Bradbury...
Techdirt

‘Right To Repair’ State Laws Continue To Surge, But Enforcement Remains Nonexistent - There’s still a massive effort afoot to implement statewide “right to repair” laws that try to make it cheaper, easier, and environmentally friendlier for ...
JoNova

Just how many solar panels does it take to stop landslides in Nepal (Especially terrible ones 800 years ago?) - The Chinese Nepalese border site: Picture from Wikimedia By Jo Nova Already the Climate Porn industry is using the ghastly death and destruction in Nepa...
Cato at Liberty

Argentina Gives Mercosur an Ultimatum It Can’t Ignore - Argentina has no reason to stay in Mercosur if its members cannot turn the bloc into a straightforward free trade area, without a common external tariff or...
Peter Boghossian

Hang Out With Peter Boghossian | Aug 2026 - I’m excited to announce the next Zoom hangout for our amazing Paid Substack Subscribers!
Homepaddock

Woman of the day - Woman of the Day Alicia Meynell Thornton (born circa 1782 in Yorkshire) who, OTD in 1804 at York, became the first woman jockey to compete in a horse race....
Brash & Mitchell

RODNEY HIDE: Should You Have Killed Hitler? - Here’s a simple question. If you had known what was coming, and you had the chance, should you have killed Hitler? Most people, after a moment’s honesty, a...
Futurism

Welp, They’re Officially Displaying Ads Directly on Your Monitor - Soon, your monitor may be monitoring you. The post Welp, They’re Officially Displaying Ads Directly on Your Monitor appeared first on Futurism.
The Integrity Institute

News Briefing: 29 August 2026 - PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
ArchDaily

Animà Village / Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos - The design concept for The Animá Village has been to create a walkable, human-scale neighborhood with a strong public realm and generous planting.
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

A week is a long time: 29 August 2026 - A New Zealand Politics weekly wrap-up
Stewart Margolis

Who Am I To Know? - Can you imagine Howard Roark refraining from praising a beautiful building until a panel of experts had given their approval?
Marginal Revolution

Tysons Corner (Alaska) fact of the day - The centerpiece is Tysons Corner Center, today the eighth largest mall in the country, and one of the largest sub-city-sized markets for office space. It...
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

Data Centers Escape to Orbit, Nimbys Follow - A reasonable assumption: if artificial intelligence delivers the productivity gains implied by today's massive AI infrastructure spending, investment wil...
Marcus on AI

5 lessons from the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident - Did OpenAI really do the best they could?
IPWatchdog Articles

USPTO Issues Its First AI-Predicated Discipline Order Involving Hallucinated Cites to Intrinsic Record - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO’s) Office of Enrollment and Discipline (OED) posted a final order to its website on August 27, publicly rep...
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

The Discovery of the Good Life - A Case for Liberalism from What We Cannot Know
Watts Up With That?

Global Wildfires At Record Low This Year - While the media obsesses about record wildfires, the satellite data shows the opposite – worldwide, wildfire area is at the lowest for time of year since...
The Double Standard

Open Mike 29/08/2026 - Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to th...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

The 3 Bad Types of Humanities Professor - And how to improve cultural education in the current moment
Astral Codex Ten

Your Book Review: Thomas Urquhart’s Translation Of Rabelais - Finalist #7 in the Book Review Contest
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

New reader? Start here! - Your Leaving Groupthink, Inc. starter pack
The Daily Economy

Canada Should Ignore Trump’s Protectionism and Unilaterally Enact Free Trade -
Curbed - All

Fire Island’s Pyramid House Is for Sale - The distinctive modernist house, designed for a J.P. Morgan descendant, has been updated and listed with a price cut.
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Premium: The Hater's Guide To Circular Financing (Part One) - *[NVIDIA Company Meeting, the present day, YMCA playing]* *JENSEN HUANG: *We *love *NVIDIA, don’t we folks? We’re the biggest, most-beautiful semiconduct...
Breaking Views

