Be sure to read this outstanding piece on American administrative reform in the 20th century by my good friend Kevin Hawickhorst! It's an essential read if you're interested in how to restore technical expertise to government agencies!

A truly exceptional issue of American Affairs is out now. We're honored to publish new essays by Mark Meador, Trae Stephens, T. Greer, Leighton 明 Woodhouse, Foundation for American Innovation 🇺🇸🚀's Lars Schönander and Kevin Hawickhorst, Charles Yang, Dr S Maitra, Philip Pilkington, David Lloyd Dusenbury, and many more.

Great article from Kevin Hawickhorst in Asterisk on narrativizing abundance. David Lilienthal estimated that TVA dams had "twelve times the bulk of the seven great pyramids of Egypt"—powerful, even if Egyptologists would be shocked to hear about the six new "Great Pyramids".

The 1940s didn't just have better suits and cocktails. Even the Discourse was better. I wrote for Asterisk about David Lilienthal, and how his language of patriotism and civic virtue exposes what today's abundance movement is missing.

“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 Foundation for American Innovation 🇺🇸🚀’s Kevin Hawickhorst. americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/11/person…

Kevin Hawickhorst Asterisk This beat was amazing:

This Christmas, I think we should take Kevin Hawickhorst's suggestion that we claim "It's a Wonderful Life" as an abundance movie