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EconLog

Military Age Males - Lately I’ve been watching Fox News Channel more than usual. I’ve noticed Jesse Waters (who replaced Tucker Carlson, who replaced Bill O’Reilly) using a p...
The Inquiring Mind

Arthur and George – Martin Clunes, Art Malik – #3/3 -
Energy Transition Absurdities

Tuesday's Energy Absurdity: Your Legacy Media in Action - The funny people at X account @NotTheBee gave us the bit of irony in the photo atop this piece on Monday. Is global warming causing the earth to spin too f...
The Free Press

Tucker Carlson’s Turn. A Stabbing in Sydney. Plus. . . - Book bans. The widening war in the Middle East. TikTok employees say they worked for bosses in Beijing. The Free Press’s first rodeo. And more.
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Business Schools Undermine Wealth Creation - "Universities promote an obsession with social impact that ignores the vital social impact already accomplished by the realm of private enterprise." ~Kimbe...
Law & Liberty

Cancellation, Counter-Speech, and the Common Good - Counter-speech is a mechanism used by traditionally marginalized individuals to contest allegedly harmful speech.
Watts Up With That?

Observation of the Earth shows that deforestation and urbanization cause three times more warming than CO2 - There's a far more scientific way of understanding the climate, and that involves observing the actual climate system directly from space or in situ.
Tim Worstall

Compared to is always interesting - But in that case, and given the massive flaws in most central bank estimates, meaning that in general the quality of their forecasting is abysmally poor ...
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

Let's explain again why rent controls are a bad idea - In many ways, the frequent calls from politicians to implement rent controls are remarkable; insofar as, despite their repeated failure to solve the rent...
Zero Hanger

Gun Lion to miss a month, or more - The hybrid threat is set to spend some time on the sideline.
ArchDaily

How Modular Construction Can Provide Architectural Aid: From Rapid-Response to Transitional and Affordable Housing - Ever since the Industrial Revolution and the introduction of mass production, the ownership and use of simple products and services like flush toilets wi...
GeekPress

Clever Gold Smuggling Tactic - *"$10 Million In Gold* Disguised As Machine Parts Seized From Cargo Plane" On March 27, [Hong Kong] customs officials x-rayed two air compressors and dis...
The Antiplanner

This Just In: Remote Work Changed Travel - MIT researchers are astounded to discover that the increase in telecommuting has changed how people travel. Their actual research paper is paywalled, but j...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

NIMBYism explained - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/sRwF4ebHk823WtAL/?mibextid=xfxF2i
Quillette

Iran Contra Israel - The Iranian missile strike against Israel marks a watershed moment in the Middle East conflict, even though it was unsuccessful.
The Double Standard

Daily review 16/04/2024 - Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the P...
Flying Out

Fu**in' Up - *Vendor: *Warner *Type: *NEIL YOUNG WITH CRAZY HORSE *Price: * 32.00 - 82.00 (2 variants) *Neil Young with Crazy Horse* in all their “Ragged Glory”. *N...
Political Correctness Watch

- * The Lord's Prayer and the Holy Name* In Matthews 6:9 we read: Ἁγιασθήτω ὄνομά σου Hagiasthētō onoma sou hallowed be name of You They are simple Greek...
Breaking Views

Dr 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...
Offsetting Behaviour

Reader mailbag: really long tunnels edition - I'd been wondering about the proposal to dig a really long tunnel to route through traffic away from Wellington's central city. It seems the kind of thing...
Spiked Online

Why is the party of Winston Churchill banning smoking? - The post Why is the party of Winston Churchill banning smoking? appeared first on spiked.
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...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

BPD Alpha-Widow Ultranationalism - The Feral Feminine in European Culture
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

Apposite Quotations. - *How Long Is Long Enough? Gaza under Israeli bombardment, July 2014.* *This posting is exclusive to Bowalley Road.*
Theatreview

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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.
Doug Casey's International Man

A Unique Moment in Monetary History Is Four Days Away… and Most Have No Idea - For thousands of years, gold has been mankind's hardest money. That's all set to change, and most people have no idea. The post A Unique Moment in Moneta...
The Footy Almanac

