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Breaking Views

Graeme Spencer: The CCO That Put Culture Before Consumers - Timaru District Council after a suspect consultation process have finally formed a CCO (Council Controlled Organisation) with MacKenzie District Council.Th...
Cato at Liberty

Do Immigration Quotas Benefit Native-Born Workers? - The most likely explanation for quotas’ effects is that immigrants complement native workers by raising their productivity and enabling them to specialize ...
Conversable Economist

Simone Weil on Education and Attention - I’ve written a number of times in this space about the “attention economy” (for example, here, here, and here). When people consume content on a screen, ...
IPWatchdog Articles

Despite Recent Changes, the PTAB Remains a Patent Death Squad - It is not news to anyone in the industry that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has changed. Thanks to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) le...
Futurism

YouTube Announces Plans to Crack Down on AI Slop - It's about time. The post YouTube Announces Plans to Crack Down on AI Slop appeared first on Futurism.
SkyscraperCity Forum

LEIPZIG - Red Bull Arena (47,069) - UEFA Conference League 2025/26 Final - [image: Image] *RB Leipzig* *Germany* [image: Image] http://www.badische-zeitung.de [image: Image] http://www.semok.de/_detail/zentralstadium.jpg?...
Institute for Energy Research

Fracking Saved U.S. Natural Gas Consumers Between $3 and $4 Trillion - The University of California at Berkeley’s Haas Energy Institute released a study on the shale gas revolution, noting that advances… The post Fracking Sa...
Spiked Online

HMRC’s toffs and trannies helpline - The post HMRC’s toffs and trannies helpline appeared first on spiked.
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

Live Around the Planet: Thursday, May 28 - Join us later today for another special Thursday edition of our Live Q&A Around the Planet at 3:00 p.m. American Eastern Time with guest host Laura Rosen C...
The Daily Sceptic

Three Stabbed at Swiss Train Station by Man Reportedly Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ - Three people have been stabbed at a train station in Switzerland by a 31 year-old man shouting "Allahu Akbar". Police say the motive remains unclear. T...
ChinaTalk

Arizona's Abundance Playbook - a view from the governor's office
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Spencer Pratt for Mayor? Part One - Is Spencer Pratt an Independent Republican? The Donald Trump of Los Angeles? Something Else?
The Daily Economy

Treasury Department Pushes $250 Banknote — With Trump Portrait -
Classical Compass Rose

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

A Changing Lanes Update from 1910 - Off-Ramps for 28 May 2026
Watts Up With That?

AI Revolution: Leaving Green Energy States Behind - States should rescind their green electricity mandates or expect to be left out of the artificial intelligence revolution. The post AI Revolution: Leavin...
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

What Demographic Prediction Can and Cannot Achieve - A look at our new preprint on population projections
Liberty Scott

The next Mega-Ministry is coming and it is going to disappoint - Notwithstanding the histrionics from the Greens and other hard-left activists, the Ministry for the Environment isn't being shut-down, it's being merged ...
No Right Turn

Sabotage and spite - What is the purpose of the state? What is our government *for*? If you ask the average New Zealander, you'll likely get some variation on "he tangata, he ...
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

They/Them Still Controls your Kids' Libraries - American Library Association President Sam Helmick (they/them) is pushing demoralization in every public library, plus an anecdote of the longhouse ruining...
Construction Physics

Where Are the Economies of Scale in Homebuilding? - Over the last few months we’ve examined the extent of the construction industry’s productivity problem.
Conspicuous Cognition

In Europe, There Is No Simple Immigration-Crime Story - Here are some statements that you might have heard at different times and in different venues concerning immigrants and crime in Europe:
Why Evolution Is True

Thursday: Hili dialogue - Welcome to Thursday, May 28, 2026, and it’s National Hamburger Day. Here’s a bacon burger I had in Honolulu in January, 2019, and, like many Hawaiian plate...
Brownstone Institute

Less Is More in Medicine - Less Is More in Medicine by Alan Cassels at Brownstone Institute [image: Less Is More in Medicine] In modern medicine, the zeitgeist today seems to be ca...
Energy Transition Absurdities

5 Big Energy Stories - 5.28.2026: The Greens Will Never Leave Us Alone, and BP Has Manifest Manifold Problem on its Hands - The Green Zealots Will Never Leave Us Alone - Great commentary here from Fox News contributor and writer Guy Benson about why no one should take the curren...
Marginal Revolution

Doc in a Box - The first review of the pilot for AI prescriptions refills in Utah is out and it looks very reasonable. In the 72% of cases where the AI recommend a ref...
Roy Spencer, PhD.

