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Monday, 25 August 2025

Greed is good

"Call it 'greed' if you want. But greed built the light bulb, the skyscraper, the airplane, and the vaccine. Envy never built a thing."
~ Rock Chartrand

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The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

ACT want to paramilitarize Vigilante Security Goons to touch our kids & whanau - Just when you thought the inane vigilante laws National are ramming through weren’t bad enough, now ACT wants to paramilitarize...
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: The Most Dangerous Worldview is the Worldview of Those Who Have Not Viewed the World - Alexander von Humboldt? Moritz Goldschmidt? Edward O. Wilson? Phil Cousineau? Martin Kues? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Often people with a ...
Marginal Revolution

America the Beautiful, 250 years! - The post America the Beautiful, 250 years! appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related Stories - Reconstruction of the Fables - Jackson...
SkyscraperCity Forum

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John D. Cook

Does additional data always reduce posterior variance? - A discussion over lunch today brought up the fact that additional data does not always decrease the size of a confidence interval. This post will look at...
The Inquiring Mind

BBC TV Drama: Telford’s Change (1979) – #9 – E09 – Peter Barkworth, Hannah Gordon, Keith Barron - IMdb Summary Telford had worked for many years in a bank, and had progressed to a senior role which involved him travelling overseas. He decided that he wa...
Manhattan Contrarian

The World View Of The Supreme Court's Liberal Bloc - * Over the course of the past week, the Supreme Court has released a group of the most important decisions of this year’s term. Most of those decisions inv...
Outliving Iran

One Thing I Love About America - An honest 4th of July Reflection
Michael Newberry, Artist

Evolution Through Art, 2nd Edition - Michael Newberry A new edition by Michael Newberry Evolution Through ArtSecond Edition Art, the Integrator of the Human Spirit Evolution Through Art examin...
Point of Order

Labour Deputy Leader didn’t know the Government doesn’t pay rates - Wayne Brown interviewed Carmel Sepuloni, and asked her why the Government doesn’t pay rates on land and buildings it owns. Her answer was “I didn’t know th...
Samizdata

A Quarter Millennium of American Greatness - Despite all our present problems and challenges, aggravated by so many daunting divisions, how awed, thrilled, and grateful our Founding Fathers would be...
UnHerd

The euthanasia of the West - Assisted dying is indefensible
Spiked Online

Rekindling the spirit of American patriotism - The post Rekindling the spirit of American patriotism appeared first on spiked.
Slow Boring

Happy Independence Day weekend - I’m grateful for this country and for you. Here’s how I’m celebrating.
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Sir Arnold Robinson Telling off Sir Humphrey! -
Skeptic

Sciencing With a Primate Brain: Reflections on the Nature of Scientific Thought - Your brain wasn’t built to find the truth, it was built to keep you alive. This essay explores why scientific, objective thought feels so deeply counterint...
The Common Reader

America Should Love Itself Again - Happy Birthday to a very great nation
Homepaddock

Woman of the day - Woman of the Day physicist and chemist Maria Skłodowska (1867-1934) of Warsaw, OTD in 1903 defended her doctoral thesis on radioactive substances at the So...
Watts Up With That?

Europe’s “Soaring Climate Damage” Narrative Runs Into an Inconvenient Dataset - That is precisely why normalization exists. It separates changes in the weather from changes in society. The post Europe’s “Soaring Climate Damage” Narra...
Brash & Mitchell

RODNEY HIDE: Parliament’s Assault on the Family Home - When candidates come knocking this election you may care to ask about the “Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Act”. It was passed in 2022 because...
David Stockmans Contra Corner

The Donald’s “Red Hot” Economy……NOT! (Part 1) - Click on Title to Read
David Stockman's Contra Corner

The Donald’s “Red Hot” Economy……NOT! (Part 1) - The headline “change” figures in the monthly job reports are mostly useless noise, as we are reminded once again by the huge prior month jobs revisions c...
Notes On Liberty

My Realist Journey, Part 2: Our Enduring Realist Tradition; 2500+ Years of Constructive Realism. - In my four-volume The Realist Tradition in International Relations: The Foundations of Western Order, I unpack 2,500+ years of strategic history. To me, “c...
An Africanist Perspective

The mechanics of building strong states in 21st century Africa - On models of state-building and their applicability to the African context
Principled Perspectives

July 4, 1776: Words that Will Never Be Erased - “It is . . . from the perspective of the bloody millennia of mankind's history . . . that I want you to look at the birth of a miracle: the United Stat...
Techdirt

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Making The Best Of A Ban Situation - Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

What Is My American Identity, Really? - And who gets to decide it?
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Biden Knew Ukrainians Blew Up Nord Stream Pipeline When He Blamed Russia, Evidence Suggests - Author of new book, The Nord Stream Conspiracy, says lifting of Trump sanctions encouraged Putin to invade
The Double Standard

Open Mike 04/07/2026 - Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to th...
Real Clear Energy

Earth and Americans: Amazingly Resilient - Gary Abernathy, RCEnergy As we approach the 250th birthday of the United States of America this weekend, our nation faces numerous divisions, challenges a...
McFaul's World

Celebrating July 4th in Moscow: The Honor of a Lifetime - The annual reception at Spaso House was more than a party. It was a showcase of the culture, values, and democratic ideals that gave America influence far ...
Conspicuous Cognition

Can Humanity Survive Superintelligence? (with Robert Wright) - Robert Wright on AI as humanity’s “God Test”: AI progress, superintelligence, the US-China race, global coordination, evolution’s purpose, and consciousness.
The Free Press