Round 6 – AFL Footy Fixture 2024: Who, where, and when - Find out who, where, and when your favourite team is playing in Round 6 AFL 2024.
No Minister

Minor Blog Change Announcement - I’ve renamed The Daily Blog to The Psychic Scream in our section for Left blogs and I’ve also moved it into last place behind The Standard on that list. Th...
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Chapter 1, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Driver - Art: Depth, Light, and Love, an Art Memoir
The Whakataki Times

COST CUTTING: Stuff’s 6 O’Clock News Bulletin To Be Presented By A.I Robot - SAVINGS TO BE MADE. Only hours after revealing that Stuff would be taking over TV 3’s 6 o’clock news duties, owner Sinead Boucher has dropped another bom...
Point of Order

Howling at the Moon - Karl du Fresne writes – There’s a crisis in the news media and the media are blaming it on everyone except themselves. Culpability is being deflected else...
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Galère – a group of people having a common interest; group of people of the same sort or class.; a coterie of undesirable people. an unpleasant situation; ...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

BBC’s Coral Propaganda - By Paul Homewood The BBC is corrupt, and this report is fraudulent: Coral around the world is turning white and even dying as recent record ocean heat ta...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

Bill Withers Social Club Announce NZ Tour - [image: Bill Withers Social Club] After a sell-out debut at the Auckland Arts Festival, the Bill Withers Social Club returns for three special shows not ...
Kiwiblog

The Cass Report - The BBC reports: Children have been let down by a lack of research and “remarkably weak” evidence on medical interventions in gender care, a landmark rev...
Democracy Project

Bryce Edwards: Will politicians let democracy die in the darkness? - Politicians across the political spectrum are implicated in the New Zealand media’s failing health. Either through neglect or incompetent interventions, su...
The Free Market Futurist

What Big Thing Are We Getting Wrong About the Future? - Plus some more reasons for optimism about the future.
No Right Turn

Climate Change: Criminal ecocide - We are in the middle of a climate crisis. Last year was (again) the hottest year on record. NOAA has just announced another global coral bleaching event. F...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

The Working Group with Arena Williams, Max Harris and Damien Grant - TEXT: Working to 3598 for all updates As the rest of the media industry die – The Working Group, New Zealand’s greatest weekly political podcast THAT IS NO...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

30 Ways to Revitalize Arts & Culture - This is my wish list
UnHerd

Canada’s long restoration has begun - Young elites must escape the garrison mentality
No Punches Pulled

THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY - Unmitigated tosh was talked by diverse commentators, mostly with a personal employment interest in the matter, with advice that TV3 is to close its spasmod...
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...
The Daily Doom

Iran Ups the Cost of Reprisal by an Order of Magnitude. Israel Deliberates. - I'm sure we'll know very soon what they decided.
David Stockman's Contra Corner

America’s Fiscal Armageddon And How To Avoid It, Part 2 - The CBO projection conveyed in Part 1 indicating that America’s publicly-held debt will reach $140 trillion and 166% of GDP by 2054 seems far-fetched on it...
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Palestinian Hearts & Minds -
Truth on the Market

The Missing Element in the Google Case - Through laudable competition on the merits, Google achieved a usage share of nearly 90% in “general search services.” About a decade later, the governmen...
JoNova

Glut in Californian home-solar causes bubble to pop: sales down 75% - By Jo Nova California was the Land of Solar Panels at the top of the Magic Subsidy Tree but that boom went bust If solar panels were actually cheap and us...
Manhattan Contrarian

New York Shows Off Its Expertise In Central Planning: The Buffalo Billion - * Let’s face it: Central planning of the economy hasn’t worked out so well in many places where it has been tried (e.g., Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, e...
Cato at Liberty

Will Big Sky Country Redefine Climate Policy? - If the Montana Supreme Court agrees with the District Court in Held v. Montana, it will set the stage for future climate litigation nationwide and support ...
IPWatchdog Articles

USPTO Proposes Making Director Review Process Official - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced today that it will be publishing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) tomorrow aimed at formalizin...
Down to Earth Kiwi