Pressure Causes Temperature? It’s Time to Climb Down from “Mount Stupid” - There was a recent weeks-long exchange of emails between many climate people — professional and amateur — regarding the idea that air pressure (in combinat...
GeekPress

Fairer Chess? - *I think my chess-playing friends will hate this idea: "Chess isn't fair -- so rearrange the pieces"*
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

Transforming social care - There are many ways in which we can make it easier for families to care for members needing social care by giving support at home instead of in care home...
The Inquiring Mind

Heartbeat – #226 – S13 E03 – Mother’s Little Helpers - Most episodes of series 8 seem not to be available at present, similarly for series 12
Anthony B. Bradley

Ten Questions to Help Your Son Become the Man He's Meant to Be - A father-son summer guide for the conversation he'll remember for the rest of his life. Two versions inside, one for high schoolers and one for sons leavin...
Anthony B. Bradley

Ten Questions to Help Your Son Become the Man He's Meant to Be - A father-son summer guide for the conversation he'll remember for the rest of his life. Two versions inside, one for high schoolers and one for sons leavin...
The Rebuild

Title Insurance is a Scam - Here’s How Congress Can Fix It
Slow Boring

Union enthusiasts should support abundance - You want it to be one way, but it’s the other.
The Free Press

Meet the Top War Skeptic Inside the Trump Pentagon. Plus. . . - Kat Rosenfield on the best-selling divorce memoir that might not be true. Can Intel save America? The Republicans’ new crusade. And more.
Law & Liberty

The Unbundling of Legal Education - AI will not kill the legal profession, but it will impact what clients buy and what law schools need to teach.
ArchDaily

Diagonal Apartment / De la Villa Studio - The flat is situated on the iconic Avinguda Diagonal, one of Barcelona's main arteries that crosses the city obliquely, connecting different neighborhood...
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

Chatrie After-Action: Lock Up Your Stuff - Chatrie will make it no wiser to rely on legal protections. You must lock up your own stuff. The post Chatrie After-Action: Lock Up Your Stuff appeared f...
Sawahil

Sudan: RSF Defections Raise Troubling Questions - Old patterns and fresh wounds as the paramilitaries lose top commanders to the regular army.
Living Resources Center

What Communism Means to Me - Communism means the government owns everything. Anyone in office gets to decide what he wants to do with anyone’s property. All property is public. Have ...
Quotulatiousness

“Seamen tend to be wary of authority, unless it is wisely exercised” - In UnHerd, Peter Hitchens considers the plight of the Royal Navy, much diminished from its years (centuries, actually) of greatness: Our own Royal Navy is ...
Toppermost

Marvin, Welch & Farrar - 10 songs from Marvin, Welch & Farrar on two incredible, mind-blowing, transcendental albums... The post Marvin, Welch & Farrar appeared first on Toppermo...
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

Mel Robbins’ Let Them Theory Is 2,000 Years Old - Eight million copies sold.
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Exploding Solar Panels - By Paul Homewood From the Sun: A FAMILY’S solar panels exploded ripping a hole through their roof while they were inside the house. Neighbours watche...
Tim Worstall

Twat - The inequality caused by technological innovation is not a given. Technological innovation reduces inequality, not produces it. Half the species gets fre...
The Cobden Centre

A Schumpeterian Analysis of the Eurobond Scandal through Rothbard’s Cui Bono - By George Omondi Ojwang’ Joseph Schumpeter, in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942), offered a starkly realistic definition of democracy: it is not t...
Hoover institution Commentary

Critical Conditions: An Operating Framework for Allied Economic Statecraft - Allied governments call too many things “critical,” spreading scarce resources thin and working at cross-purposes. This paper offers a four-layer rubric—en...
Brash & Mitchell

CHRIS McVEIGH: What's in a name? - What's in a name? It is tempting to approach the current vogue aimed at replacing all the well established and familiar place names in New Zealand (includi...
The Footy Almanac

Almanac State of Origin – Game 1, 2026: And they know it. - John Harms makes a big claim about the State of Origin result in Game 1 of the 2026 series.
Offsetting Behaviour

Assorted budget bits - A few minor bits I noted in looking through the budget - won't bother going through the headline stuff that will have been well covered elsewhere. - ...
Flashbak

Haight-Ashbury Portraits: Teenagers in The Summer of Love, 1968 - “Okay, now I want you to take a breath. And when you exhale, I want to put your image onto a piece of film.” – Elaine Mayes, The Haight-Ashbury Portraits...
The Double Standard

BHN: The Peoples’ Budget Lock-Up 2026 - The Peoples’ Budget Lock-Up 2026 brings together unions, iwi, students, community organisations, advocates, and workers to collectively respond to Budget 2...
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

perennial problems - here we go again
Schiffradio.com

The Debt, the AI Bubble, and Strategy’s Liquidity Crisis… It’s All Connected - The US needs to borrow $20 trillion this year. Saylor just blew 60% of his cash paying off 0% debt early. The dominoes are falling. The post The Debt, th...
The Integrity Institute

