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The Footy Almanac

2026 NRL – RITV: Round 6 – South Sydney Rabbitohs v Canberra Raiders: Game Management - When push came to shove in the Rabbitohs v Canberra match, 'game management' was the key factor. As Rabbit In The Vineyard explains, the Rabbitohs got it a...
The Free Press

Trump’s Jesus Meme Was Dumb—Not Blasphemous - Critics rushed to call the AI meme depicting Trump as Jesus sacrilege. But the more likely explanation is simpler—and says more about online outrage than t...
Dr Oliver Hartwich

Splitting power generators from their retail arms would not cut electricity bills - With rising energy prices, New Zealand First proposes splitting electricity companies, but the argument lacks economic merit. Vertical integration helps st...
Retraction Watch

Retraction Watch testifies in Congressional hearing on scientific publishing - A hearing on Capitol Hill today explored issues in scientific publishing — and Retraction Watch had a seat at the table. The Investigations and Oversight ...
The Inquiring Mind

The Royal Navy in 1939 | The Largest Navy On Earth But Still Not Enough - Uploaded April 14, 2026 Link below https://youtu.be/dQ_JOKoegTY?si=1SDMX41TH0iXJj8k
Watts Up With That?

America’s nuclear comeback is finally here - Instead of burying or warehousing used fuel, new processes can safely convert it into usable material for modern reactors. The post America’s nuclear com...
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Trump’s Greatest First Year Never - Our unhinged megalomaniacal POTUS was at it again today, claiming to Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that his first year was nothing short of spectacular: Trum...
Energy in Depth

EIA Outlook 2026: America’s Energy Future Runs on Natural Gas - After more than a decade of flat electricity demand, U.S. power consumption is rising again—and natural gas is growing right alongside it. Both domestica...
American Innocence by Anna Gát

Dangerous Lines: My Reading Selections for "Matter" - The erotics of art vs the hermeneutics of violence.
Zero Hanger

AFL whispers: A star Pie sets return date, veteran Lion candid about retaining talent - Has a return date been pencilled in for a Collingwood livewire? How will Brisbane keep its emerging stars?
Cato at Liberty

Profit Caps Won’t Fix New York’s Health Care Staffing Shortage - Lawmakers say they’re solving staffing shortages. They may be about to deepen them.
Curbed - All

Chris Christie Bought a Co-op on Irving Place - The former governor of New Jersey paid $1.5 million for the two-bed, two-bath near Union Square.
Techdirt

ACAB: Cops Are Bringing ‘Delinquency Of A Minor’ Charges Against Adults Who Assist Students During Anti-ICE Protests - While the Trump administration’s extremely aggressive, thoroughly bigoted attempts to eliminate as many non-white people from this country as possible have...
Futurism

ChatGPT’s “Honest Reaction” to a “Song” Composed Entirely of Gas-Passing Noises Will Make You Question Whether It’s Honestly Evaluating Your Other Brilliant Ideas - "It reminds me of something that would play over a quiet city montage or end credits." The post ChatGPT’s “Honest Reaction” to a “Song” Composed Entirely...
Doug Casey's International Man

Doug Casey on the Strait of Hormuz, the Dollar, and the Coming Energy Crisis - Doug Casey warns that Strait of Hormuz tensions could trigger an energy crisis and hurt the dollar. The post Doug Casey on the Strait of Hormuz, the Doll...
Kiwiblog

General Debate 16 April 2026 - The post General Debate 16 April 2026 first appeared on Kiwiblog.
Truth on the Market

Turning Down the Thinking: A Law & Economics Trilogue on AI Throttling - Three section leads at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) read the same viral GitHub post and reached three different conclusions. Call ...
The Curmudgeon

A Necessary Update - While criticising the Righteous State may be morally equivalent to Holocaust denial, there is clearly room for flexibility when it comes to certain other a...
HardmoneyJim

A new kind of money: what "payment stablecoins" mean for the debt, the dollar, and you - PAYMENT STABLECOINS DON'T SOLVE THE UNDERLYING DEBT AND DEFICIT PROBLEM, THEY JUST DELAY THE RECKONING
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

New Zealand’s Cost of Living Crisis in 2026: What’s Really Happening? - In 2026, New Zealand continues to face one of the most pressing economic challenges in its recent history — the...
No Minister

General Debate Without Moderation - Yesterday 59 Views and 3 Comments Have you ever volunteered for a political party at Election time? If Yes what did you do – how deeply were you involved? ...
Fictionosophy

So Far Gone: A Shallow Look at a Deep Divide - So Far Gone could have been a fascinating tale of competing ideologies and how they play out in the personal realm—but this depth went largely unexplored.
Spiked Online

Péter Magyar’s victory is nothing for ‘progressives’ to cheer - The post Péter Magyar’s victory is nothing for ‘progressives’ to cheer appeared first on spiked.
SkyscraperCity Forum

CITY CENTRE | Anglesea Terrace | 16fls, 53.5m | 147 apts | Approved - [image: www.irishexaminer.com] Around 140 affordable homes planned for Cork City Council carpark site Figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) las...
Breaking Views

Barrie Davis: From Sex to Gender - Winston Peters has reintroduced the Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill as the latest in a series of legislative proposals from NZ Fi...
Houston Strategies

Freeway Deck Parks: time for a reality check - Another excellent, deeply analytical guest post from Oscar Slotboom, author of Houston Freeways. Yes, it is long, but it should tell you anything you want ...
The Daily Sceptic

Pity Poor Huw Edwards Whose Child Porn Habit Was Driven by His “Low Self-Esteem” - Huw Edwards avoided prison for his child porn habit because the judge bought his excuse that he has "low self-esteem", in part because he was rejected fr...
Middle East Uncovered

What is next for Iran? (Part 3) - A recording from Middle East Uncovered's live video
Asymmetric Information

