Explore every session of The Long Council.
America's founding institutions created durable legitimacy no peer nation replicated; whether that advantage is now spent is the unresolved question.
America's dominance was built by productive markets and then locked in by institutions that made others pay to sustain it.
Yes, but the council splits on whether obligations within the current ownership structure can ever be enough.
No member endorses a US sovereign wealth fund as currently proposed. The split is over what to build instead.
Bind the bulb sector to the *waterschappen* water rules, then price extraction and runoff so growers pay the real cost.
Zoning reform is the necessary first move, but supply alone will not house the lowest-income families.
Capitalism can survive AI, but only if redistribution happens before ownership concentration captures the governments that would impose it.
Tax wealth, not just income, but preserve the corporate rates that generate revenue.
Yes, but states must build AI expertise before writing rules.
Europe must build AI capability through strategic state investment while liberalizing regulations to attract private talent and capital.
The EU must impose targeted tariffs to counter China's $57 billion subsidies while building its own industrial capacity.
Trade barriers will slow European innovation more than they protect strategic industries.
Neither alone succeeds; state capacity enables market success, as Kenya's M-Pesa and Rwanda's growth show.
Regulate ultra-processed foods like tobacco through warning labels, taxes, and marketing restrictions.
Markets create wealth but cannot justify how it spreads. Government must guarantee floors without destroying the price signals that coordinate production.
Tax capital gains like wages, fund universal basic services, and democratize ownership gradually through sovereign wealth funds.
Government should secure human welfare, but through markets, fairness, virtue, justice, or capabilities depends on what you value most.
High taxes can fund innovation or destroy it, depending on what they buy and whether citizens trust the system.
Government must create purchasing power directly when AI displaces workers faster than markets can absorb them.
Governments print money because the political cost of fiscal adjustment arrives in months while inflation arrives in years.
Libertarian policy delivers growth when institutions have failed, but who bears transition costs determines whether it enhances freedom.
Yes, governments should ban PFAS, but with transition timelines that fund alternatives development.
Automation will concentrate wealth dangerously unless society redesigns who owns the machines.
Fashion's environmental damage requires coordinated action, but the council divides on whether markets, experiments, or binding rules deliver results fastest.
The system could work but requires choosing between market efficiency and climate justice.
The Netherlands' wealth tax failed because it was implemented unilaterally in a world of mobile capital, but the council divides on whether coordinated international wealth taxation would succeed or simply spread the same fundamental proble…
Nigeria faces a fundamental choice between accepting Bitcoin's volatility to gain monetary independence from dollar-dominated reserves, or prioritizing institutional stability while remaining exposed to Western monetary policy decisions.