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Answer Time: Can We Imagine Pluralistic Futures?
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A Self-Serving but Useful List of Gift Ideas
Who should get my books? And I'd like a GMO glow-in-the-dark plant, please.
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Recommended Links and a New Call for Questions
Features for paid subscribers.
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The Lost Glamour of the Future
Can we bring it back? Do we want to? Plus a futuristic offer from the past and some news about my next book, which isn't what you might expect.
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The Ideology Shuffle: Growth vs. Green
One in a series of posts on the evolution of The Future and Its Enemies, featuring the original Washington Post article on stasis vs. dynamism.
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November 2024

Some Timely Thoughts from 1993
One in a series looking back at The Future and Its Enemies and its precursors.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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October 2024

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