Podcasts

Deep histories of the companies that built the industrial and technological backbone of the modern economy — TSMC, Nvidia, Lockheed, Boeing.

The a16z thesis on companies supporting the national interest — defense, aerospace, manufacturing, housing, logistics, and hard tech.

Founders, policymakers, and operators building the next American century — industrial tech, defense, energy, and national strategy.

Long-form conversations with historians, economists, and builders — select episodes on semiconductors, state capacity, and industrial history.

Policy conversations on national security, industrial strategy, China competition, and American economic statecraft.

Select long-form conversations on manufacturing, rocketry, fusion, and the engineers rebuilding American hard-tech capability.

How machines and industrial systems reshape society — automation, infrastructure, and the new political economy of production.

The markets-plumbing show that consistently covers commodities, supply chains, shipyards, fabs, and the weird corners of the industrial economy.

An abundance-agenda lens on housing, energy, manufacturing, and the political economy of American building.

Inside the modern defense and aerospace precision-manufacturing floor — conversations from inside a next-generation American factory.

Operators, founders, and policymakers working on the American industrial base — supply chains, fabs, energy, and defense production.

The national security publication of record — defense procurement, industrial mobilization, and the shape of modern warfare.