Utopia, you are standing in it!

It is of course precarious to criticize the present-day worship of “indigenous knowledge”, as it’s all too easy to dismiss that criticism as racism or bigotry.  The problem is not that the empirical knowledge of indigenous people is worthless, because it isn’t. Although it’s often derived from trial and error, that is still a way […]

NSF invests millions in indigenous knowledge

TweetErec Smith talks with C-SPAN about his new book, A Critique of Anti-Racism in Rhetoric and Composition. Ken Langone’s letter in today’s Wall Street Journal is worth reading: A hearty second to Ira Stoll (“ProPublica Buries Its Clarence Thomas News,” op-ed, Sept. 23). The closer you look at the left’s latest attacks on Justice Clarence Thomas…

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Tweet… is from page 454 of my late Nobel-laureate colleague Jim Buchanan‘s 1989 paper “The Relatively Absolute Absolutes,” as this article is reprinted in volume 1 (1999) of The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan: The Logical Foundations of Constitutional Liberty: I consider it to be the task of economists, as economic scientists, to make…

Quotation of the Day…

Without exception, every country that’s plugged into the grand wind and solar ‘transition’ is suffering from crippling power prices and unreliable delivery. The relationship is so stark as to be blindingly obvious; and one that was as perfectly predictable, as it was perfectly avoidable. Paying wind and solar operators seemingly endless and practically countless $billions […]

How to Wreck Reliable & Affordable Power Supplies: Keep Adding Wind & Solar

Without exception, every country that’s plugged into the grand wind and solar ‘transition’ is suffering from crippling power prices and unreliable delivery. The relationship is so stark as to be blindingly obvious; and one that was as perfectly predictable, as it was perfectly avoidable. Paying wind and solar operators seemingly endless and practically countless $billions […]

How to Wreck Reliable & Affordable Power Supplies: Keep Adding Wind & Solar

Labour says they want more competition in grocery retail. I worry about the cursed monkey paw version of it.Here’s what they say:“We know that it’s tough right now for many people, and the high cost of food isn’t helping,” Commerce and Consumer Affairs spokesperson Duncan Webb said.“The inquiry we ordered into competition in the grocery…

A late pitch for supermarket competition

Elizabeth Rate writes – There are two versions of the Treaty of Waitangi.  The first is the 1840 Treaty – the ‘Articles Treaty’. The second is what I call the ‘Principles Treaty’. It dates from 1986 when the principles were first included in legislation. Astonishingly, the parliamentary representatives who inserted the word ‘principles’ did not […]

ELIZABETH RATA: Two Treaties of Waitangi – the Articles Treaty and the Principles Treaty

In March 2023, I visited Ma’agan Michael Kibbutz and had a meeting with a former Israeli government official charged with managing the government bailout of about 200 kibbutzim.  Both offered empirical lessons about the challenges of communal living.   Background and Description Ma’agan Michael was one of the few kibbutzim not bailed out.  It is…

Economics Lessons from the Kibbutzim

By Paul Homewood   h/t Paul Kolk     This was all so predictable!   Britain’s biggest motorway service station provider has brought in marshals to police “charge rage” among electric vehicle drivers battling for access to plug-in points. Moto chief executive Ken McMeikan warned the UK’s motorway service stations are facing growing “public disorder” […]

Motorway service stations hiring staff to police surging levels of EV ‘charge rage’

By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Kolk   And in yet more bad news for the EV rollout:   John Lewis has stopped offering insurance to electric car drivers amid fears over the cost of repairs. The department store’s lending business John Lewis Financial Services has put a temporary pause on customers taking out cover or […]

John Lewis stops insuring electric cars over repair cost fears