book
by Chris Miller
Historian Chris Miller tells the semiconductor story as geopolitics: how a few chokepoints — Taiwanese fabs, Dutch lithography machines, American design tools — came to underwrite military and economic power, and why China now spends more importing chips than importing oil. The single best book for understanding why Taiwan and export controls sit at the centre of tech policy.
March 16, 2026
Sean Carroll's Mindscape episode on surveillance, Gwern's writing process revealed, and Martha Nussbaum on why fear is toxic to democracy.
February 16, 2026
An EconTalk episode on America's WWII production miracle, Gwern's scaling hypothesis revisited, and Scott Alexander introduces the AI 2027 scenario.
July 20, 2026
Dynomight on the coming end of pseudonymity, Brian Potter scores 239 laws against their promises, and a Sears-catalog rewrite of American growth.
