U.S. factories are as productive as ever but they’ve lost the process knowledge needed to retool quickly in a crisis.

Getting worse and getting better; Jesuits; common prosperity; Rossini's glittering realm; slow-casual chains; Lem's ocean; vowelsongs.

Centralized campaigns of inspiration; Proust; rejecting complacency and decadence; the pandemic in Beijing; brown sauce; riding a bike; rejuvenation.

While thousands of visitors to Shanghai Disneyland on Sunday were queuing for roller coasters and watching fireworks above the fairytale castle, staff quietly sealed the amusement park. People in...

Retail sanity and wholesale madness; China's technology position; elephantasies; the Nazi war economy; Philip K. Dick; the golden mole; interchangeability.

Young people are funneled into fields that don’t reward risk-taking, leaving the U.S. economy less dynamic.

A walk-and-talk; Crumb; running and tangping; Knausgaard; Elon as Palmer Eldritch; memelords; Chicago as a megacity; Norton; and a pause.

China is far ahead of the rest of the world in the development of batteries that use sodium, which are starting to compete with ubiquitous lithium power cells.

Becoming a barbarian; an ideological revelry; lockdown; sweetgrass and banana leafs; crankiness; delightful animals; to the mountains

No-name audio devices from China can output better sound than big-label gear. But locating these ‘Chi-Fi’ alternatives has been a unique pain—until now.

How Washington boosted Beijing's quest for tech dominance.

An increasingly autocratic government is making bad decisions

Observations from a city in lockdown; sunny days and cycling to the Temple of Heaven; posters encourage social distancing; WHO recommends contact tracing.

The deepest bias in American intellectual society; a new Moby-Dick; the US isn't making the best robots; plastics; process knowledge as industrial deepening

The U.S. government’s attempt to keep China from stealing technology has degenerated into a squeeze on its own scientists.

The Chinese lockdown has been “astounding, unprecedented, and medieval.” What does normalcy even look like afterward?

Spaceflight and semiconductors; de-risking; a large and adaptive manufacturing base; the technium; the TFP of TikTok and Twitter

Retail sanity and wholesale madness; China's technology position; elephantasies; the Nazi war economy; Philip K. Dick; the golden mole; interchangeability.

These tariffs instead resulted in collateral damage to the U.S. economy.

The analyst Dan Wang takes stock of how the country’s growth trajectory has changed.

The U.K. is no longer a source of the kind of great ideas that shaped America's politics and culture.

How Beijing threatens U.S. dominance.

Despite enormous investment in the sector since 2015 and some huge IPOs, the nation approved its first mRNA vaccine only this year.

Centralized campaigns of inspiration; Proust; rejecting complacency and decadence; the pandemic in Beijing; brown sauce; riding a bike; rejuvenation.

Dan Wang returns to the Stratechery Daily Update interview to discuss what he has learned over the last year, the symbiosis of the U.S.-China relationship, and whether it will survive in the long r…

General Electric is cutting roughly 13,000 jobs in its jet-engine business, expanding its planned cost-cutting efforts as the coronavirus pandemic cripples the aviation industry.

Under massive pressure, Chinese tech giants finally have an incentive to use and improve local suppliers.