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1 week ago | 
aei.org | Roger Pielke Jr |Benjamin Zycher |L. Lynne Kiesling |James Pethokoukis
Article The Most Amazing Climate Policy Figure Article The Apocalypse Machine Rolls On Working Paper A Critique of Professor Cass R.
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | James Pethokoukis |L. Lynne Kiesling |Paul H. Kupiec |Michael Strain
Post Creative Destruction, FTW (Again) Article Regional Transmission Organizations as Market Platforms V Post The Problem With G in GDP Press Discussing consumer confidence and President Trump’s economic policies: Strain on NPR’s ‘Morning Edition’ Press CNBC Discussing President Trump’s upcoming tariff policies and their impacts: Pethokoukis on CNBC’s ‘Power Lunch’ Post Examples of Irrational Pricing in Health Care Podcast Michael Strain: On the State of the US Economy Post The Return of the...
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | Roger Pielke Jr |James Pethokoukis |L. Lynne Kiesling |Yuval Levin
Article The Iberian Blackout 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 Federal R&D Cuts Would Be Another (Massive) Unforced Policy Error Article The New Rules for Experts Article Behind the Curtain Article The Pacing Problem in Electricity Article How to Get Rid of a Tenured Professor Op-Ed The Deeper Question Raised by the NIH Grant Overhaul Article Regional...
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
aei.org | With William Haun |Yuval Levin |William Haun |L. Lynne Kiesling
While Americans have long debated religion’s role in politics, the past several decades have witnessed the channeling of religious impulses into temporal political projects. This misdirection stems from a misunderstanding of the distinctive roles that religious and political institutions play in American life. That misunderstanding in turn has deepened public distrust and dysfunction in both religion and politics.
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
aei.org | L. Lynne Kiesling |Daniel Lyons
Innovating Future Power Systems: From Vision to Action The United States should strive toward an energy system with fewer barriers to innovation and more opportunities for consumers to access affordable and dependable power systems, decide how and when they consume (and produce) the electricity they want and need, and invest in the solutions that bring them the greatest value.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
aei.org | L. Lynne Kiesling
2025 is already shaping up to be a year of change for many reasons related to the economics and technology of energy. Between the uncertainty arising from a political change in presidential administration and the dynamics of technological change in the economy, the only prediction I’d hazard is that change will happen. Some of these changes have been simmering for some time, while others will emerge. Okay, throat-clearing beginning-of-year platitudes out of the way.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
aei.org | L. Lynne Kiesling
In the past couple of weeks I’ve read two things I want to recommend that are actually deeply related. The first is Brian Potter’s excellent history of technology analysis of the evolution of the lithium ion battery. Brian’s Construction Physics newsletter is a consistently excellent treasure trove of analysis, from his series on the history of the electricity industry (Part I)(Part II)(Part III)(Part IV) to his retrospective on Bell Labs.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
aei.org | L. Lynne Kiesling
Every fall since 2020 I have been teaching energy economics in Northwestern University’s Master of Science in Energy and Sustainability (MSES) program.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
laweconcenter.org | Eric Fruits |Kristian Stout |Shivanghi Sukumar |L. Lynne Kiesling
TL;DR TL;DRBackground: Internet use has soared in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic. Average monthly data usage grew 70% from 344 GB in 2019 to 586 GB in 2022. While only 16% of subscribers were on 200+ Mbps speed tiers in 2019, by 2023, 74% had such speeds, and a third of subscribers had speeds of 1,000 Mbps or more.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
aei.org | L. Lynne Kiesling
26 years ago, Virginia Postrel published The Future and Its Enemies, which I still consider one of the most insightful books of our time. The book’s subtitle, The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress, has become even more relevant since 1998. Virginia gave a presentation on the ideas in her book at the Progress Conference in Berkeley last weekend, which I attended and spoke at.