America’s Next 250 Years Are Ours to Build - In 1776, there was no electricity, no anesthesia, and no running water. The Founders still built something that changed the world. What comes next is up to...
The UnPopulist

Dear Americans: 'Alter' Your Government to Keep Your Republic for Another 250 Years - The Constitution assigned you that job—take it seriously
The Curmudgeon

Sunshine for Business - Good tidings about the climate calamity have emerged from the Continent, where the recent heatwaves caused a significant spike in excess deaths among the p...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

SMMT Wake Up To Damage Caused By EV Mandates - By Paul Homewood Too little, too late from the SMMT: From the Observer: The motor industry has urged the government to revise its targets for electric ve...
Energy Transition Absurdities

My Drunken Bicentennial Tale - We were young then, and stupid...
Interintellect

Interintellect Hosts Wrote: Fiction, Murder, Plato, Gambling, Sartre, India, Brutalism - 📖 A selection of recent essays by our salon hosts.
Middle East Uncovered

Arabs and Jews Come Together on Israel's Tennis Courts - While October 7 and the wars that followed have deepened mistrust between Jewish and Arab Israelis, one tennis program is betting that childhood friendship...
ROBERT FRIPP

Evening Star - RF@80 Vol. 8
In Due Course

Why do sociologists think that they are critical theorists? - One of the more frustrating features of American political culture is the homeostatic mechanism that appears to exist within the Democratic party, which en...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

How a suspected sex offender and child abuser escaped jail in Turkey, entered Germany and committed a mass shooting with help from an NGO-employed getaway driver - It does not get any crazier than this.
Roberto’s Substack

The Fourth of July and the Secret of Prosperous Societies - Every Fourth of July is, first of all, a political celebration.
IPWatchdog Articles

Other Barks & Bites for Friday, July 3: Google White Paper Says Only AI Outputs Infringe Copyright; CJEU Upholds €4.1B Fine for Android Abuses; and CAFC Orders Remand to Review Indefiniteness Ruling Under Dyfan - This week in Other Barks & Bites: the UK Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Apple’s appeal of a $502 million judgment setting a global 4G licensing ra...
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

From the Feed: The Constitution Held. Barely. - June 26 - July 2
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

From the Feed: The Constitution Held. Barely. - June 26 - July 2
Cato at Liberty

White House Self-Dealing in US Trade and Investment Policy - Some of the Trump administration’s trade and investment practices are transforming ordinary policy into family enrichment schemes.
Sustain What

Listen to Your Brain When It Tells You Something is Wrong — My "Lucky" Stroke Story - For me it was "paisley vision" 15 years ago; for others "word salad." Know the signs and know that time is brain.
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

Poems for America: A Short Collection - Celebrate Independence Day with Emerson, Whitman, and more
The Enlightened Examiner

We Are Fringe Because Philosophy Is Fringe - A different take on why liberty is losing.
The Enlightened Examiner

We Are Fringe Because Philosophy Is Fringe - A different take on why liberty is losing.
Tim Worstall

So I’m trying a new dictation tool here. - The big question is whether I can actually speak in a way that the dictation software will actually write out. I think I can see what the problem is goin...
Conversable Economist

What Does the Declaration Mean by Pursuit of Happiness? - I wrote this short essay about the “pursuit of happiness” for the editorial page of the StarTribune newspaper, where it was published on July 3. _____ Op...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

America at 250 - A decade before the formal end of slavery in the entire USA, Frederick Douglass spoke on “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on July 5, 1852, to the...
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 519 - Modlines - Modular volumetric construction is characterized as both a quick and efficient way of erecting multiple building types with scalability linked to repe...
Zero Hanger

AFL Draft Watch: All the standouts from U18s double header - Vic Metro faced South Australia and Vic Country clashed with Western Australia at Marvel Stadium on Friday night.
Construction Physics

The Fall and Rise of Screwworm - Every spring, as sure as the seasons, and for generations unknown, screwworms began their annual march northward from their overwintering sanctuaries in Me...
Why not reason?

The Courage to Act on What is Right - Thoughts about 250 Amazing years - Part 3
Doug Casey's International Man

The Coming Crash in Private Equity - Private equity’s inflated valuations are being forced toward reality as leverage, higher rates, weak exits, and secondary-market price discovery expose t...
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

2026 Draft CES Biennial Review: How It Addresses Prior Concerns - The New York State Department of Public Service and NYSERDA released the Draft 2026 Clean Energy Standard Biennial Review (Report) on July 1, 2026. This is...
Brownstone Institute

Malflusiva and the Wheeking Guinea Pigs - Malflusiva and the Wheeking Guinea Pigs by Alan Cassels at Brownstone Institute [image: Malflusiva and the Wheeking Guinea Pigs] I had a very good laugh ...
Journal of Free Black Thought

George Washington as Mirror of America - How to think about the USA on our Semiquincentennial
Journal of Free Black Thought

George Washington as Mirror of America - How to think about the USA on our Semiquincentennial
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

Best of the Week: World Cup Beauty, an Insane Photo, and More - Why World Cup visitors are rediscovering the US, a remarkable South Dakota photo, the myth of democratic socialism, and a stirring defense of the American ...
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 1151 No more visas. The distributed solar boom. The triumph of Excel & "a bride married to amazement". - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
The Daily Sceptic

