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At its inception between the 1960s and 1990s, the internet was imagined as a decentralized, horizontal and open space that would foster freedom and equality. Today, it is a collection of walled gardens, a hierarchical ecosystem ruled by a few gatekeepers who leverage access to data, attention and infrastructural capability to enclose users and... See more

Ethan Mollick • Article

“Who experts were—professional background, status, and so on—made scarcely an iota of difference,” Tetlock concludes. “Nor did what experts thought—whether they were liberals or conservatives, realists or institutionalists, optimists or pessimists.” But “[h]ow experts thought—their style of reasoning—did matter.” The critical variable turned out to

John Lewis Gaddis • On Grand Strategy

Burnham’s exceptional systems-level thinking, with one describing him as “the architect” of this framework. Another referred to him as “deeply smart,” with a gift for “figuring out where the world is going.”

Mario Gabriele • Union Square Ventures: The Thinkers

The Senate, an ancient corpse around the neck of democracy, is protected in perpetuity by Article 5 of the Constitution, which forbids any state from being deprived of “equal suffrage” without its consent.

George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

Hayek: “Planning leads to dictatorship.” The purpose of government is to secure individual rights, little else. One sip of social welfare and free government dies.

George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

Would we necessarily say that government, civic life, the media, or high finance work better now than in the mid-20th century? We can scorn the smug WASP blue bloods from Groton and Choate—and certainly their era’s retrograde views of race and gender—but their leadership helped produce the Progressive movement, the New Deal, victory in World War... See more

David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America

Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law

Gabriel Schoenfeld

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This is not unique to the federal government. It happens in all, particularly large, organizations. Expertise has this inherent defect. But in the federal government, the problem is the size of the defect.

George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond

The “Tech Right” is just one faction in a rising alliance of thinkers, policymakers, and industrialists that spans the political spectrum, united by their focus on accelerating American innovation to drive growth and global primacy. I’ll refer to this blob as the “progress coalition.”3 They are the most dynamic and interesting policy machine on the... See more

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Ethan Mollick • Article

John Lewis Gaddis • On Grand Strategy

Mario Gabriele • Union Square Ventures: The Thinkers

George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America

Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law

George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond

Jasmine Sun • 🌻 tech right (disambiguation)