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Monday, 23 March 2026

Freedom is a nation's greatest resource

"Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free."
~ Montesquieu from his 1748 book The Spirit of Law [hat tip FEE]

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The Double Standard

Daily review 20/08/2026 - Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the P...
Zero Hanger

UPDATED: The players your team has been linked to in 2026 – AFL trade news - Here are the names your club has been tied to this year👇
Techdirt

Even As Disease Outbreaks Abound, American Vaccination Rates In Children Fall - The past 18 months have seen a significant number of health issues, perhaps crises, arise in America. Measles, cyclosporiasis, whooping cough, and more hav...
Kiwiblog

How much land tax will you pay? - TOP has proposed a 1.75% tax on the value of urban land (except Maori communal land) and 0.5% on rural land. It is worth noting that land values have bee...
No Right Turn

An easy policy - Up until the 2023 election Aotearoa had an effective school lunch program. Kids got fed on locally-produced food, improving educational and employment outc...
No Minister

A Deep(er) Dive into Modern Anarcho‑Tyranny: The New Zealand Variant - “Gentle State, Harsh Bureaucracy” Why NZ’s High‑Trust Culture Makes It Especially Vulnerable to Anarcho‑Tyranny New Zealand is often described as a peacefu...
ArchDaily

Strathmore Courtyard House / Studio Ceravolo - A three-level extension to an existing solid brick Art Deco home, this project is anchored around a courtyard garden at its core, creating a zone around ...
The Footy Almanac

Almanac (WAFL) Footy: Thank You, Congratulations and Farewell West Perth’s ‘Jeff from Finance’ - Dennis Gedling pays a heartfelt tribute to Aaron Black from WAFL club West Perth who is about to become a 300-gamer in his final match this weekend. 'Forev...
The Daily Sceptic

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

DW News: Will food insecurity spark ‘large-scale conflict’? - Uploaded August 20, 2026
The Daily Doom

The Collapse Is Here! Global Bond Market Implodes, US Treasury to the Rescue! - The superbubble is imploding everywhere today.
Brash & Mitchell

RODNEY HIDE - The Paper Trail of Silence: What They Knew, What They Hid, and How the Inquiries Missed It - Imagine a medical authority receiving explicit, documented warnings that a mandated pharmaceutical product carries a heightened risk of heart inflammation ...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Voter Ignorance and the Problem of Confusion Caused by Candidates With Similar Names [Updated] - Voter confusion caused by candidates with similar names – as in the current Alaska Senate race – is part of the much larger problem of political ignorance....
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Scott Bessent: The Very Dumbest Treasury Secretary Yet - Click on Title to Read
Greater Auckland

Unclogging arterials – but not at the cost of active modes - Auckland Transport is proposing improvements to bus and transit lanes on key arterials, for “safer, easier and more reliable journeys” on Remuera Rd, Mt ...
IPWatchdog Articles

Fresenius Says to Congress, ‘Do as I Say Not as I Do’ on Drug Patents - Congress frequently seeks advice from experts in a wide variety of industries. In theory, this expert testimony helps lawmakers craft better, more nuance...
Truth on the Market

Cartels With Benefits: The Trouble With Extending Labor’s Antitrust Exemption - Antitrust law’s usual instruction to competitors who agree on price is admirably brief: Don’t. Labor law makes a deliberate exception for employees who b...
JoNova

Winning: NZ parliament ends climate activists hopes of using tort lawfare to shut down the economy - By Jo Nova This New Zealand law matters to all of us The Globalist Blob lawyers are trying to exploit wormholes in our legal framework. One legal case i...
The Integrity Institute

News Briefing: 20 August 2026 - ELECTION 2026: CAMPAIGN, PARTIES AND POLLS
Energy Transition Absurdities

IER: Trump Extends Jones Act Waiver - [Note: Another excellent report from the energy analysts at the Institute for Energy Research.]
Futurism

Unitree’s New Robot Can Sprint Faster Than Usain Bolt, Though the Way It Moves May Give You Nightmares About Demons - There's no outrunning the machines now. The post Unitree’s New Robot Can Sprint Faster Than Usain Bolt, Though the Way It Moves May Give You Nightmares A...
A Havenstein Moment.

