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Breaking Views

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Judges should not be above criticism - Let's talk about judges for a minute. So, the Law Society today has come out in defence of judges and in the face of all the criticism that they've been co...
Tim Worstall

Worth getting the Body Shop story right - The Body Shop collapsed after HSBC withdrew a line of credit and the chain’s private equity buyer failed to secure new funding, The Telegraph can reveal....
The Inquiring Mind

Classic Crime Drama: Between The Lines – #30 – S03 E06 – Blooded - Between the Lines is a television police drama series created by J. C. Wilsher and produced by World Productions for the BBC. It was first shown on BBC1 be...
The Daily Doom

What a Wonderful World! - CNBC reports that government unemployment numbers are cooked to perfection!
No Minister

If only these were the roles of the US President - H/T to Ann Althouse’s post, Why is Trump doing so well in the polls?. I did appreciate this part of her analysis where she looks at the analysis of the NYT...
Flying Out

Children Of The Rule 7" - *Vendor: *Leather Jacket Records *Type: *JAY CLARKSON & THE CONTAINERS *Price: * 30.00 2LP
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Wash Post admits reality: ‘Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power’ – U.S. ‘power grid’ being pushed ‘to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up’ – ‘It is staggering’ – But WaPo frets energy shortage ‘threatens to stifle the transition to cleaner energy’ - It makes you scratch your head and wonder how we ended up in this situation. Wash Post admits reality: ‘Amid explosive demand, America is running out of po...
Down to Earth Kiwi

What is art? Wellington's thousands of Education Ministry Bureaucrats have given your children a (wrong) definition. - In 2023 our Ministry of Education employed 4,311 people, up from 2,630 in 2017 when Ardern, Robertson and Hipkins first came to power....
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

Perhaps price controls aren't all that good an idea then? - Patients have described the effect on their health and wellbeing of the “new normal” of drug shortages in the UK, which has led to three-month delays and...
Spiked Online

A risk-free life is not worth living - The post A risk-free life is not worth living appeared first on spiked.
Watts Up With That?

Wash Post admits reality: ‘Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power’ – U.S. ‘power grid’ being pushed ‘to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up’ – ‘It is staggering’ – But WaPo frets energy shortage ‘threatens to stifle the transition to cleaner energy’ - It makes you scratch your head and wonder how we ended up in this situation.
Democracy Project

Bryce Edwards: Serious populist discontent is bubbling up in New Zealand - Two-thirds of the country think that “New Zealand’s economy is rigged to advantage the rich and powerful”. They also believe that “New Zealand needs a stro...
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Somnificator – a person who induces sleep in others; a very boring speaker.
Kiwiblog

The Waitangi Tribunal is not a judicial body - Newsroom reports: he tribunal is currently investigating the Government’s decision to repeal section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act, which lays out the o...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

AEP Needs To The CCC’s Reports - By Paul Homewood I did not have time yesterday to fully dissect this latest piece of juvenile nonsense from AEP: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Populist Extremism and Culture Wars on the rise in NZ? We’ve been here before, but why it’s different this time - Populism vs Authoritarian political currents have been exposed by the latest IPSOS poll… New Zealand broken and in decline – new survey A global wave of di...
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

The Folly Of Impermanence. - *“You talking about me?”** The neoliberal denigration of the past was nowhere more unrelenting than in its depiction of the public service. The Post Offi...
Point of Order

A crisis of ambition - Roger Partridge writes – When the Coalition Government took office last October, it inherited a country on a precipice. With persistent inflation, decades...
John D. Cook

Length of a general Archimedean spiral - This post ties together the previous three posts. In this post, I said that an Archimedean spiral has the polar equation r = b θ1/n and applied this here...
The Footy Almanac

Round 6 – Adelaide v Essendon: Speed - In the still of the night, the croaking of the frogs around him, Old Dog is blown away by the pace the match between the Crows v Bombers was played at as h...
UnHerd

The tyranny of Columbine - 25 years ago, America handed evil a gun
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Business Conditions Monthly February 2024 - "Amidst mixed economic data reminiscent of most of the past two years, there are pockets of strength which are nevertheless overshadowed by inflation conce...
JoNova

Another day on the road to Green Energy Ruin, and the posterchild of Green Manufacturing collapsess - By Jo Nova It’s just another signpost on the way to the Great Green Economy Downunder We’re watching the renewable bubble pop around us. Tritium was the ...
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Why The Fed Is Impaled Upon Its Own 2.00% Petard - When it comes to Keynesian central banking it might well be said that if you paint by the numbers you are stuck with the brush. That is to say, the Fed h...
Cato at Liberty

Colombia Faces Its Hour of Danger under Petro - In 2022, a small majority of Colombian voters acted against their better judgment and allowed Petro to hold power. A large majority is now firmly opposed t...
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Iran is Behind October 7th -
ArchDaily

Richmond Hotel Premier Kyoto-shijo / Takenaka Corporation - *Borderless view of Kyoto, A Microcosm of Our Time* - Facing Shijo Street, where the Gion Festival, one of the three major festivals in Japan, we created...
IPWatchdog Articles

Other Barks & Bites for Friday, April 19: European Court Rejects Pablo Escobar Trademark; Federal Agencies Launch Anti-Competitive Healthcare Practices Portal; and Reddit Cracks Down on Copyright Infringement - This week in Other Barks & Bites: HP sues a Chinese competitor for infringing on cloud computing patents; three federal agencies launch portal to report an...
Objective Standard Institute