Ryan Bridge: Are we about to witness the return of the pothole? - Are we about to witness the return of the pothole?Both Labour and National want to freeze increases to the petrol tax. Labour would stop 22c a litre over t...
Anthony B. Bradley

Weekly Top Five: We Are Formed by What We Attend To - On sentences, saints, scientists, and the slow cost of not paying attention."
Anthony B. Bradley

Weekly Top Five: We Are Formed by What We Attend To - On sentences, saints, scientists, and the slow cost of not paying attention."
Flashbak

Anguish, Affliction, and Alienation in 28 Found Photos - “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed This collection of found snapshots is called ‘Anguish, Affliction ...
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

AMA Today at 5PM ET - I’m doing an AMA on Substack Live today at 5 PM ET. If you’re a subscriber, expect an email a minute or so before. If you want to participate, subscribe....
The Breakthrough Journal

Climate Change Alone Doesn’t Explain Today’s Wildfires - How land-use history shapes wildfire risk in Mediterranean Europe
Conversable Economist

GAO: One More Warning on US Federal Debt - The Government Accountability Office (GAO) offers a blunt title for its most recent review of US fiscal policy: “The Nation’s Fiscal Health — Urgent and ...
John D. Cook

Making the unnecessary easier - I watched a few videos this morning, looking for ideas of what I could use AI to do. In one video, someone had an agent monitor tech news sites every 30 ...
Spiked Online

The disgusting bigotry of blaming Israel for anti-Semitism - The post The disgusting bigotry of blaming Israel for anti-Semitism appeared first on spiked.
The UnPopulist

Authoritarianism With American Characteristics - America’s backsliding democracy has its own unique causes and manner, making it hard to draw comparisons or lessons from other countries
The Daily Sceptic

Asda Boss: Labour is Harming the Economy - Labour’s economic policies are damaging growth by piling costs on businesses and households, bringing the economy to a "tipping point", the boss of Asda ...
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

The 179-Year Background Check - Since emerging from my coma, I have endeavoured to follow my doctors' advice to eschew stress-inducing things like the Internet and spend more time communi...
The War on Prices

Affordability and Wrong Numbers - I’ve been on vacation for a couple of weeks, but Cato has released three recent podcasts I hosted during that time.
Gus Van Horn

Four Random Things - *A Friday Hodgepodge* *1*. Fans of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile will be delighted to know that they can track the current and future whereabouts of the fle...
Armageddon Newsletter

Steve Rosenberg, BBC’s senior correspondent in Moscow offers a treasure-trove from the daily Russian print media - After my Wednesday chat with Judge Napolitano, I noticed among derogatory remarks in the Comments section the snide remark that I watch BBC News.
Truth on the Market

Fine Print for Every Price: The FTC’s One-Size-Fits-All Guidance - My first post at Truth on the Market—where I called myself a “Refugee from the FTC”—briefly discussed an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) pub...
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 525 - Making Sense of Modular - The latent economies of modular volumetric construction include bulk purchasing aligned with reliable supply chains and predictable demand, reducing w...
Brownstone Institute

America’s Drug Shortage Is a National Security Crisis - America’s Drug Shortage Is a National Security Crisis by Joseph Varon at Brownstone Institute [image: America’s Drug Shortage Is a National Security Crisi...
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 1207 US deficits. Counting India. Coquillards. Stracciatella and Batman. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

The German Poet Who Prophesied the Rise of the Nazi War Machine 100 Years Before Hitler - It is no surprise that following Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, Heine’s words were among those to crackle in the flames at at Nazi book barbeques.
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Don’t Blame Gas Prices, Miatta! - By Paul Homewood h/t Doug Brodie Ed Miliband’s deputy at the DESNZ, Miatta Fahnbulleh, has obviously been well trained in gaslighting. It’s a pity nobody b...
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

Addressing the Generational Gap - Every generation believes the one coming along behind it has gone soft, or gone strange. Grumbling about the young is as old as Aristotle, who complained...
Perennial Meditations

The Gap Between Knowing and Doing - Dying Daily—Meditations for Mortals
Energy Transition Absurdities