Miliband’s Favourite Net Zero Think Tank Funded by Foreign Cash - A green energy think tank that Ed Miliband relied on to draw up policy is partly funded by overseas cash, leading to questions about the influence of "sh...
The Roots of Liberty

You'll Get Nothing And Like It! Again!! - EDITOR’S NOTE: I published this just over two years ago.
Law & Liberty

Birthright Blunders - *Trump v. Barbara* was a hard case, so it’s not a surprise that all sides got something wrong.
Anthony B. Bradley

Weekly Top Five: A Teenager Stayed Behind After My Talk - Five ideas shaping how we think about the mind, history, family, fertility, and adolescent suffering followed by a private story that showed me why fatherh...
Anthony B. Bradley

Weekly Top Five: A Teenager Stayed Behind After My Talk - Five ideas shaping how we think about the mind, history, family, fertility, and adolescent suffering followed by a private story that showed me why fatherh...
Persuasion

A Pluralist Manifesto - This 4th of July, here’s how to teach America’s diverse origins.
EconLog

Freddy the World Cup Tourist and Tocqueville’s Hopes for America - In the 1830s, a French aristocrat named Alexis de Tocqueville traveled through the United States and returned home with *Democracy in America*, a penetra...
Mises Institute Blog

Foreign interventionism is anti-American - The original opponents of American intervention abroad — the anti-imperialist movement of the late 19th century — were in fact the true inheritors of the r...
Quotulatiousness

The latest trend in tourism: “grocery tourism” - At The Freeman, Nicole James discusses being so far ahead of a trend that it’s only just catching up with her now: Grocery tourism is the hot trend of 2026...
Flashbak

The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin Photographs - “His Excellency the President for Life, Marshal Alhadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, holder of the Victoria Cross, DSO, holder of the Military cross and Conquer...
Quillette

Why Australia's New Capital Gains Tax Is the Best Tax Policy for Crushing the Economy - Fund manager Derek Francis tells Claire Lehmann that Treasury's modelling of Australia's new capital gains tax contains a basic error — one that could push...
Sinification

Zhang Jian on China, the EU and Russia "De-Risking" from the US - "There is no effective coordination or cooperation among them, but on some issues this has objectively produced the policy effect of a collective China–Eur...
GeekPress

AI Vs. Medieval Ciphers - *"Plots, love letters and remedies*: The medieval secrets being revealed by AI"
DGMLive

Robert Fripp @80 - Week 8 - Robert Fripp was 80 on 16th May 2026. To celebrate this, DGM is curating a Fripp@80 series, with weekly digital releases throughout the year drawn from Rob...
Autonomia

Happy Independence Day - Scott Holleran reads lyrics, poems about America and founders, Roosevelt’s war message after siege at Pearl Harbor as each American celebrates America’s 25...
American Institute of Economic Research

Unfinished Republic: What I’m Teaching My Daughter About America’s Founding - Watching the branded Freedom250 celebrations in DC, I was reminded of the quote attributed to C.S. Lewis: “When I sat with my anger long enough, she reve...
The Footy Almanac

Almanac Footy: Magpies Footy Clinic 2002 - As a result of a car accident, Callum Quirk (RagingBull) suffered an Acquired Brain Injury when he was young. When the Transport Accident Commission sponso...
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

The Government should launch Welfare Bonds - There’s an idea going around at present that the Government should launch “Defence Bonds”. Apparently £1.2 trillion a year and counting is not enough to ...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

America Was Built on Coal, and We Celebrate the Hard Work - This weekend, America celebrates 250 years since our founders placed their names, fortunes, and lives behind a simple but world-changing proposition: that ...
No Minister

Happy… July 2nd? - “The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America… It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Gam...
Schiffradio.com

They Don’t Want You to Hear This on Independence Day - Saylor authorized $1.25B in Bitcoin sales. 514K full-time jobs vanished. Trump made $2.2B selling access. 250 years later, we need another revolution. T...
The Integrity Institute

Democracy Briefing: Off the record, off the hook - “No company should be above the law and no government should be allowed to close the courthouse doors on ordinary people.”
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Again – some recognition and help re pre-school but the Minister still misses the key point. - This week Erica Stanford made an announcement to expand a programme to enhance oral language skills in pre-school children. For those it will reach it appe...
The Daily Doom

THE DEEPER DIVE: Plunging Deeper into Plunging Oil Prices - I keep coming across economic writers who seem to be self-administering a lot of recreational medication lately.
No Right Turn

More lightning legislating - The House has been in urgency this week, as the regime struggle against the clock to pass its agenda. In addition to the inherent abuse of urgency, this ha...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: This is Typically Human - Affection for the mistaken.
Kiwiblog

Labour Deputy Leader didn’t know the Government doesn’t pay rates - Wayne Brown interviewed Carmel Sepuloni, and asked her why the Government doesn’t pay rates on land and buildings it owns. Her answer was “I didn’t know ...
Let Grow

Tips for Keeping Your Kid Very Very Very Very Very Safe this Summer - [image: Blog Very Safe Summer] It’s summertime, which means it’s time for parents to think about safety — only safety. That’s what all the parenting magazi...
Stewart Margolis

In Defense of Nuance - Nuance is hard.
Dramatic Pause

A Response: Karaoke Heaven - *Closing out the coverage to the Auckland Live Cabaret Festival is a response to Amanda Grace Leo's journey through Karaoke Heaven.* Amanda Grace Leo mig...
Astral Codex Ten

