October 2, 2024
What Permitting Reform Can’t Fix
On the Great Acceleration Highway, no scenic vista gets more traffic than the prospect of permitting reform, which is...
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October 2, 2024
We Don’t Need This Much Permitting
America’s process for permitting infrastructure is a convoluted mess of federal, state, and local procedures,...
October 2, 2024
If We Can Do It In Baltimore…
Last March, a container ship collided with a main support of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing the...
October 2, 2024
Will Anyone Vote for Abundance?
Ever since Derek Thompson introduced the term “abundance agenda” in his 2022 Atlantic article “A Simple Plan to...
October 2, 2024
Mass. Exodus
Massachusetts has been losing residents to other states for a full generation now. That fact sits uncomfortably with...
July 2, 2024
Open Wallets, Empty Hearts
Shouldn’t charity serve the needs of recipients, not givers? Isn’t it better to do more good than less? Shouldn’t...
July 2, 2024
The Refs Are Working Us
“Not true, Governor Romney.” President Barack Obama, widely considered to have lost his first debate against Mitt...
July 2, 2024
Who Wants to Believe in UFOs?
Over the past several years, our relationship with the UFO menace has taken on the nervous, hopeful expectancy of a...
July 2, 2024
The Era of Predictive AI Is Almost Over
Artificial intelligence is a Rorschach test. When OpenAI’s GPT-4 was released in March 2023, Microsoft researchers...
July 2, 2024
Why We Need Amistics for AI
“The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason.” We were doomed. All we could do was crash resources...