NZ's Media Just Got More Biased: The Stuff Monster Grows Tentacles. To all Fat Cats - you Missed the Chance to Buy Newshub for $1 & re-balance the news - The Newshub saga is still rolling on as a developing story with further announcements due. It appears that Stuff may be taking over...
Greater Auckland

Long Tunnel or Long Con? - Yesterday it was revealed that Transport Minister had asked Waka Kotahi to look at the options for a long tunnel through Wellington. State Highway 1 (SH1)...
The Tracinski Letter

What Big Thing Are We Getting Wrong About the Future? - Lessons from a Techno-Optimist's Unexpected Pessimism
Objective Standard Institute

The Motivating Power of Positive Values - In choosing a particular goal, you may not actually be pursuing a positive value, but avoiding a disvalue. The post The Motivating Power of Positive Valu...
Living Resources Center

“Happy Wife, Happy Life” is a BIG Mistake - The meme is true. “Happy wife, happy life” is a recipe for self-sacrifice. “I have to give up myself in order to love someone else.” Wrong. First of all,...
The Curmudgeon

Wisdom, Justice and Motheration - Since the Christian state of Georgia ranks forty-third out of the fifty in looking after the health of actual children, the fact of its offering tax breaks...
Curbed - All

Ron Chernow Bought at the Dakota - The new apartment feels very appropriate for the Hamilton biographer.
Conversable Economist

Why So Many Shareholders of US Firms are Untaxed - Over the last half-century or so, the share of corporate stock that is owned by investors with taxable mutual funds or brokerage accounts has fallen dram...
Why Evolution Is True

Biden once again tells Israel how to defend itself—by not striking back - What do you suppose the U.S. would do if, say, Russia launched an attack on the West Coast with several hundred non-nuclear missiles, justifying that attac...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Philosophy humor — The relativity of time - A woman is told by her doctor that she has six months to live. “Is there anything I can do?” she asks. “Yes,” the doctor replies. “You could marry a tax ac...
The Future of Freedom Foundation

End the Drug War in Oregon, Both State and Federal - Three years ago, in a citizen’s initiation approved by 3/4 of voters, Oregon decriminalized the possession of small amounts of illicit drugs. Last month,...
Official Blog

CITO Season 1 Halftime Show! - From pulling ivy to planting trees, cleaning beaches to carrying frogs, when geocachers CITO, they make their communities a better place. Collectively, the...
Capitalism Magazine

Israel’s Golden Opportunity to Achieve Peace in the Middle East - Israel must realise that this is a golden opportunity that it cannot afford not to realise. It’s either now or in a year or two with a nuclear Iran. The ba...
Institute for Energy Research

Biden’s Bullet Train Folly - California is still building its high-speed train partially funded during the Obama and the Biden administrations, which is tens of… The post Biden’s Bul...
Gus Van Horn

Barbarians Escalate Against Israel - Over the weekend and from its own territory, Iran launched a barrage of hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel, using Israel's attack on its "embassy" i...
Kunstler

Crib Notes for the Trial of the Century - “Once someone determined Trump was so bad it was okay to lie about him, it set the precedent that the only thing that mattered was a subject’s politics.”...
bad cattitude

kitten corner: tax day - here for you in the tough times
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

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

Quote Origin: I Admire and Crave Competence In Any Field From Adultery to Zoology - H. L. Mencken? Alistair Cooke? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: A prominent journalist once celebrated the display of competence in any discipl...
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 404 Biden's sanctions assault. Quiet luxury's fate hangs in the balance in Asia and the rate of return on expensive American education. - Great images, links, reading from Chartbook Newsletter.
Mises Wire

Human Action on Its 75th Anniversary Helps Us Understand How Statism Has Decimated Argentina - In less than a century, Argentina went from being one of the world’s wealthiest nations to one that struggles with poverty and massive inflation. Human Act...
Mises Institute Blog

Human Action on Its 75th Anniversary Helps Us Understand How Statism Has Decimated Argentina - In less than a century, Argentina went from being one of the world’s wealthiest nations to one that struggles with poverty and massive inflation. Human Act...
Reason Foundation

How the US Treasury shaped a new era of Swiss monetary policy - The United States Department of the Treasury classified Switzerland as a currency manipulator during the COVID-19 pandemic. The post How the US Treasury...
Doomberg