A Temporary Coup De Grâce - Correlation is not necessarily not causation
Breaking Views

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Who really believes Labour won't give us more taxes? - Hands up - who believes Labour when they say none of their political mates will be allowed to introduce their taxes in a future Labour-led Government?This ...
The Curmudgeon

Pax Americana - A major joint military exercise in South Korea has been abruptly and unilaterally terminated, apparently because the Trumpster is concerned about Kim Jong-...
Middle East Uncovered

The Fight for Afghanistan Isn’t Over - As armed opposition groups intensify attacks amid Taliban divisions, Lt. Gen. Sami Sadat explains in an exclusive interview why his forces have begun comba...
Curbed - All

Fortress Columbia, Two Years Later - The university closed its gates in a crisis. But now it’s courting a new one.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

It’s Not Money, It’s Time - In the time zone that is America.
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

Hiding in Plain Sight: Chief Justice Winkelmann’s revolutionary vision - LawNews
Cato at Liberty

President Trump Is Right to Reach Out to North Korea - President Trump’s decision to scale back this month’s military exercises with South Korea—and his reported push to meet Kim Jong Un as soon as November—has...
Conspicuous Cognition

Navigating the Intelligence Explosion (with Fin Moorhouse) - Watch now | Explosive technological progress, the "grand challenges" on the path to superintelligence, space expansion, and the ethics and politics of arti...
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Assessing *Modern Times* - Using ChatGPT to answer an old labor-intensive question
The New York Review of Books

Ghosts of Amrum - The story of Amrum—a German movie about the last days and immediate aftermath of World War II as experienced by a twelve-year-old boy on the isolated North...
Institute for Energy Research

Texas Pauses Data Center Construction - Texas is poised to become one of the world’s largest AI data center hubs, with plenty of land, decent energy… The post Texas Pauses Data Center Construct...
Official Blog

B.R.T. — Geocache of the Week - Traditional GC7Q4F0 by goblindust Difficulty: 2 Terrain: 2 Location: Washington, United States N 47° 26.798′ W 122° 50.177’ Along the shores of Washington’...
Real Clear Energy

Vietnam Plugs In - Robert Bryce Vietnam has the largest trade surplus with the US of any country in the world — larger than China's and bigger than Mexico's. This 8-minute ...
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

THB Global Extreme Weather and Climate Change Dashboard - A global dashboard that covers 288 indicators from 57 variables across 8 phenomena and for the entire world and every continent
Retraction Watch

A New Zealand journal deleted a paper for potential harm to Māori months after publishing it - When Arna Mitchell submitted her article critiquing a proposal for different standards of practice for Māori and non-Māori clients in clinical psychology, ...
Conversable Economist

“Syntax often breaks down just at the point where a new or significant meaning is beginning to break out” - When writing feels hard, perhaps it is because you are on the cusp of saying something significant or interesting? The thought is oddly comforting to me....
Why Evolution Is True

Still more on Jason Arday - I thought the media fracas about Jason Arday would settle down soon after he died (likely via suicide), but it hasn’t. Now people are busy affixing blame ...
ROBERT FRIPP

When a musician believes that music is a commodity, music has just died in them… - Words 96 · RF@80 Series.
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...
Skeptic

The Life and Death and Life of Repressed Memories - Unpack the resurgence of the dangerous “repressed memory” myth. Harvard psychologist Richard McNally and social psychologist Carol Tavris dismantle pseudos...
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...
Marginal Revolution

How much can you consistently care about animal welfare? - We explore the welfare costs of the loss of animal life in a consequentialist total utilitarian framework that incorporates the intrinsic value of living...
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 173 - African-Irish (Eric Ehigie) - Listen now | An interview with Irishman Eric Ehigie
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 173 - African-Irish (Eric Ehigie) - Listen now | An interview with Irishman Eric Ehigie
FIRE

Professors are being squeezed on all sides. The GUARD Act can protect them. - Government pressure on professors is surging. FIRE’s GUARD Act gives states a blueprint to protect faculty speech and academic freedom.
AAS Economics (Frank Shostak)

The Charts You Can't Find Elsewhere - This framework is unique
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Arday and downstream postmodernism - Two factors about the long reach of skeptical philosophy and its practical results. Social construction of reality: If influential philosophers teach that ...
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Does daycare damage children's brains? - If it had a clear effect on children we would know by now.
Living Resources Center

The Silly Campaign of Darline Graham for U.S. Senate (South Carolina) - Darline Graham vs. Ralph Norman? It seems like a no-brainer. Lindsey Graham’s sister may be a nice enough lady, but you can’t run for U S. Senate based o...
The Daily Economy