The AI Superforecasters Are Here - ...
The Shrewd Artist

A Few of My Students' Works - Today an ex-student sent me one of their recent paintings, makes me proud and happy for her. Plus a little lesson on cast shadows.
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

A Few of My Students' Works - Today an ex-student sent me one of their recent paintings, makes me proud and happy for her. Plus a little lesson on cast shadows.
History Reclaimed

Indian and Pakistani views on Mountbatten’s Handling of Indian Independence - Historians of the independence and partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 are routinely critical of the role played by the last Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten,...
Institute for Energy Research

America’s 250th Includes Energy Exceptionalism - Every Fourth of July commemorates America’s independence from the yoke of a despotic system of governance and the nation’s emergence… The post America’s ...
Truth on the Market

The State That Wouldn’t Hang Up: California’s Fight to Keep the Old Phone Network Alive - In 1877, Thomas Doolittle strung the first hard-drawn copper telephone wire in Ansonia, Connecticut, replacing the iron lines that had carried Alexander ...
Glenn’s Substack

Ditching the Seventeenth - Taking the Senate back to the Framers' Intent.
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

What America Thought About Itself in 1976 - Americans were ready to have fun during the American Bicentennial in 1976. Surprised? You might think it was a country still gloomily obsessed with the V...
FIRE

Our university is trying to discredit our paper, but that won’t stop us from telling the truth - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville claims it believes in free speech, but its administrators are disparaging the student press.
Energy in Depth

Celebrating 250 Years of Energy Dominance - For 250 years, America’s story has been one of innovation and ingenuity – and squarely at the center of that narrative is our country’s rich energy legac...
Breaking Views

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Michael Laws won't be a good get for NZ First - Let me hit you with absolutely the weirdest political news of the day. Michael Laws, it's being reported, is going to announce he's running for New Zealand...
Israel Institute of NZ

Fifty Years After Entebbe: Do We Still Recognise Moral Clarity? - On the night of 3–4 July 1976, a plane landed at Entebbe Airport under cover of darkness. From it emerged a small group of Israeli commandos. Within hours,...
Futurism

Lawsuit: Bipolar Man Attempted Suicide After ChatGPT Poured Gasoline on His Religious Delusions - "The timeline you're leaving behind? It won't miss you — because it's not about being needed or required anymore. This is about you, your freedom, and yo...
Can't Get Much Higher

Every Beatles Song: "Rocky Raccoon" - One man's journey to catalogue the world's greatest band
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Teen Girls’ Suicide Rates Are Rising In Many Countries Around The World - New analyses from Europe, Japan, and South Korea show increases that in many cases began before COVID.
Ayn Rand Centre UK

1000 Days Since October 7th: Israel Never Misses an Opportunity to Miss an Opportunity -
On Substack

Who’s with W. Kamau Bell? - Inside the comedian’s newest podcast deal, clipping discussions, newsletter growth, and the guest he’s always wanted to book
Why Evolution Is True

Is it okay to wish for the death and suffering of your political opponents? - I have tried not to be joyful over the illness and death of my political opponents (or of anybody I don’t like), or to rejoice at their deaths. Yes, I wish...
The Daily Economy

Massachusetts Chooses Literacy Over Union Politics -
Toppermost

Quintessence - In a fish-and-chip shop basement in Ladbroke Grove, sometime in 1968, six young men from six different countries set about doing something nobody in Brit...
The New Era

Bat Soup or Bat Shit? - Jeff Peel interviews Jamie Andrews
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

National Socialism and Economic Freedom: The Lawson Convo - Today at 4:30 PM ET, I’m doing a Substack Live event with Robert Lawson on this week’s posts on Nazism, socialism, and economic freedom. Bob is a co-foun...
Uncharted Territories

How the Industrial Revolution Changed Architecture - Architects abhorred, fought, and embraced the industrial machine
Free Range Kids

THE DECLARATION OF CHILDHOOD INDEPENDENCE! - We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all children are created playful, that they are endowed with certain inalienable rights, that among these a...
The Trichordist

Songwriters Are Being Asked to Accept Something We’ve Never Seen Before - The first Phonorecords V settlement leaves songwriters with more questions than answers: little evidence of meaningful negotiation, no discussion of AI, an...
Libertarian Land

The Incidence of the "Liberation Day" Tariffs - Reporters and economists alike spilled much ink predicting the impacts of Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs.
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

A Heart That Listens - Greetings one and all and happy Thursday! It is time once again for a fresh batch of Laura's Links. Obviously, right off the top, on behalf of all of us at...
Sawahil

Beyond Saudi Arabia as a Black Box - When assessing the Kingdom's religious influence in Africa, it's worth asking "which institutions" and "which time period."
The Rebuild

Rising Cost-of-Living Set the Stage for the American Revolution - Some Fun Facts for America’s 250th
Living Resources Center

Collectivism Is Spreading Like Wildfire in Parts of America - “This is a time to rediscover the indomitable spirit that built our country and all that will ensure America always remains the most exceptional nation o...
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

If The American Dream Is Dead, No One Told The People Who Are Still Chasing It - Source Subscribe now Share Give a gift subscription I was born into poverty. My mother, an immigrant from Seoul, suffered from drug addiction. When pol...
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Preorder Kakistocracy, Get One-Year Paid Subscription - I’ve been thinking about what I’ve been doing with this… life thing here, and one thing that I know is that I’m happiest and most fulfilled producing long-...
Curbed - All

The Look Book Goes to Construction School - Apprentices and longtime union Local 79 members took certification classes at the Mason Tenders training center in Long Island City.
Roy Spencer, PhD.