Coupling Miracles - On the proposed creation of natural gas from just solar and air.
Earthly Idealism

David Goggins is No Role Model - Life Isn’t Suffering
Hoover institution Commentary

Breaking a Seven-Decade Taboo: The Deployment of U.S. Special Forces to Kinmen - The recent confirmation of U.S. Special Forces’ deployment to Kinmen (Quemoy), a tiny island held by Taiwan, marks a monumental shift in U.S. military and ...
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Khruangbin: A La Sala (Dead Oceans/digital outlets) - One of the problems which comes with an artist having a distinctive and unique sound is that unless they move it around a bit, that signature becomes so ...
A Halfling's View

Journalists Write - A Discussion in Print with Simon Wilson on Media Woes
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...
Flashbak

Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story - “For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word sho...
Public: Michael Shellenberger

We Broke The Censorship Fever In Brazil - The war is not over, but we're winning key battles
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Transport Minister threatens Germans with an "indefinite weekend driving ban" to meet mandated emissions targets - This story has even made it into the Anglophone press, so you know it’s a big deal: “German transport minister warns of weekend driving ban,” says The Tele...
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

When the Dust Settles - The conventional wisdom of the media and think-tanks agreed its line around the time the two-hundredth drone was shot down: Iran's assault on Israel was a ...
Can't Get Much Higher

The Concert Ticket Fix: A Conversation with Dusty Rich - There are several problems with ticketing for live music, but two brothers claim they have a solution to at least one of them: price gouging.
The New York Review of Books

The Next Mass Extinction? - In August 2023 dead elephant seals washed ashore on beaches in Argentina. First a handful appeared outside Rio Grande, a coastal city on the eastern side o...
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...
Lindsay Mitchell

The case for cultural connectedness - A recent report generated from a *Growing Up in New Zealand (GUiNZ)* survey of 1,224 rangatahi Māori aged 11-12 found: *Cultural connectedness was associ...
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?
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

Climate Cooking - How a few billionaires helped push climate science to the extremes
Kiwipolitico

Arguing about a moot point. - I have been following recent debates in the corporate and social media about whether it is a good idea for NZ to join what is known as “AUKUS Pillar Two.” ...
Retraction Watch

Weekend reads: A decade after the STAP scandal; more allegations about Francesca Gino; the disappearing journal - Would you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? The week at Retraction Watch featured: Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID...
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...
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Take AIM - Ali Mortazavi, CEO of e-therapeutics, set a small corner of X ablaze this week with a brutal thread on his intention to delist from London Stock Exchange...
A Havenstein Moment.

"The interest rate will not foreclose on you, the maturity will" - "Politicians don't think there's any consequence to any amount of irresponsibility"
TheMoneyIllusion

Time to add the epicycles! - During the golden age of macroeconomics (roughly 1984-2007), many economists understood that interest rates were not monetary policy. After 2008, economist...
John D. Cook

Precise answers to useless questions - I recently ran across a tweet from Allen Downey saying So much of 20th century statistics was just a waste of time, computing precise answers to useless ...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

On the Sentencing of Ethan Crumbley's Parents - An "Unprecedented" Sentence Has Precedents
Toppermost

The Janitors - Stockholm outfit The Janitors have been a formidable presence on the European underground since they formed back in 2004. Channeling the freewheeling spi...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Is David Seymour Chris Hipkins in Disguise? - When the school attendance crisis became fully evident the, then, Minister of Education (Hipkins), blamed parents and said it was up to them to get them to...
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.
The Objective Standard

Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass - The first comprehensive book on the Japanese war crimes trial, *Judgment at Tokyo* is an exceptional feat of political, legal, and historical scholarship...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

Pfizer Lied To Us Again - The most trusted pharmaceutical company and its allies got it wrong again
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.
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Should you infect yourself with Zika? - What life is like in a challenge trial
The Cobden Centre

CBDCS: THE HOTTEST TOPIC IN CENTRAL BANKING - Since we last reported on the ECB’s thinking about CBDCs1, multiple central banks have undertaken research in designing, operating and selling CBDCs. As of...
One Sock: Heather Roy's Blog