Trump Pauses 50% Scheduled Tariffs on Canada -
Brownstone Institute

Staying Human: Introduction - Staying Human: Introduction by Thomas Harrington at Brownstone Institute [image: Staying Human: Introduction] *[The following is the Introduction to Thom...
The Roots of Liberty

OPM - Children’s Edition - Long-time readers of The Free Press may recall how Bari Weiss, Abigail Shrier, and their cohorts exposed the “factory” treatment of minors who thought they...
ChinaTalk

North Korean Messiah - American Protestant Christianity and the DPRK cult of personality
Slow Boring

Two kinds of moderate Democrats - There are many pragmatists, but few have the courage to say what they really think.
Law & Liberty

Hume’s Philosophical Conservatism - Hume approached philosophy conservatively. The result was a politics that valued inheritance and aimed at the common good.
EconLog

Atlas Shrugged and Interventionism - I. Atlas Shrugged in Brazil In 1988, when I was 27 years old, I read Ayn Rand for the first time. It was her novel *Atlas Shrugged*, in its just-released ...
Sawahil

Notes on Graeme Wood's "Did al-Qaida Succeed?" - A skeptical article that nevertheless leaves many assumptions unchallenged.
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Sound Money, Explained - The more people understand the nature and functions of money, the better they can hold their elected officials accountable for maintaining sound money.
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

New Report Says Miliband’s Clean Power Plan Will Cost £320 Billion - By Paul Homewood h/t Doug Brodie A new bombshell report destroys the case for Net Zero: Executive Summary The UK’s expensive electricity is weighing on...
The Whakataki Times

Helen Clark Says Beauden Barrett Should Be Starting At Fullback - HELEN'S RECKONS. The post Helen Clark Says Beauden Barrett Should Be Starting At Fullback appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
Mises Wire

The Flock Camera Backlash Is a Very Good Sign - The backlash against automated license plate readers is not really about traffic cameras. It is about a public that no longer assumes the people in charge ...
Mises Institute Blog

The Flock Camera Backlash Is a Very Good Sign - The backlash against automated license plate readers is not really about traffic cameras. It is about a public that no longer assumes the people in charge ...
GeekPress

Super Super Glue - *"Engineers* Create Superglue That Bonds in 10 Seconds, Holds For Years And Gets Stronger Underwater". (Via H.R.)
The Antiplanner

Portland’s War on Cars - The Cascade Policy Institute has published the Antiplanner’s policy brief about Portland’s War on Cars in three parts: How Portland is losing the war; The ...
The Antiplanner

Portland’s War on Cars - The Cascade Policy Institute has published the Antiplanner’s policy brief about Portland’s War on Cars in three parts: How Portland is losing the war; The ...
Hoover institution Commentary

Don’t Assume They Got It Right - Luke Nichter — a Hoover Institution Griffin Fellow and Presidential Studies chair at Chapman University — on Washington archives, court fights over Waterga...
Samizdata

Fake polling as a “short term social experiment” - The Telegraph has picked up an interesting story from the Los Angeles Times: “Polling putting Democratic Socialist in the lead was fake, admits firm” Po...
Tim Worstall

How weird - I’ve never accepted that. Britain is the fifth largest economy in the world. We’ve built the NHS, developed life-saving vaccines and invented the world w...
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Israel Bombs Turkish Base in Syria -
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

But global inequality has fallen, is falling and, as far as anyone knows, is going to continue to fall - Why do we require a global organisation to reduce inequality if inequality is reducing without a global organisation? Forty prominent progressive academi...
Astral Codex Ten

Why I'm Staying Out Of The Substack Religion Debate - ...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

Electric Sector Reform and Regional Transmission Organizations: A Government Creation That It is No Longer Working - Rising electric bills have become a political lightning rod. While data centers are the cost villain du jour, the reality is that far less visible componen...
Spiked Online

Is this the Church of England’s Arday affair? - The post Is this the Church of England’s Arday affair? appeared first on spiked.
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: Before You Speak - Not every judgment needs saying.
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Twiforked – bifurcate; divided in two; having two parts; two-pronged.
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...
SkyscraperCity Forum

