Policy

In May, Michael Polsky, the CEO of Chicago-based Invenergy, appeared on Fox Business to announce that his company was awarding some $1.7 billion in contracts to build the long-delayed Grain Belt Express transmission project.  read more »

For much of America’s history, the South has been a laggard, a poor region weighed down by intense racism and reactionary politics, lacking both  read more »

Endless jeremiads from the mainstream media, academia and a large chunk of the political class warn that Americans are on the precipice of a fascist hell  read more »

The federal government owns about 640 million acres of land — some 28 percent of the land area of the United States  read more »

The recently released book, The Future of Labor, is an anthology that offers an exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI), digitalisation and technological transformation are reshaping the future of work. The first section of Chapter 4 — authored by Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky — is excerpted below.  read more »

Visionaries, dreamers, and autocrats have long dreamt of reshaping humanity to their preferred model.  read more »

As recent events in Iran have so aptly demonstrated, technological progress married to industrial might produces the most tangible form of power.  read more »

Deep tech development is dominated by North America, Europe and Asia, however the competition from Africa is also becoming noticeable. Africa´s growing economies already host some of the world´s leading 500 deep tech companies.  read more »

I’m on a panel about this tonight.

A unicorn is a privately owned startup company worth more than $1 billion.  read more »