Themes
Five themes
Every essay has one main theme. The tags under each essay say which mechanism it is about.
Liberty & Power
Free speech, property, courts and elections: what power does to the citizen, and the guardrails that keep it in check.
Work & Wealth
Debt, taxes, jobs and markets: who creates the wealth, who controls it, and who is handed the bill.
Science & Progress
Medicine, energy, space and AI as engines of a longer, freer life, and what each new result really changes.
Nations & Sovereignty
Energy, industry, sanctions, satellites and two nations compared: who holds the switch when it matters.
Culture & Ideas
Minds, attention, consciousness and the tools of thought: the questions underneath the news.
AI & markets: WallStreetDebug
WallStreetDebug is our sister project: AI tools and agents applied to markets, tested with benchmarks, studies and sources.
The Sunday letter
One email on Sunday: the essay of the week and the question worth carrying into the next one, from both sides of the Atlantic. The letter is paused for now: no signups and no sends while the site is rebuilt.
Signups are paused while the site is rebuilt. No letter is being sent.