The Students

The Students

Samo Burja — AI Bureaucracy Will Enable Total Surveillance
Samo Burja and Wolf Tivy cover the political economy of AI: How AIs will reshape bureaucracies, how some governments will rely on AI labs like…
Jason Crawford — Where the Industrial Revolution Came From
Jason Crawford and Ben Landau-Taylor cover the Industrial Revolution, the acceleration of technology, and how our increasing awareness of technological…
Danielle Fong — Technology Doesn't Just Happen
Danielle Fong and Ben Landau-Taylor talk about invention—how new technology depends on specific individuals, successfully not burning down the science…
Every Ideology Starts as a Book Club — Duncan Umphrey
Duncan Umphrey and Ben Landau-Taylor cover the power of book clubs, how and why you should start your own, and how new ideologies develop from these…
Forming Brazil’s New Elite — Guilherme Freire
Guilherme Freire explains why his elite training program uses the classics to cultivate virtue and action in business, and how this can lead to social…
Samo Burja — What the Greeks Would Call Our Government
Samo Burja and Ben Landau-Taylor explain how the Greeks understood the basic forms of government, what their ideas catch which today's idea of…
Renan Santos — How We Built the Mission Party
Renan Santos tells how he built the Free Brazil Movement and worked out the doctrine, mobilized it into Brazil’s Mission Party, and how the lessons of…
Witnessing Renan Santos
A report from the ground with Brazil’s Partido Missao
What Americans Should Learn From Brazil's Mission Party — Victor Antoun
The Mission Party has risen by mobilizing a young, sharp, online demographic which was traditionally checked out of politics.

September 2026

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