Fahrenheit 451 Provides Inspiration to Create - Your designs, gardens, books, lessons, paintings, buildings, installations, songs, and such are yours because you created them. The post Fahrenheit 451 P...
The Double Standard

Open mike 20/04/2024 - 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 Free Press

Kids in Jeopardy - I quit a civil rights group because its policies will harm children.
The Curmudgeon

It's Not How Fast You Grind, It's Who You Grind - Italian prosecutors have ended the seven-year trial of a German NGO rescue boat crew by the quaint expedient of admitting straight out that there is no evi...
Curbed - All

A Robert Durst Refresher - What we know about the second season of The Jinx.
EconLog

There Is Politician’s Talk and Politician’s Talk - Whatever one thinks of the criminal prosecutions and state “civil” suits against Donald Trump (and there are good reasons to question many aspects of the...
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Chapter 25, Movement - From The Art Studio Companion: A Master Class for Artists (May 2024)
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

On Warsplaining, or: How prevailing political assumptions have encouraged a bizarre discourse on human conflict that often studiously ignores what these conflicts are actually about - You know them, the warsplainers. Should you discuss a war anywhere in the world while failing to demonstrate the right allegiances, the warsplainers will c...
Why Evolution Is True

Dickey Betts died - Two obituaries in one day. . . Dicky Betts, one of my favorite rock guitarists of all time, died in Florida last Thursday. He was 80, and had been plagued ...
Conversable Economist

The IMF Warns about US Budget Deficits - The IMF publishes a Fiscal Monitor report twice a year about levels of spending and taxes around the world. The April 2024 report, subtitles “Fiscal Poli...
The Objective Standard

Disney versus DeSantis and the Fairy Tale of Conservatives Defending Freedom - The story of Governor Ron DeSantis’s prolonged battle against Disney’s legal independence has shown that many conservatives will choose egalitarianism ov...
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 407 Why you shouldn't believe the CPI hype. NY's tax colonoscopies and Florida threatens Chinese with prison for buying property. - Great links, images and reading from Chartbook newsletter by Adam Tooze
Energy in Depth

New Hearing, Same Story: Biden Officials Struggle to Defend LNG Pause - This week, the Biden administration trotted out familiar disproven claims to justify their LNG export permitting pause. Testimony from Brad Crabtree, Ass...
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Your Call - This week, instead of you reading what we think, we want to read what you think. Regular readers will know that we recently launched our Private Business...
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

My Rational Egoist Interview - Immigration, non-conformism, and beyond
Living Resources Center

The Trump Show Trials: A Metaphor For YOUR Future - How do you think the Trump show trial (the first of many) is going to end? Check out some of the jurors from Manhattan: Juror 8 is a man who has lived on...
The Works in Progress Newsletter

How Israel turned homeowners into YIMBYs - A housing success story
Capitalism Magazine

Elon Musk Battles For Freedom of Speech Against Censor Alexandre de Moraes in Brazil - Brazil is facing its greatest struggle for freedom of speech since the end of the military regime that ran the country from 1964-85. For the first time sin...
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

The Young Adventurers, Ltd - Last weekend, after a protracted absence due to my various health issues, Tales for Our Time returned with a classic and highly apposite short story by Edg...
Gus Van Horn

Four Wins From the Past Month - *A Friday Hodgepodge* *Whenever possible, I list three wins at the end of each day. Here are a few from a recent review of my planner.* *** *1*. As our fa...
Energy Transition Absurdities

The Energy Question: Doug Robison, CEO of Natura Resources - In Episode 96 of "The Energy Question" David Blackmon and Doug Robison, CEO of Natura Resources delve into the future of nuclear energy, exploring its pote...
Kunstler

Batshit Crazy America - “Look at what all these white patriarchs built. Without pay. In their spare time. Anonymously” — Jordan Peterson on “X” The post Batshit Crazy America ap...
Institute for Energy Research

Biden’s New Rule Raises Offshore Oil and Gas Decommissioning Obligations - On April 15, Biden’s Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) finalized a new rule requiring federal offshore oil… The post Biden’s...
FIRE

STATEMENT: Title IX regs mean students less likely to receive justice - Today the Department of Education released new Title IX regulations that threaten student free speech and due process rights. The following statement can b...
Retraction Watch

Dean in Indonesia resigns following Retraction Watch report - Kumba Digdowiseiso, the dean of the economics and business faculty at Universitas Nasional in Jakarta, Indonesia, resigned on Thursday after a firestorm of...
Law & Liberty

A Flattened Lincoln - The television series *Manhunt* reassures viewers of American triumph without wrestling with its great conflicts.
New Zealand Arts Review

The Insane and the Sane-for-Now - The EffectBy Lucy PrebbleDirector, Benjamin Kilby-HensonAn Auckland Theatre Company ProductionWith Jayden Daniels, Jarod Rawiri, Zoë Robins, Sara Wiseman P...
Doomberg

Climate: The Article - Thoughts on the new documentary you’re not supposed to watch.
The Antiplanner

The Affordable Housing Industrial Complex - Taxpayers spend billions of dollars a year subsidizing so-called affordable housing, but much of that money is wasted, says a new report from the Cascade P...
Mises Wire

