Not PC: Poland

Showing posts with label Poland. Show all posts

Monday, 3 November 2025

"Capitalism created Poland's miracle, and socialism created Venezuela's catastrophe."

"Capitalism created Poland's miracle, and socialism created Venezuela's catastrophe."
~ Young Americans for Liberty [chart from the Our World in Data website]

Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

... other blogs

Mises Wire

Rothbard on War, Peace, and the State - Ryan McMaken takes a look at Rothbard's seminal 1963 essay "War, Peace, and the State."
SkyscraperCity Forum

Театры и учреждения культуры - *Производственно-репетиционный корпус театра оперы и балета. проект [image: Image] [image: Image] ход строительства...* Театры и учреждения культуры
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Bill Maher’s new rule: “No Jews, no news” - Bill Maher continues his defense of Israel on the country’s birthday by pointing out the pervasive Israel-dissing of the mainstream media, adding that ther...
Futurism

Alibaba Selling High-Powered Laser Guns Advertised as “Obstacle Removers” - There are many like it, but this one is mine. The post Alibaba Selling High-Powered Laser Guns Advertised as “Obstacle Removers” appeared first on Futuri...
Marginal Revolution

Who is losing out in marriage market competition? - Over the past half-century, U.S. four-year colleges have shifted from enrolling mostly men to enrolling mostly women, while the economic position of non-...
Breaking Views

Mike's Minute: Do the unions have anything positive to say about education? - Can anyone tell me why literally everything that is ever done in the education space is rejected, hated and railed against by the unions?Have the education...
Why Evolution Is True

Beauty is in the (evolved) eye of the beholder - Right now I’m reading Steve Stewart-Williams’s new book: A Billion Years of Sex Differences: How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women. It is neither...
IPWatchdog Articles

Squires’ Latest Precedential Decision Slams Use of IPR for ‘Litigation Leverage’ - On Thursday, May 14, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director John Squires issued a Director Discretionary Decision in which he denied instituti...
The Footy Almanac

Cam Hooke’sCollingwood Life 2026: Round 10 Review / Round 11 Preview - Another nail baiting loss for the Collingwood faithful against Sydney in their Round 10 clash, and their Round 11 match against West Coast is previewed.
Watts Up With That?

Good climate scientists suffer “madness of crowds” - Dr Peter Ridd has been researching the Great Barrier Reef since 1984, has invented a range of advanced scientific instrumentation, and written over 100 s...
Kunstler

The Too-Long Goodbye - “. . . we are witnessing mass formation in real time, where the group delusion becomes the only permissible reality.” LH Grey on X
Techdirt

Rupert Murdoch Convinced Trump To Launch Dubious Antitrust Inquiry Into NFL - One recurring theme during the Trump era is that because he fundamentally doesn’t know how anything actually works, his beliefs and policies are broadly sh...
Gus Van Horn

Dishonest Don - At *The Hill*, former New York state prosecutor Scott Bolden resurrects a term from the Vietnam Era: the *credibility gap*. Back then, the term came into ...
Brownstone Institute

Medicine by Captivity: The Rise of the Hostage Physician - Medicine by Captivity: The Rise of the Hostage Physician by Joseph Varon at Brownstone Institute [image: Medicine by Captivity: The Rise of the Hostage Ph...
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Batteries Not Included - At our roundtable hosted by the chair of the Regulatory Innovation Office, Lord Willetts, robotics founders warn that outdated regulation, structural con...
Curbed - All

A Windsor Terrace Two-Bedroom Just Steps From Prospect Park for $899,000 - And a Cornelia Street studio that’s small but nicely updated.
Spiked Online

Meet the Zoomers driven feral by Reform - The post Meet the Zoomers driven feral by Reform appeared first on spiked.
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 1106 Missiles made in Arkansas. More houses more babies? The Ebola emergency & smart talk about ugly feelings. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Energy Transition Absurdities

5 Big Energy Stories - 5.18.2026: No Nukes For You, America! - Chart of the Day, from @Barchart on X: China currently has 38 nuclear reactors under construction - the United States has ZERO:
EconLog

Tom Cruise’s Body of Work (with Aled Maclean-Jones) - What can Tom Cruise’s last impossible mission teach us about usefulness in the digital age? Aled Maclean-Jones argues that dangling from cargo planes, so...
Reason Foundation

The BUILD housing package is a step forward for Illinois - While the BUILD Act's proposed spending could harm the state budget, its deregulatory reforms are necessary to ease housing pressure across lllinois. The...
The Roots of Liberty

UFOs, Dystopias, And Doomsayers - The latest Current Thing is the release of classified government UFO files.
Tim Worstall

The AI doesn’t grasp Spud’s views - Few topics in contemporary British economic debate attract more sustained criticism from Richard Murphy than fiscal rules. For the better part of three d...
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Control-Obsessed Globalist Bureaucrats Fuel Rising Right-Wing Nationalism - The liberal Atlanticist establishment does not understand the populist revolt it provoked
Slow Boring

Trump’s China policy is a disaster - Surrendering American advantages in an effort to score a big soybean sale
Law & Liberty

Fannie, Freddie, and the National Debt - Fannie and Freddie are part of the government and need to be included in its consolidated financial statements.
ArchDaily

Between the Rock and the River / Mimosa architects - The cabin on the banks of the Sázava River replaces its predecessor on the same site. After the original cabin burned down, only the stone plinth remaine...
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

The Loneliness Behind the Sober Generation - Public health metrics cannot capture the full texture of a thriving polity. A society can reduce certain risks while becoming lonelier, more withdrawn, a...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

CPI Meets Goodhart's Law: Can Economic Metrics Become Fallacies? - When Henry Hazlitt wrote in *Economics In One Lesson *that “Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man” he knew what he was...
American Institute of Economic Research

CPI Meets Goodhart's Law: Can Economic Metrics Become Fallacies? - When Henry Hazlitt wrote in *Economics In One Lesson *that “Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man” he knew what he was...
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Timeline 1700-1900: Connections for 1870-1879 - Ibsen, Millay, and Webster on the role of women; Ingersoll on the US Centennial.
Quotulatiousness