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

We’re in an oil crisis, Australia has two oil refineries, and one appears to be on fire - By Jo Nova Well, that can’t be good Details are sketchy, but the Viva refinery in Corio, Geelong Victoria is reportedly on fire in a big way. This is (o...
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Chartbook 440: Between complacency, escapism and cognitive dissonance. Impressions from the spring week in Washington, April 2026. - In April the meetings of the IMF and the World Bank attract a crowd of financial decision-makers of all types to Washington DC.
Real Clear Energy

Oil Prices Sinking to $90 - Oil Price
Mises Wire

Trump Will Need Plenty of Inflation to Finance His New War - Through it all, we will likely hear the regime come up with every reason under the sun to explain rising prices in terms other that the real cause: monetar...
Marginal Revolution

Wednesday assorted links - 1. An observation on left-wing universities. 2. Arnold Kling on marginalism. 3. “You should be holding more babies.” 4. Hayekian welfare states. 5. Why H...
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Mehdi Hasan: IRGC's Strongest Internet Warrior -
Institute for Energy Research

The Ceasefire Continues Amid the U.S. Blockade of Iranian Ports - The U.S. Navy began its blockade of Iran’s ports, with only a few Iran-linked ships able to transit the Strait… The post The Ceasefire Continues Amid the...
Official Blog

ON 09.27 : Lisse — Geocache of the Week - Traditional GC9XY1Q by DeBeagles Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 1.5 Location: Zuid-Holland, Netherlands N 52° 15.627′ E 004° 32.708′ What if one of the easiest c...
Persuasion

The Incels Are Taking Over - Anti-feminism best explains populism.
Conversable Economist

Interview with Ellen McGrattan: Business Cycles and Intangible Capital - Tim Sablik of the Richmond Fed interviews “Ellen McGrattan: On measuring what businesses do, developing effective tax policy, and searching for answers b...
Greg Mankiw's Blog

My Broadway Debut - Last week, I saw the play *Every Billiant Thing*, which was absolutely fantastic. As this NY Times article describes, audience participation is central. ...
The Logical Place

Ban greyhound racing - Greyhound racing should be banned, not merely reformed. The issue is not whether the industry can be made a little cleaner, a little safer, or a little bet...
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

Live Around the Planet: Wednesday April 15th - Greetings from Ukraine. The good news is that my hotel upgraded me to the penthouse suite. The bad news is the elevator is non-working in order to "conserv...
The Works in Progress Newsletter

The truth about egg freezing - Whatever you do, do not listen to the articles that say that egg and embryo freezing do not work.
Gus Van Horn

Called a Bluff: On Purpose or Not? - One cannot read any media without questioning every line, and the latest case in point is a piece in the *New York Post* that proclaims the President "bril...
Why Evolution Is True

Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ a rock in a box - Today’s Jesus and Mo strip, called “rock2“, comes with a note that says this: “An oldie from 2006 today. Next week’s will also be a resurrection.” The arti...
The Trichordist

@hypebot: Jay Gilbert, Ryan Vaughn, & Benji Stein Share Expert Tips for Artist Growth in 2026 - Artists heading into 2026 are being told to focus less on streams and followers and more on building real, actionable fan relationships—but as platforms co...
Energy Transition Absurdities

Ronald Stein: Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz force us to reconsider the material benefits of fossil fuels - Co-authored by Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka
The Daily Economy

Are Trump’s Tariffs Really Dead? Here’s What’s Happening Behind the Scenes -
Sinification

Strait of Hormuz Blockade: How China Should Respond | by Ye Yan - "In this crisis, the United States is trying to wear down its Asian rivals at the lowest possible cost, and Iran is trying to turn the Strait into a cash m...
IPWatchdog Articles

CAFC Affirms District Court Invalidation of Controller Patent - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision Tuesday in Definitive Holdings, LLC v. Powerteq LLC, affirming th...
Dead Language Society

Why you should read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - This spring’s book club pick
Brownstone Institute

Cocooning by Way of the Tdap Vaccine - Cocooning by Way of the Tdap Vaccine by Robert Malone at Brownstone Institute [image: Cocooning by Way of the Tdap Vaccine] *Leave the cocooning to the c...
Living Resources Center

Divorce: “What About the Kids?” - Dealing with couples’ conflicts can be stressful for everyone involved. One of the questions that parents often ask me is whether it’s right or wrong to ...
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Let Bad Writers Use AI to Compose Text - In The Boston Globe, I wrote an article of why we should accept authors using AI not only for tasks like researching and spell check, but also for composin...
Reason Foundation

Florida’s surge in gambling helpline calls isn’t what it seems - Do rising helpline calls actually mean more Floridians are becoming addicted to gambling? The answer is no. The post Florida’s surge in gambling helpline...
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Trump has cut legal immigration twice as much as illegal immigration - It's not about illegal immigration. It's about anyone who is foreign.
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

Trump has cut legal immigration twice as much as illegal immigration - It's not about illegal immigration. It's about anyone who is foreign.
Slow Boring

We should plan for success - Cities shouldn’t just settle for “enough” housing.
EconLog

Of Course We’re Still Reading Wealth of Nations at Econlib - Today, we’re our joint celebration with our friends at Liberty Matters of the 250th anniversary of the publication of *An Inquiry into the Nature and Cau...
Law & Liberty

Abundance Pragmatism Fails - Some policies simply won't ever be "smart."
ChinaTalk

How Ukraine Scaled to Millions of Drones - Ukrainian drone manufacturing.
Utopia - you are standing in it!

