Pondercraft

A newsletter for readers who want to learn about the meaning of travel, why we seek adventure, and how to incorporate more of it into our lives. In short, the anthropology of wandering.

Promoting an awareness and understanding of human material progress. How we got it, and how we can keep it going.

Writing about a better future. Publishing collaborative print pamphlets on the important ideas of our time. Join us to get the Manifesto!

Using data and research to understand what really makes a difference

Building a new environmental paradigm through analyses and essays on politics, nuclear energy, agriculture, critical minerals, permitting reform, and much more. The Ecomodernist is a publication of the Breakthrough Institute.

A Substack about collective intelligence and managing the complexity of technological change.

How to Read, Research, Make Notes, and Write. And some thoughts about the crisis in academia and self-education.

Learn from history to live in tune with a changing world | Guides, deep dives, slow reads & book recommendations

I write my way through the nooks and crannies of the natural+human world - currently in Grenoble, France, gateway to the French Alps. Place, history, ecology, art.

Blog and Podcast about History including my original content, primary sources, and historiography.

The history and politics of monopoly power.

On books & ideas

Reflections on art, culture, literature, philosophy and politics

The origin stories of the technologies and innovations that shape our world today.

Dispatches and photos from walks around the world

Foreign affairs, broadly construed

Researching the Communist Party of China is my day job. Here I write long reads on international politics, ancient history, and American conservatism.