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

One agency or many? What Denver and Atlanta reveal about transit governance - Transit systems may move people, but governance determines how those systems move, grow, and adapt. The post One agency or many? What Denver and Atlanta ...
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

Europe's Weather Losses Keep Climbing - But a new loss normalization finds no trend after accounting for economic growth
Retraction Watch

Computer science society creates new research integrity role to address case backlog - Over the last five years, the Association for Computing Machinery has been dealing with a rapid rise in allegations of research misconduct that have create...
Mises Wire

The French Far-Left Downplays Government Debt in Order to Spend Even More -
The Cobden Centre

Speech in Iceland “The Rise and Fall of Civilisations” - I recently gave this speech in Iceland on the rise and fall of civilisations. In this lecture, I talk through different theories of the...
ArchDaily

Dreaming in the Ruins: How a Sleeping Ritual in Logroño Proposes a New Civic Architecture - Cities are increasingly designed to mitigate risk, and by doing so, need to collect data on climate, infrastructure, biodiversity, and social fragmentati...
Hoover institution Commentary

Indra Nooyi Says India's Chaos Is The Cost Of Democracy Compared To China's Model - Hoover Institution director Condoleezza Rice spoke with Indra Nooyi about why American students flocked to China to study but rarely went to India. Indra s...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

A Forgotten Founder Who Warned Against Cronyism - Many of our founding fathers are familiar names, but a few others’ contributions are largely unnoticed and underappreciated. John Taylor of Caroline is o...
The Whakataki Times

Couple Spend Entire Open Home Whispering Different Renovation Ideas To Each Other - MY HOUSE MY CASTLE. The post Couple Spend Entire Open Home Whispering Different Renovation Ideas To Each Other appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

Politicising a Tragedy: PSA takes the gloves off - New Zealand's largest public sector union increasingly sounds like an opposition party.
PM of NZ

Co-governance works in Far North. Not! - *arrangements and practices that the department itself should have managed better over a sustained period* *the review confirmed that, since at least 202...
Houston Strategies

Happy 250th to the USA! - A little different-than-usual guest blog post from Oscar Slotboom. Happy milestone birthday, America! 🎂🎆🎇🎉--- While cleaning out my father's house a fe...
Greater Auckland

Throwback Thursday: Imagine, a City - Today’s throwback story by Patrick Reynolds is quite a recent one, from December 2025. We’re sharing it again prompted by Chris Parker – comedian, aka tr...
Andrew Whiteside

Intervew: Alison Bruce on Macbeth - Alison Bruce is a New Zealand actor famous for many TV Film and Theatre roles – In July 2026 she stars in Auckland Theatre Company’s Macbeth as Lennox. In ...
The Breakthrough Journal

From Paper to Real-Life Reactors: The Holistic View of the Reactor Pilot Program - 250 years later, the American nuclear experiment continues
Freedom and Flourishing

Can reliable international comparisons of human flourishing be made using subjective survey data? - The idea that human flourishing is the proper measure of a good society goes back to Aristotle, but modern attempts to compare flourishing internation...
A Havenstein Moment.

Free markets where there are losses? - Hello and I am all colours, Sam.
JoNova

Winning: Trump persuades The World Bank to drop its huge spending target on “climate” - World Bank By Jo Nova Each year the World Bank hands out about $120 billion dollars in grants and loans to poor and middle income countries. But with 67...
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

Zohran Mamdani and the Remaking of American Politics - Preorder my book, out in October
American Energy Alliance

The Unregulated Podcast #278: Let Them Eat Cold Soup - On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the leftward lurch of Democrat primaries across the country, Republican’s od...
Official Blog

Sören de Stoker – Geocache of the week - Traditional GC9QV9P by CowboYvar Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 1.5 Location: Zuid-Holland, Netherlands N 51° 51.480′ E 004° 23.464′ At first glance, Sören de St...
Paul Wells

Not just the next singer - At Montreal's jazz festival, adventures in listening
Gale Winds

Time Pricing the 4th of July Cookout - Independence and abundance.
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

From Fireworks to Flying Flags - And Other Symbols of Liberty
Kunstler

KunstlerCast_446 — Mel K on the Infiltration and Betrayal of America - Mel K is an investigative writer, host, and producer.
The War on Prices

The Economics of Sector-Specific Minimum Wages - State and local governments are increasingly turning to sector-specific minimum wages.
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Issue 24: How smashing the NIMBYs created modern capitalism - Works in Progress Issue 24 is out today.
Dead Language Society

The long shadow of the Celtic languages - Everything we can learn from the word ‘rich’
AAS Economics (Frank Shostak)

US Recovery Still On Track - Continue to follow the money
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

"Liberty Enlightening the World" - Review of "Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build The Statue of Liberty"
ChinaTalk

Taiwan's War on Renewables - The Political Economy of Energy Poverty
The Logical Place

Against legalising heroin injecting rooms - The arguments against legalised heroin injecting rooms are not all the same. Some are moral or legal objections; others are practical objections about loca...
Existential Crunch

How much do we actually know about AMOC collapse? - Exploring uncertain timelines and consequences
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Posts on the Declaration of Independence & major anniversaries - On the context, the importance, and the uniqueness of the Declaration of Independence.
The Antiplanner

When Transit Is Overpriced, Fewer People Ride. Who Knew? - New Jersey Transit officials were surprised to learn that, when they tried to gouge football fans by charging around $100 for a round-trip train ride to a ...
The Antiplanner

