Economics

The people who packed the Tucson city council chambers on the sixth of August, 2025, had been told almost nothing, and what they had figured out on their own was enough.

Elon Musk has been warning about falling birth rates for the better part of a decade. In 2019 he called population collapse the biggest problem the world would face in twenty years. In 2022 he argued…

Scott Galloway published a piece on July 17th called “1999.AI,” and it has been gaining traction. The argument is elegant, which is part of the problem. It goes like this: in 1999 the consumer…

Phanes, the Rebel Archons, and the Fable Genshin Impact Is Quietly Handing to the West

In late 2012, the government of Taiwan released an advertisement for its Economic Power-Up Plan. The ad’s message, repeated over and over, amounted to this: we have a very complex plan, it is too…

If you spend any time online right now, you’ve met the genre: the AI doom essay. The headline promises an imminent “spiral out of control.” The prose is furious. The numbers fly by fast enough that…

For a decade, we have told ourselves one story about how machines will become smarter than us. It is a vertical story, and it goes like this. A single, enormous model sits in a data center. It…

There is a particular kind of fatigue that settles over a person who pays attention to American government for long enough. It is not the heat of anger, which burns out, and it is not despair, which…

A calm look at the first time Washington pulled a frontier AI model offline — and the harder questions underneath it.

A couple of years ago, the whole technology world was worried about one thing: chips. If you couldn’t get your hands on the right graphics processors, you were out of the race. Silicon was the prize…