Carl Menger Explains Caitlin Clark’s “Low” Rookie Salary and Her Monetized Popularity -
Mises Institute Blog

Carl Menger Explains Caitlin Clark’s “Low” Rookie Salary and Her Monetized Popularity -
The New York Review of Books

In Gaza’s Hospitals - I was born in the spring of 1999 in the village of Khuza’a, east of the city of Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip. My family comes from a village called Salam...
GeekPress

Planet Nine Update - *"Where Is Planet Nine?* Its Hiding Places Are Running Out"
Hoover institution Commentary

Protesting the War in Gaza: Anti-War or Anti-Semitic? - When do protests go too far?
Quillette

Investigating the Academy - In a recent speech to University of Toronto scholars, a Quillette editor explained why many of his fellow journalists are reluctant to report on administra...
No Right Turn

A who's who of New Zealand's dodgiest companies - Submissions on National's corrupt Muldoonist fast-track law are due today (have you submitted?), and just hours before they close, Infrastructure Minister ...
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Aro: He Rākau, He Ngārara (digital outlets) - The Aro duo of husband and wife Charles and Emily Looker here present an immediately and immensely likable album which celebrates native plants and insec...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

EMERGENCY QuickTake: Israel is starting WW3? - Israel just couldn't help themselves. They killed multiple Iranian generals IN A CONSULATE violating all international law, and In response Iran basically ...
Doug Casey's International Man

David Stockman on Why the Great Labor Arbitrage is Coming to an End… - There is no mystery about the cause of the great labor arbitrage and resulting offshoring of America’s industrial economy over the last 40 years. The pos...
Manhattan Contrarian

Ever More Audacious Efforts To Suppress Mainstream Conservative Speech - * You are undoubtedly familiar with many efforts of the fascist left to use its control of government offices, bureaucracies, and other institutions to del...
Quote Investigator

Prediction About AI Systems: The Range of Problems They Can Handle Will Be Coextensive With the Range To Which the Human Mind Has Been Applied - Herbert A. Simon? Allen Newell? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: In the 1950s a pair of prominent researchers made several provocative predicti...
Interintellect

Worthwhile Words: Jason Shen’s Recap of The Future of Publishing Festival - With Coleman Hughes, Sahil Lavingia, Kyla Scanlon, Shadi Hamid, Tara Isabella Burton, Eugene Wei, and many more friends 📚 Hosted by Interintellect x OSV's...
A Halfling's View

Trotter on Wilson - More on that "unfortunate article" by Simon Wilson
Kiwipolitico

Again, hate crimes are not necessarily terrorism. - Having written, taught and worked for government agencies on issues involving unconventional warfare and terrorism for 30-odd years, two things irritate me...
A Havenstein Moment.

A blown-up lab experiment. - We are never going to get that purchasing power back.
Greater Auckland

Weekly Roundup 19-April-2024 - It’s Friday again. Here’s some of the things that caught our attention this week. This Week on Greater Auckland On Tuesday Matt covered at the government...
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Years Of US-UK Military And Intelligence Planning Behind Sweeping Brazil Censorship, Evidence Suggests - Secret evidence, specialized spy units, and permanent bans on populists were key tactics developed by government operatives
Can't Get Much Higher

Bringing Music Back to 1994 - But not in the way you think
Reason Foundation

Louisiana bill would enact a legal cannabis market with high barriers to entry - Louisiana House Bill 54 would create a cannabis market. However, restrictions within the bill would still limit consumer access to legal cannabis. The p...
The New Era

Look into their eyes - The government's unethical use of 'nudging' and behavioural insights
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Don’t Kill Migrant “Invaders” - For the last few years, advocates of immigration controls have claimed, with all seriousness, that migrants who enter the United States illegally are “in...
Truth on the Market

Antitrust at the Agencies Roundup: Spring Has Sprung - Last week was the occasion of the “spring meeting”; that is, the big annual antitrust convention in Washington, D.C. hosted by the American Bar Associati...
bad cattitude

the road back from serfdom - is a road that leads away from state controlled money
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

The Politics and Policy of a National Climate Emergency Declaration - If climate and energy policy matter, then here are the three questions to ask instead
History Reclaimed

Professor Lester’s Defence of “The Racial Consequences of Mr Churchill” - The dispute over a seminar at Churchill College, Cambridge in 2021 on 'The Racial Consequences of Mr Churchill' has recently been reinterpreted by Professo...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

On The School of Innovation’s Advisory Board - A new university will open in Britain in 2025. I’m happy to announce that I have joined its Board of Advisors. “The School of Innovation is aspiring to bec...
Flashbak

Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish - “The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine...
Toppermost

World Party - World Party was the longtime musical project of Welsh-born musician and songwriter Karl Wallinger. A prodigiously talented multi-instrumentalist with a f...
The Cobden Centre

Renato Moicano: “If You Care About Your…Country, Read Ludwig von Mises.” - Last week, Brazilian fighter Renato Moicano went viral after his victory over JalinTurner at UFC 300, giving a shout-out to Ludwig von Mises himself....
The Whakataki Times

Blenheim Driver In Auckland Hits Three Red Lights In A Row And Absolutely Loses His Mind - HOW DO YOU GET ANYWHERE?!?!?! Blenheim real estate agent Simon Jones reckons replacing traffic lights with roundabouts would fix Auckland’s traffic probl...
Political Correctness Watch

