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Tim Worstall

No worries - Iran has charged several journalists and newspapers after they criticised Saturday’s strikes on Israel. Tehran’s prosecutor’s office said it had issued c...
Quillette

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

AFL confirms 2024 free agency, trade and draft period dates - The league has locked in the dates for the trade and draft periods.
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

Seems perfectly reasonable politics to us - Tobacco firms are lobbying MPs and peers in an effort to derail Rishi Sunak’s flagship policy to phase out smoking, the head of Britain’s biggest cancer ...
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...
Watts Up With That?

The UK heat pumps scandal has gone on for too long. End subsidies now - Even with an increase in the grant from £5,000 to £7,500 per installation, the Boiler Upgrade Scheme has failed to capture the imagination of the British p...
The Inquiring Mind

Michael Wood: Story of England – E05 – Henry VIII to the Industrial Revolution - Series overview Michael Wood tells the story of England through the medium of focusing on one place, the village of Kibworth in Leicestershire This Episode...
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...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Greens to a tee - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/Dud5j6VTmNyPqyQ8/?mibextid=xfxF2i
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; ...
ArchDaily

House of Concrete Walls / TRAANSPACE - While we were attuned to building homes and weekend houses, designing a place that feels like a weekend house required us to rethink the very concept of ...
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...
The Double Standard

Forget this Trump trial - In the Trump felony trial now underway, there’s a yawning gap between media attention paid to this and the actual scale of the crime and its potential puni...
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)

7.30pm Live tonight: 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

Why the centrists changed their trans tune - Truth was sacrificed for status
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 Free Press

Tucker Carlson’s Turn - Why is the pundit persuading the American right to abandon its rightful contempt for foreign tyrants, terrorists, and cranks?
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.
Energy Transition Absurdities

Still Think It's a Conspiracy Theory? Look at What Germany's Government is Threatening Now. - A couple of weeks back, I published a piece reminding everyone that the real goal of the climate alarm movement related to cars is not to force you all int...
EconLog

Some Counterintuitive Thoughts on Monetary Policy - Here are five observations about recent trends in monetary policy: 1. The Fed would really like to avoid any further increase in interest rates. This ps...
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...
Law & Liberty

Overlooking the Past - Land acknowledgments amount to the hollow incantations of hollow people.
Everyday Price Index | AIER

‘Shock Values’: An Idiosyncratic Economic History - "While it provides a concise accounting of the many efforts taken to address inflation and deflation over the history of the republic, there is a cost to r...
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
GeekPress

Academic Editor Resigning - *"Journal editors are resigning en masse*: What do these group exits achieve ?"
The Antiplanner

February Driving Up 2.3 Percent from 2019 - After accounting for Leap Day, Americans drove almost 2.3 percent more miles per day in February 2024 than in the same month of 2019, according to data rel...
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...
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...
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Britain's Lost Talent - We just published a letter we’ve written to the Home Secretary alongside our friends at Startup Coalition. It argues that the new salary requirements wil...
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

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The Visible Hand

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Roots of Progress

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Wildlife – PERC

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Jack’s Substack

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Too Clever By Half

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Power + Market

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round houses

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Johnny Grey Studios

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

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A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

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The Grumpy Economist

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

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Law of Markets

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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...
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Democracy Action

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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

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Fisheries – PERC

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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

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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.
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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

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Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

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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

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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...
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Alastair Cavendish: British Freedom

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Woden's Day Thing: 4/26/22 - All right already
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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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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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Mencken's Ghost

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Center for Industrial Progress

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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.
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The Long Run

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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...
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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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Center for the Legalization of Privacy

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Malthouse Blog

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Coffee House

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1828 – Championing Freedom

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Inductive Quest

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sportreview.net.nz

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A Force for Good | How economics, morality, and markets combine

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Montessori Rocks

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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

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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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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

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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...
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