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50 years after publication of the Mythical Man Month, it would appear we have some lessons to relearn about the complexity and coordination problems that arise when adding autonomously acting resources to a software development project.

What comes after post-liberalism? Patrick Deneen joins Oren Cass on The American Compass Podcast to discuss where American politics is headed now that the push for a globalized society has failed to survive contact with geopolitical reality.

We are hiring a new editor American Compass to lead the rapid growth of Commonplace. If that's you, please get in touch. Job description ⬇️

Mike Lind tackles a great topic for Commonplace today -- how Social Security's trust fund structure, intended to be its political protector, actually puts it first on the chopping block. Why can Social Security "go bankrupt" but the Pentagon cannot? commonplace.org/2025/07/11/don…

Read Oren Cass: “With the border secure, the administration should focus on a predictable process of enforcement against employers of illegal immigrants.”

As long as American employers get off scot-free for hiring illegal labor, tracking down aliens one by one will hardly solve the problem. It's time to cut off the invasion of America at its source. New from me Commonplace:

Excellent Declan Leary Commonplace on the absurd failure to enforce immigration law against the employers abusing the system, exploiting the immigrants, and leaving American workers behind. commonplace.org/2025/07/14/mak…

Is there a good explanation anywhere for how Abundance differs from Obama-style liberalism? That’s OK if it doesn’t… Just not sure if that would solve the problems that became prevalent roughly between the 2008 financial crisis and the election of Donald Trump in 2016.

Making Illegal Employers Pay Immigration enforcement has to hold businesses who illegally undercut American workers accountable. commonplace.org/2025/07/14/mak…

Today at Understanding America: Something Is Rotten at the Federal Reserve understandingamerica.co/p/something-is…

A modest uptick in inflation is a typical knee jerk reaction from the outsourcing industrial complex. The much more important metric is wage growth, which has far exceeded any increase in prices. Sadly, destroying our industrial base and decimating working Americans is somewhat

It's almost like the economics profession doesn't fully understand tariffs

This was a very interest discussion of transatlantic common ground and conflict with Sander Tordoir, hosted by Cristina Caffarra on her new Escape Forward podcast: escape-forward.com/2025/07/16/ame…

I really enjoyed this Helen Andrews Commonplace reflection on summer jobs, which ignores the "kids these days" Boomer-talk to dissect the underlying (Boomer-promoted!) forces that are pushing young people away from a vital opportunity. commonplace.org/2025/07/16/are…

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Read this piece, but also what were your summer jobs commonplace.org/2025/07/16/are…

This was an excellent speech by Jamieson Greer United States Trade Representative at the REINDUSTRIALIZE SUMMIT in Detroit, articulating the three imperatives of reindustrialization: ✅Manufacturing strengthens the economic foundation of our communities. ✅Manufacturing drives innovation and productivity