Not PC
When I hear warmists whinge about the rocketing cost of living, I think about climate justice.
"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”
NZ does not enjoy Irish or Singapore's advantages
15 YEARS AGO: Getting property rights right: 'Mixing my labour'?
"The climate models didn’t see this change coming, and therefore are missing at least one big crucial factor, or maybe ten."
Environmentalism: “Why is it that a point of view that is so false, so impractical, and in my view, so immoral—why has it had such a following?"
'Being Pakeha'
The Friendship Test (or, A Test of Friendship)
FIVE YEARS AGO: Libertarian Debate Club: Virus Edition
"Toitū Te Tiriti’s vision for New Zealand would result in a complete fracturing of our country and systems."
Trump’s Phony War For Bigger Government
End the Reserve Bank
Helen Clark & John Key: Politically and historically tone-deaf
"We never had to take any of it seriously, did we?"
80 years ago today
AI's Bubble. Ready to burst yet?
"It's hard to get too much enthusiasm for the Tamaki Makaurau by-election"
A simple algorithm for reform-minded ministers
'Eat the rich' never targets the real parasites, only producers
William Ewart Gladstone’s Great Campaigns for Peace and Freedom
"Real justice means more than equal treatment," apparently
SOWELL: 'The Fallacy of Redistribution'
'Planning' in two images
"At this moment in history, arguing that the Left is more dangerous than the Right is like arguing that tuberculosis is more dangerous than the plague"
Q: "Why does Trump want to control the Federal Reserve board?"
Doug Casey: "The goal is to remake the world’s monetary regime"
Crackers
"A rāhui has no legal standing. It is a cultural practice, not law."
Grant Robertson's book "reveals him finally as not much more than a political operator, without very much substance at all."
Greed is good
Did Trump end 6 wars in 6 months?
Hipkins "stands behind" his record. Several miles behind.
Helen Clark's women
They "aim to change science from an endeavour finding truth about nature to an endeavour that’s a lever for social justice."
15 YEARS AGO: Two sentences that sum up the Israeli-Gaza conflict
Democracy wangled: why public programmes are designed to benefit the middle classes, financed by taxes paid by the rich & poor
"Good theatre gives you a significant cheat code for accessing human thinking and behaviour"
Prohibition works again. Oh, wait ...
"Bad economic ideas don't just create poverty—they destroy the institutional foundations of free society."
"If there’s one thing in scandalously short supply in local government—shorter even than pothole repair crews—it’s thinking."
'A Note on "Trump Derangement Syndrome"'
"There has been Twitter speculation that all of this is about age-gating social media."
"This case is of exceptional importance, addressing the legality of using copyrighted works for generative AI"