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What happens when Chinese resolve meets American rent-seeking?
Reading "Abundance" and "Breakneck" side by side suggests that learning from one another is not enough.
Oct 14
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Dan Davies
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September 2025
Why we're founding Students for Abundance
Policies that manufacture scarcity. Institutions that can't deliver. A culture of risk aversion. America's young adults must topple all three.
Sep 3
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Matthew Meyers
,
Victoria Ren
, and
Maxwell Stern
45
August 2025
How abundance can get serious about government failure
Without a clear diagnosis of the problem, recent entries in the abundance canon struggle to provide a cure that is clear, compelling, and politically…
Aug 25
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Matt Zwolinski
28
July 2025
California’s retort to Mancur Olson
How political ambition, social media, and smart dealmaking overturned the interest-group trough in a liberal bastion.
Jul 31
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Chris Elmendorf
26
Why healthcare should unite abundance and antitrust
Over the last few months, internecine battles between abundance and antitrust advocates have been fought across book reviews, podcasts, and social…
Jul 30
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Olivia Webb Kosloff
20
Lessons from the forgotten history of Democratic abundance
Moderates and leftists misunderstand the 1990s. That is stopping them from seeing their joint path forward.
Jul 28
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Henry M. J. Tonks
25
It's time for abundance Democrats to embrace cultural moderation
The left argues that economic populism lets you ignore voters' cultural concerns. Abundance Democrats know that is wrong, and they should say it.
Jul 25
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Matthew Yglesias
300
YIMBYism started as a single-issue movement. It's time to think bigger.
New research shows that voters who like cities back denser housing. To make cities more likeable, YIMBYs need to act more like a party.
Jul 23
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Chris Elmendorf
and
David Schleicher
49
Abundance is asking the wrong question
When you focus on reviving a party, you miss the opportunity to revive faith in the American Dream.
Jul 22
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Frank DiStefano
56
Abundance crashes the party
We debate whether abundance should turn its momentum into a partisan project–and if so, how.
Jul 21
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David Dagan
17
Democracy requires reinvention
A newly sharpened focus for Hypertext, and coming attractions.
Jul 18
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David Dagan
25
May 2025
The lessons of Operation Warp Speed
Emergency powers should be used sparingly, but advance market commitments and a new regulatory approach to risk could boost the supply of vital…
May 8
•
Alex Tabarrok
11
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