James James Pethakoukis is here.

He is a senior fellow and the DeWitt Wallace Chair at the American Enterprise Institute.

He's also the author of the new book, The Conservative Futurist, How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were

I Love That Subtitle. It Probably Gives Us Everything We Need by way of an intro. But for good measure,

I'll throw in Tyler Cohen's blurb for the book, Quote, The conservative futurist is essential reading on what made America great,

how we lost it,

and how we might reachieve it once again.

Students of history, technology,

economics, and the American dream

should all read this compelling vision of our

possible future."

I am looking forward to talking to Jim about all of that today.

This is the Tech Policy Podcast.

I'm Corbyn Barthold.

Jim, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for inviting me on. I'm really looking forward to our conversation. So I know enough about your work

to not be surprised that you would write this of all books. But why now? Why do you think this is the moment

that we need to rediscover our possible futures? Well, like I think just about everybody who

has a book coming out around this time period, we are all sitting at home in 2020

thinking about what to do with some

added time, with no commuting, and many of us decided to write a book. But while that was a factor,

it was not the primary factor. The primary factor was that I knew we were coming upon the 50th anniversary of something

which has been called the Great Stagnation, the Long Stagnation, and the book I call it the

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