The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised

Discover the surprising case for how conservatism can help us achieve the epic sci-fi future we were promised.

America was once the world’s dream factory. We turned imagination into reality, from curing polio to landing on the Moon to creating the internet. And we were confident that more wonders lay just over the horizon: clean and infinite energy, a cure for cancer, computers and robots as humanity’s great helpers, and space colonies. (Also, of course, flying cars.) Science fiction, from...