Isoroku Yamamoto – the admiral and the postwar legend - Big Serge examines the popular memory of Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of Japan’s early naval war successes against the United States fr...
Zero Hanger

Big Bomber grounded as scans reveal ligament damage - The ruck-forward's return to play timeline will be communicated in the coming days.
DGMLive

More From Exposure - The third selection from the newly mixed Exposure Sessions going live on the site from February 1978.
Mises Institute Blog

Why Stable Systems Fail: The Illusion of Institutional Control - Systems do not collapse when they finally become unstable; they appear stable until the moment their failure can no longer be ignored.
Hoover institution Commentary

Why Embodied Knowledge Still Matters in the Digital Age - What if the future belongs to people who can still do difficult things with their hands?
Brash & Mitchell

RICHARD PREBBLE: At last, a serious speech from the Prime Minister - Christopher Luxon gave last week his most substantive speech as Prime Minister. Apparently, he wrote it himself. Prime Ministers are usually too busy to wr...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Anti-vaxx lunatic hate cult protests Jacinda – why she can’t live here - Jesus wept… Jacinda Ardern Aotea Centre talk met by anti-vaccine protesters in Auckland …look at these brittle outraged victimhood...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Submission to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee on the New Zealand - India Free Trade Agreement - Voters are entitled to be angry
Real Clear Energy: Video

Tucker Goes After Kevin O'Leary on Data Centers - Krystal and Saagar discuss Tucker humiliating Kevin O'Leary on data centers.
Kiwipolitico

Media Link: “A View from Afar” on Geopolitical Change, Institutional Lag and Industrial Resilience in the Contemporary Moment. - This month Selwyn Manning and I use the Xi-Trump bilateral summit as an anchor point for a discussion about the larger backdrop to recent events, and with ...
Point of Order

Constitutional change affects funding of Parliament – and reminds us of the Ombudsman’s rebalancing - Bob Edlin writes – RNZ has drawn attention to a procedural motion in Parliament last week which “quietly marked one of the more significant constitutional ...
The Daily Doom

THE DEEPER DIVE: The US Treasury Secretary is Lying to You about Inflation because Trumpflation Is about to Rip Your Freakin' Face off! - There is no other explanation, other than the slight possibility that Scott Bessent is dumber than dirt about the very things that are supposed to be his a...
Chris Trotter

Going Home. - It’s not the same society; we’re not the same people.
Dr Oliver Hartwich

Like Chalmers, NZ tried property tax reforms too. They failed - Jim Chalmers' announcement to end negative gearing mirrors New Zealand’s past reforms that backfired, leading to fewer rental properties and rising rents, ...
Syncretica

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

Word of the day - Kinocide – the deliberate, systematic destruction of families. It involves the weaponization of familial bonds to maximize suffering, often by torturing, a...
Kiwiblog

Greens embrace Muldoon price controls - Radio NZ reports: The Green Party wants the government to force power companies to cap power bill increases at the the rate of inflation. Power prices ar...
The Whakataki Times

Local Woman Annoyed That Partner Was Not Also Annoyed By Thing That Annoyed Her - AISLE OF ANGER. The post Local Woman Annoyed That Partner Was Not Also Annoyed By Thing That Annoyed Her appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
The Free Press

Did MAHA Just Sink a Senator? - The MAHA movement put money into the Senate campaign of Bill Cassidy’s opponent and showed signs of strength heading into the midterms, writes Tanner Nau.
No Right Turn

"Full and final" goes both ways - Last week National introduced its plans to privatise the conservation estate and allow miners free reign to dig up our taonga places. One of the ways it do...
Andrew Whiteside

Review: Best Comedy Show on Earth - I’ve been going to the Best Comedy Show on Earth for a few years now. It’s a smorgasbord of comedy with each of the 10 comedians given about 10 minutes or ...
Quillette

China Is Ready for the Next War. America Is Not. - What radar and jet propulsion were to World War Two, robotics and artificial intelligence will be to the next war between great powers.
The Daily Economy

Pizza Hut Is Back—Retro Style -
The Daily Sceptic

News Round-Up - A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘cris...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Ike Willis: 1955-2026 - Vocalist, Best Known for Collaborations with Frank Zappa, was Seventy
UnHerd

Andy Burnham’s economic fallacy - He should stick with Rachel Reeves
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Kundera, Hegel, and the AIs - Eyes that can see.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

Kundera, Hegel, and the AIs - Eyes that can see.
The Grumpy Economist

Has the Time Come for Dollarization in the Americas? - Last week I did a very interesting (to me at least) panel at CATO on dollarization in Latin America, focusing on Argentina.
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day – diminishing utility of consumption version - “The richest person in the world in the 1830s was Nathan Rothschild, whose personal net worth was around 0.6 per cent of national income. Despite this va...
Greater Auckland

A CRL timetable update from Auckland Transport - After a recent meeting with Auckland Transport to discuss our observations, questions and concerns about the shape of the timetable once City Rail Link o...
No Minister

John Holdren: The Technocrat of Population Control - Neo‑Malthusian Prophets of Doom — Part III If Paul Ehrlich was the showman of modern Neo‑Malthusianism, John Holdren was its technocrat; the man who tried ...
A Halfling's View

Online Media Regulation - Continued - The Pause That Refreshes
The Integrity Institute

News Briefing: 18 May 2026 - NZ FIRST
Real Clear Energy

EU Blackouts: Energy Security Vital - Gary Abernathy, The Empowerment Alliance
Cranmer’s Substack

CENSORED - How the establishment tried to kill a story and why it didn't work
Ayn Rand Centre UK

20-Year-Old Politician Wants Your House -
JoNova

Monday - 0 out of 10 based on 0 rating
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Jonathan Leake Falls For The Battery Myth - By Paul Homewood Another gormless article by Jonathan Leake, who for some reason is the Telegraph’s Energy Editor! From the Telegraph: It is Britain’...
Perennial Meditations

