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The Inquiring Mind

Britten’s War Requiem conducted in 1993 by John Eliot Gardiner in Lubeck, North Germany -
Houston Strategies

Here’s (NOT) the Real Reason Houston Is Going Broke - Strong Towns posted "Here’s the Real Reason Houston Is Going Broke" earlier this month, ironically on April 1st because a lot of what they said was absolut...
No Minister

Memory - Only the dead have seen the end of war In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, sti...
Ayn Rand Centre UK

The Great Victory for Iran -
Watts Up With That?

False Energy Transition: The View from Australia (Nick Cater, Menzies Research Centre) - In the current ‘transition’, the process is reversed unless we are prepared to countenance the mass use of nuclear technology.
Cato at Liberty

A Different Perspective on “Climate Change and Globalization” - Dr. Kenny’s article breaks with libertarian principles (and textbook insights from Pigouvian economics) by endorsing the goal of “net zero” CO2 emissions a...
A Havenstein Moment.

Economists: always wrong, never in doubt. - Weaponizing the dollar is a huge mistake.
EconLog

Factoid and Ideas: King’s Horses Amok in London - Serious arguments, economic and moral, exist to justify the state (the central and sovereign apparatus of government). Serious objections to these argume...
JoNova

Alinta chief admits the transition has “soaring costs”, and has stalled because of the rooftop solar glut - Solar panels eat the profits at lunchtime By Jo Nova The system is reaching a crisis point and April is turning out to be the month of confessions His ...
SAVVY STREET

Libertarian Party Candidate Vinay Kolhatkar Cook Campaign Video - Vinay Kolhatkar, Libertarian Party Candidate - Cook Campaign Video The post Libertarian Party Candidate Vinay Kolhatkar Cook Campaign Video appeared firs...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

ANZAC Day 2024 – A new Red Sea War and Winston selling our independent foreign policy for 3 magic beans from the American Military Industrial Complex! What are we commemorating? - Every ANZAC Day it’s not a case of ‘lest we forget’, it’s a case of ‘lest we remember’. As the dead groan under their weight at the horror with which we c...
Kiwiblog

General Debate 25 April 2024 - The post General Debate 25 April 2024 first appeared on Kiwiblog.
Flashbak

The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris - First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Sh...
Spiked Online

Why can’t the police admit these are hate marches? - The post Why can’t the police admit these are hate marches? appeared first on spiked.
Public: Michael Shellenberger

We Exposed Censorship By Brazil’s Supreme Court, And Now President Lula Is Persecuting Me - PLUS: Brazil’s Attorney General Is Seeking To Entirely Shut Down X, Formerly Known As Twitter
The Curmudgeon

Classroom Ventilation - Legislators in the God-fearing state of Tennessee have responded to last year's school shooting at Nashville in the most Murcan way imaginable: namely by l...
Capitalism Magazine

The Young in America Turn Against Capitalism - If young people worry and wonder about their retirement future, their health care, and medical needs, their chance to afford a place to live, and a reasona...
Homepaddock

It’s not forgetting, it’s not learning - Thousands of allied soldiers are buried in Tyne Cot cemetery in Belgium. It was visited by King George V in 1922, who said: We can truly say that the whole...
Principled Perspectives

Economic Power and a Free and Independent Media - There is a significant and distressing lack of understanding in America about freedom of speech and press. For example, this meme has been circulating on...
Why Evolution Is True

Blatant discrimination in Canadian ads for academic jobs - An anonymous author (presumably Canadian) has written this piece for Times Higher Education, and it’s clear why he or she doesn’t want their name given. If...
The Double Standard

Open mike 25/04/2024 - 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...
Conversable Economist

The Jones Act: Consequences of a Destructive Industrial Policy - The United States has had an industrial policy aimed at boosting its domestic shipbuilding industry since the passage of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920,...
Curbed - All

Where NIMBYs Got Their Veto Power - How a progressive movement to give more power to neighborhoods brought us to our current housing impasse.
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Wind Power Scarcity Data Analysis - By Paul Homewood One of my regular contacts has analysed wind power data over the last five years, using the official half-hourly National Grid data. The...
FIRE

TikTok legislation sets grave precedent for free speech - President Biden today signed legislation that kickstarts a process to ban TikTok and empowers the president to block other communications platforms used by...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

5 Best Chess Opening Traps in the French Defense -
IPWatchdog Articles

Updated WHO Pandemic Accord Retains Commitments for Non-Exclusive Licensing and Royalty Waivers - On April 19, the World Health Organization (WHO) released an updated draft proposal of an international agreement on the global response to future pandemic...
Let Grow