5 Big Energy Stories - 8.28.2026: Trump Takes Dead Aim On His Biggest Energy Deal Yet - Scoop: U.S.
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Esoteric Cofnasism - America has rejected race realism for a very long time
ChinaTalk

How the U.S. and China Are Meme-ifying Modern War - "Glossy coat, shiny fur, I’m a beautiful little piggy"
Knowledge Problem

The Psychology of the Democratic Individual and the Science of Association - Essay 11 in Reading Tocqueville at 250
Knowledge Problem

The Psychology of the Democratic Individual and the Science of Association - Essay 11 in Reading Tocqueville at 250
Persuasion

What Our Heroes Tell Us About America - Our shared memories expose who we really are as a nation.
Law & Liberty

Dolly Parton’s American Life - She transcended music and teaches us something about our best selves.
EconLog

Sam’s Links: August Edition - *Sam Enright works on innovation policy at **Progress Ireland**, an independent policy think tank in Dublin, and runs a publication called **The Fitzwill...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Bessent vs. Druckenmiller: Bond Vigilantes versus Bond Bureaucrats - The dispute between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Stanley Druckenmiller is more important than a technical disagreement over Treasury buybacks. It...
American Institute of Economic Research

Bessent vs. Druckenmiller: Bond Vigilantes versus Bond Bureaucrats - The dispute between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Stanley Druckenmiller is more important than a technical disagreement over Treasury buybacks. It...
Sinification

Why China’s Football Problem Is an Economic Problem | Li Xunlei - “If these proposals remain perpetually confined to principles or words on the page, and reform is still further delayed, then cause and effect dictates tha...
MacleodFinance Substack

Silver squeeze is back! - A week of consolidation for gold and silver ends with a strong performance for silver. Driving silver’s price are factors common to gold, plus the gradual ...
Doomberg

Maîtres Chez Nous - Consider Alberta unstuck.
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day – Subsidised Opposition - But here is the point, and it is the point Kruger’s £200 million should open rather than close. It is not just the unions. The unions are the visible tit...
GeekPress

US Infrastructure Warning - *Newsweek:* "Major Warning Issued About Attacks on US Water Supply" Water systems are considered particularly attractive targets because they provide an ...
The Antiplanner

California Regulates “Zone Zero” Landscaping - Last week, the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection approved rules designed to protect homes from burning in wildfires. In high-hazard areas, t...
The Antiplanner

California Regulates “Zone Zero” Landscaping - Last week, the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection approved rules designed to protect homes from burning in wildfires. In high-hazard areas, t...
Mises Wire

The Two Lineages of Liberty - The movement toward liberty has roots in two eras, neither of which saw much liberty. One lineage comes from the Enlightenment while the other emanates fro...
Hoover institution Commentary

Hoover Convenes Experts to Propose Medicare Budget Options - The Hoover Institution’s Healthcare Policy Working Group and the Fiscal Policy Initiative co-hosted a two-day conference on August 17 and 18. They brought ...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Mumbo-jumbo and all that - The Mullahs of Mumbo-jumbo advance the cause of racist superiority
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Palestine Solidarity Campaign Presents: How to Shop Like an Antisemite -
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

The Ark-La-Tex May Be Leading America’s Lithium Race - The discovery of vast lithium resources in the Smackover Formation, most notably in southern Arkansas and into far northern Louisiana and across northeas...
No Right Turn

Whining at an open door - Ten weeks till the election, and Labour is in full pre-election cringe mode. They're so afraid of being seen to stand for something, let alone something th...
Kiwiblog

The disaster at Mt Maunganui - Andrea Vance summarises what we know: That is all bad enough to clearly identify the deaths were preventable. On the day we had people warning of the dan...
The Free Press

Can Anyone Beat Abdul El-Sayed? - The Democratic establishment tried and failed to stop him in Michigan’s Senate primary. Will Republicans fare any better?
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Lord Mountbatten: The Assassination That Shook Britain and Ireland - On the morning of 27 August 1979, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, a member of the British royal family and...
Dr Oliver Hartwich