When Transit Is Overpriced, Fewer People Ride. Who Knew? - New Jersey Transit officials were surprised to learn that, when they tried to gouge football fans by charging around $100 for a round-trip train ride to a ...
Cremieux Recueil

Will Making Your Kids Tall Shorten Their Lives? - Bonus: How to get human growth hormone (HGH) for cheap
Real Clear Energy: Video

Building Turbines to Power the Tech Revolution - In this episode of The Miller Report: Real Clear Journalism, Maggie Miller sits down with Matt Neal, President of North America for Siemens Energy, to disc...
The Tracinski Letter

So Much for Originalism - A News Link Round-Up
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

Remember This When They Try To Push More Masks: One Of The Most Prominent Pro-Mask Mandate Studies Was A Misleading Disaster - The CDC relied on bad science to promote its policies, as usual
One Useful Thing

The twilight of the chatbots - How work changes along the exponential
Tross Publishing

SHOULD TAXPAYERS PAY FOR BUILDING A CHURCH? - By John McLean In the wake of the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, which ended once and for all the centuries old French threat to England, the British Governmen...
Matua Kahurangi

Brian Tamaki exposed ACT's free speech problem - Most people know how I voted at the last election.
A Halfling's View

Skynet on the Brain - How an Old Literary Fear and a 1984 Blockbuster Are Quietly Writing Our AI Policy
Offsetting Behaviour

Refugee sponsorship - About a decade ago, Canada's Counsellor for Immigration at the High Commission in Canberra came to Wellington to explain how Canada's refugee sponsorship...
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

Britain's Labour government can be a party of growth – but not like this - CapX
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

The Practice: The vine doesn't announce - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 5.6, in Gregory Hays' translation.
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

The AI Industry Is Losing - If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s ...
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

A Nation Hungry for Connection - There Is Hope
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Marcus Aurelius Was Not an Emotionless Stoic - A short excerpt from my biography on the real man behind the Meditations
Don't Let It Go

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

Symbolic Crimes Reflect Subverted Times - Incidents at the DC Reflecting Pool, NYC Knicks Parade, Massachusetts lake, Montreal, WNBA, and another LA fire represent the absolute state of the West
Changing Lanes

Forty Per Cent More Driving - A CHANGING LANES interview with Benjamin Shiller
Yascha Mounk

Charles Fain Lehman on Why Cities Got Safer - Yascha Mounk and Charles Fain Lehman explore how strategic policing drove the decline in violent crime—and why Baltimore was left behind.
Doomberg

Peak “Not Oil” - Natural gas liquids and the war in Iran.
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
The Grumpy Economist

Sluggish expectations - As part of a big revision of “Inflation”, a short book resulting from last year’s Brunner lecture, I wrote the following short section.
Stu-Topia

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

NRL Predictions for Round 18 - Team Ratings for Round 18 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ...
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Eleven Sentence Essay (Essay 62) - Some nostalgia for an old style.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

Eleven Sentence Essay (Essay 62) - Some nostalgia for an old style.
The Jolly Libertarian

A Book on Optimism and Abundance From an Unusual Perspective - In a recent essay I looked at Ray Kurzweil's book, *The Singularity is Nearer* and his optimistic view of the future. As I put it: Kurzweil is very optim...
Capitalism Magazine

A Declaration of Independence from Tyrannical Government - The “monkish ignorance and superstition” of today is the misplaced belief that the individual is to be sacrificed to the group, the collective, to the nati...
Chris Trotter

All Good, Sweet As: The Pakeha Guilt Conspiracy. - “Real New Zealanders” know all the words to Kumbaya – and can sing it in te reo, too!
Dr Oliver Hartwich

What NZ must learn from Germany’s sudden €20 billion military meltdown - Germany's military procurement failures highlight the need for New Zealand to spend wisely on defense. [...]
The Weekly Sift

Just Say No - If you don’t want to be prosecuted for crimes, don’t do crimes. – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, responding to Republican fears of investigations by a future De...
Marcus on AI

Off for adventures - Leaving you with a couple laughs
Africa-Israel Weekly

The Black Christian Leadership Council on Israel Relations Announces Its Formation - A new collective of Black American pastors renews a century-old alliance and announces the Unfinished Business Holy Land Tour
Perennial Meditations

Seneca on Learning to Die - Dying Every Day (Dying Daily)
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

BRIEFLY NOTED: Reader Recommendations - We’ve already established that I usually don’t read the comments on these posts, because I am a weak and fallible human and thus seek to avoid “engagement”...
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

My Latest Appearance on Sky News Australia's The Media Show - L.A. Decay and ABC battling the FCC
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

Special Economic Zones Are Not Cheat Codes - Let's talk about why Special Economic Zones have the success rate of less than a coin flip
Lindsay Mitchell

TOP's Citizen's Income policy - *Source: Opportunity Tax Reset policy* Let's look at the costings first. Each Citizen's Income would be $19,400 annually. At December 2025 there were ...
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Freehearted Giving - A Discovery About Myself
bad cattitude

sunday meanpool - triple mean (because you people are incorrigible)
The Beauty of Things

Forest dRIVE 3 Live Event — TODAY! - Please join us online Sunday, June 28 at 7pm ET for a Thomist Reader Series event
The New York Review of Books

The Unraveling of Afghan Asylum - Afees Monsef has a grave magnetism that makes him easy to find, even in a crowd.1 We first met in the spring of 2025, at a gathering in the basement of the...
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

