Mark Mills

4 weeks ago | city-journal.org | Mark Mills

It may seem nearly impossible to sort the signal from the noise surrounding the current attempts to use tariffs to reshore American manufacturing. But given the stakes, it’s worth examining some underlying facts and persistent myths. Start with the most significant factor hobbling America’s once-mighty manufacturing machine: the relentless expansion of the regulatory state.

1 month ago | city-journal.org | Mark Mills |Brian Anderson

Mark P. Mills joins Brian Anderson to discuss why a true energy transition is impossible. Brian Anderson: Welcome back to the 10 Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal, and today we're joined by Mark Mills. We're going to discuss energy and technology and some of his recent stories for City Journal, including his most recent, which we titled will never have an energy transition.

1 month ago | city-journal.org | Mark Mills

In his March 4 address to Congress, President Trump proclaimed that he had “terminated the ridiculous Green New Scam,” referring to assorted Biden-era Green New Deal policies directed at an “energy transition.” The weekend before, the Wall Street Journal featured a lengthy essay with a title seemingly calibrated to pre-bunk Trump’s expected remarks: “The Clean Energy Revolution Is Unstoppable.” The authors, two Oxford professors, asserted that the “clean energy revolution is being driven by...

Jan 29, 2025 | city-journal.org | Mark Mills

Unsurprisingly, the news that China’s DeepSeek AI had leapfrogged competitors triggered an investor sell-off. It dragged down Nvidia, the American chipmaker powering the AI revolution, as well as related tech stocks, from Micron and Advanced Micro Devices to manufacturing juggernaut TSMC. There is, after all, some wisdom in worrying that we don’t know who the ultimate winners in the AI race will be. Markets don’t always exhibit wisdom, however.

Jan 25, 2025 | city-journal.org | Mark Mills

President Trump’s Day One executive order declaring an “energy emergency” is political hyperbole, some say, even if they agree with the general thrust. But the energy situation does present real urgency. As for the question of the legality of the “emergency” order, we’ll have to await the inevitable challenges. Experts note that executive orders themselves are not subject to legal challenges, but the actions that flow from them can and doubtless will be.