Balancing the books is only half the job - Both major parties in New Zealand promise budget surpluses and fiscal consolidation but need to address institutional reform for economic growth and compet...
Andrew Whiteside

Event: Nelson Arts Festival – Oct/Nov 2026 - oyful, adventurous and bursting with homegrown and global creativity, the Nelson Arts Festival returns this spring with 11 days and more than 50 events spa...
Offsetting Behaviour

Hating trees - New Zealand's Zero Carbon Act sets net emission targets. This is sensible. The atmosphere does not care whether the next tonne of CO2-e is not-emitted o...
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Mind The Incoming Date—Still No Golden Age In Sight - Click on Title to Read
PM of NZ

Timely shopping advice - *Your house isn’t the most expensive thing you’ll ever buy. Your government is. So shop around.* As various would-be thieves actively spin their lies vyi...
Point of Order

Minor party folklore - In the wake of the rise of the Opportunity Party in recent opinion polls there has been much commentary about the role of smaller parties as kingmakers whe...
The Curmudgeon

Red Meat - This evil epitome, this beast And butcher of our Balkan East, Gave Muslims in a western state Too Palestinian a fate. And when to justice he was brought, H...
The Many Ways I Let You Down

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

Weekly Roundup 28-August-2026 - Kia ora and welcome to our weekly roundup of stories about what makes cities great, including our own. Today’s header image shows a skateboarder enjoying...
Skeptic

An Insider’s Look at What Happened When Chiropractic Was Evaluated Scientifically, and Why No One Remembers - A chiropractor spent decades pushing his profession toward rigorous science, certain the evidence would vindicate it. The trials finally came back—null. Th...
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

What Democratic Socialists Truly Want - The DSA’s program advocates exactly what it means – tearing down the successful in the name of a fantasy of an effortless life
Energy in Depth

U.S. Outpaces China in Natural Gas Capacity to Fuel AI Data Center Growth - Data center development is driving a historic buildout of natural gas-fired power generation, with the United States building twice as much natural gas a...
Sustain What

Fresh Updates on the Himalayan Ice and Rock Collapse and Flood Catastrophe - We review a hauntingly similar tragedy in 2021 and pathways to improved warnings
Retraction Watch

Japan institute defends Nobel Prize winner amid allegations of image duplication - The Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University in Japan is defending Nobel Prize winner Shinya Yamanaka against claims of ima...
Israel Institute of NZ

Election 2026: Where New Zealand’s Political Parties Stand on Israel - As New Zealand approaches the 2026 general election, foreign policy will not determine most voters’ choices. But for New Zealanders concerned about Israel,...
Keiran Murphy (FLW Historian)

What is the oldest part of Taliesin, part 3 - Reading Time: 4 minutes Photo look (plan) southwest at the fireplace area in the Taliesin drafting studio. I took this photo in 2005. About 2 weeks ago I...
Paul Wells

The Q&A: “The whole climate we’re in is a climate of uncertainty. It’s not favourable for investment.” - Quebec’s finance minister Éric Girard on Trump tariffs, working with Mark Carney’s Ottawa, and a looming election
Capitalism Magazine

Jeff Bezos Earned His Amazon Fortune - The Amazon founder’s innovations save customers 22 hours a year on average, giving them the gift of time.
Real Clear Energy

Rising Costs of Trump's Assault on Clean Energy - Levin & Zhu, RCEnergy Imagine an attack on the U.S. energy system that wiped out 40% of the nation's new power plants, $700 billion of infrastructure and s...
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Mind The Incoming Date—Still No Golden Age In Sight - There was a batch of incoming economic data noise this week, but none of it gave even so much as a hint that the Donald’s ballyhooed “Golden Age” is anyw...
Middle East Uncovered

Iran’s People Are Paying the Price for the Regime’s Survival - State propaganda speaks of victory and strength. Inside Iranian homes, families are watching their savings disappear and wondering how much worse life can ...
ROBERT FRIPP