"Before We Knew It Was Passing" - Dying Every Day (Dying Daily)
The Inquiring Mind

Crime Fiction: Peter Robinson – Inspector Banks #5 – Past Reason Hated read by Tim Goodman -
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Without Pity or Platitude - The guardrails were dismantled by the people who never needed them
Middle East Uncovered

What It’s Like To Be a Beekeeper in Tunisia - After a near-fatal bee attack, Hela Boubaker turned beekeeping into a mission to support rural women and protect Tunisia’s struggling hives.
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

A Se'nnight of Steyn: May 10-16 - In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...
Can't Get Much Higher

What are the Best Acoustic Guitar Solos? Link Drop - A round-up of the most important stories in music right now
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

When Democracy Turns Absurd: Lessons from Ancient Greek Comedy - “The Assemblywomen” was one of the last works Aristophanes produced—and perhaps his very best.
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

🌷 Sunday Snippets: May 17th, 2026 - Including morning coffee reflections...
bad cattitude

sunday memepool 2 - life like a song
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

Peter Bateman, Office Psycho - Reimagining Office Space and American Psycho in modern demoralized PMC NPC corporate culture, soundtracks at the end
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Can AI Replace Me Already? - Results of an AI Turing test survey: Women are ready for our new reality, old people aren't
New Zealand Arts Review

The Queen’s Nanny: Broken confidences - Reviewed by Malcolm Calder Reviewed by Malcolm Calder The Queen’s NannyBy Melanie TaitTadpole Theatre ProductionsDirector Simon PrastSet John ParkerLightin...
The Curmudgeon

Pious Felony - Other than worldly power and cold hard cash, there are few more enduring enthusiasms in the Church of Rome than the fetish for anatomical specimens. This l...
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

Yes, We Can Get Along Despite Our Philosophical Differences - If we can agree on protecting individual rights, abundant opportunities exist for making common cause with those who otherwise don’t share our philosophy.
Persuasion

Episode 187: Ian Shapiro on How Politicians Broke Our World - Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST.
Flashbak

The Occasionally Brilliant Nationwide Jubilee Song Contest, 1977 - Let’s shimmy and shake to the number They call it the Jubilee Rhumba To welcome the Monarch, ole! – Eric Smallshaw, Monach Olé!, The Nationwide Jubilee S...
Marcus on AI

The illusion of Generative AI, the insanity of massive bets on hyperscaling, and the case for world models and neurosymbolic AI - Three excellent new interviews
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

Selling Butter to India, Hiring Officials in Wellington - The India FTA promises exporters freer access to markets, but behind the sales pitch sits a familiar Wellington miracle: fewer tariffs, more officials.
Sinification

China’s G2 Dilemma - Beijing rejects the label as hegemonic, but Chinese analysts are still probing what a de facto US-China bipolarity could mean for status, bargaining power ...
History Reclaimed

“Not Your Victim” by Marie Kawthar Daouda: Book Review - Dr Mark Stocker reviews Not Your Victim by Marie Kawthar Daouda, an intelligent and courageous critique of how modern identity politics, victimhood culture...
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: Laughter Is the Shortest Distance Between Two People - Victor Borge? Mary S. Taylor? Roy L. Smith? Jay Freeman? Walter Winchell? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: The bonds between people can be enhan...
Manhattan Contrarian

"Sue And Settle": Two Can Play This Game - * As you may be aware, early this year President Trump commenced a personal litigation against the federal government, seeking compensation for various all...
misfits' architecture

Full Circle (Part IV) - This post follows on from Thinking It Through (Part 1), Second Thoughts (a.k.a. Part II) and Good To Go (Part III) that follow the design of a small house ...
The Jolly Libertarian

Comparative AI: The AIs Analyze Each Other - This is Part 3 of my three part series on how the major AIs are similar and how they are different. For this installment I posed exactly the same questio...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

Printing Naira, Burning Dollars: The 1980s Nigerian Debt Crisis - Understanding Nigeria's Finances, Debunking Myths, and Understanding Debt Monetization
JunkScience.com

Roundup the junk science to save glyphosate - My latest at the Daily Caller.
HardmoneyJim

Why your money keeps losing value - AND WHY IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT
The UnPopulist

The Revolution Is Dead, God Save King Trump: A Video Roundup - Our mid-May collection of clips
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

Have we Been Breaking Local Government by Trying to Fix it? - The Post
The Double Standard

Open Mike 17/05/2026 - 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...
The New York Review of Books

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - As President Trump’s erratic negotiations with Iran drag on and oil prices continue to rise, the United States’ ostensible ethical justification for the wa...
The Common Reader

What should be on a list of almost Great Books? - Give your suggestions in the comments
The Logical Place

Liberty in the UK and Australia - Liberty means the condition of being free from unjustified restraint or arbitrary control. In political terms, it usually means that individuals should be ...
Construction Physics

Reading List 05/16/26 - Tokyo’s cheap housing and expensive land, the House response to the Senate housing bill, an IED near an Alabama dam, Fervo’s IPO, and more.
Living Resources Center

Republicans are Dysfunctional; Democrats are Totalitarians - When you say, as a white person, that white people have greater rights under the law than black people, and you imply that white people are superior to b...
Yascha Mounk

The Good Fight Club: The Vibe Shift That Wasn’t, White Identity Politics, and “When They Go Low, We Go Low” - Amanda Ripley, Jesse Singal, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and Yascha Mounk explore Trump’s failed cultural revolution.
Retraction Watch

Weekend reads: Autism-vaccine researcher arraigned; ‘accidental watermarks’ in medical literature; mass resignations and zombie journals - If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news...
Schiffradio.com

Real Rates Are Collapsing and Nobody Sees It — Gold’s Biggest Setup Ever - PPI hit 6%, yields hit 19-year highs, and gold dropped 4%. Traders are selling on the most bullish data gold has ever seen. The post Real Rates Are Colla...
FIRE