News Briefing: Budget Day special - OVERVIEW AND ANALYSIS
Theatreview

Budget 2026 cuts funding for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage (Manatū Taonga) by $27 million - Budget 2026 cuts funding for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage (Manatū Taonga) by $27 million, forcing mandated savings across major arts and media ent...
Chris Trotter

Counting On “You”. - NZ First’s foray into transgender issues might be ethically dubious, but politically it could be a winner.
Reason Foundation

Annual Transportation Finance Report 2026 - During 2025, infrastructure investors financed $92.4 billion worth of public-private infrastructure transactions, including transportation projects. The...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: Choosing Your Lifestyle - What's your view?
No Minister

Protocol Surely Dictates That The Current Deputy Prime Minister Is In Front With The PM and Finance Minister. -
Tross Publishing

WHY THE WORD AOTEAROA SHOULD BE DISCARDED - Fellow New Zealanders, I want to say about something far greater than politics. I speak about identity, history, truth, and the name of our nation — the ...
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Arithmancy – an ancient form of divination that uses numbers and mathematics to predict the future or uncover hidden truths; divination by the use of numbe...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

India FTA: The Sting Beneath the Sting: a correction - Select Committee appearance is next Tuesday, which is 2 not 4 June
Cremieux Recueil

Why Don't Statins Cause Dementia? - There's no reason they should, but... why not?
Point of Order

The point rightly raised by Peters is that the same Parliamentary question has been asked umpteen times before - Bob Edlin writes – Before Opposition leader Chris Hipkins had a chance to put Question Two to the Prime Minister on Tuesday, Winston Peters had intervened...
Kiwiblog

Budget 2026 - The Herald reports: That’s a good headline. Schools, hospitals and the motorists of Waikato are the winners of Finance Minister Nicola Willis’ final Budg...
American Energy Alliance

President Trump Saves Families From Costly Biden Era Grocery Regulations - President Trump is easing Biden-era federal regulations on chemicals used in commercial refrigeration and air conditioning — primarily hydrofluorocarbons...
John D. Cook

Turning K-L divergence into a metric - Kullback-Leibler divergence Kullback-Leibler divergence is defined for two random variables X and Y by K-L divergence is non-negative, and it’s zero if a...
The Daily Doom

AI Acquires Emergent Emotions - Anthropic seeks papal guidance on its new AI which is making decisions based on humanly emotional frameworks that it was never programmed to have.
Real Clear Energy

This Lawsuit Could Change Global Biz Overnight - Gerard Scimeca, RCEnergy How far should U.S. law reach beyond U.S. borders? In June, a federal courtroom in St. Louis will confront that question in a case...
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

How the media have distorted the truth to target their current villain - Accomodation allowances should be scrutinised, but Louise Upston is far from the only one receiving one
Africa-Israel Weekly

Somaliland: At peace with Israel, but ignored by the US - The looming shadow of the Muslim Brotherhood
UnHerd

It’s time to bring back Blair - Centrist dads, rejoice
Astral Codex Ten

Hidden Open Thread 435.5 - ...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

On Private Money - TweetHere’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal. Editor: Greg Ip’s argument that cryptocurrencies, being privately issued, will fail as money relies heavil...
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Fiscal Disaster Ahead: Trump’s Political Assassination of Tom Massie Seals The Deal, Part 1 - Click on Title to Read
FIRE

New FIRE study finds narrowing range of political views among faculty donors - A new analysis of faculty who donate to political candidates finds that the average donor is only slightly less left on the political spectrum than Bernie ...
Techdirt

Telecom Industry Covertly Funds Sleazy Attacks On Community Broadband Efforts In Massachusetts - Like most of the U.S., Western Massachusetts towns and cities have spent decades dealing with expensive, spotty, and slow broadband from private telecom mo...
History Reclaimed

I don’t know what is worse about Zohran Mamdani: his ignorance or his hypocrisy - New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s call for the Koh-i-Noor diamond restitution exposes deep historical ignorance and hypocrisy. Discover why the complex histo...
Doug Casey's International Man

Speculator: A Book Review - Speculator uses a junior mining thriller to explore speculation, fraud, Austrian economics, and the moral discipline required to distinguish real value f...
Greater Auckland

Budget Day 2026 - It’s budget day and while we wait to find out what the government may or may not fund, we were asked by The Post for some policy ideas we’d like to see o...
The UnPopulist

Yale's Mea Culpa Arrives at the Wrong Time - Its splashy self-examination reads less like a serious reform agenda than a carefully choreographed contrition statement aimed at a hostile administration
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