April 15, 1945—Bergen-Belsen Liberated - On April 15, 1945, British forces, including units of the British Second Army and the 11th Armoured Division, entered Bergen-Belsen and liberated the remai...
Tim Worstall

Can’t stick with anything, can he? - when we were both members of the Progressive Economic Forum, which eventually proved itself to be anything but progressive on the issue of modern monetar...
Toppermost

The Nice - “When they were flying, which was often, there was no one to touch them.” The post The Nice appeared first on Toppermost.
Quotulatiousness

Do “combat-trained Islamists in Britain … now outnumber the British Army”? - In The Conservative Woman, Julian Mann asks Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch if Britain’s immigration policies have imported enough “combat-trained ...
Mises Institute Blog

Sabrin: Abolish the Income Tax: the Root of All Evil - A new golden age would begin with the elimination of the worst tax.
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Why Britain faces the growing risk of Spanish-style blackouts - By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby In the rush for decarbonisation, operators fear the solar farm drive will cripple UK’s power grid. The great British b...
Flying Out

Executive Decision (Secondhand Vinyl LP) - *Vendor: *SECONDHAND *Type: *SPACE CASE *Price: * 89.00 Artist: Space Case Year: 1981 Genre: NZ, Jazz Sub-Genre: Jazz-Rock Tracklist: A1. Davross A2. F...
ArchDaily

Reimagining the Complete Neighborhood through Urban Renaturing - The ReGreeneration project, led by C40 Cities and supported by ARUP, Placemaking Europe, Climato Sfera, Inetum, and many others, operates at the intersec...
The Antiplanner

Feb. Driving Up 6.8% from 2019, 2.6% from 2025 - In February, 2026, Americans drove 6.8 percent more miles than the same month in 2019 and 2.6 percent more than in February, 2025, according to data releas...
The Antiplanner

Feb. Driving Up 6.8% from 2019, 2.6% from 2025 - In February, 2026, Americans drove 6.8 percent more miles than the same month in 2019 and 2.6 percent more than in February, 2025, according to data releas...
Hoover institution Commentary

Hoover Acquires the Papers of Ozaki Yoshimichi - The new materials document wartime operations of a Japanese-managed copper mine in the Philippines and the decades-long postwar fight by former employees f...
UnHerd

The Pope versus the President - Conservative Catholics face a choice
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Progressive Taxes May Discourage the Most Productive Work - Could income taxes ever encourage someone to switch from a higher-paying to a lower-paying job? Perhaps surprisingly, the answer is yes. I have a recent ...
The Daily Doom

The Unhinging of a President - What on earth is going on inside that black box? A busy day at my real job today and not a lot of time to write or gather headlines. May be the same over...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

Welcome RFS Rule Will Boost Iowa’s Economy - President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the 2026-2027 Final Renewable Fuel Standard Rule during the White House Great American Agricultu...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: The Object is Bound to Perish - It was a mere extra.
Point of Order

Te Papa (which has one fewer Treaty pieces among its exhibits) is now being criticised for trying to reduce staff numbers - Bob Edlin writes – Uh, oh. Poo couldn’t muster a team to report on the doings of E tū members at Te Papa Tongarewa, who rallied this afternoon to save job...
The Integrity Institute

Democracy Briefing: New Zealand's media trust is still in crisis - The annual AUT report on trust in New Zealand’s news media is out today, and the headlines reporting it are mostly positive.
Brash & Mitchell

ROGER PARTRIDGE: Why Courts Cannot Determine the Scope of Their Own Authority - Critics of judicial overreach face an odd challenge. The most sophisticated response is not to defend the decisions – it is to deny that constitutional lim...
No Right Turn

Strengthening proactive release - *Newsroom* has an opinion piece by Marcus Ganley, on the problems of proactive release of official information. The government releases vast quantities of ...
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Gobbet – a small lump, piece, or chunk of something, frequently used to describe pieces of food or raw meat; a piece or portion; a lump, a mass; a small qu...
Quillette

Move 37 and the Coming Mindhack - What happens when human manipulation arrives at its Claude Mythos moment?
Chris Trotter

Meeting Us Half-Way. - John Key proved that National did not need a global pandemic to win half the voting public.
FIRE

French bill would criminalize ‘from the river to the sea’ - Governments worldwide tighten speech controls — from new hate laws to arrests, censorship, and digital crackdowns.
Dramatic Pause

Some scattered thoughts on & Juliet - *The hit Max Martin jukebox musical is playing across New Zealand this year. Here are a few scattered thoughts.* Jukebox musicals are, frankly, nobody’s ...
What You Can Do For Liberty

Right-Wing Realtors & Moving Companies - They'll help you flee your blue-state hell.
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Why The Donald Is Up Shit’s Strait Without A Paddle - Click on Title to Read
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

COURTNEY BARNETT ANNOUNCES CREATURE OF HABIT AOTEAROA TOUR - Aussie legend Courtney Barnett today announces her Creature of Habit New Zealand tour dates for November. More than five years since her last sold-out Ne...
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

Alternative Contingency Policies for When the Social Security Trust Fund Is Exhausted - These net worth tests could work as part of a permanent Social Security reform if the negative moral hazard effect reducing savings and the capital accum...
Michael Newberry, Artist

Ushering In the Age of Humanism: Transcending the Era of Eradication - Forty thousand years ago, figurative art was the primary designer of the human mind. From the Lion Man of the Hohlenstein-Stadel to the present, the act of...
Greater Auckland

For the Avoidance of Diesel, and Doubt - Yet another (not unexpected) fossil-fuel supply crunch is here. It will continue to affect everything in our economy. And be painful. But it should also,...
CO2 Coalition

Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz force us to reconsider material benefits of fossil fuels - by Ron Stein Recent calls for a more realistic shift from “decarbonization” to “low carbon” suggest that discomfort with ideology-driven climate policy i...
PM of NZ

Clayton's apology from arrogance personified - You always know it's a Clayton's apology when you get: *I apologise ... but ...* The FNDC mayor has apparently seen the error of his ways - read cornere...
A Halfling's View

Do Not Speak to Me of Rules - The Rules Based Order and Freedom of Navigation
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day – the frantic dash to lock in Leftism before Reform can reverse it - The instructions? “Focus on ideas, not grammar.” Reward “the use of culture, language and identity.” Embrace “linguistic diversity.” Decolonise the curri...
Israel Institute of NZ

