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?

Political liberalism has been tried in Russia’s history multiple times with poor results. Russia is still trying to chart a different path.

The two halves of Western civilization are poor in different ways. Neither is building the future anymore. Both should.

The insights of those who critique power have been exhausted long ago—while power itself endures. Instead, let’s try on a completely different philosophy of politics.

As Indian Americans continue their socioeconomic ascent, the relevance of caste evaporates. Yet researchers have found evidence this social technology was sustained for thousands of years.

We have to evaluate the perceptions that mint facts and theory, not merely peruse the body of theories handed down to us.

The United States has fulfilled the ancient dream of universal hegemony. This first world government won’t be the last.

Small and peripheral European countries won’t solve their stagnation with open borders and more extractive economics.

Our species must change its values to match the technical capability of our civilization. The time has come to treat aging as the tractable public health issue it is.

New findings and genetic evidence suggest that people came to America more than 30,000 years ago, before the peak of the last ice age.

Educational and military systems can work together to let the most competent people rise to the top of society.