- * Keith McNally strikes again! Razor-tongued restaurant owner goes after Lauren Sanchez * [image: image from https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/16/14/...
The Free Market Futurist

What Replaces the Biblical Cinematic Universe? - An Observation on the Secular Future of Spirituality
Houston Strategies

Houston tops affordability and innovation, big US homes, Houston's winning secret sauce, and more - A few smaller items this week:US vs European homes graphic below: "A good visual showing how huge US living spaces are compared to European. The average p...
Offsetting Behaviour

Despair - construction consenting edition - Kainga Ora is the government's house building agency. It's been building a lot of social housing. Kainga Ora has its own (but independent) consenting aut...
BloodhoundBlog

BloodhoundBrag: FannieMae and FreddieMac are FINALLY deploying a plan we proposed in 2007… - You know how it is. The NAR had to get itself sued to death first. Inasmuch as nothing is actually changing – adamantly, nothing – that works out to be a d...
One Sock: Heather Roy's Blog

Poor Productivity Produces Poor Kiwis - The focus on job losses, distressing as they are for individuals, masks New Zealand's real problem - poor productivity. We work harder and produce less tha...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

How We Became a Techno-Optimist Family - You can too!
Lindsay Mitchell

Babies and benefits - no good news - Ten years ago, I wrote the following in a *Listener* column: Every year around one in five new-born babies will be reliant on their caregivers benefit b...
PM of NZ

Well, that worked... - Dubai recently turned into a lake during a somewhat unexpected 24 hour downpour of over a year's worth of pluvium. Some are reporting that there was a 6x...
The War on Prices

U.S. Government Hypocrisy on “Junk Fees” - And The War on Prices arrives...
Let Grow

I Let My Kids Walk to the Library On Their Own - [image: Holly Grans 3 Kids] When Holly Grant let her three kids walk to the library on their own they developed a taste for independence, and dragons. (Got...
Official Blog

By George, it’s Fort George! — Geocache of the Week - Traditional GC39XE4 by xiao_tuzi Difficulty: 2 Terrain: 1.5 Location: Cayman Islands N 19° 17.804′ W 081° 22.981′ Salty, sticky air swirls around in the wa...
The Tracinski Letter

What If They Threw a War and Nobody Came? - I just opened a one-day-only “Crazy Days” sale aimed at getting subscribers to convert from my free list. Existing subscribers can also use this sale to bu...
Mises Wiki - Recent changes [en]

(NEW UPDATES) GOOGLE PLAY GIFT CARD GENERATOR 2024 FREE NO VERIFICATION - Created page with "Hey there, gaming enthusiasts! Are you ready to level up your gaming experience with some freebies? Well, look no further because we'v...
Texas Institute for Property Rights

The Progressive Framework’s Standard is the Group - The following is a section from Chapter 2 of my book, The Affordable housing Crisis: Causes and Cures. The Progressive The post The Progressive Framework...
No Punches Pulled

RACIST ADVERTISING - Over the last six months it’s become fashionable for our advertising agencies to use maoris in their television advertisements. With only a single exceptio...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Ministry of Education Cuts in Perspective. - NZH reports 565 positions to go. 4,509 – 565 = 3,944 remaining employed. 3,944 – 2,700 (in 2017) = 1,244 to get back to pre-Labour (Hipkins) level. While i...
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Crime Rates are a Better Way to Judge Immigrant Criminality than the Number of Crimes - Why a common nativist talking point is wrong
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

TV Girl Are Bringing Their Hypnotic Pop Live Show To Australia & New Zealand This July - [image: TV Girl] ‘America’s favourite indie band’ TV Girl will be bringing their hypnotic pop to Australia in July 2024, gracing stages in Melbourne, Syd...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

Exactly How Effective Are COVID Vaccines At Actually Doing What 'Experts' Claim They Do? - A new study casts more doubt on some of the most significant 'expert' claims
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 68) - April 16, 2024
TheMoneyIllusion

The hawkish case - The future course of the economy always involves a bit of guesswork. But it seems to me that the following two claims are pretty likely to be true: 1. Over...
Ideas Beyond Borders

Socking it to the Market - After a strong start in Kurdistan, Namosocks is eyeing expansion abroad
Peter Winsley

New Zealand’s democracy, Te Tiriti and the Marine and Coastal Area Act - New Zealand is a democracy that is being challenged by race and tribal-based activism. A democracy implies universal suffrage, one person/one vote, votes b...
Theatreview

PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATOR Wellington Central - Whitireia | WelTec | Te PūkengaWellington Central, WellingtonAdministrative Assistants (Administration & Office Support)Full time Applications close: 24 Ap...
SAVVY STREET

Transcript: Ayn Rand and the Austrian Economists - Common ground between Ayn Rand and the Austrian economists. The post Transcript: Ayn Rand and the Austrian Economists appeared first on SAVVY STREET.
Stats Chat

Super Rugby Predictions for Week 9 - Team Ratings for Week 9 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ra...
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

Measles Is Back - A measles outbreak in Philadelphia in the early 1990s might be a window into the future.
Earthly Idealism

David Goggins is No Role Model - Life Isn’t Suffering
Libertarian Land

Another Negative of Occupational Licenses - Occupational licensing — for doctors, lawyers, plumbers, barbers, and innumerable other trades — claims to improve service quality. Much evidence contradic...
Boom (UK)

