We start with rock, crush and burn it to extract its essence in powdered form, and then reconstitute it at a place and time and in a shape of our choosing. Like coffee or pancake mix, it is “instant stone—just add water!” And with it, we make skyscrapers that reach hundreds of stories high, tunnels that go under the English channel and the Swiss Alps, and bridges that stretch a hundred miles.
We need to go beyond the review-and-approval paradigm. The review-and-approval model is broken, and we should find better ways to manage risk and create safety.
We need a new philosophy of progress for the 21st century.
I see three premises at the core of the progress movement: progress, humanism, and agency.
What is this metal that is so indispensable to the modern world?
Why AC won the Electricity Wars.
What is the Haber-Bosch process? It’s what keeps billions of people in the modern world from starving to death. In Hager’s phrase: it turns air into bread.
Enlightenment Now is just what the world needs right now. It is a defense of the ideas and values that have created the modern world, and a defense of that world itself.
In the name of individual rights, we should dismantle the entire bureaucracy of immigration restrictions
Our lack of moral clarity is keeping us from winning the war.
There is good reason to remember the attacks of Black Tuesday, to give that day a solemn acknowledgment.
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