Putting bootlegs onto DGM Live… - Words 104 · RF@80 Series.
The Rebuild

The Cost-of-Living is a Moral Story - Regenerating the American Dream
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

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

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

Economic Winter May Destroy Wealth Claims Not Human Ingenuity - Worldwide patent growth suggests that while credit and population growth slow, humanity’s capacity to innovate continues to compound
American Energy Alliance

Under President Trump U.S. Oil Production Sets New Records - According to the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) August Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), U.S. oil production is expected to reach a record 13....
Construction Physics

How the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Works - The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is the largest crude oil storage facility in the world.
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

The Maryland 400 Saved America on August 27, 1776 - Honoring the forgotten sacrifice of the Maryland 400 during the Battle of Brooklyn - plus 250th anniversary reenactment photos
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Tim Curry: 1946-2026 - Legendary Actor Leaves Behind Exemplary Body of Work
The New York Review of Books

The Cruel and the Frail - “What is happening in the world today,” Thomas Merton wrote to Czesław Miłosz in 1959, responding to the latter’s book The Captive Mind, “is a wholesale co...
Quillette

The Autism Epidemic That Wasn’t - The Trump administration’s scientific illiteracy about rates of autism is going to have catastrophic results.
Mises Institute Blog

Inflation: How Government Generates It and Then Endeavors to Shift Responsibility - To avoid being blamed for the nefarious consequences of inflation, the government and its henchmen resort to a semantic trick. They try to change the meani...
Living Resources Center

Dictatorship by Default: America’s Walk Into It - The biggest danger of today isn’t an explicit call for dictatorship. “Democratic socialists” deny they’re dictators, even though the ones in power have t...
Muss Montessori School

Can Montessori Education Reduce Mobile Addiction in Kids? - Yes, Montessori education can help reduce mobile addiction in kids by giving them hands-on activities, independence, movement, creativity, and meaningful...
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Sexual Morality, Unsolicited Advice, Drug Decriminalization - Links and recommendations
Tim Worstall

Well, true, yes - That said, most politicians never move the Overton Window. They work inside it, using polling and focus groups to figure out which policies to offer that...
The Cobden Centre

Bond vigilantes for Dummies - A few weeks ago, the Labour back-bencher, Paula Baker, was held to have disgraced herself with remarks revealing that she hadn’t much of a...
Cremieux Recueil

Data Center Madness Isn’t About AI - It’s mostly bog standard NIMBYism
The Jolly Libertarian

How a Self-help Book Resolved a Philosophical Conundrum Part 2 - *In Part 1 of this two part look at Shane Parrish's book Thinking Clearly, I looked at the four different ways of thinking that humans habitually use:* ...
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

Stoic Attention Practice: Return Before The Noise - Before the first message, headline, or demand, practise the Stoic discipline of attention.
Notes On Liberty

The Sovereign Sea, Part 3: Maritime Foundations of Tribe-State Collaboration - 5. Rebound in Arctic Indigenous Whaling Canada’s Historic 1982 Withdrawal from the IWC In 1982, Canada took a decisive diplomatic step by formally withdraw...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: Credit For Helping Others - A system to be inspired by.
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

Global Superstar Bruno Mars Announces NZ Tour - Global superstar Bruno Mars has expanded his record-breaking The Romantic Tour once again, announcing 26 new stadium shows across Australia, New Zealand,...
Tross Publishing

Multi-Culturalism Undermines Free Speech - By John McLean It is a well-known but sordid fact that Labour governments will always seize on a particular outrage committed by one or two persons as an...
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

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

Referenced by Duncan Garner on an important issue. -
Lindsay Mitchell

Bigger benefits won't help children - Why are incompetents routinely called 'experts' these days? The election campaign brings them out in their droves. Today's Herald headline: *Child povert...
The Footy Almanac

Almanac Footy: Wildcard Final Preview – Western Bulldogs v Collingwood - Kristian Cavallo previews the first Wildcard Final: Western Bulldogs v Collingwood.
Virginia Postrel