Generation Net Zero - The carbon emissions of having children are wildly exaggerated
misfits' architecture

Man and Machine - Excavators are like musical instruments in that they remain inanimate objects unless there’s someone who can access its potential. However, unlike most mus...
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

Fauci Protege Morens Plays Hide and Seek - In an era where information flows as swiftly as the tides, the ability to discern truth from a manipulated narrative is not just a skill but a necessity. I...
Asymmetric Information

Pricing and fairness on the Milford Track🍋 - $92 per night for a hut is too expensive and unfair, says the NZ Herald. But is a lower price any fairer?
Schiffradio.com

This Canary Didn’t Die of Natural Causes – Ep 956 - Visit https://indeed.com/peter to start hiring now. Register for The 2024 MoneyShow in Miami, FL (April 10-12): https://www.miamisymposium.com/speakers/4...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

On the Sentencing of Ethan Crumbley's Parents - An "Unprecedented" Sentence Has Precedents
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Why you shouldn’t be alarmed about unusually warm temperatures - Even with recent temperatures, which are a temporary anomaly, not the new normal, cold is a bigger problem than heat and fossil fuels keep us safer from both.
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

The Girls Are Not Alright: Responses to Three Claims that the Youth Mental Health Crisis Is Exaggerated - Why changes in stigma and self-reporting procedures cannot explain the international decline of adolescent girls’ mental health.
Glenn’s Substack

Confessions of a Former Rocket Boy - The continuing allure of that Buck Rogers stuff
Plain Sight

Are some characters not fit for footy? - "The game is bigger than Michael Jennings, but is it bigger than the issue he presents?" - The 18th Man
Barrie Saunders

NZTA does not know how much it spends on cones - Astonishing as it may seem NZTA does not know either how much it spends on road cones as part of its Temporary Traffic Management system, or even how many ...
The 13th Floor

El Hula Hides No More – Blair Jollands Is Back: 13th Floor Interview - [image: El Hula] El Hula is Kiwi musician Blair Jollands. Now based in London, Blair is back in New Zealand to play a string of solo dates throughout the...
Museum Street (Henry Cooke)

One solution to distrust in the media: Show your working - For the mainstream media, explaining is not losing.
Market Urbanism

The sudden death of the American condo - Just 1 in 25 new apartments is owner-occupied. What happened to building condos? The post The sudden death of the American condo appeared first on Market...
One Useful Thing

What just happened, what is happening next - The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly
Magazine Articles – Quadrant Online

Heading off the Criminal Urge - No system of criminal justice will ensure that there are never again such people as whoever decapitated the victim found in Sheldon Johnson’s flat. Indiv...
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

a matryoshka of possibilities - down the rabbit hole we go...
A life just as ordinary

Herevana -#193 – Craftwork – Plum Dubbel - Here we have: – Craftwork Plum Dubbel – I’ve had this beer before – So I re-read the brewers notes, wherein it says “a one off”, so that confused me. … Con...
Croaking Cassandra

Tougher than that - Thomas Coughlan has a column in the Herald this morning, under the heading “Nicola Willis is just the right amount of Tory”. To this centre-right voter it ...
Thinking Directions

Activating a Context Versus Triggering a Habit - Based on some comments I made in a coaching call, a Thinking Labber wrote to me as follows: I’m fascinated by the idea that self-sacrifice is an ea...
Gross Output

This just out on WSJ.com – and will make the printed copy on April 5, 2024 - The Wall Street Journal has accepted all four of my op eds on GO over the years. They are believers! Slow GO May Mean a Recession Soon: GDP numbers ...
A City for People

Tell Minister Bishop to say yes to more homes in Wellington - Email the Minister and tell him why he should approve all of the councillors' amendments to the District Plan.
Free Range Kids

Jon Haidt Inspired Me to Let My Kid Walk Home from School. And Then — - After hearing a talk by Let Grow Co-Founder Jonathan Haidt at the Grace Church School in Manhattan, Larissa Romans did a bit of a dive into childhood indep...
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
Keith Weiner Economics

The Money Debate Which Should Have Been - by Keith Weiner, April 1 2024 They filed into the small room. After an ordeal, they were sent to the basement of the John Law Building. They had asked for ...
Notes On Liberty

Introducing: the Federation of Free States, an ongoing thought experiment - Originally published July 9th, 2019
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Essay 60 - Each death is an anticlimax; there’s nothing to say, and no one to say it to. The protagonist: speechless! The parents pass on laurels you never wanted. Yo...
Virginia Postrel

3 Three Body Problems and the Appeal of Science Fiction - Plus a not so hot take and upcoming lectures in Indiana and South Carolina
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

Those who have the courage - My next major book, Those Who Have the Courage, the history of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps and predecessor forces, is being released on 3 April by...
Public Lands – PERC

Visitors From Abroad Can Help Steward Ailing National Parks - If international visitors to a U.S. park paid a $25 surcharge, it would likely raise over $300 million, nearly doubling parks’ total fee receipts. The po...
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Cultural Futurist Salon III - Bohemian Banter: Event Info and Official Salon Link - Are you bold and unafraid or do you just want to banter?
Institute of Economic Affairs

Is Britain ready for Wol Kolade’s “big conversation” about the NHS? - Public satisfaction with the NHS has fallen to the lowest levels since records began in 1983, according to the latest … Continue reading "Is Britain read...
Butterpaper