2pm-6pm LIVE – Waatea Election Budget ’26 Coverage with Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, Cameron Bagerie, Chris Hipkins, Brad Olson, Tama Potaka, Bernard Hickey, John Tamihere, Shane Jones, Marama Davidson, Barbera Edmonds, Willie Jackson and Fran O’Sullivan - The most up to date Budget Day commentary and coverage live from 2pm-6pm Thursday. With Massey University Economist – Professor...
JoNova

Suddenly the Paris Agreement grows teeth - By Jo Nova The EU Free Trade agreement would Weaponize the Paris Agreement The Labor Party want to sign a deal with the EU which means that future Austr...
Public: Michael Shellenberger

James Verini: “Ukrainians will never submit to a truce that allows Russia to keep the territories it’s occupied” - Author of a new book on the war, "The Theater," predicts Russian revolt against Putin and urges open-ended US support
The Roots of Progress

Join us today on Substack Live to learn about the Blog-Building Intensive Fellowship - We'll be live at 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET today!
The Curmudgeon

As Perfect as it Gets - Lovers of liberty will rejoice that the Trumpster is about as fit as any octogenarian possibly could be whose hollowed-out cranium happens to be farctate w...
Persuasion

Ukraine and Iran are Changing Warfare - Here's what to pay attention to.
Truth on the Market

The European Commission’s Search-Data Trust Fall - The European Commission is trying to pull off a difficult trick: force Google to share search-query data with rivals while insisting the shared data is n...
Middle East Uncovered

Afghan Women Recall Childhoods Cut Short by Forced Marriage - The Taliban have legalized an already pervasive practice in Afghanistan: selling girls into marriage. Three women described being traded to older men, robb...
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Antisemites for Congress: Dan Bilzerian and America’s New Politics -
On Substack

My Internet: Kate Lindsay - Paywall strategy, Stuart Little memes, and the millennial pause: We turned Embedded’s signature Q&A on its founder
Free Range Kids

Majority of 14-Year-Olds Not Allowed Off Their BLOCK??? - More than half of all 14-year-olds are NOT ALLOWED OFF THEIR BLOCK (finds an Institute for Family Studies survey of 25,000 Americans)? That is LITERALLY,...
The Jolly Libertarian

The Age of Abundance: Rethinking Wealth in the Age of AI - Recently I read Ray Kurzweil's book *The Singularity is Nearer*, a look at artificial intelligence and what it holds for the future. Kurzweil is very opt...
AAS Economics (Frank Shostak)

GOLD MODEL SIGNAL FOR JUNE - What's changed since last month?
The Breakthrough Journal

The Nuclear Resurgence Will Follow Many Paths - The Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of New Nuclear
The Common Reader

Oscillating at the zoo - No-one reads the exhibits.
DGMLive

1000 Club Online Meeting. - Join David and Alex for the next 1000 Club meeting this Saturday.
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Joblessness, Moneyball, Antidepressants - Links and recommendations
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

It's Micah Lasher's Race to Lose - A few thoughts on the primary for the most prestigious House district in America
Freedom and Flourishing

Is Indian Democracy an Extraordinary Success Story? - Salvatore Babones puts the view that Indian democracy is an extraordinary success story in his book, *Dharma Democracy: How India Built the Third World’...
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 514 - Cooperation - advantage or inconvenience - The advantages of offsite construction are chiefly articulated to preparing components in advance of their use in a controlled setting for their subs...
Dead Language Society

How to read Beowulf (and actually enjoy it) - It’s not really about the monsters
Skeptic

Why Airport Rules (Almost) Never Change - Airport security rules were born from panic and kept alive by politics. From liquid bans to shoe removal, discover why bureaucratic inertia, security theat...
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Five Stoic Reminders Readers Shared This Week - A short collection of my recent Notes on anxiety, anger, and self-awareness.
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Dialogue #5 - The Next Conversation
Perennial Meditations

In Defense of the Examined Life - Dying Every Day (Day 148)
Official Blog

Hopmaniak – In search of the Smurfs… – Geocache of the week - Traditional GCBD883 by Hopmaniak Difficulty: 2.5 Terrain: 1 Location: Noord-Brabant, Netherlands N 51° 33.216′ E 005° 11.411′ What would you do if Papa Smu...
Curbed - All

Greenpoint Got a Little Beach - The sandy patch of Bushwick Inlet Park is only a portion of what was promised, but it’s full of bird-watchers and sunbathers since opening this month.
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 1114 Bond Market Jitters. Supply Chain Shocks. The American Den of Pirates and American Health Improvement. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
The Roots of Liberty

Hollywood’s Double Cop-Out - Christopher Nolan, Hollywood’s current rock star, has the Intertubes all a-flutter over his upcoming epic adaptation of Homer’s epic, The Odyssey.
ROBERT FRIPP