Jaffna | Yarl Royal Palace | Tilko Blue Ocean | 19 FL | Proposed - *Tilko Blue Ocean Holdings (Pvt) Ltd*. has signed an agreement with the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI) to develop *Yarl Royal Palace*, a *high‑rise ...
Kiwipolitico

Fear-mongering the “Other.” - One of the signs of desperation of a political campaign, movement or ideology is the resort to fear mongering. Rather than offer a a bias for hope in the f...
The Free Press

Arthur Brooks: Why Bumble Embraced Human Nature - The dating app Bumble is famous for its requirement that women message first. But last week, it changed its policy due to a simple reality: Most women want...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

One of Anthony Fauci’s top allies pleads guilty for attempting to ‘defraud the United States’ - Yet another discrediting day for Fauci
Watts Up With That?

Energy Cost Before Energy Generation - Energy systems have to satisfy many requirements simultaneously: reliability, affordability, environmental impact, resource requirements, infrastructure ...
John D. Cook

Big little hexagon - A new paper just came out, The Maximum-Area Small Polygon Problem. The paper solves the problem of finding, for each n, the n-gon with diameter 1 and max...
UnHerd

A storm is coming for Labour - The climate gods will decide Andy Burnham’s fate
The Grumpy Economist

Three news items and a lesson - Today, a few small recent economic news items add up to a bigger picture.
Marcus on AI

Google’s biggest mistake? - A theory about what went wrong, and some open questions about what might happen next
History Reclaimed

Clement Attlee: Apostle of Empire? - The post-war Labour government began British decolonisation. But Attlee and his ministers acted out of financial necessity rather than a strong anti-coloni...
Harry’s Substack

Claude is now smarter than me - An amazing conversation with my favorite AI agent
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

The More Illegal Immigrants, the Worse the Case for Mass Deportation - A new estimate says 15M, but if there are more, the case for mass deportation is worse.
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

The More Illegal Immigrants, the Worse the Case for Mass Deportation - A new estimate says 15M, but if there are more, the case for mass deportation is worse.
American Energy Alliance

Trump Administration Brings Relief To American Families By Extending Jones Act Waiver - The Jones Act of 1920 requires that ships engaged in domestic U.S. maritime trade be built, owned, crewed, and flagged in the United States. While defend...
Dramatic Pause

By the Numbers: Lontalius - *Eddie Johnston, aka Lontalius, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and producer known for intimate, emotionally direct music that moves between indie roc...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

Wellington Jazz Festival Unveils Spectacular Programme of Global Stars and Exclusive Aotearoa Debuts - From 14-18 October, the Wellington Jazz Festival returns to the capital for its 30th anniversary year, with an electrifying programme of international ar...
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

Don Brash & Te Pāti Māori agree on a strategy - After 30 years of Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) representation, we may finally have reached the point where everyone works out how to properly game the s...
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

BREAKING! The Damage We Feared: COVID Masking and Our Children’s Speech - Speech-language IEPs are now at the highest rate ever recorded. The states that masked longest have the most young children in special education. Neither a...
Flashbak

Abba to Zappa: 1970s Rock Gods and other Music Legends – in photos - “The seventies: hectic, exciting, creative, constantly reinventing itself, full of self-confidence, sometimes tiresome, but never for long. What I’m sayi...
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.
Anthony B. Bradley

Bringing The Fatherhood Effect To Your Church, School, Non-Profit - Grant support means I can bring The Fatherhood Effect to your church at essentially no cost
Anthony B. Bradley

Bringing The Fatherhood Effect To Your Church, School, Non-Profit - Grant support means I can bring The Fatherhood Effect to your church at essentially no cost
Israel Institute of NZ

Israel Derangement Syndrome: When Israel ceases to be a country and becomes an explanation - There is nothing unusual about criticising a country. Governments make mistakes. Democracies invite scrutiny. Israel is no exception. Israelis themselves c...
The Common Reader

Submerged memory: C.S. Lewis and the art of forgetting - When my children were little, they wanted me to make up a story for them.
The UnPopulist

Liberal Democracy Is Not Self-Sustaining - It endures only as long as its advocates can make a compelling case for it, as exiled Hong Kong dissident Nathan Law argued at LibCon2026
Public: Michael Shellenberger

EXCLUSIVE: Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Moraes Created Blacklist That Included Another Justice - Key ally of Lula — who oversaw sweeping censorship — also demanded the courts tell him whether they employed anyone who participated in protests on January...
Reason Foundation

