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Why the Anti-Promethean Backlash?
Jason Crawford asked me a tough question. Could this chart hold an answer?
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From the Archives: Gothic Revival Architecture Is Like Dreadlocks
You can try embedding ideology into a style but if people like the look, the meaning will get diluted over time.
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From the Archives: Joel Mokyr on the Industrial Enlightenment
The great economic historian Joel Mokyr has won the Nobel Prize. Here I reprint a column on his book The Gifts of Athena.
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The Myth of Prometheus Is Not a Cautionary Tale
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Wanted: Manly Jobs for Manly Men
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Catastrophe in my Geographical Homeland
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Abundance, Progress, and the Future of American Politics
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Quality Matters, but You Also Need Luck
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Japan's Old Age Crisis and Ours to Come
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From the Archives: How Job-Killing Technologies Liberated Women
Progress is more than space adventures.
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What Brings You to DC?
Varieties of abundance, reading Middlemarch, too many mosquitoes
Sep 9, 2025
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AI Slop and Human Play
Computers can win at chess and Go, but how about a rap battle?
Sep 8, 2025
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From the Archives: The Faux Populism of Trumpified Architecture
What looks “civic” depends on experience, not architectural theory. In Los Angeles, where I live, traditional civic buildings are not classical.
Aug 29, 2025
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Reading good books and an occasional lousy one. Plus lots of podcasts.
Jul 7, 2025
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Wanted: Manly Jobs for Manly Men
Or at least for manly men who don't have their acts together.
Apr 26, 2025
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Reposting: Waiting for Trump Fever to Break
With hopes for progress and abundance after Trump.
Apr 8, 2025
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