The Case for More 9-Year-Old Biker Gangs - [image: Dent Kids Biker Gang] When the mom of a 9-year-old told her she had to ride her bike to get to a friend's house, a world of freedom opened up...for...
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

"The Movie Business is Over" - Hollywood is in crisis—and its secret plan for survival will only make things worse
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

On the spies who tell us stories, the myth of the secret world, and the well-timed espionage scandals presently rocking Alternative für Deutschland - The time has to talk about spies and the stories we tell about spying. Two espionage scandals have rocked Alternative für Deutschland in as many months. It...
Official Blog

[BERRY] Galleria Montale— Geocache of the Week - Traditional GC9FN88 by marberry94 Difficulty: 3 Terrain: 1.5 Location: San Marino N 43° 55.725 E 012° 27.217 All aboard! Welcome to the Montale Tunnel, a h...
The Future of Freedom Foundation

A Warped View of Patriotism on Pat Tillman - A recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times demonstrates what is a warped interpretation of the term “patriotism.” The op-ed is about former football player ...
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 411 Ukraine's power imports, cash hoarders, PE's $3.2 trillion embarrassment & the last class of a Harvard legend. - Great links, reading and images from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Autonomia

Classic Movies in Review - “Desert Fury,” “Le Samouri” and Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival
bad cattitude

global memewar - the time to stand against censorship, suppression, and surveillance is now
The Footy Almanac

Almanac (Footy) History: Jack Cooper – Courageous Fitzroy footballer and Anzac soldier - At a time of remembrance for soldiers who served and gave their lives in The Great War, Roger Spaull pays tribute to Jack Cooper, champion footballer of th...
Living Resources Center

Why I am Sick of Trump Haters - I am sick of Trump haters. They face no accountability for their views, logically or intellectually speaking. In other words: They get to say: “Trump is ...
Energy Transition Absurdities

The Energy Question: Episode 97 - Chris Wright CEO of Liberty Energy - In Episode 97 of "The Energy Question" Chris Wright, the visionary CEO of Liberty Energy, discussing the role of energy in society, the challenges of the e...
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Suicide Rates Are Now Higher Among Young Adults Than the Middle-Aged - It’s time to update statements about age and suicide
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

Live Around the Planet: Wednesday April 24th - Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the world...
Mises Wire

Driver's Licenses Waive Personal Responsibility and Contribute to Disorder on the Road - People often stubbornly hold to false beliefs, one of them being that government regulation of driving prevents chaos. However, the opposite seems to be tr...
ArchDaily

FN Pinheiros Residence / Ponto de Apoio - Pinheiros neighborhood, situated in the western zone of São Paulo city, stands as one of the most sought-after locations in the capital, owing to its cos...
Mises Institute Blog

Driver's Licenses Waive Personal Responsibility and Contribute to Disorder on the Road - People often stubbornly hold to false beliefs, one of them being that government regulation of driving prevents chaos. However, the opposite seems to be tr...
Gus Van Horn

Rare Clarity on Iran - Via the Harry Binswanger Letter, I learned of a fantastic editorial from the British press regarding the situation in Iran and what the West ought to do. ...
The Free Press

WATCH: The California Progressives Trying to Cancel Affordable Housing - Ben Kawaller on how his ‘progressive’ neighbors don’t want low-income residents to move to West Hollywood.
No Right Turn

"Comity" versus the rule of law - In 1974, the US Supreme Court issued its decision in *United States v. Nixon*, finding that the President was not a King, but was subject to the law and wa...
Institute for Energy Research

Biden’s EV Transition Is a Gift to China Who Leads Global EV Production and is Building Ships to Export them - Biden’s policies of forcing electric vehicles on the American public and domestic auto manufacturers through regulations and standards is playing… The po...
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Apply to come to Invisible College - Our new residential seminar for 18 to 22-year-olds, during August 2024
Breaking Views

Heather du Plessis-Allan: NZ deserves Luxon's style of performance management - I have got nothing bad to say about Chris Luxon demoting Melissa Lee and Penny Simmonds today.This is exactly the kind of performance management that the c...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Parity in Labor Transparency - "If workers are going to grant a labor union the extensive powers over them that federal law has authorized, workers should be able to know whether the 'co...
Law & Liberty

American Aristocracy - Instead of a national counterrevolution, America needs to cultivate local leaders in their communities.
Texas Institute for Property Rights

