Not every innovation in military technology transforms warfare at first. But only early adopters, whether in the 19th century or today, find the ones that do.

Urban mismanagement and burdensome regulation are twin killers for American innovation. New cities built on federal land can spark an economic renaissance.

Thawing ice has unlocked the mineral wealth and strategic value of the Arctic Ocean. It necessitates a fresh look at questions of sovereignty and expansion.

We must honor the heroes and martyrs of our internet. This is why I’m building the late programmer and hacktivist Aaron Swartz a statue right here in San Francisco.

Sergei Korolev was the secret architect of the Soviet space program. His career demonstrates the triumph of vision and institutional innovation over conventionality and bureaucracy.

Decreasing cost to orbit makes new space structures viable. A transformative option is a telescope capable of seeing distant planets up close.

Giants of the global economy like Intel and Boeing have been aggressively mismanaged into irrelevance. Great companies have missions, not metrics.

An us-versus-them framing of AI development mobilizes government support but also incentivizes China to join a risky arms race. A more balanced approach is needed.

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

Decades ago, the U.S. developed unmanned systems, then abandoned them. New technology must move at the speed of the battlefield, not incumbents.

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

Africa needs hundreds of millions of new jobs in the coming decades. Regulatory arbitrage via special economic zones and startup cities is the most promising source.

City life has hazed us and regulated our lives since time immemorial. It is civilization that depends on cities, not the other way around.

Advances in AI raise the question of human flourishing after employment. Can we be happy without work? History and psychology shed light on the answer.

The high-fertility culture of the Anglosphere was a cornerstone of its power. As fertility declines, might reproductive technology prolong U.S. prosperity and power?