Here's why Trump's suggestion that Iran could join the Abraham Accords reflects a foreign policy of real physical economics — and why the CFR's new "Future of American Strategy" project is a tacit admission that the British-led liberal international order is finished.
Trump got Xi's "secret garden" tour, Bessent cornered the City of London, and the Senate revolted in his favor. Across this week's shows, one frame keeps surfacing: the American System is back, and the empire is out of moves.
As globalization collapses, America faces a deeper crisis of culture, identity, and purpose. Mike explores Poe’s “Descent into the Maelstrom,” the rebuilding of American industry, the conflict with Iran, and the spiritual foundations needed to revive the nation.
In this edition we cover several upcoming and important space events, the introduction of space-based cell phone service, humanoid robots in the home, the curtailment of irrigation in California, and the danger posed by continued consolidation of dairy farms.
The Polaris Dawn mission discussed in our last report should launch at 3:33 a.m. EDT on September the 6th. On the same day, the Boeing Starliner will undock from the International Space Station and land at White Sands, NM on the 7th at 12:03 a.m. EDT.
Blue Origin's New Glenn reusable rocket system will make its first launch on October 13th carrying a Mars satellite for NASA. See part 2 of the tour.
Meanwhile, all eyes are on the 5th flight test of the SpaceX Starship/Superheavy system. The 5th flight will attempt to demonstrate the landing of both vehicles—the Superheavy at the launch site, and the Starship on a landing barge. As has been the case repeatedly, SpaceX is awaiting FAA approval to launch. It is expected that that approval will be forthcoming and that the launch can take place in September.
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The flood of information is making you a worse citizen. Bruce Director on Kepler's New Astronomy — how a 17th-century astronomer broke the empire's two-cage dogma of perfect circles and uniform motion, and what that fight has to do with 2026.
Brian Lantz takes you on the factory floor of the American economy: durable goods +8.2%, manufacturing construction +20.2%, machine tool orders +22.5%, the U.S. now the world's third-largest steel producer. It's being built, baby, built.
Nuclear power is the dividing line between mankind stuck on Earth and mankind colonizing the solar system. Trump's pushing through it. The British Empire says stay put.
Artemis II returned humans to the Moon for the first time since 1972. With nuclear power initiatives, a lunar landing targeted for 2028, and a revitalized space industrial base, America is entering a new golden age of space exploration and growth.
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