Who Was Ettie Rout? - Ettie Rout was a woman ahead of her time. She is best known for her care of NZ soldiers during WWI and her preventative work in the control of veneral dise...
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
Texas Institute for Property Rights

Justice Inc: A Novel has been Published - Justin Walker and Pratik Shah are the owners of Justice Inc, a business in Houston that provides intellectual bodyguard services. The post Justice Inc: A...
Energy in Depth

Experts warn of “naive” LNG pause as House Hearing Highlights Education Ramifications - The indefinite U.S. LNG export pause by the Biden administration continues to raise experts’ eyebrows and spark reactions domestically and internationall...
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Women Who Want Lots of Kids, and Where to Find Them - Bet On It reader Matt Kuras sent me this request for advice on finding a wife who wants a lot of kids. My main responses to him: 1. I’ve never...
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.
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Annual Chance of Being Murdered by a Foreign‐Born Terrorist in an Attack Was 1 in 4.5 Million from 1975–2023 - The annual chance of being murdered in a foreign‐born terrorist attack in the United States was about 1 in 4.5 million during the 1975–2023 period, accord...
Let Grow

No Talking! No Running! No Tag! Brilliant 9-Year-Old’s TED Talk! - [image: Gwen Coffey Ted 2] Gwen, 9, was fed up with a no-walking, no-running, no-tag childhood, which is why she recommends all schools start a Let Grow Pl...
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Thomas Jefferson and the Meaning of Self-Government - During the last quarter of the eighteenth century, America’s Founding Fathers and their political progeny began to think seriously about the kind of societ...
One Useful Thing

What just happened, what is happening next - The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly
History Reclaimed

The Shame Of Yale University? - A new book, Yale and Slavery, impugns many of the university’s founders, among them the donor from which the American college takes its name, Elihu Yale. Y...
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...
PM of NZ

NZ frigate to back Philippines? - Today from over the ditch as things heat up in the '*benign*' socialist paradise of the South China Sea. *China’s strategy is to escalate until its adver...
Houston Strategies

Metro 2023 Annual Report: stats improve, but $13.93 boarding subsidy remains excessively high - This week we're lucky to have another one of Oscar's excellent analytical posts.--- Metro's 2023 annual report, covering the 12 months ending September 202...
Ideas Beyond Borders

Reviving a Legacy: The Renaissance of Halabi Bookshop - A combination of business acumen and stubborn determination drove Lana Halabi to salvage a shuttered family bookshop and transform it into a cultural insti...
New Zealand Arts Review

The NZSO’s Mahler 5 - Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Mahler 5 Auckland Town Hall April 6 Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples The opening work on the Mahl...
Interintellect

Anna Gát: What to Read This Weekend #60 - Christianity, socialism, psychoanalysis, pornography, coming of age, Silicon Valley, Israel, medieval burnout, climate change, EA, marriage, immigration, e...
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...
FIRE

FIRE urges Arizona governor to veto unconstitutional age verification legislation - FIRE urges Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs to veto House Bill 2586, which contains an online age verification requirement that would violate the First Amendment r...
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.
Market Urbanism

The urban economics of sprawl - Should YIMBYs support or oppose greenfield growth? Two basic values animate most YIMBYs: housing affordability and urbanism. Sprawl puts those values int...
The New Era

Efrat Fenigson on CBDCs, Bitcoin and Israel - In conversation with Jeffrey Peel
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...
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
The War on Prices

Why Biden Can’t Count on Falling Inflation for Electoral Success - Is weak consumer sentiment really about interest rates?
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

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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
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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

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The Fundy Post

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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
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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

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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.
BloodhoundBlog

Redfin runs out of other brokers’ agents to milk, resolves to milk its own, instead. - How bad is your listing agent?“There are two real estate brokerage business models: Selling houses or milking agents. Redfin yearns to discover that it can...
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.
Mises Wiki - Recent changes [en]

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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

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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
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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

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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 ...
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Mencken's Ghost

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Cities Matter

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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...
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Julian Burnside

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

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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....
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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

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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

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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

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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

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Planetizen

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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...
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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

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Politics without God

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The PRODOS blog

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Tuesday 21 August 2007

Mark Inglis, again

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