Yesterday morning at 10.45... - Words 12 · RF@80 Series
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Inventing the second malaria vaccine with Katharine Collins - Malaria is caused not by a virus or bacterium, but by a complex, shape-shifting parasite that has evolved alongside us for millennia. This has made vaccine...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Hasan Piker and the Marxist Resentment Behind ‘Microlooting’ - Hasan Piker, the far-left political commentator and streamer, has enjoyed a remarkable rise into the mainstream left media ecosystem. He has now campaign...
American Institute of Economic Research

Hasan Piker and the Marxist Resentment Behind ‘Microlooting’ - Hasan Piker, the far-left political commentator and streamer, has enjoyed a remarkable rise into the mainstream left media ecosystem. He has now campaign...
Mises Wire

The Two Economies - As I see it now, there are really two economies—two distinct systems of producing and exchanging wealth. Or rather, two systems that purport to do these th...
Mises Institute Blog

The Two Economies - As I see it now, there are really two economies—two distinct systems of producing and exchanging wealth. Or rather, two systems that purport to do these th...
The Logical Place

Submission to Royal Commission on Anti-Semitism - By Tim Harding BSc BA, 26 May 2026 Introduction My main concerns are: Misinformation about Israel and its right of self-defence A double standard refers to...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

The 60-Year Echo: How a Middle East War Is Reclaiming the Lungs of Rural India - In 1966, long before the lights of Mumbai’s skyline or the professional corridors of America defined my life, my reality was a small village in India. I wa...
Quillette

Anti-Zionism as Redemptive Racism - Contemporary anti-Zionism encodes a totalising worldview that blends the tributaries of Nazi, communist, and Islamist anti-Zionism into a single stream.
Paul Wells

The Oracle of Tyvek - Mark Carney makes the case for Canada from a construction site in Orleans
Energy in Depth

Amicus Briefs Urge SCOTUS To End Boulder’s Climate Lawsuit - As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments in Boulder’s climate lawsuit, more than three dozen amicus briefs made the same essential point: Bou...
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

New York State Renewable Permitting Scandal - This article was also posted at Watts Up With That Paraphrasing the Washington Post “Environmental Protections Die in Darkness”, could be a slogan for New ...
Manhattan Contrarian

Ocean "Acidification" -- Another Fake Scare That Won't Go Away - * Ocean “acidification” is a somewhat unique branch of the overarching climate scare. It differs from other branches of the big scare in that it does not d...
Andrew Whiteside

Event: Rise Against – Nov 2026 - Chicago punk quartet Rise Against will tour to New Zealand, joined by Boston’s rock ‘n’ roll underdogs turned champions, Dropkick Murphys. Produced by Live...
The Trumpland Diary

Trump's "Garden of American Heroes" is Another Disaster in the Making - Way back in his first term, amid ongoing national debates over monuments and historical statues and their potential removal, Trump delivered a speech at Mo...
Retraction Watch

Elsevier retracts study tying sudden infant death syndrome to vaccinations - Elsevier has retracted a 2021 study claiming sudden infant death syndrome is linked to vaccines over concerns the paper might influence patient care. The...
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Fiscal Disaster Ahead: Trump’s Political Assassination of Tom Massie Seals The Deal, Part 1 - Last week’s Washington mayhem added powerful momentum to the fiscal doomsday path upon which the Federal government was already hurtling. To wit, the pub...
Dramatic Pause

By The Numbers: Liv Parker - *Liv Parker (She/Her) is an actor and comedian who hails from Ōtautahi, and is based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She has built a diverse body of work across TV, ...
One Useful Thing

Choosing to Stay Human - If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other:
A Halfling's View

The Courts and Climate Change - Legislation or Litigation
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Caplan-Jones Immigration Debate Rematch Friday at UATX - Plus more events
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

An Uncanny Moment for Jazz Lovers - Sonny Rollins dies the day before the Miles Davis centenary
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: Before You Speak, Listen. Before You Write, Think - William Shakespeare? William Arthur Ward? Rex Beach? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: A miscellaneous collection of lines offering advice has im...
Israel Institute of NZ

Security vs Society: Why Counter-Terror Policy Starts Too Late - The Interim Report of Australia’s Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion is, on its own terms, a serious and competent document — legally dir...
Public Lands – PERC

PERC Convenes Park Leaders and Researchers to Contemplate National Park Stewardship - PERC hosted some of the country’s leading national park officials, researchers, partners, and policy experts to discuss the future of America’s “best ide...
The Library of Celaeno

What is Trumpism? - A Response and Apologia
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Revenge of The Business Idiot - If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s ...
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Metaphysical Marriage - The third in a series . . .
JunkScience.com

Milloy accuses Meta of undercutting American workers with H-1B visas - This presentation (media release|audio presentation) will be made at the May 27, 2026 annual meeting of Meta shareholders.
Sustain What

Facing Momentous Warnings, from AI to Climate, Find Meaning and Value Here and Now - Andrew Maynard offered advice for doom-focused folks as we explored Pope Leo XIV's AI manifesto
CO2 Coalition