The Academic Paradox: Dialogue, Justice, and the Debate Over BDS - Universities are intended as spaces of inquiry, debate, and collaboration. They are often among the most progressive institutions in society, home to schol...
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

No to an “All of the Above” Energy Policy - Both New York Democrats and Republicans are embracing an all-of-the-above Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act (Climate Act) energy strategy that ...
Reason for Living

A Life Without Anxiety: Impossible and Undesirable - A life without anxiety is impossible and would be meaningless even if it were possible.
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

Why Courts Cannot Determine the Scope of Their Own Authority - LawNews
The Double Standard

Open Mike 15/04/2026 - Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to th...
The Shrewd Artist

Ushering In the Age of Humanism: Transcending the Era of Eradication - Looking for a Lorenzo de' Medici, my Space Series, and the context of historical monumental art cycles.
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Ushering In the Age of Humanism: Transcending the Era of Eradication - Looking for a Lorenzo de' Medici, my Space Series, and the context of historical monumental art cycles.
McFaul's World

Viktor Orban’s Loss Is Democracy’s Gain - A win for Hungary, Ukraine, Europe and small-d democrats everywhere
Interintellect

Anna Gát: The Sovereign Reader - How to build your "personal culture"?
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Anti-Manosphere, Chimpanzees, Girlboss - Links and recommendations + event in NYC
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Dumb and Dumber (Nos. 131-132) - Watching the Education Apocalypse in Slow Motion
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

I Will Never Respect A Website - If you like this piece and want to support my independent reporting and analysis, why not subscribe to my premium newsletter? It’s $70 a year, or $7 a mo...
The Future of Being Human

14 essential AI "I can ..." skills every undergrad should have - I was struggling to find a list of practical interview-ready AI skills that every graduating undergraduate should be able to demonstrate. So I created one.
The UnPopulist

Douglass Rejected That Black Gratitude to Lincoln Required Jingoistic Praise - On the Emancipation Memorial's 150th anniversary, Douglass' oration needs rescuing from both left and right
Capitalism Magazine

Tech Companies and Mental Health Harms of Social Media - Tech companies are not legally liable for the anxiety and depression of the users of their social media platforms – but they bear moral responsibility for ...
The Common Reader

Spring-time, night-time, rabbits and raccoons - Thinking of Lowell and Bishop in Arlington
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Conversations with Chris Williamson - Four videos from the Modern Wisdom podcast
John D. Cook

Intersecting spheres and GPS - If you know the distance d to a satellite, you can compute a circle of points that passes through your location. That’s because you’re at the intersectio...
bad cattitude

the iranian inkblot part 2 - some additional perspectives
Can't Get Much Higher

An Album a Day: Comebacks - Featuring George Harrison, Johnny Cash, D'Angelo, and others
Tim’s Substack

The Mensa Brothers: The Talks, The Pope, The Blockade, and what's next? - We clearly enjoy talking with each other
Why not reason?

The End is Not Near - Yesterday, I wrote about reactions to the Hungary election and shared my prognosis of bleak outlook for the future. It may have sounded like I’m a fatalist...
The Rebuild

Faster Buses is the Better Idea - Mamdani’s first 100 days in office shows the start of a possible pivot to building out transit
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #42: Speak so the World Understands - Great communication crosses borders because it speaks to what humans share
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

Dear American Tax Cattle - A letter that every parent should give their children when they receive their first paycheck and file their first tax returns
Yascha Mounk

Ivan Krastev on Why Even Dictators Can’t Escape Democracy - Yascha Mounk and Ivan Krastev also discuss the war in Iran—and what it means for Trump’s future.
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

How to Be an Effective Anti-Vaccine Activist - Just follow three simple rules. The third one is the hardest.
Changing Lanes

The Social House Will Not Reopen - Third places, rising rents, and loneliness
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

The Dangerous Decline of Personal Agency - At some point, journalist Rachel Cohen began to realize that her generation’s focus on collective action is making them unhappy and eroding their ability t...
Anthony B. Bradley

Evangelicals Don’t Produce Leaders. They Produce “Cubicle Men.” - Why a culture obsessed with safety, reputation, and moral control is quietly eliminating the kind of risk-taking required to build institutions
Anthony B. Bradley

Evangelicals Don’t Produce Leaders. They Produce “Cubicle Men.” - Why a culture obsessed with safety, reputation, and moral control is quietly eliminating the kind of risk-taking required to build institutions
Stats Chat

Super Rugby Predictions for Week 10 - Team Ratings for Week 10 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...
Flashbak

10 April 1999: The Party on Railton Road, Brixton - Night number two down at Sheppard’s Right up Railton road It was a night name Friday when everyone was high on brew or drew A pound or two worth of Kali ...
DGMLive

Record Store Day Reminder - Support your local independent record store. 1974 Penn State University on sale this Saturday.
American Institute of Economic Research

Dedollarization: Causes, Constraints, and Consequences - This paper traces the historical ascent of the dollar, explains the institutional foundations of its current supremacy, and surveys the growing landscape o...
Uncharted Territories

The Future of Fertility - Sheila is 25. She has 17 children.
The Cobden Centre

Speech in Vienna on Robotics and the Future of War - I recently gave this speech in Vienna, talking through Europe’s lack of a robotics industry compared to the US and China, and the disastrous consequences o...
The Whakataki Times

One Eyed Cantab Vows to Gallop Endless Circles Around New Stadium Until Horses Return - NEIGH SAYERS. The post One Eyed Cantab Vows to Gallop Endless Circles Around New Stadium Until Horses Return appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
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...
Autonomia

Scott Holleran’s new series on “Ordinary People” - Studies of Judith Guest’s 1976 novel coming to Chicago media
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 ...
Skeptic

