First issue of Damage Mag (damagemag.com) was worth the wait — trying to recover that American spirit of optimism and material abundance which could re-industrialize our nation.

My main question is how re-industrialization works with a shrinking population and the rise of automation.

Writes and podcasts at Samsara Diagnostics on religion, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Day job in tech working with governments and nonprofits.

Sam Kriss had an awesome piece about how Saudi Arabia’s mega-projects are keeping the grandiose visions of modernism alive.

I especially appreciated Dustin Guastella’s “Build Stuff and Make Things.” It really embodies an alternative leftist voice against trendy visions of collapse and degrowth.