Abundance 2025 starts today.

Abundance has become left-coded. As I argue in @AmericanAffrs, we need a conservative abundance, rooted in what the Left's vision often omits: faith, family, flag, virtue.

These are the higher things without which true abundance is impossible.🧵 Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson’s book argues for an abundance focused on building the things for the liberal future they want.

But a conservative vision for abundance must envision a future around human flourishing, not just maximizing individual choice or material abundance.

First, the good news: The only new US nuclear plants to be built in the last 3 decades are coming online soon.

Awesome.

Yet, the future of US nuclear energy is at serious risk.

If we don't make reforms soon, it might be too late.

A🧵explaining why:
realclearenergy.org/articles/2023/… Last October, the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia began loading fuel into its newly-built Unit 3, prepping to bring clean electricity to the grid in Q1 of 2023.

For now, let's not even talk about the fact that it took us 3 decades to approve a new plant.

My parents were turned away at
@HeathrowAirport today.

Over the most idiotic reasons.

A short thread with a personal example on how #COVID19 has driven the world mad.

1/8 I live in DC, my parents live in the UK.

I haven’t seen them since November, and so they planned to visit me this week - landing tonight, supposedly.

Until government bureaucrats and airline sticklers decided otherwise.

2/8