FIRE Monthly Member Webinar - May 2026 - Shouting down speakers, UCLA free speech, heckling, AI, doxxing, cancel culture, and more!
David Stockmans Contra Corner

All The Time In The World……NOT! - Click on Title to Read
Cato at Liberty

Immigration Studies Director David J. Bier Testifies Before the House Judiciary Committee - Our research finds immigrants—legal and illegal—work at higher rates, generate more income and taxes, and have reduced the national debt by $14.5 trillion ...
David Stockman's Contra Corner

All The Time In The World……NOT! - If the Donald does not wish to bring down upon himself the ignominy of being the first US president to be impeached, convicted and removed from the White...
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

My Testimony for the House Judiciary Committee - Fairfax, VA highlights the value of immigration to the country
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

My Testimony for the House Judiciary Committee - Fairfax, VA highlights the value of immigration to the country
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

A week is a long time: 16 May 2026 - A NZ Politics weekly wrap-up
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...
American Energy Alliance

President Trump Saves Ratepayers From EVEN MORE Offshore Boondoggles - Reuters reports that two offshore wind projects, Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind, will end their offshore wind leases in exchange for reimbursements...
The Library of Celaeno

Multibipolarity - Sex, IQ, and The Politics of Idiocy
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

Compliance Impacts of Virginia Joining RGGI – When will the Allowances Run Out - On April 29, 2026, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) states released a statement that Virginia was rejoining the program. On May 8, the RGGI st...
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Live: "How to do Stoic Therapy" - Conversations with Modern Stoicism - A recording from Donald J. Robertson's live video
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

In which the Green Party commits an accidental fascism by passing a law with AfD support - To save all that is Right and Good about Our Democracy, the cartel parties of the Federal Republic have erected a massive firewall round the Evil Fascist N...
Cremieux Recueil

Why Are Testosterone Levels Rising? - Unraveling the mystery of why American men keep getting manlier
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Premium: What If...We're In An AI Bubble? (Part 1) - Every day I read some sort of wrongheaded extrapolation about the future of AI — that today’s models are somehow indicative of AGI creating a “*permanent ...
Stewart Margolis

"National Service" Rears Its Ugly Head - Fox News just published an editorial by Gen.
Institute for Energy Research

Trump Administration Refunds Offshore Wind Companies for Their Leases - Reuters reports that two offshore wind projects, Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind, will end their offshore wind leases in… The post Trump Administrat...
Gale Winds

Sorry AOC, We're All Billionaires Now (And Billions Are Trillionaires) - Envy is the enemy of wealth creation.
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Bet On It Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 12 - *Summary*A common reductio ad absurdum of libertarianism is that it implies anarchism. Rothbard now eagerly bites this bullet. Indeed, this chapter is...
Asimov’s Addendum

The Collaborative Exoskeleton of AI Science - There is a lot of hope that AI will advance the progress of science, but unfortunately, the collision between AI and scientific publishing has not gone well.
The Economic LongWave

🍁Canada’s Housing Market Has Split Since the 2022 Peak - 🚨The chart tells a very important story.
ChinaTalk

A U.S. Economic Security “Latency Fund” - 'Nuclear Latency' for economic security
John D. Cook

Recovering the state of xorshift128 - I’ve written a couple posts lately about reverse engineering the internal state of a random number generator, first Mersenne Twister then lehmer64. This ...
Doug Casey's International Man

OPEC Fractures, the Draft Returns, and the Age of Consequences Begins - The UAE’s exit from OPEC, renewed draft registration, and weaponized dollar liquidity point to larger shifts. The post OPEC Fractures, the Draft Returns,...
Journal of Free Black Thought

The Truth Is in the Mirror - But black America largely refuses to look
Journal of Free Black Thought

The Truth Is in the Mirror - But black America largely refuses to look
Why not reason?

Israel Is Not Primarily What Protects Jews from Antisemites - Nazis did not care what Jews thought.
Sawahil

West Africa, Horn, MENA: Links for 5/15/2026 - News and analysis from Dakar to Riyadh.
Anthony B. Bradley

Weekly Top Five Articles: The particular forms us. The abstract thins us. - Why the modern habit of trading the particular for the abstract is producing a measurably thinner self
Anthony B. Bradley

Weekly Top Five Articles: The particular forms us. The abstract thins us. - Why the modern habit of trading the particular for the abstract is producing a measurably thinner self
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #46: Leaders Translate Complexity - Leadership involves the ability to simplify complexity
Astral Codex Ten

The Sigmoids Won't Save You - ...
GeekPress

Pringles Geometry - *"The Geometry* Behind Pringles" A Pringle is a hyperbolic paraboloid. This is not a coincidence or a marketing flourish. It is a load-bearing geometric ...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Getting to Kojima, Out of Paywall - Hello glorious readers!
Theatreview

THEATREMAKERS PROGRAMME 2026 - THEATREMAKERS PROGRAMME 2026 Mic Drop by Adyush Aditya and Marcus Savelio was the inaugural recipient of the Theatremakers Programme support. They worked...
Tim’s Substack

When you set out to take Vienna, Take Vienna - You cannot negotiate your way to victory
Offsetting Behaviour

A bit less shit - Hayden over at The Spinoff asked me what the government can do to make the economy 'a bit less shit'. I sent an overlong reply; he excerpted some choice ...
Energy in Depth

“A Recipe for Disaster”: Defendants’ Brief Explains Issues with Boulder Climate Case Ahead of SCOTUS Hearing - In a brief filed today with the U.S. Supreme Court, the defendants argued the Court should end Boulder’s climate lawsuit once and for all to avoid a “cha...
Truth on the Market

The FCC Wants Final Cut - The government does not need to burn books when it can threaten licenses. Why bother with an inquisitor’s bonfire when a regulator’s raised eyebrow can d...
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Clairaudience: The Clueless Hitchhiker (digital outlets) - This band will be unfamiliar in Aotearoa New Zealand on two counts: they come from Melbourne and from what we can tell they don't play regularly, and als...
Israel Institute of NZ

