All posts tagged "James Pethokoukis"
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Why aren’t we treating the big plunge in student test scores like a national emergency?
Getting kids more schooling is an imperative. So long, three-month summer vaycays. Thanks, school closures! Item: U.S. students...
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Can a conservative be a future-optimist?
It’s long past time to revive a cheery futurist philosophy on the right that fully embraces rapid technological...
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What if the Roman Empire had an Industrial Revolution?
A conversation about speculative fiction and world-building with ‘Kingdom of the Wicked’ author Helen Dale. What if the...
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Here’s the speech Joe Biden should give on the climate ’emergency’
It’s time America and the world realize that we have a clean-energy problem, not a global warming problem...
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A conversation about the philosophy of progress with Jason Crawford, founder of The Roots of Progress
What is progress and how do we get more of it? It’s a core question here at Faster, Please! and...
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Imagine a US political party built around faster economic growth and technological progress
Next week’s California primary scramble might give clues about whether Up Wing politics has a (near) future ...
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The prospects for geothermal energy are heating up
A recent Wall Street presentation by key startups has boosted my optimism about this emerging sector Drill,...
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America is starting a New Space Age. And it’s a problem that many Americans don’t know about it
The US is leading humanity toward bright future beyond Earth, but we need to be ready for costly...
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Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire. And that’s OK.
It’s a great thing that the US economy can generate tremendous entrepreneurial wealth from technological innovation One...
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Is Elon Musk left, right … or something else?
Maybe think in terms of unicorns rather than elephants or donkeys “I hope the future is more...
