crow's nest

Introducing Caravanserai—a mini-magazine for policy culture

A very small and very fun new project!

Oct 8 • 

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Runoff

A tale of two documentaries.

Oct 4 • 

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August 2025

Loser mode

Pulling out a giant whiteboard for U.S. climate policy.

Aug 16 • 

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July 2025

A really bad Western

American reactionary futurism on display in Detroit.

Jul 27 • 

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Cutting into the heart of the world

Reviewing Benjamin Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World.

Jul 18 • 

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The self-sabotage state of mind

How the GOP has reconciled itself with political incoherence—and how Trump benefits.

Jul 11 • 

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May 2025

Consider the ostrich

Dollar dominance and energy dominance.

May 30 • 

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The belligerent idealism of climate realism

Don’t call it “bipartisan” or “pragmatic”; it’s anything but.

May 16 • 

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Venture capital mad libs

Hot air for vaporware—and the limits of "disruption."

May 4 • 

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April 2025

Uncertainty is the only certainty

The “real options approach to investment” in the harsh light of liberation day.

Apr 5 • 

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March 2025

The anti-sabotage agenda

Thorstein Veblen has some thoughts about economic populism.

Mar 21 • 

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February 2025

LLMs in the art gallery

At the infamous intersection of art and technology―not a fan.

Feb 28 • 

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