Don’t Just Delete This Email: How to unsubscribe - Good advice for your inbox in general even if you love my Substack!
Slow Boring

As one housing reform works in Texas, another in Colorado hits a budgetary hitch - What happens to the push for more housing when the budget dries up?
Doug Casey's International Man

Doug Casey on Your Enemy, The Deep State - Washington imports and consumes the fruit of American effort, and exports only dung. The post Doug Casey on Your Enemy, The Deep State appeared first on ...
A Halfling's View

The Flowing Robe - The Deeps of Time Part 1 - Reflections on Ἀθηνᾶ and the Akropolis
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

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

Good Robot, Bad Robot - What I saw at the Robot Olympics in Beijing
The Contrarian Capitalist

Mid-Week Macro 26/08/2026 - Bullion, El Niño, Bonds, Bessent and more - A check in on the markets and potential madness
Why Evolution Is True

Miss Duck! - . . . four days ago. Isn’t she lovely? The best duck mother ever, and a gorgeous, gray, long-necked hen. Click to enlarge; I demand it. Another duck report...
Institute for Energy Research

The United States Is Shuttling Ships Through the Strait of Hormuz - According to the New York Times, the United States has conducted stealth missions near the Omani coast, successfully shuttling tankers through… The post ...
Sawahil

A Changing Geography of U.S. Sanctions in the Middle East and Africa - The Trump administration flails on Iran and Sudan while cementing the opening with Syria.
Uncharted Territories

Shallow Intent: Why People Don’t Like AI Content, and How to Make It Great - And the winner of the poster competition!
Market Urbanism

Build Now Act math & map - On June 23, Congress passed its first big, standalone housing policy bill in a generation. The bill, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, is a salad of sm...
The Common Reader

Hegel and ‘Life of M’ - Ryan Ruby in the NLR
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Progressives Will Be Horrified When They Wake Up To What They’ve Done - The sterilization of children, the killing of mentally ill addicts, the decimation of education, and more, will haunt the Left
CO2 Coalition

EU Decarbonization Is a Security Threat for the West - by Dr. Samuel Furfari The Dutch Ministry of Defense has published its Energy Security Roadmap, a national strategy to ensure that its armed forces have r...
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 174 - Free Thoughts with Bowen & Twyman, Ep. 42 - Listen now | L'Affair D'Arday
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 174 - Free Thoughts with Bowen & Twyman, Ep. 42 - Listen now | L'Affair D'Arday
The Works in Progress Newsletter

A future of programmable medicine - What if instead of editing a gene, or blocking the protein it produces, you could simply switch it off?
AAS Economics (Frank Shostak)

July US Money Supply - and the winner is... - No one.
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

Implications of the New York Approval of RGGI Amendments - On August 5, 2026, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) approved amendments to Part 242 CO2 Budget Trading Program. This make...
Official Blog

The Tree of Life – Geocache of the Week - Traditional Cache GCP4ZC by The Softies Difficulty: 1 Terrain: 2 Location: Bahrain N 25° 59.888 E 050° 35.554 Imagine a trip through the desert as a weary ...
The Roots of Liberty

Fantasy Land - I recently had a brief exchange regarding socialized medicine, prompted by this tweet:
Reason Foundation

Fiscal red flags reveal growing problems in California governments and school districts - California has the largest total debt of any state in the nation, nearly $497 billion in state liabilities. The post Fiscal red flags reveal growing prob...
Conspicuous Cognition

Most Questions About AI Aren’t About AI - Why the AI revolution is a golden age for polymaths, philosophers, and moderate epistemic despair
Manhattan Contrarian

The Democratic Socialists Of America And Dolly Parton - The sad news today is that country music legend Dolly Parton has died. I admit that I’m not particularly a fan of country music. It’s not that I don’t like...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

Newly released texts confirm Anthony Fauci, other ‘experts,’ always knew mask mandates wouldn't work - The message was sent to avoid FOIA issues, while admitting aerosols drove COVID transmission, not respiratory droplets
Kiwipolitico

