For all the talk of finally relitigating the underlying climate science, the EPA’s final rule does almost none of that. It does not argue that greenhouse gases fail to qualify as pollutants. It does not litigate model sensitivities, the surface temperature record, attribution methodology, or any of the empirical questions that WUWT contributors and others…
Three Months In: EPA’s Endangerment Finding Repeal Has Quietly Become a Legal Fight, not a Scientific One
Three Months In: EPA’s Endangerment Finding Repeal Has Quietly Become a Legal Fight, not a Scientific One
12 May 2026 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice
The Great Enrichment
12 May 2026 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment
Jon Hartley Talks With Phil Gramm…
12 May 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, history of economic thought
Tweet… about economic history and freedom. The post Jon Hartley Talks With Phil Gramm… appeared first on Cafe Hayek.
Jon Hartley Talks With Phil Gramm…
Dump and Pump: Law Professor Suggests Extreme Method to Save Virginia Redistricting
11 May 2026 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: constitutional law
After the Virginia Supreme Court rejected the results of the recent Democratic effort to effectively wipe out Republican representation in…
Dump and Pump: Law Professor Suggests Extreme Method to Save Virginia Redistricting
Net Zero Parties Annihilated By Trump Aligned Candidates in British and Australian Elections
11 May 2026 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia, Public Choice Tags: British politics, net zero
Turns out the public has higher priorities than ensuring their great grandkids enjoy 0.01ºC lower temperatures in 100 years. The post Net Zero Parties Annihilated By Trump Aligned Candidates in British and Australian Elections appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
Net Zero Parties Annihilated By Trump Aligned Candidates in British and Australian Elections
Review of “Mark Twain” by Ron Chernow
11 May 2026 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture
Mark Twain by Ron Chernow 1,174 pages Penguin Press Published: May 13, 2025 Ron Chernow’s latest, and widely-anticipated, biography of “Mark Twain” has just been released. Among his seven previous books are biographies of Alexander Hamilton, Ulysses S. Grant, John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography “Washington: A Life.” Until now, readers enchanted […]
Review of “Mark Twain” by Ron Chernow
A Now – Something Completely Different: A Concert Review – Split Enz
11 May 2026 Leave a comment
in Music
(Given that David F. brings us his travel stories I am hoping he will allow this one). A life passion of mine is a love of music – and especially going to concerts. For a NZ perspective; upon Dave Dobbyn becoming a “Sir” I had the privilege of writing this piece and a couple of…
A Now – Something Completely Different: A Concert Review – Split Enz
Volkswagen Face $1.7 Billion Fine For Missing Emissions Targets
11 May 2026 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, transport economics Tags: electric cars, Germany
By Paul Homewood AOL also cover the story:
Volkswagen Face $1.7 Billion Fine For Missing Emissions Targets
Quotation of the Day…
10 May 2026 Leave a comment
in economic history, Thomas Sowell
Tweet… is from page 407 of the 2016 second edition of Thomas Sowell’s excellent volume Wealth, Poverty and Politics: Monstrously appalling things done by some peoples to others darken the history of every region on the planet, but descendants of peoples guilty of the worst or most extensive villainies of the past are by no…
Quotation of the Day…
The economics of castles
10 May 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, defence economics, economic history
When I’m in Britain or Ireland, one of my favourite sightseeing trips is to visit medieval castles. Even the ruined ones are fun to visit. Actually, maybe the ruined ones are more fun to visit, because you get to imagine what they would have looked like in their heyday. Britain and Ireland are full of castles,…
The economics of castles
Bet On It Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 11
10 May 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, history of economic thought, libertarianism, Murray Rothbard, transport economics, urban economics
SummaryIn this chapter, Rothbard advocates the abolition of publicly-owned streets and roads:Abolition of the public sector means, of course, that all pieces of land, all land areas, including streets and roads, would be owned privately, by individuals, corporations, cooperatives, or any other voluntary group ings of individuals and capital.He begins by explaining that in a…
Bet On It Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 11
The Gerrymander Debacle in Virginia Leaves the Democratic Party with a Dangerous Agenda
09 May 2026 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: constitutional law
Below is my column in the New York Post on the decision of the Virginia Supreme Court to nullify the…
The Gerrymander Debacle in Virginia Leaves the Democratic Party with a Dangerous Agenda
Harrison R. Tyler (1928 – 2025)
09 May 2026 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: life expectancies
Harrison Ruffin Tyler – the last living grandson of the 10th president John Tyler – died this past Sunday evening, May 25th at the age of 96. Harrison Tyler was a businessman, a chemical engineer and a passionate preservationist. In the mid-1970s Harrison purchased, and spent years restoring, Sherwood Forest Plantation, America’s longest framed home […]
Harrison R. Tyler (1928 – 2025)
The UK Labour slaughter
09 May 2026 Leave a comment
in politics Tags: British politics
The scale of losses for UK Labour in their local elections is beyond massive. So far it is: I predicted at the end of 2025 that Starmer would not survive the year. I think that is still looking a good prediction. The post The UK Labour slaughter first appeared on Kiwiblog.
The UK Labour slaughter
Stuff confirms what I said six months ago about TPM
09 May 2026 Leave a comment
Stuff reports: Back on 28 November I blogged: I understand that Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke is consulting her electorate over the next two weeks on whether she should remain with Te Pati Maori under its current leadership. Only took six months for others tp catch up 🙂 With Kapa-Kingi sitting in a limbo-land not quite in, but…
Stuff confirms what I said six months ago about TPM
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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