James Pethokoukis

James Pethokoukis appears in Kyle’s research for It’s Time To Build… But Build What as the author of The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised. He sits in the cluster of voices Kyle surveys around Marc Andreessen’s “It’s Time To Build” and the Techno-Optimist Manifesto — a pro-growth, pro-building strand of the Techno-Optimism debate, listed alongside critical responses (Ezra Klein’s “Reactionary Futurism,” Joshua Gans, Luca Ropek) that Kyle reads against each other.

Context: James Pethokoukis is an economic-policy writer and longtime columnist (an American Enterprise Institute fellow and author of the Faster, Please! newsletter) who advocates for a more optimistic, growth- and technology-forward conservatism. The Conservative Futurist was published in 2023.

Where this appears

• It’s Time To Build… But Build What - Research — cited as author of The Conservative Futurist, part of the techno-optimism conversation around Marc Andreessen.