Altruism Can’t End Homelessness - With an estimated 75,500 homeless individuals in Los Angeles County, the Los Angeles mayor is calling upon “the most fortunate” The post Altruism Can’t E...
Retraction Watch

Controversial rocket scientist in India threatens legal action after journals pull papers - A professor of aerospace engineering in India who developed a scientific theory critics call “absolute nonsense” said he is suing journal editors and publi...
Tim Worstall

So, who are the wealthy who must be taxed? - Over and above the usual answer of those who have £5 more than the person being asked of course. One is that you can save a lot. Your proportion of volun...
GeekPress

AI Dogfight - *"US Air Force* confirms first successful AI dogfight"
Hoover institution Commentary

Was Hirohito's Surrender Speech Egregious? - Fellow Substacker and former co-blogger Bryan Caplan wrote a recent Substack post titled “The Demagoguery of Emperor Hirohito.” Bryan wrote: The Emperor’s ...
New Zealand Arts Review

A warm endearing night out - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel By Deborah MoggachDirector, Lucy WaterhouseProducers, Stewart and Tricia Macpherson, Ben MacDonaldWithRula Lenska, Harmage S...
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Literature and Males - I got to speak to a group of esteemed old boys from a NZ school today. My starting point was a comment made by a Head of English at a boys school I was tea...
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

What austerity? - Polly Toynbee has made a career out of shouting that we must be more like Sweden. UK public spending grew from 38pc of gross domestic product (GDP) in 20...
The Whakataki Times

Local Bloke Putting Back His Sixth Beer Claims He’ll Get Up For Dawn Service - GOOD INTENTIONS! Jake Symons, 26, has fooled absolutely nobody after making the outlandish claim that he’ll be getting up at the crack of dawn on a publi...
Point of Order

At a time of media turmoil, Melissa had nothing to proclaim as Minister – and now she has been demoted - Buzz from the Beehive Melissa Lee – as may be discerned from the screenshot above – has not been demoted for doing something seriously wrong as Minister ...
Political Correctness Watch

- * Israel wants Hamas out of Gaza but even rooting it from the north hasn’t worked* Fighting between Israel and Hamas intensified in northern Gaza, the fir...
Flying Out

The Beginning and Then Some: The 80s Albums (RSD 2024) (Vinyl 4LP) - *Vendor: *Rhino *Type: *DWIGHT YOAKAM *Price: * 250.00
The Daily Doom

Stagflation Isn't Going Anywhere! - It's the kind of balloon that just won't fly; it only settles to the ground
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

How Much Better Would The US's COVID Results Be If We Had Followed Sweden? - A compelling new estimate of just how much worse we did with lockdowns and masks
John D. Cook

Choosing a Computer Language for a Project - Julia. Scala. Lua. TypeScript. Haskell. Go. Dart. Various computer languages new and old are sometimes proposed as better alternatives to mainstream lang...
UnHerd

The mythical masculinity of Donald Trump - He is the ancient hairy man of Robert Bly's dreams
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

Vera Ellen Wins 2024 Taite Music Prize - [image: Taite Music Prize] Independent Music New Zealand (IMNZ) is proud to announce the winner of the prestigious 2024 Taite Music Prize at an exclusive...
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Get The Fed Out Of Wall Street! - If any proof is needed of the baleful impact on Middle Class America of the Fed's abject subservience to Wall Street, the chart below tells you all you n...
Quillette

The Lonely Death of an Ojibway Boy - Charlie Wenjack has come to symbolise the deadly horrors of Canada’s Residential Schools. Unfortunately, many details of his tragic story have been misrepr...
Down to Earth Kiwi

How National Can Neutralize Serious Allegations of Corruption Should the "Fast Track" Bill Become Law - Pundits from the left and the right are arguing that National's Fast Track Bill that is designed to speed up infrastructure decisions...
No Punches Pulled

REEFTON – THE NEW PARIS - In an at times ridiculously over the top article by an Annamarie Quill, the Stuff website recently waxed worshipfully about the virtues of the West Coast t...
Greater Auckland

Tolling Existing Roads - One of the government’s transport policy and agreements with it’s coalition partners made it clear that they were looking at options like tolling and roa...
The War on Prices

Advanced Praise for The War on Prices - You can pre-order your copy of Cato’s forthcoming book, The War on Prices, now. “The United States and indeed most of the world is coming off a major bout ...
Plain Sight

Some advice from our tertiary history for the University Advisory Group - "there are no representatives from the humanities and social sciences, nor from the creative arts" - Mike Grimshaw
HardmoneyJim