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

Apologising for Telling the Truth. - Revolutionaries should be made of sterner stuff.
Let Grow

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

New on Substack: Creator match, audience-specific content blocks, global reply rules, advanced podcast transcript editing, and more - Reach new subscribers, deepen relationships with the ones you have, and build a more sustainable business around your work
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

I Wouldn't Start From Here - The Trump administration proposes to amend NCA5. No amendment fixes that report — only Congress can restore integrity to climate assessments
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

A New Research Guide to the Stoic Attitudes and Behaviours Scale - Tim LeBon’s work developing and validating a measure of philosophical Stoicism
Can't Get Much Higher

Q but No Queens: An Album a Day - Featuring Quiet Riot, Quinn XCII, and Quincy Jones, among others
Maximum Progress

Contra Weisenthal on Highways - Does it matter whether building more houses lowers prices not?
Changing Lanes

The 50% Problem [repost] - Driving automation will start by making things worse
DGMLive

Japan 2000 now available on Nugs. - All 11 shows from The ConstruKction of Light tour of Japan are available to download on DGMLive or buy on CD through our partnership with Nugs.
The Whakataki Times

Erica Stanford’s Social Media Ban Bill Gets Support From Grand Coalition Mutant Chris Luxkins - THINK OF THE CHILDREN. The post Erica Stanford’s Social Media Ban Bill Gets Support From Grand Coalition Mutant Chris Luxkins appeared first on The Whak...
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

1820s poetry: from Byron's Don Juan, 1821 - Part of a quick review of the 19th century, before we launch into the 20th.
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: All True Stories End in Death - Ernest Hemingway? Lionel Trilling? Ladislaus Boros? Larry Williams? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: U.S. novelist Ernest Hemingway has been cr...
Stats Chat

NRL Predictions for Round 26 - Team Ratings for Round 26 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ...
The Logical Place

A Smaller Australian Senate - Australia has one of the largest upper houses in the democratic world relative to the size of its national parliament. The Senate currently consists of 76 ...
A Havenstein Moment.

A time for choosing - Party Mode
The Grumpy Economist

French Fables - An interesting brouhaha has broken out in France, lately famous for reinvigorating the idea of wealth taxes: The French government should default on (“annu...
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #60: Don’t Tell Them Everything You Know - Tell your audience what they need to know
Dramatic Pause

If the (adamantium) bones are good, the rest don’t matter - *A little bit different from today: An interview with the senior project director of Insomniac Games’ upcoming Marvel’s Wolverine game about adapting a 5...
Science+Story

The Missing Ingredient in Expert Trust - Your public value as an expert increasingly lies in helping people make good decisions. Especially when nobody knows the answer.
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Eudemian Ethics I.2 - A Target of Living Beautifully
Reason for Living

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

Thank you, Ukrainians! Happy Independence Day. - Today is a day for gratitude, sorrow, and renewed solidarity with Ukraine.
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

The Data Republican Drama, or: Social media can be a really stupid place full of really stupid people and increasingly I fear there’s nothing to do about it - Populist political movements face fierce opposition from the establishment press everywhere they exist, with unrelenting hostile coverage across all public...
The Weekly Sift

Best Descriptions - Here is the thing. If you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority o...
The Beauty of Things

There may have been drinking… - And cake and poetry and TIARAS! An update with photos from Frost Farm 2026, the most fun and convivial metrical poetry conference in town.
The Trichordist

Selected Phonorecords V Objections: The Society of Composers & Lyricists - The Society of Composers & Lyricists objects to the NMPA-backed Phonorecords V Subpart B settlement, arguing that its continued reliance on the 12¢ Phonore...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

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

Cookery for All - “We’re only cooked if we accept it.” —Blaine Holt on “X”
Institute of Economic Affairs

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

No place to hide? - Regional Resilience and Vulnerability to Global Catastrophic Risk
The Tracinski Letter

DSA WTF - I don’t mind this guy’s vote every once in a while, when we need it. But I don’t want him setting the agenda. I’ve been trying to catch up on some of the ...
Real Clear Energy: Video

