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Foundational articles (AA) are repeated in Section (A). Both (AA) and (A) articles provide key insights on major policy and cultural issues, while (B) articles address currently urgent or more technical topics that may be replaced more frequently as they become dated.

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    • ‘The Origins of Efficiency’ Review: Rise of the Machines

    By Mark Mills October 21, 2025

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    By Mark Mills Oct 21 2025 – AI, similarly, has been available for decades (for specialists and in supercomputers). But now the AI ecosystem, thanks to a similar pattern of ingenious gains, is exhibiting precisely the same efficiency and scaling trajectory as the automobile more than a century ago…….all efficiency gains emerge from changes in five basic features: the inputs, the design of the process or product, the pursuit of reliably repeatable processes, the nature of how people or machines do things, and the role of volume (scale). How these features combine to improve efficiency depends on human ingenuity, imagination, tenacity and that elusive thing called “tacit knowledge” that comes from experience. Read More

    There’s a New Way of War, but Is It Evolution or Revolution? AA

    By Yaroslav Trofimov July 7, 2026

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    By Yaroslav Trofimov July 7, 2026 – The key feature of the war between Russia and Ukraine, and likely of other major conflicts to come, is that what used to be cutting-edge weapons and technologies becomes outdated within months. “If you have an adaptive adversary, it’s the speed of iteration and the rate of learning that matter, rather than the technology per se,” Mosley added….One example of adaptability is Ukraine’s new procurement system for drones, which account for over 90% of enemy losses, electronic warfare systems and some other key weapons. It is fundamentally different from how Western militaries, with their centralized defense budgets, operate. Read More

    Scott Bessent: Hamilton Inspires Trump’s Economic Statecraft AA

    By Scott Bessent - June 23, 2026

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    By Scott Bessent – June 23, 2026 – Economic security begins with the capacity to build, invent, finance and scale the industries that will define the next century, among them semiconductors, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, advanced manufacturing, shipbuilding, critical minerals and pharmaceuticals. More than economic sectors, these are sources of national power. The U.S. must lead in all of them. Read More

    America Needs AI That Can Do Math

    By Jack D. Hidary - Feb. 16, 2026

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    By Jack D. Hidary – Feb. 16, 2026 – China will release its next five-year plan next month. These plans are important because China pours billions of dollars into, and otherwise gives favorable treatment to, the sectors targeted in these programs. The U.S. will need to use a whole new class of artificial-intelligence models—built for the world of science and math, not language and images—to stay competitive with China as it puts the pedal to the metal in critical sectors. Read More

    Government Won’t Help the AI Job Transition

    By Phil Gramm and Michael Solon - Feb. 5, 2026

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    By Phil Gramm and Michael Solon – Feb. 5, 2026 – Societal gains from technological change come from what the economist Joseph Schumpeter called “the wave of creative destruction.” The lost jobs and investments rendered unprofitable by new technology free up labor and capital that can be redeployed to produce new and higher-valued goods and services. The more seamlessly the transition from the old to the new, the greater the gain from the new technology. “American exceptionalism,” our ability to generate and sustain higher living standards, has come in part from developing new technology and benefiting from being the first to implement it, and in part from our ability to move labor and capital dislocated by the wave of creative destruction efficiently into higher and better uses. Read More