James Pethokoukis

Washington, D.C.

Contributor at CNBC

Fellow and Columnist at American Enterprise Institute

Host at Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis

@AEI. @CNBC. My book: 🚀THE CONSERVATIVE FUTURIST (2023) 🚀 https://t.co/W3jbFEnXh2 Substack: Faster, Please! https://t.co/TJ7xRaAZkt

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✨✝ The AI Pope

5 days ago | fasterplease.substack.com | James Pethokoukis

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,I’m a Christian but not Roman Catholic (I was able to win on Jeopardy! in the early 2000s despite an embarrassing clunker of an answer that most Catholic school kids would have aced). Nor am I an observer of Vatican politics. But I was recently re-reading (skimming, really) A History of Christianity by British historian Paul Johnson.
My chat (+transcript) with AI expert Dan Hendrycks

6 days ago | fasterplease.substack.com | James Pethokoukis

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,As we seemingly grow closer to achieving artificial general intelligence — machines that are smarter than humans at basically everything — we might be incurring some serious geopolitical risks.
Tag Archive: trade war

1 week ago | aei.org | Stan Veuger |Michael Strain |James Pethokoukis |Colin Dueck

Press Discussing President Trump’s latest trade deal with the UK: Veuger on NPO Radio 1’s ‘Geld of je leven’ Press Financial Times Discussing how Trump’s tariff agenda may play out: Strain on Financial Times’ ‘The Economics Show’ Article Up Wing/Down Wing #42 Post Uncertainty from the Trump Tariffs Is a Certain Thing Event Canadian Election Recap: Results and Foreign Policy Implications Post Export Subsidies Won’t Reduce the Trade Deficit Either Article Up Wing/Down Wing #41 Press Discussing...
Tag Archive: Clean energy

1 week ago | aei.org | James Pethokoukis |Ruy Teixeira |James Coleman |Arnab Datta

Post Is Nuking NEPA a Necessity?
The continuing case for an American Golden Age

1 week ago | fasterplease.substack.com | James Pethokoukis

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers, Yes, Donald Trump's bold Inauguration Day proclamation that "the golden age of America begins right now" has transformed into a punchline — a grandiose promise now regularly recycled as the setup for snarky news headlines, late-night monologues, and social-media zingers. It’s the president’s own fault, of course.
Tag Archive: Labor issues

1 week ago | aei.org | Nicholas Eberstadt |Brent Orrell |Josh Boynton |James Pethokoukis

Post Workforce Participation for Older Americans: Warning Lights Flashing Post AI “Slop” Comes for Job Interviews Post Powering AI: The Energy Workforce Crisis No One Is Talking About Post Pushback Against an Emerging Robot Revolution Post Why Are Business Organizations Withdrawing from DEI? Multimedia Society of Professional Economists—Econ Thoughts: Interview with Nicholas Eberstadt Article Why Populist Economics Is Bad: Trade Protectionism Edition Article Some Anti-Progress Lessons from...
Tag Archive: Soviet Union

1 week ago | aei.org | James Pethokoukis |Leon Aron |Jonah Goldberg |Niall Ferguson

Post Russia’s Economic Stagnation Offers a Cautionary Tale Article ‘We Have Ceased to See the Purpose’ Review: Solzhenitsyn Against Liberty Op-Ed “The Thaw” at 70 Multimedia We Aren’t All Soviets Now … Or Are We? | Jonah Goldberg vs.
Forget DOGE. We need Elon Musk to solve our robot problem.

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | James Pethokoukis

Forget DOGE. We need Elon Musk to solve our robot problem. (washingtonpost.com) Forget DOGE. We need Elon Musk to solve our robot problem. By James Pethokoukis 2025050510455200 Federal workers and Tesla shareholders find themselves in an unexpected alignment: Both are probably relieved by Elon Musk's decision to step back from DOGE and refocus on his electric vehicle company, whose recent profits and stock performance have been disappointing.
Tag Archive: Climate change

1 week ago | aei.org | Roger Pielke Jr |James Pethokoukis |Benjamin Zycher

Press Discussing human impact on climate change: Pielke on FOX 10’s ‘Newsmaker’ Article Constructing Climate Catastrophism Article Terraforming Mars: A Quick Q&A With … Edwin Kite and Robin Wordsworth on Designing a New Home Beyond Earth Article An Explosive Climate Solution: A Quick Q&A with … Software Engineer Andy Haverly on Geoengineering with Nuclear Bombs Article Trump Comes for Climate Research Op-Ed The European Union Attempts to Extend Its Regulatory Tentacles Article Censorship is...
My chat (+transcript) with policy expert Alex Nowrasteh

1 week ago | fasterplease.substack.com | James Pethokoukis

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,With the rise of American populist nationalism has come the rise of nativism: a belief in the concept of “heritage Americans” and a deep distrust of immigration. Today on Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I talk with Alex Nowrasteh about the ideology beneath this severe skepticism, as well as what Americans lose economically if we shut our doors to both low- and high-skilled immigrants.