Vault 2014: Gaza - cities under siege and under attack - Originally published in 2014. All eyes should be on Gaza at the moment, but understandably many are focused on unfolding events in the damp fields of Eas...
Principled Perspectives

The ‘Anthropocene’ and Hatred of Man - A vigorous debate has been going on inside the world of geology science. The question is, are we in a new geologic age marked by human influence on the p...
Building the Builders

The builder's yardstick: your life as the measure of all things - A builder builds, and a builder can build many things: a product or service, a team, a company, an essay, a song, a friendship, a home, a family, a culture...
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Manifesting Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis - “You’re seeing a traffic jam, I’m seeing an abundance of cars”. I don’t normally pay much attention to billboards, but this one got me hooked. There’s no f...
Bawerk.net

Can Maduro Mayhem Last To 2017 - Are you curious about the future of the Maduro regime and wondering if the mayhem...
Liberty Scott

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion is a fundamentally low-grade, Orwellian anti-liberal project - Sunday Telegraph editor, and vehement classical liberal, Allister Heath, writes about the "DEI" movement, which has spread like a cancer around US univer...
Zero Hanger

LIVE: Carlton vs GWS – Round 6, 2024 - Saturday 20th April 2024, 4:35pm at Marvel Stadium.
Autonomia

Podcast: Publishing My Fiction for the First Time - Listen now | Scott Holleran on “Deal with God” being published in a new short story anthology
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

Groundwater Conservation Easements - Evaluating an Innovative New Tool for Aquifer Sustainability The post Groundwater Conservation Easements appeared first on PERC.
from FEE

Why We're Not Supposed to Talk about Climate-Related Deaths - Disaster mortality seems to be a perfectly useful metric for understanding climate change—when the numbers tell the right story.
The Prophet of Causation

The Pain and the Passion - A Research Note on Ayn Rand and the Stoics
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

On Judicial Imperialism - why judges must ‘stay in their lane’
Don't Let It Go

Will the SAFE Act Protect You From Warrantless Bulk Surveillance? - This week, Senators Mike Lee, Dick Durbin and others proposed the SAFE Act, which the Senate Committee on the Judiciary describes as “Bipartisan legislatio...
Michael Newberry, Artist

Chapter 19, Dynamic Spaces: Two- and Three-Point Perspective - From my upcoming new edition of The Art Studio Companion 145 Maurits Cornelis Escher, Ascent and Descent, 1960. http://www.arthive.com. In this study, we e...
Reviews - 13th Floor

The Black Crowes – Happiness Bastards (Silver Arrow) - The Black Crowes are back! Brothers Chris and Rich Robinson have buried the hatchet, put the pedal to the metal, and come up with their best album in yea...
The Visible Hand

Pandemic preferences – the case of housing - Cross-post from Substack. COVID was a pretty big life shock for all of us – with uncertainty about the virus, and the magnitude of government interventions...
Roots of Progress

What is progress? - In one sense, it is simple and straightforward; in another, it contains an entire worldview
Private Lands – PERC

More Research Is Needed to Develop an Effective Brucellosis Vaccine - A public comment submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the proposed rule to amend and republish the list of select agents and toxins. The po...
Wildlife – PERC

More Research Is Needed to Develop an Effective Brucellosis Vaccine - A public comment submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the proposed rule to amend and republish the list of select agents and toxins. The po...
The Kerrant

Wartime heroine was treasured - Helene (Mimi) Hotte Marple: B Amsterdam, February 3, 1912; m (1) 1937 Wim Hotte : (dec 1945) 1s, (2) 1966 Rex Marple; d Nelson, May 12, 2001. [Originally...
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: The Second Soul, Part I - Here’s a riddle. There was a product in the seventeenth century that was universally considered a necessity as important as grain and fuel. Controlling the...
Notes On Liberty

Piece of music - A new bill, currently under public consultation, is poised to introduce quotas, yes, for music: Greek-Language Music Quota Bill Sparks Controversy (BalkanI...
Thoughts from 40° South

Reflections on October 7th - I have been intending to write down my thoughts on the massacre of Israelis by Hamas terrorists and Gaza civilians on October 7th, 2023, ever since it ha...
Fizzifood

Brie, pistachio & chilli stuffed chicken roulade - This high-protein, low-carb dish comprises just a single chicken breast. That being said, it’s a very light meal for two people – more of an entrée – so ...
HardmoneyJim

Dollars To Donuts - Investing in bank stocks is riskier than Wall Street lets on
Israel Institute of NZ

The enemy at the gates - It would be an understatement to say that the events of 7 October changed the focus of my life. While I’m not Jewish, I’ve been an increasingly passionate ...
Jack’s Substack

Electricity Cheapest in a Decade - NZ residential electricity most affordable in recent history
Better things are possible

Graduated Density Zoning, a condition for opting out of the Medium Density Residential Standards? - Last week, in a speech to the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, Minister for Housing and Infrastructure, Chris Bishop, noted that fixing our housing crisis i...
Too Clever By Half

And the winner is: PageList - [image: Athletic woman deadlifting a heavy weigh in a competition] michael b / flicker The PageList sidebar widget, and the older LinkList widget, each ...
The Fundy Post

