Pondercraft

Exploring utopian futures through essay collections and print pamphlets. Join us to get the Manifesto!

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

The history and politics of monopoly power.

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

Foreign affairs, broadly construed

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.

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.

Dispatches and photos from walks around the world

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

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

Using data and research to understand what really makes a difference

I write my way through the nooks and crannies of the natural+human world - recently left the French Alps to be an ecology professor in Utah. Place, history, ecology, art.

History • Stories → Changing Worlds. Monthly long reads, weekly essays, & slow read that make sense of deep changes in world order, culture, society & politics. Paid subscribers receive bonus guide to 100+ quality history books.

On books & ideas

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

Reflections on art, culture, literature, philosophy and politics

If just citizens come together in pursuit of happiness, we can change the world.

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