Amsterdam Ad Ban Typifies Climate Alarmism’s Farce - By Vijay Jayaraj Amsterdam just became the world’s first capital to outlaw public ads for both meat and fossil fuels. Starting May 1, city officials scru...
Marcus on AI

If enough other companies report the same, the bubble pops. 🫧 - Breaking: “Uber COO Andrew Macdonald said he’s not seeing proportional productivity gains from increasing AI costs.”
Can't Get Much Higher

Artists You Hate: An Album a Day - Featuring Bob Dylan, R.E.M., U2, and others
Asimov’s Addendum

Open Source Ecosystems - When open strategy meets private tactics
Uncharted Territories

The Criminal, Social, and Economic Cost of Immigrants in the EU - There’s been a huge backlash against immigration in the West recently.
Stats Chat

Super Rugby Predictions for Week 16 - Team Ratings for Week 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 r...
The Weekly Sift

No Sift Next Monday - The next new articles will appear on June 8.
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

The Real Villain in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey Casting Flap - Hollywood’s diversity regime helped create the racial politics surrounding Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey casting controversy, but critics risk repeating the ...
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Why We've Been Thinking about the Fertility Crisis Wrong - Did humans evolve to seek solitude?
Yascha Mounk

H.W. Brands on the Making of George Washington - Yascha Mounk and H.W. Brands discuss the first U.S. president's life and legacy.
EconLog

Would Hasan Piker Steal A Car? - In a controversial conversation platformed by the New York Times and recently discussed in The Atlantic, streamer Hasan Piker implied that he might steal...
Doomberg

Something Stinks - A balanced analysis of the ongoing disruptions in the sulfur market.
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day – debunking egalitarianism edition - “If everybody must be equally well-off all the time, there can be no significant movement up or down. That would rule out what might be seen as a natural...
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Tim Mahon and the Great Kerfuffle: Tim Mahon and the Great Kerfuffle (digital outlets) - Best known for his role as bassist in the anarchic Plague, proto-punk Whizz Kids and then Blam Blam Blam – before an accident sidelined the band and spec...
Dr Oliver Hartwich

NZ’s anti-slavery bill helps no victims but no one dare oppose it - New Zealand's Modern Slavery Bill, while aimed at addressing exploitation in supply chains, may create compliance burdens without effectively reducing mode...
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

Schumpeter comes to Wellington - (And what we can learn from the Luddites)
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

The Last Days of Downtown - A Review and Autopsy with Matthew Gasda - No Exit for Hipsters
Kunstler

For the Honored Dead - “I told my staff today that we need an ICD code for Trump Derangement Syndrome, because it is a real thing … It should be studied.” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr
The Antiplanner

Front Range Rail Is Another Big Boondoggle - Colorado’s proposed Front Range Rail “will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars yet produce no real benefits,” says an opinion piece in yesterday...
The Antiplanner

Front Range Rail Is Another Big Boondoggle - Colorado’s proposed Front Range Rail “will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars yet produce no real benefits,” says an opinion piece in yesterday...
Real Clear Energy: Video

How the West Is Dealing With the Water Crisis - Roughly one in ten Americans gets their water from the Colorado River. But a worsening drought, driven in part by climate change, is drying up the river, a...
Risk & Progress

Managing Migration - A modest proposal for a new approach to immigration
Flying Out

Foundry (Vinyl LP) - *Vendor: *Short Span *Type: *YU SU *Price: * 78.00 Presenting the remarkable second album by the Chinese musician, DJ and creative chef Yu Su. An evolu...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

The Sisters Of Mercy Announce Auckland Concert For December - Legendary UK post-punk band The Sisters Of Mercy have announced just their third New Zealand visit since forming in 1980, with a one-off concert at Auckl...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

Gambling to Solvency: The Savings & Loans Crisis, Part III - The accounting magic, brokered deposits, and burning condos that cost taxpayers $124 billion
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

The Opening of Forest Charter School (Orewa) - A privilege to attend the above event last Friday.
The Whakataki Times

Labour Believes They Can Win Election If They Get Their Hands On A Horse-Sized Duck - QUACKED THE CODE. The post Labour Believes They Can Win Election If They Get Their Hands On A Horse-Sized Duck appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
The Organon Architecture Blog

"To act within the marketplace, but not to be governed by the values of the market-place, is a considerable personal discipline." - What Robert Fripp describes below between audient and musician is the same --or should be -- between client and architect ... *"A customer acts within ...
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Why Democrats and Republicans both need comprehensive permitting reform - Both Republicans and Democrats should absolutely want strong NEPA reform, strong Clean Water Act reform, strong transmission reform, and permitting certainty.
Stewart Margolis