The Sexual Pseudoscience of Telegony: How a Discredited Theory of Heredity Returned to Control Female Agency - A debunked 19th-century theory claims a woman is permanently imprinted by past lovers—shaping future children. Dismissed by genetics for over a century, te...
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Which Conspiracies Are Real? - Join me tomorrow night in Mountain View, California!
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

The Tyrant Without a Face - Inspired by RCR Bites, a modern interpretation of Aristotle on how uncertainty, information overload, and ambiguity quietly shape power.
Risk & Progress

Dynamos of Discovery - The case for a network of superlabs
American Energy Alliance

Blue States Blaming Data Centers For Their Own Disastrous Energy Policies - Maine may become the first state to ban new data centers, with its House passing legislation that would pause large data center construction until Novemb...
The Roots of Progress

Teaching Progress Studies at Universities - A workshop for professors, May 21–24 in DC, hosted by RPI & JHU
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

The University Problem - THB Deep Dive Report #1
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

How to Be a Serious Reader - Henry Oliver on developing literary taste in an age of TV binge-watching and dumbed-down mass culture
Marcus on AI

Claude Mythos, evaluated - How afraid should we be?
History Reclaimed

The History Reclaimed Spring 2026 newsletter. - From History Reclaimed. Kings, empires and reparations fill our pages, though there is also a timely reminder of what may happen to nations that forget the...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Hamburg prosecutors open criminal investigation into Christian YouTubers for criticising Islam - From Apollo News:
The New York Review of Books

‘Go Out and Sue a Polluter’ - Shortly before Christmas in 1969 a dense fog rolled in across the bayous of the Texas Gulf Coast. For more than four days it blanketed a vast region, as fa...
The Weekly Sift

Accelerating Trends - The war has accelerated or made evident a trend that was already there, which is that the whole Trump administration is about a kind of rebalancing of powe...
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Education/AI: The Krakowski Interview - Ariel Krakowski recently interviewed me on education and AI. While his podcast is still obscure, his questions were almost entirely original. Very fun! ...
The Kerrant

America broke up with New Zealand years ago – we just seem not to have noticed - New Zealand’s foreign policy debate is asking the wrong question. The issue is not whether it is time to “break up” with America, but whether we have not...
The Breakthrough Journal

When the Machine Is Usually Right - The real risk is not just AI errors, it is that many users cannot verify when the system is wrong
Doomberg

Geopolitical Mutagenesis - When attacks build resistance.
Sawahil

Mali and the Western Sahara - Morocco now counts the entire Alliance of Sahel States as supporters of its autonomy plan.
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Annihilating Iranian Civilization with a Blockade - After threatening to annihilate Iran with bombs, President Trump and the U.S. national-security establishment have decided to do so with their tried and ...
Classical Compass Rose

The Lost Art of the Commonplace Book - Readers, don’t just wander from book to book like a nomad. Gather what is best. Write it down. Return to it. Make it yours.
Astral Codex Ten

Open Thread 429 - ...
Kunstler

As the Worms Turn - They’re holed up in a bank demanding three large pizzas, a helicopter, and a personal phone call from Sydney Sweeney. . . ."— Greg Gutfeld on Iran’s negoti...
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

Goodbye to the property ladder - The idea of the ‘property ladder.’ buying a starter home, then trading up over time to larger ones, was a huge part of UK culture from the late 20th cent...
Eating Policy

To operationalize the product model, you have to speak budget - And how the US can double down on the "systems that benefit everyone but belong to no one."
The Roots of Liberty

Mercy and Justice - I recently encountered the juxtaposition of the notions of mercy and justice.
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Timeline 1800-1899: American art after the American Civil War - Two works of art showing optimism in the aftermath of a war that killed 2% of the US population.
Real Clear Energy: Video

New NJ Law Opens Door to New Nuclear Power - To address increasing demand for power and high energy bill costs, Gov. Sherrill is taking action on legislation that will remove what lawmakers call a de ...
Manhattan Contrarian

At The Heartland Climate Conference: "What Is The Proof?", Earth's Energy Imbalance Edition - * In his April 9 address to the Heartland Climate Conference, physicist John Clauser devoted the first quarter of his time to the issue of extreme weather ...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Sports Academies in New Zealand Schools - A lot of what is sold to students and families in NZ education is highly mythical and primarily for the benefit of the perception of the school – as oppose...
Lindsay Mitchell

Immigrants pull their weight - Just-released March 2026 ethnic data shows Maori form the largest group of dependent unemployed people. At the end of March 2026 48,261 Maori were receiv...
Sustain What

"Tyrants Always Fall" - A Song and a Signal - Politics in Hungary is complicated, but the election result today was simple - a surging popular repudiation of the corruption, institutional damage and ne...
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Hyper Gal: Our Hyper (digital outlets) - Understandably there won't be many takers for this aggressive noise-core album by Osaka's two-piece of visual artist Koharu Ishida (vocals) and “noise ar...
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
Perennial Meditations

You are the problem (and the cure) - Sundays with Seneca (Vol. 15)
New Zealand Arts Review

Aotearoa Art Fair: A Selection - John Daly-Peoples Aotearoa Art Fair April 30 – May 3 At the end of the April, for four days the Aotearoa Art Fair will once again take over the Viaduct Eve...
misfits' architecture

Solution Space - In fields such as chemistry and medicine, statistics denote the reproducibility of effects and the validity of the model linking those effects with causes....
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...
Too Clever By Half

Copyright: Do not steal - *It's super easy to steal work that does not belong to you.* I think you know that you should not do that. [image: A statue in black granite of two table...
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 159 - Free Thoughts with Bowen & Twyman, Ep. 35 - Listen now | Pioneering Life
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 159 - Free Thoughts with Bowen & Twyman, Ep. 35 - Listen now | Pioneering Life
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Knowledge: Sensation and Perception [Lecture 4 of METAPHYSICS & EPISTEMOLOGY course] - Lecture 4. First Perceptions In lecture four, we turn to understanding the remarkable cognitive capacities of humans, tracing development from basic sensor...
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