Genesis -
Wright in Racine

Minerva’s 100th Birthday Bash - Photos © Mark Hertzberg Guest of honor: Minerva Montooth / Guests: 135 / Location: The Frank Lloyd Wright Visitors Center (formerly Riverview Terrace Resta...
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...
round houses

island home - Sweet little cylindrical house on Koh Tao, an island in the Gulf of Thailand –
Johnny Grey Studios

The Next Generation of Cooks - Designing kitchens for the whole family
Samizdata

Let’s just defund the UN and leave it immediately - Hidden deep below the headquarters of the United Nations’ aid agency for Palestinians here is a Hamas complex with rows of computer servers that Israel’s...
A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

When was sovereignty properly established here? - So here's a quiz question for you: When did Britain legally acquire sovereignty over the New Zealand isles? (Supplementary questions: What IS soverei...
The Grumpy Economist

Understanding Trumpers - WSJ oped and substack post.
Open Borders: The Case

High-skilled hacks: the business of extraordinary ability - This post is part of my “high-skilled hacks” series, focused on immigration to the United States. The series explores various workarounds and caveats to im...
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...
The Jolly Libertarian

A New Aristotelian Revolution - A Review of Modernizing Aristotle's Ethics by Roger E. Bissell & Vinay Kolhatkar Many consider Aristotle as “the greatest philosopher who ever lived.” That...
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...
The Organon Architecture Blog

How to begin creating Organic Architecture ... - *'House for Betta,' 1988, by architect James Schildroth* *Organic architecture is not about assembling boxes and coating them with candy floss. For tha...
Patrick T. Brown, PhD

The Social Feedback Loop that Puts Blinders on Climate Science -
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 m...
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...
Precise Thinking

Finding the Benevolent Universe when the World is in a Pickle - by
Martini Mandate

Algorithms and traditions – a Christmas story - I met a Thai woman called Sugarplum on the rooftop bar of the Kingsbury Hotel in Colombo. It was a completely random occurrence. We drank arrack cocktail...
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...
M.M.E.F. News

MMEF Highlights to Close the Year & Opportunities for You in 2024 - *Kia Ora Koutou MMEF Supporters,* As the year draws gradually to a close, we'd love to update you on some of the recent MMEF highlights and a look ah...
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...
Cranmer’s Substack

Team of Rivals: A CEO Approach to Government Leadership - Today the work begins.
Stu-Topia

Eminent Domain Is Inhumane - The Honolulu Star-Advertiser Published My Letter to the Editor Stuart K. Hayashi Back in the year 2006, Pablo Wegesend, Reid Ginoza, and I issued a warning...
Anti-Dismal

Thinking about the theory of production/the firm - J. B. Condliffe has pointed out that "[ ... ] economic activity and thoughts about it are as old a mankind'' (Condliffe 1974: 21) and this is certainl...
Fisheries – PERC

Free Markets and the Environment - A podcast exploring PERC's unique approach to conservation. The post Free Markets and the Environment appeared first on PERC.
Tross Publishing

A SERIOUS DISCONNECT - The tests of opinion on 14th October – the General Election in New Zealand and the “Voice” referendum in Australia – showed a serious disconnect between ...
positive check

New location - The EHES blog Positive Check has moved and can be found on the EHES website: *https://ehes.org/category/blog/*
Dominic Frisby

Exclusive Gold-Infused Comedy Show: Don't Miss Out - Laugh and learn about gold with Dominic Frisby! Extra London dates on Feb 14th and 15th. Get your tickets now. #ComedyGold
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 ...
Splitting Headache

Meta Dreams—Somethings - Also, the recency bias of the internet, the death of search, and the most dangerous BigTech firm in the world.
Overthinking Everything

Why to explain things you already know - Explanations of things you already know help you fit your different understandings of the world together.
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
Professor Werner

Washington’s “development economics” is actually designed to prevent development - Published in China by Guancha.cn newspaper on 7 September 2023 at: https://www.guancha.cn/Werner/2023_09_07_707650_3.shtml
Creative Deduction

What is fascism? - The word “fascism” is often used – and mis-used – to describe politicians and policies which are perceived to be somehow aligned with totalitarian ideas. B...
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Free State | Documentary - Free State is a new libertarian documentary in the works. Per the film’s website, “The main focus is The Free State Project, a group of approximately 10,...
CEE – Econlib

Gross Output - Gross output (GO) is a relatively new macroeconomic statistic that measures total economic activity. Gross domestic product (GDP)—the other major measure...
Premise Check (Billy Beck)

"A Completely Different Conquest" - Watch now (2 mins) | Amsoc Will Be Different
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

Agustina Vergara Cid on the Immorality of the U.S. Immigration System - [image: Agustina Vergara Cid on the Immorality of the U.S. Immigration System] *Immigrants who “get in line” are punished for wanting to work.* The post A...
Comments on: Bert Kelly

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

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

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

It’s Crunch Time for The Daily Doom and Doom Time for The Great Recession Blog - The Great Recession Blog is officially done for good, and it remains to be seen if all my writing continues on TheDailyDoom.com. If my writing on economi...
Tribes – PERC

Supreme Court Misses Opportunity to Reduce Uncertainty in the Colorado River Basin - A lack of certainty in water rights inhibits the Navajo Nation's ability to build infrastructure, cultivate their land, improve water sanitation, and cap...
Stories by Rudi Edsall on Medium