When Allegation Becomes Fact: The Weight of Historical Memory - There is a reason that allegations of sexualised barbarism directed at Jews occupy a distinct category in the history of defamation. It is not a reason roo...
CO2 Coalition

Let’s Get on with Building More New Coal Plants - Progress in Clean Coal Combustion Is a Remarkable Achievement, So Let’s Get on with Building More New Coal Plants By Richard Storm New modern coal plants...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

The New Counterculture - Ted Gioia on the next indie wave
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

Anthony Fauci Deserves To Face Serious Consequences For His Actions - New testimony has exposed even more examples of Fauci's complete disregard of the truth
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 512 - A prefab «sweet spot» - Growing global interest in prefab raises interesting questions for its future development: *do* *systems define an era, or do eras inform a need that ...
Classical Compass Rose

The Problem of Beautiful Art About Terrible Things - On John Singer Sargent’s "Gassed", and its exploration of truth versus beauty in the aftermath of World War One.
Uncharted Territories

What Do Muslim Immigrants Think in the West? - Across the US and several European countries, opinions range from moderate to radical Islamist. How much? Where?
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

A Career CIA Officer Just Said It Under Oath: The 'Proximal Origin' Story Was a Deliberate Cover-Up - Three and a half years after we mapped the anatomy of the cover-up, the Intelligence Community is finally putting it on the record. And Dr. Fauci is named.
The Rebuild

The TSA Line of Electricity - How to Fix Interconnection Queues
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

The State of Childhood in the U.S. - A new survey of U.S. parents by the Institute for Family Studies suggests that kids are still overprotected in the real world and underprotected online.
Changing Lanes

CHANGING LANES Paying Subscriber Poll - A request for two minutes of your time
The Cobden Centre

Today’s AIs Show the Marginal Revolution’s Unfinished Business - By Joakim Book For a brief moment starting in the 1870s, economics was close to becoming a genuine science of human action. Carl Menger...
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

the min-max mystery - I'm still dissatisfied with the pleasure principle
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Leadership - When I was 20yo (1987) - and weighed approx.
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

America Cannot Build Its Way Forward Without Permitting Reform - The U.S. is spending more today on infrastructure and energy than it has in decades, yet our country is building less. The disconnect is not for a lack of ...
Lindsay Mitchell

The deafening silence about welfarism and children - It took becoming a mother to awaken an interest in politics in me. Having then become increasingly aware of the detrimental role welfare was playing in w...
Flying Out

Mlah (Secondhand Vinyl LP) - *Vendor: *SECONDHAND *Type: *LES NEGRESSES VERTES *Price: * 22.00 Artist: Les Negresses Vertes Year: 1989 Genre: Rock, Latin Sub-Genre: Folk Rock, Flame...
The Trichordist

The Growing Backlash Against AI Data Centers: Local Resistance and the Infrastructure Crunch - Communities in the U.S. are increasingly resisting the rise of AI-driven data centers due to concerns over electricity demand, water usage, noise pollution...
The Beauty of Things

What He Really Wanted From Me - A personal story of literary mentorship gone very wrong
Free Range Kids

Congress to Consider Letting Kids Be Kids - Bi-partisan bill would stop investigating Free-Range parents Son in Famous Meitivs of Maryland Case Weighs In — as Does His Mom How do you get more kids ...
The Trumpland Diary

Donald Trump's Rebranding of America - How Trump is reshaping the country in his own image
Houston Strategies

HCTRA is wonderful! (according to HCTRA) while investigative reporters circle... - Part 2 guest post from Oscar Slotboom documenting the outrageous looting of HCTRA. You can find Part 1 here.---Before the main content of this post, I want...
Conversable Economist

Snapshots of Global Defense Spending - The go-to source for comparing national levels of defense spending arount the world is SIPRI, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which...
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

How Climate Science Lost Its Way on Scenarios - A summary of our 2021 deep dive on what went wrong
Reason for Living

Projects Update: Homing in on What I Love - I've learned that a key part of finding work you love is finding something that integrates your various passions and values.
Official Blog

𖦹 L 𖦹 A 𖦹 B 𖦹 Y 𖦹 R 𖦹 I 𖦹 N 𖦹 T 𖦹 (>26 m) — Geocache of the Week - Traditional-Cache GCAKPKF by DeborahVanDerLinden Difficulty: 2.5 Terrain: 1.5 Location: Zuid-Holland, Netherlands N 51° 49.565′ E 004° 38.035′ How much pat...
Capitalism Magazine

President Trump Can Stop Racial Profiling Immediately - The Census Bureau is still moving full speed to promote racial profiling to support disparate impact and DEI objectives. Strong executive action is require...
Note to Noteworthy

Faith-based “Spirituality” Destroys Real Spiritual Values - What a religious schism in my church over the Christian and U.S. flags can tell us about faith-based spirituality.
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

Prayer Works: How God Answered My Prayer for My Wife’s Baptism - Since I was baptized in 2024, I would have candid discussions with my wife about her beliefs and if she had any interest in getting baptized.
HBL

Immigration—some mostly new thoughts - Angry articles about immigration have flared up again among Objectivists, but both sides seem to have no difficulty ignoring the points I’ve made. Or, more...
The Works in Progress Newsletter

How ASML took over the world - The strange path to global monopoly
The War on Prices

President Trump’s Approval on Inflation is Now Worse Than President Biden’s Ever Was - President Trump’s approval on inflation is at a historic low.
Libertarian Land

Will AI Destroy the World? - Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate known as the “Godfather of AI,” estimates a 10–20% chance AI leads to human extinction within thirty years.
Dead Language Society

The ancient logic of “snuck” - Bad grammar or living fossil of Proto-Germanic?
Doomberg

Remedial Math - Correcting the record on US oil production and refining.
The Antiplanner

A Dumb Reason for a Dumb Project - Australia’s prime minister is proposing to build a 200-mph train between Sydney and Newscastle, a city located about a hundred miles north of Sydney. This ...
The Antiplanner