They're WRONG About AI and Jobs - In a new show on business and finance at this transformative time for the global economy, Ben Shapiro talks directly with the founders, CEOs, and investors...
A life just as ordinary

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

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

On Socialism and Democracy - This Post appeared on the Facebook page of The Federalist Papers: DSA [Democratic Socialists of America] Co-Chair Megan Romer did Americans a favor by sa...
Not On Your Team, But Always Fair

Why left-progressives adopt appalling people as moral mascots - They make for stronger signals of shared moral heroism
The Future of Being Human

Pre-Registered Play (Open April 25, 2027) - I'm trying something a little different here, and pre-registering a project I'll be playing with over the next eight months — but in a sealed digital envel...
Happy Future

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

sunday memepool 2 - more tips for the modern age
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

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

The Collapse of the Chinese Communist Party. Finally. - When Exactly, I Don’t Know. But It Won’t Survive the Economic and Social Crisis Before It.
New Zealand Arts Review

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

Will AI Replace Human Labour? Revisiting a Question I First Asked in 2015 - In 2015, I wrote an essay entitled, “Will robots replace human labour and reduce real wage levels?” That essay still seems to attract quite a lot of a...
Wright in Racine

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

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

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

Weekend short read: Fire is a metaphor, until its not - Prescribed burns and unprescribed ones, and what it means to me to be where I am
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

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

Delete Human Capital - When your moral and intellectual betters attack
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

My Appearance on Rita Panahi’s Show - Discussing my upcoming documentary “The Illegal Highways”
Gale Winds

Chipotle Burrito Abundance - Money may be less valuable, but your time buys 21 percent more burrito compared to 2010.
The Intrinsic Perspective

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

When Smaller Models Win - Chess, LoRA, and the case for specialized AI
Schiffradio.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

Qatar is Targeting the Black Community: Why? And why now? - Check out our articles to learn more:
Public Lands – PERC

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

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

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

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

COVID: OFF-LABEL - Medsafe approved Pfizer’s booster at six months. New Zealand moved to five, then to four, and finally, three. The more interesting story is how the law cha...
Jensen's Economic, Precious Metals, & Markets Newsletter

Gold And Silver Led The Current Run In Interest Rates; Diesel Shortage Hits Markets; Trump Calls UAE After Its Gold Transfer To Iran - An interesting pattern has been developing since 2018.
Harry’s Substack

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

Can religion save us from ennui? TS Eliot's The Cocktail Party: Online play-reading on November 1. - Sign up to choose a role.
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

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

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

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

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

It takes two hands to handle a Whopper - Well, not anymore.
Risk & Progress

Lifeless to Living - When does matter become life?
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

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

The real tragedy of the Jason Arday story - It's a well worn cliche that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the tragic death of Jason Arday has highlighted the signposts to that he...
The Shrewd Artist

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

Power of Sovereignty - Don’t Play Inside the System
Macroscience

Ina Ganguli on the Supply of Innovators - Economics of Ideas, Science, and Innovation Lecture 3.
An Africanist Perspective

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Pruning Season" - A poem contemplating impermanence, and a book announcement
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yen Turning Point - While official intervention captures the headlines, the credit creation fundamentals are the strongest indication of a change in direction of the yen again...
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No. 1 - Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
In Due Course

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Farmville - The Autonomous Future of Agriculture
No Punches Pulled

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writings hosted elsewhere - The Breakthrough Institute Interactive Brokers Campus
BloodhoundBlog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Genesis -
Power + Market

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1828 – Championing Freedom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Surrealist Writers Union Goes on Strike -
makingnewzealand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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IP Anyone? - Intellectual Property Anyone? Tibor R. Machan There is a debate afoot now about whether one ever owns the likes of a novel, poem, computer game, song, arra...
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Jesse Colombo’s Interview On The Doug McIntyre Show On 790 KABC - I had an interview with Doug McIntyre on 790 KABC today, and here is the audio file. I will also upload this to Youtube shortly. Jesse Colombo’s Interview ...
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