The Pageant - On the Divinity of Being
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

Why I stopped using willpower on my cut - I’ve lost 12 pounds without arguing with my hunger once. The Stoics figured this out 2,000 years ago.
Construction Physics

Reading List 04/11/2026 - Is the Strait of Hormuz open yet, building code cost benefit analysis, Intel joining Terafab, sponge cities, and more.
The Trumpland Diary

Melania's Bizarre Press Conference Yesterday EXPLAINED - This is the most plausible explanation I've heard yet.
Andrew Whiteside

Review: A View from the Bridge - A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller is a tragic drama set in the tight-knit Italian-American community of Brooklyn, where longshoreman Eddie Carbone li...
Schiffradio.com

CPI Hits 3.3%, Consumer Sentiment Hits Record Low — Stagflation Is Here - CPI triples to 0.9%, consumer sentiment hits an all-time low, and the Fed is quietly running QE — stagflation isn't coming, it's here. The post CPI Hits ...
Cremieux Recueil

Take the Money and Run - If someone offers you $100 million to track down a briefcase and they give you weekly updates about your distance to it, you'd be a fool not to accept
Syncretica

What Did We Learn? - Apart from never doing that again of course
Note to Noteworthy

Sound Money and Reason vs. Fiat and Force - Freely chosen hard money enables a full use of reason whereas forced, easy money nullifies it.
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

The Sovereign Reader - Building your "personal culture" in America, one book at a time.
Leport’s Substack

Bookbub - Request to follow me on BookBub
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

A week is a long time: 11 April 2026 - A NZ Politics weekly wrap-up
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

Life in a Literary Democracy - Reflections on the current culture
HBL

What If Robots Take All the Jobs? - Hint: They can’t People have it all wrong. And it’s not the first time. Robots are going to take your job? No doubt. But your next job will pay so much mor...
The Library of Celaeno

Stauros and Parrhesia - Witness, Sacrifice, and the Freedom to Speak
Market Urbanism

Paris density and aesthetic NIMBYs - On Twitter, Patrick Collison chided YIMBYs for using Paris as an example of density – because Paris happens to not only be a helpful example of high popula...
Gale Winds

Thanos Economics - Atoms without knowledge have no economic value.
The Realization of Wholeness

Tyrant of Your Heart - My favorite song
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

Why Doesn't California Matter More? - The California example should be changing minds and ending careers
Paul Wells

The universe in black and white - Guest writer Mark Lepage on cult-rock phenomenon Angine de Poitrine. Commence the microtonal looping
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 507 - ...in passing, again - Providing high-quality, creative as well as comfortable, affordable and resilient housing is a contemporary challenge, with demand not seen since early ...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

The Disappearance of Brian Shaffer: Part Six - What on Earth Happened?
The Economic LongWave

How I called 2000 and 2008 (and what I'm seeing now) - Institutional-quality Kondratieff cycle analysis from a former advisor who called the 2000 and 2008 crashes
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: If We Knew What We Were Doing, It Would Not Be Called Research - Albert Einstein? Charles F. Kettering? Wernher von Braun? Luis de Florez? Charles Erwin Wilson? David C. Hazen? Question for Quote Investigator: There are ...
GeekPress

Volcanic Lightning - *"Physicists* Say They've Cracked the Mystery of Volcanic Lightning". (Via H.R.)
Kiwipolitico

Rumble in a strategic jumble. - In boxing terms, Iran is doing an Ali rope-a-dope defense against the US. Strategically, the US, like Foreman, sought the fight in order to burnish its fea...
Croaking Cassandra

Oil and monetary policy - I didn’t have too much problem with either the Reserve Bank Governor’s speech a couple of weeks ago on a framework for how monetary policy might deal with ...
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...
A Havenstein Moment.

A Common Disaster - These foolish things
The Many Ways I Let You Down

A Gaye Excursion - Marvin Gaye meets The Beatles and teaches us of the courage screenwriters require when adapting works.
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

The Case Against Social Media: Seven Lines of Evidence - Your guide to the evidence that will help decide thousands of future court cases.
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
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Built to Scale - In our latest interview for our UK AI Fieldbook series, Mann Virdee speaks to Mollie Claypool about how AI and deployable robotics can break the deadlock...
The War on Prices

Orbán’s Illiberal State - My Cato podcast with Johan Norberg
The Enlightened Examiner

Why the West Can’t Win - A breakdown of the latest ceasefire in Iran.
The Enlightened Examiner

Why the West Can’t Win - A breakdown of the latest ceasefire in Iran.
Liberty Scott

It's a victory! - In July 1953, then Premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Kim Il Sung, declared victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War (the "Korea...
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...
Offsetting Behaviour

Access to Cash - Andy Macdonald over at BusinessDesk asked me for comment on the ongoing RBNZ cash-access saga. A snippet: The New Zealand Initiative’s (NZI) chief econo...
On Substack

New on Substack: Post templates, Notes scheduling, drop caps, and more - More flexibility in how you publish, manage, and shape your experience on Substack
Stewart Margolis

War - What Is It Good For? - Depending on whom you listen to, America is either badly losing the war in Iran (The Strait of Hormuz!
Libertarian Land

Shellfish, Typhoid, and Private Control of Disease - According to a recent study, early 20th c.
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

Forgiving but Not Forgetting: My Interview with Marcus Coleman, Father of Dalilah Coleman - Dalilah was 5-years-old when an illegal immigrant truck driver crashed into her car, almost taking her life. Her father, Marcus, is on a mission to get leg...
Existential Crunch

April 2026 Updates - Once more unto the breach
The Tracinski Letter

Strategic Defeat, Completed - A News Link Round-Up
Let Grow

I Played Dodgeball at My Son’s School. The Way They Played Shocked Me - [image: Groupe De Ballons Colorés En Caoutchouc Sur Le Sol En Bois D'un Gymnase Intérieur] Forgive the clickbait title – that actually sums up what this mo...
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

if it pleases you - Bentham: Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure...
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