A Dumb Reason for a Dumb Project - Australia’s prime minister is proposing to build a 200-mph train between Sydney and Newscastle, a city located about a hundred miles north of Sydney. This ...
Let Grow

Congress Introduces a “Let Grow” Law! - [image: United States Capitol Building In Washington Dc] How do you get more kids out and about on their own – and assure parents this won’t be mistaken fo...
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Stop corn + oil lobbyists from permanently expanding the ethanol mandate - The “Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act" expands the ethanol mandate by 1) loosening air quality rules and 2) imposing the mandate on small r...
McFaul's World

Détente 2.0: Hoping for a Boring Summit in Beijing - Trump is weaker, and Xi is stronger, since their last summit in Beijing. But the U.S. does not have to remain in this state of weakness forever.
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.
On Substack

Open Tab: Esther Perel - Watch now | The renowned psychotherapist on what gives her life meaning, the antidote to social atrophy, AI as therapeutic tool, and cultivating the public...
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Why Marriage? - The second in a series . . .
Skeptic

The New Normal for Antisemitism - Antisemitism has shed its stigma, and it’s spreading fast. From campus protests to right-wing podcasts, Gerald and Patricia Posner chart a disturbing new n...
Stats Chat

Rugby Premiership Predictions for Round 16 - Team Ratings for Round 16 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ...
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

So all those who remember Smoot Hawley are dead then? - A standard - and we do so dislike the accusation of cynicism, we prefer realist - timetabling of the next banking crisis is a few years after the retirem...
Risk & Progress

Dethroned by Discovery - Rediscovering human purpose in a Copernican universe
Paul Wells

Dignified, efficient, and whatever this is - Have we reached Peak Carney? Probably not, but I wanted to be the first to ask
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Brief Translation Update - More on the Eudemian Ethics
The Kerrant

“Te Reo Māori Only” Sounds Noble — But Is It Sustainable? - A new “te reo Māori only” cafe in Rotorua has generated enormous media attention and praise from activists and cultural commentators. But from a business...
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

Restoring Rivers Requires Cooperation, not Litigation Shortcuts - An amicus brief in a case before the California Supreme Court case on restoring flows to California’s rivers The post Restoring Rivers Requires Cooperati...
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

Let Me Hear Your Heart Beat - "Pet Sounds" at 60
The Tracinski Letter

Farmageddon - A News Link Round-Up
The Weekly Sift

Profoundly Wrong Things - Good people, people who go to church, people who love their families, people who believe they’re good have, throughout the history of this country, done de...
The Future of Freedom Foundation

The Viciousness of the Twin Evils on Iran - The common assumption is because the Iranian regime is engaged in evil, that makes the U.S. government’s war on Iran something good. Nothing could be fur...
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: 50 Years of Text Games, by Aaron Reed - 50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon, Aaron A.
Dramatic Pause

By The Numbers: Jonjon Tolovae - Jonjon Tolovae is a Fa’afafine writer and artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau whose work interrogates the intersections of gender, cultural identity and dias...
Tross Publishing

It’s Called Setting Yourself Up - By William Chambers The Conservation Minister, Tama Potaka, has said he is removing certain DoC land from the stewardship category to allow for future sa...
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!
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Max Planck on individual originality in science - Max Planck, 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics: “New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organised, but rather from the head of an individ...
Earthly Idealism

Review: *Love Thy Stranger* by Bart D. Ehrman - How Christianity Polluted the Moral Conscience of the West
Liberty Scott

Is New Zealand a capitalist command economy? - Head of Lifestyle Economics at the UK's Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), a free-market thinktank, has written an excellent piece at The Critic called...
Glenn’s Substack

The Gathering Storm - After the first year, things are happening fast.
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

The Manosphere Is the Wrong Cure for the Right Pain - Andrew Tate’s worldview rests on four things Epictetus called slavery 2,000 years ago. The cruel part is that the wound it speaks to is real.
Building the Builders

All for Alice - Two origin stories in one 2020 blog post
The New Era

Reform's 'Thai Billionaire' - Christopher Harborne's links to Reform are coming out.
Precise Thinking

A New Look at Immortality - The Redemption of a Tortured Self: Selfhood Story #4
Matua Kahurangi

Maiki Sherman resigns: when did words become career-ending? - Now, let me start by saying this.
The Breakthrough Journal

Public Agricultural Research Is Drifting Away From Farm Productivity - Washington’s Fix Would Make It Worse
Sustain What

Sustaining Long-Term Science in a Short-Term World - Trump's assault on science budgets is just part of the problem. We under-invest in tracking planetary vital signs
Freedom and Flourishing

What is the most important contribution of Walter Donway's recent book about his serious chats with AI? - As I was reading Walter Donway’s recently published book, *A Serious Chat With Artificial Intelligence*, I was looking for an aspect to focus on in wr...
A Havenstein Moment.

Circumventing the Will of the People - Don't think and drive.
Autonomia

Obituary: Ted Turner - Flawed founder of Turner Classic Movies and CNN was a visionary genius
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for April, 2026: +0.39 deg. C - This month I’m adding plots for USA48 and Canada, too. The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for April, 2026 was +0.39...
Fictionosophy

Guilt, Authoritarianism, and Art: Timeless Truths in The Director - The Director is a disturbing but masterful presentation of how totalitarianism creeps into every aspect of life and corrupts it.
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...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

Mel Parsons Announces 7-Date Tour - Singer-songwriting luminary, Mel Parsons, has announced a seven-date national theatre tour with her band in August and September 2026, celebrating her mu...
In Due Course

Naomi Klein’s husband doubles down on public grocery stores - The road to neoliberalism is paved with good intentions
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (May 2026) - Preparedness in an age of polycrisis
Toppermost

Living Colour - Living Colour pushed boundaries fusing hard rock, funk, jazz, punk with a social conscience that hit like a thunderbolt. The post Living Colour appeared...
Existential Crunch

The end of the fallout bunker - In Germany, at least
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

Institutions incentivise silence and the powerful benefit - Conspiracy or censorship isn't the problem
Harry’s Substack

