🔥 The Promethean Weekly · September 28–October 4, 2026
Two systems faced off this week: an American mine-to-mill build-out, and a British system that hoards diesel and sells a country for parts. The pump is not the ballot.
Why “super” and not “artificial”? Brian Lantz shows SI at work in an Arizona copper mine, aimed at a nuclear-powered Moon, and in service of new forms of human creativity. Watch the full class.
Barbara on the diesel squeeze: Ukraine's strikes on Russian refineries, Trump's threat to halt U.S. exports unless Europe released emergency stocks, and a G7 release of 100 million barrels as the start of a 35-day economic offensive into the midterms.
A steel plant broke ground in Iowa. South Korea signed on to LNG and eight nuclear plants. Trump killed the phrase artificial intelligence. Meanwhile the other side wants you staring at the pump.
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Two systems faced off this week: an American mine-to-mill build-out, and a British system that hoards diesel and sells a country for parts. The pump is not the ballot.
Today's show is over. Please check the replay and join us live next week. Iowa’s steel mill Monday. Alaska LNG and Korea’s energy package Wednesday. Same fight: will America build a productive system — or keep staring at the pump? Bring your questions.
Susan contrasts Trump’s Iowa mega mill and first U.S. iron ore mine in 50 years—tariffs, EXIM credit, mine-to-mill—with Carney’s summit: airport concessions, raw exports, and only 8 non-military factories.
Gas prices are the bait. The fight is Iowa’s planned steel mill, Minnesota’s new iron mine, and whether America builds its own productive system—or stays a captive market for London’s price war. Join Barbara, Susan, and Adam live Thursday.
Mike Steger examines Trump’s fight to break America free from global constraints and rebuild its industrial strength, making the case for why November could define the nation’s future.
Barbara opens with Barack Obama saying he sometimes fantasized about putting women in charge of every government, then takes a teaser tour of her new pamphlet on British-backed “color revolutions.”
Barbara's 47-page pamphlet names the midterms enemy: an Empire that used Wall Street and the Communist mob against the American System. Five weeks out, the two systems collide at the UN, in Brazil, and at the pump.
Two conductors. One score. Two opposite ideas of man. This week's Class puts Furtwängler against Toscanini — and tonal against atonal. The fight over your ear is the fight for your children's future.
Today's show is over. Please check the replay and join us live next week. Iowa’s steel mill Monday. Alaska LNG and Korea’s energy package Wednesday. Same fight: will America build a productive system — or keep staring at the pump? Bring your questions.
Susan contrasts Trump’s Iowa mega mill and first U.S. iron ore mine in 50 years—tariffs, EXIM credit, mine-to-mill—with Carney’s summit: airport concessions, raw exports, and only 8 non-military factories.
Gas prices are the bait. The fight is Iowa’s planned steel mill, Minnesota’s new iron mine, and whether America builds its own productive system—or stays a captive market for London’s price war. Join Barbara, Susan, and Adam live Thursday.
Mike Steger examines Trump’s fight to break America free from global constraints and rebuild its industrial strength, making the case for why November could define the nation’s future.
Two conductors. One score. Two opposite ideas of man. This week's Class puts Furtwängler against Toscanini — and tonal against atonal. The fight over your ear is the fight for your children's future.
In 1775, Americans and Quebec militiamen fought as brothers to free Canada from the British crown. Bob Ingraham on the lie of the "invasion," Franklin's near-miss at the peace table — and why, 250 years later, the question is open again.
A full-size statue of Beethoven once stood behind the Boston Symphony. Toni Sellars and Mindy Pechenuk on how deep this music ran in 19th-century America — and who spent the next century getting it out.
Everyone quotes "the pursuit of happiness." Almost nobody can define it. In the final class of her series, Judy Hodgkiss opens Leibniz's science of happiness — the philosophy Jefferson's generation absorbed and wrote into the Declaration.
Bruce Director digs into your comments from the Aug 29 class: why the British System is inherently entropic, why no equation can predict a creative discovery, and how frontier science backs the American System’s idea of man.
Cable news is arguing eggs, beef, gas, and Iran. Bruce Director spent Saturday night on the real midterm question: American System vs. British System — two flavors of the same entropy, and nine weeks to pick a future.
Chatbots dominate the AI argument. Brian Lantz spent Saturday night on the other kind — robots, machine shops, and factory floors — and why manufacturing, not the data center, is where the country actually gets richer.
Four new nuclear reactors went critical in a single month — America's first in 40 years. Brian Lantz on the factory boom the media won't name, and the apprenticeship programs that pay you to help build it. The hardest problem was never the physics.
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