Fourteen school districts announce plans to shutter 147 schools in 2026 - Plus: Three of the nation’s largest public school districts are navigating significant budget crises as we head into the school year. The post Fourteen s...
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

What Happens If OpenAI Dies? - If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It's *$70 a year*, *$18 a quarter*, or *$7 a month*, and in return you get a wee...
CO2 Coalition

Electricity Policy Is Economic Policy: The Race For Reliable Power - By Ronald Stein*, Olivia Vaughan, and Steve Curtis Electricity policy, at its core is economic policy. Nations that can produce abundant, reliable, and a...
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

How to Mentally Rehearse Coping - Lesson 2 of The Stoic Mind Miniseries
Stats Chat

NRL Predictions for Round 25 - Team Ratings for Round 25 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ...
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

The Possible Dream - A rational, this-worldly concept of perfection in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and politics
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

Three Years Later - On the approaching anniversary of my father's death
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #59: Aristotle's Timeless Formula for Persuasion - Why ethos, logos, and pathos still shape the world’s most powerful communication
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.
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Thinking in Six Directions - Yet Another Life Perspective
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 1197 Chips-data-centers and debt. Emirates and the mercenaries. Sweet sickness, Yesterday & the comeback of British cheese. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
DGMLive

Red returns to the Polygon Portal - Back by popular demand, reserve your tickets now for another listening experience featuring the 1974 King Crimson album on Sunday, October 4, in London.
bad cattitude

pathology and normalcy - and the road to return
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

The Smithsonian Museum of Woke 1.0 - A proposed exhibit on the American Woke Cultural Revolution at The Smithsonian
The Rebuild

Prior Authorization Is Costing More Than We Think - It is no surprise that health care costs continue to remain a top concern for Americans, with recent polling showing almost two-thirds of adults are worrie...
The Cobden Centre

What’s in your wallet ? - “At precisely the moment civilization celebrates digital currencies, tokenized assets, algorithmic settlement systems, cloud-based records, and increasingl...
Changing Lanes

Blinded by the Light (repost) - Solutions for too-bright headlights
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

Beavis and Butt-Head vs. White Privilege Theory - The clip shows Beavis and Butt-head in college, where they appear to walk into class late and are reprimanded by their professor.
Quillette

Creeping Annexation - Israeli governments have never decided what to do with the West Bank—so the settlers have begun deciding for them.
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Rich and Successful Men Do Not Have "Power" over Women - What MeToo culture, NIMBY, and nuclear safetyism all have in common
Perennial Meditations

Thoreau on the Marrow of Life - Perennial Meditations (Vol. 17)
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Starving Artists, Pace Killers, Rock Bottom - Links and recommendations + the best sleep upgrade I've ever had
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

Trump’s Posts May Prove Comey’s Vindictive and Selective Prosecution Claims - James Comey’s recent motion to dismiss his seashells threats indictment on vindictive and selective prosecution grounds relies partly on President Trump’...
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.
Doomberg

Over Target - The raw geopolitics of energy foretell an ugly end to the war in Ukraine.
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: I Find Ecstasy in Living; the Mere Sense of Living Is Joy Enough - Emily Dickinson? Thomas Wentworth Higginson? Mabel Loomis Todd? M. Lincoln Schuster? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: A prominent literary figu...
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

Why You Knew Better and Did It Anyway - We usually explain regret as knowing better but lacking discipline.
Notes On Liberty

Between “Arctic Doom” and “Arctic Boom,” Part 2: Inuit Autonomy and Sovereign Restoration: Nunavut and Greenlandic Self-Rule - This historical march culminated in two massive geopolitical shifts at the turn of the century: the creation of Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic and the stea...
Point of Order

ACT wants to ban working-time karakia in the public service – but MBIE shows why more prayers might be a blessing - Bob Edlin writes – The Taxpayers’ Union has drawn attention to the cost of daily prayers and sing-songs in just a few of the country’s many state agencies...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

A Privilege to be on The Platform with Michael Laws. -
PM of NZ

Winston is obviously not getting paid - Winston First leader today apparently surprised his coalition partner with "an absolute waste!". Luxo thought his caucus was "United, I tell ya!", but it...
The Trichordist

