brat summer is over. now it's time for pannage autumn, the ancient medieval custom of releasing your pigs in the woods so they can eat the chestnuts and acorns that fall to the forest floor.

Say you’re a PR flack, and something happens which requires you to shred your own credibility. No reporter can ever trust you again. What’s your next career step? Serious question.

Wendell Berry has entered the chat

Fascinating story in the latest Harper's Magazine, not least because of the cutting cameo from Fr. Benedict Groeschel. harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

New: the Harris campaign wrote in an email that she “does not support an electric vehicle mandate.” I asked if that meant she would veto or sign the bill she co-sponsored in 2019 w/ such a mandate for manufacturers. The campaign declined to comment axios.com/2024/09/04/kam…

Who are Gen Z’s religious and spiritual role models? Christ Church’s Dr Edward David aims to find out – and he recently received a competitive grant from the John Fell Fund for his research, financed by Oxford University Press. Congratulations Dr David! Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4cV9yEO

Am in SF this week for Foundation for American Innovation 🇺🇸🚀 Reboot 2024 and b/c Federation of American Scientists🔬 is co-hosting the Bottlenecks Summit, focused on identifying barriers to abundance and scoping ideas to overcome them. If you're here, let's chat

There are huge wins to be had by red teams spotting missed opportunities. Imo processes are overrated; talent is underrated. Great interview of James W. Phillips by Santi Ruiz!

Powerhouse Foundation for American Innovation 🇺🇸🚀 panel on the fracturing of shared reality. Jon Askonas ⏩🚀🏛️, Francis Fukuyama, Renee DiResta, and Reihan Salam

back to back bangers here — we’re onto ifp’s @rsanti97 with anduril/founders fund’s Trae Stephens and former cto of the united states @michaelkratsios

Santi Ruiz James W. Phillips

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Just going back to Pat Buchanan’s WWII revisionist book. He charges Churchill will mistakes of statesmanship, but acknowledged his moral heroism: “About the justice of the causes for which Britain fought, few quarrel. And those years from 1914 to 1918 and 1939 to 1945 produced

Industrial policy isn’t a first-best, Pareto-optimal solution, and I don’t think its loudest defenders would claim that. The question is whether you have to do it anyway.