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Tales from the history of innovation.

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Researching the Communist Party of China is my day job. Here I write long reads on international politics, ancient history, and American conservatism.

Healthcare, technology, supply chains — and the state capacity to tackle it all.

From Last Supper to First Breakfast: The Defense Tech Ecosystem

Accelerating scientific, technological, and industrial progress

A better science is possible

Essays about buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology.

Ideas and resources on all things permitting

How to update the default settings of government, by former CHIPS Program Office leadership.

In business, culture eats strategy. In government, culture eats policy. Here we'll talk about the problems of state capacity (government's ability to achieve its policy goals) and how to fix them. From the author of Recoding America.

Maximum Progress is a blog by Max Tabarrok on economics, science, philosophy, and progress.

What the good life looks like when technology is reshaping the household