Half-Assing the Belt & Road
The Belt and Road Initiative was pitched by Xi Jinping as “the project of the century.” Ten years in, it has hardly lived up to the hype. What happened?
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FDR Had Macro Tools, We Need Micro Tools
With the development of Gross Domestic Product, New Deal state planners had the macroeconomic tools they needed to take on the Great Depression. To better direct its firehose of public investment, the modern state needs new microeconomic tools and its own mechanics to work with them.
Harold Ickes's Watchful Eye
Harold Ickes—FDR’s Interior Secretary and director of the Public Works Administration—was a contradictory figure: a true believer, consummate cynic, loyal public servant, and fiercely independent malcontent. We’ll need many more bureaucrats like him if we want large, effective public programs again.
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A Great Satan in this Grave
Why is Saudi Arabia, possibly the worst and most repressive country in the world, also the only place still keeping the modernist ethos alive?
Can the Republican Party Become A Vehicle for Equality?
A Reply to Sohrab Ahmari.
Strategic Disruption
Democratic politics vs. blowing up pipelines is not a great debate. Militant disruption shouldn’t be written out of the tactical repertoire, but it matters who causes it, and to what end.
