2026-04-30
Matt Clancy : The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective . Why did the Industrial Revolution happen in the UK and not somewhere else in Europe? Allen argues it’s down to economics. It’s only worth doing all …
Dylan Matthews: The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty . My first obsession in public policy was the problem of poverty in the rich world: why, in a nation as wealthy as the United States, do…
Jordan Dworkin: As Science Evolves, How Can Science Policy? Coming up in science, my peers and I enjoyed critiquing the institutions in which we worked, and occasionally used our computational skills to probe and quantif…
Saloni Dattani: I don’t have a foundational text that drew me to clinical trial reform. I learnt about the topic during the Covid-19 pandemic. It was surprising how efficient some pandemic clinical trials were and, despi…
Willow Latham-Proenca: Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy . I frequently argue that Francis Fukuyama is an under-acknowledged intellectual godfather to t…
Alex Armlovich: How Skyscrapers Can Save The City (2011) . Ed Glaeser introduced almost everything YIMBYism is today in this Atlantic feature published years before the first modern YIMBY grassroots groups were even foun…
Nisha Austin: Around the time when I started getting into ‘Abundance’ (in the way we all think about it here), my mother-in-law gave me Robin Wall Kimmerer’s The Serviceberry . I think she was trying to piece together ex…