Selected Phonorecords V Comments: The Missing Record: Independent Songwriters Ask What the Phonorecords V Settlement Doesn’t Tell Us - Helienne Lindvall, David Lowery, and Blake Morgan ask a fundamental Phonorecords V question: when a private settlement becomes an industry-wide statutory r...
Glenn’s Substack

It takes two hands to handle a Whopper - Well, not anymore.
New Zealand Arts Review

NZTrio’s Space Jump - Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples NZ Trio, Space Jump Auckland Concert Chamber August 16 Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples The title of the NZTrio’s latest concert...
Chris Trotter

No More Experiments In the Social Laboratory. - If nobody moves, then nobody, or at least nobody in the top one percent of income earners, is going to get hurt.
David Stockman's Contra Corner

How Secy Bessent Is Going Full-Hegseth Retard To No Avail - Six months after Trumpy & Bibi launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran on February 28th, the so-called kinetic campaign has settled into a costly stale...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

The Dumb Lives Matter Parliament protest revenge backlash is why NZFirst is in double digits - When you listen to any of Winston’s speeches, the two biggest cheers he gets are when he bashes the Trans...
The Weekly Sift

Far Out - There’s a maddening tendency among elected officials and the political press to equate “far left” and “far right” candidates as occupying equally extreme, ...
The Breakthrough Journal

Does Congress Even Have a Critical Minerals Strategy? - Prospects for the Remainder of the 119th Session
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

How to Make a Marriage Proposal - At least here's how I did it
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

The Mother of All Crossroads - You'd think someone who'd just won as much power as the 32 year old Octavian would appreciate a best-selling epic poem in praise of himself. Only fourteen ...
The Economic LongWave

⚙️The Technology Survives. The Leverage Does Not. - 🛫The technology can change civilization while investors still lose fortunes buying it at the wrong price
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 523 - Standards and In-factory Inspections - Buildings erected using factory-made subassemblies or large volumetric modular chunks must conform to the same codes and regulations that apply to con...
Kunstler

Realignments - “A sane society cannot debate its way out of psychosis. It must diagnose the patient with lethal precision and restore the ancient boundary between the mad...
Risk & Progress

Lifeless to Living - When does matter become life?
Let Grow

“Arrest Moms Who Let Their Kids Play Outside?” Asks The New York Times - [image: Mallerie Scooter 1] The New York Times is sounding a lot like Let Grow. Here’s a headline from its front page on Thursday: Is Letting Children Out ...
American Institute of Economic Research

Germany’s Auto Giant Is Losing the Race - Automakers from Germany to Detroit are at a crossroads. Do they produce cars for consumers or for political points? Ford and Volkswagen are finding out w...
The Jolly Libertarian

How a Self-help Book Resolved a Philosophical Conundrum Part 1 - A commentary on the underlying philosophy of Shane Parrish's *Clear Thinking* As my readers may know, I've long been a fan of the so-called self-help move...
Schiffradio.com

The Next Leg Down in Your Standard of Living Just Started - Peter Schiff on plunging retail sales, sticky inflation, the Fed's stealth QE, and why the world is now leaving the dollar standard. The post The Next Le...
Manhattan Contrarian

D.C. Circuit Endangerment Finding Litigation: The Nefarious EPA "Futility" Analysis - Readers of my previous (August 13) post on the Endangerment Finding (EF) litigation pending in the D.C. Circuit may have come away wondering about this iss...
The Logical Place

Equality of Opportunity and the Classless Society - The idea of a classless society is often associated with economic equality. On this view, society remains divided into classes so long as some people are s...
Energy in Depth

Permian Produced Water Solutions Move From Research to Reality - For years, the oil and gas industry has been working to find new ways to manage and reuse the millions of barrels of water produced alongside oil and gas...
The Tracinski Letter

Donald Trump’s Zombie Zombie Empire - Yeah, this is not the kind of promise you keep putting out—again and again and again—when you can actually win the war. In news links here and in commenta...
Tross Publishing

CHRISTOPHER LUXON – Enemy of New Zealand? - By John McLean Christopher Luxon might be a bit short on governing skills but when it comes to selfishness and lack of patriotism he seems to be right up...
Sustain What

Want to Protect Your House in the Fiery West? "Think Like an Ember" - The fight to slow global warming will take decades; here are actions to cut fire risk day by day. Embers are fire's emissary. Block them for starters.
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...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Jason Arday and the Scourge of Professional Minority Academics - Jason Arday, the Cambridge professor at the centre of an explosive plagiarism and diversity hiring scandal, was found dead Friday at his home in Battersea.
Can't Get Much Higher

