Winter 2025 issue now online: -Antitrust and the rule of law -SBICs -H-1Bs -Solvency and security -The engineering state -A techno-nationalist elite -Nuclear energy -Nuclear weapons -Re-civilization -SF's revolt of the center -Race after liberalism & more https://t.co/QqLsPr3Oxx

“Far from seeking to abolish economic controls, the neoliberal project seeks to buffer the market from outside forces through a series of controls that would forbid state interference,” writes Walter Hudson.

“With globalization no longer tenable, the American elite is just now beginning to emerge from its condition of state aphasia, and the terms of expert discourse are accordingly recoalescing into a post-neoliberal dispensation,” writes Christian Parenti.

“As both the classical liberal ‘colorblind’ formulation and the progressive liberal emphasis on ‘systemic racism’ have fallen out of favor, what, then, could the future of racial consciousness look like in a postliberal era?” asks Sheluyang Peng. https://t.co/PcvVlQsl44

“To live in the Mission, especially if you have young kids, entails constantly checking which streets the drug activity is concentrated on every time you leave the house and plotting out your walking routes to avoid them,” writes @lwoodhouse.

Great to hear @AmericanAffrs mentioned in this excellent feature on @traestephens' awesome new piece (link below).

“Reviving the national interest means deliberating on a nation’s public life and repre­sentative structures as much as its external alliances and foreign policy stances,” writes @thephilippics.

“Let us step back from contemporary geopolitics and ask: what lies behind Fukuyama’s original thesis, which so effectively captured the Western zeitgeist for a whole generation?,” ask @philippilk and @DusenburyDavid.

Fantastic piece. @Scholars_Stage for @AmericanAffrs shows how today’s tech right has failed to build a ruling elite or national vision, unlike the industrial class that ruled from the Civil War to WWI. https://t.co/BndNpIBUb0

“The United States must shift the majority of the conventional security burden to allies in order to cut costs and prevent imperial overstretch. Simultaneously, it needs to keep the nuclear escalation threshold under American control,” writes @MrMaitra.

“During the Cold War and in the decades since, the United States was bluffing when it threatened the use of nuclear weapons, but the bluff was never called because the supposed threats [...] were imaginary all along,” writes Michael Lind.

“As long as we continue to frame nuclear deployment as a mar­ket‑based policy challenge, we will remain frozen—not because of bad actors, but because the logic of the frame itself cannot produce motion,” writes John Arden.

Production is Deterrence. The Factory is the Weapon. Anduril Co-Founder @traestephens addresses why we must rebuild the arsenal. Read his op-ed: "No Solvency, No Security." in @AmericanAffrs today.

“Elevating Silicon Valley’s engineering elite into a governing class would require much more: institutions, alliances, and traditions that root the wealth and expertise of our technologists in service to the nation,” writes @Scholars_Stage.

“Organization is never neutral. Every reorganization embodies political choices about whose voices count and which functions dominate, driven by coalitions bargaining for influence and control,” writes @JoinFAI’s @KHawickhorst.

“Wang’s framing is helpful because it provides a broader explanatory framework for these divergent outcomes and helps us understand—unlike so much else written on the topic—how China actually works,” writes @charlesxjyang.

“While there is a growing recognition that economics and national security are linked, economic models offer little guidance on how to model geopolitical conflict,” writes Christos Makridis.

“We have neither solvency nor security. There is no solvency because it is too hard to build in this country. Because it is too hard to build, our security is deteriorating.” writes @traestephens.

“What stands out about the emergence of the H-1B is the sheer ease and lack of skepticism its advocates encountered as they made their case before lawmakers,” writes @ifspp’s Brian Dan-Ding.

“Supervision is both vital to promoting stability and is an inherently fraught endeavor. It is a site where the government exercises power in line with both technocratic and political ends,” writes @ProfKateJudge.

“Adam Smith’s invisible hand sometimes gets help from Washington’s visible one. A prime example of this is a little-known federal program that has helped fund some of America’s largest and most successful companies,” writes @JoinFAI’s @LarsESchonander.