What is 'The rule of law, not of men'? Part I - A Randian theory of objective law
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...
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

The Subtle Horror of Package Inserts - If you want to scare yourself about vaccine safety, just read the package insert.
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...
Conspicuous Cognition

Aliens, Superintelligence, and the Future of Science (with David Kipping) - What the search for alien life can teach us about AI — and vice versa
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: April 2026 - We're excited to once again be co-hosting the Progress Conference with the Roots of Progress Institute, October 8–11 in Berkeley, CA.
Wright in Racine

Progress on the Burnham Block, Chapter 2 - © Mark Hertzberg (2026) The gift wrap at Frank Lloyd Wright’s American System-Built (ASB) Model C3 house at 1835 N. Layton Boulevard in Milwaukee takes the...
The Roots of Progress

What is happening in the world - AI, stagnation, populism, my theory of wokeism, and more
The Shrewd Artist

ETA, Part 2, Chapter 2, THE NUDE - Private and Universal
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

ETA, Part 2, Chapter 2, THE NUDE - Private and Universal
Stu-Topia

Humans Are a GMO and Have Been One Since the Stone Age - Genetically Modified As an Effect of the Technology of Our Apelike Ancestors Stuart K. Hayashi Photo by Wolfgang Sauber; courtesy Wikimedia CommonsIn the n...
Michael Newberry, Artist

WIP, Madonna and Child, 17th in the Space Series - Progress on the Space Series 17th painting, Madonna and Child, 64×48”, oil on linen. Blocked out the background first stage of painting. Yikes, there are a...
The Enlightened Examiner

Objective Value in Economics – Part II - The barter fallacy: why personal preferences do not dictate market values.
The Enlightened Examiner

Objective Value in Economics – Part II - The barter fallacy: why personal preferences do not dictate market values.
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

'Perspectives': An Interview with 'The Chambermaid' author, Dorothy Fletcher - The Florida author chats about her latest novel, what inspires her writing, and how creatives can stay organized
Principled Perspectives

Re: Supreme Court Updates: Justices Further Weaken Voting Rights Act, Igniting Political Scramble by The New York Times - My FaceBook Post ANOTHER DEFEAT FOR RACISM!!! Don’t believe the NYT wording. Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 “prohibits voting practices o...
Statecraft

What Trump Can Learn From Nixon - "The Plot That Failed: Nixon and the Administrative Presidency," by Richard P. Nathan
The Organon Architecture Blog

"Architects matter not because they have mastered a specific instrument, but because they can bring the orchestra together, and in doing so make our cities better places to live." - Engineer Arthur Kay seeks to explain how architects have been losing their influence, but shouldn't be. In short, it's the problem of a world of specialis...
Conflicted

US LNG Exports Rely on South Korean Ships - Energy dominance is interdependence dressed up as independence
The Intrinsic Perspective

We Consciousness Researchers Have Failed You - In Which I Become Shackleton
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

Einstein-Inspired Poetry - From Cringe to Courage
Africa’s Bright Future

Nobody Is Stopping Africa From Getting Rich - Someone once said: “I want to live in a world where people migrate out of taste, not out of hunger.” That world is possible. But only if we stop making exc...
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...
Macroscience

What I’ve Been Reading: Vol. 1 - Other people's takes on how science is changing.
Eating Policy

A (shorter) Three Horizons Framework for Government Reform - We keep propping up a system that’s run out of time to adapt
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?!
Virginia Postrel

Time's Arrow and the Drive to Matter - Or, entropy and the meanings—yes, plural—of life. Plus, TV and disposable diapers in Works in Progress, good news, and nerdy fun.
Africa-Israel Weekly

Arab/Islamic Regimes are Fueling the Genocides in Africa - Dumisani Washington's speech at the Capitol Hill Forum on Terrorism & Religious Violence hosted by EMET and ICON, April 22, 2026
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. ...
One Useful Thing

Sign of the future: GPT-5.5 - One impressive step on the curve
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...
Freethink Media

Monthly Issue Release: The Energy Transition - The next Strait of Hormuz, AI's energy demand, and the "self-healing" grid of the future.
Leport’s Substack

DEFROSTED book launch and signing event - Dear Friends and Family,
Too Clever By Half

Pesky floating links thing settles down - [image: A circular button with a star and a pencil icon and the text "Automatically insert Google Search links into your post."]Still in Beta ¶ [image: Th...
Greg Mankiw's Blog

What I've been reading - I just finished the new book by my ertswhile colleague Al Roth. Highly recommended! The subtitle is a good summary.
Roots of Progress

Announcing Progress Conference 2026 - Oct 8–11 in Berkeley, CA: A four-day event to connect people in the progress movement The post Announcing Progress Conference 2026 appeared first on Root...
PM of NZ

The no-to-apartheid message maybe is getting through - At last the National MPs are paying attention. They've probably noticed that they are haemorrhaging potential voters with inaction over endless Maorific...
Keiran Murphy (FLW Historian)

The Kitchen at Taliesin West - Reading Time: 6 minutesThe photo above looks through the kitchen there. Cooking takes place beyond what you see on the right; the door to the studio is i...
Roberto’s Substack

One does not negotiate with evil. One defeats it. - The Ceasefire That Saved the Ayatollahs: How Trump, Hegseth, and the Pentagon Turned a Civilizational Victory Into a 21-Mile Strait War
Market Urbanism

Mayors matter - Via Kevin Lewis, a new paper in an influential econ journal demonstrates that mayoral elections have a large influence on housing supply outcomes. It also ...
Eat More Electrons

Transparency is the Swiss Army Knife of development - Advocacy is hard when you have too many arguments in your favor
Happy Future

The Trouble with Transformers - And the long slouch towards cyberpunk
Asymmetric Information

Position vacant: Editor-in-chief, NZ Economic Papers🍋 - Applications now open, closing 18 May 2026
Interintellect

Anna Gát: The Sovereign Reader - How to build your "personal culture"?
Thinking Directions

