“The Last Optimist”: Mark P. Mills Releases New Podcast Addressing Energy and Technology in the Roaring 2020s

NEW YORK, NY – The roaring 2020s are upon us and the Manhattan Institute’s senior fellow Mark P. Mills is here to make sense of it. In a brand-new new podcast, The Last Optimist, Mills applies his knowledge as an author, businessman, and physicist to explore issues of the day and host insightful conversations with leading thinkers and innovators.

Episodes so far have featured guests such as Steve Forbes, Nic Radford, and Jon Ludwig to discuss an array of topics at the intersection of energy and technology. With questions about America’s energy readiness dominating national conversations, and fuel prices conspicuously on the rise, Mills plans to continue discussing what he calls the “Great Energy Reset” in future episodes, offering policy options America should consider as it responds to evolving geopolitical factors, not least of which includes the Ukrainian crisis.

Mills’ latest book, The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s, also informs the themes of the podcast, making a case for that most absent of virtues, optimism, as Americans look to what the future might hold.

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More about Mark Mills:

Mills’ book way back in 2005, The Bottomless Well, made the case then that the U.S. was energy-rich, arguing against the popular theory at the time that the country was running out of oil. Mills shared his thesis before Congress, the sole witness then predicting an energy boom. Later, Mills extended his argument to propose that the U.S. should export crude oil, before the law banning exports was eliminated (a feat most commentators then claimed would never happen). At the time, Mills coined the phrase "energy dominance" to replace "energy independence" in testimony before the U.S. Senate, years before the Trump administration took office. Later, in 2015, Mills predicted the shale revolution had only just begun, responding to the oil price collapse of 2014. Regarding the current geopolitical situation, Mills has been constantly vocal about the strategic value of America as a dominant producer of the oil and gas that’s so critical to the world’s economies.