America at 250: The Degrowth Movement Is the Antithesis to Our Individual Rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness - We must proudly champion a vision of abundance, innovation and freedom, recognizing that human life and human flourishing is the ultimate standard of the g...
O'Shannassy's Dispatches from Collapse

The World's 2,000 Year Quest for a Unified Theory of Money - What Ancient China Discovered About Money, Markets and the State
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

A, B, C, D: Four Scientists and the Anatomy of a Cover-Up - What four key figures said in private — and what they told the public — about where COVID-19 came from
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...
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #52: One Year Down… The Conversation Continues - One year ago, I began writing these weekly Rhetoric Tips as I was preparing for the publication of Voices of Reason: Lessons for Liberty’s Leaders. My goal...
New Zealand Arts Review

Mt Eden Chamber Music Festival 2026 - John Daly-Peoples Mt Eden Chamber Music Festival Eden Arts Mt Eden Village Centre Church July 2 – 5 Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Now in its tenth year the...
JunkScience.com

Milloy talks European heat wave on FOX Business - From the June 26, 2026 episode of The Bottom Line.
Conflicted

Ouroboros - The climate movement devours itself leaving behind broken institutions
CO2 Coalition

Vatican Newspaper Taints ‘Encounter of Faith and Reason’ With Climate Falsehood - By Frits Byron Soepyan By reporting the sensational claims of UNICEF, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano joins in the fearmongering of climate al...
Gus Van Horn

Recipe: Pardon Me Mac and Cheese - *Editor's Note: I will blog sporadically or not at all until Tuesday, July 7 due to OCON and the upcoming holiday. I will probably continue to post daily o...
The Economic LongWave

🌊Jeremy Grantham’s Warning Is Not About AI. It Is About the End of Autumn. - 🫧The crash is already here — not because technology has failed, but because the financial system has overcapitalized the future again.
The Library of Celaeno

Nolan's Odyssey Is Not The Movie You Think It Is - The Making of a Modern Horror Masterpiece
Macroscience

Making Our Own Luck - What if we could predict transformative scientific breakthroughs before they happen?
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Lee Martin: Marlene (leemartinmusician.com) - The vinyl of this album arrived unexpectedly and came with no information about singer Lee Martin. It turns out she's South African-born from Christchurc...
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...
Schreibmaschiner (David McLoughlin)

Culture wars spat sees Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger blocked for criticising Wikipedia - The progressive editors who control Wikipedia have blocked Larry Sanger – the online encyclopedia’s co-founder – from editing it in retaliation for him ca...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

JAMES Announce Australian and New Zealand Tour - With over 30 million albums sold across a storied career, JAMES are amongst the most commercially and artistically successful bands of their era. They re...
Tim’s Substack

Time Changes Everything - Except the Progressive Liberal Narrative
Too Clever By Half

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

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

Craziness in Frank Lloyd Wright’s life 1925-28 - Reading Time: 7 minutesFrank Lloyd Wright’s 1926 arrest in Minnesota. Photograph from Hennepin County Library. Since I mentioned it in last post, today ...
Market Urbanism

Yes, homelessness is still a housing problem (even if some homeless are from out of state) - Supporters of new housing tend to believe that high housing costs increase homelessness, because expensive cities tend to have the largest number of homele...
Greg Mankiw's Blog

The Invite - Over the past week, I have been watching some films at the Nantucket Film Festival. The best I saw was *The Invite*, a dramedy about a couple (played by ...
HardmoneyJim

Inflation Mind Tricks - THE 40-YEAR CON BEHIND THE INFLATION "NUMBER"
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

The Coalition Coffin: Where Campaign Promises Go After Election Day - Why MMP voters feel disillusioned when campaign promises enter coalition negotiations and emerge as something else entirely.
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...
Thinking Directions

The Key to Sustainable Real World Results and Other Updates - Dear Blog Readers, I’m sorry there have been so few articles coming out recently. I’m looking forward to commencing a regular writing schedule after OC...
Fictionosophy

The Challenge of Facing Reality in Endling - Endling is an interesting novel that explores the process of grappling with tragedy and portrays clearly the problems that can result when one avoids facin...
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Postmodern Marriage - The fourth in a series . . .
The Intrinsic Perspective

Screentime correlates more with kids' brains than IQ; Matt Yglesias gets Dan Dennett wrong; Why literary fiction awards keep falling for AI scams; & more - Desiderata #40
The Roots of Progress

Progress in Medicine, the Roots of Progress Institute's new summer career exploration program, started last week - 30 high school students are learning about the history and future of medicine, biotech, health
Liberty Scott

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

Killer Kitty Glitter: Warcrimes are in the Eye of the Beholder - The CatGirl Cocktail Hour Part 2: The Dumbest Evilest Thing Soldiers Will Still Probably Make
Harry’s Substack

Who is "struggling" financially? - The victims of the government's inflation
Ruxandra’s Substack

The US moves to reclaim the therapeutic pipeline - A welcome move from the FDA and HHS
The Trumpland Diary

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

Bits of Being - The search for the nature of reality
Kiwipolitico

Media Link: “A View from Afar” on Systemic Change. - Selwyn Manning and I discussed some of the things that I have been thinking about recently in today’s podcast. I have written about these themes on these p...
Flying Out

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

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

The Dogs of War - Emotion Trumps Reality
HBL

The “real numbers” are intervals - I have long opposed the idea in mathematics that there exist “real numbers,” e.g., that the square root of 2 is a “real number.” Or that pi is a real numbe...
Eating Policy

