“The national security imperative requires that the U.S. government backstop Intel Foundry, since that is the only place where assured access to the most advanced chips is going to happen...” — Kenneth Flamm and William Bonvillian, Summer 2025 americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/05/solvin…

Essential reading for all Intel deal doubters.

“The unity between software and the managers [...] is no arbitrary, reversible thing but the reflection of an enduring tension between the growth of information and the need for control,” writes Foundation for American Innovation 🇺🇸🚀’s Robert Bellafiore. americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/08/a-feat…

“A company like Meta presents an interesting social question. What kind of corporation facilitates mass predation as a business model? And what kind of society tolerates this kind of behavior?” writes Matt Stoller. americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/08/tyrant…

“But SP5 is no longer just a yardstick. It has taken on a life of its own and changed the whole nature of stock investing in ways that most investors have not paused to consider,” writes Daniel Peris. americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/08/dr-fra…

“Trapped between [...] exile neoconservatism and twentieth-century Marxism, the Caribbean nation seems unlikely to exit its ongoing stasis under conditions of state repression and sanction-induced dysfunction,” Juan David Rojas. americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/08/the-cu…

“It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college, and yet there are those who love it.” The Dartmouth case in the age of Trump: commonplace.org/p/higher-educa…

“As with the ballyhooed rise of the ‘minority voter,’ the emergence of a gender gap must be broken down into its components in order to be properly understood,” writes John B. Judis. americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/08/the-fe…

As kids get back to campus, read Daniel Bring in Commonplace on why conservatives should welcome the Trump admin battle with elite institutions.

“American masculinity remains true to this basic structure: you have a charter to make something new, and far away from authority, you can build and rule your own domain. This is why America was so suited to republican government,” writes novalis. americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/08/mascul…

It's not just pharma. China has at least 50%+ market share in the majority of our medical consumables. Our healthcare system shuts down if they decide to withhold them like they do with rare earth minerals.

Highly recommend Robert C. Thornett's extremely thoughtful piece on border security in American Affairs americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/08/turnin…

Abundance 2025 starts today. Abundance has become left-coded. As I argue in American Affairs, we need a conservative abundance, rooted in what the Left's vision often omits: faith, family, flag, virtue. These are the higher things without which true abundance is impossible.🧵

Very proud to publish such a significant piece by my friend Christopher Barnard amid the momentous gathering at #Abundance2025.

the medium is the influencer

Memory Eternal

Thanks to @kelvinnotcelsius, Danny Crichton, Jack Shanahan, and Daniel Bring for their support

Drawing in a park in SF. Nearby a normal looking mid-thirties white guy, wearing Allbirds and carrying an expensive camera bag, smoked two whole joints in under 20 minutes. Then walked off like he was fine. What's going on?