Round 12 v Bulldogs — who needs a midfield anyway? - Round 12 v Bulldogs — who needs a midfield anyway? I honestly did not see a way we could do this one. I was expecting an absolute massacre in the midfield ...
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
The Market Urbanism Report Blog

Can Prospera Become A Startup City Blueprint? - The emergence of startup cities is a story we’ll cover extensively these next few years. Prospera of Honduras is a leading example.
Craig Biddle

On The Evil of Bringing Clarity about Objectivism to Young Minds - The post On The Evil of Bringing Clarity about Objectivism to Young Minds appeared first on Craig Biddle.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Kathleen and Charles Moore Prepare to take their Fight Against Taxing Unrealized Gains to Supreme Court - In 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The new law was a reform of the federal tax code, but also included a provision called the Mandatory ...
StephenFranks.co.nz

Who’s calling the shots on co-governance? Lawyers or MPs? Will the Court of Appeal order disclosure? - On Wednesday 15 February the Court of Appeal will hear the arguments of two King’s Counsel, that the government should come clean on whether its lawyers ar...
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 ...
Hunters and Anglers – PERC

Whose Land Is it Anyway? - A podcast about contentious access issues in the West. The post Whose Land Is it Anyway? appeared first on PERC.
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...
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 ...
Mencken's Ghost

Announcement: New Substack Publication - I have started a new Substack Publication. Details:
Cities Matter

Auckland at a Turning Point 2: Marking Down the Labour Market - *Reality Bites* For some years I have been calling out the over-exuberant growth expectations behind Auckland’s planning. I have also argued that creat...
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...
Drinks and Drinking

Where Have I Been? - Hello friends, I’m grateful and flattered that people continue to look at this blog, considering I’ve updated it once in the last four years. Thank you for...
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...
Armed and Dangerous

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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 ...
'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...
Travel Secrets by Shar Lemond

No Highway by Nevil Shute – Book Review - *“Therefore, go forth, companion: when you find* *No Highway more, no track, all being blind,The way to go shall glimmer in the mind.* *Though you h...
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...
The Devil's Kitchen

NHS Fail Wail - I think that we can all agree that the UK's response to coronavirus has been somewhat lacking. In fact, many people asserted that our death rate was unique...
News - Democracy Action

Revealed: Auckland Council spends $129 million in six years on duplicated iwi consultation, targeted Māori spending - *A new briefing paper co-published by the Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance and Democracy Action reveals that in just six years, Auckland Council spent at le...
John P. McCaskey

History of ‘Temperature’: Maturation of a Measurement Concept - This is the accepted manuscript for an article to be published by Taylor & Francis in Annals of Science. Accounts The post History of ‘Temperature’: Matu...
Quote Unquote

Waikato Times letter of the week #92 - From the edition of Saturday 22 August. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the *Waikato Times.* *Driver licen...
Joakim Book | Life of an Econ Student

Publications, June - Summer is here, and here's this month's breakdown. For more news about my publications, follow my work on Authory and on Twitter. *HumanProgress.org* -...
Center for the Legalization of Privacy

Barr and Wray are Coming For Your Apple Encryption - An extra I did earlier this week, after Tom Hall sent me the video of a press conference by Attorney … Continue reading →
Legalize Privacy

Barr and Wray are Coming For Your Apple Encryption - An extra I did earlier this week, after Tom Hall sent me the video of a press conference by Attorney … Continue reading →
Kuo's Gulch | Justice, Independence, Productivity, Honesty, Integrity, Pride, Rationality

Man and His Inherent Productivity - If there’s anything we have learnt from the Coronavirus pandemic, is that people are willing to submit themselves to authoritarianism for the sake of a fal...
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…
1828 – Championing Freedom

How to improve the UK’s election debates - Gordon Brown expressed regret over enabling television debates in the UK. In their recent form, it is easy to see why: they are rarely insightful, overly r...
Inductive Quest

William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 6/Final Part) - Previous posts: William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 1) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 2) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Ind...
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,
sportreview.net.nz

Cricket world cup final FAQ - This content was lovingly emailed to general sporting masochists in EMERGENCY Sport Review newsletter #70 – join them and get this carry on every week at s...
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...
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 ...
FDR Liberated

Stefan Molyneux and “My Sweet Bomb in the Brain” - I used to think that the worst thing about Stefan Molyneux (well, except for the racist/misogynist part) is that he doesn't seem to know a lot about scienc...
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...
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...
Oswald Bastable's Ranting

Are you mad?- oh wait... - Of course. You would have to be be barking mad to want to bring this rabble to NZ. But then socialists are mad by definition. It's not as if we don't have...
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

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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...
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

Signing off - My Last Blog Post | Nicky Hager; Heather Du Plessis-Allan; Deborah Hill-Cone; Giovanni Tiso - Individualism & the Tyranny of Each Other. - The secret of being a bore is to tell everything – Voltaire. When the last human who understands individualism passes, so will pass the entirety of h...
Tibor's space

Reflections on Modern Democracy - Democracy – but only when it goes your way! Tibor R. Machan Over the years of watching the democratic process I’ve noticed something important. People ten...
Politics without God

Should You Try to Be Morally Perfect? - Off-topic but perhaps of interest... Back in March 2012, I gave a lecture titled "Should You Try to Be Morally Perfect?" as part of the CU Boulder Philosop...
The PRODOS blog

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

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

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Thursday 17 August 2006

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