Is There Any Version of UBI That Makes Sense? - When I first heard about the concept of UBI (Universal Basic Income) a few years back, it seemed like just the latest ploy to rebrand socialism — and thus ...
Cranmer’s Substack

Elon Musk Filed a Prospectus. Every Journalist Should Read It. - It promises to save humanity from the fate of the dinosaurs. It may also eat your business model.
Greg Mankiw's Blog

What I've been reading - I am a bit late to this party, but I finally got around to reading Dan Wang's *Breakneck*. It is a thoughtful and very readable book that taught me a lo...
The Enlightened Examiner

Netanyahu’s Legacy - Regardless of whether an agreement with Iran is reached, I stand by this piece.
The Enlightened Examiner

Netanyahu’s Legacy - Regardless of whether an agreement with Iran is reached, I stand by this piece.
Mike’s Substack

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

Personality Versus Academic Egalitarianism - How Today’s Schools Oppose Greatness
bad cattitude

sunday memepool 2 - when life gives you stupid...
The New York Review of Books

The Education of Pope Leo XIV - Father Bob Prevost, today known to the world as Pope Leo XIV, says that when he first arrived in Peru as an Augustinian missionary in 1985, thirty years ol...
New Zealand Arts Review

RBG: Of Many, One. A Timely Reminder and a Triumph - Auckland Theatre Company and Auckland Live present RBG: Of Many, One A Sydney Theatre Company production By Suzie Miller Dir Priscilla Jackman Design David...
misfits' architecture

Getting Emotional - Since my Architecture Is Not Architecture post of three weeks ago, I’ve been more aware of designers wanting me to engage with something on some emotional ...
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

From Spectator Dissidence to Organised Power: Why Comfortable Elites Critique Government but Rarely Contest It - Part I: Opinion Without Organisation, and the Political Problem of Comfortable Dissent
The Kerrant

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

“See For Yourself” - The ability to see clearly—to form your own hypothesis about what’s actually in front of you, independent of what you’ve been told to expect—is the foundat...
The Intrinsic Perspective

Dumbo Could Already Fly - 100% pure human copium about OpenAI solving Erdős problems
Glenn’s Substack

And Away We Go! - Starship V.3's successful launch and return sets us on the path to a Kardashev II civilization.
Note to Noteworthy

What Spirituality Really Means - Is spirituality about “God” or something else?
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #47: The Honor of Being on the Shelf - Great ideas live beyond the moment
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Horstine the Whale: An Obituary - Look at you, you fucking dumbass.
Harry’s Substack

What is 'The rule of law, not of men'? Part II - As the law must be objective in its derivation, so it must be objective in its form: objective laws are clearly defined, mutually consistent, unambiguous, ...
Michael Newberry, Artist

Updates on the Madonna and Child, and 2nd Edition of Evolution Through Art, ETA. - Breakdown of Some of the Processes Update on the 17th of my space series the Madonna and Child. Today I’m blocking in the figures with transparent shadows ...
The Shrewd Artist

Updates on the Madonna and Child, and 2nd Edition of Evolution Through Art, ETA. - Breakdown of Some of the Processes
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Updates on the Madonna and Child, and 2nd Edition of Evolution Through Art, ETA. - Breakdown of Some of the Processes
McFaul's World

My Conversations with Stephen Colbert - Revisiting two appearances on The Late Show during pivotal moments in U.S.-Russia relations.
The Tracinski Letter

“The Most Brazenly Corrupt Action in US Presidential History" - A News Link Round-Up
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Tinker Taxer Founders Fly - *First, if you’ve not yet completed our latest **Entrepreneurs Survey**, what better way to spend this sunny Bank Holiday? It only takes around 10 minute...
Gale Winds

Warriors of Teancum Men's Retreat - What manner of men ought ye to be?
Sinification

Hormuz and the Global Order: From Maritime Chokepoints to Continental Corridors - Chinese analysts on the prolongation of Hormuz disruption, the shifting global order and China’s strategic positioning in the continuing crisis.
Tim’s Substack

LZ Margo . . . The Dead Went Last - A Memorial Day Tribute
Journal of Free Black Thought

Birthright Citizenship - We owe this tradition a more nuanced conversation
Journal of Free Black Thought

Birthright Citizenship - We owe this tradition a more nuanced conversation
A Havenstein Moment.

