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Some Timely Thoughts from 1993

One in a series looking back at The Future and Its Enemies and its precursors.

Nov 11 •

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Abundance, Progress, and the Future of American Politics

Zero-sum rhetoric may thrill "the base," but both parties have factions that offer something better.

Nov 10 •

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From the Archives: Do Upwardly Mobile Latino Plumbers Have Anyone to Vote For?

This post from July 2022 holds up well post-election 2024.

Nov 10 •

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Talking academic politics with Steve Teles: Why universities have few conservative professors, why they need more, and what to do about it

And yet another guest gives a shoutout to Michael Oakeshott.

Nov 2 •

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Steve Teles on cost-disease socialism, why American political parties need factions, and why abundance advocates should create their own…

Plus, where Never Trumpers went wrong.

Nov 1 •

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From the Archives: How Candy Conquered Halloween

A sweet treat amid the madness.

Oct 29 •

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Sam Bowman on how Works in Progress got started, what's striking about America, and how Britain can get its economic mojo back.

Also, his discovery that fatherhood wasn't as "apocalyptic" as expected and what the "housing theory of everything" is all about.

Oct 25 •

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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?

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"Be Embraced, Ye Millions"

Reflections on Progress Studies

Published on Hyperdimensional • Oct 22

Joel Miller on how book publishing works, why Paul Revere deserves more attention, and how audiobooks took publishers by surprise.

Also, how Joel organizes his many books and why he writes in them (and with what).

Oct 9 •

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