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The secure transport of light; Breakneck; industrial research at the Hoover History Lab

Ann Arbor/Palo Alto danwang.co Joined December 2010

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Dan Wang @danwwang Jan 1

My annual letter:
danwang.co/2025-letter/

This year I discuss corgis, compute, and Cold War; the Texas State Fair; DSA; Neue Sachlichkeit; disfiguring the physical past and the end of history; Germanic obedience; Antichrist; wisecracks; Pascal’s Wager; romantasy; and croissants.

danwang.co 2025 letter | Dan Wang Corgis, compute, Cold War; Ecclesiastes; ties; Stendhal; humor; Pascal's Wager; deep infrastructure; Germanic obedience; Texas State Fair

Dan Wang @danwwang Oct 23

I went to Phoenix to spend time with the Taiwanese community. TSMC will invest $265 billion and send thousands of engineers and their families, which marvel at their new lives in the Sunbelt

My first feature as a contributing writer to the New York Times:
nytimes.com/2026/10/23/opi…

www.nytimes.com Opinion | The Factory in Phoenix That Could Save American Manufacturing America is figuring out the trick to reindustrialization, if it can learn the right lessons.

Dan Wang @danwwang Mar 18

The quirky Ma Qianzu explains why the Chinese internet is so frustrating to read: there’s little actual analysis, only a straightjacketed state media and a proliferation of dramatic narratives

And a metaphor from a great interview by @afrazhaowang
afraw.substack.com/p/first-dig-th…

Dan Wang @danwwang Feb 28

For the better part of a decade, I've been writing that the US government's restrictions on Chinese tech companies were unstrategic, poorly explained, and based in caprice (foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…). Now it looks like the administration is turning these controls on American firms

www.foreignaffairs.com China’s Sputnik Moment? How Washington boosted Beijing's quest for tech dominance.

Dean W. Ball Verified account @deanwball Feb 27

Think about the power Hegseth is asserting here. He is claiming that the DoD can force all contractors to stop doing business of any kind with arbitrary other companies.

In other words, every operating system vendor, every manufacturer of hardware, every hyperscaler, every type of firm the DoD contracts with—all their services and products can be denied to any economic actor at will by the Secretary of War.

This is obviously a psychotic power grab. It is almost surely illegal, but the message it sends is that the United States Government is a completely unreliable partner for any kind of business. The damage done to our business environment is profound. No amount of deregulatory vibes sent by this administration matters compared to this arson.
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Dan Wang @danwwang Jan 24

Knowledge Wins — from the American Library Association (1917)