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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

From the Archives: How Candy Conquered Halloween
A sweet treat amid the madness.
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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.
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Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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"Be Embraced, Ye Millions"
Reflections on Progress Studies
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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).
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September 2024

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