Government saving failing companies slows down technological progress. This is why economists’ recommendation to use stimulus to prevent downturns leads to a more impoverished future.

The coalition seeks to slow the creation of AI which it fears will destroy humanity. But these same activists have only accelerated AI development in the past, and are on track to do so again.

The Earth has material abundance for a civilization greatly surpassing ours. The problem we face is not scarcity but powering further development.

The sprawling bureaucracy of academia whose legitimacy rests on carrying out science has become a broken patronage machine that endangers scientific integrity.

Despite modern approaches to archaeology and preservation, as history moves forward we will only lose knowledge of the past.

Industrial visionaries tend to have chaotic and disruptive personalities. Their goals don’t neatly fit the social ladder. But societies that make room for them reap immense rewards.

South Korea’s bold story of state-led development is how every wealthy country on Earth has industrialized. State capacity is necessary to coordinate long-term industrial investments.