It's Deceptive, Right? - “We know, of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only s...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

Kevin O'Leary has no idea what he's talking about - The problem with lecturing others on how to live
The War on Prices

Out to Lunch: California's $20 Fast-Food Wage - My interview of UC San Diego's Jeff Clemens
Market Urbanism

Vacancy chains – linked - Kudos to the Pew housing research team for successfully tracing a real-life moving chain in Washington, D.C. They started at the bottom, with a woman named...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Entrepreneurship and Ethics — new publication - My essay is part of the just-published Springer volume Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics, edited by professors Christoph Luetge ...
Gus Van Horn

Evasive Relative Picks Wrong Target - *Due to major obligations affecting my schedule, I will take a beak from blogging until Friday, May 29. I will appear sporadically on X/Twitter in the mean...
Lindsay Mitchell

Is Whanau Ora lifting student attendance? - I was asked the following question via Family First: "How is the Whānau Ora network developing and what are its prospects. In particular, is it helping s...
Interintellect

The Long Now Foundation joins Interintellect in partnership for a new online series - A beautiful new miniseries will focus on Bayo Akomolafe, and will be hosted by Denise Hearn.
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

If Machines Could Talk - What LLMs still get wrong about human language -- and people.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

If Machines Could Talk - What LLMs still get wrong about human language -- and people.
Conflicted

Nuckin' Futs - When researchers show you who they are, believe them
Yes In Our Backyards

The “Great Upzoning” of New Zealand’s cities, in two charts - Taking stock of 15 years of remarkable progress
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Treasure Your Attention - Jonathan Haidt's advice to the NYU Class of 2026 on how to flourish in a world that raises many obstacles to human flourishing.
Libertarian Land

What are the Effects of Reform Prosecutors? - Many prosecutors run on reform platforms, which advocate lessened charges for low-level offenses.
The Grumpy Economist

Warsh's Challenges: Monetary Policy - This is an OpEd at the Washington Post, their title “How to protect the economy from the ghosts of 1979.”
Eat More Electrons

The Empty Quadrant contains no countries. But it does hold big lessons for the scale of energy needed in poor countries - (Please use our stuff but don’t plagiarize it)
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Ep30 Reading Banned Books w/Pete Quinones - A Quick interview with Peter R. Quiñones of The Pete Quinones Show on banned books and longform podcasting.
The Many Ways I Let You Down

Democracies Are Not Monasteries - Research suggests less speech means more violence. So why do those in power still want us to shut up?
Don't Let It Go

My latest at the PLF Blog: The Supreme Court’s last best chance to stop the surveillance state - When you text your doctor, share your location with a rideshare app, or use your credit card at checkout, you aren’t broadcasting your private life to the ...
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

Don’t Worry, Be Smug About China Because The Future Is American - After President Donald Trump’s friendly and deferential visit with China’s Xi Jinping, Matthew Hennessey, a Wall Street Journal editor, wrote a column al...
Leport’s Substack

What If the Future Was Worse Than Death? - Coming in two weeks, DEFROSTED thrusts readers into a chilling world of scientific ambition, political control, and humanity pushed to its limits.
Maximum Progress

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

"Resolved." - They updated the label. They dropped the recommendation. And then they invented a word for what the injured do not deserve.
Fictionosophy

A Monster Calls On Self-Honesty and the Power of Stories - A Monster Calls is an intriguing exploration of grief, emotional complexity, the importance of stories, and self-honesty.
Macroscience

Metascience Is Ignoring the National Labs - The original focused research organizations.
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

Justice is coming for victims of dangerous illegal-migrant truckers - My Latest New York Post Article
The Economic LongWave

🌊Why the Next Economic Winter Won’t Surprise Anyone Who Understands the Cycles - 💰From Schumpeter’s innovation engine to the Kuznets real estate rhythm, here’s the full map of booms, busts, and the unstoppable rhythm of capitalism.
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.
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 ...
Syncretica

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

Why your money keeps losing value - AND WHY IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT
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
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...
Why not reason?

Israel Is Not Primarily What Protects Jews from Antisemites - Nazis did not care what Jews thought.
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 - A personal story of literary mentorship gone very wrong
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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!
Earthly Idealism

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

Obituary: Ted Turner - Flawed founder of Turner Classic Movies and CNN was a visionary genius
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...
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
Existential Crunch

The end of the fallout bunker - In Germany, at least
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...
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...
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...
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
Zero Hanger

FULL TIME: St Kilda vs Hawthorn – Round 12, 2026 - The St Kilda Saints face the Hawthorn Hawks in Round 12 of the 2026 AFL season. Follow the live scores, team lists, match statistics and key moments from t...
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...
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.
RenewNZ

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Power + Market

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Cafe Hayek

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Julian Burnside

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1828 – Championing Freedom

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

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

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

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

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

How Finitude Makes Us Happy — My Final Post - She looked her age — 27, startlingly close to my own age. Did we share acquaintances or friends of friends? She fixed her hair in a ponytail and wore jea...
'The Critic' Magazine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14 Practical steps to improve Cash Flow - A positive cash flow keeps the heart of any business pumping, but a negative cash flow will eventually cause the business to fail. A growing business may...
A Force for Good | How economics, morality, and markets combine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Surrealist Writers Union Goes on Strike -
makingnewzealand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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