Myrtle Beach, SC, Orlando, FL and Washington, D.C. January 7, 2026—Thinking Outside the Boxe has released the transcripts of the question and answer session from its 2025 Annual Symposium. Participants included correspondents from Clermont, Florida; Wheeling, West Virginia; Bismarck, North Dakota; and Sydney, Australia.
Topics included the first year of the current administration and the limits of administrative change, border enforcement and legal labor pathways, the implications of AI for education and the safety net, the federal debt trajectory, technological competition with China, responsiveness of the administrative state, domestic energy production and household costs, distrust of media and expert institutions, fiduciary limits on non-financial investment criteria, the speed and cost of infrastructure projects, entitlement design under demographic and technological pressure, security commitments in Europe and the Indo-Pacific, urban school performance, concentration of advanced AI capabilities, and whether recent political realignments produce more functional governance.
The transcript is available at www.ThinkingOutsideTheBoxe.com.
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