A Brief Hiatus - My book project is moving right along.
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

Dumb and Dumber (Nos. 93 & 94) - Watching the Education Apocalypse in Slow Motion
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Voltaire’s essential *Letters on England* brought the Enlightenment to France - This series letters written while in exile — on the sometimes-shocking English way of doing religion, politics, science, morals, and philosophy — were huge...
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Why Not Make Desertion Fast? - A guest post from Ned Dobos
Reason Foundation

Funding Education Opportunity: To combat learning loss, schools need to use time more wisely - Plus: School choice legislation news from Georgia, Louisiana, Nebraska, and more. The post Funding Education Opportunity: To combat learning loss, school...
Doomberg

Friends Like These - When it comes to energy, Europe is fighting a two-front war.
The Cobden Centre

Tariffs Are Taxes on Americans—But Protectionists Pretend Otherwise - During the 2016 and 2020 campaigns, Trump’s opponents in the Democratic party (and elsewhere) often pointed out that Trump’s protectionism hobbles private ...
PM of NZ

Far North councils ready to waste ratepayers hard earnt taxes - *Far North District Council and Northland Regional Council are set to oppose the coalition Government’s signalled changes to Māori wards* The FNDC Mayor,...
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Ha The Unclear: A Kingdom in a Cul-de-sac (Think Zik!/digital outlets) - For a band with a surreal name, this indie.rock band from Dunedin (the vehicle for songwriter-singer Michael Cathro MSc), have appeared a few times at El...
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Reflections on Earth Day, including a discussion with Rick Perry - Last year on Earth Day, I had a discussion with former TX Governor Rick Perry at EarthX to discuss how fossil fuels have created and will continue to creat...
Stats Chat

United Rugby Championship Predictions for Week 15 - Team Ratings for Week 15 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the r...
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

facing reality, pt 1 - people can be remarkably skilled at NOT learning from experience
A Halfling's View

The Chains that Bind - Breaking the Bonds of Limitarianism
Glenn’s Substack

In Which I Partake of a Cultural Moment - My morning at "Taylor Swift Yoga."
Energy in Depth

CCI Pitches Climate Litigation to Allegheny County, PA Amidst Local Resistance - Despite local resistance from Pennsylvania workers, on April 10, a Rockefeller-funded activist organization that recruits municipalities, cities, and sta...
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: Never Underestimate the Power of Stupid People in Large Groups - George Carlin? Elsie Robinson? Eddie Schwartz? Jan M. Carroll? Gordie Spear? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: When foolish people group togethe...
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

Creative Conservation Inspires Hope This Earth Day - Doom-and-gloom Earth Day messaging often paints a depressing future, but there is plenty of progress to celebrate. The post Creative Conservation Inspire...
Private Lands – PERC

Creative Conservation Inspires Hope This Earth Day - Doom-and-gloom Earth Day messaging often paints a depressing future, but there is plenty of progress to celebrate. The post Creative Conservation Inspire...
Wildlife – PERC

Creative Conservation Inspires Hope This Earth Day - Doom-and-gloom Earth Day messaging often paints a depressing future, but there is plenty of progress to celebrate. The post Creative Conservation Inspire...
Truth on the Market

Steeling to Block a Merger - In an April 17 address to United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, President Joe Biden vowed that his administration would “thwart the acquisition of U.S. Stee...
Kunstler

The Bad Faith Olympics - “This is the weirdest era in human history. By far. Nothing else even comes close. Billionaires trying to kill everyone. Civil society unable to form a c...
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

Earth Day Optimism - You are invited to two panels today on climate and environmental policy
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Immigrant Children and School Choice - Immigrant and Native Enrollment in Private and Public Education
One Useful Thing

Innovation through prompting - Democratizing educational technology... and more
Boom (UK)

The province defying Italy’s birth dearth - Thirty years of child-friendly policies
Earthly Idealism

The Rational Egoist - I recently got to chat with Michael Liebowitz about my book Effective Egoism. In our wide-ranging conversation we delve into overcoming obstacles, the natu...
The Antiplanner

A Look at the Wacky Transit Industry - Today is Earth Day, a day in which we are supposed to celebrate environmentally friendly ideas such as public transit, high-density development, and electr...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

The Waitangi Tribunal is not "a roving Commission" - it has a restricted jurisdiction which must not be abused: it is not an inquisition
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Hôtel Le Royal Deauville - A Section Addition to Chapter 2, Two Roads Diverged An Art Memoir: Depth, Light, and Love
Schiffradio.com