Philanthropy’s Willie Sutton Problem - Third wave philanthropy will need to work with government, but it will also have to work ON government
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Inflation: the struggle for simplicity - Why the Reserve Bank must distinguish monetary inflation from supply shocks
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...
Public Lands – PERC

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

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

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

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

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

The Architecture of Participation: Progress at Bellagio and globally - AI Sovereignty, the Architecture of Participation, and our Rockefeller-sponsored Bellagio Convening
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Three Big Ideas #63 - 🎖️ *Philip Salter, Founder* The King’s Birthday Honours landed last week, which gives me an excuse to return to ask the same question we’ve been asking ...
Cranmer’s Substack

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

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

Agency IS a virtue, actually - The hardest part of “just doing things” is HAVING THINGS YOU WANT TO DO.
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...
Virginia Postrel

Everyday Abundance: Our history podcast is live! - The hidden histories behind everyday activities and the technologies you didn't even know were technologies.
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Episode 2 - The Collapse of Literature - Liza Libes and the Truth about Publishing
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.
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Will Trump Break JFK’s Agreement on Cuba? - In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union (i.e., Russia) came within an inch of all-out nuclear war with each other. To resolve the crisis,...
Reason for Living

Breaking the Loop at its Source - By getting the "loop" driving our self-destructive behaviors clearly visualized, we can get serious about breaking it. That’s the only way to make behavior...
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"
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Why America can’t build the natural gas pipelines it needs — my interview with Senator Alan Armstrong - Natural gas pipelines don’t emit anything that can contaminate water. Yet the Clean Water Act lets states that dislike interstate pipelines block them for ...
Africa’s Bright Future

Why Africa Stays Poor (It's Not Colonialism) - My conversation with John Papola on Dad Saves America
Leport’s Substack

DEFROSTED Release Date Update + New Event Date - New Date, Same Future
Robert Nasir’s Joyous Newsletter

Pride Month: Right On Target! - Life on Earth With Robert Nasir - Episode 95 - streamed live on Jun 1, 2023
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (June 2026) - The growing gap between risk and readiness
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.
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: May 2026 - It was a packed month at IFP!
Spiked Online

Summer Appeal Donation – Pint Glass Offer - The post Summer Appeal Donation – Pint Glass Offer appeared first on spiked.
Freethink Media

Why you seriously need to play more - Monthly Issue: The neuroscience and philosophy of play.
Classical Compass Rose

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

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

Personality Versus Academic Egalitarianism - How Today’s Schools Oppose Greatness
The Kerrant

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

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

The “Great Upzoning” of New Zealand’s cities, in two charts - Taking stock of 15 years of remarkable progress
The Many Ways I Let You Down

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

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

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

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

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

Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles - The post Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles appeared first on Craig Biddle.
What You Can Do For Liberty

Summer Plans? The World's Largest Pro-Liberty Festival Is In July - Don't fight for liberty alone: come meet like-minded friends!
Private Lands – PERC

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

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

A central banker’s fiction - No, this is nothing to do with (say) Neil Quigley’s months-long spin and obfuscation from last year (eg here or here). Decades ago, when the Commonwealth c...
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?!
RenewNZ

The ANZACs who freed Palestine - It was 9th December 1917. The Jewish celebration of Hanukkah had just begun. It commemorated the liberation of Jerusalem from foreign occupiers in 165 BC. ...
Wildlife – PERC

Wildlife Management Must Be Driven by Science, Not Politics - PERC’s amicus brief in Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The post Wildlife Management Must Be Driven by Science, Not Poli...
Johnny Grey Studios

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

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

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

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

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

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

Could this be the solution to America's political divide? - How rural Oregonians are organizing for freedom of association and equal representation.
Notes On Liberty

Rising Sun Over the Arctic: Japan’s Arctic Journey from North Pacific Hegemon to Democratic Polar Partner - by Barry Scott Zellen
Austin Vernon's Substack

Solving the Strait of Hormuz Blockage - Markets ensure the disruption can't last more than 1-2 years.
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...
Keith Weiner Economics

Reflections Over 2025 - I know I was busy this year. But now I see that the last piece I wrote for the blog was Reflections Over 2024! And I did almost no writing for Monetary Met...
Austrian Economics Newsletter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pulling Wetlands Conservation Out of the Political Muck - Ideas for policy and market innovations that can improve wetland conservation The post Pulling Wetlands Conservation Out of the Political Muck appeared ...
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Happy Veterans Day! - Freedom isn’t free. Here’s a sweet short film as thanks to the armed forces, who have held at bay those who would take our freedom from us. Happy Veteran...
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
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...
Andrew Bernstein

Full Interview With Andrew Bernstein On Decline Of US Education - Here is my interview with Dennis Prager from last Thursday. The topic is my 2022 book “Why Johnny Still Can’t Read or Write or Understand Math—And What We ...
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...
Knowledge Problem

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1828 – Championing Freedom

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

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

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

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

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

How Finitude Makes Us Happy — My Final Post - She looked her age — 27, startlingly close to my own age. Did we share acquaintances or friends of friends? She fixed her hair in a ponytail and wore jea...
'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...
A Force for Good | How economics, morality, and markets combine

New Blog Location; This Page is Now Defunct - Hello. A Force for Good as permanently relocated to my personal website: www.jonmmurphy.com. Please update your bookmarks accordingly. This website will...
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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