Fall 2025 issue now online:.-Trump's road to Riyadh.-Fiscal & trade deficits.-The limits of abundance.-Managerialism as operating system.-The S&P500 index.-Technofeudalism.-Borderlands.-Feminism & the Democratic Party.-Masculinity at the end of history.

RT @ChrisBarnardDL: Abundance 2025 starts today. Abundance has become left-coded. As I argue in @AmericanAffrs, we need a conservative abu….

“Conservatives must outline an alternative framework to animate our abundance politics: one that builds to serve public virtue, national dynamism, and faith and family institutions,” writes @ChrisBarnardDL of @ACC_National on the eve of #Abundance2025.

RT @rojasrjuand: Highly recommend @robert_thornett's extremely thoughtful piece on border security in @AmericanAffrs

“Decline cannot be turned into a geopolitical game, ‘our’ model failing and ‘theirs’ gaining the upper hand, in some Cold War redux,” writes @Alex__1789.

“American masculinity remains true to this basic structure: you have a charter to make something new, and far away from authority, you can build and rule your own domain. This is why America was so suited to republican government,” writes @FOMO_sacer.

“As with the ballyhooed rise of the ‘minority voter,’ the emergence of a gender gap must be broken down into its components in order to be properly understood,” writes @JohnBJudis.

“Donald Trump Jr. is correct,” writes Paul Starobin. “It pays to try to understand Meloni to gain insight into the conservative populist movement that is reshaping politics across the West.”

ARCHIVES: “Can a revitalized union movement spur measurable improvements in American industrial productivity and, if so, how?”

“Trapped between [. ] exile neoconservatism and twentieth-century Marxism, the Caribbean nation seems unlikely to exit its ongoing stasis under conditions of state repression and sanction-induced dysfunction,” @rojasrjuand.

“As increasing numbers of Mexican businesses are convicted in U.S. courts, their assets frozen, visas and passports revoked, and products sanctioned, it could become very costly to collaborate with cartels,” writes @robert_thornett.

“The object of political science is to explain patterns in the social and political world. Imagining patterns where they simply do not match reality does not help and obscures far more than it clarifies,” write @DimaKortukov and @JulianWaller.

“But SP5 is no longer just a yardstick. It has taken on a life of its own and changed the whole nature of stock investing in ways that most investors have not paused to consider,” writes @HistoryInvestor.

“A company like Meta presents an interesting social question. What kind of corporation facilitates mass predation as a business model? And what kind of society tolerates this kind of behavior?” writes @matthewstoller.

“The unity between software and the managers [. ] is no arbitrary, reversible thing but the reflection of an enduring tension between the growth of information and the need for control,” writes @JoinFAI’s Robert Bellafiore.

RT @AmericanAffrs: “The United States, as a matter of national security, has a significant stake in the survival and success of the leading….

“Abundance is not the ‘once-in-a-lifetime, paradigm shifting call’ its press copy claims it to be. Quite the contrary. Its solutions, at best, are half-measures: many necessary, though none comprehensive,” writes @alexbronzini.

“The national security imperative requires that the U.S. government backstop Intel Foundry, since that is the only place where assured access to the most advanced chips is going to happen. ” — Kenneth Flamm and William Bonvillian, Summer 2025

“The United States, as a matter of national security, has a significant stake in the survival and success of the leading edge ‘Intel Foundry’ entity that Intel has created.” — William Bonvillian and Kenneth Flamm, Spring 2025