The Artemis II Rocket Launch with Emerson’s ‘The Poet’ - The Transcendentalism founder once wrote, 'Beauty is the creator of the universe.'
The New Era

Multipolarism, Iran and 'Airstrip 1' - My latest chat with Geopolitics & Empire
Precise Thinking

Ayn Rand Imagines a Bridge - Nature, Nurture & Culture in the World of Ayn Rand
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (April 2026) - Policy trade-offs, and governance systems for the 21st century
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

Dr. Oz Says 221 Hospice Providers Were Suspended in Los Angeles. How Did It Get This Bad? - How many warnings, audits, red flags, and impossible provider clusters it took before the state and federal government acted like this was a real emergency.
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

A golfer’s spring manifesto - Phil Mickelson hits onto the fourth green during a golf match against Tiger Woods at Shadow Creek golf course, Friday, Nov.
JunkScience.com

Microplastics Hysteria Will Waste Taxpayer Money - My latest at the Daily Caller.
Glenn’s Substack

The Iran Operation - Was the secret weapon AI staff work?
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

The Iran War: No Victory Without Regime Change - The protection of individual rights of Americans against Islamist aggression requires a U.S. friendly regime in Tehran.
Theatreview

John Smythe’s Culture 101 interview with Perlina Lau - Link to John Smythe’s Culture 101 interview with Perlina Lau. Conspicuously absent is mention of Raewyn Whyte’s role in ensuring Dance reviews were include...
Earthly Idealism

How the Bible Corrupted the Soul of Western Civilization - Part 4 - Does Christianity Foster Progress and Prosperity?
Harry’s Substack

AI is a power tool for the mind - You'll love what's coming
Science of Doom

Cheap power, expensive bills: what Australia’s electricity prices really show - Over the past few articles, we’ve looked closely at South Australia, which has become one of the clearest real-world examples of what a high-renewables pow...
Don't Let It Go

ATLAS SHRUGGED Signed And Inscribed Tenth Anniversary Edition #1/2000 - Just a quick post to let you know about an auction I’m currently running on eBay for a special copy of the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Atlas Shrugged. Thi...
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for March, 2026: +0.38 deg. C - March 2026 was record-warm for the Lower 48. The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for March, 2026 was +0.38 deg. C de...
Eat More Electrons

Death to the policy report - Think tanks should spend precious time on more useful activities
Freethink Media

Why the world is reorganizing for instability. - Monthly Issue Release: The Roots of Resilience
Macroscience

Enabling the CHIPS R&D Agenda - This is a crosspost with Factory Settings, an Institute for Progress newsletter by the former senior leadership of the CHIPS Program Office.
Tross Publishing

ANOTHER PROPOSED “TREATY” RACKET - Guess what! The pale faces of the tribal elite have just thought up a new way of extracting more money out of the long-suffering taxpayer. This time it's...
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

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

IVF epigenetic damage gets worse across generations; The next Project Hail Mary; AI's "odorless" math proofs; Waymo at 100% human oversight? & more - Desiderata #39
Conspicuous Cognition

On Becoming Less Left-Wing (Part 3) - The reality of progress, the fragility of civilisation, the left’s role in making the world both better and worse, the case for capitalism, and how to thin...
Freedom and Flourishing

Would conscious AI also cling to its sense of self? - I began thinking about the question posed above after reading Michael Pollan’s recently published book, *A World Appears**: A Journey into Consciousnes...
Stu-Topia

More Info for My Troubled Friend - Stuart K. Hayashi I have written much-more-interesting blog posts exposing some falsehoods that my troubled friend and I were both told on topics of politi...
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...
Free Range Kids

Free-Range Passover? - I was writing up my email “Vacation Response” for today and tomorrow as I prepare for the Passover seders (the holiday is celebrated two nights in a row...
Africa’s Bright Future

The Lie Keeping Africa in the Dark - How the world's climate promises became a new way to keep Africa poor.
Asimov’s Addendum

Missing Mechanisms for the Agentic Economy - From disclosures to protocols to markets
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: March 2026 - 📰 Media
In Due Course

Actually, Democrats do need a Project 2029 - ...although maybe different from what they're doing
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.
One Useful Thing

Claude Dispatch and the Power of Interfaces - We often lack the tools for the job, even if the AI is capable enough
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Ep29 Iran-War April 2026! One Month In w/Hypozomata - Follow-up on the progress of the Iran War and speculation on the future of the conflict with Anarchonomicon Favorite Hypozomata.
Splitting Headache

Somethings: ATMs and iPhone - Also luddism, puzzle games, and the whimsy of LinkedIn.
The Grumpy Economist

War and Interest Rates - You knew about oil prices, discussed in a previous post. Now attention is turning to the sharp rise of long-term interest rates. From Ian Smith, Sam Flemin...
Matua Kahurangi

Chris Hipkins: "I don't recall" is starting to sound like the new "just following orders" - There are topics I’ve deliberately avoided, not because they don’t matter, but because they ignite a kind of blind, tribal fury that makes rational discuss...
Africa-Israel Weekly

The Terrorist-Sponsored UN Resolution on African Slavery - Israel's Enemies Frustrated by Growing African Christian Zionism, Part 2
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.
The Beauty of Things

A Person of Interest, a Person with News! - On the 3rd anniversary of my first published poem, reading great fiction and poetry on Substack, and how some people can’t get enough Aristotle. PLUS: cont...
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...
Conflicted

Funding to organizations involved in climate litigation - Some Sankey charts
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...
Keiran Murphy (FLW Historian)

Published in Wikipedia - Reading Time: 5 minutesI started this post to talk about my writing in Wikipedia, but while prepping this, I thought I’d show you things I’ve published t...
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: Why Scotland Succeeded - It was capital, not education
The Jolly Libertarian

