"The popular uprising against data centers has emerged so suddenly that politicians stumble over their own pitchforks racing to the front of the crowd. Where most industries would be launching into crisis P.R. mode, perhaps even engaging in some soul-searching, artificial intelligence companies seem determined to plow full steam ahead, building the future they want, even if they’re the only ones who want it," @oren_cass writes, in his latest for @nytimes.

Nobel laureate @DAcemogluMIT joins @oren_cass on the podcast to make sense of what happened to liberal democracy. @commonplc mag.commonplace.org/p/libera…

Mark Krikorian: Immigration Enforcement Without the Melodrama Very quietly, ICE is getting the job done. mag.commonplace.org/p/mark-k…

Is AI the new climate change? ✅Fears of extinction ✅Demands for govt takeover ✅China uncooperative ✅A papal encyclical! ✅Trump says it's a HOAX 2015 called and wants its panic back. The climate meltdown holds valuable lessons for how to about AI: mag.commonplace.org/p/how-to…

Canada is treating a 5% weighted average tariff like the 82nd Airborne is invading Ottawa. They think of duty-free access to the American market as a component of Canadian sovereignty rather than a bargained-for privilege that America is free to renegotiate. I wrote for @commonplc about why Canada's perspective is flawed: 1. Canada wasn't uniquely targeted, it was included in a global policy to rebalance our trading relationships after decades of unsustainable service as the world's consumer of last resort. When we took measures to end this role, Canada got a better deal than virtually anyone else. 2. Every other country (notably including Mexico and the EU) was able to negotiate for reduced tariffs. Unlike those countries, Canada moved straight to retaliation, signed a "strategic partnership " with China, and then unilaterally broke off talks. This suggests that the Canada conflict is driven by Canada, not the US 3. What's driving Canada? Primarily a craving for the kind of grand national purpose that prosperous liberal societies - and perhaps Canada especially - aren't very good at generating. Carney and other members of the Western governing caste used to think that fighting climate change, inequality, and systemic racism might do the trick, but Trump has given them a more politically viable purpose: realignment away from the US and towards Europe. 4. Will it work? Not as a matter of trade policy. The EU is incapable of providing demand sufficient to replace what Canada could lose from the US. Canada-EU trade is already tariff-free, Canada doesn't have the infrastructure to export energy across the Atlantic, the European ag sector is too politically sensitive to open to Canada, and on manufactured goods Europe is a competitor rather than a customer for Canada. In exchange for this exciting trade opportunity, Canada will have to align with EU regulatory commitments, the most potent growth-killer in the Western world. 5. While Canada and the EU expend massive amounts of time and resources trying to extract an extra 0.1% of GDP from integrating two no-growth economies, they are sitting under a tidal wave of Chinese exports that are going to deindustrialize them both. This is the only problem that really matters, and failing to solve it obviates anything else Canada and the EU might achieve. 6. Many have made the point that this all hurts Canada far more than the US, but we should still care. Canada is unique among our trade partners because of the amount of supply chain integration we have in key industries. A weaker, poorer Canada isn't in our interest, and a Canada desperate for new commercial relationships will be likely to double-down on attracting Chinese investment. If China gets into the production system for Canadian energy, metals, critical minerals, etc. that's a huge L for the project of de-risking North American supply chains. 7. Conclusion: Canada's policy achieves the opposite of what it intends. Canada is seeking sovereignty, but it does so by degrading its chief geopolitical asset: duty-free access to the US market. That puts Canada in a position of bargaining from weakness, and that means any new relationships it forms with the EU and China will be either low-impact or extractive. Canada will become a price-taker on growth-strangling EU regulations and predatory Chinese capital, which is the opposite of sovereignty. You can't be sovereign if you're desperate.

It was fun to sit down with the @AmerCompass crew to discuss the New Right's approach to conservation The left's vision for environmental leadership has failed, it's up to us to replace it

Nobel laureate @DAcemogluMIT joins @oren_cass on the @AmerCompass Podcast to discuss the crisis in liberal democracy. mag.commonplace.org/p/libera…

Really insightful conversation between Nobel laureate @DAcemogluMIT and @oren_cass about what’s driving the decline of liberal democracy on the @AmerCompass Podcast. @commonplc

Solar power can help meet the energy demands of American reindustrialization. @FirstSolar CEO Mark Widmar joins @oren_cass on the @AmerCompass Podcast.

Ft First Solar CEO Mark Widmar on the @AmerCompass podcast Full interview: ceointerviews.ai/interview/1…

.@RepAshleyHinson is working to secure American pharma dominance. Watch as she asks @Oren_Cass of @AmerCompass about the best policies to secure the medicines Americans rely on.

We had @ChrisBarnardDL and Myers on the @AmerCompass Podcast with @oren_cass and @Chris_Griz to make sense of what the Right’s climate policy should look like: commonplace.org/p/a-new-righ…

What should the Right's climate and environmental policy look like? @ChrisBarnardDL, president of @ACC_National, and Taylor Myers of @BoydenGrayPLLC join @oren_cass and @Chris_Griz to discuss. commonplace.org/p/a-new-righ…

Today's political fights are finally breaking out from the fights of the Cold War, @AEI's Yuval Levin tells @oren_cass and @Chris_Griz on the @AmerCompass.

Domestic solar isn't just a vital component of an all-the-above energy strategy, but an American industrial success story in its own right. Mark Widmar, CEO of @FirstSolar, joins @oren_cass on the @AmerCompass Podcast to discuss. commonplace.org/p/the-promis…

Read our new Understanding America newsletter, "The Great Zombification," written by @oren_cass, @abigailrsal, Brad Littlejohn, Meredith Meroney, and Peter Balos. commonplace.org/p/ua-vol-3-n…

"The deeper outrage of Truth API is not the potential violation of an SEC regulation (though that would be bad), or a crimping of market efficiency (though even some market actors are quietly horrified). It is the simple (lower-case t) truth that leveraging public office for private gain is gross. Selling access to Oval Office social media posts is a betrayal of the public trust and a violation of the political virtue that we require from our leaders, if we are to enjoy the blessings of a democratic republic that commands the loyalty of its citizens," @Chris_Griz on the $100,000-a-month scheme to sell early access to Trump's posts.

7/7 I would highly encourage every member of Congress to compare and contrast the industry's best attempt at an "argument" against the NDAA export control package with the letter from @AmerCompass @Heritage @JoinFAI. See if you can tell which one is trying to advance policies that will be good for the United States, and then make your own decision accordingly. subscriber.politicopro.com/f… americancompass.org/wp-conte…