Breaking Records on Tour: A Conversation with Nordista Freeze - Nordista Freeze recently broke the world record for the fewest days to play a concert in all 50 US states. He stopped by to talk about his whirlwind tour.
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 Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Dave Marsh: 1950-2026 - Pioneering and Prolific Rock Critic Was Perhaps Best Known as Bruce Springsteen's Biographer and Friend
O'Shannassy's Dispatches from Collapse

Our Descent Into Economic Fascism - The Churches, the WEF, the Globalists...and One Hell of a Conspiracy Theory
Freedom and Flourishing

What can Libertarians Learn from Foucault? - Before reading Mark Pennington’s recent book, *Foucault and Liberal Political Economy**: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom*, it would not have occurred to...
A Halfling's View

Aeolus and Unfavourable Winds - Ships are still at the mercy of the Gods
Cremieux Recueil

How Do You Ask An LLM a Question? - LLMs are making people's takes more ambitious and confident, even when they're wrong
Thinking Directions

The Thinker Identity (Part 1) - My business coach encourages us to develop a new identity in order to produce at a higher level — to create more value for more people and therefore earn...
Knowledge Problem

Art After Aristocracy: Tocqueville on Democratic Culture - Essay 10 in Reading Tocqueville at 250
Knowledge Problem

Art After Aristocracy: Tocqueville on Democratic Culture - Essay 10 in Reading Tocqueville at 250
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
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

"The casualty is the American citizen. We now all have to watch our back even more carefully when we're on the highway." - My Latest Appearance on News24 Australia
Asimov’s Addendum

The Apache Lesson for AI - In 1995, the question in the media was whether Netscape or Microsoft would control the web. The answer, it turned out, was neither.
Construction Physics

Reading List — 08/15/2026 - Home price declines, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, The Boring Company fundraising, and more.
Yascha Mounk

The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: How States Form - Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama delve into 9/11, the hubris of humanitarian intervention, and the letter he regretted signing.
Persuasion

The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: How States Form - Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama delve into 9/11, the hubris of humanitarian intervention, and the letter he regretted signing.
Quotulatiousness

“Forestalling collapse is simple: all we need do is reinstate meritocracy within institutions” - John Carter discusses the ever-more-concerning collapse in basic competence in western societies, which left unchecked will absolutely lead to civilization...
Lindsay Mitchell

The Anxiety Epidemic - Over the last twenty years the number of people depending on a benefit due to psychological or psychiatric reasons has increased by 140 percent. Meanwhil...
The War on Prices

The DSA Can Abolish Bills—It Can’t Abolish Costs - The Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) new platform promises a world without bills.
The Library of Celaeno

Library Bums: The Absolute Scum of the Earth - The Reader in Liberal Modernity
Gale Winds

Oreobundance - Over 500 billion cookies have been sold worldwide across more than 100 countries.
Keiran Murphy (FLW Historian)

Links to my writing about the 1914 fire and murders at Taliesin - Reading Time: 2 minutesAlbert Rockwell took this on Taliesin’s Hill Crown looking (plan) northeast at its living quarters after the August 15, 1914 fire....
Macroscience

Ina Ganguli on the Supply of Innovators - Economics of Ideas, Science, and Innovation Lecture 3.
Doug Casey's International Man

The Bureaucratic Ratchet: Why Government Only Moves in One Direction - Government power tends to expand step by step, gradually replacing freedom, market coordination, and individual initiative with regulation, taxation, and...
Gus Van Horn

Four Nifty Things - *A Friday Hodgepodge* *Editor's Note: I will be recovering from a minor medical procedure next week and will not be blogging, although I will probably post...
Sinification

Strong Supply, Weak Demand, Little Urgency? | Economic Digest: July 2026 - The H1 Economy | The K-Shaped Economy | Strong Supply, Weak Demand | Local Government | Involution & Overcapacity | Artificial Intelligence
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...
Dr Oliver Hartwich

The umlaut premium - Bürgen bread, often mistaken as German, was actually an Australian product created by Doug Leighton, symbolising authenticity through its umlaut rather tha...
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
Offsetting Behaviour

Reader mailbag - prediction markets - In today's inbox: Hello Eric, My name is [redacted]. I read your article about prediction market regulation with interest. As a student in 2013 I plac...
Paul Wells