How Do You Validate Aspirational Thoughts? - Aspirational thoughts can be very motivating — if you believe them. By an aspirational thought, I mean any statement about your ability to achieve someth...
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 ...
Schreibmaschiner (David McLoughlin)

Fly me to the Moon…and Mars. And save us from the maudlin media doomsters - Enough of all the media doomstering. The successful 10-day Artemis II Moon fly-around was a profound event that brought back the bright optimism of my chil...
Outliving Iran

'Life, Made Possible:' An Exciting New Direction for Outliving Iran - Expanding the vision of my Substack —and career
Ruxandra’s Substack

Considerations for egg freezing: a practical guide - Some additional notes on practical steps towards egg freezing
round houses

frank lloyd wright in AZ - I took advantage of a brief trip to Arizona to see a couple of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most interesting round houses. First off, though, was a visit to Talies...
The Realization of Wholeness

Tyrant of Your Heart - My favorite song
Gross Output

Fourth Quarter GO Confirms Deepening Stagflation into 2026 - “By integrating the vital role of the supply chain into national income accounting, Mark Skousen’s development of gross output (GO) has created a more dy...
The Many Ways I Let You Down

A Gaye Excursion - Marvin Gaye meets The Beatles and teaches us of the courage screenwriters require when adapting works.
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...
Don't Let It Go

ATLAS SHRUGGED Signed And Inscribed Tenth Anniversary Edition #1/2000 - Just a quick post to let you know about an auction I’m currently running on eBay for a special copy of the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Atlas Shrugged. Thi...
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Goths Against Cancel Culture - A Talk with Danielle Astraea of Crucifera - "Veteran goths fought to escape cancel culture, and we can’t let ourselves get pushed back."
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.
Splitting Headache

Somethings: ATMs and iPhone - Also luddism, puzzle games, and the whimsy of LinkedIn.
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.
Notes On Liberty

“Must Liberalism be Atomistic?” by Jacob Rodriguez - During his inauguration ceremony, the newly elected mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani pledged to run the city as he had run his campaign, as a committe...
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
Anti-Dismal

The Real History of Communism - From the Adam Smith Institute comes *The Real History of Communism*. It delves into the complex history of communism and explores its resurgent popularity ...
An Africanist Perspective

African policymakers should be clear-eyed about the short and medium term impacts of the U.S./Israel-Iran war - Policymakers should prepare for the fact that the coming shocks to have long lags; and that the cadence of global crises will likely pick up.
Mike’s Substack

Educational Junk Food - Over the past few decades, something interesting has happened in the world of food.
Mike’s Substack

Educational Junk Food - Over the past few decades, something interesting has happened in the world of food.
Public Lands – PERC

Don’t Let Federal Agencies Revoke Permits Without Consequence - For American Prairie and other western ranchers, permit certainty would mean that decades-old grazing privileges on federal land would be honored as vali...
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...
Equal to Reality

The Future Is Going to Be Golden. - KPop Demon Hunters and the Cultural Realisation That Cynicism Is Starting to Feel a Little Exhausting
Spiked Online

spiked summit 2026 tickets (AFAF Students) - The spiked summit takes place *Saturday 27 June 2026* in Westminster – a flagship live event featuring bold debate, live Q&As and 500+ engaged attendees....
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.
Jackson Upmann

3 Months, 1 Habit, Stronger Self-Esteem - How Tracking Wins Is Transforming My Confidence
Kibao

AI in Africa: Less Leapfrogging, More Sequencing - My four-point response to the question: “Can AI Take Off in Africa?”
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...
Robert Nasir’s Joyous Newsletter

What Can You Do, When You Have To Deal With People? - Yes, there is an answer ... quite a few, in fact! Here are five of them, each & all of which can make your life better!
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 "...
Maximum Progress

The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander on the design of cities and homes
Competitive Enterprise Institute

The Attention Wars: Why Netflix Is Buying the Past to Own the Future - The old “streaming wars” are over; the “attention wars” have begun. In the new battle, Netflix’s strategic acquisition of Warner Bros’ Discovery makes pe...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

The Attention Wars: Why Netflix Is Buying the Past to Own the Future - The old “streaming wars” are over; the “attention wars” have begun. In the new battle, Netflix’s strategic acquisition of Warner Bros’ Discovery makes pe...
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...
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Are You the Queen of Your House or Just a Lowly Servant? - Maybe I don’t have to serve my house all the time, maybe it is my house that exists to serve me.
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
Butterpaper

Happy 100 Art Deco, or maybe not - The Art deco style turns 100 this month. Sort of. But what was it then, what is it now, and how did it become associated with architecture? Architecture ...
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
Yes In Our Backyards

Supermarkets: More stories of how councils accidentally on purpose banned competition - My previous post, Supermarket YIMBYism, got a bit of traction.
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...
Martini Mandate

Sri Lanka – in the news for the wrong reason - First Published in May 2022. I’ve just returned from an unsettling trip to Sri Lanka. The country has run of of fuel, electricity and dollars. Some pla...
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

-
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

The Loophole in a Famous Adage on Limited Government - Ritual obeisance to principles can easily be combined with inflating government’s role to metastasize far beyond general welfare.
Montessori Rocks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Surrealist Writers Union Goes on Strike -
makingnewzealand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

-
Turning Point UK

-
Frank Lloyd Wright

-
Comments on: Categories

-
THE ALL RIGHT

-
Bushfire Front – Bushfire management in Western Australia

-
Commentary | Bassett, Brash and Hide

-
SovereignLife Freedom Blog

-
bachtrack.com/en/22/296/rss

-
oliviapierson.org Free Thought Advocate - Blog

-
Energy Talking Points - Alex Epstein

-
Cato at Liberty

-
Master Resource

-
The Telegraph (UK)

-
The Common Room

-
The Common Room

-
The Hot Club of New York

-
Strong Towns

-
Environmental Progress

-
Master Resource

-
Gerald Zaski

-
Jesse M.

-
Russell W. Shurts

-
Russell Shurts

-
Applied Philosophy Online

-
ROBERT FRIPP

-

Show All