Rotating From Growth & Bitcoin to Value & Gold – Ep 957 - NetSuite is offering a one-of-a-kind flexible financing program. https://netsuite.com/gold Check out the exclusive discounts for my audience https://neol...
Manhattan Contrarian

Tracking The Demise Of The U.S. Green Energy Transition - * We’re coming up on three and a half years into the Biden presidency — a presidency which from the outset promised an “all of government” regulatory onsla...
Democracy Project

Bryce Edwards: Time for “Fast-Track Watch” - Calling all journalists, academics, planners, lawyers, political activists, environmentalists, and other members of the public who believe that the relatio...
Thinking Directions

The First Choice of the Day - As part of improving my sleep, I’m on a campaign to jump out of bed at a standard wakeup time each morning. Although I’m pretty consistent at getting up,...
The 13th Floor

Claire Rousay Talks About sentiment and Being a “Lifer” (Interview) - [image: Claire Rousay] Claire Rousay has just released sentiment, a collection of compositions and field recordings that finds the ambient improvisor bre...
The Visible Hand

What is an ATAR and what does this have to do with income? - Cross-post from Substack. Look I’m from New Zealand – so when everyone around me started talking about ATARs I just smiled and nodded. In fact I probably c...
The New York Review of Books

Migrant Workers in Their Own Land - At the start of last October over 200,000 Palestinians worked in Israel. Mostly they labored in construction and, to a lesser extent, in agriculture: leavi...
Can't Get Much Higher

What I Learned Going to 100s of Concerts - Part IV - Recalling my trips to see The Lumineers, The 1975, Paramore, Paul McCartney, and so many more.
Magazine Articles – Quadrant Online

How to Choose Better Immigrants - I don’t care about the race, colour, religion, ethnicity of a potential immigrant to Australia. My only reason in writing this article is an unwillingnes...
misfits' architecture

Ch. 1, pp. 23-35 - * * * 2 The spatial structure of polis and the spatial concept of “threshold” The “threshold connects and at the same time separates The “no-man’s-land” sp...
Asymmetric Information

The transition to EVs🍋 - EVs are getting popular, but mass take-up faces some big obstacles. What can the past tell us about the possible future?
Mises Wiki - Recent changes [en]

DRAGONVALE! CHEATS MOD ANDROID IOS NO SURVEY 2024 NEW - Created page with "Hey there, DragonVale fans! Are you ready to take your DragonVale gaming experience to the next level? Well, you're in luck because we...
The Objective Standard

Sam Harris and Alex O’Connor Debate Morality - I was delighted to see that Alex O’Connor recently debated Sam Harris about whether ethics is objective and, if so, on what grounds. The post Sam Harris ...
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...
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...
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...
Market Urbanism

Ruminating on Sheetz - As anticipated by the “radical agreement” among the parties and justices at oral argument, the Supreme Court’s recently released decision in Sheetz v. Co...
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...
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...
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...
The New Era

Look into their eyes - The government's unethical use of 'nudging' and behavioural insights
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...
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 Free Market Futurist

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

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Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

Measles Is Back - A measles outbreak in Philadelphia in the early 1990s might be a window into the future.
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...
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...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

On the Sentencing of Ethan Crumbley's Parents - An "Unprecedented" Sentence Has Precedents
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 ...
Museum Street (Henry Cooke)

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

FULL TIME: Richmond vs Melbourne – Round 7, 2024 - Wednesday 24th April 2024, 7:25pm at MCG.
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...
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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
Don't Let It Go

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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

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Roots of Progress

What is progress? - In one sense, it is simple and straightforward; in another, it contains an entire worldview
The Kerrant

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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

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Israel Institute of NZ

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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

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

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Cafe Hayek

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

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

It’s Crunch Time for The Daily Doom and Doom Time for The Great Recession Blog - The Great Recession Blog is officially done for good, and 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...
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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...
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 ...
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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

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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...
Drinks and Drinking

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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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Armed and Dangerous

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The Rational Capitalist

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No Minister

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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

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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

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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

Surrealist Writers Union Goes on Strike -
makingnewzealand

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

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

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

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

Ichigo Ichie, Moment Hunters, new work by Mina - [image: NewlyDrawnGirl.jpg] *Ichigo Ichie, Moment Hunters - new work by Mina opening 12 March, 5 - 8 pm* On a recent trip to Japan, Mina fell in love wit...
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....
TheBubbleBubble.com - Warning About Post-2009 Economic Bubbles

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Te Papa

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Titanic Deck Chairs

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