Montreal 1976: State capacity's original sin - The Olympics were supposed to demonstrate the power of idealism. Then everything fell apart
Stewart Margolis

Is Democratic Socialism the Next Big Thing? - Just as the nomination of Donald Trump in 2016 should have been a wake-up call for traditional conservatives, the election of socialist Zohran Mamdani as m...
McFaul's World

The Best Conversations From My Book Tour - Highlights from conversations about democracy, autocracy, American foreign policy, and the new global disorder.
Reason for Living

Help Me Promote Reason and Curiosity - I am planning a wide range of new projects, including more Reason for Living content, but I can't do it without your support
Libertarian Land

California's Minimum Wage Hike - Firms respond to minimum wage hikes in multiple ways.
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

How Neighboring Electric Systems Handled the July 2026 Heat Wave - This is the fourth post in my series on the electric system impacts of the late-June/early-July 2026 heat wave. The first two posts (here and here) covered...
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...
Andrew Whiteside

Review: An Enemy of the People - In 1882 Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote a play called An Enemy of the People which was about a scientist who discovers the water used by spas in th...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Ep33 "Which Way Western Man?" Part 5 (Jesus III) w/ Brynhildr - Chapter 3b. Jesus in Retrospect
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...
Market Urbanism

A new paper on high-rise emissions - One argument for height limits and similar regulations is that high-rise apartment buildings generate more greenhouse gas emissions than low-rise apartment...
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 ...
HardmoneyJim

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

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

Journalist who reported on slaves in Qatar jailed - Abdullah Ibhais abducted by Jordanian intelligence on behalf of Qatar
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

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

Data Center Backlash Has Republicans Panicking -
Uncharted Territories

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

Anthony Fauci’s Diary Demonstrates the Immorality of Government Pandemic Involvement - Only true capitalism prepares for and fights pandemics without violating individual rights
Not On Your Team, But Always Fair

L’affaire Arday - A few reflections on an academic scandale du jour
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

"Pruning Season" - A poem contemplating impermanence, and a book announcement
On Substack

A career journalist covering spies and national security was hit with a $1 million defamation lawsuit. He turned to Substack Defender for help—and won - We spoke to SpyTalk's Jeff Stein in the days after his lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice in federal court
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

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

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

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

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

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

New project: Real In Its Consequences - Who controls how we define mental illness?
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.
Muss Montessori School

Forget the Worksheets: This Is How Children Really Learn Math - Many parents believe that completing pages of math worksheets is the best way to improve a child’s math skills. The truth is that children learn mathemat...
Croaking Cassandra

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

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

The End of the Endangered Species Act? - and the Costs of Environmental Land Use Regulation
What You Can Do For Liberty

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

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

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

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

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

The success and failure of the Montreal Protocol - And why its lessons aren’t easily transferable
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

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

Bill Oddie: An Unlikely New Zealand Punk - Remembering a childhood favorites trip to Dunedin
The Enlightened Examiner

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

No. 1 - Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
Wright in Racine

Racine’s Secret is Revealed - © Mark Hertzberg (2026) Racine, Wisconsin has a long-hidden architectural secret. I have known this secret for several decades. Now, thanks to the latest O...
Principled Perspectives

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

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

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

Goodbye Slopstack! Also, a $50,000 essay/fiction contest, adversarial consciousness tech, & more - Desiderata #41
One Useful Thing

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

Your Favorite Regulation Is Probably Hurting You - Most people think regulations protect the poor. The data says the opposite.
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

More Misconduct by Stuart Nash - Realpolitik in operation: Nash ceases to be NZF candidate
Houston Strategies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Twisted Teens: Florida Water Blues - Way back in 1963 in his liner notes to the Beatles' debut album Please Please Me, the PR man/reviewer Tony Barrow opened his extensive liner essay with “...
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

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

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

Winston Peters announces citizens-only voting policy - New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, today in Warkworth, has unveiled a strong new policy to restore integrity to the country’s electoral system.
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...
The Trumpland Diary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Farmville - The Autonomous Future of Agriculture
No Punches Pulled

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writings hosted elsewhere - The Breakthrough Institute Interactive Brokers Campus
BloodhoundBlog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Genesis -
Power + Market

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1828 – Championing Freedom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Surrealist Writers Union Goes on Strike -
makingnewzealand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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