Lawfare Daily: Derek Thompson on Abundance and a New Political Order

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Derek Thompson, a senior editor at The Atlantic and co-author (with Ezra Klein) of Abundance, joins Renée DiResta, Associate Research Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown and a Contributing Editor at Lawfare, and Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the UT Austin School of Law and Contributing Editor at Lawfare, to discuss the theory of Abundance and its feasibility in an age of political discord and institutional distrust.

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1:30.3	for search better safe than tumor. I would love to see more experiments being done, especially in the realm of science and technology,
1:39.3	because that's, I think, how we're going to answer the biggest question here, which is how do we accelerate the science of science itself? How do we take the best ideas that live in the 2050s and
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