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Would you rather have cheap energy, or stupid culture wars?
Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an attack on American energy production.
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The dawn of the posthuman age
Between new technology and low fertility, our existence as a species is not going to be the same.
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A chat with Derek Thompson
One of my favorite writers has joined Substack! Let's see what he has to say.
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Derek Thompson
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Zohran Mamdani's policies will (mostly) not bring abundance to NYC
Progressive ideas still try to defy economic realities.
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The economic consequences of a war with Iran
I wouldn't be too worried.
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China's industrial policy has an unprofitability problem
China is paying its national champions to fight each other to the death.
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Western democracies are actually pretty good at war
The authoritarian advantage is hype. But China is the real deal.
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Progressives take their best shot at Abundance (but it falls short)
A review by Sandeep Vaheesan fails to discredit Abundance, but it points to what the movement could be doing better.
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Feeling cautiously optimistic about American democracy
This is still the country I grew up in.
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Social media destroyed one of America's key advantages
We used to be able to spread out. Now we're locked in with each other.
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At least five interesting things: Anything but protests edition (#65)
Government efficiency; Solar power; Data suppression; American wealth; Trade and manufacturing
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A bunch of thoughts and evidence on immigration
I've been writing about this for a while.
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