Artist's Reflections - Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky! *Prairie Sunset* *This essay was previously published on my Substack page, The Pendulum, on March 31, 2025. * My mo...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

The High-Wage Trap: Why Nigeria’s Oil Wealth Killed Its Factories in the late 1970s - Nigeria's 1st "Golden Age" had many underlying issues
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: Boyd, by Robert Coram - Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed The Art Of War, Robert Coram (Back Bay Books, 2002).
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!
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

Tiny Canvases - With big thoughts
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
Wildlife – PERC

It’s Time to Make the Endangered Species Act Work Better for Recovery - PERC testifies before the Senate on pragmatic solutions to boost species recovery under the ESA. The post It’s Time to Make the Endangered Species Act W...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Human rights: are they real? - Or are they just a gift of the government?
Private Lands – PERC

New PERC Report: Transferable Tax Credits Expand Participation in Conservation Easements - Research shows market-based reforms make conservation easements more accessible for farmers and ranchers while protecting higher-value lands. The post Ne...
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.
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Politicians Who Cut Solar and Wind Subsidies Saved Our Grid - Politicians who cut solar/wind subsidies saved our grid by incentivizing reliable generation, which was having its operating revenue looted by subsidized, ...
Mike’s Substack

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

Educational Junk Food - Over the past few decades, something interesting has happened in the world of food.
Happy Future

Space Lasers - Power at night. From space.
Statecraft

How the National Security Strategy Gets Made - “Leverage is the favorite verb of the Washington policy community.”
Public Lands – PERC

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

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

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

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

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

State of the Nation address on behalf of the Honesty Party - *"My fellow New Zealanders, whether citizens, residents or those just passing through en route to Australian pastures, it gives me little pleasure ...
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.
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

The Next Era of American Conservation - As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States, it’s time to add a new chapter to America’s conservation legacy, with private lands, market-b...
Building the Builders

The first principle behind "first principles" - Unearthing the builder's greatest superpower
Overthinking Everything

On Mediocrity - One of the harshest words in my vocabulary is "mediocre". Let me tell you what I mean by it.
Roberto’s Substack

Judicial Insecurity in America: Trump’s Deranged Tariff Crusade Shatters the Rule of Law, Screws Consumers, and Turns the Supreme Court Into His Personal Punching Bag - Listen up, because this clown show is exactly why the United States is drowning in judicial insecurity right now.
Roots of Progress

Save the date: Progress Conference 2026 - Last year we hosted the second annual Progress Conference. The 2025 conference was bigger than 2024: more days and more people, bringing together over 35...
Mises Wiki - Recent changes [en]

W - Kanopi deleted page W Removing all content created by Kapitalizt
Virginia Postrel

A Plague of Mysterious, AI-Written Emails from "Fellow Authors" - Early AI adopters are using it to scam authors.
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?”
Wright in Racine

Sitting Down with Frank Lloyd Wright - © Mark Hertzberg (2026) A quick test: think “Frank Lloyd Wright.” Chances are that images of Fallingwater, the Robie House, the SC Johnson Administration...
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!
RenewNZ

Zero Day comes for the Iranian regime - Last year reports emerged that Tehran, the capital city of Iran, was running out of water. One expert predicted that “zero day” was not far off. As the Isl...
Institute of Economic Affairs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Architecture of a Capable State: Why Cuts, Cosmetic Fixes and Good Intentions are not enough - Keynote address to the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union AGM – 15 December 2025
Boom (UK)

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

Christmas Newsletter 2025 - As we just about manage to cope with the darkness and the news, the coming time of hibernation will be welcome – if of course you are lucky enough to be ta...
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!
Principled Perspectives

On the Trump/Mamdani 'Lovefest' - My FB Post: “For all the hype of a conflict, President Trump and New York City's next mayor, Zohran Mamdani, had a surprising bond when they met Friday ...
Hunters and Anglers – PERC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gamal Abdel Nasser's Last Gamble - Inside the private conversation where Egypt’s president confronted the lies, the losses, and an Arab world that wouldn’t fight the war it claimed to want
Butterpaper

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

Farmville - The Autonomous Future of Agriculture
No Punches Pulled

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

February 2025 Space Stock Review - Includes Commentary on ASTS, RKLB, RDW, LUNR, PL, SPIR, SESG, and ETL
Yes In Our Backyards

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writings hosted elsewhere - The Breakthrough Institute Interactive Brokers Campus
BloodhoundBlog

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

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

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

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

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

DAYS 1-3 - 90 Mile Beach - Days 1-3 of my trek across the entire length of New Zealand
Craig Biddle

Conceptual Fallacies and How to Avoid Them - Logical fallacies are not the only errors that retard thinking. Conceptual fallacies do, too, and often in subtler, more destructive ways. Just as logica...
Craig Biddle

Conceptual Fallacies and How to Avoid Them - Logical fallacies are not the only errors that retard thinking. Conceptual fallacies do, too, and often in subtler, more destructive ways. Just as logica...
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 ...
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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.
The Organon Architecture Blog

PRIMITIVE ART GROUP/BRAILLE COLLECTIVE - *For interview etc. with Daniel Beban* *BEGINNING TRACK: * - *TRACK 1: *Black Dog, 1989 [to remind listeners] *FORMATION STORY:* *Stuart Porter* ...
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1828 – Championing Freedom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

William Whewell’s “Discoverer’s Induction” (Part 4) - Previous posts: William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 1) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 2) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Ind...
A Force for Good | How economics, morality, and markets combine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Free Speech - Bruce Moon speaks out in Nelson - Bruce Moon, a retired physicist and avid historian, was invited by the Nelson Institute to give a talk at Nelson’s Elma Turner Library, on 8th April. He ...
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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Saturday, 6 October 2007

Saturday morning ramble - #23

Cue Card Libertarianism